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The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria™ - Launch Trailer

Games @sh.itjust.works The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria™ - Launch Trailer (Full Version)

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Gollum 2: Electric Boogaloo

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This looks a bit underwhelming, and I'm not even meaning the visual style they leaned towards. I just think the combat looks a bit flat and the adventuring about the caves that I've seen in other gameplay has seemed rather stiff and lifeless (for lack of a more apt descriptor because I haven't played it)

Anyone else think this is missing some polish and spirit?

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- It's an attempt at a quick cash grab by some publisher, abusing the LOTR IP and it's current resurgence in popularity. Epic Games only too. I wouldn't be surprised to hear later down the line how the devs have been on crunch to get a game out in a ridiculously short amount of time.
  
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  Epic store only is a dealbreaker, especially in the age of the Steam Deck
  
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- At the end of the day, it doesn't matter how much polish goes into it. A polished turd is still but a turd..
  
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- Yeah definitely didn't do a good job of really making me wanna play it, though it does look significantly better then gollum did, but that's not a very high bar to cross.
  
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- I'm having a ton of fun playing it with friends. One of the best games I've played this year. We had to drag ourselves off of it so we could go to sleep.
  
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What is with these rushed lotr games no one asked for and wasn’t advertised

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Yeah. That's bad. Whose the developer?

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- Free range games. Looks like they've only done oddworld:soulstorm and a mobile game before that
  
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- Care to specify what did you dislike?
  
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  Not the one you asked, but this looks like a low-quality mobile phone turd to me. It also looks too similar to the only game that could rival ET as the worst game in history... I personally wouldn't bother given the Wheeble Wobble art style and being seemingly built on Gollum.
  
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Deep Rock Galactic: Fantasy Edition is looking pretty meh, tbh.

It's a shame because if you describe it to me on paper, the concept of a co-op game where a group of dwarves build/rebuild Moria or at least a tiny portion of it sounds interesting. But among other things it'd need an art style. I mean it also needs a good one that is evocative of the world Tolkien created, but hey, first of all it needs an art style.

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I can hear Gimli crying from here.

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At the very least the trailer looks better than the gameplay they showed at Gamescom this year. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=270uflOMbMk

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