What would this gaming combination be like?
Angband formula, but a 3D world. Basically Angband but instead of being ASCII it's graphical.I wouldn't expect strict adherence to LoTR, but instead a super world of Middle Earth, with all of the ages combined. So absolute shitloads of lore to put in the world.
>>719391318probably a piece of shit
>>719391654>filtered
>>719391318Roll
Fourth Age game but for some inexplicable reason everything is told in a vague intro by some nameless narrator. You have to learn about everything from the past in the First Age via item descriptions like the War of Jewels or the Valar or Noldor elves. Every NPC you meet dies or goes insane. Bosses are things like Corrupted Maiar, orc captains, new Nazgul OC’s who also share animations from things from Demons Souls.
>>719391318It'd be funny if they made a RTS of it instead of a souls game.
>>719391318>Let us roll through the mines of Moria!
legolas sekiro with mixed bow/melee combat would be ludofilm.
>They're taking the hobbits...Ha ha ha...but I won't say where
>>719391318Dogshit pure liquid dogshitThe team behind dragon's dogma 1 should make a lofr game
>My cousin Balin would give us a royal welcome with a flaming aoe and spinning axe combo
>>719391948Lmao, this would happen guaranteed
>>719391852Well, orcs and most of the evil creatures in the world get wiped out in the fourth age. Sauron basically becomes nothingness.What would be kino, is a Fourth Age where Sauron won.It would be a world of corruption, of slavery, and of despair. There would be a sense of nothing good can happen anymore and the men still left are just waiting for the world to end.
>>719391852>the cave troll is a reskinned asylum demonKINOKINOKINO
>gollum has invaded
Haven't Soulsfagged since Bloodborne, is that VaatiVidya retard still a thing? He'd probably put out a two-hour video about the Valar that's just made up bullshit based on some item descriptions.
>>719392463yeah he's still around and he still sucks balls
>>719391318Lotr is boring trash
>>719391318You play as Gollum. It's a fishing tour around Middle Earth where you discover and learn songs that will buff your fishing skills, get new boats and find new fishing places.
>>719391318>Epic fantasy IP>Dev who is known for grim fantasy in largely post-apocalyptic worlds.Not a good fit imo, something like Blame! or even Nihei's most recent work Tower dungeon seem to be a better match. I suppose CO-OP would help add liveliness to it, though lonely dungeon-crawling is still peak FROM imo, especially with the settings they craft.>>719391948Holy kek.
>>719391318Please don't soulslop LotR, it's had a difficult enough time without being ruined further by Fromshit
>>719392064This.
>>719391318boring
>>719391318It's not the aftermath of a dying world with like 30 npcs max so.............
>>719391318Bastardized parody of a truly great work
>>719391318>roll, roll, roll, roll, roll, hit, roll, roll, hit, roll, roll, roll, roll, roll, roll, roll, roll..... roll, roll, roll, hit.
>>719392757do happy/colorful soulslikes even exist?
Terrible. Keep tlotr as far away as possible from this slop factory.
>>719391318Elden ring? Isn't this obvious?
>>719391318Probably mediocre or shit. It all depends if Miyazaki actually likes LotR or not. One would assume he does, but I sure do not know if he even read the books.
LOTR and rollslop fans act very above it all as if both aren't extremely commercialized and mainstream. Mixing the two together would create unparalleled levels of smugness.
all the war and fighting shit are the worst part about lotr
now, what kind of game would it realistically be?
>>719394215A dungeon crawler or >>719392595
>>719391318Terrible matchup, they wouldn't get it at all.
>>719393423Redditors love LOTR but they also believe Rings of Power is a faithful adaptation and will defend it entirely. Very few people living now understand LOTR hell this shithole doesn’t even understand it as much as it likes it.
fucking Zelda is more faithful to LotR than anything else these days
>>719391318Awful. From games are the antithesis of LotR, I say in complete seriousness Capcom would do a good job, just make Dragons Dogma gameplay in a fully realized Middle Earth, different races should function as different classes that play completely different from eachother. A hobbit should not be picking up a zweihander and wearing giant dad armour while throwing lightning spears, he should be his own class like in DDI would actually like to see a From game set in a world that isnt miserable and long past dead though, Im sure they could do it but I wonder what that would actually look like. Like Anor Londo with crowded steets of nobility and the Burg with poor people milling about.
>>719395402>just make Dragons Dogma gameplay in a fully realized Middle Earththey can't even fully realize a proper gamejust give it to Ubisoft, they'll shit out some pretty slop
>>719395584I still want gameplay in my game anon, and to know that they arent going to race swap Aragorn for a black woman and Sam and Frodo be gay.
>FORGIVE ME, SAURONMAN
>>719395402>I just want another DDit's okay to have stupid ideas nigger, you have to let go
>>719391318There's not a doubt in my mind Miyazaki and every single developer at From have a complete hatred for everything the story represents
>>719395402God damn this is like 4/10 bait especially with that screencap
>>719395687why not, the amount of seething here would probably be more entertaining than most modern games.
>>719392502pineal gland CALCIFIED
>>719395931DDs setting sucks my ass anon, I want that gameplay in something good.
>>719396065Wheres the bait, From only makes dead worlds, its their whole thing.
>>719396065Nothing in his post is wrong Fromslopper
>>719391318That's just Elden Ring.>become the (Elden) Lord of the (Elden) Rings, and rule Middle-E... Sorry, I mean the "Lands Between".GRRM thought he was being slick
>>719391318Should be about the First Age, possibly during or right after Melkor/Morgoth's defeat. World is still in disarray and you need to visit iconic location like the fell Gondolin and clean up whatever remains of his forces. Characters like Beren and Luthien, Turin and so on kinda fits the whole NPC questline formula that the Souls games had.
It would probably suck, but at least the combat would be serviceable.
>Melkor... Forgive me.
you ever wonder how late-stage LOTR would look likelike when it's slowly turning into England
>>719392064>instead of having pawns with no personality you have the fellowship>you choose which one you play as, or switch between them>the ones not being controlled can have their behavior set to aggressive/defensive etc.
>>719393423DS3 had some leftover LotR music in the files that was probably used as placeholder during development Make of that what you will
>>719391852This sounds great. I think that an Unfinished Tales adaptation by fromsoft would be great and would be 100% up their alley, no? Could be their bible that they could refer to when writing their game. Also The New Shadow.
>>719392757I don't see why not. Though they are diametrically opposed in their idealism as storytellers, Tolkien was no stranger to the grim and fatalistic. Look up "The New Shadow">"I did begin a story placed about 100 years after the Downfall, but it proved both sinister and depressing. Since we are dealing with Men, it is inevitable that we should be concerned with the most regrettable feature of their nature: their quick satiety with good. So that the people of Gondor in times of peace, justice and prosperity, would become discontented and restless — while the dynasts descended from Aragorn would become just kings and governors — like Denethor or worse. I found that even so early there was an outcrop of revolutionary plots, about a centre of secret Satanistic religion; while Gondorian boys were playing at being Orcs and going around doing damage. I could have written a 'thriller' about the plot and its discovery and overthrow — but it would have been just that. Not worth doing."
>>719391318It would suck. From's approach to storytelling is almost the opposite of LOTR.
>>719397448"Not worth doing."
>>719397448>not worth doingI like fantasy with deeply buried cult shit that isnt obvious on the first appearances, I wouldve probably liked this if it wasnt LotR. Like the adventure starts generic as saving the princess, and gradually descends into bizaree shit involving "a forgotten god" and his followers.
>>719397546>>719397628Indeed. I do agree with Tolkien and am ultimately glad that he didn't write it, but I could imagine a fromsoft adaptation of this could be good, still. I wouldn't take it too seriously like any LOTR game, so I wouldn't really mind. Would just be a fun fanfiction, basically.
Fromslop is the antithesis of LOTR and largely favors satanism over christianity.
we're way past the "Tolkien wouldn't have done this" issue, so let's just go full retard
Fromfags spent years since ER came out shitting on Tolkien for not being nihilist slop now they're doing mental gymnastics to pretend he totally was actually and he and Miyazaki are totally on the same page lmfao
>>719397761or maybe they're completely different people and you have a serious mental illness
Nah, dude, LOTR needs a sense of adventure, Real npcs and a lot of immersion, so this would actually be the dream collab.
>>719397761come on, anon. nobody ITT is saying this. Tolkien was obviously not nihilistic nor culturally buddhist like fromsoft. Everyone knows this. But Tolkien was a man of his time that grappled with the ideas of nihilism and existentialism which was huge in the 20th century regardless such as noting Simone de Beauvoir ideas on death as being worthy of considerationhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNZPwFzi4wY
Dragon's Dogma does a much better job at capturing the sense of adventure than any Fromsoft game.
Fromfags don't actually know anything about what Tolkien wrote. They know instinctually to despise his work because in their view it's one-dimensional good vs evil where the good side prevailed, they think of it as having no more less depth than Dungeons and Dragons. They are oblivious or outright hostile to the Catholic elements, and entirely unaware how bleak, seemingly hopeless, tragic and grim the events of the Silmarillion are. The match of Fromsoft and GRRM was truly a match made in hell.
>>719391318>souls game with good characters, good story, hopeful themesimpossible
>>719397681i would absolutely kill for a fromsoft LOTR game with the John Howe style. would be incredible
>>719391318dragon's dogma 2 but only the red vocations
They will just make everything evil and add trannies in it for no reason. Fromslop can't produce narratives or memorable characters at all. They're too incompetent for that.
>take the books>leave 90% blank and the rest is just random sentences you kept in>mfw "people" (I use that term really loosely here) will endlessly praise the story and how deep it is and wonder who the fuck Eorlingas was
>>719398269Archer in 2 is literally Legolas though
>>719398108this is pure delusion and confabulation. just constructing a strawman based on some reddit comment you read once or something. i am a christian man utterly in love with lord of the rings and i also like fromsoft games (not so much their newer games, but i digress), while still recognizing them as being very much opposed to tolkien in terms of storytelling.
>“Americans shoot things and they blow up and the like, so as you’d expect, they make movies like that,” said Miyazaki at the time.>“If someone is the enemy, it’s okay to kill endless numbers of them,” he continued. “Lord of the Rings is like that. If it’s the enemy, there’s killing without separation between civilians and soldiers. That falls within collateral damage. How many people are being killed in attacks in Afghanistan? The Lord of the Rings is a movie that has no problem doing that [not separating civilians from enemies, apparently]. If you read the original work, you’ll understand, but in reality, the ones who were being killed are Asians and Africans. Those who don’t know that, yet say they love fantasy are idiots.” You can see why Miyazaki partnered with GRRM and not the Tolkien estate.
>>719398436Why did Sauron bring all those poor orc civilians to the battle of Minas Tirith bros?
>>719398409You're not a Christian if you like Fromslop """stories""" of hopelessness and satanism.
>>719398409That's alright then, but you must admit it is true among many members of the From cult
>>719398526>>719398436Shitlibbery dies twice
>>719398606Reagan era soccer mom over here
>>719398606Be honest; do you truly believe that a christian man should never consume atheistic literature like Nietzsche or Ernest Hemingway? That the goal of christian praxis is to stick your fingers in your ears, close your eyes and go "LA LA LA I CANT HEAR YOU!" over every single thing that doesn't completely conform to christian dogma? I think that is a ridiculous mindset.>>719398621I mean, I guess so simply from the fact that it's popular. There are plenty of atheists that love LOTR as well simply from the sheer popularity of LOTR. I think its a waste of time to obsess over stuff like this.
>>719398606the games themselves are arguably about determination and perseverance though
>>719391318>Yes, Chosen Hobbit, I bequeath thee with the One Ring of Power. Thou must slay the five Istari to restore its power, or else the third age will come to an end, and bring about an age of Man.
>>719392241How many years have we been fighting that same damn enemy?
Lord of the Rings would add nothing, it would just be pointless restrictions.
>>719398526Orcs aren't characterised so for all we know any number of them were civilians.They are a faceless evil group that we know next to nothing about
Fromsoft is too jewish for lotr and would ruin it more than Rings of Power somehow.
>>719398436>Jap identifies with orcsLmaoProtip: they're not people or an ethnic stand-in, they're derived from the concept of dark fae in European mythology, literally the celtic pagan equivalent of demons.
Are /v/irgins so autistic and devoid of real conflict in their lives they try to manufacture a forced rivalry between LOTR and Souls games? Who the fuck does this? Even subhuman troglodytes in underdeveloped dung heaps use their time better.
>>719399529>Are /v/irgins so autistic and devoid of real conflict in their livesYeah no shit
>>719399529seeing as how 95% of threads on /v/ are bullshit bait threads made in order to spark a conversation about what they actually wanted to talk about, but is too cowardly to just simply make a thread about it sincerely, then yes.
>>719399529>a forced rivalry between LOTR and Souls gamesthere's an obvious thematic contrast between both works though
One of my hopes in gaming is I live long enough to see Kenshi 2 release and actually be good, and then get a fully complete LotR overhaul.
>>719399529It's not 'manufactured' this sprung up the very second GRRM's involvement was announced. Really it was probably GoTlets being injected into the From community that started it all.
>>719399529/v/ just really hates Christianity, sadly.
