New RPG from WARHORSE in Middle Earth

[The_Mask]

You might have heard the rumours, it's time to reveal what we are working on.

An open world Middle-earth RPG.
A new Kingdom Come adventure.

We’re excited to tell you more when the time is right.

[logincrash]

Forgot to add the "LGBTQ+" tag.

[DecadeRiptide]

But all the people in middle earth were black

[loregamer]

This would've been cool news pre-KCD 2

[Val the Moofia Boss]

Franchise milking.

Tolkien's novels are great, but I see no reason in these commercialized spinoffs and adaptations. We have never gotten a really high quality, faithful adaptation of the story, and it is clear that we never will. Peter Jackson's secular action flicks missed a lot of what the story was about, as as not really feeling like the story which was about a lot of arduous hiking and wondering to yourself where the enemy was, and spiritual warfare. As opposed to the movies which were mainly about a lot of fights. Outside of the story, there is not much appeal to the LotR era Middle-Earth setting as established in the novels. Men/dwarves/elves are not at active war with each other. The only fantastical races that are accessible are orcs and goblins and sometimes trolls, which is a thin and repetitive roster for a videogame that is supposed to last for dozens of hours. You could go to the East, but at that point you are making so much stuff up you mind as well just make your own thing altogether.

[rusty_shackleford]

baranor.webp

[mynameismortis]

I see another shadow of mordor but with gay and black people

[The_Mask]

Okay, how can we shove a synagogue in Middle Earth? Any ideas?

[Xenich]

Yeah... umm... no... they can go **** themselves.

[TND]

we wuz númenóreans and sheeit

[Oyster Sauce]

I see another shadow of mordor but with gay and black people

About that...

[Val the Moofia Boss]

What is interesting to me is that they keep playing chicken and greenlighting enormously expensive projects. Rings of Power which IIRC was the most expensive TV show ever, and the Amazon LotR MMO. And then shut both down. Shadow of Mordor studio also got canned. Now they are greenlighting this project. Wonder if it will survive to the finish or if the plans for sequels will get axed.

[rusty_shackleford]

Well, they've only got a few years left until Hobbit is public domain, so the "middle-earth RPG" might be an adaptation of Hobbit.

[Acrux]

We have never gotten a really high quality, faithful adaptation of the story, and it is clear that we never will.

The BBC Radio 4 adaptation is high-quality and faithful.

[TKVNC]

We'll get a LGBT story of Frodo and Sam, and Bilbo will be Jewish perhaps.

[anvi]

I hate the mainstream public for enabling all this ****.

[Val the Moofia Boss]

I hate the mainstream public for enabling all this ****.

The Tolkien family could have prevented this if they had cared.

[rusty_shackleford]

I hate the mainstream public for enabling all this ****.

The Tolkien family could have prevented this if they had cared.

I'm going to agree with this but I also somewhat disagree factually.

Christopher Tolkien trashed the films which were probably the best possible adaptations one could expect given the vast amounts of variables and constraints involved, and were almost much worse. But those were made using the Zaentz license, sold by Tolkien decades prior.
Zaentz license also gave us excellent third party works like Middle Earth Roleplaying by ICE, and many of the early 2000s video games that were based on the film which often proved to be quite popular. Likewise, Zaentz license was the source for LotRO which managed to be a massively faithful adaptation of the setting itself.
Zaentz license is also indirectly responsible for the Shadow of Mordor/War games, so, that's a knock against it.

But the Tolkien Estate?
The only notable thing they licensed was… Rings of Power.
I don't think the estate could do much to stop this game, but I don't really care either, after greenlighting Rings of Power it's obvious they don't care in the least about the IP.
Christopher Tolkien trashing the films really steamed my beans when they later greenlit Rings of Power.

[xXD4rk_s3pher0th22Xx]

[asf]

****** hobbits

[Algol]

Looking forward to the rare buttplug Early Access Supporter item.

[anvi]

MTG went aggressively woke in recent years. It's really sickening.

[Acrux]

MTG went aggressively woke in recent years. It's really sickening.

Yeah, she really did.

[Brother Chad]

Forgot to add the "****" tag.

[Vaako]

Musa of Lothlorien has entered the chat to **** Celeborn with Galadriel.

[pol_345polex]

Poor Tolkien can't catch a break with all the Companies/people ruining his work.

[WaterMage]

The discussion is not about if they will blackwash. Is how much they will blackwash everyone.

Note that even""minorities"" don't like this blackwash nonsense. Egypt, an Arab North African country, processed Netflix over the Blackwashing of Cleopatra.

[enisey]

Bet they 3d scan that Ngn*click**pop* thing they're shoehorning into The Odyssey and make her Galadriel

[Kolgrim]

Can't wait to see the anti-woke community on youtube cope and say it won't be woke because of X, Y, and Z. Also Warhorse never made a good game. KCD1 was rancid **** that HEMA **** pretended was good.

[Vaako]

Can't wait to see the anti-woke community on youtube cope and say it won't be woke because of X, Y, and Z. Also Warhorse never made a good game. KCD1 was rancid **** that HEMA **** pretended was good.

The part with the siege story and all the immortal npcs could have been handled better. But it had a nice atmosphere and decent leveling up system. And the layered armor system was a big **** you to Todd Howard who once claimed they have to make armor one big piece or there will be clipping issues. KCD system showed them how its possible.