No.1419
can we have a thread on middle earth themed vidya? pre-jackson films games more specifically
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No.1420
>>1419
Sad to say I haven't played any.
I'm aware of this MUD called Angband which seems pretty cool.
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No.1421
>>1419
>pre-jackson films games more specifically
I don't think there are that many of those
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No.1426
>>1421
what, are you saying that LOTR was an obscure piece of literature prior to those films?
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No.1429
There's a Mount&Blade Warband mod, The Last days of Third Age, very lore-friendly and immersive
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No.1435
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No.1436
>>1426
He's saying that there weren't many video games that directly adapted Middle Earth, which is correct. There were plenty that indirectly ripped it off, however.
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No.1484
Just play Sil. It's probably the most faithful derivative work that exists.
http://www.amirrorclear.net/flowers/game/sil/
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No.1488
>>1429
Yeah, you can even make oaths in it
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No.1518
it always bugged me how shitty the SNES game was
always wanted Square to make a turn-based Chrono-Trigger/FF style game out of LOTR
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No.1520
>>1518
That'd be fucking great. Square made great RPGs back then.
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No.1534
>>1518
Isn't that what the Third Age was? I'm replaying it right now and I think it's still pretty good if you overlook the fact that the story makes no real sense and the dialogue sounds like it was written by a braindead monkey, at least in the German version.
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No.1535
>>1426
>shitty reading comprehension on a Tolkien board
How is this possible?
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No.2183
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>>1419
Turns out there was quite a few of them
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No.2307
A while ago I was looking through the Golden Joystick Awards from the 1980s to see what people considered the best games of the period and I noticed Beam Software's The Hobbit text adventure won best strategy game at the 1983 Golden Joystick Awards. I ended up playing Beam Software's The Hobbit out of curiosity and ended up enjoying it more than I thought I would as I am not terribly familiar with text adventures and I even cleared the game with 96% completion. Good enough for me.
I then saw Beam Software made three more games based on The Lord of the Rings (The Fellowship of the Ring, Shadows of Mordor, and Crack of Doom). I started playing the DOS version of Fellowship but I'm stuck on the part where you have to follow Strider around while three Black Riders make seemingly random appearances. I got the scroll from the monastery/observatory area and when speaking the words from the scroll while having the characters holding the elfstones I end up killing Merry for some reason. I'm not sure why.
I can see why text adventures would die out once LucasArts' point and clicks became popular in the early 1990s since LucasArts games were simpler, less complex and the verb menus were easy to understand. The Fellowship of the Ring text adventure understands more words compared to The Hobbit text adventure, but Fellowship of the Ring doesn't have some of the random AI aspects like The Hobbit had. When you were waiting around in The Hobbit, Thorin or Gandalf could come and go and get into fights by himself, or when you were underneath the Misty Mountains, goblins could randomly appear and capture you. So that kept The Hobbit text adventure more interesting.
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No.2308
How good is Battle for Middle Earth? itching for a LOTR strategy game
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No.2315
>>2308
Not really what you were asking, but the LotR mod for Medieval 2 Total War is pretty fun. But admittedly, I get off from the meaty cavalry charges in the base game, so I particularly enjoy playing with special units like the nazgul-led black numenorian knights. Mordor faction is like smashing a powered hammer on an anvil made from papier-mâché (the orcs).
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No.2316
>>2315
Really can't get into total war but I might give it a go.
I think I'll give the Crusader Kings 2 mod a try too, now that its a little more updated.
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