Indeed. But Christopher has his reasons; primarily his closeness to the material. He has spent his retirement consolidating, editing, adding to and publishing his father's unpublished work. Thus his attachment and concerns are understandable. There is at least some hope that his successor (if not covenanted) may be more sympathetic.That is quite the shame. It would only serve to bring attention to the original work even more and would also give everyone a chance to experience it in different ways. Can't argue with family wishes, but it seems awfully selfish considering how loved the material is.
1080p and 60fps on PS4 is what they are aiming for and judging by all the live demos done on PS4 it looks like they've hit it. I've watched almost all the live streams and haven't seen anything that would suggest otherwise. Also I assume Xbone runs great but they haven't mentioned it specifically for some reason.Is PS4 confirmed 60fps? I would get on my new PC but I'm a trophy nut
The game and film licenses are seperate entities granted to WB by Middle-earth Enterprises (the owner of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings' I.Ps, purchased previously from UA who originally purchased the rights from J.R.R Tolkien himself). The licences will of course differ considering the two mediums but exclusivity of characters doesn't seem likely.Is anyone else finding it weird that Wargs and Trolls have been replaced with suspiciously similar substitutes?
Its got to be something to do with the rights and estates, why else you change them to non-canon versions of the creatures.
And no, I don't expect them to be in the game and we just haven't seen them.
Edmond Dantès;131201387 said:The game and film licenses are seperate entities granted to WB by Middle-earth Enterprises (the owner of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings' I.Ps, purchased previously from UA who originally purchased the rights from J.R.R Tolkien himself). The licences will of course differ considering the two mediums but exclusivity of characters doesn't seem likely.
The Tolkien Estate has no say on such matters. The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings are beyond their control.
Doesn't seem like people about to spend 60 duckets would ignore negative reviews because they came out on Fri.Clearly i was concerned with actual reviews. And im not sure how you got that conclusion from what i said. Its a pretty simple concept. Negative publicity is thrown out in the friday afternoon news dump. People are busy with other things and not paying attention to the media.
Its not just politicians. Everyone does it from politicians to corporations which is what i said.
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Doesn't seem like people about to spend 60 duckets would ignore negative reviews because they came out on Fri.
Tempting...I wish there were some early reviews.
Yup. You simply can't compare review releases to political PR moves.
Anyway it seems that they're releasing Thursday morning now, so the point is [even more] moot.
A day earlier now? Interesting.
It does seems strange that one licence would restrict the other in its usage considering both Monolith and New Line are part of WB. The LEGO LOTR game made use of Wargs and that comes under the banner of the very same game licence.Does it not strike you as odd? If I'm right there wont be any trolls in the game, but Graugs which were introduced in LOTR online I think.
There's like 4 hours of gameplay available on youtube, what difference does a review make?
Edmond Dantès;131205458 said:Monolith have their reasons of course, but prima facie, there doesn't seem to be a legal restriction.
Mine says 6 days....4 days before release. That seems fairly good to me.
Anyone playing the final ps4 build, is there tearing or not? Looking at the last twitch demo I see some and I just want to make sure it is not the video encoding. Sadly I am really susceptive to screan tearing.![]()
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TBH no way I can play this game... as a Tolkien fan.
I'm a Tolkien fan as well and I'm can't for this game, it doesn't have to be 100% lore accurate to be a great Lord of the Rings game, the developers creative freedom trumps lore accuracy to me in this game.
Edmond Dantès;131205458 said:It does seems strange that one licence would restrict the other in its usage considering both Monolith and New Line are part of WB. The LEGO LOTR game made use of Wargs and that comes under the banner of the very same game licence.
Monolith have their reasons of course, but prima facie, there doesn't seem to be a legal restriction.
That is very interesting. It seems to imply the following; if Monolith were producing an official tie-in of The Hobbit trilogy there would be no restriction on character nomenclature usage, but because Shadow of Mordor is unrelated to the films (which seemingly take precedence) certain aspects of the intellectual property are therefore off limits.I cannot get into too much detail about this issue but there seems to be a legal reason for this. As I understood it, there seem to be different rights for the names and the looks/visuals of those creatures and they are not allowed to use both of those at the same time. Basically, they cannot call them wargs and trolls if they look like the ones from the movies.
1080p and 60fps on PS4 is what they are aiming for and judging by all the live demos done on PS4 it looks like they've hit it. I've watched almost all the live streams and haven't seen anything that would suggest otherwise. Also I assume Xbone runs great but they haven't mentioned it specifically for some reason.
They do, but so did Destiny and they were open about those kind of questions when asked.they might have a marketing deal with Sony.
Pop popTo be honest the aspect that I can't wait to try is the combat, if there is indeed like Arkham games but with gore and dismemberment I will absolulty love it.
That is quite the shame. It would only serve to bring attention to the original work even more and would also give everyone a chance to experience it in different ways. Can't argue with family wishes, but it seems awfully selfish considering how loved the material is.
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I'd like to see more LotR games and stuff too, but when a big franchise is a success companies begin to have difficulty discerning "what is good for the franchise" versus "what is good for the pocketbook." So while it's a bit of a bummer, I think the mystique and reverence people have for LotR would be shaken if it were mindlesssly taken and manipulated by companies. Especially when considering original stories set in the universe.
Yeah, I know, it could be set in a separate canon universe or something, but misuse and neglect would ultimately dilute the whole property. LotR seems special to me, like something that should be preserved - it's a a valuable antique, not a cheap toy.
Fantastic, thank you.What a Jiraculous find.
Any idea when it expires?
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Watching the twitch stream now. I probably won't be able to get this game till the end of October but it looks great. Looking forward to playing.
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There is probably a big difference in resolution between the two versions, and if they aren't under a lot of pressure to disclose the resolution on XB1, then why would they bring it up or even comment on it?1080p and 60fps on PS4 is what they are aiming for and judging by all the live demos done on PS4 it looks like they've hit it. I've watched almost all the live streams and haven't seen anything that would suggest otherwise. Also I assume Xbone runs great but they haven't mentioned it specifically for some reason.
Community manager says no tearing in the release build + v-sync activated.
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