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Rumor: Pandemic's LOTR Will Be Battlefield-Esque

Iarwain — Thu, 08 May 2008 12:11:50 MDT

They're not called elephants, they are called Mumakil, or 'Oliphaunts', which was the name the Hobbits used. Also, I don't think you'll be riding any ponies (unless Bill is included, which I doubt), you'll be riding horses. LotR geeks FTW!

Iarwain

Rumor: Pandemic's LOTR Will Be Battlefield-Esque

Yin — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 01:38:18 MST

Dark Messiah had the gameplay of fps-melee down pretty good. I really liked it. Too bad the multiplayer sucked (I couldn't use the kick and I was constantly poisoned and killed by invisible archers or something... Then I gave up and went back to the single player :P)

Yin

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Fyren — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 01:33:11 MST

@huginn:

Dude, you just won this thread of comments.

Fyren

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kingofallcosmos — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 01:09:46 MST

Well, I hope that this does end up like the Battlefront games rather than the Battlefield games. Also, based on that press release, does that mean that there are no plans for a current gen Star Wars: Battlefront game? LOTR Battlefront would be a good substitute, but LOTR Battlefield would be disappointing.

kingofallcosmos

Rumor: Pandemic's LOTR Will Be Battlefield-Esque

Amazing-Steve — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 00:57:00 MST

@NotAZombie: Yeah no way. 1942 was the shit. The Desert Combat mod made that game AMAZING.

Amazing-Steve

Rumor: Pandemic's LOTR Will Be Battlefield-Esque

Chewbenator — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 22:07:23 MST

I'm looking forward to this, if LOTR didn't suck so much (IMO) I would be playing it instead of WoW. RPGFPSs always interested me but no one has quite done it right. I might check out Savage 2, but it doesn't seem there is much interest in it, maybe I'm wrong.

Chewbenator

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mx5 — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 21:38:08 MST

@Chupakun "LOTR in First Person? No offence to anyone, but **** you Pandemic *if* that's what you will end up doing.":

Well let's think about the last and current Pandemic titles. Mercenaries - 3rd person, Battlefront 1 & 2 - 3rd person, Mercenaries 2 - 3rd person, Saboteur - 3rd person. Why in hell do you think that they will turn this one into a 1st person out of nowhere?!

mx5

Rumor: Pandemic's LOTR Will Be Battlefield-Esque

Irenicus-the one and only — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 20:55:09 MST

I just wet myself >.<

Now I can't wait for this game!

Irenicus-the one and only

Rumor: Pandemic's LOTR Will Be Battlefield-Esque

Chupakun — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 20:39:58 MST

LOTR in First Person? No offence to anyone, but **** you Pandemic *if* that's what you will end up doing.
I've loved EA's 3rd person actioners and want more of the same (perhaps with further story exposition into the more uncharted realms of the novels).

Chupakun

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Ignited_Impulse — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 20:23:38 MST

I'm all for action over RPG but please, no first-person. ROTK was solid gold and melee combat is always better in 3rd person.

Ignited_Impulse

Rumor: Pandemic's LOTR Will Be Battlefield-Esque

Wookiee1 — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 19:56:27 MST

We want Feanor and Turin!

Wookiee1

Rumor: Pandemic's LOTR Will Be Battlefield-Esque

Malaky — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 19:36:26 MST

Can't wait to rush to a stallion that seats 2, leave before anybody can climb with me, jump off a cliff, deploy some sort of wings so I don't die and then hop on an Oliphant to wreck havoc on my enemies! O.o

Seriously though, 3rd person-medievalish-battlefieldo-lord-of-the-ringesque action like this = <3

Malaky

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jarjarwang — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 19:32:46 MST

Dragon chopper whores, 10 guys on a elephant thing, omg omg omg

jarjarwang

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mx5 — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 19:11:48 MST

@Draco Basileus "I'd prefer if they tried a Battlefront approach.":

Well, Battlefront is what Pandemic folks thought was the proper way Battlefield should've been done. So if LOTR is that game genre you can bet that it will be much closer to Battlefront than Battlefield.

So, the title above should read "Rumor: Pandemic's LOTR Will Be Battlefront-Esque" and NOT "Battlefield-Esque"

mx5

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Frank — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 18:26:59 MST

Uh oh, here comes Leeeeerooooyy Jeeeenkiiiiins.

Frank

Rumor: Pandemic's LOTR Will Be Battlefield-Esque

DefDealer — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 18:01:51 MST

I have a vision of a bunch of cat and mouse chases with swords...very annoying cat and mouse chases...EA please prove me wrong.

DefDealer

Rumor: Pandemic's LOTR Will Be Battlefield-Esque

WhiskeyJak — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 17:50:37 MST

Heard the same rumor yesterday from a source who supposedly saw it...

WhiskeyJak

Rumor: Pandemic's LOTR Will Be Battlefield-Esque

PeterQC — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 17:47:24 MST

@PeterQC: Without guns, with swords, typo.

PeterQC

Rumor: Pandemic's LOTR Will Be Battlefield-Esque

Gouki4u's avatar has a severe case of Jekyll and Hyde — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 17:44:16 MST

This will either be incredible, or incredibly bad. It takes a special touch to pull of first person mêlée combat.

Gouki4u's avatar has a severe case of Jekyll and Hyde

Rumor: Pandemic's LOTR Will Be Battlefield-Esque

PeterQC — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 17:39:34 MST

If they can make a LOTR Multiplayer like battlefield, with guns and sword, and it's actually good AND it comes on 360, I'm sold. Would love to play some epic fight like bf1942, medieval style.

PeterQC

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EnigmaNemesis — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 17:25:40 MST

@huginn:

LOL win!

EnigmaNemesis

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huginn — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 17:20:24 MST

"Here have some more arrows."
"Here have some more arrows."
"Here have some more arrows."

huginn

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Dopeski — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 17:15:50 MST

@jettokisora: Yep, so true. It's too bad. I got the game mainly for the multiplayer but for some reason every time I would play online I would lag so much (FPS and latency lag), so that kind of killed the game for me. The single player was pretty good though.

Dopeski

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tnx3 — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 17:13:39 MST

You know, there's a reason why there aren't many first person melee games. There hasn't been a good track record of those type of games, and it'll have to be something mindblowing to break that trend.

tnx3

Rumor: Pandemic's LOTR Will Be Battlefield-Esque

OT79 — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 17:06:33 MST

I never play one single game from the franchise,but if they make an "open world" to play like Oblivion was,it's a sure buy for me,I love the franchise,but I need a more deep experience,glad to know the possibility of this.

OT79

Rumor: Pandemic's LOTR Will Be Battlefield-Esque

nightshade71986 — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 17:05:04 MST

I always though this kind of blend would work real well as long as its done well. More and more I'm getting annoyed with developers that have a great idea and the resources but they don't polish it. and it really pisses me off when its a simple thing like glitches (see
BlackSite: Area 51 ) or simple balance issues (see halo 1 pistol and assault rifle).
This kind of stuff is what makes me want to start making my own games. But I'm not so stupid to yell at a football player that I could do better.
Anyway all we can do now is hope these guys pull it off.

nightshade71986

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J-Fro — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 17:02:37 MST

@GUNLOC_MORIYM: "For Frodo" - also fun to say at the bowling alley when you're about to bowl a strike.

Thank you Pandemic for getting me excited about an EA release again. It's been awhile. Not quite the "Grand Theft Oliphant" sandbox game that I was hoping for, but "Battlefield Middle-Earth" works for me, too. Here's hoping it's first person.

J-Fro

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BTFzor_Freestyle — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 16:59:30 MST

Wishful thinking here, but I want something on the scale of Total War, where we have thousands of players on one battlefield. No fancy graphics, just a fuck ton of players charging straight into battle at an epic proportion.

Though I guess it can't be much fun getting killed so quickly en masse.

BTFzor_Freestyle

Rumor: Pandemic's LOTR Will Be Battlefield-Esque

Cruz — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 16:53:48 MST

@Draco Basileus: Perhaps an option to toggle the view depending on the role? I do think 3rd person for melee combat would be more appropriate. 3rd person melee versus Oblivion-esque 1rst person melee, think of something God of War-ish vs Oblivion hackfest; I think 3rd person might add to the aesthetics of melee combat, and allow for a more sophisticated system.

Cruz

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7th_Ronin — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 16:49:38 MST

lol ea ... please

might be fun anyway

7th_Ronin

Rumor: Pandemic's LOTR Will Be Battlefield-Esque

NeoAkira — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 16:34:47 MST

"Battlefield competitive first-person shooter spin (with mounts)"

So it's like everyone's a hunter from WoW and you are riding a mount and you use the mouse to shoot. Am I getting this right?

NeoAkira

Rumor: Pandemic's LOTR Will Be Battlefield-Esque

Fyren — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 16:31:26 MST

MOMM misssed the mark by a WIDE margin.

Battlefront II almost got it.

Here is hoping if it does get battlefield-esque, the Assualt and Defend is just wtfpwnage. Big scale battles or nothing.

Fyren

Rumor: Pandemic's LOTR Will Be Battlefield-Esque

Draco Basileus — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 16:30:22 MST

I'd prefer if they tried a Battlefront approach. The pacing of these types of bow and sword games is too chaotic up close to deal with in a 1st person POV. 3rd person would be better. 1st person games only work when your weapon can shoot faster than your target can move. Does that mean everyone gets to play as Legolas and fire off 15 arrows in 5 seconds?

Never played Dark Messiah's multi-player, but I'm envisioning Oblivion style mechanics against human opponents. Seems like a nightmare.

Draco Basileus

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Aethyr — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 16:28:36 MST

That sounds pretty awesome. It would be nice to have Battlefield's gameplay without the drab army theme.

Aethyr

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Gunloc — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 16:25:49 MST

Well I guess I'll get alot less strange looks for yelling "For Frodo!" in this game. When I yell that in rock band so everybody activates their overdrive I feel alittle silly :p

Gunloc

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TOCATL — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 16:25:27 MST

@NotAZombie: err, i dont think so, the to play well bf1942 most pcs can do it fine while to play bf1942 you need to spend more cash on upgrades, also bf1942 has a huge and i mean huge modding community...

TOCATL

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EnigmaNemesis — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 16:24:49 MST

A game like that, where it does not contain your typical guns ... sounds promising!

EnigmaNemesis

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Custom Reality — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 16:22:09 MST

This could go so wrong, or so right. As a fan of the BF series, I hope it hits the mark for I need a reason to build a gaming PC again.

Custom Reality

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Rock-Byron — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 16:20:56 MST

The idea sounds wonderful, fingers crossed they can pull it off!

Rock-Byron

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NotAZombie — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 16:20:24 MST

@TOCATL: 1942? No way BF2 was a major improvement over 1942.

NotAZombie

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magically_delicious — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 16:19:32 MST

that actually sounds... awesome... can't wait to charge a massive elephant with my pony.

magically_delicious

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m3lkor — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 16:19:27 MST

@ghnvt: or it could just be awesomely terrible.

m3lkor

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ghnvt — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 16:13:45 MST

This could be awesome or terrible. I need to see something concrete to determine which one it is.

ghnvt

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TOCATL — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 16:13:30 MST

It sounds interesting, i love bf1942 more than all the shooters in the past years...

TOCATL

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Drake Lake: Palms Fitted Black — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 16:13:12 MST

@jettokisora:
We always say that, but 99% of the time, they never get that time to polish.

Drake Lake: Palms Fitted Black

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Luke Plunkett — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 16:12:54 MST

Battlefield?

BATTLEFIELD??

T T

Luke Plunkett

Rumor: Pandemic's LOTR Will Be Battlefield-Esque

jettokisora — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 16:10:30 MST

Dark Messiah's multiplayer had a lot of potential but was plagued by poor maps, poor presentation, poor class balance, and technical issues.

A Battlefield LOTR game could be really amazing, if they give it the time and polish it needs.

jettokisora