Seriously tho who asked for this game?

[Excal]

Gollum? Who the hell wanted to play as Gollum from LOTR? It's like playing as JAR JAR Binks from star wars...... it was DOA from the beginning LMAO

[Laetum]

Some people want to play as an anorexic hairless chimp, please don't judge their tastes.

[DezKaiZer]

Originally posted by Excal:

Gollum? Who the hell wanted to play as Gollum from LOTR? It's like playing as JAR JAR Binks from star wars...... it was DOA from the beginning LMAO

To be Fair i would be all in in a game with smeagol as the main character starting his journey with the ring and seeing him getting corrupted until he gets to the gollum stage. Its just weird what they decided on making a game out of it

[Bozzl]

It's strange to have a LoTR stealth kinda game, when even hobbits fought in the books/movies. The "Shadow of" games may have played fast and loose with the lore, but at least it was something I could see being a gameplay style to fit LoTR. Even since it's first announcement, my first thoughts were "Who wants this?" Smeagol, while being a tragic and important character to the main story, isn't exactly the most compelling character in the lore.

I feel like most LoTR content suffers the same fate as Star Wars. you have all this expansive lore, even more so with Tolkien, to have your story set any time, any where. But, outside of a few exceptions, these companies continue to produce things within 50 years or so of the main story and adjacent to it. yeah, yeah, marketing teams and focus groups and all that, Old Republic did just fine. Shadow of series also did, although still being very closely tied to the main events. Make something new dammit.

[Roaming Zombie]

Originally posted by DezKaiZer:

Originally posted by Excal:

Gollum? Who the hell wanted to play as Gollum from LOTR? It's like playing as JAR JAR Binks from star wars...... it was DOA from the beginning LMAO

To be Fair i would be all in in a game with smeagol as the main character starting his journey with the ring and seeing him getting corrupted until he gets to the gollum stage. Its just weird what they decided on making a game out of it

The whole problem with that is you can't really play and decide for Smeagol. The Ring plays Smeagol. After that he mostly acts on basic instincts. There is no character development, only character regression.

[Butcher]

Originally posted by Skeletor:

They made something different for the Gollum fans like us. We don't want to see mainstream characters :papyrus:

Could have made LoTR far into the future, where dwarves got steampunk tech, humans got firearms and cutting forest. You play as Treebeard, gather other treants and go on Mech Commander/X-COM style missions to save the forest. Could be an option to grow increasing top load and clad your tree in the iron with cannons on each hand and shoulders.

[Z]

I would 100% play as Jar Jar

[königplatzen]

This topic was dealing with the question of Why Gollum:
I don't like to repeat myself too much:
https://steamcommunity.com/app/1265780/discussions/0/3834297685612094757/?tscn=1685215488

[50 Cal]

At least we can enjoy watching
Daedalic burn from the backlash. Thats free entertainment.

[YangDou]

Someone in the decision-making decide: we need to increase our woke factor to appeal to market of this generation, let's focus on a weak/misunderstood character. everyone applauded.

[Velber]

Originally posted by Teddy Demon:

Some people want to play as an anorexic hairless chimp, please don't judge their tastes.

Someone said it was hitler on meth