DLC- Hobbit land

[victorzvyagin]

Would be really nice, please make it happen, imagine killing orcs near Bilbo's house!

[ACynicalLamp]

'Hobbit land'

Get out you flithy casual.

[Eternal Darkness]

/facepalm

Some reading on the "Shire" and Hobbiton if you cba to read the books:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shire_%28Middle-earth%29

[Chef GrumpyBlitz]

lol hobbit land theme park

[Good Cossutius]

OP #WorstLOTRfan2014

[Zorelnam]

guys come on you dont need to hate on this guy he just simply made a horrible mistake which shall be the reason WE TAKE AWAY HIS SOUL AND LET MORGOTH FEED ON IT FOR ETERNITY

[victorzvyagin]

Ok, anyone? *Ignoring all trolling kids above* ??

[Fidel Jr]

Christ, you all know what he means. Crazy fans. Let it go.

[󠀡󠀡aynhse]

Too far of a journey, you'd need to include a ton of more locations to reach the shire's location, which is where "bilbo's house'' as you call it is located in. Here, take a look at this example. here is the walk to mordor that frodo and sam did from the shire to mordor. https://i.imgur.com/vrB3u0A.png Now, think. How many more areas would need too be added in order to reach that...,the answer is a ton. Heck, they could make another entire game with that much content. Look, your hearts in the right place here...but it isn't realistic.

[victorzvyagin]

I know the Middle Earth's geography is not perfect for that location, lol- some people read books too, ya know- but couldn't they, like, do a little symbol on the map for the fast travel? Like they did for Elven land?
I know the engine they used is not a classical UE3 or 4, but if they included an extra land, with the only way to get to it is by map Fast- travel, shouldnt it be easier to add an even Smaller map (hobbit homeland) by just adding another fast travel? Heheh, even if its DLC worth 20 quid, hell I'd buy it!

[󠀡󠀡aynhse]

think for second. If they done that fast travel thing and etc, then what would they possibly implement into that area which will be worth 20 dogs as a DLC content map area? Oh, sure. you'd be able to roam around the map of The Shire and visit some fancy Movie Folk Stars like Gandalf or whatevers. But, what would that kinda place have to do with this game? There is nothing to fight, nothing to brand, nothing. Just a calm area with nothing but "hey, these are the guys from X and X movie and this is that area of X and X movie." and such. It wouldn't make sense story wise, the character even stated that they wouldn't leave mordor. So, why would they travel soo far away to visit the Shire exactly? The answer is that there is no reason for him to be there, at all.

[PocketYoda]

Hobbit skin is needed.

[Chef GrumpyBlitz]

elven land, hobbit land, Man land and orc land hahaha

[victorzvyagin]

Originally posted by 1mirg:

think for second. If they done that fast travel thing and etc, then what would they possibly implement into that area which will be worth 20 dogs as a DLC content map area? Oh, sure. you'd be able to roam around the map of The Shire and visit some fancy Movie Folk Stars like Gandalf or whatevers. But, what would that kinda place have to do with this game? There is nothing to fight, nothing to brand, nothing. Just a calm area with nothing but "hey, these are the guys from X and X movie and this is that area of X and X movie." and such. It wouldn't make sense story wise, the character even stated that they wouldn't leave mordor. So, why would they travel soo far away to visit the Shire exactly? The answer is that there is no reason for him to be there, at all.

well, I know- however, that's why I suggested in The beginning of this thread- that we have an ability to kill orcs there.
Imagine, if you got the secret orc/ Uruk invasion from Mordor, not described in Books (and if You DID read books and/ or watchedfilms, you'd notice- the whole game's story is kinda...... fan fiction, in a way)- so, you got something to do in there, maybe not even tied with th story.
I KNOW map would be small- but think, if You add destructability , and/or ability to enter Hobbits' houses- no one will care about story anymore! WB got more Money then, and fans- new content, just as good as a whole new story DLC would be anyway!

[Mithrandir]

I don't think they really need to secretly invade "Hobbit Land" (Shire). Grey Havens would be a more obvious target. But even if they did strech the story lore vise in the shadow of Mordor, they didn't ruined it too badly (the appearance of Anatar is the best surprise). The story works in the boundries of Mordor. You can't explain the Orc invasion of the Shire lore vise, it never happened. Now, if you wanna do the The Scouring of the Shire type game, it could probably be done, but the scale would be way small, no grand, epic story (even though The Scouring of the Shire is one of my favourite chapters in the whole book) and no Orcs, just some lame Men bandits in service of Saruman. So I was thinking, maybe they can do a sequel involving Osgiliath (perfect location in my opinion), a city ravaged by war, overun by Orcs. Or fall of Gondolin, or even Siege of Tangorodrim. And people care about the story. Thanks to the story professor Tolkien wrote we all get the chance to play this game.

[victorzvyagin]

Originally posted by Mithrandir:

I don't think they really need to secretly invade "Hobbit Land" (Shire). Grey Havens would be a more obvious target. But even if they did strech the story lore vise in the shadow of Mordor, they didn't ruined it too badly (the appearance of Anatar is the best surprise). The story works in the boundries of Mordor. You can't explain the Orc invasion of the Shire lore vise, it never happened. Now, if you wanna do the The Scouring of the Shire type game, it could probably be done, but the scale would be way small, no grand, epic story (even though The Scouring of the Shire is one of my favourite chapters in the whole book) and no Orcs, just some lame Men bandits in service of Saruman. So I was thinking, maybe they can do a sequel involving Osgiliath (perfect location in my opinion), a city ravaged by war, overun by Orcs. Or fall of Gondolin, or even Siege of Tangorodrim. And people care about the story. Thanks to the story professor Tolkien wrote we all get the chance to play this game.

I actually didnt think of it (since everyone is so excited by the Uruk nemesis system)- hell, why not make bandits the nemesis too? After all, as I said, ME: Shadow of Mordor is just like another fanfic