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Posted: Aug 12th 2009 4:33PM CaptainProtonX said

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It's like LoTR was molested by WoW.

Aragon...*tear*
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Posted: Aug 12th 2009 4:35PM RobS the 3rd said

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That... makes for one disturbing mental image... I need to wash my brain now.
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Posted: Aug 12th 2009 4:38PM Nomadic0ne said

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Nah, it's more like LotR was molested by Free Realms... (probably those creepy fairies)

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Posted: Aug 12th 2009 4:43PM CaptainProtonX said

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@nomadic0ne

Not the same impact as a Tauren mounting Aragon with Legolas being forced to watch.
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Posted: Aug 12th 2009 4:47PM DevilSei said

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Wrong captain, it was a bloodelf who snuck up behind Aragorn while pretending he was Legolas, then used that trust to push him down while Aragorn cried out "No!! Nooo! Not like this Legolas!! Nooooooooo!!"
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Posted: Aug 12th 2009 4:50PM CaptainProtonX said

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Best cross-over, EVER.
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Posted: Aug 12th 2009 4:56PM Nomadic0ne said

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Ok then, who's going to draw up the yaoi LotR/WoW fan fic?

NOT IT!
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Posted: Aug 12th 2009 4:58PM (Unverified) said

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Uh, it looks nothing like WoW. Looks more like Kingdoms Heart with Aragorn's head shopped onto the main guy.
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Posted: Aug 12th 2009 4:59PM The Blank Mage Returns said

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stopitstopitstopitohgodnowhywouldanyonethinkthat?!
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Posted: Aug 12th 2009 5:03PM kobioshi said

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Or Fable
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Posted: Aug 12th 2009 8:19PM (Unverified) said

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Looks like Rule 34 controls this topic.
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Posted: Aug 12th 2009 4:34PM RobS the 3rd said

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What is with all these games being moved up too spring 2010? Do these people not notice everyone else is doing it too.
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Posted: Aug 12th 2009 4:43PM NathanDTS said

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If everyone else ate a pizza, would you do it to?
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Posted: Aug 12th 2009 4:44PM NathanDTS said

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Oh and yeah, it's pepperoni.
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Posted: Aug 12th 2009 4:46PM CaptainProtonX said

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Yeah, but the pizza isn't at war with itself. The slices all move together in one cheesy, gooey, crusty, mouth-watering...

Dammit.
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Posted: Aug 12th 2009 4:48PM RobS the 3rd said

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I'm hungry now, thanks a lot. Well at least it's near dinner time.
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Posted: Aug 12th 2009 5:02PM TheDarkWayne said

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it took them like 30 years to realize releasing everything in 2 months was a bad idea, cant expect them to notice this is a bad idea in 1 year
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Posted: Aug 13th 2009 1:31PM Elranzer said

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Looks like I'm going to be broke come Spring 2010...
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Posted: Aug 12th 2009 4:35PM Cap Morgan said

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I didn't know Aragorn was a hobbit. Who knew?
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Posted: Aug 12th 2009 4:46PM NathanDTS said

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Lol, his shield is almost as big as him.
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Posted: Aug 12th 2009 5:39PM LAZoftheTamarinds said

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Also LOL at his huge hands and feet. He looks like one of those Playskool toys!
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Posted: Aug 12th 2009 4:42PM (Unverified) said

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Good. I'd hate to think this turd might do well.

Please, Activision? Move Singularity up to this year again? It's too crowded where it is!

EA, the same goes for Mass Effect 2.

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Posted: Aug 13th 2009 1:32AM mr nimblewick said

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You have no idea whether this game is good or not.
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Posted: Aug 13th 2009 11:35AM Petebot330 said

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There's already 2 huge Bioware-style RPGs this year--Alpha Protocol and Dragon Age. I think we can wait for Mass Effect 2.
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Posted: Aug 13th 2009 11:42AM (Unverified) said

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Except I want to kill Tali. Over and over and over.
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Posted: Aug 12th 2009 4:49PM Mr Khan said

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Wii's Q1 is starting to get fairly crowded too, then. The 3rd parties had better hope that Nintendo really does keep Galaxy 2 further away.
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Posted: Aug 12th 2009 4:56PM Ricky Bango said

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Brutally bad art direction. It makes me a little queasy. It's like the super weak mid-point between WoW and Fable. All of the shittiness without any of the character.
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Posted: Aug 12th 2009 5:18PM Professor Lario said

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Exactly. It reminded me of something, but I couldn't come up with it until I read your post. Major tones of Fable.
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Posted: Aug 12th 2009 4:57PM NathanDTS said

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Off topic: Who is sick of these do-gooder Planeteers and thier completely useless powers?
Well, Joystiqians... Joystiqers... Joystiqnites... members of the Joystiq community, join me and the anti-planeteers and together we can end the planeteers and thier stupidness.

Just for enquiring you recieve a free parker pen.
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Posted: Aug 12th 2009 5:01PM Rollins said

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Shouldn't you be the Ecovillains?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecovillain
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Posted: Aug 12th 2009 5:27PM NathanDTS said

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Technically yes but, ecovillain doesn't sum up how anti we are.
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Posted: Aug 12th 2009 5:50PM Mr Khan said

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I always wanted to be an eco-villain anyway. They got way cooler costumes than the planeteers.

I call Sly Sludge!
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Posted: Aug 12th 2009 6:16PM NathanDTS said

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Also we aren't limited to ecological disastery.
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Posted: Aug 12th 2009 6:20PM (Unverified) said

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my power would be to fly the fleet of jets I purchased with my own money (and totally not that government bailout that Wiizer's Sweatshop Inc. received) everywhere I go.


For I am.........THE INNOCENT ACE

Yes I realize the name is ironic, I figured it would give the team more indie/hipster cred. Cause if theres one thing indie douchebags/hipsters love its irony.
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Posted: Aug 12th 2009 6:22PM Stix Remix said

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@Moptimus: So you're calling dibs on "Pelosi"?
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Posted: Aug 12th 2009 6:26PM Mr Khan said

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Neither were they, really. Verminous Skumm dealt drugs and stole museum artifacts (and was also an accomplished bio-terrorist), and Dr. Blight built a time machine (aside from her shrink ray and cloning ray, and her evil duplicator machine)
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Posted: Aug 12th 2009 6:33PM Sly C said

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Sly Sludge? SLY SLUDGE? REALLY? I've been Sly for forever AND I'm a planeteer! How could you, Khan?
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Posted: Aug 12th 2009 6:59PM Mr Khan said

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But were you voiced by Martin Sheen in seasons 1-3? That is the deciding factor.
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Posted: Aug 12th 2009 4:58PM Macabre 13 said

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Prediction:

All Q1 2010 releases suffer paltry sales due to saturation, resulting in a huge influx of homeless people on the mean streets of Silicon Valley...

Meanwhile, Wii shovelware hits record sales in Q3 2009, many breaking into multi-million sales figures, as nothing else was available...

And finally in Q4 2009, MW2 will eat babies and kill kittens, heralding the apocalypse just 2 years in advance...

...sounds about right.
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Posted: Aug 12th 2009 5:43PM (Unverified) said

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Don't forget that as soon as all of these bomb in Spring of 2010 the game industry will decided that it was because of Spring 2010 and not because there were 5,000 games released at the same time and go back to releasing everything between November and January.
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Posted: Aug 12th 2009 5:05PM Snowblind said

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I kind of like the idea of a LoTR action game like this, and the art style doesn't really bother me.. But the Hobbits look really scary, everything is ultra cartoony, but it looks like they smeared the actors faces across the cartoon bodies.

And yeah, it seems everything is coming Q1 2010 now. It's not going to do any better there than it is this Christmas.
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Posted: Aug 12th 2009 5:32PM Saria the Cat said

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Wow, can someone say Fable? I am not a huge LoTR fan (I enjoy the movies but don't really care about the mythos), so this game being like Fable would make it interesting to me.
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Posted: Aug 12th 2009 5:58PM SpartacusMagnus said

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BLASPHEMY! Someone remove her nerd badge immediately!
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Posted: Aug 12th 2009 6:05PM Saria the Cat said

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@Spartacus: The Hobbit is the best book Tolkien wrote, but in general I find his writing to be sub-par when compared to contemporary sci-fi and fantasy authors. The LoTR trilogy was painfully long, and half of the text was dancing, songs, poems, and historical crap irrelevant to the plot. I tried, I really did, but I think Tolkien is overhyped, mostly because he is considered the "grandfather" of fantasy fiction. Yes, his world is elaborate and he made up a language. That doesn't make his storytelling style any good.

I am however a huge fan of Katharine Kerr.
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Posted: Aug 12th 2009 6:13PM (Unverified) said

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Hear hear!

Loved The Hobbit, hated LOTR. I only finished it to say I'd done it.
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Posted: Aug 12th 2009 6:22PM Mr Khan said

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Really? I thought the various historical side-references were what made it so awesome, that there was a much richer world that they were passing through

I have my own issues with his writing, to be sure, but that was not one of them
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Posted: Aug 12th 2009 6:31PM Saria the Cat said

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@Mr Khan: I like rich, detailed environments and histories related to the characters, but Tolkien often rambled about histories that did not even intersect with what we read. They were just pages of crap that didn't have anything to do with anything. I have no problem with a detailed mythos but I want to be given a reason to care about it, especially if it's going to read like a history textbook.
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Posted: Aug 12th 2009 6:35PM Sly C said

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the LOTR history DID intersect with the quests of the main characters. a lot of the off-topic ramblings really did help the reader understand what the whole backstory is, and why what's happening is happening.
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Posted: Aug 13th 2009 9:36AM Geist said

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I agree, Saria. Took me forever to get through the damn book. What should've been a page of conversation was stretched into pages and pages of ramblings and flavour text and poems and songs and ugh. Repeated ad nauseum.
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Posted: Aug 12th 2009 5:39PM Shadowbender said

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I love LOTR. Can't wait for this.
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