Lord of the Rings: War in the North trailer displays orcish brutality

@Acosta02

Perhaps a half orc barbarian? Oh wait...

@Acosta02

Wizards are super common in Lord of the Rings, right?

They aren't like some extra rare species unto themselves, or anything, right?

@SuperWittyActionWords *Cherpits cricking* ;]

@StrangeObjective Exactly.

@SuperWittyActionWords

you dont live up to your name

@8bitartist I'm actually doing exactly what I mean to in the precise way I mean to do it.

@mrmobius
I second this.

@mrmobius
id rather a drizzt game! and agree with what you said, but i wont rule this out just yet.

@xakari I'm looking forward to this, but I agree. This setting really wasn't the best choice out of what's available. LotR doesn't really lend itself to filling the archetypes needed in a game like this.

Can't have just archer and melee, but mages throwing around forcefields and such just don't belong in the setting.

@Dufrane

seriously, it's one thing to interpret the world in your eyes, but this isn't LoTR.

Don't butcher the books.

@Dufrane

Five wizards were sent into Middle-Earth by the Valar. That doesn't mean they are the only five magic users in the entire world. Magic users can exist elsewhere (seeing is how there was no explanation of Bombadil's magical songs, he's a point of interest to this defense). It's a world seeped in lore (which this game will probably ignore), but it's wholly unexplored for the most part. That leaves plenty of room for unknown artifacts, races, magics, etc. Granted it's a cop-out to use LotR and not use the most familiar aspects of the IP, but I'm definitely not gonna hate on this game for taking liberties with the IP. This is the company that brought us Champions of Norrath and Return to Arms based on the EverQuest IP... Which full on ignored/mutated the existing lore and shoehorning their engine into a loose adaptation of Norrath, but the games were a hell of a lot of fun. I let go how they violated EQ because well, it's a game and it worked.

For comparison, actual Innoruuk vs Champions of Norrath Inny.
http://common.allakhazam.com/images/6/b/6bd2c2881ac0cc915002923f182693cd.png

http://www.worldforger.com/gportal/innoruuk.gif

@Captain Planet Planeteer Power

The only difference that it having been 6-7 years since the Return of the King is that it has given people who first saw LotR in film form a chance to read the trilogy and realise how deep Tolkien took Middle Earth, and how shallow this trailer is making Middle Earth. I unfortunately wasn't familiar with the joy of LotR until the film trilogy (I was young and not familiar with many books) but since then I've read many Tolkien books, and the more Tolkien I encounter, the more shallow this game looks.

@iFester

IMO, this team's delivery of Hack n Slash is only bested by Diablo. Love love love their engine, and look forward to a good hack n slash for this generation (closest so far is DeathSpank... which lacks any form of multiplayer)

@LarZen

The two EA games based on the films were quite successful. The Return of the King game was even enjoyable.

LOTRO has done OK for itself, as far as MMOs go, as well.

Some people claim to enjoy that Battle for Middle Earth RTS, but I've always assumed those were the ramblings of syphilitic minds.