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Question to Bioware about hobbit rpg game

Débuté par Sarah223 , janv. 06 2015 02:05

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Posté 06 janvier 2015 - 02:05

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Hi alle :)

 

I would like to ask Bioware if they could maybe create a Hobbit rpg game someday. There are many lord of the rings games, but they are not that rpg game like Dragon Age. They are just boring fight games with nothing else.

 

It would be very nice to have the possibility to create an elf or a human, a dwarf, to have different choices, to built up friendships or any like that..... You know all stuff like Dragon Age has...

 

 

What do you think?

 

Im sure it would be a perfect hobbit game ever. :-) 

 

kind regards

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Posté 06 janvier 2015 - 02:36

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I have my doubts, honestly.

Bioware has expressed that they do not like working with other licenses other than their own, due to issues with approvals and struggles with LucasArts and WoTC in their prior games. In addition, if there were going to be any LOTR game released with a Hobbit theme that was released from a large studio, they would likely have worked to time it with the movies. The closest we got was Shadows of Mordor, which was not at all related to The Hobbit films or timeline.

I highly doubt you will get a response from anyone from Bioware here. You'd have better luck shooting them your idea/request on Twitter, in all honesty.

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Posté 07 janvier 2015 - 07:39

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Posté 07 janvier 2015 - 07:44

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I read the thread title as "Question to Bioware about horrible rpg game".

 

Think I need to get my head checked. Nothing against OP or the idea of course, but I swear that's what I saw on the screen...


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Posté 07 janvier 2015 - 07:52

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The Game rights to Tolkiens works belong to WB interactive. So you're request is highly unlikely bordering on impossible given Bioware is an EA developer (I'm aware EA published LOTR games some time ago. But given how Conquest turned out, I sure as hell wouldn't want their grubby hands near the license ever again...also Conquest was 6 years ago)

 

The most we can get from Bioware is Star Wars.

 

Also titling it The Hobbit specifically, yet giving a wide array of races to play as is a very misleading idea.

 

Lord of the Rings, or even going the Shadows of Mordor route and slapping Middle Earth on it works much better.


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Posté 07 janvier 2015 - 09:13

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The Game rights to Tolkiens works belong to WB interactive. So you're request is highly unlikely bordering on impossible given Bioware is an EA developer (I'm aware EA published LOTR games some time ago. But given how Conquest turned out, I sure as hell wouldn't want their grubby hands near the license ever again...also Conquest was 6 years ago)

 

The most we can get from Bioware is Star Wars.

 

Also titling it The Hobbit specifically, yet giving a wide array of races to play as is a very misleading idea.

 

Lord of the Rings, or even going the Shadows of Mordor route and slapping Middle Earth on it works much better.

 

E.A wasn't bad for LOTR since they gave us Battle For Middle Earth 1&2.

 

Pandemic Studios developed Conquest. That piece of **** was their doing not E.A's.


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Posté 07 janvier 2015 - 10:07

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Posté 07 janvier 2015 - 07:08

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There haven't been too many LotR/Hobbit games that I personally thought were well made (and I refuse to revisit the trauma of playing the text-based Zork-style "The Hobbit" &*$^#@! Gollum and the ring... >:l)

 

Your best bet for what you're looking for is Lord of the Rings: The Third Age.

 

It's Final Fantasy style, and it actually allows for co-op play (though not online.) I believe it's for the original Xbox, so getting a working copy along with a working system could be difficult (I don't know if a PC port was made.)

 

There were four characters that I remember. A ranger, a warrior of Gondor (both humans) an Elf mage, and a Dwarf Axeman.

 

You could have three in the party at any given point in time. It's probably quite dated, now.

 

I don't believe EA has any plans to try and work out a licence deal to make a LotR game, especially because of the complexity involved when there's already a studio with the VG licence out there.


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Posté 07 janvier 2015 - 07:15

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Not going to happen. Getting the rights would be quite expensive as EA doesn't have them and neither is there much incentive to pay such sums for a videogame adaptation.


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Posté 08 janvier 2015 - 12:57

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Posté 08 janvier 2015 - 01:02

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LOTRO is really the epitome of Tolkein games.

 

Too bad it's an MMO.

 

Once Chris hits the Dead Book hopefully the Tolkien estate will open up to the Silmarillion rights being sold.

 

I would LOVE LOVE LOVE for TellTale to make something out of the Silmarillion seeing as how they handle other IPs pretty well.

 

But BioWare? Errr... maybe.


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Posté 08 janvier 2015 - 01:38

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*Snip* TellTale 

 

 

OMG that would be fantastic, but i must say boarderlands eh and by eh i mean a super big eh.


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Posté 08 janvier 2015 - 01:39

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LOTRO is really the epitome of Tolkein games.

 

Too bad it's an MMO.

 

Once Chris hits the Dead Book hopefully the Tolkien estate will open up to the Silmarillion rights being sold.

 

I would LOVE LOVE LOVE for TellTale to make something out of the Silmarillion seeing as how they handle other IPs pretty well.

 

But BioWare? Errr... maybe.

 

BioWare tells decent save-the-world stories, and very little else when it comes to narratives. That's not the sort of profile I'd be looking for when searching for a Hobbit game.

 

Silmarillion? A bit better, perhaps, but still no.


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Posté 08 janvier 2015 - 01:54

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BioWare tells decent save-the-world stories, and very little else when it comes to narratives. That's not the sort of profile I'd be looking for when searching for a Hobbit game.

 

Silmarillion? A bit better, perhaps, but still no.

 

That's why I said "maybe."

 

I still stick to DA2 as wasted potential (it's their only really "adventerous game" in terms of going outside their comfort zone.)

 

BioWare would make a good RPG depicting the events from the Battle of Unnumbered Tears all the way to the War of Wrath methinks.

 

The material is there, so there's no need to make stuff up and there's lots of combat for gameplay purposes. The problem is "choices" and I suppose choices don't really need to affect the MACRO, but rather, the micro. Imagine escaping Gondolin and having to chose between friends etc...

 

As for the Hobbit?

 

Eh.

 

The original material wouldn't make a good anything really. It's a kids book, people seem to forget that.

 

TellTale is the one I'd root for thought. Why? They're great at making personal journeys and I think a story about a group of Noldor trying to get back to Valinor after the Battle of Unnumbered Tears would make for awesome stuff and we'd see Tolkien's far darker side (i,e Children of Hurin material.)


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Posté 08 janvier 2015 - 02:01

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[...]

 

As for the Hobbit?

 

Eh.

 

The original material wouldn't make a good anything really. It's a kids book, people seem to forget that.

 

TellTale is the one I'd root for thought. Why? They're great at making personal journeys and I think a story about a group of Noldor trying to get back to Valinor after the Battle of Unnumbered Tears would make for awesome stuff and we'd see Tolkien's far darker side (i,e Children of Hurin material.)

 

I don't mean so much the specific content in the book as the barebone narrative. Gandalf brought both a map and a key to Thorin, heir to a long-lost throne, giving him the methods by which to recover his crown so long as a dragon that happens to reside within the mountain is killed. That's not BioWare material-- it's too personal, overarching theme notwithstanding.

 

The game's interpretation of the ins and outs of that story, as well as how it is told and parallel events, are for the writers to tailor in order to fit the sort of game they're making, so long as accuracy is kept to a certain standard.

 

As for Telltale... I agree. It has been done before, but I would also enjoy narratives parallel to the War of the Ring, in the north. There's a great deal of freedom to be taken advantage of in that territory.

 

Note: I agree with everything you said that I removed from the quote, and have no comment on it.


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Posté 08 janvier 2015 - 02:39

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Your best bet for what you're looking for is Lord of the Rings: The Third Age.

 

It's Final Fantasy style, and it actually allows for co-op play (though not online.) I believe it's for the original Xbox, so getting a working copy along with a working system could be difficult (I don't know if a PC port was made.)

 

There were four characters that I remember. A ranger, a warrior of Gondor (both humans) an Elf mage, and a Dwarf Axeman.

 

You could have three in the party at any given point in time. It's probably quite dated, now.

 

This. Definitely dated, but it wasn't half bad for its time. The plot was really weird, kind of like an AU where there's a second 'Fellowship' tailing the original one for some reason or other. I can't really remember. Hell, it was fun just to have a fairly basic RPG with all the trademark LotR locations, enemies and of course that music.

 

The co-op was pretty unique, plus an evil mode where you could play as the enemies. Like the Balrog. Nuff said.  (It was on the xbox, PS2 and gamecube I might add. There are a few more characters than that too)

 

The plot goes clean off the deep end after a while, and the ending's straight up ridiculous, but it's certainly one of the better LotR games. Any game that uses The Bridge of Khazad-Dum as its combat theme is ok in my book.


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Posté 08 janvier 2015 - 04:09

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I don't mean so much the specific content in the book as the barebone narrative. Gandalf brought both a map and a key to Thorin, heir to a long-lost throne, giving him the methods by which to recover his crown so long as a dragon that happens to reside within the mountain is killed. That's not BioWare material-- it's too personal, overarching theme notwithstanding.

 

The game's interpretation of the ins and outs of that story, as well as how it is told and parallel events, are for the writers to tailor in order to fit the sort of game they're making, so long as accuracy is kept to a certain standard.

 

As for Telltale... I agree. It has been done before, but I would also enjoy narratives parallel to the War of the Ring, in the north. There's a great deal of freedom to be taken advantage of in that territory.

 

Note: I agree with everything you said that I removed from the quote, and have no comment on it.

 

Ah... yes, I see.

 

I agree then. There's not much to comment there xD

 

As for the Northern part of the War of the Ring... yes, there is so much potential material devs could headcanon there. I always mention that Tolkien was a "tell don't show" kind of guy. So all we know is that Dain Ironfoot did badass stuff defending Erebor from Easterlings and died doing so.

 

But nothing else.

 

The STORY POTENTIAL behind that is enough to get... better not go there xD


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Posté 08 janvier 2015 - 06:43

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Battle of Unnumbered Tears all the way to the War of Wrath methinks.

 

 

As long as we get to play as Balrog's!

 

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Posté 08 janvier 2015 - 11:07

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As long as we get to play as Balrog's!

 

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Yep.

 

Plenty of Balrogs during that time.

 

Mofos were kill steales.

 

Maybe Legolas is secretly a Balrog.


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Posté 09 janvier 2015 - 12:13

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Yep.

 

Plenty of Balrogs during that time.

 

Mofos were kill steales.

 

Maybe Legolas is secretly a Balrog.

That's probably why he was so sad when Gandalf killed Durin's Bane. G killed Legolas's G.


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Posté 09 janvier 2015 - 01:26

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Does anyone have an opinion about this game? I've never played it...
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Posté 09 janvier 2015 - 02:08

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Hi alle  :)

 

I would like to ask this forum if they could maybe stop asking BioWare to make every kind of game under the sun.


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Posté 09 janvier 2015 - 02:19

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E.A wasn't bad for LOTR since they gave us Battle For Middle Earth 1&2.

 

Pandemic Studios developed Conquest. That piece of **** was their doing not E.A's.

 

It had EA's name in it! Therefore EA ruined it like they ruin all things! 

 

/moarnerdrage

 

As long as we get to play as Balrog's!

 

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Aren't there only 6 balrog's left after that one died?

 

Hi alle  :)

 

I would like to ask this forum if they could maybe stop asking BioWare to make every kind of game under the sun.

 

Good luck with that...


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Posté 09 janvier 2015 - 02:31

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Aren't there only 6 balrog's left after that one died?

 

 

 

Yes. But I was responding to a post that was referring to the War of Wrath. There were a lot of balrogs that were there. Most of them died then too, but hey.


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Posté 09 janvier 2015 - 02:42

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Yep.

Plenty of Balrogs during that time.

Mofos were kill steales.

Maybe Legolas is secretly a Balrog.


That only counts as one!
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