Topic: Lego: The Lord of the Rings

I excpect nothing but awesomness from this game.

So anyone has screenshots or news related to it?

What do you expect from it?

Is it expect or excpect?

Apparently, you can acquire items and weapons as the story progresses. Also think its open world which would be great.

Its EXPECT.

I think LEGO games are pretty solid, in general, if a little formulaic. I'll keep my eyes out for reviews of the DS version, as it might be quite fun.

Open world? Like explore Middle-Earth freely?

That has never been done before!

Yeah, I've read in a few places that you can traverse from one end of the map to the other. So it's kind of linear I think, but you can move between Hobbiton and Mordor freely.

Edit: Not sure if this goes for the handheld versions though.

If that doesn't apply to the handled versions I'll rob a freaking computer store and get myself a computer.

the lego characters talk and this game looks amazing. not sure how to add screenshots but here's an article i found on it
http://www.theverge.com/gaming/2012/8/17/3248886/lego-lord-of...

That would be my one reason for NOT buying this game. Part of the reason that I enjoyed the Lego games was the whimsical take they did on the movie series and part of that were the gestures they made instead of talking. I just dont think it would be as funny with the dialog taken straight from the movies.

i love that they can talk. i'm so getting this game

Oh, my, God.

Give me a release date and I will give you all my money.

In the new issue of Official Nintendo Magazine,they stated that the 3DS version of Lego LotR will have open world.

Sometime in October. Sorry, thats all i know.
Gonna be the best Lego game yet!

Hold on,that goes to Lego Batman 2,and maybe Lego City Undercover.

i hope they give a demo like lego batman 2 did. god i can't wait for this game. I'm a big lord of the rings fan. I watch the movies almost every month lol

I wonder how the DS version will measure up to the others. I wouldn't mind grabbing it if it's decent, but otherwise I'd get it on PC.

Looks pretty good though.

Yeah, I read in the article that you could explore on horseback.

That will be interesting to see.

Well, I divide my year in 2 parts, September-January
January-June

Because school starts in the middle of september, for this game is coming pretty soon!

I need 40€ until October, maybe.

But yeah, a demo would be pretty awesome.

i LOVE lotr. i absolutely LOVE it. definitely my favorite book series. but, i cannot say i will play the lego version. sure it's lotr, but it's also a lego game, which is enough to separate me from my love of tolkien.

Here's some good info about the game. 5 things you didn't know about Lego LotR:

1. Traveller’s Tales is obsessively recreating all of Middle-earth for the game. Yes, all of it — even the parts that don’t actually appear in The Lord of the Rings trilogy. Sort of like how in Lego Batman 2 you could explore all of Gotham City, in Lego Lord of the Rings you’ll have an entire world to wander about. Ricks promised they were putting in extra puzzles and other goodies here and there, so that all that wandering doesn’t get too dull.

2. It’s a long game. This is what you’d certainly hope for in a game based on a series of books totaling over 1000 pages. But, after the brief playing time of Lego Batman 2, you’d be forgiven for wondering if they were going to continue to sacrifice game length for quality or speed of release. Worry no longer: Ricks told me the game takes their testers 20-22 hours to go all the way through, and that’s when you know the optimal path; he said it should take 40-50 hours to complete for those who don’t.

3. The developer is adhering closely to the movies, more so than to the books. This shouldn’t come as a huge surprise to anyone who paid attention to the trailers, which clearly used dialogue from the films — how could the developer use lines from the movies for a scene that wasn’t filmed? And besides, as Ricks said, this is the first time Traveller’s Tales has ever adapted a Best Picture Oscar-winning movie, and it’d be tough to second-guess decisions that led to that result. Despite sticking to lines from the movie, the game will have the usual humorous vein running through it — because even though Ian McKellan’s voice sounds serious and certain when coming from his mouth, it sounds funny when coming from the mouth of a Lego minifig.

4. At least two special abilities have been revealed. One should probably come as no surprise: Frodo is able to put on the Ring, and in so doing turns invisible in the “real” world and becomes able to interact with hidden objects that can only be seen in the realm of the wraiths (or whatever you want to call the sort of alternate dimension wearers of the Ring enter).

5. Traveller’s Tales is adding RPG-like elements to the game. Tired of your characters in Lego games only being able to carry one item of any given kind at once? In Lego LotR you’ll be able to equip and unequip items just like in RPGs. Tired of only being able to build specific items, and only when you encounter a pile of pieces? Now you’ll be able to craft certain magical items, and not necessarily at pre-assigned times.

http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2012/09/lego-lotr-5-things-villa...

I desperately want this game to be good. I'm a huge Tolkien junkie and Lego was my childhood. My inner nerd can hardly contain itself.