LEGO The Hobbit DLC Trilogy Expansion No Longer Planned for Release

Well, at least it's not just Nintendo fans getting shafted for DLC this time. But still, that's disappointing.

so, no dlc, doesn't say no stand alone version

Not too surprising. I actually held off on getting it until they officially announced one way or the other.

Lego don't even have the licence to make new The Hobbit lego sets and recalled all that were unsold in stores so it's extremely unlikely any continuation of The Hobbit lego story will happen.

Now I'm very glad I didn't buy the game for Wii U. I can understand if many players feels dissappointed.

@Arthedain It's not just the Wii U missing out. all formats are missing out on the DLC

Here is hoping that @rjejr did not buy the game.

I guess this did not sell as expected, so the DLC is just extra work with not enough benefits. IDK, maybe if they had released all three movies sales would have been better?

The Five Armies was the only Hobbit movie i saw. That's too bad i found myself liking this game more than most people did sure it wasn't as big of a scale as Lego Batman 2 or Marvel Superheroes but it was entertaining. It would have sold better if they didn't release it so early, The Lego Movie Video Game sold very well because people love the movie, people need to see the full trilogy to appreciate the franchise. I find this game better than the Lego Movie

@Mega719
lego batman 2 had scale? you are talking about 2 right? not 3?

I never quite understood why it came out after only the second film, I suppose more money. But I guess not anymore...
The film was incredibly disappointing anyway, except the last 20 minutes or so.

I always wonder what appeal others find in lord of the rings, I tried watch the movies and got bored, tried reading the books and got bored, I wonder if I'm missing something or if it's just not for me.

@sonicmeerkat
You're not missing anything.

There are far better fantasy films and books out there and yet they get no attention.

Same problem exists with harry potter, far better examples of wizard stories exist.

@AugustusOxy Yeah a buddy is trying to turn me on to this fantasy book series apparently there's like 30ish of them in the series but I keep forgetting the name, guess I'm just not Tolkens target audience.

@Tasuki I completely agree with you, dlc is getting out of hand.

@sonicmeerkat
Tolkien isn't horrible, its just not nearly as good as people say.

Basically a really overbloated world war 2 euphemism that got out of control.

The only thing really memorable he did was ruin/fix elves, depending on your perspective.

So no one said there would be no ending to the trilogy. All they said is that there won't be a DLC.

Good thing I never really bought the game, I basically got it free in a PS 3 bundle.

I was holding out on purchasing the game to see if the wii u version would get the dlc and now none of them is getting it. Might have to pick it up sometime soon now. Also who know's maybe it will come out as a stand alone game now.

@khaosklub yes just because 3 went back to the original formula and the story felt shorter (even though it features the same level system. Sure it features a huge selection of characters but it continues the problem i have with Lego games that try this which is that the characters feel like "filler/clones" with the same abilities,characteristics, and voice. The DLC is also (from what i seen) still imagery were you play as another clone of a character. In reality it doesn't have that much content

I freaking hate the "corporate talk". Seriously, people can't possibly think that sort of messaging actually accomplishes anything other than sounding condescending and annoying costumers.

You've got to laugh at the way the whole 'hobbit' thing has panned out........1 book turned into 3 films.......turned into 2 games without an ending!!! Who makes these decisions!?!

should never of rushed it out before the 3rd film. Saw this coming a mile off...

@AugustusOxy What Tolkien have you read? And which wizard books are these?

@sinalefa - No, never did buy it. Good thing too or I might get banned on here. I'm currently considering never buying another Lego game right now. Not just b/c of this, this is more of a "final straw" thing after Lego Marvel kept freezing my Wii U every time the kids played it for longer than 1 hour, then Wii U Lego Batman 3 not getting the season pass, and now this.

And here's the bigger problem nobody has mentioned yet - when this game was being made there were only supposed to be 2 movies, not 3. And when it became 3 movies the 3rd was supposed to come out in July, not Dec. So, I fully beleive when they started making this game all 3 movies were probably planned to be in it. Almost all of the locations and all the characters in the first 2 movies are in the 3rd movie, there is almost nothing for them to add except storyline, which is for the most part laid out in a book written 50 years ago, so they had some idea how things were going to turn out. (And another movie in the 70s) They probably were just forced to leave it out b/c the game was releasing before the movie. So I really don't think it's even a matter of them making it, it's probably mostly done on a server somewhere.

And it wouldn't surprise me if there is a "Complete set", a la Lego Star Wars 1 and 2, whenever the powers that be put out a blu ray box set of all 6 movies. Probably Christmas 2016, this year will probably just be the Hobbit trilogy.

@Mega719
haven't played 3 yet, but 2 was really disappointing. lego batman and DC heroes at the end of the game when you don't need them anymore.

honestly, I prefer redundant characters over having to use one character for his arbitrarily unique ability, like robin's magnet boots. Also dislike the slew of worthless character's in every game. yay! I got bruce wayne for 1 million studs! what does he do? nothing really.

lego hobbit had a large world and any character could be useful with the slew of items that replicated other abilities! You could keep using a preferred character and equip relevant items. The game was a bit glitchy though in regards to items. caused many game freezes trying to equip things.

I don't know what scope you're talking about, because lego batman 2 was just batman and robin, and occasionally super man in an open world with less quests and an original but short story. what did it do better than lego hobbit? the only thing it has that lego hobbit doesn't is controlled flight.

@AugustusOxy
2 reasons why those books do well, advertising and simplicity.

lower reading level books sell more, just like easier games sell better than hard games.

I lost interest in the lego franchise after lego star wars 3 the clone wars, i bought lego batman 2 , but i didnt like it. Lego Lotr was fun though! I dont think lego hobbit is that great, they should make new lego star wars games WITHOUT DLC for arceus sake

@khaosklub i didn't say Hobbit was a bad game i was just implying what could have caused it to have less popularity than the others, this has a much lower review than the recent Lego games. The recent Lego games force you to grind studs to buy more characters who are pretty much worthless clones. The only reason i say Hobbit has a lesser scale is that it just recycles assets already used in the series. It uses mechanics from games such as Lego Batman 2, Lord of the Rings, Lego City Undercover, and The Lego Movie. Lego Batman 2 started the Open World license trend

@97alexk buy Lego City Undercover and Lego Marvel Superheroes then

That's not nice. At all. The irony is, Lego Hobbit is the best Lego game out there, imo. Well, aside from City U. Now, Tt, give us City Undercover 2 for Wii U, and I might - just might - forgive you.

Doesn't surprise me, they'll either make it as a standalone game, or do what they did with lego indy 2: remake the first few movies and have the new one in there too

@ULTRA-64 IKR? I loved the LOTR films but found myself bored and irritated at the Hobbit movie. Saw the first one in the theater and my sister gave me the second one as a present; I still haven't watched it.

@AugustusOxy I think someone did not understood how deep the world created by Tolkien really is... because, I don't believe there is many "better" fantasy book. Maybe there is for you, but it's more about taste than anything else. People are free to dislike and even hate Tolkien works, but seriously, when you read everything he wrote, how the world of Arda is litteraly full of history , spread over thousands of years. But for common reader that actually is main flaw.

The main reason people I know did not love the Lord Of The Ring, The Silmarillion and The Hobbit was because there was so much stuff, how everything have story, how things was way to deep for a "quick reading".

Now, about the Hobbit DLC... this is quite sad! They should have waited for the full game, but $$$.

The fact that the game was released midway into the trilogy just means they were releasing it for cash. The game looks boring anyway. It's the only LEGO game I've never got.

"provides an excellent set-up for the conclusion" Yeah, sure.

@DarthNocturnal Also, you can make your own judgment but I found Batman 3 to be incredibly disappointing. It increased the crypticness and I was kind of bored. Not a bad game...it just is kind of boring. The old LEGO games (Harry Potter, Star Wars, Batman 2) were much better.

@AugustusOxy
I agree, there are better fantasy books out there, but the Hobbit wasn't bad. LotR was pretty much 95% scenery porn and lore, 5% character interaction/development. Don't touch the Simarillion, that's all I can politely say about it.

@Mega719
never played undercover, don't play them for the single player experience, so no idea what it brought from that.

I'm not saying that you're saying it's a bad game, just that you said the scope wasn't as large as lego batman 2.

also, every lego game has continued with innovations from previous games and added a little something in each one.

lego hobbit added the loot thing, and improved all the additions from lego LotR. They also added buddying up and mining.

@AugustusOxy I'm not a fan of Tolkien either, but let's not spread misinformation. The Lord of the Rings isn't about World War II.

Maybe it just didn't sell as well as they expected. I hate the Hobbit films bar the first one anyway, so I don't care regardless.

I'd say chances are that they're doing this like Star Wars or Indiana Jones - maybe a later release with all three films.

Warner Bros flakes out on another DLC? you don't say...

@ULTRA-64 People who like money make strane decisions.

@ueI Maybe not World War 2, but the battle of the Pelennor Fields in Return of the King is a 1:1 ripoff of the historical charge of the Polish Winged Hussars to relieve the Siege of Vienna in 1683. Certainly puts an interesting spin on what The Lord of the Rings is really about (clash of civilizations) knowing he drew a parallel between the Ottomans and the orcs/trolls.

@gspro15198 Can you provide a link to where you heard that Lego lost the license and is recalling sets???

@khaosklub That's right! Lego the Hobbit: Far from Being Game of the Year Edition!

Well, there's no point to buying it then.

Kind of defeats the purpose to call it Lego The Hobbit if you don't intend to finish the story. Strange decision to say the least...

People calling Tolkien low-level literature and made for the masses. It's amazing how ignorance makes people say non-sense. As any other author or book there's always going to be people that just won't like his work, and that's perfectly fine. Also, his writing is obviously flawed in some ways but to say he was bad and low level literature...

Playstation store had a sale on Lego games, so I just bought Hobbit and LoTR for for pretty cheap. I had Hobbit on Wii U already but haven't gotten too far in it. I'm disappointed the game is incomplete in terms of the trilogy, but it's still a decent game and these things happen. Makes sense from a business perspective too, I'd say.

Lol @ people trying to give political or racial interpretation of LotR. Of course Tolkien had his own views, and some of his opinions might have not been correct, and have influenced his writings in some ways. But the main general themes are the horror of war, power and the corruption it brings, death and immortality, and these are so vibrant, real and relevant today as they were back then, probably even more so.
Aside from all of that, it's a brilliant fantasy work, imo the best of all times, and people should really read it more, instead of forming their opinions on it based on the movies.

I've skipped a number of Lego games to avoid burnout, and swapped and changed platforms too, to get different experiences from the games. When Lego Hobbit was announced with this DLC plan to complete the story, it made it easy to just totally avoid it.

So was the conclusion of the story supposed to be free DLC or an additional purchase? Have people bought a game at full price for just two thirds of the promised content ? How many people would have avoided this game if they knew the third movie content wouldn't arrive ? Is this the biggest DLC rip-off yet ... a major publisher getting people to buy a full-price game that they can't finish because the last third of the game isn't being made.