Lord Of The Rings Game Gets Release Window After Multiple Delays

I really hope all the extra time has been used to make the game awesome, cause I’m looking forward to this one

Can't help but feel this is a game on a hiding to nothing.

No one was really asking for it, Gollum is an uninteresting character and any footage shown has not looked good nevermind great.

Has bomb written all over it.

Hope I'm wrong!

This is a pretty high profile production for Daedalic, and in a genre they aren't that familiar with. So I'm not surprised if COVID and IP holder expectations, along with a buyout from Nacon in early 2022 would slow things down. ^^

Ah yes, a broad enough window for another delay if their horoscopes tell them so in, like, August.

@SBandy1 Gollum is a lot, but he is absolutely not uninteresting.

Lord of the Rings: The Milkining

@sanderev

Meh, he is addicted to the ring and is annoying.

Interesting to some, not for me.

How many people actually want to play a game as Gollum?

Is this really that "in demand?"

@Kiwi_Unlimited Of course it is demand. I mean why waste a couple of bucks watching the film series or reading the book, when you can spend 60$ experiencing the same tale for the 1000th time.

I almost definitely won't be picking this up on Switch unless the port actually does come out great but I'll check it out on Xbox for sure. I've interested in the game since it's been announced.

Anyone who saw more than 20 seconds of the actual gameplay footage knows this game is going to suck.

@theModestMouse that was my EXACT impression!! it looks like hot garbage!! and they will want $60-70!! NO THANK YOU!!

I was looking forward to this, but after reading the above I don’t have high expectations. You never know though, stranger things have happened

I will wait. If this game releases in a poor state, in need of patches, I will not purchase it. I'm approaching all games like this from now on. I don't care who the dev is.

NOOOOOOOO!!!! Do not want this game my precious, my love WE HATES IT, WE HATES IT!!!

@SBandy1 I wouldn't say that Gollum is uninteresting, but I agree that a game about him certainly didn't need to happen. The character himself works on the side, but I don't think he'd work as a primary main character.

I also don't like how ugly this game's art style is. I get Gollum is meant to be ugly, but this is just gross and plastic looking.

@EaglyTheKawaiiShika This is the internet. You won’t have to look too hard to find people that agree with you. Some are even here in this comment section. I’m not one of them mind you, I think the game looks terrible, but to each their own.

With Tears of the Kingdom coming in May, it's best they just take their time and release the game further from the Zelda launch date otherwise it may get ignore by the masses. I can see July 2023 as a potential good release date for it unless Nintendo had other plans on that date.

Golum from many aspects is the most interesting character in Lord of the Rings. This game though is not

I had completely forgotten about this game.

@Serpenterror Have to agree with you there. Stealth alone is already a niche genre and Golum while a interesting character, is not that interesting enough to carry an entire game.

I could be wrong, and it might be good, but from my pov it seems it has more going against it than for it.

I totally forgot this even existed

I still wanna play it.

@SBandy1 I get finding him annoying, but I imagine you understand he’s not “addicted to the ring” by choice. Gollum is hardly the only one inebriated by the ring’s power.

@fromjtov

OK I take back uninteresting as it is a bit too strong.

But can Gollum carry a game on his own? I very much have my doubts.

Filthy humanses are making evil comments about Smeagols game. They will see!

@SBandy1 Addicted isn't the correct term. The ring controlled him for centuries, corrupting his mind, even so much he created a second personality (the evil "Gollum" vs the lesser evil "Smeagol")

Basically the ring took him over, and in the end, betrayed him. Twice. Once by leaving him when Bilbo found it, and the second time by making him trip and fall into the fires of Mount Doom.

@SBandy1 I can see that for sure. If it’s just Gollum the entire time and there aren’t any other characters to connect with or care about, it could get quite boring.

@Eagly I think it looks good and I'm interested to play it, however I'm a little concerned with all the delays and being from such a small studio that we're going to get a RiME type situation, where the Switch version has really bad FPS/visual issues compared to the PS5/Xbox versions.

Just got an email from Amazon UK telling me the release date of my pre-order of this game has been moved to 3rd January 2025! Yes 2025.

I am guessing this will never be released for Switch.