Lord of the Rings: Conquest

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

Originally Posted by Mister Underhill

I played the demo. Yeah, if you're expecting any serious link to the tone and feel of the books, you're bound to be sorely disappointed. Elven archers have various arrow options, including explosive and poison gas. Wizards shoot lightning and so forth. And the Gondorian knight character can activate a flaming sword for extra damage. You get the picture.

Yes, I get it *shrugs* All right, nevertheless, I will wait what Miggy has to say about it... but this-is-madness.

Originally Posted by Nogrod

I have been imagining a game where you could download a stupendously magnificient looking and feeling game with some kind of a boot-camp possibility after which you could enter the real scenarios (PC Medal of Honour -style eg. alone but believably - I mean those squad based games are just frustrating as your mates are so stupid all the time and have to be taken care of all the time so as not to allow yourself to fight your own war). And there you'd have a realistic possibility of staying alive eg. you'd be killed from behind or facing a superior fighter or tough luck with a random factor soon enough.

Now, that is great. I used to have such ideas when I was... some three years younger But hey, maybe now that would be a project for the creative programmers among Downers (I am sure there would be some) - to create a game like that, with LotR setting (and keeping it to the books at that!).

Like most of the games on sale today... Simpler user interfaces, simpler moves and add the creativity to building up the mood and environment + making it feel like you really were in danger... That I'd appreciate.

You have never been playing Aliens versus Predator, have you...
...especially online and with me, have you