Comments on: Lord Of The Rings: Conquest

By: Al3xand3r

Al3xand3r — Fri, 09 May 2008 08:37:12 +0000

The screens make it look like a Mount&Blade modification. I do hope it plays as good as that (mounted combat ftw) but on the other hand I don’t want something that will undermine Mount&Blade itself as that game also deserves the public’s attention and the upcoming retail version has to sell well. Sure they have a completely different style (but who knows, maybe multiplayer is one of the things they want for Mount&Blade 2 or whatever) but I’m sure that if Mount&Blade gets released after this and the combat is actually similar, the ignorant mainstream press will just call it a low budget Conquest rip off or something. And that’s just not right.

By: Armyofnone

Armyofnone — Fri, 09 May 2008 04:51:06 +0000

Please, please have Mount and Blade style combat. Please.

By: cqdemal

cqdemal — Thu, 08 May 2008 22:33:15 +0000

You think Middle-earth: Total War. I think LOTR Dynasty Warriors.

Awesome announcement anyway.

By: Dorian Cornelius Jasper

Dorian Cornelius Jasper — Thu, 08 May 2008 21:51:02 +0000

I’m fairly certain I’d like this a lot more than I do the Battle-blank games. Because I loved those games, I just hated the fact that I had to live with vehicles ruining my fun. But I could live with horses, sure. Especially if the game has lances.

*Delivered couched lance damage!*
Uruk-hai takes 142 points of damage.

By: sana

sana — Thu, 08 May 2008 19:31:11 +0000

Pandemic? The guys who brought us Dark Reign II? I’m intrigued.

By: drunkymonkey

drunkymonkey — Thu, 08 May 2008 18:18:15 +0000

“Is it true about BF3 being made by the Timesplitters chaps?”

Nah, they’re too busy making Haze and TS3.

By: Evan

Evan — Thu, 08 May 2008 18:06:18 +0000

I think that most people completely miss the appeal of a game like this, or like Battlefront. Personally, I’m drawn to a multiplayer game with a backstory. I mean, look at the most popular multiplayer shooters out there. TF2, CoD4, CS:S … even Halo. In those games, your characters have no story. They are faceless, nameless war machines.

What I liked about Battlefront is that you had the chance to be somebody. Your character wasn’t just “Soldier”. You had a history, and a style to live up to.

That gets me excited, in a nerdy kind of way. So I’m looking forward to this game in the same way.

By: Cruz

Cruz — Thu, 08 May 2008 18:04:46 +0000

This is relevant to my interests.

I do wonder though, how they will pull off the melee combat, and what perspective it’ll be in. Jedi Outcast vs Oblivion come to mind. Keep up the coverage RPS, thx.

By: Nick

Nick — Thu, 08 May 2008 18:00:58 +0000

Yeah, I enjoyed the Battlefront games but only either alone or with a friend on LAN as a sort of Star Wars toybox type thing. As MP games they were rather poor..

Is it true about BF3 being made by the Timesplitters chaps?

By: brog

brog — Thu, 08 May 2008 17:59:31 +0000

And who wouldn’t play as a orck (yes, I’m going with a franchise-neutral spelling from now on)

Looks too much like a typo of “rock” for me.

By: cyrenic

cyrenic — Thu, 08 May 2008 17:56:32 +0000

Mounted combat a la Mount and Blade would make this worth playing, as long as they made the collision/targeting a bit more polished.

By: terry

terry — Thu, 08 May 2008 17:25:53 +0000

It’ll be interesting to see how this turns out – Battlefront is still one of the games that gets the heaviest play at our LAN meets (although that may be down to the sarlak pit, which is probably the best jumping puzzle ever).