Look at this; "Spring in the Shire", but it's all war.
Why can't I dig a hole in the ground, collect some nettles, trade a herb for a chicken and get myself a roast going, before being assulted in Bree?
What a way to market LotR.
>>26805 There's an upcoming game that looks shit, but it's a cosy life sim where you play a hobbit in the Shire. The demo got slated I think, and it got delayed from last year into this summer.
Really this would be a perfect time to market that, were it not shit.
Yeah, it's a shame the IP is what it is. Indeed, I made myself a bit miserable calling it an "IP" just then. I'll confess one of my favourite games of all time is the Third Age mod for Medieval II: Total War, but I do wish more generally that more games that weren't murder simulators got the big bucks pumped into them. It's all that bloody John Carmack's fault.
It's a real shame I already have and already played both Shadow of Mordor and Shadow of War, because those are both exactly the kind of game that I would really love to pick up on a steam sale for five quid and then have an incredible time playing, and think "Wow, I am glad I took a chance on this game, it's really good and that was a fiver well spent".
All the games I buy on steam sales turn out to be boring and I just uninstall them after ten minutes. Like, I really envy the kind of person who has somehow made it into 2025 without already having played Half Life 2 or Bioshock or something, buying them for two quid and having one of the best gaming experiences they'll ever have for it, you know? I mean I pirated most of these games back in the day anyway because I was a broke motherfucker, but that's no the point I'm making here.
It's that satisfying feeling you got a proper bargain, like when you were a kid and you got one of those cheap re-release copies of Age of Empires or something. When I was about 13 I got a box set for a tenner if I recall correctly, that had Command and Conquer: Red Alert, Sid Mier's Alpha Centauri, and Wing Commander: Prophecy in it. I've never again got such a gaming bargain in my life, I don't think.
>>26808 I found Shadow of Mordor great fun at first, but I soon grew tired of "press this combo to defeat this enemy, press that combo to defeat that enemy".
>>26805 I get what you're saying but as a casual passer-by of Tolkien I got the impression the books were chockful of war. In both The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings a shortarse is ripped from his cozy life, goblin-detecting sword in hand, to undertake a terrifying journey filled with conflict and peril, with at least one huge fucking battle along the way.
It feels a bit like saying you want a James Bond simulator but just hanging out at MI6 all day smoking and chatting to Moneypenny.
>>26810 >It feels a bit like saying you want a James Bond simulator but just hanging out at MI6 all day smoking and chatting to Moneypenny.
Well, why not? Fellowship has pages upon pages describing country scenes, including tress and foliage on their long ass journey out of the shire. I didn't read all of it (got a bit bored, no conflict) but it's definitely a greater chunk of the first book.
