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What Works and What Doesn’t
Tony posted this on June 17th, 2009.
Tagged as Book 8, Bosses, Editorials and Thoughts, Lore, Moria, Scourge of Khazad-dûm.
Categorized as Editorials and Thoughts, Mines of Moria.
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I have no real problem with any creation I’ve seen from Turbine to date.
I must admit that I wasn’t comfortable with the idea of the Void in The Rift and I didn’t like the use of what looked to be a dimensional gate at the end of Volume 2, but the actual monsters are fine.
I think I’ll post sometime about the Void and why I don’t like it in-game.
Early Tolkien writings include the use of creatures seldom seen in his later works, including Werewolves and even Vampires. Whilst the sci-fi feel to the latest set of baddies in LOTRO isn’t very consistent with Tolkien, it’s not very sensible to call it ‘lore breaking’, as some have tried to do.
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Those screens look like they were taken straight out of some WoW-designers notebook, under a heading of “bizarre shit to implement?”. The colours and designs seem very cartoony from everything else I’ve seen of the game, having not played it.
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I personally like the new designs. I’m a fan of concept art in general (and an amateur doodler) so I love looking at any new character / monster designs. In all honesty I feel for the character designers sometimes. You can just imagine their excitement at a new area being introduced only to be told they have to draw more orcs. Good old J.R. gave Turbine a nice bit of creative freedom with the ‘nameless things’, and it’s good to see the creative team having fun, beyond Moria it’s not going to get much more varied than what already exists lets be honest.
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“The colours and designs seem very cartoony from everything else I’ve seen of the game, having not played it.” –Alan
Thats hardly a very fair comment to make then if you havent played it?
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That’s going completely off screens I’ve seen in this blog and others, which, in general, seem to veer more towards muted browns, greens and golds (as in the film) than anything else. I stick by my position, however, that those creatures look like they just crawled out of Netherstorm and are about to massacre Area 52.
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For better or worse, I can’t really argue against that haha. But I still like them!
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