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What Works and What Doesn’t

Tony posted this on June 17th, 2009.
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6 Responses to 'What Works and What Doesn’t'

  1. Westnovote says:

    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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  2. Alan says:

    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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  3. Chadmango says:

    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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  4. Nick says:

    “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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    • Alan says:

      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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      • Tony Tony says:

        For bet­ter or worse, I can’t really argue against that haha. But I still like them!

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