The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria emerges from the shadows for the first time since its official announcement earlier this year for a special live roundtable on the most Dwarven of holidays – Durin’s Day! Featuring members of the development team at Free Range Games, Dr. Corey Olsen aka “The Tolkien Professor”, this live broadcast will offer the deepest look at the game to date. Viewers will be treated to in-depth discussions around the game’s setting in the Fourth Age of Middle-earth and how Free Range Games are consulting with experts in the field to ensure authenticity and consistency with the iconic fantasy world created by J.R.R. Tolkien. In addition, eager gamers will get first details regarding the game’s survival-crafting systems and mechanics, while showcasing new art, concept images and screenshots for the very first time!
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Kadish Durinul Khalash!!!!
Very bummed I missed this livestream. Especially with Corey – I love Rings and Realms!
will it be on PC/Steam?
AN AGE OF PEACE!?!? Damnit!! I wanted to kill some Orcs!! Like a lot of Orcs!
Was interested till I heard it was PC only. That’s a shame.
Bring on Moriaheimcraft!
if this Story takes place After the one ring is destroyed im not a fan But Gameplay looks good and solo play is great Just The story is kinda shoddy
I wasn't interested in this game until now. We've got some great minds working on this!
Thanks so much for bringing this to us! I have to say, this really isn't my go to genre of game. Survival games stress me out too much lol. However, the care and thought that have seemingly gone into this, not to mention the deep consideration of lore, have me so excited to play it!
On a side note, it's so cool to see the heights that the channel has reached! Congratulations on all of your success. It's well deserved and I look forward whatever you have in store for us next. 🧙♂️
Can’t wait
Yes everything we know is Bilbo pov first of Elven lore…that’s important to note and an argument I’ve made why the world has more to offer.
Excited for this!
I wonder if one of the Orc factions will try and revive Durins Bane or if any of the Orcs are descended from Azog/Bolg
Looks very interesting indeed. I'm sure this will be visually stunning when released.
The only major issue I have with it is the Neo-Khuzdul used here.
David Salo has completely reinvented what he did for the movies, needlessly it would seem.
To be clear, this is no "retake" of his previous work, this is pretty much starting from scratch and throwing the linguistic work done on Neo-Khuzdul for the movies in the bin.
Pronoun endings have changed, existing verbs reinvented, existing nouns and adjectives reinvented (while you had perfectly good one that have been established for over ten years now).
Only reason I can think of that this was done is a rights issue, meaning he had to reinvent the whole thing again, as he didn't have the rights to reuse it.
If so, the result shown here is a very poor alternative in my view of what we had.
Disappointed and a disservice to the fans. Shame
I feel like Durin the Last should be held till Morgoth returns…
Also super interested to know if the rights are limited in any way by the estate. For instance in the way that ROP can't reference anything from The Silmarillion.
So great to see Tolkien fans discussing the game and the lore – great stream!
Is it coming to consoles?
Hopefully this game sets a new standard for Middle Earth games. We haven't really explored the lore outside of the trilogy timeline (I know we have lotro) in games. Not familiar with the rights to the Tolkien lore, but the 4th age could be a good period to explore M.E as a whole due to, what I would assume, a little more leniency to the story. Would be amazing to get maybe a Rohan/Gondor perspective during this time frame. I think the idea of having games that focus on a particular group would allow readers and fans to really explore the culture of the many different races of Tolkien. An orc perspective after the fall of Sauron could be interesting too. I like the idea of factions and I would think that maybe some groups of orcs may want to assimilate after years of service under Sauron. Food for thought.
Graphics look really bad like a budget pc game from like 15 yrs ago
all I want to know is if Gimbli managed to make Galadriel's 3 hair strands I to the heirloom he promised and if we will see it!!!
This is fantastic. Thanks to Jon-Paul, Farrha, Corey and of course Matt for hosting. Matt – your words of ‘yes you have one key target market person right here.. a dwarf lore fan’ absolutely me too! Bring on 2023
57:42 !!! I can finally create a dwarrowdam with a decent beard!?!?! A dream come true! Thank you! omg😊
i pray to eru that this game will be good, please…
Definitely looking forward to this game, reminds me of Valheim, but with the dwarves of Middle-Earth
Khazâd dashtîn 2023!
Have to love these people who are studying every page they can get to make this world as authentic as they can be. Every sort of LOTR media should be made with this level of depth and respect
When can we expect a your honest review on Rings of Power?
I noticed John-Paul has a middle earth map with seven labels. Maybe locations in game or seven clans? Thorin’s Halls, Gundabad, Khazad Dum, Glittering Caves, Withered Heath?, Rhun?, and way down in Harad.
hyped for the game!
As much as I always love your videos gotta thumb this down for an hour and 23 minutes with 10 minutes of game preview. Cool as the interview is, should’ve been labeled as such. Misleading title.
I wonder how it will play and feel in comparison to something like 'V Rising', if at all. Or a better way to ask it, what other Survival-Crafting games would Jon-Paul compare this game to or drew inspiration from.
Rumor is, Amazon is admitting that ROP is a failure and that they are sidelining the showrunnners (translation – fired). I hope the artificial boost that your channel got, was worth selling your credibility.
So, this looks cool. But it is a collective failure of game development that we still don't have any kind of hack and slash epic for the licensed Two Towers and Return of the King games to pass the torch to. How does a gollum game get made before that?
This is absolutely brilliant. Can't wait!