Amazon's Lord of the Rings video game has been cancelled

anhminh · Apr 18, 2021

Problem with Tolkien-base game is they can't find people who passionate enough about the book to be producer for the game. Every game is ranged from meh to terrible both plot and gameplay wise.

the_randomizer · Apr 18, 2021

Amazon took Homer's advice:

"You both tried your best and you failed miserably. The lesson is, never try"

guisadop · Apr 18, 2021

nothing was lost, though I hope the devs wont be laid off.
they would be better off making a single player game.

vincentx77 · Apr 18, 2021

With that much money you'd think they could just buy a competent studio to make their in-house games. There must be someone over there who micromanages everything and is totally shit at it.

Xzi · Apr 18, 2021

guisadop said:
nothing was lost, though I hope the devs wont be laid off.
they would be better off making a single player game.

Nah bro they'll be employed with Tencent making some shitty shit.

Now what would be hilarious is if they took what they've developed so far and put some new textures on it and names in it, then released it anyway under a different IP. :rofl2:

Soulsilve2010 · Apr 18, 2021

"Tencent"

Yeah now no one should touch it with a 10 foot pole

BitMasterPlus · Apr 18, 2021

Between Amazon and Tencent, I'm glad this got canned. We'll get something like this made by a better company one day I hope.

subcon959 · Apr 18, 2021

I hate it when Bloomberg is used as a source for articles.. or any site that needs a subscription to actually do any further reading. I noticed it's the same author who made some bold claims in the past without providing any sources.

K3Nv2 · Apr 18, 2021

Chary said:
Amazon can't make a game to save its life

Their market is more based on spying into your private life then developing something you can enjoy.

BORTZ · Apr 18, 2021

No one wanted that anyways. Give me the PS2 games remastered.

pcwizard7 · Apr 18, 2021

I wouldn't trust a MMO that's partner with tencent anyways. It would just be a big gotcha game.

UltraDolphinRevolution · Apr 18, 2021

anhminh said:
Problem with Tolkien-base game is they can't find people who passionate enough about the book to be producer for the game. Every game is ranged from meh to terrible both plot and gameplay wise.

I do not care much about the plot (though I have seen some of the movies). However, the gameplay is alright in the games I have played: an RTS for PC and action adventure for Wii (with up to two players; by the Battalion Wars developers).

Bladexdsl · Apr 18, 2021

good amazon would have found a way to ruin it.

Vila_ · Apr 19, 2021

Xzi said:
So is Amazon just gonna give up trying to make games already? This is what, three failures in a row?

I didn't even know amazon was attempting to make games...

what where the other two failures?

Xzi · Apr 19, 2021

Vilagamer999 said:
I didn't even know amazon was attempting to make games...

what where the other two failures?

A MOBA that had to go back into development after really poor reception at release and then was eventually cancelled. And another MMO called "New World" which had a beta that was poorly received.

FAST6191 · Apr 19, 2021

Vilagamer999 said:
I didn't even know amazon was attempting to make games...

what where the other two failures?

The had a whole game console

https://uk.pcmag.com/migrated-84555-gaming/13676/rumor-amazon-building-an-android-game-console
https://www.cnet.com/news/amazon-fire-tv-as-game-console-the-good-bad-and-weird/
and has dabbled in game streaming
https://www.independent.co.uk/life-...oles-xbox-playstation-pc-gaming-a8722641.html

and has an in house developer as of not so very long ago
https://www.amazongames.com/en-us

as far as

vincentx77 said:
With that much money you'd think they could just buy a competent studio to make their in-house games. There must be someone over there who micromanages everything and is totally shit at it.

Micromanaging seems to be a problem with all large companies. Quite amusing given Amazon's custom server thing that thrust them somewhat to the forefront of this whole online distribution lark (today everybody writes in PHP but back when Amazon took faster options to allow them to be faster, react faster and otherwise do good stuff).

As for the matter at hand. Meh. I liked the lord of the rings dungeon crawler games on PS2, and some seemed to like the Final Fantasy 10 clone. The GBA games variously have their charms (they are quite different too). None are ever likely to have set the world on fire though, and this was likely to be even less than that.

vincentx77 · Apr 20, 2021

Xzi said:
A MOBA that had to go back into development after really poor reception at release and then was eventually cancelled. And another MMO called "New World" which had a beta that was poorly received.

I was part of that stupid beta. It seemed pretty open, but they were so paranoid that people were going to leak footage of it that they put a watermark over the whole gameplay experience so they'd know who broke the NDA. It had pretty good graphics for an MMO. That's about the only positive I can say. It was duller than dishwater.

sonyabyrd · Jun 25, 2021

I never knew there was a LOTR game made by Amazon. I hope that the TV show they're making doesn't get canceled. It would be a shame because I am looking forward to seeing something new. The Hobbit movie was a long time ago now, and I need something new! I am not sure at what time is the new TV show set, but it would be fun to see what kind of king was Éomer. He was a really interesting character in both movies and books, and he helped Aragorn and the fellowship beat Sauron. I hope the TV show meets my expectations, it would be a shame to be disappointed by something I waited for that long.

Sarugetchu · Jul 24, 2021

I didn't know this was a thing.

BeiBourne · Nov 6, 2022

probably swerved a disaster there anyways. will never forgive them for botching the wheel of time so badly

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