It should not be zero drama. Just low stakes pastoral drama like "Hamfast Gamgee has won " nicest Garden for the last goddamn time. My pumpkins are twice the size of his and 3 times as nice. So obviously I'm winning best pie next month too."
I'm hoping, for ultimate immersion, Gandalf will appear an hour in and the game turns into a brutal survival RPG as you're forced to travel to Mordor to save the world
After launch, they should make a DLC called Tales of Mordor where you play as an orc, birthing uruks, training trolls, forging weapons and armor, feeding wargs, making maggoty bread, etc.
Uruks are a mix breed of orcs and humans, bred by Saruman in a failed coup attempt to overthrow Sauron when the time is ripe. They would not exist at any time prior, nor have they ever been to Mordor after.
I’d love to see a trend of non-combat focused games that let you just enjoy the world of some these beloved franchises. Maybe something like a wand-making business sim in Harry Potter or running a cantina in Star Wars. There’s a lot more to these worlds than just action-adventure combat games can explore.
Reminds me of the time someone made up the concept for a Star Wars game where you play as Dexter (the four armed guy running the diner) and you get to make wacky Star Wars food for clones, bounty hunters like Cad Bane, Jedi, ect.
@@symbiotesoda1148 Reminds me of V4ll Hall-A, that'd be amazing in a Star Wars setting. You could serve drinks and cook and mix cocktails and stuff, while your guests are people from that era talking to you about what's going on in the world. Like, a clone trooper always visiting you since he's stationed there, and coming back many weeks later after his traumatising battle, with hints of him developing more human feelings and individualism etc., a CIS agent, an undercover jedi, a hater of the jedi order, a Coruscant politician, a bounty hunter or whatever. Much fun potential
@@chaostyr From reading the books, it was my understanding the Hobbits were too dense to swim. XD Apparently, some can. So, who knows if they will allow swimming in this game or not.
@karu1585 you 1000% know they're going to be inserted in The Witcher 4. Oh inb4 "if there are dragons then there can be diver-" Give the protagonist a gun. Make the best armor in the game a Navy Seal uniform.
That's the purpose of this art style. It's non PBR. Adding more detailed lighting and shadows would make it look like the sh1tty generic "stylized" PBR graphics that have oversaturated games recently. It's supposed to look soft and painterly and 2d rather than stylized 3d PBR. Why are you criticizing something you have zero understanding of?
are you fr? like smokeweed is a big part of the presentation of hobbits lmao. Of course, rather than appealing to the people who want this we have to appeal to the generic audiences to get that sweet mass appeal income, this totally won't backfire
It’s not weed. It’s tobacco. Hobbits smoke tobacco. It’s literally how Tolkien wrote them. Garden. Read. Eat. Drink. And smoke. And they should be able to in this game. Because they are hobbits. That’s what TOLKIEN. The CREATOR of this world would have wanted.
Did you know, testosterone is what women get more of on their periods. So when you call us emotional, just know that it’s because of an increase of testosterone in our bodies! What I’m trying to say- stop being so emotional about this game.
@@Yungbeck most humor predates our calendar.... what do we have to do? think of something, then google it to check how old it ois, how many times it has been posted?
If there are black hobbits, then their obviously must be some sort of Hobbit Africa. This raises an important question: Was the Shire involved in hobbit slave trading?
They're called Harfoots. Per Tolkien, as he was desscribing them, they are nomadic. Love all the tolkien tourists trying to feel attacked because "hurrhurr brown skin"
Its not THE Lord of the Rings we are waiting for BUT its a game that deserves to exist. It looks cute and im sure people will love it. There is definitely an audience for games like this. Really hope we get a big Open World and or Story focused LOTR game soon…
@@randeli7785do you think him and grima will sack your house and you have to start over, but with Sam's new elvish seed it allows you to get better harvest
@@HyliaFell "Evil is not able to create anything new, it can only distort and destroy what has been invented or made by the forces of good." Same message, different words.
Are you trying to take a shot at fable by saying it has poor quality or something? Old school games have so much better quality and so much more soul than modern games
Because they're Harfoots. Per Tolkien, who created them, they are a branch of Hobbits who are known for having brown/dark skin and they're also Nomadic. He talks about them in the preface of LOTR and also a few other publications.
How can you make a judgement on a game you have only played for 20 minutes? The game looks great? It looks like a first gen Wii game. It looks stupid af. Another massive flop.
As appealing as this game is to me,cant help feel it should have orc raiding parties coming into to it and would need to defend. Repair damages regrow stolen crops ect.
And the layoffs will continue on......
It should not be zero drama. Just low stakes pastoral drama like "Hamfast Gamgee has won "
nicest Garden for the last goddamn time. My pumpkins are twice the size of his and 3 times as nice. So obviously I'm winning best pie next month too."
Yes. That's exactly the kind of stuff that seems like a big deal if you've never left the Shire.
We should be so lucky
IGN is going to give this game an 8/10… 😂
5.9/10: Too many Hobbits. - IGN
Concord, Dustborn and now this.
Its just an animal crossing clone
Sony's on a roll
I'm not sure how you're connecting them
@@nunpho I'm not sure how you're ignorant of it.
Theyre going to corrupt the identity of the hobbits so damn much with this.
How?
He’s really upset because his favourite fantasy gnomes are not WHITE 😂🤣
@@jagoz7465 it's already established in the books they are white, why make them n**ga's now
@@jagoz7465 nothing fancy about hobbit , but hobbit is based on Celtics mythology, it's called Cultural appropriation
@@wangdulu you’re telling me Celtic culture is written by Tolkien?
is it just me or is the pipe smoking missing ...
I'm hoping, for ultimate immersion, Gandalf will appear an hour in and the game turns into a brutal survival RPG as you're forced to travel to Mordor to save the world
After launch, they should make a DLC called Tales of Mordor where you play as an orc, birthing uruks, training trolls, forging weapons and armor, feeding wargs, making maggoty bread, etc.
No, no, no, Rings of Power showed me that Orcs just want to be at peace, so they can be with their wives and raise the little baby Orcs! 🤣
Uruks are a mix breed of orcs and humans, bred by Saruman in a failed coup attempt to overthrow Sauron when the time is ripe. They would not exist at any time prior, nor have they ever been to Mordor after.
It’d be funny if it was rated M dlc . Out of pocket gore would be hilarious
The orcs will be all ⚪️
This trash is going to flop so hard that is NEVER happening.
Do we have to eat 7 times a day, like a hobbit?
GET to
They eat more then a Bodybuilder ( 5 to 6 Meals per Day ) 😅 .
You say that like it's a bad thing.
3 supers minimum
@@filkertom not really a bad thing but dont forget to Exercise later . :D .
Tales of the DEl
I’d love to see a trend of non-combat focused games that let you just enjoy the world of some these beloved franchises. Maybe something like a wand-making business sim in Harry Potter or running a cantina in Star Wars. There’s a lot more to these worlds than just action-adventure combat games can explore.
Reminds me of the time someone made up the concept for a Star Wars game where you play as Dexter (the four armed guy running the diner) and you get to make wacky Star Wars food for clones, bounty hunters like Cad Bane, Jedi, ect.
@@symbiotesoda1148 Reminds me of V4ll Hall-A, that'd be amazing in a Star Wars setting. You could serve drinks and cook and mix cocktails and stuff, while your guests are people from that era talking to you about what's going on in the world. Like, a clone trooper always visiting you since he's stationed there, and coming back many weeks later after his traumatising battle, with hints of him developing more human feelings and individualism etc., a CIS agent, an undercover jedi, a hater of the jedi order, a Coruscant politician, a bounty hunter or whatever. Much fun potential
And then one random day a horde of orcs appear over the hill in the north
1. Can you swim? 2. Is Lobelia Sackville-Baggins in it? If she is, can we throw food at her?
Hobbits cannot swim.
@@Restingmadface A few can. Most cannot swim.
@@chaostyr From reading the books, it was my understanding the Hobbits were too dense to swim. XD Apparently, some can. So, who knows if they will allow swimming in this game or not.
"Why are the hobbits all bla-.....oh."
"DiVeRsItY" for the "MoDeRn AuuuuDiEnCe"
@karu1585 you 1000% know they're going to be inserted in The Witcher 4.
Oh inb4 "if there are dragons then there can be diver-"
Give the protagonist a gun. Make the best armor in the game a Navy Seal uniform.
But they're not all black tho
@@tervue93 You're watching Dr. Disrespect right?
@@tervue93”surely that audience will come out in droves this time! Right..?”
Can you imagine being a small child in the year 2030 and having this as your introduction to Middle Earth? 😂😂
All the rest of it gonna hit like an absolute stampede of trucks
You clearly haven't seen The Hobbit/Lord of the Rings 70's animated movies or played the 2003 Hobbit PS2 game.
You know what Kebab-Meat and J.R.R. Tolkien have in common?
Both are dead and rotating
Liking the artstyle but it looks a bit rough. Lighting and shadows cd have been more advanced.
It's probably still in early alpha so they should have plenty of time to streamline the graphics before the actual release
That's the purpose of this art style. It's non PBR. Adding more detailed lighting and shadows would make it look like the sh1tty generic "stylized" PBR graphics that have oversaturated games recently. It's supposed to look soft and painterly and 2d rather than stylized 3d PBR. Why are you criticizing something you have zero understanding of?
The environment graphics look literally perfect and they achieved exactly what their goal was
What confuses me is didn't the publisher go out of business?
Great companies to get bought off to earn extra ESG scores and a good tax write off
Slop with a side of slop.
selling points:
the birds replace the minimap
The hobbits can't smoke 0/10.
are you fr? like smokeweed is a big part of the presentation of hobbits lmao. Of course, rather than appealing to the people who want this we have to appeal to the generic audiences to get that sweet mass appeal income, this totally won't backfire
@@rmega5 ofc I'm joking.
@@rmega5This is just a preview. It could be in the full game.
Literally unplayable
It’s not weed. It’s tobacco. Hobbits smoke tobacco. It’s literally how Tolkien wrote them. Garden. Read. Eat. Drink. And smoke. And they should be able to in this game. Because they are hobbits. That’s what TOLKIEN. The CREATOR of this world would have wanted.
Installing this games will give you negative testosterone
Playing any videos games as an adult will give you negative testosterone and waste your life little buddy
yip
I’m here for it!
Did you know, testosterone is what women get more of on their periods. So when you call us emotional, just know that it’s because of an increase of testosterone in our bodies!
What I’m trying to say- stop being so emotional about this game.
'Too many hobbits..and no top surgery' 8/10 IGN
Evil is not able to create anything new, it can only distort and destroy what has been invented or made by the forces of good.
Apparently it becomes a horror survival game half way through with the Scouring of The Shire.
It appears cozy and ideal for someone like me who's weary of all these intense multiplayer games.
Looks like a phone game, FFS. You better up your game, devs.
It's not a phone game???
Bro Zenless Zone Zero is on phones and that looks gorgeous. This is embarrassing even by "phone from 2014" standards
@@ashleybanks-wm4cg but it looks like one
Watch it require a 4090 to run anyway
Nah, even mobile phones games these days have better graphics than this
"What a great game! We gave it a 7"
the joke is older than your dad let it go
@@Yungbeck most humor predates our calendar.... what do we have to do? think of something, then google it to check how old it ois, how many times it has been posted?
@@Yungbeck funny jokes will always be funny
@@Yungbeck at least he has a dad
@@jkyotube sorry about your dad
Remember folks this is the Alien Isolation reviewer. Be afraid, be very afraid.
If there are black hobbits, then their obviously must be some sort of Hobbit Africa. This raises an important question: Was the Shire involved in hobbit slave trading?
They're called Harfoots. Per Tolkien, as he was desscribing them, they are nomadic. Love all the tolkien tourists trying to feel attacked because "hurrhurr brown skin"
@@HyliaFell Keep gaslighting you dishonest coward. They weren't black.
it poisons everything it touches.
Bring this down, make them realize gamers DOESNT need this.
The Tales of series have really changed since Tales of Arise
Hey, we got a smoking hot protag finally and the combat is stellar and no need for a world changing quest, unless the ring is discovered
This game would've been quite a different beast if this was a Bandai Namco/MIddle Earth collab.
That would've been promising xD
They preview this game, but they won't review Lollipop Chainsaw RePOP
Is this premiering on Nintendo Wii?
Absolutely horrific
Gollum deserve better than this
Its not THE Lord of the Rings we are waiting for BUT its a game that deserves to exist. It looks cute and im sure people will love it. There is definitely an audience for games like this.
Really hope we get a big Open World and or Story focused LOTR game soon…
Well we had Shadow of war already
@@julianmeza6711 Which literally came out 10 years ago.
Would love a big open world Skyrim/EldenRing/Ghost of Tsushima-ishhh game in Middle Earth.
@@julianmeza6711 Which literally came out 10 years ago.
Would love a big open world Skyrim/EldenRing/Ghost of Tsushima-ishhh game in Middle Earth.
Lord of the rings Online holds up, and you can do most story quests Solo! It's really fun!
@@mathijnd return to moria just got an update which apparently makes the game better
If you lose does Mordor win and overrun the Shire?
If it's like the books, Saruman will be a raid boss.
@@randeli7785do you think him and grima will sack your house and you have to start over, but with Sam's new elvish seed it allows you to get better harvest
So does anyone else wonder if the Shire had a red light district? Bilbo was a bachelor with disposable gold, just saying!
Will there be a Nazgul event at some point?
It's on the right side of the screen at 00:27 😂😂😂
But that's not a Nazgûl 😄Sadly😆@@JustPablo5000
Wait didn't the nazgul murder a hobbit watchman 😢
@@BrightLord1823 not in the books
Evil cannot create anything new, they can only corrupt and ruin good forces have invented or made.
That's not even a Tolkien quote LOL.
@@HyliaFell "Evil is not able to create anything new, it can only distort and destroy what has been invented or made by the forces of good." Same message, different words.
Time for the latest failure of the industry.
Funny you bring up Fable... the characters looked almost the exact same animation quality.
Are you trying to take a shot at fable by saying it has poor quality or something? Old school games have so much better quality and so much more soul than modern games
This is just Blackrock backed trolling at this point.
So hobbits without the pipe smoking and butter beer? Lore innacurate.
cooking systems in games are always so underwhelming but the one here actually looks interesting
Farming simulator : Frodo edition
Yep they're not trying to hide that. It's a great idea
You mean Froda edition?
designed for the PS5 Pro
Why are the hobbits black?
Because they're Harfoots. Per Tolkien, who created them, they are a branch of Hobbits who are known for having brown/dark skin and they're also Nomadic. He talks about them in the preface of LOTR and also a few other publications.
The harfoots were not black. They just had browner features, like brown hair and tan skin. They were still white
Because black Hobbits built the Shire as we all know
Because the hobbits participate in slave trade.
Because why the fuck not it doesn't matter
Do we have the shire theme playing All Time? That would be a dream come true
I’d be curious to know if they were able to get the licensing.
This game needs that damn song!!! It would complete it
Graphics look like a mobile game, though. Animations are stilted. Seems low-effort.
PS5 Pro is going to get a workout on this.
Even the most high-end computers are going to explode before the game starts up.
Dont joke ... Its a exclusive ps2 and Samsung Galaxy Watch release
Gamers come up with a single original joke, please
This looks like Palworld.. But without the fun.
When online game that came out in early 2000s looks better than this
and we all know IGN is going to suck this game off.
Tales of the shite
Was this game footage taken from the Switch? Does the game look any better on PS5/XBOSX?
No that's just what the game looks like.
It would be so funny if IGN gave this a 7
I'll play it if it's a free download on my iphone 4
Game 2024
Graphic 2004
🤣🤣🤣
Thanks for the review. The iGn meta is just buying what they don’t like and rejecting what they like.
Please tell me the dwarves, elves, and other races are next 😊
Their expression whilst chopping vegetables is not so relaxing. 😳
5 minute video based on a 20 minute play session? im good
Seeing a brown hobbit makes me wonder about the level of respect given to Tolkien lore
certainly some since there are hobbits described as swarthy and brown
@@Skeptidelphian they are not and never were black
Sam is described as brown in the books
A lot of respect, considering Tolkien literally wrote about a branch of Hobbits called Harfoots who are described as having brown/dark skin.
Agreed, some Hobbits were described as having a ruddy brown complexion, but not black - what do you expect though, this is 2024 and nothing is sacred
Can not wait to see the player statistics on steam. Haha
Make Hobbit like a zelda open world game
Speaking of Zelda, isn't it time that they caught up with this game and made link black? Who's down for a diverse link?
These hobbits smoking menthols instead instead of pipeweed.
How can you make a judgement on a game you have only played for 20 minutes? The game looks great? It looks like a first gen Wii game. It looks stupid af. Another massive flop.
In hindsight, concept isn't bad. But would be better if it were just cell shaded
Will this have 2 player couch coop? Would be a perfect game for that
Is there loot though legendary fishing rod etc? Pipeweed?
Welcome to Middle Earf
Well it’s not as bad as making a game about Gollum but still waiting for a rdr2 style lotr game
The graphics are awful.
it looks...sandy
Oh dear lord....
When factoring in the studio that is making this game, I’d expect much better graphics, I’m fairly disappointed but trying to keep an open mind lol
Anyone out there actually asked for this
As appealing as this game is to me,cant help feel it should have orc raiding parties coming into to it and would need to defend.
Repair damages regrow stolen crops ect.
"Why are the hobbits bla--oh thats why" - the internet. 😅
It kind of reminds me of growing up and playing a hobbit game on the home computer, playing hide and seek in the shire.. ill try it out :)
This is ok and all but when we getting a souls-like LOTR game....
Souls game already are LOTR-like game.
Hobbit Animal Crossing
Hang on. Cozy games like Stardew, Dreamlight Valley, AC don't really end. Is that not what this is like? Or, is it more like the example of Fable?
British Life Simulator
Not accurate, I've been in the UK for 6 years and have yet to see a brit using salt
@@ilickgrandmas2854Are you in captivity or something?
let me guess, its a 7
It already looks way better than Gollum
Finally! After so many survival/building games that were just the same!
Loved this🎉
Idk why we have to wait till march for this game
This reminds me of Song of the Prairie, just made by a triple a
Not really looking forward to the main aspect being cooking, but that's me. Hmm..
Can the black hobbits steal bikes ? Or regen hp if they loot kfc ?
IGN Teases New Gravity Well Next Game starting Tomorrow at 11:00PM
Trash, Hobbits Ain't poop
Someone heard my silent prayers to the universe
The score will be 7
nothing wrong with a 7
@@toot1st105 the joke is that, because IGN dont ever want to be controversial they give like 7/10 of the games they review a 7/10
Still better than Rings of Power
Has black and brown Hobbits like that show, though. It’s bizarre how frightened people are to show things as they really are.
hobbits are litterally described as having brown skin in the books. @@larrycrowne8330
@@mummel9177 not true
@@GlobgobGabgalab they get described as having "long brown fingers" in the hobbit literally on one of the first few pages
Is this a mobile game?
More like an unfinished Wii game