This looks a bit underwhelming, and I'm not even meaning the visual style they leaned towards. I just think the combat looks a bit flat and the adventuring about the caves that I've seen in other gameplay has seemed rather stiff and lifeless (for lack of a more apt descriptor because I haven't played it)
Anyone else think this is missing some polish and spirit?
It's an attempt at a quick cash grab by some publisher, abusing the LOTR IP and it's current resurgence in popularity. Epic Games only too. I wouldn't be surprised to hear later down the line how the devs have been on crunch to get a game out in a ridiculously short amount of time.
Yeah definitely didn't do a good job of really making me wanna play it, though it does look significantly better then gollum did, but that's not a very high bar to cross.
I'm having a ton of fun playing it with friends. One of the best games I've played this year. We had to drag ourselves off of it so we could go to sleep.
Not the one you asked, but this looks like a low-quality mobile phone turd to me. It also looks too similar to the only game that could rival ET as the worst game in history... I personally wouldn't bother given the Wheeble Wobble art style and being seemingly built on Gollum.
Deep Rock Galactic: Fantasy Edition is looking pretty meh, tbh.
It's a shame because if you describe it to me on paper, the concept of a co-op game where a group of dwarves build/rebuild Moria or at least a tiny portion of it sounds interesting. But among other things it'd need an art style. I mean it also needs a good one that is evocative of the world Tolkien created, but hey, first of all it needs an art style.