Dark Messiah had the gameplay of fps-melee down pretty good. I really liked it. Too bad the multiplayer sucked (I couldn't use the kick and I was constantly poisoned and killed by invisible archers or something... Then I gave up and went back to the single player :P)

Yin

@huginn:

Dude, you just won this thread of comments.

Fyren

Well, I hope that this does end up like the Battlefront games rather than the Battlefield games. Also, based on that press release, does that mean that there are no plans for a current gen Star Wars: Battlefront game? LOTR Battlefront would be a good substitute, but LOTR Battlefield would be disappointing.

kingofallcosmos

@NotAZombie: Yeah no way. 1942 was the shit. The Desert Combat mod made that game AMAZING.

Amazing-Steve

I'm looking forward to this, if LOTR didn't suck so much (IMO) I would be playing it instead of WoW. RPGFPSs always interested me but no one has quite done it right. I might check out Savage 2, but it doesn't seem there is much interest in it, maybe I'm wrong.

Chewbenator

@Chupakun "LOTR in First Person? No offence to anyone, but **** you Pandemic *if* that's what you will end up doing.":

Well let's think about the last and current Pandemic titles. Mercenaries - 3rd person, Battlefront 1 & 2 - 3rd person, Mercenaries 2 - 3rd person, Saboteur - 3rd person. Why in hell do you think that they will turn this one into a 1st person out of nowhere?!

mx5

I just wet myself >.<

Now I can't wait for this game!

Irenicus-the one and only

LOTR in First Person? No offence to anyone, but **** you Pandemic *if* that's what you will end up doing.
I've loved EA's 3rd person actioners and want more of the same (perhaps with further story exposition into the more uncharted realms of the novels).

Chupakun

I'm all for action over RPG but please, no first-person. ROTK was solid gold and melee combat is always better in 3rd person.

Ignited_Impulse

We want Feanor and Turin!

Wookiee1

Can't wait to rush to a stallion that seats 2, leave before anybody can climb with me, jump off a cliff, deploy some sort of wings so I don't die and then hop on an Oliphant to wreck havoc on my enemies! O.o

Seriously though, 3rd person-medievalish-battlefieldo-lord-of-the-ringesque action like this = <3

Malaky

Dragon chopper whores, 10 guys on a elephant thing, omg omg omg

jarjarwang

@Draco Basileus "I'd prefer if they tried a Battlefront approach.":

Well, Battlefront is what Pandemic folks thought was the proper way Battlefield should've been done. So if LOTR is that game genre you can bet that it will be much closer to Battlefront than Battlefield.

So, the title above should read "Rumor: Pandemic's LOTR Will Be Battlefront-Esque" and NOT "Battlefield-Esque"

mx5

Uh oh, here comes Leeeeerooooyy Jeeeenkiiiiins.

Frank

I have a vision of a bunch of cat and mouse chases with swords...very annoying cat and mouse chases...EA please prove me wrong.

DefDealer

Heard the same rumor yesterday from a source who supposedly saw it...

WhiskeyJak

@PeterQC: Without guns, with swords, typo.

PeterQC

This will either be incredible, or incredibly bad. It takes a special touch to pull of first person mêlée combat.

Gouki4u

If they can make a LOTR Multiplayer like battlefield, with guns and sword, and it's actually good AND it comes on 360, I'm sold. Would love to play some epic fight like bf1942, medieval style.

PeterQC

@huginn:

LOL win!

EnigmaNemesis

"Here have some more arrows."
"Here have some more arrows."
"Here have some more arrows."

huginn

@jettokisora: Yep, so true. It's too bad. I got the game mainly for the multiplayer but for some reason every time I would play online I would lag so much (FPS and latency lag), so that kind of killed the game for me. The single player was pretty good though.

Dopeski

You know, there's a reason why there aren't many first person melee games. There hasn't been a good track record of those type of games, and it'll have to be something mindblowing to break that trend.

tnx3

I never play one single game from the franchise,but if they make an "open world" to play like Oblivion was,it's a sure buy for me,I love the franchise,but I need a more deep experience,glad to know the possibility of this.

OT79

I always though this kind of blend would work real well as long as its done well. More and more I'm getting annoyed with developers that have a great idea and the resources but they don't polish it. and it really pisses me off when its a simple thing like glitches (see
BlackSite: Area 51 ) or simple balance issues (see halo 1 pistol and assault rifle).
This kind of stuff is what makes me want to start making my own games. But I'm not so stupid to yell at a football player that I could do better.
Anyway all we can do now is hope these guys pull it off.

nightshade71986

@GUNLOC_MORIYM: "For Frodo" - also fun to say at the bowling alley when you're about to bowl a strike.

Thank you Pandemic for getting me excited about an EA release again. It's been awhile. Not quite the "Grand Theft Oliphant" sandbox game that I was hoping for, but "Battlefield Middle-Earth" works for me, too. Here's hoping it's first person.

J-Fro

Wishful thinking here, but I want something on the scale of Total War, where we have thousands of players on one battlefield. No fancy graphics, just a fuck ton of players charging straight into battle at an epic proportion.

Though I guess it can't be much fun getting killed so quickly en masse.

BTFzor_Freestyle

@Draco Basileus: Perhaps an option to toggle the view depending on the role? I do think 3rd person for melee combat would be more appropriate. 3rd person melee versus Oblivion-esque 1rst person melee, think of something God of War-ish vs Oblivion hackfest; I think 3rd person might add to the aesthetics of melee combat, and allow for a more sophisticated system.

Cruz

lol ea ... please

might be fun anyway

7th_Ronin

"Battlefield competitive first-person shooter spin (with mounts)"

So it's like everyone's a hunter from WoW and you are riding a mount and you use the mouse to shoot. Am I getting this right?

NeoAkira

MOMM misssed the mark by a WIDE margin.

Battlefront II almost got it.

Here is hoping if it does get battlefield-esque, the Assualt and Defend is just wtfpwnage. Big scale battles or nothing.

Fyren

I'd prefer if they tried a Battlefront approach. The pacing of these types of bow and sword games is too chaotic up close to deal with in a 1st person POV. 3rd person would be better. 1st person games only work when your weapon can shoot faster than your target can move. Does that mean everyone gets to play as Legolas and fire off 15 arrows in 5 seconds?

Never played Dark Messiah's multi-player, but I'm envisioning Oblivion style mechanics against human opponents. Seems like a nightmare.

Draco Basileus

That sounds pretty awesome. It would be nice to have Battlefield's gameplay without the drab army theme.

Aethyr

Well I guess I'll get alot less strange looks for yelling "For Frodo!" in this game. When I yell that in rock band so everybody activates their overdrive I feel alittle silly :p

GUNLOC_MORIYM

@NotAZombie: err, i dont think so, the to play well bf1942 most pcs can do it fine while to play bf1942 you need to spend more cash on upgrades, also bf1942 has a huge and i mean huge modding community...

TOCATL

A game like that, where it does not contain your typical guns ... sounds promising!

EnigmaNemesis

This could go so wrong, or so right. As a fan of the BF series, I hope it hits the mark for I need a reason to build a gaming PC again.

Custom Reality

The idea sounds wonderful, fingers crossed they can pull it off!

Rock-Byron

@TOCATL: 1942? No way BF2 was a major improvement over 1942.

NotAZombie

that actually sounds... awesome... can't wait to charge a massive elephant with my pony.

magically_delicious

@ghnvt: or it could just be awesomely terrible.

m3lkor

This could be awesome or terrible. I need to see something concrete to determine which one it is.

ghnvt

It sounds interesting, i love bf1942 more than all the shooters in the past years...

TOCATL

@jettokisora:
We always say that, but 99% of the time, they never get that time to polish.

:(

DrakeLake

Battlefield?

BATTLEFIELD??

T T

Luke Plunkett

Dark Messiah's multiplayer had a lot of potential but was plagued by poor maps, poor presentation, poor class balance, and technical issues.

A Battlefield LOTR game could be really amazing, if they give it the time and polish it needs.

jettokisora