Lord of the Rings Gets Adorably Blocky, Courtesy of Lego and TT Games

This looks kinda cool

EDIT: That was bad and I feel bad.

Been wanting this for a while.

EDIT: So close! Someday...

MY BODY IS READY

Wait a minute, legos can't talk!

Voices? Mixing serious dialog with the goofy Lego humor isn't working for me. :(

Why are they talking?

WHY IN GOD'S NAME ARE THEY NOT TALKING GIBBERISH!?

boo dialogue! though I guess they had to make things easier on themselves eventually, as many of these as TT has been cranking out

damn good graphics for a lego game

One doesn't simply walk in to legoland.

I hate the fact that when I watched Game of thrones season 1, I couldn't help but think of Boromir. Now, I can't watch a LOTR thing with Sean Bean and think about anything but Ned Stark.

Whoa! They speak.

Talking in my lego game? Get outta here, Tt.

I love me some Lego games but man I still haven't gotten around to Star Wars III, Pirates of the Caribbean, or Harry Potter 4-7 yet. On the plus side, by the time I'm ready for this one in like, three or four years they'll be giving it away on street corners everywhere. 
 
@sephirm87 said:

I hate the fact that when I watched Game of thrones season 1, I couldn't help but think of Boromir. Now, I can't watch a LOTR thing with Sean Bean and think about anything but Ned Stark.

Speaking minifigs seems like an atrocity of some kind. I like my videogame Lego characters to grunt and gesticulate like real life Lego characters.

I would play this. I have LEGO Batman but I've never played it and I haven't touched any of the other ones. This looks cool though.

Travelers Tales need to stop with the voice acting.

@Wandrecanada said:

Speaking minifigs seems like an atrocity of some kind. I like my videogame Lego characters to grunt and gesticulate like real life Lego characters.

I don't mind them talking, but I think the voices of the actual actors don't match the lego people very well.

SOLD!

I dunno. Harry Potter:Years 1-4 kind of killed the LEGO games for me. It seemed to be nothing but rote trial and error and not actually a fun little adventure like all the ones I had played previously. I do love me some LOTR though, and even with the real dialogue, it's nice to see that their is still a little bit of comic gesticulation going on

The voice acting adds the little extra touch that I think the LEGO games needed. There's only so much you can convey visually, I think LEGO Harry Potter Years 5-7 was hurt by it's total reliance on visual comedy.

@sephirm87 said:

I hate the fact that when I watched Game of thrones season 1, I couldn't help but think of Boromir. Now, I can't watch a LOTR thing with Sean Bean and think about anything but Ned Stark.

For a real mind fuck, go back and play some Goldeneye.

You shall not pass. This bridge is two blocks wide and your big demon ass requires four blocks per foot.

THEY.....CAN........TALK!!!!!

I suppose it'd be really hard to do a Lego Lotr game without voice acting.

I've played most of the Lego game casually, but LotR Lego I might just buy on release day. Do Want.

With every Lego game they look less and less like Legos. Also lol Balrog burp that was hilarious you guys.

You're wrong Gandalf, I shall pass on this!

If they actually have the voices/dialogue from the movies in the game's cutscenes then I'm sold.

This was the LEGO game I've been waiting years for. I may even pre-order it with a good enough Amazon deal.

I think this looks really neat! Then again, I usually find he Lego games to look cool and sound cool in theory, but I haven't played one since the original Lego Star Wars. So yeah.

Ugh. Two lackluster LOTR game ideas in one day.

I really like these Lego games and this is something I've always wanted. I am bit a freaked that they're talking though.

Something about collecting ALL THE THINGS like you do in these games really gets me. Also I love LOTR. And LEGO.

This seems absurd enough for me to purchase.

IT'S ABOUT FUCKING TIME!

How this doesn't already exist, I do not know.

Will plan on renting this like the other Lego games but should at least find one LOTR game that I like with this.

Looks awesome, cannot wait. The voice acting is a new thing to the LEGO games I think that is really what is setting everyone off. Once you get used to it, it's a great addition.

Why the fuck are those legos talking?

THAT is some major bling.

Also Lego Gandalf is surprisingly awesome.

hey look there is LEGOlas:P

im gona buy this game

Haven't played a Lego game since star wars episode 4-7. This might make me interested again

Lego mini-figs should not talk.

Now unlike that MOBA this is a game I can get behind! Hell yeah!

@TurboMan said:

Why are they talking?

WHY IN GOD'S NAME ARE THEY NOT TALKING GIBBERISH!?

Yeah, the trailer for Lego DC Univerise/Batman whatever had the same thing. I was very confused.

@texaseanacre said:

The voice acting adds the little extra touch that I think the LEGO games needed. There's only so much you can convey visually, I think LEGO Harry Potter Years 5-7 was hurt by it's total reliance on visual comedy.

I completely agree with this. The story in the last lego games were basically only understandable by the devotees of the movie. At least someone with a vague sense of what lord of the rings is could actually play this game and hopefully understand something about the story. My hope is that the dialogue is very prevalent in the games and not just in these trailers.

LEGOLAS OF LEGOLAND!

Looks a little bit more large-scale than anything they've done. Wonder if they can pull it off.

For the record, I think they're all very bland games but my brother enjoys them so whatever.

AH! wouldn't have guessed it was alex posting this from the title/description! good on you for not being as predictable.

It makes sense for the DC Superhero LEGO characters to talk because you're taking from one piece of source material. You're taking from all the DC Universe and making an original story, so having them talk doesn't take away from the whimsy of the LEGO series.

When you're just going to transfer a movie into LEGO characters, it's much more interesting when you make them talk in gibberish in a cute abridged version of the movie. That was always the appeal to things like LEGO Star Wars or Pirates Of The Caribbean. This just misses the point.

I would imagine that the whole movie dialogue part is yet another amazing example of defender of the Tolkien estate Christopher Tolkien, who believes in utter control. As such, he'll have allowed them the license only on the basis of them making all sequences faithful to the spirit of both books and films, therefore utterly blocking any of the great humour we've come to expect of the series.

Omg yes.

@deskp said:

AH! wouldn't have guessed it was alex posting this from the title/description! good on you for not being as predictable.

I had the exact opposite reaction. I had a feeling it would be alex, since he is a lover of cuteness, e.g the Kirby's Epic Yarn quicklook.