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

This'll probably be the first one since the original Star Wars one that I'll buy.

Is that new voice acting, or just taken straight from the movie?

Fuck Yeah !!! looks Fucking Awesome

Well it was only a mater of time.

@Creamypies said:

IT'S ABOUT FUCKING TIME!

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

Because before the game happens the lego sets must happen, and lego didnt really have any reason to release lego lotr sets. Unitill now that the Hobbit movie(+ lego) is coming.

@deskp said:

@Creamypies said:

IT'S ABOUT FUCKING TIME!

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

Because before the game happens the lego sets must happen, and lego didnt really have any reason to release lego lotr sets. Unitill now that the Hobbit movie(+ lego) is coming.

And LEGO didn't have the LOTR license when those other movies were coming out. I wanna say I saw a MegaBlok(?) LOTR set in a store once.

Voice in a LEGO game? Heresy! Heresy, I say!

@gorydeath said:

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

When did episode 7 come out? And TT, make god damn Lego Back to the Future.

The monster belching as Gandalf is about to die kind of hurts me inside.

I'm so used to "LEGO Mumble voices", this seems weird to me. Even though LEGO Justice League - I mean, LEGO Batman 2 - did the "actual voice work" thing first, it's still weird. It also seems like it will limit TT's ability to generate some humor here. I mean, Lord of the Rings is pretty bleak. If they're using audio ripped from the movies, than ...yeah, I don't see how they will insert the laughs that other LEGO games have.

You, shall not TALK!

This at least gets me interested again, I haven't cared about a lego game since batman. I love LOTR stuff but most/all the games they've made are trash. Count me in for around $40.

just saw that this is coming out this year, OCt 26th, so hopefully it will take the first price drop in some sort of holiday sale so I can get it and play with my cousin.

I love LoTR. I'l add this to my HP ones too!

Wow wow stop the bus did he just talk?

Yay!

Talking. LEGO.

Pass.

The one things I can't understand about this series is why the games never go down in price. I've never even seen the first Lego Star Wars games for less than 20 euro, and those are pretty old now. Are they really that damn popular?

Actually this is the new DOTA game... Lego LOTR DOTA,

Going into this trailer I was doubtful about the ability of the devs to match the typical Lego comedic grunting and gesturing to the dramatic heft of LotR. 
 
Then I heard full voice and my curiosity was piqued. 
 
Then the Balrog burped at Gandalf just before an emotional focal point for the story and I was back to square one.

@Kear said:

One doesn't simply walk in to legoland.

I did and I was told to leave for inappropriately talking to kids plus the fact I didn't pay for my ticket. God bless lego!

Finally! I was waiting for this one. :)

@Landon said:

@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.

yeah I thought it was Harry Potter doing the voice of Frodo in the first clip..

Strange that people are so attached to the mumbling Legos, I'm guessing TravellersTales woulda liked for every past Lego game to be fully voiced, it was just a limitation for them (mostly $). Didn't the pantomiming of scenes always feel like a compromise? As a fan of LOTR it was awesome to hear the voices. As a fan of Harry Potter I would have loved them there as well.. Don't see how it detracts from the game in any way (or spoils your sentiment towards the past games?) Can only assume the typical "gamers are afraid of change and want everything to be like everything else"

YESSS! About frikkin time!!

@mrpandaman: LEGO should also be capitalised there.

@Skeetz said:

You, shall not TALK!

VIDEO GAMES ARE OVER.

Nooooo LEGO games are supposed to make fun of the events of the films and be silly, not be all serious recreations with LEGO graphics/art.

What? They talk? This will simply not stand!

@leebmx said:

@Landon said:

@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.

yeah I thought it was Harry Potter doing the voice of Frodo in the first clip..

Exactly couldn't say it better.

can't say i've ever watched LOTR... does this make me a bad person? everyone loves Lego though!

They can talk all they wants...........First Day PURCHASE!!!!!!!!!!!!(i thinks)

What's with all the whining about the talking? Some people clearly take their Lego video games very seriously.

I, for one, will pick this up if it has full voice acting. Haven't been interested in these games since the first Lego Star Wars.

Now if they'd just put voice acting in Lego games for movies I couldn't recite by heart...