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#3761 Wojo

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Posted 13 June 2012 - 06:13 PM

That's either extensive Photoshop, or the guy has enough friends and/or alternate email addresses to make it legit. Either way, it's great.

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Posted 13 June 2012 - 06:20 PM

You don't need to use photoshop at all, you can just generate the html yourself
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Posted 13 June 2012 - 06:26 PM

I can't. Maybe someone else can.

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Posted 13 June 2012 - 06:35 PM

HAHA! that was hilarious. especially "gandalf the grey checked into rivendell with 6 other people"+comments.

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Posted 13 June 2012 - 06:47 PM

Yeah that was quite funny. :)

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Posted 13 June 2012 - 06:47 PM

I actually enjoy reading stuff like this. Amusing!

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Posted 13 June 2012 - 10:48 PM

Stuff like that is occasionally posted at Failbook.

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Posted 22 June 2012 - 02:06 PM

Time to invest in Mithril

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Posted 11 July 2012 - 09:55 AM

SMOKING KILLS! SMOKING IS BAD FOR YOU AND THE PEOPLE AROUND YOU! I USUALLY HATE SMOKING! and with that being said...

hehe just preparing for the lotr marathon me and my friends are having:

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now we'll have to find a pipe. it'll be a night to remember!

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Posted 11 July 2012 - 10:34 AM

You're gonna smoke Treebeard? WTF?

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Posted 11 July 2012 - 11:13 AM

Oh Alice invite me over! I haven't had a pipe in FOREVER!

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Posted 11 July 2012 - 12:06 PM

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Posted 11 July 2012 - 12:37 PM

Oh Alice invite me over! I haven't had a pipe in FOREVER!


There are better places then Sweden if you want to do some piping, Ren.

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Posted 11 July 2012 - 01:15 PM

You're gonna smoke Treebeard? WTF?


ROTFLMAO

apparently he'll taste like vanilla. yum.

Oh Alice invite me over! I haven't had a pipe in FOREVER!


if you bring lembas (frodo's scones will do too) you're officially invited!

http://lotrscrapbook.bookloaf.net/other/recipes.html#9

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Posted 11 July 2012 - 01:22 PM

Many of those trees were my friends :(

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Posted 11 July 2012 - 03:55 PM

Alice, I got the scones, anything else than my lovely self? :)

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Posted 11 July 2012 - 04:14 PM

no that sounds perfect, quint! .... ren. AAARGGGHHHH

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Posted 11 July 2012 - 04:18 PM

we can both attend if you like........ :P

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Posted 20 July 2012 - 04:29 PM

New LOTR game looks kinda boring to play


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Posted 20 July 2012 - 04:41 PM

Oh, god, that reminds me I forgot to show you this! Beware, this is some EPIC stuff (and yes, the word "epic" applies here! Epic in every possible way). If Tolkien saw that video, he would die in his grave once again.


Prepare yourself to see Gandalf and Co like you've never seen them before!!


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Posted 20 July 2012 - 04:48 PM

:blink:

Oh poor Tolkien, I'm sure if he were alive he'd have these game-makers flogged on the streets.
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Posted 20 July 2012 - 04:51 PM

Ah yes, this is the upcoming game in which Gollum is more powerful than Gandalf http://www.eurogamer...of-middle-earth

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Posted 20 July 2012 - 04:53 PM

Gollum is part of the Mordor gang now. He's like the Witchking's brutha from another mutha. YO!

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Posted 20 July 2012 - 04:54 PM

WHAT THE HELL????!!!!!! BURN THE HERETICAL MONEY GRABBING FRANCHISE ABUSING, TOLKIEN DEFILING RETARDS WHO ARE MAKING THIS GAME!!!! :stick:

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Posted 20 July 2012 - 04:58 PM

WHAT THE HELL????!!!!!! BURN THE HERETICAL MONEY GRABBING FRANCHISE ABUSING, TOLKIEN DEFILING RETARDS WHO ARE MAKING THIS GAME!!!! :stick:


Is only game. Why you heff to be mad?

@Wojo: stop being facetious.

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Posted 20 July 2012 - 05:03 PM

No not really. I was being Hlao-roo brand of sarcastic, you know exposing the madness in being burningly angry at this game which is quite similar to a number of others that have been released previously by pretenting overwrought indignation.

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Posted 20 July 2012 - 05:07 PM


@Wojo: stop being facetious.

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Posted 20 July 2012 - 05:28 PM

No not really. I was being Hlao-roo brand of sarcastic, you know exposing the madness in being burningly angry at this game which is quite similar to a number of others that have been released previously by pretenting overwrought indignation.


I'm sorry, but there hasn't been a game similar to this one. I mean, look at that video! WHAT THE FUCK WERE THEY SMOKING? It sure wasn't Longbottom Leaf.

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Posted 20 July 2012 - 05:30 PM

Precisely. And what the hell did they do to Gollum?!? :folder:

To think there are probably a some people out there who think this is what Lord of the Rings is about. :shakehead:

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Posted 20 July 2012 - 05:33 PM

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Posted 20 July 2012 - 05:36 PM

Precisely. And what the hell did they do to Gollum?!? :folder:

To think there are probably a some people out there who think this is what Lord of the Rings is about. :shakehead:

But EPIC is so difficult to achieve without slowmotion and arrow time, explosions, flames and breaking buildings. Why wasn't Gandalf's nuclear bomb like powers in the Battle for Middle Earth or Middle Earth Third Age's cheesy japanese roleplaying game battle mechanics with huge un-Tolkien like light show effects damnable?

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Posted 20 July 2012 - 05:46 PM

The Third Age is interesting with roleplaying game battle mechanics and huge light show effects.


Fixed.

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Posted 20 July 2012 - 05:51 PM


The Third Age is interesting with roleplaying game battle mechanics and huge light show effects.


Fixed.

It is a poor tunnel visioned bore fest quest if there ever was one, just wrapped in the frachise's visual skin to make it look better. And not in the spirit of Tolkien in many respects. Final showdown with the Eye of Sauron was a hoot.

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Posted 20 July 2012 - 05:58 PM

I just watched the game trailer that BB posted and it looks cool. It's not meant to represent any specific time or event in the books or movies. It's just an abstract concept of a game using the main characters from the storylines to fight a non-canonical series of battles. As if the LOTR characters found themselves dropped into a Mortal Kombat arena.

Too bad it's just a cinematic trailer and not gameplay footage. It builds interest in the IP long before actual gameplay tempers much of the enthusiasm. This could be either a classic fighting game, an over the shoulder third-person action game, or even a turn-based tactical strategy game like a King's Bounty game.

Other "apocrypha" of note...

Why is Gandalf the Grey shown instead of Gandalf the White? The Grey would build up hype for his role in The Hobbit franchise, but The White is the new and improved version who would be stronger. Granted, they never went head-to-head, but I would rather take Gandalf the White into battle.

Um, isn't PJ's Sauron still a disembodied wraith or spirit form at the start of FOTR? That's why we always see him as the giant lidless lighthouse atop Barad-Dur. To see him approach the "Fellowship" side in full humanoid form, as at the War of the Last Alliance in FOTR's prologue, would imply that he has regained The One Ring, which makes these battles rather pointless.

Besides, who remembers Star Wars: Masters of Teräs Käsi?


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Posted 20 July 2012 - 05:59 PM

Final showdown with the Eye of Sauron was a hoot.


And the final showdown with Gollum, and rescuing Beorn, and the showdown with the Ants...

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Posted 20 July 2012 - 06:25 PM

Besides, who remembers Star Wars: Masters of Teräs Käsi?

Teräs Käsi is Finnish by the way and means "steel hand". :P

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Posted 20 July 2012 - 06:37 PM

Besides, who remembers Star Wars: Masters of Teräs Käsi?


I remember learning how to rip the unreleased Williams Phantom Menace music out of it!
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Posted 20 July 2012 - 06:41 PM

Really? A Playstation game from 1997 had significant amounts of Phantom Menace music in it?

@Wojo: stop being facetious.

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Posted 20 July 2012 - 06:46 PM

Woops, I was thinking of Jedi Power Battles! My bad!
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Posted 20 July 2012 - 06:51 PM

No problem. I never had a PSX. I hear extra music in the SE's that wasn't on the Anthology, and I instantly think of Dark Forces 2: Jedi Knight that had a significant amount of unreleased OT music WRT the Anthology.

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