Why haven't we a proper Lord of the Rings vidya yet?

why haven't we a proper Lord of the Rings vidya yet?
and no the shadow of mordor/war games don't count

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Battle For Middle Earth series was cool.
So was two towers and return of the king

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This and the two towers were great. Fuck off OP

The Third Age was pretty fun.

RotK co-op was the shit
>tfw there's an actual PC version for once
fucking finally
>tfw the game is too hard for my casual friends
NOOOO

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Are you kidding? LOTR is arguably one of the best served settings for games, at least since the movies came out
>Two Towers & Return of the King
>Third Age
>Lord of the Rings Online
>Battle for Middle Earth 1 and 2
>Shadow of Mordor (fuck you it was fun)

I haven't played these two but you can also try
>Lotr: Conquest (basically the same as Star Wars Battlefront)
>Lotr: Tactics (a PSP strategy game)

Breath of the Wild is closest, since the essence of LotR is a fantasy religious, almost animistic love of nature. It's the splendor, utility and exploration that makes it good Tolkien. Not good enough though.

>>Lotr: Conquest (basically the same as Star Wars Battlefront)
how long did the online servers for these last, again?
fuck

Videogames fundamentally do not work for Lord of the Rings, the joy in videogames comes from the celebration of conquest, of the joy of war. This is antithetical to the morality and theme of Lord of the Rings, even the good LotR games are still bad LotR games

>>Lotr: Conquest (basically the same as Star Wars Battlefront)

all i remember about that game was that it was a bit disappointing after playing battlefront games.

I've read there's a MMO in the works?

>release : April 24th, 2007
was is the word

>tfw most people love the movies for the epic battles
Tolkien must be rolling in his grave.

It's the one time I could advocate for walking sim gameplay

I like the Shadow games, the Nemesis system is really interesting and I wish more games had something like it

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The entire trilogy was great.
OP needs to stop being a zoomer

This.
Whenever I think of LotR, I think of shots like this one.

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Imagine if the trilogy of movies was made in the 2010s instead of 2000s. Everyone would be homosexuals and niggers.
We dodged a bullet by a mere decade.

>>Shadow of Mordor (fuck you it was fun)
Fuck you it was non canon

yeah
still fun tho

>You will never play an open-world LotR game
>Lord of the Rings: The White Council would have been exactly that

Should I play the first or the second game?