Private Division and WETA Workshop have just announced a new The Lord of The Rings game, called Tales of the Shire. Tales of the Shire is a Hobbit life sim game that will be coming to PC in 2024, and below you can find its announcement in-engine trailer.
In Tales of the Shire, players will be able to forge friendships, build and decorate their own houses, go fishing, explore Bywater, and cook their meals.
The game will have a cartoon-ish look, so don’t expect a triple-A realistic take on The Lord of the Rings. The game feels, artistically, closer to Animal Crossing and Zelda.
Still, I have to say that I’m not particularly impressed by what I see in this trailer. The reason I’m mentioning this is because this is WETA Workshop we’re talking about. WETA FX has revolutionized CG in movies. So, I was kind of expecting visuals that could be up to that quality. Instead, we’ll most likely get a game that looks like a Nintendo Switch/mobile game.
Anyway, we expect Private Division to share more details and launch the game’s Steam store page soon. Until then, go ahead and take a look at its official trailer.
Enjoy and stay tuned for more!
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What a vomit-inducing trailer.
oh well.. like to play it on a rainy sunday afternoon.
There is something lovely about cozy cartoonish games.
Afterwards i can go play DooM or Dying Light 2
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I usually like stylized visuals, but this just look like dog poop.
And black Hobbits? Really? This woke sh*t can burn in hell*
one flaw in this game, a black hobbit.
ESG hobbits
Ah yes, the multicultural Hobbiton, just as Tolkien described it.
Almost as if Rings had Power.
Woke, woke everywhere. Tolkien would shake his head.
almost as if this beautiful world could only exist in europe and what we have today is the result of multiculturalism.
Humans have been traveling for millennia. Woke is evil.
the fact that the west wasnt this diverse is proof that this isnt the case.
One of the reasons why WetaFX (Digital) revolutionized CG is because they were among the first studios to completely adapt Linux in their whole creation pipeline.
Nowadays all major VFX/CGI studios are powered by Linux, which is the whole reason why a Linux version of UE5 exists in the first place.
BTW, right now WetaFX is owned by none other than the creators of the Unity game engine, so I won’t be surprised if this Hobbit game is using Unity, too.
I am quite sad mr Riccitiello is gone then. He would charge players of this disaster per scene played.
utter linux shilling, diversity hires is the reason it looks like a ps2 game or worse.
First of all, since when is stating mere facts about the adoption of Linux considered shilling?
And secondly, nowhere I said that the Unity engine is the reason for the way the game looks like; I just made an educated guess that it is most likely running on Unity based on facts, that’s all.
In other words, I’m not trying to defend this abomination…
christ you are a linux shill on every article no matter the context.
Correction, I only point Linux out where relevant to the context.
But by all means, if you prefer being a lifelong consumer of whatever Windows feels like shoving down your throat, be Microsoft’s guest!
i dont like windows, but i cant play every game on linux.
Gee try to not act like the n@zi incel you are dude
Yuck, it looks like a DLC pack of one of the more recent sims games at best. Hard pass.
I wonder if they will be Taking the Hobbits to Isengard-gard-gard-ga-ga-gard by any chance?
1:31. yeah ok the diverse hobbits inspired by the english sire, fck off.
That’s truly disgusting looking.
Does the US need to infest every single medium?
Every other freaking game trailer is now some Hollywood, Star Wars or Marvel Superhero garbage.
GTFO.
Another crap coming.
Tales should be trademark of Bandai company
They misused to damage game
There is just one phrase that does justice to this: “YOU SHALL NOT PASS!”
There is just one phrase that does justice to this: “YOU SHALL NOT PASS!”
Forage friendships are about going foraging together? Or is it at typo and they meant “forge”?
Either way this game looks lame and like its target audience is 7-year olds.
D.O.A
more garbage ….like if we didn’t have enough
idiotic cartoon graphics always make me puke