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Welcome to Haven.TheOneRing.net - Gaming Havens!
Christian @ 10:06 pm EST
Welcome to the new gaming section of TheOneRing.net™! My name is Christian, and I will be your host from here on in… By the by, you can contact me with your feedback, gossip, or comments on what you think I should be doing in here, either myself or Bob, my AI will get back to you. I'd love to publish what you have to say!
In case you haven’t noticed TheOneRing.net™ is going through a huge expansion process, and this Gaming Havens will be a part of that. In here I shall endeavour to provide you with the pulse from the industry, something for those who want to play the games, and hopefully something special for those of you who want to help make the games too!
Ok, just who is this Christian boy, and what is he doing here?… hmmm… that’s a good question, one I can admit to asking myself on a few occasions... hmm... well, let me tell you! I know what’s going on in this site, I know that the secret man behind the scenes… Corvar… or well maybe Xoanon… ummm maybe Tehanu?!? Well one of them is Peter Jackson, I know it! And well, quite simply I’m going to tell him how to make the coolest game the world has yet to experience! Because, as things happen these games will help to promote the movie and vice versa!
Currently, I am trying to line up interviews with some of the people that make the software the game makers use. I’m also in contact with some of the hardware developers who will be trying to subvert the world to their own unique way of seeing things. In these sections their will be one category of review… The amount of sensory immersion we can get out of these products. By this I don’t just mean in standard levels ie. popping into VR and seeing some pretty stereo pictures (though I do think this is pretty cool as well!). I’m talking complete immersion, I am talking about total sensory input!!! Kind of like what Tolkien did with his novels, he captivated us, he put us into the Middle-earth, he made me a part of The Middle-earth! That is the essence is why making a LOTR game is such a big task, A comment from Fredrik, and if you go to Fredrik's cool site you will understand why I quote him, he is somewhat of an expert on LOTR games to date… (Fredrik, I proclaim you an expert too!)
"I reserve the right to remain sceptical. Why? Simply because no-one has thus far successfully adapted the story to any other medium. And this is not because they have been lacking talented people to do it. On the contrary, many radio plays, computer games, and even the Bakshi movie (to some extent) are good in themselves, but fall flat when compared to the original. I just think that LOTR's epic scale makes it a poor choice for adaptations. (Thus spoke the self-proclaimed "expert" of computer game adaptations. Like I said: many are good in themselves.)"
Did you know their have been over one hundred LOTR computer games produced? If you want a review on all these games you need to go to Fredriks site. In this Gaming Haven we will have a focus on the games being worked upon now.
Over one hundred games so far! Well, that says it in one really. I think what the producers of these games (and the movie even!) have to do is make a product that will stand alone. And with the amount of time and combined resources put into these projects, I think they will stand out alone. Yeseree Bob I am confidant. You have probably noticed some work is starting to appear in the press (though not yet in their completed forms), and quite frankly what I’ve seen blows my mind. People are a versatile, creative, and imaginative bunch it seems… It puts me to wonder what Tolkien would have created if he was alive with access to the technology we have today!
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