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Middle Earth MMORPG Announced

Posted by michael on from the i-get-to-play-sauron-no-me-me dept.

learithe writes "A new Middle Earth MMORPG, Middle Earth Online, has just been announced by Turbine, who produced Asheron's Call 1 and 2 with Microsoft. It looks to be just as pretty and cpu/graphics card intensive as AC2. More (flash-free) information can be found at IGN and Gamespy."

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  1. Damnit by mao+che+minh · · Score: 5, Funny
    I thought that I was done with MMORPGs. Ultima Online went all "candy land". Earth and Beyond was boring. It took too god damned long to get from point A to point B in Dark Age of Camelot. I had wrestled my life back from the clutches of these glamorus, yet malicious, time sinks.

    Now they have both a Star Wars and a Middle Earth MMORPG. I hope I have some personal and sick days left in a couple of months, I'm gonna need them. All they need now is a "You get to bone Britney Spears in real life" *game* and I would instantly reach a state of Heavenly Nirvana and transcend to the plane of eternal bliss. Well, a "You get to bone Jolene Blalock in real life" game would work too.

  2. Oh jeez... by Bonker · · Score: 5, Funny

    Ganndallf_00312 says out of character 'L22 Wizzard LFG in Rivendale'.

    Aarragone says out of character 'Ranger and Rogue group needs Wiz for Ring Quest.'

    Hobbitbone_05 says out of character 'Not another 'Fellowship' group. L4m3rs!'

    (Actually, I wrote a while back for an EQ website.

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  3. The first words you'll hear Frodo say... by Patoski · · Score: 5, Funny

    When you initially log in and get ganked by some loser playing a hobbit..
    "d00d! I 0wn0rz3d y00!!!!! LMAO!!!!"

    *cringe*

    I'm not looking forward to hearing those words from a hobbit...

    I think I need to go reread LoTRs just to get that picture out of my head.

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  4. Re:of course they will by inkedmn · · Score: 5, Funny

    it's well established now that their target market is willing to pay both.

    or their target market's parents...

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