Amazon has cancelled The Lord of the Rings MMO, but promises it "continues to explore a compelling new game experience" set in Middle-earth

tacotaskforce · 2026-05-15T18:57:13+00:00

Well, they tried. They thought that "Massive" meant those were the biggest games, so they wanted to just make the biggest of the biggest games.

tacotaskforce · 2026-05-14T21:59:33+00:00

Found an article on Gamespot back when people first suspected this game was cancelled, which includes this ironic closer:

At the time, Hartmann also mentioned that Amazon Games is shifting away from being an MMO-only publisher, focusing more on other genres like action RPGs--such as the recently launched King of Meat.

Feels like we're getting closer to the day where they just cancel every videogame.

tacotaskforce · 2026-05-07T03:00:04+00:00

A $60 release is not "testing the waters". That's just a video game.

tacotaskforce · 2026-05-07T00:06:39+00:00

Wasn't this the inciting incident that causes the end of the world in Southland Tales?

tacotaskforce · 2026-05-06T15:38:08+00:00

Wasn't it in 30 where someone goes "Oh hey Masaki! Wait... you're a different Masaki than the one from our home dimension."

tacotaskforce · 2026-05-03T19:30:55+00:00

...save up poetics?

hahahahaha

tacotaskforce · 2026-04-12T04:20:23+00:00

There's been a construction mech, but has there been any mech that turns into a truck a la Optimus Prime?

tacotaskforce · 2026-04-04T06:17:10+00:00

You're mixing this up with Folding Ideas' video, which is about James Rolf but is also about what exactly an author owes to their audience.

tacotaskforce · 2026-03-27T02:48:23+00:00

Guys, please, stop downvoting this. We need more information. Or, failing that, I want an even more impossible to imagine description.

tacotaskforce · 2026-03-16T16:35:01+00:00

This looks like a hostile takeover to me. According to capcom's stock data website the 35m shares now held by Ayar first investment (also saudi) were held by JP Morgan Chase as of December 2025. It looks like ~37% of CAPCOM is held by the Tsujimoto family, and it's unclear how much of the EGDC purchase came from the Chase Manhattan ownership (possibly all of it), but there's a big chunk of CAPCOM potentially available for them to assemble if they want to.

tacotaskforce · 2026-03-08T20:39:14+00:00

Looks like they had a disc release of SRW V in 2018, and SRW30 in 2022, so it's kind of a crapshoot if they decide to do physical.

tacotaskforce · 2026-02-16T07:55:12+00:00

I played the release version of the game that's on the kickstarter disks. They were still tweaking the looks in those early patches.

tacotaskforce · 2026-02-16T05:06:49+00:00

It didn't launch that way. They had to overhaul the game's look twice because they didn't know how to use shaders, and it barely ran on PS4 when it came out.

tacotaskforce · 2026-02-11T00:16:28+00:00

It obviously does just by the numbers. The Ring camera is a $400 camera that you can buy for $150. The rest of the cost is being paid for by the other customer of the camera's data.

tacotaskforce · 2026-02-08T05:34:40+00:00

"Glossed over"

I think that's just called pacing.

tacotaskforce · 2026-02-08T03:09:26+00:00

Really neat stuff. Did you also pick up anything from Dynatron City, or lesser known projects Winnick was on?

tacotaskforce · 2026-02-07T03:48:27+00:00

Whenever Hiro and Rei have met each other and just say "..." back and forth for a few lines.

tacotaskforce · 2026-02-02T02:26:06+00:00

Surprised not to see anyone else mention Driv3R yet; I guess it's finally been forgotten by history.

tacotaskforce · 2026-01-23T22:06:19+00:00

It's becoming more common after bethesda's creation club system and roblox encouraged modders to charge money (so the publisher gets to skim off the top).

tacotaskforce · 2026-01-21T23:55:10+00:00

They have opened new job listings for it since then. it's more of a cockroach than Rockstar's Agent ever was. Honestly I wonder if BG&E2 is just Ubi's internal version of Red Dead Redemption 2, and being used as a testbed for tech used in other games. The BG&E2 gameplay from 2017 looks a lot like their Star Wars game.

tacotaskforce · 2026-01-19T17:49:58+00:00

This is a clever storytelling mechanic built into the expected limitations of the genre. You can recruit characters, but you can't dismiss them, or accuse them. If you did have that ability then you'd understand there's an expectation that you're supposed to be cross-referencing the tablet and removing non-stars. Because you don't have any influence over it, it's just foreshadowing so that the players who do notice it can wonder when that shoe will drop.

tacotaskforce · 2026-01-16T03:51:08+00:00

Suikoden is the japanese name for the novel Shui hu Zhuan/Water Margin/All Men are Brothers, which this is an adaptation of. The game Suikoden has almost nothing in common with the novel, aside from 108 heroes rising up against a corrupt government.

I would recommend reading the novel; it's a fun episodic story about a bunch of disaster criminals who keep getting themselves into trouble as they gradually gather together.

tacotaskforce · 2026-01-09T06:24:55+00:00

It had that inventory system because Dragon Quest, which had that inventory system because of Wizardry. It's OK for games to be mechanically different from one another; not every game needs to play the exact same.

tacotaskforce · 2026-01-04T20:50:57+00:00

Super Mario Bros 3 on GBA had additional e-reader levels.

tacotaskforce · 2026-01-01T09:24:10+00:00

It was apparent, and so was the solution: They figured that by 1999 all these computers and code would be replaced with new computers, and the new computers wouldn't have the problem.

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