LOTR: Gollum Dev Hopeful To Make Another LOTR Game That Would Explore "Something Else"
Daedalic, the developer of the upcoming The Lord of the Rings: Gollum, has reiterated its desire to make another Lord of the Rings game someday. Head of publishing Jonas Husges said in a new interview that the hope is for LOTR: Gollum to show the world what it's capable of in Middle-earth before coming back for another story. That will seemingly depend, however, on the how the game performs, which suggests there is not already a firm deal in place.
«If we get this right, hopefully this will be seen as the way Gollum's story is perceived and happens, and then we will move on to a different part of the universe,» Husges told GI.biz. «And hopefully make another Lord of the Rings game, but exploring something else.»
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Daedalic's CEO, Carsetn Fichtelmann, first mentioned the studio's plans for multiple Lord of the Rings games back in 2019.
Husges also touched upon the resurgence of The Lord of the Rings video games lately, noting that the games are more varied than they used to be. Indeed, Daedalic's game is about Gollum, Free Range Games and North Beach Games are making a survival crafting title, and Weta Workshop itself is making its own LOTR game that hasn't been fully announced yet.
«In the past, you had the [Peter Jackson] movies, you had games based on the movies that were very closely tied to the main storyline of the trilogy. And now, the Amazon series takes place in the Second Age, so it's a completely different era of the Lord of the Rings,»
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