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sdelmonteOn the way in to the office today, I passed a game store and saw a new LotR Trivial Pursuit. Sounded extremely cool, so I looked it up.
The good? Pewters pieces that look like Aragorn, Frodo, Gandalf and Galadriel. 1,800 questions apparently written by Peter Jackson ahd friends. A replica One Ring, and special rules for use of Sauron.
The bad? It's only about the films. If you buy it now and play it, you get spoilers. Only four pieces (remember when Trivial Pursuit was for up to six?). Why a Galadriel piece and not Sam or Gollum?
The likelihood? Remember the Star Wars version? Lots of fun, a few times. After a while, you just guess "Lando" all the time and it gets dull. Never mind that in your head, the answer is from the books and there's something Jackson mucked up in the film that you didn't like. Never mind that Tom Bombadil is missing from this as well. An opportunity missed, I would say, to include in game form all the stuff the films leave out. Think I'll pass on this.
But wait! There's also a LotR Monopoly, and an LotR Risk - didn't look those up, but I figure the former is still Monopoly, and the latter will not be the map of Middle Earth with lots and lots of Sauron and so very little Gondor. Someone is trying very hard to make lots and lots of cash from this, aren't they? I can't begrudge them this, of course. Like Yogurt said, that's where the real money is. And this is a capitalist society,a fter all. But I gotta wonder when us fannish types will wise up. Buying things like this only encourages more and more mindless merchandising.
Oh well. At least we're likely to be spared Matrix Monopoly. "Go directly to Agent Smith. Do not pass Zion, do not collect 200 karma points"?
The good? Pewters pieces that look like Aragorn, Frodo, Gandalf and Galadriel. 1,800 questions apparently written by Peter Jackson ahd friends. A replica One Ring, and special rules for use of Sauron.
The bad? It's only about the films. If you buy it now and play it, you get spoilers. Only four pieces (remember when Trivial Pursuit was for up to six?). Why a Galadriel piece and not Sam or Gollum?
The likelihood? Remember the Star Wars version? Lots of fun, a few times. After a while, you just guess "Lando" all the time and it gets dull. Never mind that in your head, the answer is from the books and there's something Jackson mucked up in the film that you didn't like. Never mind that Tom Bombadil is missing from this as well. An opportunity missed, I would say, to include in game form all the stuff the films leave out. Think I'll pass on this.
But wait! There's also a LotR Monopoly, and an LotR Risk - didn't look those up, but I figure the former is still Monopoly, and the latter will not be the map of Middle Earth with lots and lots of Sauron and so very little Gondor. Someone is trying very hard to make lots and lots of cash from this, aren't they? I can't begrudge them this, of course. Like Yogurt said, that's where the real money is. And this is a capitalist society,a fter all. But I gotta wonder when us fannish types will wise up. Buying things like this only encourages more and more mindless merchandising.
Oh well. At least we're likely to be spared Matrix Monopoly. "Go directly to Agent Smith. Do not pass Zion, do not collect 200 karma points"?
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Date: Nov. 18th, 2003 09:31 am (UTC)Not exactly. Both of them can be played straight, but each of them comes with alternate "storyline" rules that involve the use of the Ring token, which travels around the board. And I'm pretty sure that the armies for LotRisk are more balanced -- elves, dwarves, men, that sort of thing. Don't have it in front of me, but we do sell it.