More action won't make this more Tolkien-esque, if anything it will take it even further from the lore and spirit of actual Tolkien and just be more of Amazon's crap interpretation of Tolkien's works.

If this game was the equivalent of trying to stake a vampire through the heart they missed so bad they staked it in the crotch.

You don't say '"its legacy cemented" followed by listing the failed entries in the franchise, you say "its legacy tarnished".

They are gonna milk this Breeland cow dry.

According to the buzz on the Steam forums at least, this patch did about jack sh1t.

Did they even play their own game before it was released?

Were they suffering from delusions of grandeur?

I want to believe them, but...it's Bethesda and after Redfall's terrible launch and terrible follow-up I'm having trouble believing them.

Impressive is not the word I would use. I lost interest in Fable back with Fable III and this did nothing to rekindle any interest in me. In fact it looked a bit generic and like it was trying to use the quirkiness of Ayoade to sell it. Gonna pass.

The ads for this keep showing lines from critics or something saying things like "the best Transformers movie ever!" and "Simply amazing" and those ads are not aging well.