I would have gone with you to the end, into the very swamps of Dire Marsh Image credit: Bungie Marathon and The Lord of the Rings are diametrically opposed narratively, aesthetically, and functionally, yet they have been paired together to underscore a point about the former's relationship to PvPvE gameplay. No, it's not a leap I would have made either, but game director Joe Ziegler did, so let's have a listen to what he had to say about it all. Speaking in an interview with GamesRadar , Ziegler explained that "a lot of great game experiences" ultimately come down to the "empowering feeling that you are in control to make a lot of decisions and deal with those consequences, learn from them, grow better as you encounter new decisions to make." Talking about extraction shooters specifically, Ziegler says he thinks the "space between PVP and PVE is sort of the golden line that drives experiences like that." For him, PvE offers a "baseline of challenge" that grounds you in "a predictable world with rules and…