looks mediocre like everything Warner Bros has Published excluding Lego Lotr
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Favorite to least favorite from what I've played:
The Lord of the Rings Online: Riders of Rohan
The Lord of the Rings Online: Mines of Moria
The Lord of the Rings Online: Helm's Deep
The Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar
The Lord of the Rings Online: Rise of Isengard
The Lord of the Rings Online: Siege of Mirkwood
The Battle for Middle Earth 2: The Rise of the Witch-king
The Battle for Middle Earth 2:
The Battle for Middle-earth
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (Gamecube)
Lego The Lord of the Rings
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (Gameboy Advance)
The Lord of the Rings: War in the North
Guardians of Middle-earth
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It's F2P, so you may as well try :)
I've been playing on and off since the original beta, and while it's fun and I want to like it I never really got into it. No specific reason, I just got caught up in other things. It just didn't grab me in like other games have. Then again, I never joined a Kin (guild) and didn't have anyone to play with.
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It's awful, I love LOTR, but this shit... maybe in later stages of game its good, but levels <20 are shit. Go there, kill them, go back. REPEAT 99999 TIMES. That's how quests look like. Maybe in 90s it would be fun... Map is ridiculously bad designed too (at least in the beginning), boring as hell - as before: maybe in 90s...
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That's most MMOs though. Hell, WoW is go grinding + grinding AND most things are missing the parts they're suppose to drop (Zhevra hooves, I can see it has four damn hooves and there's no way I destroyed all 4 while fighting it... especially not in cat form as a druid rage). And we all know the ones missing important organs, like livers...
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To be fair, early characters can skip the grind quests for the most part and level solely on the story quests. That's a bit more challenging for freemium players because they don't have access to a lot of the premium content, but it's not impossible. Grind really only comes into play when you're doing boss runs, fetch quests, and resource gathering.
Speaking of LotRO, I need to get back in and get my lovely hobbit-house out of escrow.
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I loved LoTRO, I went with the lifetime sub myself so I 'own' the entire game.
As with other MMOs, there is a lot of 'go kill x 20 times, then come back to me' type quests, but it is still an interesting game (I have yet to see a game that doesn't have quests set up like this).
The graphics are pretty, though the character models may be a little less detailed than I'd like - the environment is a few steps up from wow (in my opinion).
Before everyone jumps onto 'it's free' I will explain something.
VIP (think 9.99 a month) get access to entire base game. All of it, but need to buy xpaxs eventually.
F2P get access to the first 30 or 40 levels and I believe the full epic storyline, but also need to buy the xpacs eventually - this can be done through Deeds and earning TP or outright buying if you want.
If you pay into the game there are two important things to remember.
I generally suggest, once you have 'all' the characters you want go P2P for 1 month (this includes messing with alts on other servers as the unlocks are account wide). It gives full bags for all your characters, removes gold caps, and when you go back to F2P after, you keep the bags/gold cap removal/mount training etc that you got while VIP.
You can earn the entire game's modules as well instead of having to pay monthly for access to your character. The only difference is VIP (gets access to entire base game, buys xpacs) and F2P(Buys modules/quest zones). VIP gets access until their vip expires, and 500 tp monthly - but can't buy quest packs when on sale as they already 'own' them through being vip. F2P can dink around and get everything when it's 50% off or so as far as quests: Main difference is one grinds more than the other.
As you buy each zone and earn your deeds, virtues etc, you earn your turbine points. 2 character slots, you can alternate between characters and really 'perfect' your deeds. Slowly, you'll unlock the entire game.
(and if you go to vilya after the 12th or so, you might be able to get a minne or one of my others following you around for deed grinding. You just need to message me on steam to get my attention to go back in game.) Vilya is a quiet server though, so harder for people to settle into - but good for quietly grinding TP.
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I would have certainly wanted a Battle for Middle Earth 3 with say Rag-doll effect, more units, expanded factions etc.... one can only dream :/ you can still play Battle for middle earth 2-ROTK via tunngle which is quite good, i guess the closest we will come to BFME 3 is the Edain mod coming out soon
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Same as the people above(or below if you use SG+) me, The Battle for Middle Earth 2 & The Rise of the Witch-king were best LOTR games I've ever played.And easily in TOP10 of my all-time favorite games.
10/10 would buy if they were on Steam :)
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By chance i actually installed/played the "Third Age" mod for Total War Medieval 2 again this week, and imo it's an excellent mod/game (and as far as i know the only way to properly simulate historical middle earth battles)
If you've got the base game by any chance I highly advise you to give this mod a try, you get to pick from 8-10 factions including high elves, Gondor, Mordor & Rhun, and every faction has their own appropriate units/buildings and tactics.
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indeed ive spent so many hours playing this game its ridiculous:/ id definitely recommend it to any lotr fan!
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you really didnt like The hobbit by sierra ? I loved that game when it first came out albiet with a weird graphics style....
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Fav: LotR: Fellowship of the ring
Worst: LotR: Conquest
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LOTR Fellowship is really nostalgic for me :3 a really good game
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LotrO is ok, but not good(WoW clone without pvp/battlegrounds), my favorite is battle for middle earth 1, bfme2 was not the same good experience for me :/. And I really don't understand why they can't do a good game with the amazing lore of the silmarillion.(or even the lord of the rings/hobbit, the actual games are a really shit compared to the movies/books).
Edit: Forgot that I played a turn-based game for a game boy advance, it was a good game but i don't remember the name right now.
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Without PvP battlegrounds??? Well, I suppose you could call the PvP "not battlegrounds," but your statement makes it sound like there is no PvP. I actually preferred the PvP in LOTRO over WoW.
The point remains, however, that LOTRO isn't for everybody. (WoW is my third least-favorite MMO.)
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Well, when I played years ago the pvp didn't exist, now with the rohan expansion they included a pvp or something like that. I never played WoW, so when I called battlegrounds I mean mini games 20vs.20, capture the flag, etc. The unique mini-game like that was a "kill the waves"(pve) but in low-levels no one played it.
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LoTRO is actually pretty good. Liked it more than wow, but I agree with Khalag, it's not for everyone.
There is pvp, but to be one of the creeps (Orc, spider etc) you need to be a vip. Freeps(Free people) you can be a f2p player. It's also not till later levels that you get to pvp as a freep.
I loved the pvp in the siege area (creep zone) because capturing each area and holding it seemed to mean a lot more than WoW's pvp as far as zone buffs etc.
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Battle for Middle-Earth 1 and 2+expansions were just awesome, tho, i really disliked the way they changed walls i liked the BFME1 model more but i looked passed that because dwarfs!! :D I also liked, and i seem to be in a minority here, LOTR War of the Ring, i had tons of fun with it back when it came out. If you're into MMOs definetly try LOTRO, while it's certainly not the greatest MMO or anything like that it's fun to play and, at least for me personally, has a very calming effect plus it's full of all the LOTR lore goodness you can want.
Also any total war fan should give the Third Age Total War a try.
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Battle for Middle-Earth 1&2
Lord of the rings online
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Favourite to least favourite:
The Battle for Middle-earth
Lego The Lord of the Rings (PC)
The Return of the King (GBA) (a friend stole it though q.q)
The Return of the King (PC)
The Battle for Middle Earth 2
The Two Towers (GBA)
Guardians of Middle-earth
The Fellowship of the Ring (GBA)
Conquest (360) (the only game in ten years I have returned)
Ones I own but haven't played:
Lord of the Rings Online
The War in the North
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I have greatly enjoyed the Battle for the Middle-Earth 1 and 2, also the Fellowship of the Ring game and the Return of the King one. Have yet to try others.
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The return of the king was amazing when played with a friend!!
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now imagine that without the lego...... Mind=Blown
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it really is a shame that games nowadays dont have local coop, hell even the ones that do are normally restricted to consoles :/ example being Borderlands 2/War in the North etc
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anyone here ever play War of the ring ? basically the warcraft 3 of lotr ?
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Most favorite: Battle for Middle-Earth series.
Least favorite: Lord Of The Rings - Conquest Of Middle-Earth.
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The Fellowship of the Ring was the first game I ever got on my own PC (got one quite late by most people's standards).
LOTR games I loved (in order from best to worst and why)
Other LOTR games I played, but didn't enjoy:
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you know i only ever found 1 combo in Fellowship of the ring (PC/ps2 version) the one how aragorn does the weird thing how he throws the sword in the air then jabs, i also found the gollum fish on my first playthrough but noone believed me :(
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LEGO LOTR (My GOTY 2012)
LOTRO
3 and lower are the actual LOTR games (movie/book tie-ins), I played a bunch of them and none of them managed to keep me playing till the end (I have yet to try War in the North though, I've seen mixed reviews for that one).
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didnt like the combat in the third age but it was a alright game!
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Over the past few years there have been numerous video games set in Middle earth, i would like to know your favorite and your least favorite! I would also like to know your views on Shadow of Mordor, the new one coming out sometime this year.
:) My personal favorite is either Fellowship of the ring by Sierra or Battle for middle earth 2! least favorite is easily... aragorns quest.... why does that even exist
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