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iokthemonkey 4,662 posts
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Registered 13 years agoStarchildHypocrethes wrote:
I quite liked LOTRO. I think it's still the best looking MMO on the market. Just a shame the armour designs are pretty wanky up until higher levels. Agree that it was a bit to serious though, just needed an injection of fun. Enjoyed it though.
The only wanky armour designs I've really seen are in relation to the awful head-gear. There are a LOT of "1960s fantasy peasant" hats and the helmet designs are actually a little too authentic (as in being based on medieval designs) to have that "cool" factor some other games have.
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Hunam 20,675 posts
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Registered 15 years agoWish someone would make a proper D&D MMO instead of that Eberron bullshit. -
magicpanda 15,130 posts
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Registered 17 years agoDon't get me wrong I think Lotro is great. .gif)
Evendim with the massive lake was pretty cool. I couldn't help thinking that it would be perfect for big player crafted boats and whatnot kicking crap out of each other and then realised something like that is never going to happen because of the Lore restrictions. -
iokthemonkey 4,662 posts
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Registered 13 years agoMagic Panda wrote:
Don't get me wrong I think Lotro is great.
Evendim with the massive lake was pretty cool. I couldn't help thinking that it would be perfect for big player crafted boats and whatnot kicking crap out of each other and then realised something like that is never going to happen because of the Lore restrictions.
Funny, that's exactly the location I was thinking of when I made that comment.
Boats would still be a nice addition, though - heck, even a canoe as a water-based "mount" would be ace. -
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morriss wrote:
I'll be on this soon on the Evernight servers in anyone fancies it.
Really? I actually bought this the other day on a whim. Why you playing this? I would have thought CoH would have been more your scene.
Anyway, yeah, we should do this when I get some spare time. -
iokthemonkey 4,662 posts
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Registered 13 years agoEldar is where the sexie people are. -
HMAN 275 posts
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Registered 16 years agopfft you all know Snowbourn is where its at -
morriss 71,293 posts
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Registered 17 years agokalel wrote:
Oh wicked. Gonna be reviewing Moria.
morriss wrote:
I'll be on this soon on the Evernight servers in anyone fancies it.
Really? I actually bought this the other day on a whim. Why you playing this? I would have thought CoH would have been more your scene.
Anyway, yeah, we should do this when I get some spare time. -
morriss 71,293 posts
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Registered 17 years agokalel wrote:
It's fucking excellent, by the way.
morriss wrote:
I'll be on this soon on the Evernight servers in anyone fancies it.
Really? I actually bought this the other day on a whim. Why you playing this? I would have thought CoH would have been more your scene.
Anyway, yeah, we should do this when I get some spare time.
My first MMO and I'm very impressed. -
Benno 11,854 posts
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morriss 71,293 posts
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Registered 17 years agoYeah, I've been given one. Although I'm starting from scratch too. -
iokthemonkey 4,662 posts
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Registered 13 years agoGot my Legendary weapon and "unlocked" Moria last night. It's bloody great. -
morriss 71,293 posts
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Registered 17 years agocool. Let us know what you think! -
Was thinking of picking this up as it's piss cheap on amazon these days. -
iokthemonkey 4,662 posts
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Registered 13 years agoDo so Gl3n, it's ace. Seriously, one of the best, deepest MMOs I've played for a long time, but still accessible and fun. -
iokthemonkey 4,662 posts
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Registered 13 years agoLove the new Legendary system - it works really well and the whole Moria thing feels incredibly epic. So what if the early Moria quests see you being an errand boy and delivering sandwiches to hungry dwarves? The whole Watcher scenario and the resultant opening sequence is brilliant.
Honestly, ANYBODY who likes MMOs should check out LOTRO, as it's criminally underrated and blows every other MMO out there away in terms of its content, depth and polish. -
Benno 11,854 posts
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Registered 16 years agoNice buzzwords, but wow has significantly more content and depth. LOTRO does look awesome though. I wish it had a more developed pvp system. -
Benno 11,854 posts
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Registered 16 years agoand by "look" i mean the visuals -
iokthemonkey 4,662 posts
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Registered 13 years agoI'm not denying WoW is a good game. However, if you play for a long time, you'll find it applies the "inverted triangle of content" in that it starts out broad but, as you play, gets narrower and narrower, leaving fewer high-level options and you wind up either logging in to do Daily Quests, grind cash or go Raiding. Or you can go PvP but it's just another grind.
That's the problem with WoW - you're always on the grinding treadmill and all the new expansions do is expand "end game" by adding... more of the same. It's very good at what it does, sure. But it's just what it does is pretty dull by the time you reach 60, let alone 70 then 80.
But don't worry. All of LOTRO's features that haven't already been ripped-off my Blizzard will soon be appearing in the next expansion... -
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morriss wrote:
kalel wrote:
It's fucking excellent, by the way.
morriss wrote:
I'll be on this soon on the Evernight servers in anyone fancies it.
Really? I actually bought this the other day on a whim. Why you playing this? I would have thought CoH would have been more your scene.
Anyway, yeah, we should do this when I get some spare time.
My first MMO and I'm very impressed.
Thing is, your first MMO is always is pretty amazing experience. I even thought Final Fantasy XI was amazing at first (that was my first).
Not that LotRO isn’t good, it seems very polished, but I wish I could get back that sense of wonder I first got with FFXI, CoH and WoW. -
iokthemonkey 4,662 posts
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Registered 13 years agoWhat's the LOTRO endgame?
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About the same in terms of character advancement to be perfectly honest. However, LOTRO has more width in terms of crafting, housing, Deeds, etc.
As I say, if you're a WoW player and enjoying it, good for you. I played - and enjoyed - WoW but it became repetitive very quickly and I get the impression Blizzard are more interested in keeping the cash-cow going now rather than innovating. -
shamblemonkee 17,967 posts
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Registered 17 years agoThanks, fwiw - was a genuine question, wasn't fishing for a rise or somesuch.
I tried LOTRO and quite liked it but had a PC with a weak gfx card at the time and kept getting hitching, which made it very annoying to play.
Re: blizzard- to be fair they never have really been one for big innovations as I'm sure you know - plunder tweak and polish to perfection is their regimen. -
iokthemonkey 4,662 posts
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Registered 13 years agoRe: blizzard- to be fair they never have really been one for big innovations as I'm sure you know - plunder tweak and polish to perfection is their regimen.
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Nothing wrong with that really, as it means you do get a boildown of the best features of most MMOs out there. But sometimes they do chop-out some great features and it all ends up being a bit bland. WoW is a bit McMMO, if you ask me. -
iokthemonkey 4,662 posts
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Registered 13 years agoUntil you can play as a Orc, I just don't see the point of this.
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That's like saying WoW is a shit game because you can't play as a Murloc. -
Bleh 487 posts
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You can but properly not the way you want it to be. -
shamblemonkee wrote:
Thanks, fwiw - was a genuine question, wasn't fishing for a rise or somesuch.
No worries. It was actually an interesting question as it's made me think about what I think WoW gets wrong at eng-game: it's too "cookie-cutter." Everybody aspires to the same raid drops, builds and gear and everybody ends up the same.
What I like about LOTRO on the other hand is they offer choices at that level: there are no "killer builds", gear is customisable with the Legendary Weapons system and there's a host of other "custom stuff" you can do (housing, outfit items, titles) that just make it broader.
That's the big difference, IMO.
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