The scale of this game is awsome and as a life long Lotr fan I'm so pleased that Turbine have done such and amazing job. All I can say is move over WOW you time is up this blows everything else away and dont listen to the doubter and WOW Fanboys listen to the people that have been playing this its stunning !!
Weathetop in all its glory and you should see what it looks like from the top !!!
Look at the screenshots, i like the world and the day-night cycle. I mean i can play the game by just watching the sceneries and listening to the music.
This is very different from the previously released MMORPG game which received a lot of bashing.
Im getting excited about LOTRO I signed up for beta but I doubt i will get in. Wish I could experience LOTRO first hand... oh well, ill have to wait for release.
The game really isn't cartoonish. It is very video card dependent. I upgrade my video card during beta and it made a huge difference. Comparing the landscape to WoW, you know it isn't cartoony at all. Less cartoony that EQ2, also.
The game is fun, and my only complaints are the character classes. In a way they either have too many or too few. Too many hybrids.
Very polished and bug free. Plenty of things to do, plenty of titles to get through exploration/killing also.
Out of 100, I'd give it a 80. As soon as they have an expansion and add more content, my score will go up.
The screenshots look great, but I've that the world is small, really small. Can anyone elaborate on the world size?
In the current beta there is 9 zones within Eriador.
Using bree-land as example.
It takes 10 minutes to run from north to south.
13 minutes to run west to east.
The game is 50 square Kilometers big if that explains it better.
Eriador will be the only zone upen at release but if you look on the worldmap it looks like they can enlarge the game by 10 times so in future patches/expansions there will be a lot more space to play in.
I'll say first off that I am not a Lord of the Rings fan... being more in to sci-fi growing up, I somehow missed it. The movies are entertaining... although a lot of people have similar names and the story is a bit convoluted. I'll also say that I absolutely hated DDO, and didn't expect much from this one. Suffice it to say, I am not a LOTRO fanboy..... I participated in the beta because I won a spot in a contest here. I was also in the Vanguard beta so I'll compare the two a lot. After played both for several months, I canceled my preorder to Vanguard and I didn't download the latest LOTRO client a few weeks ago... but only because I intend to buy the game at launch and I want some of it to still be new to me. As other people have said in this thread, it runs and looks great. I have a system that, by Vanguard terms, is very low end. (P4 2.3, 1 gig DDR, Geforce 6800 GS) Still I can run Lord of the Rings Online at the highest settings with everything maxed out. It runs silky smooth and looks amazing. In heavily populated areas, really only in Breetown, it does drop a few FPS... but at it's worst it runs better than vanguard standing in the desert alone, and on the lowest setting. I can't come up with a single complaint about the graphics of performance. Gameplay is fun and fast paced. This isn't the kind of game where you can sit back and rely on your auto-attack. You will be able to fire a special with every swing of your weapon, at roughly the pace of games like Guild Wars or COH. The skills and classes are pretty straight-forward, and what you would expect from a traditional MMORPG. They certainly aren't trying to re-invent the wheel with the combat system, but the classes do feel unique when compared to each other and gameplay is pretty solid. Solo combat is fun, and group combat is really well done. The conjunction system really adds a lot to a team that is in good communication. Quests are plentiful. You should always be able to advance your character through quests without ever having to stand around and grind wild spawns. Loot is frequent and varied, and at least in my experience coin comes in a lot faster than it goes out. I like the fact that quests can be stacked and completed together. You may get three or four quests that can all be accomplished by fighting in the same area. One thing that really bothered me about Vanguard was when the NPC would tell me to collect 12 fox tails, then his next quest is to kill 20 foxes. I would much rather knock those out in one pass On to monster play... A lot of people thought that the lack of evil races would be the game's downfall, but I personally love monster play. You have this area full of high level content, where you can go adventuring after level 50. The catch is that some of the bad guys in that area are actually other players. You can enter the areas as a level 50 monster once your character is level 10. Playing as a monster you only raise your monster level, and they don't have gear in the same way your player character does.. they have upgrades, including visible ones, that you can earn instead. I think it;'s going to be pretty cool, but there weren't enough level 50 players when I was testing it to really get a good feel for it. On the negative side... The world is a little smaller than most people would like, but I assume that will be addressed over time. Mounts and housing are some of the most obvious neglected areas. Again, I can only assume that those will be addressed later. Crafting is passable, and while the process isn't as involved as some other games, the end result is pretty good. Harvesting is done with nodes, just like Vanguard.
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Nice post, and you fill me with great hope since my rig is virtually identical to yours, including the same video card.
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The scale of this game is awsome and as a life long Lotr fan I'm so pleased that Turbine have done such and amazing job. All I can say is move over WOW you time is up this blows everything else away and dont listen to the doubter and WOW Fanboys listen to the people that have been playing this its stunning !!
Weathetop in all its glory and you should see what it looks like from the top !!!
Look at the screenshots, i like the world and the day-night cycle. I mean i can play the game by just watching the sceneries and listening to the music.
This is very different from the previously released MMORPG game which received a lot of bashing.
http://lotro.turbine.com/index.php?page_id=103
public open beta Apr 06, see #10 on the FAQ
BAH.. apr 6, thats like a million years in the future,I am the type of player where I like to do everything and anything from time to time.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor - pre-WW2 genocide.
Cheers,
Lelle
http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=158270
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http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=158270 Whoa, thanks! Got one right away and I´m downloading now!
Cheers,
Lelle
I am the type of player where I like to do everything and anything from time to time.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor - pre-WW2 genocide.
The game is fun, and my only complaints are the character classes. In a way they either have too many or too few. Too many hybrids.
Very polished and bug free. Plenty of things to do, plenty of titles to get through exploration/killing also.
Out of 100, I'd give it a 80. As soon as they have an expansion and add more content, my score will go up.
Using bree-land as example.
It takes 10 minutes to run from north to south.
13 minutes to run west to east.
The game is 50 square Kilometers big if that explains it better.
Eriador will be the only zone upen at release but if you look on the worldmap it looks like they can enlarge the game by 10 times so in future patches/expansions there will be a lot more space to play in.
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