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why ruin a good thing?
Gullintani
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the LOTR franchise has been amazing. Great books (Tolkien is a genious), great movies, even the other games have been, for the most part, decent. So why did they feel it necessary to ruin this? You take WoW, add a new template, change the theme a bit, and you have LOTR online. I do, however, give credit to the research gone into the developement. Making your character names have to follow Tolkiens guidelines was a good attempt to create a solid roleplaying environment. However, for a game that seems to be aimed at the WoW community, this is completely uneeded. Sorry devs, the fellowship has been broken
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Lets be honest, Turbine has been able to get two huge franchises which they "ruined" in my opinion.
Both Dungeons and Dragons, and now LOTR.
How does a company, that produces non-blockbuster quality games, get their hands on these franchises? It just amazes me.
They do not put a lot into the budget or the game, because they know the name will sell their product, not the actually quality of it. And it shows.
The LOTR franchise and the D&D franchise should have been given to a group of developers that were willing to go beyond and take advantage of what each franchise offers.
The first thing turbine did wrong is using that damn engine again. There are so many more talented developers and producers out there, its a shame they are not found at Turbine.
/QFT
The saddest is that Dungeons and dragons is probably the BEST IP to adapt to this medium. It could've been the best MMO to date, but instead they ruined it.
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LotRO is not only the best MMO since WoW, by a good margin, it's also hard to imagine an MMO based on the LotR IP doing a better job than Turbine has.
Amazing how so many people who almost certainly never played the game come out of the wood work to attack it once it goes live.
I'm an extremely jaded MMO fan and a fan of LotR. I couldn't be happier with LotRO, which is a shock to me because my expectations were very low and I've been burned by so many other MMOs over the years to have become a certified cynic.
It's wierd not to be disappointed by an MMO!
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All I want is the truth
Just gimme some truth
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who me ?
While its good someone can enjoy it, to be honest the game in my opinion is pretty bad, especially for being linked to LOTR which is known for block buster like quality. I would have to say the only good thing i found in the game after playing it for 15 days was the instanced "drama" or story scenes. Everything else from mobs to characters and their classes, were bad. From a game design perspective, its just like the rest of turbines products, half-assed. They made a game to sell off of its name not the actual game. Name before game is bad.
But at least you are enjoying it.
LEAVE
This has been the best experience in an online game for me in years, and I have been around since the early days of MUDs. The graphics are amazing, you catch yourself just stopping and staring at the sky or the distant scenery around you. The monsters, npcs, and everything I have seen are EXACTLY what I pictured would be from the books. The performance is outstanding even on a midrange system and I have seen very little bugwise in the 3 months I tested.
To those who said DnD Online was a failure, it did exactly what it was supposed to do, but people apparently didn't want Dungeons & Dragons rules transferred to an online game, otherwise they would not have whined and whined about how it sucked. You fail to understand that DnD Online took a literal translation of the ruleset and put it in an online game. What you got was not a real MMO persay as it is an Online RPG. The one fault I have with Turbine over DnD was the fact they caved in and added a type of pvp. DnD is not and never has it been anything about pvp, its always been about pve and group pve.
Now, as far as you saying the AC2 game engine sucks, lol. People have been trying to buy their proprietary game engine since it was developed and yet they don't sell it, because look at it. It is a powerhouse engine with scalability, future proof, and very customizable. Look how long its been around, yet LOTROnline with it looks and runs like a king. Now, it might not top WoW, only time will tell....but it will certainly teach everyone else what to do and who to look at when developing new games. Turbine has always had a great reputation for putting good solid games out and that is why Tolkien Enterprises sold them the rights to make this game. They were a small development house who made it big and even bought their original property (Asheron's Call) from Microsoft and now are a powerhouse for online gaming.
I think it is so funny how people down a game and a company when they don't have a clue, yet try to act like they know the world and force it on everyone else.
Its a shame, because if vanguard was successful, it would have shown that the unreal engine makes a good mmorpg engine also.
Anyways, you should take your own advice and.. leave. If you refuse to, then learn to deal with others opinions instead of telling them to get out. mmkay'?
Its a shame, because if vanguard was successful, it would have shown that the unreal engine makes a good mmorpg engine also.
Anyways, you should take your own advice and.. leave. If you refuse to, then learn to deal with others opinions instead of telling them to get out. mmkay'?
You forgot to mention that your opinion isnt true either
Edit : Also, show me a game as good as this one thats free.
Edit2 : DAMNIT AYANEL BEAT ME AT IT >_<
exactly, and i dont deny that it is my opinion. at the end of that post there is "If you refuse to, then learn to deal with others opinions instead of telling them to get out".
I think its foolish when someone tells you to leave because they dissagree with you, so its only fair for him to take his own advice.
Turbine apparently knows what they are doing, since they outdid everyone else and obtained 2 of the biggest licenses that were out on the market based on their game engine and thier reputation in the business world. When coming to a public forum and trying to claim how bad someone or something has ruined something else, it might do you good to actually know about the people or companies you are putting down.
And, yes this is my opinion and from the number of people buying, playing and ENJOYING the game, it would seem that my opinion is right on, whereas yours........................
Edit : Also, show me a game as good as this one thats free.
Edit2 : DAMNIT AYANEL BEAT ME AT IT >_<
However when they tell you to leave, then they crossed the line of friendly forum behavior.
As for the free game.. what does a FREE game have to do with LORTO? Which.. is NOT free. Same with D&D online, which mimics guild wars with instanced everything. I think D&D would be a great game if it was buy once and pay for upgrades but no monthly fee, but then again, they should have dropped the D&D name as well. At least is not Forgotten Realms or any other popular campeign setting.
But yeah, what does Free have to do with it?
opinionated op, you need to form an opinion first, being opinionated with only 2 posts with no background for us to evaluate your ideals isnt worth anything. remember op opinions are good, opinionated is not.
but.......thanks for your input to the mmo community.
can you smell that?!!...............there is nothing quite like it.....................the smell of troll in the morning............i love that smell.
Nicely said.
Does is it live up to the the books/movies? In my opinion, no.
Could it have been a great deal more considering the concept? Definetly!
Noone can deny that LOTRO will be a huge success for Turbine, nothing speaks against it.
I personally would have liked to see this game to been released many years from now when mmorpgs changed with new, better ideas.
Changed how? You may ask... Well, I don't know but even though the lore, the characters, the settings and the land is all LOTR, I certainly do not feel like a the saviour of middle-earth. Even from the start with literally hundreds of carbon copies of my own character (in class and skills) I don't feel like a potential hero, far from it, I'm just an another hard working Joe who falls in line with the rest of the troops, I'm a mere soldier.
When working on something without specified lore like VG/EQ this works great, nobody says you must be the hero of whatever the land is called. It works in WoW too because it isn't a lore set in stone nor does is require heroes.
But when it comes to something everybody knows so very well you must feel at least somewhat special, and this games fails to do that. I have never heard of another mmorpg that succeeds in this, yet. Therefor I say that this game could have been so much more... But who knows, when they can do this, probably many years from now, they'll make a LOTRO 2.
Edit : Also, show me a game as good as this one thats free.
Edit2 : DAMNIT AYANEL BEAT ME AT IT >_<
However when they tell you to leave, then they crossed the line of friendly forum behavior.
As for the free game.. what does a FREE game have to do with LORTO? Which.. is NOT free. Same with D&D online, which mimics guild wars with instanced everything. I think D&D would be a great game if it was buy once and pay for upgrades but no monthly fee, but then again, they should have dropped the D&D name as well. At least is not Forgotten Realms or any other popular campeign setting.
But yeah, what does Free have to do with it? Where did i say you denied your opinion? >.>
MMORPG.com says its free =P