Lord of the instances - stay clear away of it

Wizziokid

hey guys at least the OP knows when he as lost an argument lol he aint replyed in a while hmmm mmust be thinking of more lies about the game

chaintm

 

While I don't totally agree with all the OP's points, I never said anything about this game till now because the fanbots need a lesson in "knowing their own lies"....

Most of you say a few things constantly....

"Well it's in the game, it's just turned off atm" well news flash, that means it is not in the game

"Well those are minor issue for a game in beta" wasn't this game released retail already?

"Well it gets better the further you go" why does a player need to wait for a later game to enjoy what they consider a game that is suppose to be entertaining?

"Well if you don't like it play something else" just as yourself, go play lotro if it's so great and stop posting here? Both are silly responses adding nothing to a discussion

 

LOTRO I think (an opinion) is a good game, great no, but good. It all again comes to your flavor of what you are looking for in a game. If however one is new and is curious about this title, it is easy to look threw many post here and get a good conclusion of what the game is about. It is simple to play, a challenge for vet mmo players probably isn't there, but if you love the Token world, this is a great place to visit!

When it comes down to preference, many people here say "eh it's all the kids that don't like it, thou there are exceptions"... I am 40 in rl, Love Token lore; don't care for the interpretation depicted in this title. It is decent, but I prefer to go back to daoc or even swg, which I play both currently.

Point to all this? Read what you post and realize all you are doing is double talk, some have real good points and this game, others just spam allot... Like it , love it, hate it or just don't care it's all an opinion and everyone is welcome to their own. If you’re going to make an argument for it back it up with something that makes since. Not the "well" statements above which just show your own ignorance in your posting.

jwshaw88

Hehe Chaintm,  can we just apply your post to every game?  I couldn't agree with you more.

Arskaaa

Huh? did i get right? Tis is DDO clone? instance based mmorpg?! no thanks then.

Maddiee

Originally posted by namelessbob

Originally posted by Maddiee



Firts of all bob, i didnt say i ran anywhere.

Didn't say ya ran any where. You simply said it took an hour. OK, I understand rough estimates, but none the less an hour of running anywhere seems rather large in a game. When your just dealing with an incredibly small portion of the newbie areas it seems like the game is rather expansive. With the game being incredibly expansive in just these areas which are about 1/10th of the total game I gotta say yeah the game is rather large.



That is what I was saying.

LoL BOB I DIDNT say i Ran anywhere or that it took me an hour lol.  Trynreading the posts b4.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mars505

Originally posted by killerwig

Originally posted by Maddiee


 
Try use the mounts maybe more fun than running from 1 zone to another for 1 hour, oh i forgot u like to watch piant dry.
 
Lol thats all i have to say  

/sigh

You can't use mounts to visit many places that you haven't explored yet. There are a couple of exceptions - like The Ettenmoors - but generally, if it's your first time to visit a place, you have to use legwork to get yourself there.

Thanks for your contribution.

you can buy your own mount .



LotRO is an open world game that uses Instances as an Additive. It is not purely instanced like GW or DDO . LotRO has 80% open would content.

shermon15

Lol i think the guy posted on the wrong forum.  DDO forum is that way <----

 

Tjrx80

Originally posted by chaintm


 
While I don't totally agree with all the OP's points, I never said anything about this game till now because the fanbots need a lesson in "knowing their own lies"....
Most of you say a few things constantly....
"Well it's in the game, it's just turned off atm" well news flash, that means it is not in the game
But it means the devs took the time to build it out, set it up and add it to the game.  Thus while it's not in the current start of the game, all it takes is a flipped switch to be there.
"Well those are minor issue for a game in beta" wasn't this game released retail already?
Just released.  And best MMO release in a very very long time.

"Well it gets better the further you go" why does a player need to wait for a later game to enjoy what they consider a game that is suppose to be entertaining?
Because there is supposed to be early level learning curves for players who have never played an MMO before.  You make the start of a game basic in a lot of ways and grow as the game goes.  It's like that in just about every single player game on the market as well, duh.

"Well if you don't like it play something else" just as yourself, go play lotro if it's so great and stop posting here? Both are silly responses adding nothing to a discussion
Because this is the LoTRO forums.....this is where we are supposed to come to talk about the game we play!  Not for Forum Trolls who have no intention of playing it to come to attempt to bash it?

Elikal

Originally posted by Brabus


Gave it another chance and.... it still sucks.  Why? Easy:
Generic quests like "if you cant convince them with quality, baffel them with amount of quests"
No independent exploration, everything is so close and tight together if you explore be sure to be disappointed...all I can say
Leveling way to easy - got to lvl 16 before I got defeated the first time
Zero challenge - No real penalty of being "defeated"
Crafting is a joke and boring, just a money sink, loot is way better.
Still many bugs emotes that dont work, no rain, quest logs that dont get deleted after being completed, hitching when entering towns, etc
Conclusion: Just an exploit of the LOTR license

There is one sucker born every minute - and you are right on time.

 

Really. What can one say? Sure, not everyone likes everything. But dragging it down like that, is clearly undeserved.

Eurogamer, who is known for hard verdicts, praised LOTRO with 9/10, so what do you want?

EVERY MMO has generic quests, so whats new? But Lotro has a lot of good quests. For the first time in ages the quests where interesting enough that I acutally read them.

Is slow levelling an indicator of fun? No, its what you get, not how fast you get it. VG and Linegage II are clear examples that slowness isnt everything. Plus, it really slows down beyond 15. That some powergrinder outgrind the game fast is no point either. Even in Vanguard ppl found a way to outlevel the game in a few weeks, so what does that proof? Nothing.

Challange can be many things, and for once I am glad the penalit is low. Being defeated and dead is humiliating enough to every sensible being, the honorable needs no deeper shame than failiure itself. Everything else is just additional penality for those who feel little.

Crafting is FUN now. Its not the mindnumbing tedious thing as in EQ2 or VG. VG crafting felt like my work. I dont need a second work, thank you very much.

BUGS? YOu DARE to bring in BUGS to LOTRO? WTF? LOTRO is the goddamn smoothest, bugfree launch I have seen. Go back to VG bugfest that gives you your challange. The challenge to fall out of the world or to crash to desktop every 30 minutes, hahaha! Ya, thats sure a challange of patience, I give you that.

Really, Lotro is a really good game. Just try to enjoy a game which is geniune fun and not tedium which makes my teeth grinding in sleep, like Vanguard did. Go back there and leave us enjoying our world. LOTRO will SO eat up crap like VG, with all its "challenge" crap. Bah. Go away and pester someone else.

ThalosVipav

Lord of the Repetitive un-Originality.

airhead

Originally posted by Brabus



...Still many bugs emotes that dont work...

Emotes are unlocked thru other things. For example, when you have had 100 people CHEER at you, then you get to perform the /herosolute emote etc. There was a page somewhere on lotro that described all this. So this one isn't a bug or unfinished part.

elvenangel

Originally posted by Praxus

Hmm now I'm confused. Bored of the Rings had such a good ring to it...but Lord of the Instances is pretty good as well.



I do think instances is a big reason I could hardly make myself log in during beta. Instances really defeat the whole multiplayer, virtual world aspect of these games.  But they work for some people so hey...that's the beauty of having choices.

You've obviously never played older MMOs where there were no instances for anything (at first) and it was complete hell to travel into dungeons and there be hundreds of people sitting around fighting and camping over the same mob or worse your group fights through a less player populated dungeon to get to a rare epic spawn that only spawns once every few weeks or less only to get to the end and a group that was tailing you rushes ahead of you. 

In most adventure stories, pen and paper RPGs and the like adventurers are not in massive numbers.   Instances saved MMO games, it gives you that exploration feel of a real adventure who goes to remote places which is the point to most areas that are instanced in any game.    

Unless I missed something there's not an overwhelming or even massive amount of instances in Lord of the Rings Online.  Infact some of the instanced areas you can go to the area uninstanced, you only go to the instance for quest events with your group.

The to the troll of an OP ...  Rain and missing emotes are hardly bugs.   There's no rain well the world must be coming to an end!   Alot of games dont' have weather implemented at launch (cough wow) and no one complains.  Honestly I'd rather have rained turned OFF if it lags game play.    

Oh the evil perils of lag in a town.  Yea thats kind of common in every game. 

Ooh my quest log isn't functioning correctly?!  As long as its not hurting your char from finishing does it really matter enough to whine?  

Look you didn't like the game atleast have honest well thought reasons for bothering to waste our time.  

Antioche

this is why full on pvp should be allowed in games. so when that group that's tailing you tries to rush in and take your mob you can just kill them. Or better yet, let them kill the rare beast, then kill them while they're weak and take the treasure. that's the best kind of entertainment. it's dynamic, and exciting.

elvenangel

Originally posted by Antioche

this is why full on pvp should be allowed in games. so when that group that's tailing you tries to rush in and take your mob you can just kill them. Or better yet, let them kill the rare beast, then kill them while they're weak and take the treasure. that's the best kind of entertainment. it's dynamic, and exciting.

Yea I really hated full on PVP in Ultima Online so I'd hardly promote causing further animosity and anger amongst players as a remedy for mob stealing, especially since only the group that killed the mob can loot it.    BTW isn't this completely off topic?

rznkain

Originally posted by ThalosVipav

Lord of the Repetitive un-Originality.

Says the guy playing the crappy version of EQ1 with prettier grapics,Maybe we should change vanguard name to something to fit how repetitive and un orginal it is.Better yet you should have saved a few grand on computer upgrades to run that piece of crap and just bought eq1 for 9 bucks and played on one of the progression servers least you would have had a more stable game.

Flyte27

Instances are a mixed bag.  They do some good things and some bad things.  Generally instances makie going through them multiple times a chore and not worth doing more then a few times.  On the flip side you can meet a lot of people in dungeons waiting for a mob to camp and camping a mob becomes a reason to hang around a dungeon for a while.  Some people don't like waiting though and instances provides a full area of mobs untoched to people who want that.  really it's personal preference.  Right now Vanguard isn't doing so well and it has no instances.  I like the game more then LOTRO myself, but it's not something that has mass appeal. 

Quingu

Originally posted by Brabus


Gave it another chance and.... it still sucks.  Why? Easy:
Generic quests like "if you cant convince them with quality, baffel them with amount of quests"
No independent exploration, everything is so close and tight together if you explore be sure to be disappointed...all I can say
Leveling way to easy - got to lvl 16 before I got defeated the first time
Zero challenge - No real penalty of being "defeated"
Crafting is a joke and boring, just a money sink, loot is way better.
Still many bugs emotes that dont work, no rain, quest logs that dont get deleted after being completed, hitching when entering towns, etc
Conclusion: Just an exploit of the LOTR license

guys check OP post history all he does is bash lotro and tell how amazing vanguard is.



Vanboi alert, plese go back to vanguard forums.

cupertino

The OP has been negative about LOTRO since day 1 and he plays VG:SoH.. thats all I need to know not to take any notice of his troll post.

RedwoodSap

Originally posted by Brabus


Gave it another chance and.... it still sucks.  Why? Easy:
Generic quests like "if you cant convince them with quality, baffel them with amount of quests"
No independent exploration, everything is so close and tight together if you explore be sure to be disappointed...all I can say
Leveling way to easy - got to lvl 16 before I got defeated the first time
Zero challenge - No real penalty of being "defeated"
Crafting is a joke and boring, just a money sink, loot is way better.
Still many bugs emotes that dont work, no rain, quest logs that dont get deleted after being completed, hitching when entering towns, etc
Conclusion: Just an exploit of the LOTR license

/agree

Cerion

Oh LOOK everyone! It's Brabus!!!  In case you missed his other unbiased threads, check 'em out here, posted for your convenience:

Too, linear. Lack of variety...

Declining playerbase in beta?

LOTRO very disappointed so far

  But hey, he gave it another shot! The old college try without any preconcieve hate nor chip on his shoulder. My god, how I admire this grown man for his vindictiveness and petty grudge. I hope I can be like him someday, rather than be, say a successful businessman or President of the US.

 

 

Unknown

Originally posted by cupertino

The OP has been negative about LOTRO since day 1 and he plays VG:SoH.. thats all I need to know not to take any notice of his troll post.

yeah, this is the same guy that is in total denial about the crash and burn train wreck that VG is turning out to be.

ghoul31

Originally posted by RedwoodSap

Originally posted by Brabus


Gave it another chance and.... it still sucks.  Why? Easy:
Generic quests like "if you cant convince them with quality, baffel them with amount of quests"
No independent exploration, everything is so close and tight together if you explore be sure to be disappointed...all I can say
Leveling way to easy - got to lvl 16 before I got defeated the first time
Zero challenge - No real penalty of being "defeated"
Crafting is a joke and boring, just a money sink, loot is way better.
Still many bugs emotes that dont work, no rain, quest logs that dont get deleted after being completed, hitching when entering towns, etc
Conclusion: Just an exploit of the LOTR license

/agree

/agree also. Very boring game

 

Meridion

Its a PvE game for gods sake. If you don't like PvE, then why on earth do you bother to play such a game? Sure, it has quests, the quests are fun and almost all of them have logical backround. If you don't like questing - what you apparently do - why play a PvE game. Soooo, theres no exploration - wrong, there IS exploration, its just not the large generic world map generator type exploration. I've played DnL, I've tested Vanguard, I've even rolled with Daggerfall back in the 90s. I KNOW what large worlds offer, and what they don't... Hell, generic large explorable world was NEVER announced; Why dyou expect it? And finally, bashing the performance of the game is just poor... its has the best performance/spec ratio of all games that I know, and that is quite a lot...

Oh yes, so you got to level 16 and wow, you didn't get killed. Know what, I leveled my Rogue in WoW till 34 until I got killed for the first time. If you find it too easy, choose areas with mobs 3-5 level higher than you and have fun. Either that, or level up, it gets a lot more challenging at higher levels.



In general, dude, stop expecting things that were never planned or announced for LotRO. This game is a casual friendly, RP friendly, quest friendly MMORPG. It's a game for people who wanna flow with middle-earth, there are plenty of fast paced, achiever or PvP games out there, why on earth d'you even bother buying or playing LotRO...



Meridion