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Roortagh
Member Posts: 7
Hello all,
This is my first post on the forums and i feel compeled to write in hope i might feel better and get back into the mmorpg scene. I put this in LoTRo b/c i am currently playing it and I personally cannot get into it (this is not to say it s a bad game, I just dont think its for me)...LoTRo is very boring, I was hoping b/c I have read the books and loved them as a child and an adult that this would be enough for me to love this game ( i was excited to be in Middle Earth! how cool!), bur so far I find myself shutting the game off early and watch tv or doing other things i do. If I knew the what i know now i would have never started LoTRo...(To anyone that loves the game I mean no offense..this is just my personal opinion, and just an fyi, I prolly still screw around on LoTRo b/c i spent the money, so maybe this opinion will change).
I dont think its LoTRo fault though, its has great graphics, awesome story and more history than any other game out there (I mean literal history not gaming history) but i feel it is just another repeat of the same thing...I have played eq1, eq2, AO, SWG, CoH, WoW, and now LoTRo...They are mostly the same, some one else's spin on the same game. I am upset with solo play atm awell, I group but i like to solo too (solo 90% in early levels), why are solo players punished?? Why cant solo players get good gear?? Why MUST we group?? (I understand but dont understand if tat makes sense). One feature I found stellar in SWG was boutny hunter terminals.. Class specific soloable quest for good money and items..Why not the same for assassins or rangers......bah....I was going to type alot more but it makes no difference...Let me say I would like some sort of change, eq1 used to get my heart racing and nothing has really compared since (maybe eq2)...I am really looking forward to AoC and tabula rasa with the hopes of somthing different...
Thank you for listening to a poorly written wrant...be safe and have fun...
BTW...does anyone recomend any current games to try...??
Roortagh
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Ranger class would have been cool for just "humans", pretty sure everybody would have went them
Ack, you're bored... it happens in this game, i love the graphics - i spent 3-4 hours exploring the shire on my first day playing.
Some of the quests suck, but they're well written. The night-day cycle is annoying but you get used to it, especially when it's day - rains then it feels like night. Or you enter an area at night and the music changes and you can't see a damn thing unless you hit "alt+F10".
But i mainly got bored after looking at the deeds, in order to get the traits i want.. i really have to kill 300 orcs/goblins etc a day and do quests.
nahh... i cancelled my sub, which is a shame because i got a nice trinket (+1 hope) from the amount of downtime europeans have recieved.
Some parts are unfinished, mining constanty isn't fun, you mine one ore... it disappears.. and getting "1" piece everytime.. just.. nahhh...
nice ideas, beautiful looking game, wonderful lore.... but... no gameplay fun, nothing to keep me hooked. Unless you find a decent Kinship :S
go back to the MMO you love best, or try on of the many trials that are around now. personally all my subs run out in July, i may switch until a few new MMOs are released or i get into one of the beta's
It is not LOTRO fault
It is the state of current MMOs
LOTRO is just a MMO that didnt take no chances. They did everything same like other games, and they did it better. Now that would make a great game, and it does.
But we are sick of current MMOs - that is the problem
To tell you the truth. I dont think WAR or even AOC will break the mold either. Andy only really diferent game -EVE i is tad bit to hardcore.
Will the future bring any changes. Or at least bring back Ultima Online style of gaming, i dont know. But i certanly hope so.
Until than ....I will play LOTRO. At least it is better than other boring MMOs
I am going to have to agree, its not the game- its the formula.
mmmm yeeeah, thats greeat, a little to the left would be greeeat, ::sips coffee mug:::
I found myself in the same boat as you Roortagh, and have a similar gaming background. LotRO isn't a bad game....but I burned out quickly and felt that after only 2 months of play, I knew everything I'd ever need to know about the game...and all that was left was to execute the deeds/quests.
So at the end of May, I took the plunge and gave EVE a trail. Its been a month now and I'm enjoying the game more and more. Yes, it requires tons of reading/studying to even half understand the game, and I can honestly say in 6 months there will still be much I do not know. BTW, EVE is a mostly solo game in the early going, but there never is a real requirement to group..... you could solo forever and get the best gear still.... (OK, you probably won't fly a Titan, but hey, only a handful of players every will)
I decided to take a break from fantasy MMO's for a while, think I'll hold off until WAR comes out before returning to them.
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This is an interesting thread. I think the OP and others make an excellent point: LOTRO is a great game. Not only does it do the fantasy MMO better than most, it also has combined together all the best parts of the past MMO's into one game. I am still enjoying it, but after a month I can see the burnout happening. Same formula regurgitated. It simply doesn't bring anything new to the table to "seasoned" MMO players. To people new to MMO gaming tho, it will be absolutely exciting. Remember we are old farts in the gaming world, alot of newcomers to gaming have yet a ways to go to catch up to our experience.
I am thinking of firing up my EVE Online account as well. Altho Im not a big PVP fan, I think EVE is really the only MMO that is doing things differently at this point. And I, like many others, are tired of fantasy games.
Current Games: WOW, EVE Online
^^ sig is awesome, you've watched too much "office space"
and Kyleran is indeed right, tried the new Eve trial myself (with the new tutorial) and it's starting to sink me in, in a good way
Well , as i said ... i will stick with LOTRO for the time being. There is really nothing else out there except for EVE.
But EVE is just to hardcore , it goes to the other side and than tumbles and falls over the cliff
Why could there be no nice sandbox complex games like EVE, but more oriented on social interaction , rather than social anhiliation ?
5 or 6 years ago LOTRO would have been a great game. 3 years ago it would have been a good game. But today it is just a "not bad" formula game. But that is not all of the LOTRO problem.
LOTRO - or any game - based on a license such as LOTR, SWG - and probably AoC, will have restrictions on what can or cannot be in the game. In LOTRO's case it is especially bad because the license will not even allow PvP, playing as an evil race, and many other things. That limits where LOTRO can go and what it can do from here - any expansion I fear will just be more of the same with different scenery.
LOTRO "played it safe" and I think aimed too much at the very casual player. Nothing wrong with having lots of casual content, but that is pretty much ALL it has.
The hard-core player will not like LOTRO.
If you play 6+ hours a day, every day, you will reach max level and burn out quick.
It's appeal is more for the casual player. I have played it since Alpha2 and love it.
I am mostly solo (90%) and only group to (a) complete the epic quests and (b) help out friends that need a hand with a particularly tough quest.
However, the RP (Role Play) value is immense. If all you do is grind, and run the common quests in the city, you miss out on a lot. I explore, especially areas that do not have roads going through them, have quest npc's and locations in them, and are "off the beaten path". What I find is obscure quests with great lore, locations that take your breath away with their beauty (waterfalls, lakes, ruins), and just oddball NPCs along the line of which you find in the Tolkien books.
The crafting system is interesting and challenging without being too tedious. The deeds will fly by, especially if you take time to explore. You can play music in the game. There is a group of us RP'ers that meet at the Party Tree in The Shire every week to smoke pipeweed, play music, and tell bard-like tales of in game adventures and mishaps we have experienced.
And for those that like to PvP, it has MvP. Once you hit level 15, you can create a "monster" character, and take on player characters that dare to enter into the MvP zone. Even raising your ranking as you kill more and more players.
It's not for everyone, but it has a lot more to it than most games out there right now.
Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.
J. R. R. Tolkien
Agree - a good game for the super-casual player, but not for anyone looking for a long term game.
I played LotRO during the early days of closed beta testing and I agree with some other comments here - LotRO was not (is not) innovative enough for my tastes. I wanted to like it - I wouldn't be here otherwise - but like many others I'm tired of the same old gameplay. Killing creatures over and over again just isn't my thing. After they removed the innovative parts of the game - the 'world changing based on your progress' stuff - and after I found that there was no musical content and they didn't plan on adding any, I lost pretty much all interest and quit the beta test.
However the minstrel does interest me - apparently they changed their mind on the musical content and put in the ability to play instruments after I got bored with the beta, so I may buy the game on the strength of that - I've always wanted to play music in a tavern - in fact I play a musician in Star Wars: Galaxies and it's a lot of fun. But killing and more killing - no thanks. It's boring.
I did play EVE for a couple of months, but I just cannot stand the idea of losing all I have achieved in 5 seconds due to some immature ganker. I'm too old and have way too little time to play MMOG's - so LOTRO was intended for me.
Guys, if you also had 2-10 hours per WEEK to play like myself, you would not get bored with any game for months, trust me. My main toon is 35 now
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