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Lotro vs Age of Conan - Help me decide!
Simsejensen
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Ive quitted WoW for good, and im looking for a new game.
Ive tried both, and actually got an active subsciption in both games, with all the expansions etc activated. But i sooo cannot decide which one to stick to.
AoC = Sweet graphics, nice stories, interesting classes, pvp etc
Lotro = Sweet graphics, abit better stories and feel to it (im very into the whole Lotro world with movies etc), interesting classes, but how is endgame?, i like the idea with housing, no pvp really though ? 
Im asking because i dont got extensive knowledge of both games, therefore id like to hear some more opinions.
Thanks in advance!
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Playing: Rift, LotRO
Waiting on: GW2, BP
About the housing in LotRO there have this stupid system called hooks. You cannot place anything as you like. They go into a specific spot on the floor ,ceiling,wall or yard and you can only rotate it. Some items only one item can go into that place. They do not give you the freedom to decorate like EQ 2 or Vanguard do but they have items for the yard so your garden can have items in it. That was the only part I liked but as far freedom to design a space that does not exist in LotRO. In my opinion it is not a reason to consider the game.
Quests though are good. I enjoyed the LotRO quests but I also liked Age of Conan too. What I love in AoC is the combat.
If you have to have PvP AoC is definitely what you want. Granted it's PvP IMO is not that much better than LotRO's. What could have been a great pvp game has clearly been turned into a full on PvE fest with AoC (just my opinion).
Personally, I prefer LotRO like Rockgod. I agree with all his previous statements and also feel like it's worth pointing out that you can access pretty much everything except LotRO's version of PvP totally free. At this point I have 1 lvl 22 character and have already been able to buy the riding skill and the Lone Lands, North Downs, and Evendim quest packs without spending a dime. This should get me all the way to 40+ without spending anything and continuing to unlock more areas along the way.
In addition to your two ideas I also felt it was worth mentioning Warhammer. If you want fun pvp that's easy to get in and out of and you don't need to spend 3-6months getting your character ready for this is the game for you. Don't listen to everyone that says the game is empty, in my experience things are always bustling and with new content on the horizon there will be even more people on the way. However, you are going to find the PvE content here rather lackluster since that is not the focus.
Steam: Neph
Playing: Rift, LotRO
Waiting on: GW2, BP
I have not tried AoC but i am an avid LotRo fan, having read the J.R.R. Tolkien books I can relate to the storyline and play along with it. Housing could be better but other than that it's still one of the best games going right now, and since they have introduced the Free to Play it's bringing in even more players. I started during beta and have been there ever since. I run a small kinship on the Windfola server, The community of LotRo is by far the best i've seen where people will take their time to answer your questions, make you an item or help you complete a quest if you ask nicely and dont yell. You'll find most of us veteran players stay in RP mode and always willing to help new players.
This guy only has one post so he made an account just to answer YOUR question. I bet that makes you feel so special. However, in all serious, I just playing LOTRO and it feels really nice. In order to truly enjoy it, you have to immerse yourself into the world. Reading the quest lines and paying attention to the story is key.
Haven't played AoC in a long time now, and am currently playing LOTRO. I enjoy both games.
Community being one of the big reasons I'm enjoying LOTRO over my past experience with AoC. I'm on one of the new servers and its jam packed full of players from all level ranges. Especially now with the Fall Festival going on.
AoC has a nice dark atmosphere which I really enjoyed, and I never have had more fun PvPing (something I don't do to often in most mmos). AoC also very pretty to look at if you have a good system. I'm to young in LOTRO to start Ettenmoors PvMP.
The community in AoC was small at the time, but pleasant to be around for the most part.
I enjoyed both combat systems so two thumbs up there.
Both have great stories if you bother to follow them.
i subscribe to both games..although i do not have to pay lotro being a life member..2 different games altogether.content wise i would go for conan..end game stuff is slightly missing atm from lotro although the storyline is engrossing.i have done raids in conan and they are not easy in pug 's.conan has masses of end game stuff to do which imo is what u are after,,the challenge.lotro is an amazing game especially grp play is really fun, but once you get to lvl 65 in lotro thats where the problem begins..one lvl 65 dungeon, 1 lvl 65 raid dungeon.thats not to say they are bad.also u have lvl scaled skirmishes which u can turn into raids,or do them 6 man ,3 man,duo,solo.so there is stuff to do..it just does not seem as much.
My advice is do trials on both..they are available..see which one gives u what you want in a game and go with that m8..good luck in whatever you choose.
AoC is a better game in the end in my opinion. It has nicer and more realistic graphics, with more varied architecture (vikings, egyptian, asian, and roman). AoC classes and combat is brilliant. In Lotro you often have to wait for animation to finish before even moving, there's global cooldown for every skill and every fight takes long, it's kinda dull - especially with the mob placement, and the way the instanced locations and skirmishes are scripted - it keeps throwing waves of mobs at you, and I really sometimes just did alt-f4 in the middle of an on-going solo skirmish from the extreme boredom - due to the combat pace. AoC combat has unique system with the arrows and combos. It's very fluid and responsive and with fatalities, it feels good to kill things. AoC and Lotro in this department are two different worlds.
Lotro also lacks end-game content, while there's more quests during the leveling process, there's less dungeons than in AoC, and there's also less end-game. Additionally, Lotro is too much focusing nowadays on the skirmishes, which most of the players I know and most of my kinnies I play with, find extremly dull. So eventho I play both atm (with Fallen Earth as well), I'd easily recommened Age of Conan, which I think is far superior.
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Pretty much everything Thillian said.
My vote is for AoC. LotR juts didn't do it at all for me. AoC has kept me interested for a long time and the game continues to get better.
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if you looked at my join date (Joined: 11/05/08) you'll notice i've been here 23 months longer than you have but i you're right about just the one post here, i have been elsewhere doing my posting including the official LotRo forums but i'll start posting here as well.
My vote is for AoC as well. For me personally, I found LotRO exceptionally boring in comparison.
Buy the Godslayer expac, which includes the original AoC also for $20. Also start an account with LOTRO F2P and play for free. You should be able to make your decision within that 30 free days on AoC about which game you like better, and go from there!
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But...you don't deny that you made that account two years ago just to post a response today? If so, please PM me my lotto numbers.
Granted I only demo's LOTRO myself, but I had a gf that played it all the time. I just found the combat too slow. It looked as slow paced at high levels as low levels. I also like the darker gritty lore of AoC better. Stuff in LOTRO didn't look as creepy as I imagined it when reading the books. Eh just a few random 2 cents.
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Are people seriously championing AoC's endgame content? T1 is seriously walk in a room and the boss is standing right there waiting for you. Spend 5-10 min tops, boss is down, yay loot! Tiers 2 and 3 are no better. I haven't even done LotRO's endgame so I am not saying it's better I am just saying that AoC's endgame content is weaksauce boss in a box and faction grind.
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Anyone who know's my post history know's there is no love lost with me and Funcom but i have to agree with Rockgod99, if pvp is a strong motivation you are going to be better off going with AOC. Again have to agree that any shared experience between the two LOTRO probably tops AOC with the exception of pvp which imo is so bad in LOTRO there is no point in anyone who feels compelled to pvp to play it exclusively.
but yeah, to call this game Fantastic is like calling Twilight the Godfather of vampire movies....
I agree, even thought you're exaggarating a lot. It's not that easy - especially the khitai HM dungeons. But anyway, all I said was that there's less endgame in Lotro than in AoC. And that's true.
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While AOC is a cool game and there is a lot to be said for it's content, I wouldn't say it's "story" is much to write home about. LotrO has deeper lore and the graphics are different but equally "WoW" inducing most of the time. The background terrain in LotrO is even arguably the best in the industry. I would say from my own personal opinion that I enjoyed LotrO much more than AOC with the downside of there being very little people to play with at the time. Now that they made the game FTP that may have changed all that and the interaction necessary to complete some of the games designed events should be a lot more fun. Neither one is a bad game but I have to give the edge to LotrO for a more efficient graphics engine and general charm.
Later levels in AOC degenerate mostly into running the same instances over and over with guildmates trying to get matching armor to a set. While some people find this "endgame" to be "fun", I do not. Even before you reach this point you will get tired of running missions that don't give much reward or incentive to finish questlines. Also the armor design and general look of the game doesn't rise above decent most of the time and in places where it does your framerate takes a definite smashing. So for me personally the highly detailed meshes and textures are a fantastic selling point of the engine but in practice I think they could have been a little more inventive with the landmarks and quest areas.
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Lol yeah I am definitely exaggerating, but that's what my opinion amounts to as far as AoC endgame content goes. I have no knowledge of LotRO's endgame content so it could certainly amount to less in quantity than AoC's. My point was just that the AoC endgame content IMO is not very good. Sorry if I came across as rude, it was not my intention. Also my post was not specifically targetted at you Rockgod as there were several others that stated the same no offense intended to any of them.
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This is wrong on so many levels. Hyboria and Conan lore is in fact older, and much more rich than Middle Earth. There's thousands of books written for Hyboria by many authors, and there's extrensive amount of lore in Hyboria and in Age of Conan. In fact, every quest in AoC is written as a dialogue - instead of the good old - or better to say old text-box as it is in Lotro. Additionally, AoC quests have twists -> you can lose or gain by saying different things during the dialogue, it might lead to reputation loss, or even to a different quest in the end. All supported by the rich Hyborian lore. Can't say a bad word about it.
Stories on the other hand, I found in both to be the same. Pretty much as in every other game. Lotro also have tons of those -- collect 15 spider leg because spiders are threatening our camp, and then run back to kill their queen -- quests and again, all given by a simple text box. AoC at least always have the dialogue system.
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I can't say I agree. Though the quests themselves are given via dialogue, the actual quests themselves are quite varied, and usually interactive in some way. I also enjoy the Middle Earth lore more - Hyboria is a bit testosterone heavy for my tastes.