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Anyone wanna try to sell me on this game?
Big_Scooter
Member Posts: 14
I have heard a lot of flaming, and a lot of fanboygasms, but what I have yet to hear are coherent points about what makes this game better than World of Warcraft or any other MMOs on the market or soon on the way. I am a huge LotR fanboy, and I would love it if it were worth playing. Anyone able to coherently tell me what makes this game worth playing? Like, without Leet-speak or overwhelming fanboyness?
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If you're a LOTR fanboy, you should play it for the lore alone. It looks gorgeous and theres plenty of stories to read. I just started a week ago, so I can't really tell you about mid- to endgame, but from what I've seen, done and heard so far, I like it very much.
My 2 cents.
It is a great game...strange that I'd say that huh?
It just appeals to a different crowd. I played WoW and am burnt out of that "type" of game. This leaves out EQ2 (also great game, better than wow in my opinion), and LoTRO.
At the end of the day, the game is just good, not exciting. It never really brought out any emotions in me except my first time in the PvM portion....however, after a week of that it gets old.
So many standard quests to do, between fedex, kill X, return X...it just wears on you. The combat is pretty slow and boring...
Crafting would be great, except there is no real point to it, as you'll eventually be bored enough to run through some quests to get the gear you want.
If you haven't played WoW, or aren't burnt out on it, I'd recommend trying it. Hell, for $50 you can get a free month of time, and that is a better deal than most console games. Console games you figure you spend $60 for less than a 6 hour experience (Gears of War), 10 hours with multiplayer.
I just personally do not feel the game is very exciting.
Well, basically there is nothing out there right now worth playing. You have WoW, EQ2, and LOTRO. Now I played WoW until the new expansion came out, and quit. I played LOTRO and to tell you the truth, I got rather bored with it. It goes like this...
1. Enter the city.
2. Collect all side quests and main quest from city NPC's.
3. Do side quests (These are mostly travel and kill quests that you can solo. Kill 5 rats, etc.)
4. Find a fellowship, do main quest(which is instanced). Fight boss.
5. Watch the little movie and get directed to next town.
6. Rinse and repeat.
**You can craft, which isn't really fun. Or you can get to level 10 and play a pre-made monster that is level 50 to try Monster PVP where bascially you do quests to upgrade your level 50 monsters skills. I lost interest in this quickly...uninstalled the game....playing EQ2 until Age of Conan and Warhammer come.
But this is my view on it. You may love it. It's just too carebear for me.
The games I'm keeping an eye on:
Pirates of the Burning Sea, Age of Conan, Warhammer Online, and Tabula Rasa...
with all the set backs, it looks like it may be 8 months before we can even play *1* of them.
I'd say try to get a trial key...
If you like it after then, then good on ya...if it gets old in 6 months, you'll only have 2 more months to wait for something else.
If you don't then....ummm...
time to polish off some old FPS/RTS
The game is worth playing for me because I find it fun. The instanced quests are new to MMO's as is the ability to play lute or clarinet ingame. Voice support ingame is a nice touch. It's very well done. Graphics scale well on older machines, bugfree. Lots to explore, very dense areas. New content will be released on a regular basis, the general outline of the June update has been released. Everything and more that was promised is in the game. Servers are very solidly full, but not much overcrowding.
Biggest negative for me is that the economy still needs fine tuning.
Mild death penalty, solo-able or groupable, stuff for families with young kids... I hoped they wouldn't mess up the lore, but they did far better than that; very faithful, with the right "feel".
On the whole, though, what you're asking for won't tell you if the game is fun. It has pretty standard modern MMO features... As all cars have wheels, and they're all round too.
PS. It turns out I had read all the posts.
Peacemonk ~MIB~
Keeper of the Keys
Protector of the Cellar
Defender of the Wine
Papers: AH, MPBT, UO, DAoC, AC, SB, SWG, WOW
Current: LOTR:O
I miss DAoC
If you are allready bored to death from WoW and other old games. There is apsolutely no big MMO coming out until 1q 2008 (or later)
So LOTRO is only resonable choice right now
"Before this battle is over all the world will know that few...stood against many." - King Leonidas
and this game isn't worth the 15$ a month.. in my opinion though..
Me personally i love it i played WOW till endgame and had fun just like i am in LOTRO.