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Betaguy
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Hi folks,
It has been a long journey to find an mmo that keeps my attention as of late. I felt the need to come here and thank this community and turbine for the wonderful job they have done creating this game.
The girlfriend and I downloaded the 14 day trial, as I was scared to buy two copies as I beta'd this game last year and it was horrible. Now I installed the high definition version using DX10 on a 64 bit OS and all I can say is wholey fracking crap. This games graphics and gameplay is amazing.
This game has come completely 180 from its launch and the features they added are enough to keep the girlfriend and I happy. So today im going to pickup two copies of the game, my EB Games actually still has a collector's edition on the shelf, im in a small community, thank the lord.
Anyways we hit lvl 8 lastnight and loved every moment, im a great judge of videogames as that is what I do for a living. The best part is we are in no way LOTRO fans, of course we saw the movies, but we never read tolkien's books or learned his lore. This game is great, it is a shame, if more people tried it im sure they would be hooked. I doubted it from my first impressions a year ago but now have changed my mind.
Keep on keeping on!
The only two things I find bad is the text used in speech dialogue and on npc and players names, itf you could make that smaller with shadows it would look 1000% better and the game would be complete. The jumping animation should be fixed and look more fluid.
"The King and the Pawn return to the same box at the end of the game"
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Good glad you have found a game that you like. I also have a trial account with a level 9 Captain and 4 Loremaster (made the loremaster to become a Woodworker so i only need myself for my armourcrafting captain). This game is pretty cool and i love the story (its lotr who doesn't?!). Probaly will buy this game i sadly don't have DX10 instead i can run it on ultra with no anti anaysing so i perfer High Detail with X4 anti. What i can say is the water looks fecking lovely and i saw a friends account when he was in the old forest and the leaves in the water look nearly real ok this game isn't crysis but that as an MMO would explode my computer probaly quite litrally.
Welcome! Glad you like it. Lok in the UI settings to make the names smaller. That might help a bit.
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Brandywine Global LFF chan "/joinchannel glff"
The wife and i was in beta as well. We didn t get all excited about it. Recently we ve gone through the "No MMO out there" phase. We thought ah what the hell, $9.99 to d/l it, and we love it. We re looking for something to keep us going till WAR is out(in beta and love it) Now we ve decided to play both lol. We even took advantage of the Lifetime sub so we can play both and only worry about 1 sub. It truly is a much better game and can t stress enough how much fun it can be if this is your type of game.
"Freedom is just another name for nothing left to lose" - Janis Joplin
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Ok i'm tired of all the lotro fanbois posting about how good lotro looks with dx10.
I play lotro and wont be able to get a decent comp until october, so please think about us poor gamers that must play lotro on medium graphics. Its really starting to be painful to see all these amazaing screenshots of lotro set on max. I dont feel like selling a kidney right now in order to buy a decent comp, so I need to wait till the end of my internship.
Btw welcome to lotro hope you'll enjoy it as much as i do.
I'm not a no life that sits in front of his computer all day long, I'm an intern that sits in front of his computer all day long.
I don't see where you think the game did a complete 180, I was in beta and I even played over the summer last year... the game is hardly different. If anything they should have adjusted their quests in the leveling grind as there isn't enough solo quests for the solo player. No offense, but I don't know how you can claim you are a great judge of games when you believe LOTRO has changed drastically, when it hasn't.
This game is far from great:
- No real pvp
- grouping content out weights the solo content, which is bad when you are trying to level. You might very well find yourself grinding deeds because you ran out of solo quests and can't find people to do a quest. Granted this might be a bit easier with another person, but based on my experience... it won't be much better.
- Crafting.... it's terrible. First, it's expensive. Second, you have to level up each rank twice. Third, it requires critting for rare stuff, which you can only get a max of 35% on.
The game is decent for a while, but overall I find it dull because it's very hard to do instances and group quests. People just don't group. I'm just hoping it can hold me til WAR, I stupidly bought the 3 months 'deal' hoping it would, but currently it looks unlikely that it will.
^ Sir it seems like lotro is not for you.
Firstlty how can you play 46 hours in a week if you dont like the game, your pov is totally biased, if you do something you dont like for a long time sure you'll think its horrible.
I dont understand why ppl say that lotro is bad because it doesnt have real pvp, its NOT A PVP GAME. You dont whine because you pizza doesnt have ice cream in it do you?
For the solo issue I dotn really see the problem, always thought that mmos were about playing with other people and single player games were meant to be played alone. And if you cant find grps to do quest change server and join a good kin.
Concerning crafting I think it's a pretty decent system, the crit is meant so that some items are actually rare and the double level is meant so that you can craft decent armor pretty fast but it take longer to craft rare armor even for low levels.
I'm not a no life that sits in front of his computer all day long, I'm an intern that sits in front of his computer all day long.
IMO the solo content outweighs the grouping content. With the addition of Evendim, Tal Bruinen, north/south high pass, and Forochel it's fairly easy to solo to lvl 50 if you want. To me that would be somewhat boring, but it can be done.
I've played since beta and I don't see it being fundamentally different. They've fixed some things, but none of them were huge glaring holes or game breaking. They have added a ton of free stuff since launch tho.
I think your new found love comes from the fact that you're probably running it with everything maxed in DX10.
That makes a huge difference. I couldn't play this game in low-middle settings. Utterly terrible looking 
compared to what I play it in now (DX10, every setting maxxed).
Regardless, welcome back!
Glad you like it , have fun
I endorse this message. Went back and tried it again, and i'm hooked. I am ridiculously impressed and my situation can be compared almost exactly to sinjin's except that my wife doesn't play games... She just yells at me when I do, and she hates LOTRO right now which means it must be a pretty damn good game.
1. Because I just bought the 3 months 2 weeks ago, I didn't say I don't 'like' the game. I'm not throwing money down the toilet, that would be stupid. I actually enjoyed the game until the last few days, now it's becoming very tedious, again.
2. Again, didn't say it was bad. Said it wasn't great. Which, it isn't great. Great MMOs cater to multiple playstyles. LOTRO doesn't do that.
3. I play on Brandywine, the most populated server. It's a fundamental flaw in the game. It's not that I want to play alone, it's that I have no choice because people just don't group. There is a difference.
4. The crafting system is bad, I don't know how anyone could say otherwise.
Everything that I have seen up to this point in the game (level 32) I'm running out of solo content left and right. Finding groups to complete group quests is incredibly hard. To date the way I finish most of the group quests is by getting help from a 50 in my Kin.
I'm just saying grouping shouldn't be forced upon people inorder to do quests, there should be enough solo content for people to do if they can't find a group, which up to this point there really isn't.
mmm pizza with ice cream. now i'm hungry.
could we please get correspondent writers and moderators, on the eve forum at mmorpg.com, who are well-versed on eve-online and aren't just passersby pushing buttons? pretty please?
i guess that would be good if everyone had the same game play schedule as everyone else at a given level?
but anyways, no, they're not. massively multiplayer online games. i've never taken that to mean that it's forced cooperative play. maybe you just want to chat to folks with a common interest (the game you're playing) while you play?
for a casual player, a game that is very solo friendly is a must.
could we please get correspondent writers and moderators, on the eve forum at mmorpg.com, who are well-versed on eve-online and aren't just passersby pushing buttons? pretty please?
I'm just saying grouping shouldn't be forced upon people inorder to do quests, there should be enough solo content for people to do if they can't find a group, which up to this point there really isn't.
No grouping shouldnt be forced... and it isnt in LotrO... there is more than enough solo quest in this game I can assure you! Have you done all the quest in ND, Evendim and Trollshaws (think that zone starts at 33) ?
But grouping is more fun and I too wish it was easier to find groups at times.. (or that people would start using the LFF tool...) But the reason people dont group is because its easier to solo and there is too many solo quests
If WoW = The Beatles
and WAR = Led Zeppelin
Then LotrO = Pink Floyd
4. The crafting system is bad, I don't know how anyone could say otherwise.
Then listen well:
The crafting system is perfectly fine.
That was easy
Truth is, as all aspects of any game, crafting is subjective. One may like it, others don't. It is not "universally" good or bad. That's what subjectivism is all about!
DB
Denial makes one look a lot dumber than he/she actually is.
"Everything that I have seen up to this point in the game (level 32) I'm running out of solo content left and right. Finding groups to complete group quests is incredibly hard. To date the way I finish most of the group quests is by getting help from a 50 in my Kin."
I did find finding groups difficult sometimes also on Brandywine but I thought there were enough solo quests but will admit they could use alot more I usually found if you moved around alot you could find the solo quests to level but I see the point also instances seemed to be a waste you usually couldn't get groups for those no matter what you did I think I was only able to finish finish the Great Barrows because I'm an alt aholic and made it a point to join up when I could all in all a good game but could use a bit more.
but yeah, to call this game Fantastic is like calling Twilight the Godfather of vampire movies....
Everything that I have seen up to this point in the game (level 32) I'm running out of solo content left and right. Finding groups to complete group quests is incredibly hard. To date the way I finish most of the group quests is by getting help from a 50 in my Kin.
I'm just saying grouping shouldn't be forced upon people inorder to do quests, there should be enough solo content for people to do if they can't find a group, which up to this point there really isn't.
It sounds to me like what you want is a 300-500 hour single player game with a multiplayer ending? What the hell has WoW done to MMO's... I pray that people like you just leave the genre so developers stop trying to cater to you and making games so damn easy that a 9 year old can get to the end game without ever grouping up or interacting with other players.
There is more than enough solo content to level to 50 if you look in more than one town and explore a little bit.
On the other hand, what kind of person says "I'm gonna play a MMO so I can play with myself". Weird... I think given how friendly the LoTR Online community is meeting people is not only great for making questing more fun and leveling easier, it's a pleasure to meet most of the peole you come across.
Everything that I have seen up to this point in the game (level 32) I'm running out of solo content left and right. Finding groups to complete group quests is incredibly hard. To date the way I finish most of the group quests is by getting help from a 50 in my Kin.
I'm just saying grouping shouldn't be forced upon people inorder to do quests, there should be enough solo content for people to do if they can't find a group, which up to this point there really isn't.
It sounds to me like what you want is a 300-500 hour single player game with a multiplayer ending? What the hell has WoW done to MMO's... I pray that people like you just leave the genre so developers stop trying to cater to you and making games so damn easy that a 9 year old can get to the end game without ever grouping up or interacting with other players.
1. You have no idea what I want, and that is clear by the post you have created and your inability to read mine.
2. WoW changed MMos for the better, I'm sorry if you feel different.
2.5 Are you claiming LOTRO is hard? Really? LOTRO is a cake walk, even compared to WoW. LOTRO has a spot on ez-street with AoC.
3. Solo doesn't equal easy, but thats aside from the point. Where in my posts did I ever claim I don't want to group? Again, if you could read correctly... you would have noticed I never said that. What I said was it's very hard and frustrating to find or create groups, thus forcing one to grind when they run out of solo content. This is because not that many people are leveling apparently. So what should be done inorder to allow people to level at a reasonable, non-frustrating pace is create more solo friendly content, or adjust the current content. Just for the record I like to group, it adds fun to any game.
4. I pray people like you leave MMOs so developers can keep worrying about the fun and not the tedium. Evercrap stopped being popular about 4 years ago.
I'm just saying grouping shouldn't be forced upon people inorder to do quests, there should be enough solo content for people to do if they can't find a group, which up to this point there really isn't.
No grouping shouldnt be forced... and it isnt in LotrO... there is more than enough solo quest in this game I can assure you! Have you done all the quest in ND, Evendim and Trollshaws (think that zone starts at 33) ?
But grouping is more fun and I too wish it was easier to find groups at times.. (or that people would start using the LFF tool...) But the reason people dont group is because its easier to solo and there is too many solo quests
I am almost done with ND quests, I haven't started in either Evendim or Trollshaws.
I totally agree that grouping is more fun. The problem with current MMO's and leveling is that solo play is much more rewarding, I agree. They should encourage group play while leveling by getting rid of the XP penalty or something like that.
"Freedom is just another name for nothing left to lose" - Janis Joplin
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I've completed the first 3 books, I don't know where to find book 4 though. I'm guessing in Rivendell due to book 3 closing out there though.
If you are still questing in ND then I can see why you have a problem with solo quests! Evendim was added just to make the 32-40 (or something) a bit easier.. Yea book 4 starts in Rivendell (Aragorn?) and then all quests are in Trollshaws!
From my experience WoW and LotrO are pretty equal when it comes to how easy they are... there are some really challenging group-content in both games as youl level up. but its possible to skip it and just do easier stuff.. (WoWs end-game have alot harder raids Ive heard thou)
Hopefully they will keep making the LFF panel better and then maybe people will start groupng more when it becomes easier to get a group!
If WoW = The Beatles
and WAR = Led Zeppelin
Then LotrO = Pink Floyd