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LOTRO or AOC?
kennyt93
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I tried both games when they came out, and want to try them both again to see if they have improved. Which one do you suggest ?
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LotR excels over AoC in every facet except for two.
PvP and graphics. If either of those are your mainstay than AoC. Don't get me wrong graphics aren't bad in LotR but between the two Aoc's are better. As for PvP, LotR is rather pitiful. Pretty much the same as it has always been really. If PvE, lore, story arcs, crafting, etc. are your thing than definitely Rings. The game has just so much more to offer and is done at such a higher level of quality than in AoC in all other areas of gameplay.
1. For god's sake mmo gamers, enough with the analogies. They're unnecessary and your comparisons are terrible, dissimilar, and illogical.
2. To posters feeling the need to state how f2p really isn't f2p: Players understand the concept. You aren't privy to some secret the rest are missing. You're embarrassing yourself.
3. Yes, Cpt. Obvious, we're not industry experts. Now run along and let the big people use the forums for their purpose.
You posted in one game's forum... try that game *cough* LotRO *cough*.
Unless you prefer PvP, as Wickedjelly mentioned.
After I quit lotro, I was playing Warhammer then aoc but that game was disppointment. Instead of continuing playing the same contents in lotro, you'd started to change game from time to time because there was no game on the market could hold your breath longer. Now I am playing aion, they are all about the same.
Among these 3 games, aoc, warhammer, aion, I had more fun from warhammer until tier 4 which means the fun was about one month. aion was the most bored game, and aoc was just like a game without combat technique if you used to lotro combat already.
I'd recommend Catalysm or just wait until FF 14.
I have played all those games as well as EQ2.
Aion was eye candy and to some degree I thought LotR was too. I felt both kind of pushed you in one direction....you were basically lead by the nose through the content.
AoC also leads you through the content but not as much. You do have several options as to where to go and lvl, the different lands based on the races. AoC graphics are more realistic while LotR is a little more fantasy based but not crazy or over done.
I have never gone back to Aion but I have gone back to LorR and AoC. I even go back to EQ2 and have for a long time. The one game I have not nor will ever go back to is WoW. It is so unbalanced and really has nothing to offer aside from raiding, which I hate.
LotR, AoC, EQ2 do have crafting and housing. I love the LotR housing style as it is done in neighborhoods. EQ2 housing is instnaced in various parts of the different cities so you only see yours from the inside. AoC does have guild castles/keeps which are neat. They are in one particular zone if I remember. Oh, EQ2 guild halls can be freaking amazing to say the least.
However, none of them compare to the crafting and housing that was in SWG.....if that is your thing. Many ppl just want to fight and log off....WoW is for them.
I would love to merge all those games so I had the content of EQ2 with the armor of AoC and the options for displaying items on your back that LotR had. Loved the quivers and bow or the javelin rack....that was so nice.
They're both good. I like Age of Conan right now, cause I got bored in LOTRO..But there's alot to enjoy with LOTRO for a very long time if you haven't been playing since it came out.
The only two things AoC has better than Lotro is character models/animations and the music score.
Even though Lotro is far from famous for its PvP it's still better than that Age of Casters mess up and down the same strip of road in kheshata (sieges still not work according to their forums)
tbh I don't think even comparing the two games is fair to Lotro as it's in a different league.
well it i may correct u ... there have being a nerf to all casters now and for sieges fix is coming soon as i heard
Coming soon eh? Soon as in 2 years?
For a game that has a reputation as a PVP game thats kinda sad that seiging does not work still. Although I stopped a long time ago being interested in PVP, since I figure that its impossible to balance in a MMO I personally don't see what is so bad about LOTRO's PVP. It seems to offer alot more than AOC for PVP from what I have seen and heard.
Well in AOC's favor though it got the most improved game this past year which may be a plus unless that means it needed that much more improvement.
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This is hard for Me cause I REALLY like both Games a lot...
I've just recently gone back to AoC after I went through Mirkwood. A bunch of Guildies are checking out STO so I figured why not...
AoC is SO much more stable now...Graphics are still awesome and that Combat System is a breath of fresh air...I'm really liking it the 2nd time around...
Still LOTRO will always be there when I need it...LOTRO is definitely like Old Faithful to Me...It's a pretty great Game...
i like both games also, currently in AoC but as soon as codemasters gets off its ass and offers me a cheap lifetime sub like my friend i wont be going back lol
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If you're set on choosing either one i would definitely go for age of conan personally.
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LOTR bored the ass off me pretty quickly.
AOC has improved a lot from launch despite what you may hear here.
(I don't play either now
I enjoyed both but felt overwheled with LotRO and stopped playing. With so many quests, they had a tendency to pile up plus they would run you in every which direction including other zones. Just didn't seem to promote itself to short casual play times.
If you want very indepth story quests wrapping you up in basically mini-novels then LotRO. Other pro's would be 4 different starter area's with different starter quests (and the ability to do them all), able to run higher level graphics on lower end rigs and the warden as a profession. Con's would be lack of a true Magic User, not being able to play any of the bad races except in the Pvp zone.
AoC too has some good quest lines but are generally of a shorter variety and cater to short play better, graphic's are harder to run on high but look good when you can, interesting mix of professions only to certain races (which LotRO does too, just not as indepth), and a more fleshed out Pvp.
Really depends on what you want (fuzzy & nice or bloody & brutel) and how good your rig is (since the best game in the world - ain't going to be for you if you can't run it to it's full potential).
SWG (pre-cu) - AoC (pre-f2p) - PotBS (pre-boarder) - DDO - LotRO (pre-f2p) - STO (pre-f2p) - GnH (beta tester) - SWTOR - Neverwinter
well it i may correct u ... there have being a nerf to all casters now and for sieges fix is coming soon as i heard
Sorry, but 'nerfing' caster damage a little bit or making aoe hit up to 10 players at once instead of 20 is not balancing.
Old story this, but in case some forget:
Melees need to joust, aim manually, and time combos ----- Casters need to sit on a rock, tab target, and spam 1 click nukes.
That's been the problem of AoC pvp from inception and they don't seem to see it (they want a pve game) since on top of all that they gave casters wide area aoes so they dont even have to tab-target that much. It makes me lol how ridiculous it is.
Until they give combos and manual aim (cones of fire) to casters (and balance damage accordingly) so their only advantage will be range there is no such thing as AoC pvp.
And this carries on to sieges, if they ever make them to work that is.
PS. but of course for people who play casters and pwn all is well, hence the 22/24 caster raids running about in khes and sieges. But i have a problem with that since all their marketing was about combo using melee classes and that's what people were interested in to begin with.
EDIT: typos
Although I do not currently play AoC, I will say that they have been saying that seiges will be soon fixed forever, so wouldn't really count on it happening.
As others have said, the only thing AoC has over LoTRO is graphics (debatable - as LoTRO uses DX10 for superior shadows) and open-world PvP servers. In every other aspect LoTRO is several orders of magnitude better than AoC.
I come back to this site and what do i see? The same exact threads discussing which mmo is better lol. I would say lotro. Better game in every sense of the word. Except the graphics
Graphics: AoC has higher end graphics but Lotro is more open world and seamless. I prefer AoC's graphics though because the character models look much better and so do the animations.I think AoC's character controls are also 'tighter', always felt like my character was sliding in Lotro.
Story/Setting: This one will be split, Lotr is far more popular though. I prefer AoC's because its a nice step back from all the other MMOs with a similar setting to Lotro's. It's also much more brutal.
Combat: Both combat systems are pretty similar to every other MMORPG except when it comes to melee. The combo system in AoC you will either love or hate it. AoC's combat felt better to me though simply because of the animations and timing of things, I actually feel like I'm hitting something in AoC. Lotro's combat felt more finesse with queued abilities and the like.
Questing: I guess this goes to Lotro for having more? Destiny quests in AoC are pretty cool and Lotro has epic quest lines as well.
Polish: Lotro by a landslide. This is the only reason to me lotro is a better over all game even though I like AoC more. Funcom has improved AoC by leaps and bounds but you only get one first impression. The expansion will probably bring back quite a few though.
I really love the world of Lotro... It has so much detail and stories..
But i like AoC combat much more. The COmbat mechanisme is more fun in AOC
Best MMO experiences : EQ(PvE), DAoC(PvP), WoW(total package) LOTRO (worldfeel) GW2 (Artstyle and animations and worlddesign) SWTOR (Story immersion) TSW (story) ESO (character advancement)
like you, tried both at launch and quit both after a month. For LOTRO it looks too much a wow clone at first glance and offer nothing more(sorry, but among all games I tried, Lotro is the one fit best of that title, and plz let me finish). AoC is just not my game. I am an explorer. That means I prefer open world and causal game playing over everything. AoC offers none. I come back to Lotro a year ago and stick to it. At that time, and especially with the skirmish system releasing this game provides exactly what I want. The game care for soloer and welcome grouping. And it seems turbine care for their games and players (not like SOE). I am expecting an improvement of pvp in one year range, the game is potential to have a GW like pvp system (judged by the skirmish system), they are just too busy with pve at the moment. (And I believe if the game eventually have it, pvp balance will not causing pve nerf)
After recently trying both AoC and LoTR I found LoTR much more my style while AoC just seemed so 'generic' at least as far as I got. It reminded me too much of The Witcher in the sense that you could talk to the same NPC over and over giving different answers/replies to the same questions and get different results. Not very dynamic or involving. Maybe just a bug. But Moral choices should have an impact that is lasting and not just until the next right click.
If you playing Lotro from early stage, you might know SoA was full of mobs, not just the road but everywhere. If you ever thinking to play Aion, you may very disappointed because the last map in Aion is just like Aion and even more than SoA, the density of mobs is on every inch of the map.
In addition, the mob wasn't just that much you have seen, there are many stealthed mobs.
It took Turbine sometime to reduce the density in SoA, but I don't think Ncsoft will ever want to do that. Because Aion is a game pasted from several games such as WOW, LOTRO plus their own creatives then mixed all together. It is mainly to design for Asian players. I have been playing Aion 4 months, and now it is crystal clear, Aion suits better for Korean.
Considering you're posting in the LOTRO forum, you're not going to get an unbiased answer. People who like LOTRO hang out in this forum and people who like AoC hang out in that forum.
I've never played LOTRO, but it's on my "games to try" list. I'm having lots of fun with AoC right now though.
Feels good at times when I see that as opinionated and tired as I am of watching Developers making mmorpgs to suit their own personal interests instead of what WE the players want (i.e. AoC should have factional developed pve that attends to lore i.e., Necromancers should not NOT be able to run through Cimmeria with all their pets out - and Priests of Mitra NEVER attack each other).
And... for Christ's sakes - how lazy/stubborn/conceited/narcisisstic do you have to be to think you knew how it should be moresoe than Tolkien - and have potentially the best faction v faction mmorpg on your hands in Lord of the Rings Online (bad guys vs good guys never had so much potential)....and to have the mmorpg that most mmorpgs have ripped off since UO...
and then to fail miserably at factional pvp with the on the side pvm they have (hand to face). Had LOTRO had a bad guy side as developed as the good guy side that game would have been a thorn in the side of that OTHER mmorpg that doesn't deserve to be spoken of.
Anyway - as the quote above states - I don't think it gets any more accurate than that. In the end I'd go for community if I wasn't sure. LOTRO is becoming (has become) the same community that EQ2 has become wher eyou have a top heavy mmorpg of guilds built on friendships and cliques that you won't be able to participate in until you get through most of the endless grind.
AoC has a horrible community unless you go to a pve server and then you have a chance at participating with the vanilla world where all 3 races (yeah only 3! in this day and age!) can be best of friends regardless of the storylines from the books.
I would say AoC is much better than Lotro. I just bought the game after playing 2 trials and its definetly worth it.
Originally posted by patrikd23
I would say AoC is much better than Lotro. I just bought the game after playing 2 trials and its definetly worth it.
You got fooled into thinking AoC was going to be like 1-20 Tortage. You will find out the rest of the game is much less complete. LOTRO remains as a pve mmorpg fixed and polished from level 1-end game (coming from me that's a high compliment since I loathe games that depend on AI and pixel programming for combat - vs fighting actual players over something epical - i.e. Dark Age of Camelot).