Comments on: Beorn-Again: Siege Of Mirkwood

By: wrshamilton

wrshamilton — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:19:03 +0000

Have just been playing a few weeks. Game is beautiful – entering Rivendell for the first time was an actual, like, experience, that got at my inner nerdy little 12-year-old-boy. Some of the ways that LOTRO doesn’t tend to support serious end-game players as well as other games end up being an advantage for the experience, I think, as it makes it a more welcoming place for people who don’t want to reconfigure UIs and macros and things, even if they do want to play challenging dungeons.

By: Evil Timmy

Evil Timmy — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 04:44:33 +0000

Haha, that was one of my favorite belabored puns out of the whole Discworld series, and there were many.

Not an MMO fan outside of a six-month fling with EVE, so…yeah. Just wanted to comment on the title.

By: Arathain

Arathain — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 23:31:21 +0000

What really stands out (for me) is the excellent class design. Each class I tried felt interesting and powerful, with abilities that were characterful and fun to use.

It is also supremely pretty.

By: JB

JB — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 22:53:00 +0000

I've got 4 toons on the Snowbourn server. Found a nice friendly kinship.

As said above, the community and landscapes are great, and it's a lot of fun to run around and stab stuff in the face/crotch/mandibles/what-have-you in Tolkien's world.

By: CCCP

CCCP — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 21:38:51 +0000

Have played this more and less consistently since beta (had a three or four month hiatus in summer 2008) and am still enjoying it very much.

Turbine have done a good job of depicting Middle Earth and keeping the game broadly within the sweep of Tolkien’s vision. Hard to do when there are thousands of hobbits outside the shire and dwarfs, elves and men running errands around Hobbiton.

Have found the LOTRO community friendly and am happy that i stumped up for the lifetime subscription at launch.

By: Joey

Joey — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 20:38:57 +0000

I’ve tried a couple of MMOs over the years and LOTRO is the only one I’ve stuck with for more than a couple months. I’m a more casual player, but I really really like the game and would encourage anyone to play.

By: Kelron

Kelron — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 20:24:13 +0000

I really wouldn’t put it on the same level as Baldur’s Gate. It’s a good game, just not that good. Given that BG is frequently credited with reviving the cRPG and inspired many of the modern RPG standards, it’s stretching things somewhat to say LOTRO has done the same for MMOs. It is the closest MMO to a single player RPG that I’ve played in terms of setting and storytelling, so you may have something there.

By: Konky Dong

Konky Dong — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 19:45:36 +0000

LotRO has turned into an excellent game. The original SoA fanbase cries and moans about MoM but I found the expansion to be pretty excellent. The 6 and 3 man dungeons at lvl 60 are superb, truly some of the best instances I’ve ever played in an MMO. They really put WotLK’s stuff to shame, a LotRO dungeon like Furnace is, I think, a perfect example of how MMORPG dungeons should be paced. It’s fucking perfect, I ran it so many times after getting all the gear I needed from it because it challenging and damn fun. Unfortunately other MMOs came calling and I stopped playing a few months ago (the fact that none of my friends play it didn’t help) but with the combat changes and all this new content, I might stick with the game this time.

By: Tei

Tei — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 17:56:48 +0000

If I have to kill another bear, … But I like the PvPM. Maybe because I hate these elfs, su crushing his face in the mud, is like The Right Thing.
Not played in eons. I owe a dude lot of gems :-/

By: Lollerskater

Lollerskater — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 16:51:36 +0000

Got a lifetime account kicking around and have recently taken up playing a bit more after it going stale for months. Great fun, moreso than I expected, there being many times where I first thought that something should work a certain way only to find that in LotRO it actually did work said way.

By: Reiver

Reiver — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 16:47:09 +0000

I’ve been playing this for nearly 8 months, almost to the exclusion of all other games, and have two level 60 characters: the badly nerfed and lacking utility Hunter and the dynamic, very powerful warden. Even after that length of time i’m still enjoying myself. Although there’s niggles about difficulty, the undue emphasis on DPS and class homogenisation and balancing leaving some classes sidelined or under/over powered the one thing that has never dissapointed is the landscape. The designers have done a fantastic job in recreating bits of middle earth and tying them together into a seamless landscape. It’s the most amazing gaming enviroment i’ve encountered, a wonderful acheivement.

By: Paul S

Paul S — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 15:39:58 +0000

Loved it in beta; bought the Collector’s Edition with lifetime subs. Codemasters ballsed-up the UK release of said Edition, promised to fix, dragged out supplying the missing items, then in some cases didn’t.

The competition to win replica gold & silver rings? Complete lack of due dilligence with respect to local legislation led to most owners excluded and the happy German public able to enter despite not actually having to purchase the CE or any version of the game at all.

A little digging around with promotional images and .pdf’d sample booklets revealed that the ‘issues’ were known about months prior to the release, but strangely not even hinted at until most copies had been delivered. Lying bastard marketeers, standard PR fluff post-event apologies, etc.

TL:DR – loved the game, but UK launch left very sour taste. Petty, yes, but I couldn’t play beyond a few months after launch.