/v/ - Video Games

Lord of the Rings Online. When it's not having server maintenance for days on end.

>>16220003

that thing is still going?

>>16220536

Yeah, minus aforementioned downtime atm.

>>16220672

Fuck off back to being paradox interactive's good little cum slave, shill faggot.

>>16220672

If you are going to shitpost at least read the OP rabbi-san

Third Age mod for MTW2 is still the best

Third Age on OG XBox is best LOTR

>>16220758

FFX ripoff that do look amazing for its time, but feel lacking and rushed in many ways.

>>16220728

DaC is a must, though.

>>16220003

I really liked that game when I tried it years ago but I ran out of free content in about a week. Is it better now or do you still run out of stuff to do really quickly unless you want to spend money or grind premium currency? More games should have musical instruments you can play in real time.

>>16221017

It's an MMO trying to keep the lights on, so no they haven't removed the necessity to either pay or grind for content. A $15/month sub typical of MMOs gets you all content sans expansions though, which is a hell of a lot of content.

>>16219970

>trash heap of movie tie-ins

the movie tie in games for LotR were fucking great though

>>16221085

admittedly the only LOTR movie tie in game I played as a kid was a shit GBA title, I think

>>16221219

The PS2 games were really good.

>>16221219

I thought there was a LotR title on GBA that was essentially a Diablo-lite? That sounds like it could have been fun.

The movie games that were action rpgs were so fun idk wtf ur talking about lol

>>16221272

Cinematic shovelware? I mean it fits in with the movies.

Battle for Middle Earth 2 and it's expansion pack were fun as fuck back in the day.

>>16221353

there was a shitty JRPG I recall, its been a long time

>>16219970

I remember really enjoying the TT/RotK tie-in games on consoles/PC. They were basically action games but what kind of impressed me is that they were the kind of action games that were aiming for the same kind "realistic" combat gameplay that modern games like Ass Creed and Bamham try to do while keeping it challenging and managed to largely pull it off. Sure, there were special "insta-kill" counter moves but the difference is that they were advanced upgrades that you had to purchase with skill points and the button combo to activate them was actually pretty tricky to pull off because of the strict timing and the fact that enemies are ALWAYS attacking you, with 4 to 5 at a time, so you had to be pretty damn skilled to pull it off. If anything, I think modern games could learn a hell of a lot from them.

>>16221353

Yeah, there were two of them, one for the Two Towers (which, like the console/PC versions, also covered part of Fellowship of the Ring) and one for Return of the King. I remember them being surprisingly hard too.

>>16223417

The game was called LotR: The Third Age which was basically a FFX knockoff in terms of gameplay

>>16235281

I will never understand how this, Batman or Assassins Creed are so well recieved when attempting to precisely control character movement is an exercise in frustration because these games might as well play themselves.

>>16235281

is this the one where they turned Ungoliant into a hot chick?

>>16236861

You're acting like a giant horrible spider monster wasn't always hot.

>>16242652

Conquest was fun as fuck. It's Star Wars Battlefront, but LotR.

>>16242648

>The diablo like one is complete shit

you take that back right now

both the TT and RotK on gba were great as diablo likes

>>16243197

Aye, the GBA versions were the best ones.

>>16242652

Farming the hobbit campaign level to get that one achievement, good times.

>>16242652

I remember being on the official forums back in the day and everyone shat on it for being a half-assed effort. I think it’s basically the game that killed Pandemic Studios, after release it became immediately obvious that they were now officially EA’s bitch and people lost a fuckton of trust in them. It’s honestly amazing that they managed to squeeze out Saboteur before breaking up.