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Originally posted by Thorsnes

Originally posted by jdilling00

my review of Lord of the rings:

everquest clone, few bugs, you can level up a monster,

-5.7635 random number selected for bitching

lay off the author, she wrote down what she thought was important. If you disagree write your own review

There's next to nothing to agree OR disagree with in that "review", because it isn't a review; it's a description. The author is actually a Staff Member on MMORPG.com and I find that - fasten your seat belts - quite disturbing. She was supposed to write a review for the highly anticipated MMO that "everyone" goes apesh*t over, but failed miserably. Something didn't go according to plan, whatever the plan was...

Im probably the only other person besides you on this site that understands.

THIS ISNT A REVIEW! It did not have one element of a reveiw in it. There is a fine line between a discription and a reveiw, this is def a discription. Theres no real judgement on the game, its like me eating a ice cream and afterwards someone asking me how it was and I say to them

"well it was vanilla, and it tasted like ice cream, and I used a spoon to eat it with, and while I was eating it, I looked at the sky and wondered about God"

Yea thats what this reviewer did, she ate LOTRO with a spoon and thought about nothing related to the game at all.

-Jive

OK - here is the proof that Quingu has a bee in his bonnet.

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Originally posted by Quingu
ok here the prove that something is very wrong with this review.

LOTRO mmorpg graphics  rating  8
guild wars mmorpg graphics  rating  9
eq2   mmorpg   graphics  rating         9
WOW  mmorpg  graphics  rating   10
DAOC  mmorpg graphics  rating   9
DDO mmorpg graphics  rating     9

ok i could post more, but this is enough, so this means LOTRO as the worst graphics? DDO is the same engine and gets a 9, how come WOW gets 10 on graphics? now i see how this review is BS. only one game out there can compete with LOTRO in graphics that game Name is vanguard.

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So at the time those games were released - yes that is the score they received.

At the time LOTRO is released - 8 is how the author thought the game rated.

If you feel differently - write your own review and post it in the LOTRO forum.

Originally posted by redelf07

Originally posted by Deathstrike2

Originally posted by redelf07
Wow, you guys bitch about everyone don't you. The game got a graphics rating of 8 because thats what it deserved. I think he was being generous with that. Some of you are telling him to compare to other games, then fine. Oblivion gets a 9.2, what does LOTRO get? It would be fair at a 7. The graphics aren't that fantastic. They enviroments really do look nice, the water looks nice, the trees look good, but the terrain is just flat. Its like nothing is rounded. Kinda like the terrain in WoW, but with moving grass and higher res textures. If he gave every game like this a 10/10 what would happen when games like AoC come out? He can't go any higher, and we already know that its graphics are far superior to LOTRO. Just because your beloved game didn't get a 10/10, which it really doesn't deserve IMO(not that it matters), doesn't mean you need to flame the review and scream out for a more biased one in favor of your opinions. Remember, were not in school anymore. A 78% isn't going to get you yelled at my mom and dad. Its a GOOD score.

Personally, I couldn't care less about this review or any other, and I'll play LOTRO for a while, and then probably move on to something else.  Still, you are wrong to compare LOTRO and Oblivion because one is a MMO and the other is a single player game.  Let's compare apples to apples.  What CURRENTLY RELEASED MMO has better graphics than LOTRO?  I haven't found  it.  And if you're going to compare it to AoC which isn't due out for months yet, I hope no game is ever given a 10, because there will always be something new and better coming in the future.

While we're at it, what of the other games reviewed on MMORPG that have received a 9 or 10 in the graphics department?  How will they affect AoC's rating?  Answer:  Not at all.  They were 9 or 10 in their day, and then technology moved on.  Same thing here.  TODAY, LOTRO is a high 9 in my opinion.  Maybe a 10.  The only animation that I'm not happy with is the run animation.  That's pretty petty in the whole scheme of things.

  A game released now and a game released in a couple of months should be used for comparison. They are in the same generation, therefore should be able to compete against eachother. We've already seen videos of AoC. The graphics are better, so my point stands. There would be no room to improve on what was previously rated by a game 3 months prior.

But you're right, saying DAoC and WoW both got 9's in funness doesn't mean they are equally fun now. But when games are so close to eachother...

Lol Age of Conan is NOT OUT yet. For all we know it runs at 1 FPS and barfs on anything but a Quad Core processor running dual nvidia 8800 cards on an SLI board.

#2 We are talking about the quality of the review- most of these posts. It reads like a freakin preview. She does not explain why she gave the graphics the score she did. I dont care if she gives the grpahics a freakin ZERO but it would be nice if she explained why

Originally posted by _Shadowmage

OK - here is the proof that Quingu has a bee in his bonnet.

 

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Originally posted by Quingu
ok here the prove that something is very wrong with this review.

LOTRO mmorpg graphics  rating  8
guild wars mmorpg graphics  rating  9
eq2   mmorpg   graphics  rating         9
WOW  mmorpg  graphics  rating   10
DAOC  mmorpg graphics  rating   9
DDO mmorpg graphics  rating     9

ok i could post more, but this is enough, so this means LOTRO as the worst graphics? DDO is the same engine and gets a 9, how come WOW gets 10 on graphics? now i see how this review is BS. only one game out there can compete with LOTRO in graphics that game Name is vanguard.

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So at the time those games were released - yes that is the score they received.

At the time LOTRO is released - 8 is how the author thought the game rated.

If you feel differently - write your own review and post it in the LOTRO forum.

This is a great game.

I am still unsure about the Lore, but the roleplaying is so far pretty good. Most people don't try to be some insanely powerful godlike character; they are roleplaying members of hte free peoples. They are being the supporting heroes of the war against the Enemy. I am loving it. And that's not something I expected to say, because I am a Tolkien stickler.