Lord of the Rings Online

Originally posted by KorovaMB

 

 

Just to clear up this persistent rumour, the no PVP was a decision Turbine made shortly after they aquired MEO from Vivendi.  PVP was to play a significant role in MEO, so it would seem Tolkein did not forbid it.

Once Turbine announced that decision, I knew this game would not be for me.  It truly saddened me to have to take a pass on it, as I am a huge fan of Tolkein's books and virtually anything LoTR (used to play MERP).

p.s. if you need to ask what MEO was, then don't bother replying to this post.

Originally posted by KorovaMB

Not sure where you're seening me make any comparisons regarding quality of the pvp between MEO and LOTRO.  I reference it as a counterpoint to the previously mentioned rumour that Tolkein Enterprises refused to allow PvP.

Regarding my decision to take a pass on LOTRO, it was driven by the knowledge that I have never enjoyed a game without "world" pvp.  That is my endgame, and thus a game that has announced it will not have it is not a game for me.  It has nothing to do with whether MEO would have been better or not.

 

I don't get what the big deal is about "world" pvp.  Yea, back in the day it was pretty exciting when you had FFA servers and you could get looted.  From what I've seen modern MMO's don't have the balls to make it meaningful anymore, except perhaps for EVE Online.  Maybe some of the newer ones will have some fresh and well designed ideas for pvp that is meaningful, challenging, and fun.  That might be cool, and I might play an MMO like that.  But IMO it's ridiculous to rule out an MMO that might bring many other great PVE focused things to the table just because it's not pvp focused. 

I think LOTRO works very well as a PVE focused game.  If you are hung up on having full world pvp (since technically lotro's pvp is open world pvp, just limited to one zone) or two symmetrical factions, then that's your loss.  Earlier I laid out several arguments why I think having a single faction is much more desirable than having multiple factions, and I haven't seen any good counter arguments.

ok i finally tried this game and it;s not that bad i mean it got the same stuff as wow,AO,EQ2 etc. but it goes more of story follow thats all if u enjoy u enjoy if not u dont and play something eles u make what u want out of it. thats all i got to say on it so laterz

I cannot find much wrong with the animation, as far as I am concerned the running looks quite normal, I am sure if I ever see a dwarf that is how I expect him to move, as to the UI, again maybe I am easy to please I find the ui efficient and not cluttering my game real estate, 4 Races try GuildWars only 1 race,  I fail to understand how not having 2 factions hurt the game, I would hate to see over 5000 Nazgul floating around, LOTRO does what it says on the box and some.

You complain about not a good mmorpg out there, but the 1st thing you want to do is throw out all the elements that make for good Role Playing.