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Ah so the Middle Earth Online is finally seeing the light of day? They started developing this back in 2003... My initial enthusiasm has been tempered by what I have seen recently, so I will pass.
From: The Twilight of Arnor | Registered: Aug 2000
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*nods* agreed! I think that they should have maybe released the info in like 2005, the big companies usually don't say anything until they have more to show/say than some ideas and orc paintings.
From: Lothlorien | Registered: Jun 2006
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I was turned off by it when I saw the fake Elvish (it looked like Grelvish, actually, with lots of "lle") in the preview scene on the website.
From: northern CT | Registered: Sep 2006
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There's alot of things that are a turn-off to Tolkien purists in this game. Basicly they managed to make another fantasy game that wears a slight Lord of the Rings mask.
From: The Twilight of Arnor | Registered: Aug 2000
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Well at least in its final release, it more accurately conveys some of the ideas in the text, and overrides some of the blunders and (purposeful adjustments) that the film presented. For popular culture, it's at least somewhat of a fix in presenting the actual world Tolkien created, and I'm finding the more into it I play, the more I like it.
As just purely as a game, it's a way better effort from Turbine than the unbalanced, bug-riddled DDO.
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I haven't played it, and probably won't. I'm fine with the Battle for Middle Earth Series, Return of the King, And War of the Ring, which I bought over ebay last week. I played the demo for WOR, and liked what I saw.
I've also got Third Age, The Hobbit, FOTR, TTT, ROTK for GBA, so, I'm set in the way of LOTR video games.
Not only that, but I've also got LOTR Monopoly, LOTR Trading Card Game, and Middle Earth Collectable Card Game. So, I don't need anymore LOTR games at the moment.
From: Ririe, Idaho | Registered: Oct 2005
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I would buy it if it didnt have a monthly cost. EA should realise that due to the popularity of World of Warcraft, not many people will play Shadows of Angmar especially if there is a monthly cost.
From: Canada | Registered: Jan 2006
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That's hardly the case. LOTRO is steadily gaining in popularity. WoW's player base is also a bit of a different crowd; LOTRO appeals to a another kind of gamer, looking for something different in gaming than what WoW has to offer (something less tongue-in-cheek, and toony). Believe it or not, there are a lot of MMO gamers who don't like WoW (me for one) so LOTRO really fills in the gap for them. LOTRO is also proving to be a critical and financial success, and seems like a lot of WoW fanboys are heading that way too, though I can't say that's necessarily a good thing for some of us in LOTRO.
Either way, the game is turning limping Midway and Turbine around--shows what a game geared primarily for "hardcore Tolkien fans," and not even the general game community, can do. So much for the can't-be-faithful-to-the-books-or Tolkien-fans-to-have-a-successful-production nay-sayers. I personally love the game, I can't stop playing it , though I'm probably one of the nit-pickiest Tolkienists, so I guess the developers have accomplished what they set out to do. Seems PJ ought to take a lesson in what being "faithful to the spirit" of Tolkien really means, thereby keeping hardcore fans, as well as the the general gaming population, happy.
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don't take it as LOTR, just enjoy it as a wonderful game =) I used to spend hours every night browsing through the books looking for arguments to prove some point about balrog-wings, or what have you (this place was where I started, there ought to be a bit lying around still), so I do know the lore (or I sued to, anyway). And I'm addicted =) (and yearh, I swore I'd never be playing any LOTR games at all). so there
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, though I'm probably one of the nit-pickiest Tolkienists, so I guess the developers have accomplished what they set out to do. Seems PJ ought to take a lesson in what being "faithful to the spirit" of Tolkien really means, thereby keeping hardcore fans, as well as the the general gaming population, happy.
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