Sorry! The correct timestamp to skip the story spoilers is 44:29 ! Watch the original retrospective here, it is an awesome video: ua-cam.com/video/poMnJKLGYo0/v-deo.html I hope everyone enjoyed the video, due to holidays and some late study deadlines i will probably upload next somewhere in early september! Hopefully next time i won't have to re-record a 50 minute voice over twice.
This was a great watch my dude! I'm really happy you put this together as I feel like it really confirms that I was right to not cover the game and leave it to others! There is no way I could have put this together, especially given how cool it was to hear the history of the game from someone who legitimately played it!
They also did some of the best and smartest plot twists I remember in a video game. When you are fighting in the battle of Minas Tirith the first time, the riders of Rohan won't come to help, the witch king slays Gandalf and the war is lost. what the hell ?? Then you wake up. It was just a dream, or a vision before the battle started. Then you will be send away to look for the riders of Rohan. You eventually find them and must help them to get to Minas Tirith in time and fight in the battle of the pelenor fields. The smart trick about this is, that you as a player can experience the siege of Minas Tirith AND the battle on the pelenor fields alongside the Rohirims. Pretty cool!
Wow, this was really incredible! I have been playing LOTRO since the beta, but it was really moving to see all the stories laid out, and to reflect over all the work and details that were places into the game. This video really highlighted that! For me, LOTRO has always been the most faithful adaptation of Tolkiens works, and apart from it’s minor blemishes, when reading the books it is usually what I visualize.
Awesome video. I played LOTRO religiously from SoA to through the Isengard expansion, but took a long break. I come back to the game every few years to catch up on the epic story and explore the zones. The storylines never disappoint. I'm not a fan of the F2P and shop model, but the story and characters you meet along the way still hold up. I really loved the Minas Morgul and Gundabad storylines, facing down Hrimil Frost-Heart not once, but twice in raids was awesome. Thanks for the great vid!
I know you were following the main epic story and you did a very good job! This is only scratching the surface of the story content in this game. In addition, there are probably hundreds of side stories along with major components of the story told from within the instances and raids. I run across new elements almost every time I play through the game. I've taken 3 characters now through from level 1 to level 140. Depending on the zones you select to level through the experience is different every time. Once I did Northdowns, Evendim, Forochel and Angmar. Then another time I focused on Lone Lands, Misty Mountains, Eregion, and Moria. Sometimes I would do the Epic in an area and sometimes not. :)
Ideas for the future! Stories from raids are currently definitely a blind spot for me as i have only really played Draigoch and the Rise of Isengard instance cluster.
Many thanks for this and well done. Playing LOTRO since 2012 it is always nice to have the beauty of the game reaffirmed by other players, because in the daily, sometimes grinding business of the game one can easily forget to pause and look from above at all the wonderful features LOTRO offers…
For the "Volumes" for the Main Quests, there is also the Epic Quest Volume V: The Peace of Middle-Earth with it's Book 1 focusing on the Wedding of King Elessar and Arwen Undomiel on the day of Midsummer. Volume V Book 1 can be started the moment a Character gets out of the Intro & enters the Main Game World and is started in Minas Tirith (Midsummer) with King Elessar in the Tower of Ecthelion in the Throne Room with the Quests being set to the Level of the Character.
Magnificé! As a player of LOTRO since 2008, you did a very well job capturing the selling points and enduring passion I myself has had for the game over the years. There's so much more I wish one could pay attention to, but the rest of your channel already is a work unto itself in that direction. You condensed it very well. No game comes close to honouring the source material than LOTRO does. It is sumptuous, detailed, thoroughly comprehensive and detailed beyond compare. For all its faults and warts, the game holds a precious place in my heart and actually helped deepen my love and appreciation for the canon. I encourage anyone interested in the Professor's legendarium to give it a try.
What a great work! I loved hearing and seeing your synopsis of the epic story. Indeed, while I love the movies, the game has made me appreciate the whole Gondor arc - and other details overall - far more. Fighting your way through destroyed Osgiliath, retaking Pelargir, and certain events during the siege that I don't want to spoil for anyone... and than joining a host doomed to be defeated at the Black Gate just so that others can have a chance of survival... well and than there's that conclusion to the Gundabad story, that captivated me much more than I ever anticipated. It definitely has it's merits to play a game that can take all the time the developers can give it to tell the stories it wants to tell, without having to worry about the utmost possible length of a movie. So thanks for this great video that I think really does the game's story aspect justice!
This was a nice video, but frankly, it left me wanting for a (probably much longer) video, in which instead of just recapping the story you analyzed some of its themes. To take one example: when can people of different cultures and races put aside their differences and unite? This starts as far back as the Elf/Dwarf prologue, and to take a few other points along the way, comes up in the North Downs part of Volume I (the Council of the North), the joint elf/dwarf expedition to Dol Goldur, your time in Volume III adventuring with Horn, Nona, and Corudan (none of who you even mentioned in the recap!), the mixed Dunlending/Rohirrim villages in Western Rohan, the not-always-violent encounters with Easterlings and Nurnhoth and (especially) Stout-Axes in Mordor, the elves and dwarfs and humans (both natives and refugees) in the Strongholds of the North, and the Zhelruka/Longbeard interactions over the many areas leading up to Gundabad. For extra credit, how does this compare to what Tolkien himself did in LOTR itself? Compare and contrast the treatment of the Orcs and Dunlendings after the Battle of Helm's Deep, for example, or just the (arguably contradictory) way the books treat orcs compared to how the game treats orcs.
Seconding everything you've said! Lotro is not extraordinary merely by faithfully adapting a beloved world, but also by having passionately written stories that very much respect the professor's own themes. Jalapeno mentioned overcoming racism and prejudice, and there is also estel vs despair (see the Elven brothers, Golodir and Corunir, the Grey Company, Grimbold, Athelward, Mágla and more), the folly of hubris (see Zigilburk, Denethor's Palantir, Eärnur, Arvedui), pity and mercy (Lothrandir and Mercy herself, Bingo Boffin), duty, honour, heroism, and love (unrequited and doomed). The way these stories are told is simply beautiful, and worthy of Middle-earth. But there's more. Beyond telling stories untold, the devs have managed to capture the essence of Middle-earth in a way that no other adaptation has. The fondness that comes of reading LOTR, and travelling through familiar and foreign countries, is present manyfold in Lotro. The music, ambience and storytelling give one an indelible sense of place. Stories of the vulgar and the noble, the thankless and the praised, heartbreaking and joyous. What Tolkien has left broadly sketched has been animated with detail and verity. The very mythos, culture and language of various cultures (Sami, Welsh/Brittonic, Gothic, Anglo-Saxon, Norse, Byzantine and Mediterranean) are drawn upon, and coupled with imagination to form the rich fictional cultures. And some (Angmarrim, Eglain, Algraig) are original, but click perfectly with the world. TLDR: Lotro's thematic stories and rich worldbuilding are in need of *very* comprehensive video essays.
as always, well done! I've been waiting for someone to do a video like this -- so glad it was you! This deserves many more views, as LOTRO deserves so many more players! Thank you for such an excellent archaeological overview of this well-loved game.
What a perfect love letter to LOTRO! This video has reinvigorated me to want to do a completionist trip through LOTRO - I've gone through it many times but it's been awhile since I slowed down enough to experience the whole story on a single toon. Thanks so much for putting this together!
What a fantastic recap! I have played to current endgame with one character and through most of it with a few more so this wasn’t a spoiler for me, but it did remind me of some things I had forgotten and flagged a couple things I had missed. It was nice to get it all recapped like this. Great writing and production.
This was very good. I've been playing LOTRO since launch in 2007 and seeing some of the story beats and locations in your video made me feel like playing them all over again even if I've been there many times throughout the years.
awesome video as always! my only "criticism" is that you gave very little insight on how playing the game actually looks like, combat and questing etc., i think a lot of people watching this, who have never played the game themselves, would not have a great understanding on how actually playing the game is/was like. your retelling of LotROs story however was one of the (if not the) best i have seen on UA-cam or anywhere else so far!
what a wonderful video! i dont even wanna imagine how much effort this took, damn. ive been playing lotro on and off for 10 years now, and i gotta say, ive never even payed that much close attention to the story. its just my comfort game that i can play to chill out and turn my brain off a bit. but since they made so much content free to play, i started playing with a friend and i hope to actually pay attention to whats happening this time around hehe
I've played lotro from Jan. 2008 - Oct 2009. So almost 2 years. And then had a short rerun in early 2012 for a few months. Vanilla Lotro back in the day, before moria was a great experience during a great time. I was 22, moved in with my girlfriend, we both had a lot of free time to spend ingame and we were willing to do just that. Nowadays, that feels like a different life back then. It was our first MMO, which always adds a layer a magic ontop. I will never be able to recreate the feeling of it beeing 4am on Sunday, Moria released a few days ago and me, my girlfriend and our guild are trying to clear the new dungeons and finally beat it, after like 4 hours of trying to understand and deal with the new mechanics. Back then, it felt like an achievment, nowadays, with 39 years on my back, it feels like wasted time.
This video was amazing, I especially loved you explaining what each expansion added to the game, and it was incredibly easy to follow your retelling of the main storyline. Total gem!
Thanks for this! I’ve been playing off and on since beta, sometimes taking years off, but I only completed the Black Book last week. The end of that quest line hits so much harder when it’s all laid out like this. Seeing how Ëarnur/Mordirith/Gothmog has been the player’s nemesis throughout the story is really cool and highlights just how well the story writing is in LoTRO. It can be easy to lose sight of when gameplay is spread over 15 years and with thousands of other quests going on around the main story. I love how the player is always on the edge of the main story of LOTR without becoming too involved. While you meet the Fellowship, they have their quests and you have yours. Sometimes they align and sometimes you are far from them. But you have your own story. I hope they can continue on for a while longer. And even if they run out of stories to tell, I hope the servers stay up for decades. Or at least until another game comes along where you can find so much enjoyment just riding a horse through middle earth seeing the sights you’ve read about so many times.
Fantastic video, it really captures the grand scope of LOTRO. Your narration and editing are terrific. I do suggest using shorter solid black transitions unless you put some text or chapter cues in them. Great job, and I plan to return and watch the part between Edoras and your conclusion, I skipped that much because even though I’ve been playing for two years I am not quite up to that point in the story yet!
Much like Lotro this is a video I’ve now returned to a couple of times months apart and I just wanted to say what a beautifully put together piece it is. It sums up very well what makes the game so great and unique. I first played Lotro as a young teenager and have now returned to playing it as young father. And I hope to one day still be playing it perhaps with my kid when he grows up!
Really amazing video. I can really tell the passion that you have, and how quickly the quality on your productions have become better and better. Excited for whatever you put out in the future.
This was fun to listen to. I played this for many years, but stopped for a few, and when I tried to return, my server was gone along with Turbine and my characters were gone too. Never had the heart to return. I think ultimately things would have been better if they chose a different time period. Essentially, everything in the game happens within 1, maybe 2 years. And people have been playing for over 10 years, the amount of movement your character does in that time with all the quests is hard to believe once you start thinking too much about it. Its a great game though and I enjoyed my time with it. But I think the best games that capture the feeling of the world are actually the tabletop RPGS, The One Ring.
I am not sure to be honest, i also don't really know the 'legal status' i guess of that project. But as i was not playing the game during those early Shadows of Angmar days, it does sound really interesting to experience!
@@Burning-Embers It's a fan project so it's not Officially Supported and tbh, there is every indication some Action(s) will be taken against it eventually. While it doesn't seem like it will "Make Money" it will take away even a small amount of Players, cause issues when we start seeing people posting on the Official Forums about "Why can't I log into Echoes of Angmar? or Why is there X Issue with Echoes of Angmar? etc" which will lead the SSG LOTRO Team to have to keep posting about how they aren't involved, etc.
I loved this game. I joined before the Mines of Moria released and bought the lifetime-sub package...only for Codemasters to exit and hand it back to Turbine. I'm to blame for not responding to their prompts in time and therefore lost my entire life-sub account & toons when Turbine took over. Back then Wardens could simply walk into Mordor.
I’m seriously debating playing LotRO. I’m on a huge LotR kick right now and I’ve always been a huge lore buff in general whether it’s WoW, Warhammer 40k, Game of Thrones, LotR and Harry Potter (I blame my Wife for this). If I play LotRO I really want to get entrenched in the story.
Codemasters was the original owners of LOTRO before selling it to turbine i played for about 3 years before it before turbine took over and started to ruin it there was more people playing it when codemasters owned it as soon as turbine took over the game started going down hill and people started to leave ive been playing it since day one and i still play it to this day
I know this is an older comment, but as this is a common misconception I wanted to clear it up: Turbine took over the game development in 2001. Codemasters joined as a publisher for the european market in 2006 but the developer was still Turbine. In 2010 Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment bought Turbine and as a result a year later in 2011 Codemasters left and Turbine took over the publishing in the europen market themselfs. So while many players only knew Codemasters because they sold the game in the first years, the developer was always Turbine from the beginning. In 2016 Standing Stone Games was founded with the staff from Turbine and at the same time Daybreak Game Company took over the publishing. So while the company had a new name, the people where still mostly the same as before. Of course we don't know how many of the original Turbine staff are still working at SSG today.
you cab find the remnants of the fire Strider and Celebrond built to chase the Black riders into the river when they were washed away by Elnron and Gandalf too it is on the side of the road at the crossing.
Sorry! The correct timestamp to skip the story spoilers is 44:29 !
Watch the original retrospective here, it is an awesome video: ua-cam.com/video/poMnJKLGYo0/v-deo.html
I hope everyone enjoyed the video, due to holidays and some late study deadlines i will probably upload next somewhere in early september! Hopefully next time i won't have to re-record a 50 minute voice over twice.
This was a great watch my dude! I'm really happy you put this together as I feel like it really confirms that I was right to not cover the game and leave it to others! There is no way I could have put this together, especially given how cool it was to hear the history of the game from someone who legitimately played it!
Thank you so much!
Hey I just watch this video before this one .
They also did some of the best and smartest plot twists I remember in a video game. When you are fighting in the battle of Minas Tirith the first time, the riders of Rohan won't come to help, the witch king slays Gandalf and the war is lost. what the hell ?? Then you wake up. It was just a dream, or a vision before the battle started. Then you will be send away to look for the riders of Rohan. You eventually find them and must help them to get to Minas Tirith in time and fight in the battle of the pelenor fields.
The smart trick about this is, that you as a player can experience the siege of Minas Tirith AND the battle on the pelenor fields alongside the Rohirims. Pretty cool!
Wow, this was really incredible! I have been playing LOTRO since the beta, but it was really moving to see all the stories laid out, and to reflect over all the work and details that were places into the game. This video really highlighted that!
For me, LOTRO has always been the most faithful adaptation of Tolkiens works, and apart from it’s minor blemishes, when reading the books it is usually what I visualize.
Awesome video. I played LOTRO religiously from SoA to through the Isengard expansion, but took a long break. I come back to the game every few years to catch up on the epic story and explore the zones. The storylines never disappoint. I'm not a fan of the F2P and shop model, but the story and characters you meet along the way still hold up. I really loved the Minas Morgul and Gundabad storylines, facing down Hrimil Frost-Heart not once, but twice in raids was awesome. Thanks for the great vid!
I know you were following the main epic story and you did a very good job! This is only scratching the surface of the story content in this game. In addition, there are probably hundreds of side stories along with major components of the story told from within the instances and raids. I run across new elements almost every time I play through the game. I've taken 3 characters now through from level 1 to level 140. Depending on the zones you select to level through the experience is different every time. Once I did Northdowns, Evendim, Forochel and Angmar. Then another time I focused on Lone Lands, Misty Mountains, Eregion, and Moria. Sometimes I would do the Epic in an area and sometimes not. :)
Ideas for the future! Stories from raids are currently definitely a blind spot for me as i have only really played Draigoch and the Rise of Isengard instance cluster.
Many thanks for this and well done. Playing LOTRO since 2012 it is always nice to have the beauty of the game reaffirmed by other players, because in the daily, sometimes grinding business of the game one can easily forget to pause and look from above at all the wonderful features LOTRO offers…
For the "Volumes" for the Main Quests, there is also the Epic Quest Volume V: The Peace of Middle-Earth with it's Book 1 focusing on the Wedding of King Elessar and Arwen Undomiel on the day of Midsummer.
Volume V Book 1 can be started the moment a Character gets out of the Intro & enters the Main Game World and is started in Minas Tirith (Midsummer) with King Elessar in the Tower of Ecthelion in the Throne Room with the Quests being set to the Level of the Character.
Magnificé!
As a player of LOTRO since 2008, you did a very well job capturing the selling points and enduring passion I myself has had for the game over the years.
There's so much more I wish one could pay attention to, but the rest of your channel already is a work unto itself in that direction. You condensed it very well.
No game comes close to honouring the source material than LOTRO does. It is sumptuous, detailed, thoroughly comprehensive and detailed beyond compare.
For all its faults and warts, the game holds a precious place in my heart and actually helped deepen my love and appreciation for the canon. I encourage anyone interested in the Professor's legendarium to give it a try.
What a great work! I loved hearing and seeing your synopsis of the epic story. Indeed, while I love the movies, the game has made me appreciate the whole Gondor arc - and other details overall - far more. Fighting your way through destroyed Osgiliath, retaking Pelargir, and certain events during the siege that I don't want to spoil for anyone... and than joining a host doomed to be defeated at the Black Gate just so that others can have a chance of survival... well and than there's that conclusion to the Gundabad story, that captivated me much more than I ever anticipated.
It definitely has it's merits to play a game that can take all the time the developers can give it to tell the stories it wants to tell, without having to worry about the utmost possible length of a movie.
So thanks for this great video that I think really does the game's story aspect justice!
One of the greatest reviews I’ve ever heard, not even just for lotro, this was so well done!
This was a nice video, but frankly, it left me wanting for a (probably much longer) video, in which instead of just recapping the story you analyzed some of its themes. To take one example: when can people of different cultures and races put aside their differences and unite? This starts as far back as the Elf/Dwarf prologue, and to take a few other points along the way, comes up in the North Downs part of Volume I (the Council of the North), the joint elf/dwarf expedition to Dol Goldur, your time in Volume III adventuring with Horn, Nona, and Corudan (none of who you even mentioned in the recap!), the mixed Dunlending/Rohirrim villages in Western Rohan, the not-always-violent encounters with Easterlings and Nurnhoth and (especially) Stout-Axes in Mordor, the elves and dwarfs and humans (both natives and refugees) in the Strongholds of the North, and the Zhelruka/Longbeard interactions over the many areas leading up to Gundabad. For extra credit, how does this compare to what Tolkien himself did in LOTR itself? Compare and contrast the treatment of the Orcs and Dunlendings after the Battle of Helm's Deep, for example, or just the (arguably contradictory) way the books treat orcs compared to how the game treats orcs.
Seconding everything you've said! Lotro is not extraordinary merely by faithfully adapting a beloved world, but also by having passionately written stories that very much respect the professor's own themes. Jalapeno mentioned overcoming racism and prejudice, and there is also estel vs despair (see the Elven brothers, Golodir and Corunir, the Grey Company, Grimbold, Athelward, Mágla and more), the folly of hubris (see Zigilburk, Denethor's Palantir, Eärnur, Arvedui), pity and mercy (Lothrandir and Mercy herself, Bingo Boffin), duty, honour, heroism, and love (unrequited and doomed). The way these stories are told is simply beautiful, and worthy of Middle-earth.
But there's more. Beyond telling stories untold, the devs have managed to capture the essence of Middle-earth in a way that no other adaptation has. The fondness that comes of reading LOTR, and travelling through familiar and foreign countries, is present manyfold in Lotro. The music, ambience and storytelling give one an indelible sense of place. Stories of the vulgar and the noble, the thankless and the praised, heartbreaking and joyous. What Tolkien has left broadly sketched has been animated with detail and verity. The very mythos, culture and language of various cultures (Sami, Welsh/Brittonic, Gothic, Anglo-Saxon, Norse, Byzantine and Mediterranean) are drawn upon, and coupled with imagination to form the rich fictional cultures. And some (Angmarrim, Eglain, Algraig) are original, but click perfectly with the world.
TLDR: Lotro's thematic stories and rich worldbuilding are in need of *very* comprehensive video essays.
I love the Narmeleth story. Its old in execution but the writing is so good
as always, well done! I've been waiting for someone to do a video like this -- so glad it was you! This deserves many more views, as LOTRO deserves so many more players! Thank you for such an excellent archaeological overview of this well-loved game.
What a perfect love letter to LOTRO! This video has reinvigorated me to want to do a completionist trip through LOTRO - I've gone through it many times but it's been awhile since I slowed down enough to experience the whole story on a single toon. Thanks so much for putting this together!
gotta love the band that was playing in your weatherstock clip
What a fantastic recap! I have played to current endgame with one character and through most of it with a few more so this wasn’t a spoiler for me, but it did remind me of some things I had forgotten and flagged a couple things I had missed. It was nice to get it all recapped like this. Great writing and production.
What an amazing video, it was a really faithful retelling of the broad strokes of this game, absolutely amazing work. Thank you for your efforts.
This was very good. I've been playing LOTRO since launch in 2007 and seeing some of the story beats and locations in your video made me feel like playing them all over again even if I've been there many times throughout the years.
Really liking the channel!
awesome video as always! my only "criticism" is that you gave very little insight on how playing the game actually looks like, combat and questing etc., i think a lot of people watching this, who have never played the game themselves, would not have a great understanding on how actually playing the game is/was like. your retelling of LotROs story however was one of the (if not the) best i have seen on UA-cam or anywhere else so far!
what a wonderful video! i dont even wanna imagine how much effort this took, damn. ive been playing lotro on and off for 10 years now, and i gotta say, ive never even payed that much close attention to the story. its just my comfort game that i can play to chill out and turn my brain off a bit. but since they made so much content free to play, i started playing with a friend and i hope to actually pay attention to whats happening this time around hehe
Reflecting pools as well as a heavy amount of travel skills definitely help!
I've played lotro from Jan. 2008 - Oct 2009. So almost 2 years. And then had a short rerun in early 2012 for a few months.
Vanilla Lotro back in the day, before moria was a great experience during a great time.
I was 22, moved in with my girlfriend, we both had a lot of free time to spend ingame and we were willing to do just that.
Nowadays, that feels like a different life back then. It was our first MMO, which always adds a layer a magic ontop.
I will never be able to recreate the feeling of it beeing 4am on Sunday, Moria released a few days ago and me, my girlfriend and our guild are trying to clear the new dungeons and finally beat it, after like 4 hours of trying to understand and deal with the new mechanics. Back then, it felt like an achievment, nowadays, with 39 years on my back, it feels like wasted time.
Right on. Thanks for sharing.
This video was amazing, I especially loved you explaining what each expansion added to the game, and it was incredibly easy to follow your retelling of the main storyline. Total gem!
absolutely loved it
What a brilliant video!!!!
Thanks for this!
I’ve been playing off and on since beta, sometimes taking years off, but I only completed the Black Book last week.
The end of that quest line hits so much harder when it’s all laid out like this. Seeing how Ëarnur/Mordirith/Gothmog has been the player’s nemesis throughout the story is really cool and highlights just how well the story writing is in LoTRO. It can be easy to lose sight of when gameplay is spread over 15 years and with thousands of other quests going on around the main story.
I love how the player is always on the edge of the main story of LOTR without becoming too involved. While you meet the Fellowship, they have their quests and you have yours. Sometimes they align and sometimes you are far from them. But you have your own story.
I hope they can continue on for a while longer. And even if they run out of stories to tell, I hope the servers stay up for decades. Or at least until another game comes along where you can find so much enjoyment just riding a horse through middle earth seeing the sights you’ve read about so many times.
Fantastic video, it really captures the grand scope of LOTRO. Your narration and editing are terrific. I do suggest using shorter solid black transitions unless you put some text or chapter cues in them. Great job, and I plan to return and watch the part between Edoras and your conclusion, I skipped that much because even though I’ve been playing for two years I am not quite up to that point in the story yet!
Thanks for the feedback!
Much like Lotro this is a video I’ve now returned to a couple of times months apart and I just wanted to say what a beautifully put together piece it is. It sums up very well what makes the game so great and unique. I first played Lotro as a young teenager and have now returned to playing it as young father. And I hope to one day still be playing it perhaps with my kid when he grows up!
Really amazing video. I can really tell the passion that you have, and how quickly the quality on your productions have become better and better. Excited for whatever you put out in the future.
Excellent video! Thanks for your work!
This was fun to listen to. I played this for many years, but stopped for a few, and when I tried to return, my server was gone along with Turbine and my characters were gone too. Never had the heart to return.
I think ultimately things would have been better if they chose a different time period. Essentially, everything in the game happens within 1, maybe 2 years. And people have been playing for over 10 years, the amount of movement your character does in that time with all the quests is hard to believe once you start thinking too much about it.
Its a great game though and I enjoyed my time with it. But I think the best games that capture the feeling of the world are actually the tabletop RPGS, The One Ring.
really enjoyed this. thank you for making this
And, an awesome video as always! Keep it up :)
Love your LOTR and LOTRO videos. Will you play and make content about the new vanilla server called Echoes of Angmar?
I am not sure to be honest, i also don't really know the 'legal status' i guess of that project. But as i was not playing the game during those early Shadows of Angmar days, it does sound really interesting to experience!
@@Burning-Embers Yeah I feel you. Hopefully it is all legally clear and fine so we can experience an LOTRO Classic just as the WoW fans have :)
@@Burning-Embers It's a fan project so it's not Officially Supported and tbh, there is every indication some Action(s) will be taken against it eventually.
While it doesn't seem like it will "Make Money" it will take away even a small amount of Players, cause issues when we start seeing people posting on the Official Forums about "Why can't I log into Echoes of Angmar? or Why is there X Issue with Echoes of Angmar? etc" which will lead the SSG LOTRO Team to have to keep posting about how they aren't involved, etc.
wow, this video is awesome. Great work!
The passion and the commitment! 👏👏
think you might just have earned yourself another subscriber
I loved this game. I joined before the Mines of Moria released and bought the lifetime-sub package...only for Codemasters to exit and hand it back to Turbine. I'm to blame for not responding to their prompts in time and therefore lost my entire life-sub account & toons when Turbine took over. Back then Wardens could simply walk into Mordor.
LOTRO's story and overall work are so good - the guys at Amazon had to quit their own project for LOTR MMO game
I’m seriously debating playing LotRO. I’m on a huge LotR kick right now and I’ve always been a huge lore buff in general whether it’s WoW, Warhammer 40k, Game of Thrones, LotR and Harry Potter (I blame my Wife for this). If I play LotRO I really want to get entrenched in the story.
Codemasters was the original owners of LOTRO before selling it to turbine i played for about 3 years before it before turbine took over and started to ruin it there was more people playing it when codemasters owned it as soon as turbine took over the game started going down hill and people started to leave ive been playing it since day one and i still play it to this day
I know this is an older comment, but as this is a common misconception I wanted to clear it up: Turbine took over the game development in 2001. Codemasters joined as a publisher for the european market in 2006 but the developer was still Turbine. In 2010 Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment bought Turbine and as a result a year later in 2011 Codemasters left and Turbine took over the publishing in the europen market themselfs. So while many players only knew Codemasters because they sold the game in the first years, the developer was always Turbine from the beginning. In 2016 Standing Stone Games was founded with the staff from Turbine and at the same time Daybreak Game Company took over the publishing. So while the company had a new name, the people where still mostly the same as before. Of course we don't know how many of the original Turbine staff are still working at SSG today.
a very well done job and an amazing video, thank you
the kind of video that i love, thank you.
you cab find the remnants of the fire Strider and Celebrond built to chase the Black riders into the river when they were washed away by Elnron and Gandalf too it is on the side of the road at the crossing.
Kind of a shameless plug, but I actually show that detail in this video! ua-cam.com/video/-pfx-Z_rWKA/v-deo.html
ein Jahr später, tolles Video
Great watch friend!
What’s the music that plays at 45 mins? Beautiful??
I found it here! It's the third song in the video called 'The Shadows Linger':
ua-cam.com/video/dX8676K-_Bs/v-deo.html
@@Burning-Embers thank you!
Aubreytheweirdone also makes pretty good LOTRO videos though I’m not certain how long she has been doing it
But then there are also the horrible lags. The lags!
If the code wasn't spaghett, I'd have an easier time recommending it some others.
The truth is, LOTRO 2 deserves to be made. The world of Tolkien needs to be experienced in a new, cutting edge engine.
There's already another lotr mmo being made.
I'll be watching this instead of the trash Amazon show lol
4:10 lol the korean translation is totally incorrect 😂😂😂😂
Ha ha what does it say?
Amazing! Very impressive job. Thank you for showing the beauty of the game.
I started playing this in late January after someone shilled it on /v/ it's a great game.