lord of the rings online

LotrO: Of Champions and Crafting.

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I reached level 13 with my champion last night and finished the Ered Luin part of the elf epic quest series. The last step of which is to form a fellowship and go into an instance which, like every fellowship instance I’ve seen so far, is escorting some NPC through a mission on rails — entirely … Read more

LotRO: The Champion

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Whatcha reading? The Fellowship of the Ring? Dude, Gandalf isn’t really dead. Oh yeah, and Frodo like totally wants to keep the ring at the end but Gollum grabs it and falls into Mount Doom.
Busy busy weekend but I found a little time to play in the Lord of the Rings Online Open Beta. I played a Hobbit minstrel in the stress test; time to check out the other classes to see what they were like.

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LotRO vs Vanguard

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After a weekend on LotRO, a game I wasn’t all that excited about, I wanted to play more. After a weekend playing Vanguard, a game I was very much looking forward to, I never wanted to play again. The difference? In Vanguard, I had an incredible sense that I had played this game before… many … Read more

LoTRO Post Mortem

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Lord of the Rings Online is a casual MMO very much in the mold of World of Warcraft. After the stress test ended, I hoped I could play some more and will likely pre-order it. I don’t see this becoming my primary game, but I usually have a “serious” game and a “relax” game. My serious game at the moment is EverQuest 2. LotRO is well placed to be my “relax” game.
Here are the pros and cons I saw in my six or so total hours of play over the weekend.

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LotRO Stress Test: The Shire

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lotr-queue.jpgReturned to the game only to be put in a queue. The game initially said it would be fifteen minutes before I got in the game, but it was more like five. I hate queues. Not for the first time, I wonder what “Game Experience May Change During Online Play” really means.

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