So I played LORD OF THE RINGS: THE THIRD AGE For The First Time...
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 30 ก.ย. 2022
- The era of Lord Of The Rings games features a multitude of excellent titles. However, I missed out on The Third Age which is basically Final Fantasy X for people who were afraid of becoming weebs in the early 2000s.
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I will never lose hope of getting an HD version of this game at some point.
A key issue is how the License for such works and why it's never happened. They, being Electronic Arts, would need a new License to be able to do anything such as a Remaster, HD Edition, etc. It doesn't seem like they ever will do such as another Franchise, Harry Potter and the EA Games for it seem to be the same way.
It would be really good if they did, especially if they kept "most" of what these Lord of the Rings & Harry Potter Games had back in the day, improve certain things and so on. But I just don't think it'll ever happen unless there is several people in key positions on both the EA-side and now Embracer Group-side (they own the Rights to the LOTR Games & Licenses) and they come to a deal.
If you play on emulator, there's a fan hd textures in internet, so..
An official one might never happen. Lord of the Rings/Middle-Earth ip is expensive as shit and the Tolkien Estate knows that
Mclassic
and twin towers or return of the king, man those were fun hack n slash games
That fight with the Balrog is unironically one of my favorite boss battles in any game. The whole Mines of Moria segment was so haunting and the ending setpiece was perfect.
I could never get past that part as a kid :(
i thought it was hilarious how easy it was to kill the party in evil mode
Yeah totally, when I played LotR The Third Age for first time, I were 12-13 y.o and the mines of Moria was almost a nighmare for me as well the Castle wall fight at end of LoTR Two Tower movie (Forgetten the name)
BRO! i coulnt pass it either but i ordered the guide book as a kid and it finally told me!! you give idrial a water boosting item and she hits like 4 times the amount it was crazy lmao
I'm on that level now sir
I've wanted a remaster of this for so long. This game definitely didn't get enough attention back when it released. Really great FF LotR style game.
a remake would be better at this point. a remaster just wont make the cut. also i want more content for this bc it was such a great game, so we need a remake instead xd
I would legitimately play LOtR The Third Age co-op in 2022
You can, there's a 2 player mode. (^.^)
Well I sorta can because I got the game and my old PS2 but lost the other Controll over the years.. 😑
@@miniblasan5717 buy another controller
The first time I played, I reached Minas Tirith but then I suffered a glitch that caused the entire city to dissappear. Like an idiot, I saved (thanks to being near a save point) and ruined my entire playthrough.
The second time I reached all the way to the Witch King but couldn't beat him no matter what I did. It was well into my 3rd playthrough that I learned that the stat points aren't automatically used when you level up. Meaning I nearly beat the game twice at what was effectively lvl 1. Kinda proud of myself not gonna lie.
Theres no way bro. Helms Deep was damn impossible.
Actually now that i think about it i dont think i leveled up either
This era of LOTR games was so damn good. With the films fresh at that time, the games felt even better. Being a Gamecuber purist back then, I remember the cover art fondly, but I don't remember playing it - weird. I musta missed out. Great vid, big ups covering this 🤘
Great game. Absolutely, between two towers, RotK, third age, battle for middle earth, they just kept putting out hits. Hoping for a LOTR game renaissance!
I had this game on Xbox, it was great wish they had ported it to pc
I had on PS2, and I played it 4 or 5 times
This and the two ps2 LoTR games based on the movies aged like WINE. I assume they are not re-released because EA doesn't wanna pay royalties to all the cast.
I remember getting this on christmas eve waking up at 6 am the next day to play. I was like 8-9 y/o at the time. Now I'm 28. Such a nostalgia trip.
Reading comments like yours make me so happy because I relate to it. My grandpa gifted it to me on christmas eve too in 2004 (the year the game was released) and I instantly fell in love with it. I was 10 back then, now I'm 29, time flies. Sometimes I miss being a kid haha
The first fight against the 2 Oliphants was brutal, way more difficult than anything else in the game
yeah you have to go in with berethor out of the party so you can immediately switch to him to use stand fast and avoid being stunned. it's very annoying.
I played on Hard Mode 2 times and the hardest fight for me was the Nazguls on the Osgiliath roof top after you lose Idrial.
I know it’ll probably never happen, but I really want these classic Lord of the Rings titles to be remade, or at least remastered. A good third of my early gaming worldview was built on them.
It was impressive what they were able to do. EA only had rights to the LOTR films but they made it work. I still play this game every year or so
Ea is one of the best top notch developers period.
Wasn't spartan total warrior ea as well
Black was ea I mean cmon whatcha talking about
@@michaelb7163no, creative assembly
Those inserts are part of the retro game time capsule. It’s cool to look at what was going on during the time of game’s release and take a trip down memory lane.
Yeah I loved to read them when getting new games, and was always delighted when they actually had units discriptions in them, lore etc. God, so many memories ;)
What I loved about The Third Age is that it wasn't just another movie tie in game, it kinda was, but you get introduced to new characters, and this game is the reason why I never was upset with how linear final fantasy 10 or 13 was, like yeah you walk in a straight line to go to the next combat encounter basically, but the story, the lore, and the world and the characters are what kept me playing
EXACTLY. I'll never understand that "it's linear" complaint. It helps the game's pacing, never frustrates players with random mazes or pointless areas, makes sure character stat progression is adequate, difficulty is better balanced...
@@Walamonga1313 I agree. I like exploration in games but sometimes it gets boring walking around in a giant open world map. Linear games just get you into the story and gameplay asap.
yup, with also allot of these games just have the actual actors doing dialog which is kind of amazing. imagine watching a film then playing a well made game with the actors today. minor complaint which i didn't have at the time but it would be cool, it would have been nice to fight Sauron rather than fight the eye.
It's a fun game, but it does suffer badly sometimes from being so closely tied to the movie script. The bit in Rohan where totally-not-Aragorn does the whole "tracking speech" thing, for example. Instead of it being a brilliant bit of deduction to track down Merry and Pippin it becomes "oh look, those two corpses 5 feet away from us must have been the villagers"
This game legit is one of my favourite games of all time. It’s difficult if you play on the hardest difficulty but the challenge is worth it…. FYI if you struggle, major tip, get Idrial maxed out on all power moves, as her healing, reviving, and status effects are a must need, especially towards the last parts of the game. I barely ever used her to hit foes during my last play through, (6 months ago) she was just buffing my team mates with spells, like if a member falls they automatically get revived etc. she’s a must.
I am gonna play another run through of this soon as I want to complete the game with a different line up, as I always use Idrial, Berethor and Hadhod, so wanna do a play through with 3 other of them characters. Only annoying thing about doing that, is alot of characters arnt unlocked till your Rohan progression, and half the game is completed by this point, so it’s hard to build up their move sets, but that’s the challenge, I’m gonna have to do this soon now.
@@chrism4403 I know you think you’re being a clever dick, but it’s not as simple as that, hence why I’m mentioning it, it takes a long time unlocking Idrial’s spirit power tree and the ability to cast spells that can cause these effects, hence it classifying as a tip, as I’ve just started again, and I’ve just been grinding encounters to get Idrial first revive type spell and it’s taken a few hours just to unlock it, so no it’s not just healing, and anyway, you’re not healing, it’s a spell that’s used on members that aren’t fallen, to revive any member should they fall, so it’s much better than just useless healing spells, also after the character revives you also receive a full amount of AP for that character to use, so it’s a must need. So the tip is grind at the beginning which will then make your progress in the game easy, as I said I’ve been grinding for a few hours, in my current game, I’m 4 hours in and I’ve only progressed 2%, so that’s the tip. So feel better now I’ve literally had to spell it out for you as your not intelligent enough to work that out for yourself? You’re welcome 🙄
The Rohan chick is op when maxed out
I always play on Hard, it ironically makes it easier to level your party since it takes longer to beat enemies on Hard mode. So you end up being more powerful and have more skills unlocked than you would on Easy
I forgot the name of Idrial's spells but I remember discovering the game breaking strategy of casting double spells with her so that she revived if fainted and an ally would. Rinse repeat. Rinse repeat.
@@rouge4nimal253 It’s not a spell, all characters can spend AP on double goes either attacks or powers depending on the character, costs alot but yes was so worth it. Cus you could do that with Berethor with sword attacks, and if you unlock the move where he does like 6 powerful hits and you’ve powered him up, you can potentially do a series amount of damage, as long as you grind out unlocking all the moves and put the time in doing that, then you pretty much become invincible. Then if you run out of AP just bait a character to die once you’ve used Idrial spell to bring them back should they fall with AP restored, you revive with maxed out AP to go again. Literally invincible, especially cus Betethor can use taunt so you can easily bait him to be killed to be immediately revived.
Great that you gave this one a go. This is such a cool mix of things. Japanese style JRPG mechanics in a LOTR setting, something that on paper sounds quite weird, but it works fantastic.
Playing through this game on medium difficulty right now! One of the best games I've ever played. So glad I have an OG Xbox to play this in it's original glory
A gem of its time. Remember spending a weekend co-oping this with a friend and had such great fun.
Man, u do such a great job on ur videos. Ur delivery, enthusiasm, and obvious love for video games shines thru in each video u make. Never once have I watched one of them and thought u didn't put ur all into it. U make quality content, and seem to have a great time doing it! Thank u Matty for bringing good vibes. Even when u are down or disappointed in something, u still seem to work ur way to positivity. True talent, my friend.
Wow i just recently figured out how to emulate this game on my PC (PS2 version) and have been sinking dozens of hours into it. Amazing blast to the past that definitely needs a remaster! Bring us more turn based LOTR!!
Very cool, how'd you manage this?
I’ve emulated it too! I was able to grind out every single skill for every character. Takes forever but worth it to be absolutely OP. 😂 I used PCSX2 btw.
I'm doing the same thing right now, until I saw it while looking for games to emulate I never even knew this game was on PS2. I had a friend bring it and his GameCube over when we were teens and idk if he told me it was exclusive or if I just assumed but I always thought the game was only on GameCube lol.
I usually never subscribe to channels like either of yours but you’re great at what you do so I’ve subbed to both.
Can’t wait for Buu’s Fury.
It is so criminal how small this channel is compared to the quality of these videos. Easily the most underrated channel I’m watching right now. Stay on it man, love your stuff!
Played this game back when it came out back in 2004 as a kid and was confused and frustrated at it. Ended up swearing it off. 10 years later, in 2014, fresh out of high school, I gave it another go and it is now one of my favorite RPG's. Glad you gave this one a look, Matty!
This is one of my favorite games of all time and the nostalgia is overflowing! I sincerely hope we get a new era of LOTR rpgs. You sir are quickly becoming one of my favorite channels to watch. Thank you for the great content!
Something cool about playing this game, on older hardware, was that on down to the wire moments or epic battles. The frame rate would drop slightly and it would create this kinda "momentum" in the game that I found super cool when playing.
Damn, when I played this was back when it came out. A Lord of the Rings RPG with a JRPG-style battle system. I loved it.
I LOVE evil mode. My favorite thing to do was get to the point where I could get that really dope sword for Berethor then use that evil mode to stack a new playthrough and start over 😂
One of the few turn based games I loved as a kid. I remember having such a hard time with the witch king boss. Loved this game!
another great video man i love your channel and loved the legacy of goku videos you’ve made
Watching this, seeing most of the videos in your history, I've played/like many of them. You got yourself a subscriber.
Thanks for a detailed video on this great game. I used to play this with my brother on the original XBOX. Many memories with this game and what a great generation of gaming this was.
This was one of mine and my brothers favorite PS2 games growing up, glad you're playing it!
Thanks for covering this! I loved this game when it came out.
@ 15:30
A lot of the weapons and armor reflect real equipment from the movies. Idrial gets a copy of Theoden’s Sword. Berethor straight up gets Narsil and it’s the 3rd best sword in the game! I think Hadhod gets Gimli’s walking Axe early on too.
The visuals are on point with this game and I love it!
I've loved seeing your LOTR videos. I have all of these games on my OG XB and a couple for my GC. I actually kinda liked The Third Age. Good video my guy!
always make my day with new videos on this channel ❤
only sitting down to watch this but wow what a throwback, played the absolute heck out of this when I was younger
Ah, the Fellowship of the Second String, as a gaming magazine called it in review. Except for being forced to watch the trilogy again inside the game, a fun experience back in the day. I liked replaying the levels as the villains for extra loot, it was a cool mechanic
Love this game! I remember picking it up on release day and playing it everyday after school with my sister until we beat it. For a movie tie-in side-story RPG it is a very good game. Glad I came across this video!
Loved this game, and still do. Play it about once every 2 years just for the memories. Always reccomend to play this to anyone thats looking for older games to play.
I remember this game being amazing! Love this channel for the simple fact it reminds me of amazing games I played as a kid.
Oh yeah! Matty coming in with another LoTR video
At the time I was I impressed with the graphs and the e fact that the armor would carry to the cut scenes.
YES! Finally. So so so good... I finally replayed it on a PS2 Emulator program on my PC this year. So nostalgic.
I remember a magazine at the time refering to the characters as "the junior varsity team" and that always stuck with me. Loved the game.
Played this a lot as a kid. Glad you got the chance to experience it, Matty :)
The mix up between the movie scenes and gameplay really sets the tone perfectly.
You can actually see the fellowship fighting the watcher earlier out in the distance. After you get Elegost you go up to the edge of the cliff over looking the water and you can see them fighting.
Definitely one of my most favorite games! I'd love to experience a next installment or something like that, in another franchise/universe.
I loved this game so much! Played it all the way through myself, then played the whole thing on co-op with my friend in high school
The PS2 trilogy of LOTR's games were just incredible. This game was great as well. I just hope these PS2 games get remastered or re-released at some point as I would love to play them again. Great video! :)
the only problem is that Third age ran like absolute shit on PS2 , i remember back in the day i rented it first and after that weekend i bought the gamecube version instead , hoping it wouldn't have so much slowdown
I have so many memories of this game. I've played it through dozens of times and even unlocked all skills on characters. My dad, me and my brother all played this one.
I love your content about old games, reminds me of the golden era of PS2, for me the best video game that we’ve ever had. Greetings from Brazil
first time a watched a video of you and i liked it very fun to watch
I love when you on the mountain at moria , you can see the fellowship fighting the kraken in the distance
See this is what I miss about physical video games. It was the random stuff you found in the box that was exciting to me for some reason. 😂
Great video Matty, your thoughts and insight into this video game were interesting, to be honest I have only played 2 lord the rings games even though the Lord the rings trilogy is one of my favorite movie trilogies ever. The games I played are this game and return of the King game. Love both but The third age is definitely my favorite
Dude im playing this game as we speak on my PS2, i freaking love this game so much, Two Towers and ROTK are great games aswell. Wanted to play some old games, currently playing Third Age, Shadow Of Rome, God Hand and a couple of the OG Dynasty Warriors games. Your the bomb Matty 👊🏻
I have a lot of fond memories of watching my dad play this game as a kid. There’s also a pseudo new game plus mode in this game where you can use the rewards from the end game evil mode battles and give them to a new save file
Played this game on ps2 as a kid, now i remembered it and i wanna replay so bad, never understood the game back then but it had such a strong ambient mood
I started this game years ago on the Gamecube when I rented it but never finished it. Just started playing through this on my Steam Deck and it's working great so far. 😁
This was the game i encouraged all my friends to try out and now its a group classic that we talk about regularly
I seriously need a remastered and sequels for this game, plus I love the idea how it was co-op cause I help my friend out in the game
This game is amazing. I loved playing local co-op with buddies growing up. So much fun.
i played through this game many times back in the day and i just picked it up again from my locale retro game store.
i think i remembered the massive difficulty spikes at Pelenor Field when i fought those Haradrim Mumakil, it keeps stun my whole party and killed me lol
I was really into this game for a short time. Once every encounter was a slight variation of the same enemies, (with or without flags or other tiny distinctions), I grew suddenly burned out. They badly needed more enemy variety.
This got me into final fantasy games more because of this title. It felt more simple, maybe because I was more familiar with LOTR terminology, and the character arcs through the movies made sense.
I bought this game when it came out. And at that time I'd never finished a RPG.
I had "friends" that kept telling me "I couldn't play this game if I hadn't played a Final Fantasy before".
Cool video. I forgot this game existed. I know you said you were playing the GameCube version, but I def saw PS2 button prompts on screen 😂
Lots of memories with this game :) one of the greatest Ps2 games for me
I remember loving this game about 14 years ago back home on my PS2.
I remember fighting the balrog for the first time in this game it was one of the hardest fights ever but so fun.
That one damn fight at Helms Deep. If youve played, you know the one I'm talking about. That took me 10+ tries as a kid lmao. Love this gane.
I still love this game. Played it through back into 2020 and reckon its about time to play again
This one of my favorite games. I still play it till this day. Best Lord of the Rings game by far.
Battle for middle Earth was also great.
I used to think that i misremembered this game from my childhood, like some kind of fever dream. LOTR turn based game? No way. I was right though and all the memories came flooding back. So glad Matty is giving it a shout out. It deserves a fresh coat of paint.
[Yes i'm double dipping with a second comment but what the hell... FOR THE ALGORITHM!!!]
I really enjoyed this game as a kid. This was my second turn-based game. My first was Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban on the Game Boy Advance.
I’m a great fan of this. I have it on Xbox and still revisit that generation more than I probably play brand new stuff x
I remember getting this on holiday in America back on 2006 and finally coming home to the UK and the family PC not being able to run it. It's weird seeing gameplay all these years later
Mr matty I know you said who would want to play this game in coop? I would hop on a plane tomorrow to come play that game with you in coop because this game and and my step bro played it as kids and absolutely loved it! I know this is late just now coming across this video but damn I hope the remaster this game one day
I got this game for Christmas when it came out and I never heard of it at the time, but my mom new i loved LOTR so she grabbed it. I am so glad she did as a big Final Fantasy fan also this was an unexpected game I fell in love with! I couldn't put it down for the next few weeks until i beat it! Sadly one of my friends at the time stole it from me soon after 🙄. But I grabbed another copy years later for 10 bucks to relive the those great memories of grinding through this unexpected game that became one of my favorite games!
I played this game so much that my disc literally stopped working lol, whenever I replayed it it would get stuck in a specific loading screen in Moria (I think when you go from West to East).
So I begged my dad to get another copy and thankfully he did. I still have both on my shelf
my generation had this, the ps2 lotr games and bfme1 and 2 on pc and xbox 🔥🔥🔥
My husband and I played this game together and LOVED IT. I'd love to see this get a remaster.
Loved this game as a kid! My only gripe was the ability leveling. I always got to the end of the game before I even unlocked the last, really cool abilities in the tree, or i would just get the last ability in the tree before the game ended and I couldn't even enjoy the fruits of all that hard work. But once you finish the story, there isn't any way to continue into a new playthrough to get those final abilities. I did find an exploit, though. Going back to the very first area of the game, you can find groups of orcs with the flag bearers. If you kill the offensive orcs, the flag bearers have no offensive attacks, so if you stick to using attacks that deal no damage, you can level up your abilities to the max after a lengthy grind in a single battle. That's the only way I found to be able to get the big splashy abilities early on and then get to use and enjoy them longer.
If you play on Hard it becomes much easier to get those later skills because the enemies take longer to beat giving you more actions in each fight. Last time I played I had Berethor's final 5-strike attack by the time I got to Helm's Deep and I didn't even need to do any farming
Brother and i couch cooped this- its a classic for us
The encounters get thrown at you like crazy in mines of moria. Which is canonically accurate but damn its a brutal section because every 5 steps you have to fight 4 to 5 goblins or 2 cave trolls lol
Dude, I loved this video, great review 4 sure!👍♥️🎮
I remember buying this from a Re«Play game store like almost 10 years ago, thinking it was Return of the King.
I took it back (for 3 whole entire dollars of "store credit" lol) once I realized it was turn-based gameplay because that just is NOT "my cup of tea" for gaming. But this makes me want to go look up all of the cut scenes at least.
I loved this game growing up! I actually played with someone else so I would've loved to have that experience again.
I've been wanting to replay this game again for a while now too, I think I need to move it up the list and just do it already
This was a pleasant blast from the past.
my nana bought it for me one christmas and i was kinda upset that it was turned based but ended up playing it a lot and loving it. so jealous you got a physical copy cib. when i was collecting games i had this one on my list but never got around to acquiring it. i need to fix that!
Bro I would have played co-op with you 🤣 one of my own personal underrated favorites
One of the best games ever made.
Had so much fun with this on my gamecube.
Playing the ps2 version again but on my series x.
Still amazing. 😀
I remember this game was a pleasant surprise at the time. I hope it gets ported or remade someday.
The co-op mode was pretty fun. Once you get the full roster of PC’s each player controls the actions of certain characters. Player 1 controls characters A-D and player 2 controls characters E-I
I remember picking up a copy for GameCube and miss this game so bad I’m definitely gonna track down a copy of this again
This game has amazing combat system indeed, it reminds me of Final fantasy X too but is not the only turn based rpg that does that, there's many.
This game was really fun 😊
The third age was brilliant. I loved that game. I played it a ton. This brings back memories. Such a great game and it was a great turn based rpg.. Damn I miss that game. If I ever see it again I'm definitely picking it up and playing it on the wii.
One thing a lot of people may not know, the developers actually wanted to bring stuff in from the books and expand the games story by a lot. They just weren’t allowed to do so because they only had licensing for the movies. Its one of the reason the story can feel restricted