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The Lord of the Rings Online is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) for Microsoft Windows and OS X set in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth, taking place during the time period of The Lord of the Rings. Originally developed by Turbine, the game launched in North America, Australia, Japan, and Europe in April 2007 as The Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar. Players could create characters of four races and seven classes and adventure throughout the region of Eriador. In November 2008, Mines of Moria expansion was released, adding the region of Moria and two new playable classes. It was followed by the Siege of Mirkwood in December 2009. In 2010 the game underwent a shift from its original subscription-based payment model to being free-to-play.
The game saw continued development, alternating between paid expansions and free updates, which added new content in the regions of Isengard, Rohan and Gondor. In late 2016 it was announced that the publishing of the game would transfer from Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment to Daybreak Game Company, with development being taken over by Standing Stone Games, made up of former Turbine staff. The game development continued and in 2017 the Mordor expansion was released, bringing the main storyline to a close. The game then shifted to portraying the aftermath the downfall of Sauron as well telling the "Tales of Yore" which chronologically precede the main story, with Minas Morgul expansion released in 2019 and the Fate of Gundabad expansion released in 2021.
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Do you play Lord of the Rings online?
I haven’t played lotro in a very long time due to nerve damage in my shoulder making my arm very hard to move after certain activities one being pc gaming of all things to trigger nerve damage but I can play on the switch just fine so I’ll be getting a steam deck soon and back to my fav game of all time ! Besides legend of dragoons
@@muscadineman45pritchett82 wow i had no idea those consoles helped people like you. that is amazing, best of luck
Yes
Yep..
@muscadineman45pritchett82 I'm sorry about nerve damage. It's awesome to hear that switch and stem deck help you with keep on playing your fav games!
Honestly after countless hours of fast paced modern games like csgo/league of legends etc. coming back to an older classic mmorpg is so calming and nostalgic to me. This game gives an amazing raw rpg feel that is enjoyable and set in an amazing universe.
Couldn’t agree more.
Translation: it sucks 😂
what you on about@@xgtwb6473
@@xgtwb6473
That’s your opinion
@@xgtwb6473 I have the same opine as you.
been playing lotro since 2010, and i'm always finding new things to discover, and new stories to learn while questing :)) if you love strong stories, lotro offers a lot!
I love how in the background of the video you had full on Lone-Lands themes. Respect!
ive been playing lotro off and on for 11 years now, and it will always have a special place in my heart for just being the most chill, pleasant experience in any mmo ive ever had. i hate the "grind to the max level" shit, i want to take my time and not be rushed in any way, and this game 100% lets you do that without naking you feel like youre missing the good parts of the game or whatever. like i said ive played for a long time and my highest character is on level 83, so :D bc this game has provided me well over 1500 hours of chill fun, im also willing to pay for things here and there. before the wonderful expanding of the free to play model, i would buy new regions every few years, but now i still have so much to explore!
Very much has a solo experience that can last a very long time. Think I did 400 or so quests before I tried my hand at a dungeon or two.
Love this game, started playing about a month back, just because I was curious and ended up absolutely loving it :)
Thats pretty cool!
I absolutely love the franchise. Even though I’ve never played any game, I would definitely play this as my first game! 👍🏼
Imagine they didnt cancel the remaster or remade the game with unreal engine 5, 4k textures etc. damn.
Loved this game. Superb soundtrack! 🧐
F2P is prefectry possible to paly all the game.
Just learn the deeds from starter zones to get a few extra point wenever you need with a new charecter then deleet.
Buy a House (storega there is sharede)
-to send gold to main charecter just go to Vault keeper and buy bags of coins, then put in house storage.
Join a kinship (guild) you get a free teleport from there to go to main zones
Your personal hous also gives you a free teleport there and to orher main zones.
Folow Main story (Epic book) that as no expancions requirements and take all the way to max lvl passing in zones that you may not have Unloked.
For extra lvls :
-missions
-Skirmish
-scaling isntances
Lotro store tips to buy: (sometimes on sales)
-iventory slots
-Auction house slots
-universal toolkit (crafting)
-Expancions or quest packs
Everything is already free till lvl 100
By then you can just unlock 1 or 2 expancions or push lvl i some isntances and missions to get to max lvl or to the last expancions content and go from there.
Good luck
download it and play it, its only like 30gbs. Tons of guides.
idk how but this game has been underrated for almost 20 years. if you havent played yet, definetly give it a go, you wont regret it, after you leave the starter zone the scale of middle earth really hits you
Great video man
I’ve ran in to so many gamers who have grown up and play this game with their families. I remember playing other games with them or even doing skirmishes near the beginning of the game. It’s pretty wholesome.
A tip foe Skirmishes and Dungeons : Use the LFF Chat Don't use the Instance finder.
7:08 - 1v1 Sparring exists, but of course that's not what PVPers are really looking for. 😅
Also, I thought the music, writing, and landscapes deserved a verbal mention, but pretty solid video!
Ya I realized once I released the video it SOUNDED like no other PVP existed including dueling.
Yeah the music is pretty capturing of the IP as well but I feel in general my videos give so much information usually, some things I may miss is relatively fine.
Appreciate you watching though! Even if it brings in a few players I did my job. 😀
That is why pvmp(player vs monster player) in the ettenmoores exists 😃 you jump in front of the creep(monster player) to challenge them to a 1v1. And if that creep accepts the challenge that monster player will jump in front of you as well. Then the 1v1 begins. And if anyone interrupts then that person is to be k.o.s.
I am thinking to play it again with my friend,I think its the only rpg game that I like ,thanks for the video!
Thanks for checking it out!
LOTRO is a dope game.
finally someone talking about the lag problem on lotro, its been there for the better part of a decade so i dont think ssg is going to fix it, really ruins the experience for new players :(
I started playing LOTRO in Nov 07, and have played it consistently since. it has been the only MMO that I keep going back to. No other that I have tried has kept me hooked as long.
Wardens are very unique and a well played warden is almost unbeatable.
One of my favourite things about lotro (besides the setting, which is fantastic) is the uniqueness of many of its classes. Cant think of another mmo with a class similar to lotros Warden, but even the classes that do have similarities to thoae found in other mmos are quite different here. Like the minstel...in terms of its role and place withing the game its not unlike the priest-type healers found in many games...but at the same time it doesnt play or feel anything like them
Lotro lv 126 captain here. You have good points there about the warden and the minstrel 😊. And the minstrel can teach other players to play instruments.
Nice video ❤
Lifer here been playing since open beta. I love the game.
Best way for experiment tolkien world after books. Yes better then the films imo. Such a beautiful, INCREDIBLE game.
It’s aged pretty well. Has a lot of systems that popular games have.
@@VagrantVideos yeah, the old mmo filings it's a thing too. A lot of player like me love playng "classing" things, and lotro it's a MASSIVE , infinite game that will always be here for play when you want, without massive or strange changing or rework on the base gameplay.
@@Wyxill imagine if some bigger content creators actually made some big videos for the game. It’d bring in some new fans. 🤔
I've played just about every mmo out there... most I don't play end game and Lotro is one of them. It feels very dated and clunky but the world and community seem so cool. I think I'll jump back in as an elf hunter and goof off a bit and see how it goes.
Bought this in 2011 and still playing...now with my son...😊
From an RPG element, I feel it beats most current MMOs...the lag and lack of PvP is the only major issues for me. I usually play for a few months, then the PvP itch comes back. If they had good faction based PvP, I wouldnt leave !!
I always get an itch to pvp eventually in an mmorpg. Seems like only the big titles have the population for it though.
@@VagrantVideos Surprising the devs seem to be actively working on the PvP all the time….but to what end? Just feels weird playing another char (monster) just for PvP. I’d love to see a whole side for monsters (PvE, like WoW) but that would cost a lot and dont know if population would support it.
@@VagrantVideos Also, I tend to always go back to WoW just for the pvp and always disappointed.
wow pvp is so static, but always kinda drags you back because its so responsive but the actual system in pvp is horrible!!!@@AxisSabian1
Can't believe you didn't mention the amazing music.
Sorry! I agree though it’s great music but in truth I typically listen to my own music when playing mmorpgs lol.
@@VagrantVideos Play it again with the music on. Headphones. It is such an integral part of LOTRO that you are missing a huge part of the game by not having it on.
Continue to play it, won't ever go away until the servers shut down.
Mostly just for the story, running around solo.
last time i played properly was when the moria dlc released. even then the community wasn't that big. i struggled to find groups to even do the book quests
Best Free to Play model in the MMO genre.
Buy the Lord of the Rings Audiobooks + Silmarillion and listen to it while exploring middleearth. Best experience!
I've been on an old/ dead mmo kick since the straggling players are usually super chill i completely forgor this one existed
My channel is basically all dead/forgotten mmorpgs.
Don't know what server you were playing but it have big influence about new players experience. Evernight(for european players) and Arkenstone (for USA) are servers where pvp is quite busy and there are capped kins (you can buy xp blocker in store) wnich doing seasonal lvl cap dungeons and raids so it is possible to experience raids from lvl 50 with them. There are also legendary servers wnich got progression blocked and updating from time to time for new people/nostalgia seekers.
I went to the server that I read online was the most populated
Greetings!
Nice video - you did lotro a lot of justice.
I´m in the game for nearly 16 years now. It was my first MMO and will probably be my last. There will never be a game where I´ll sink as much time as lotro. As you said, it is a classical mmo- tank, heal, dps and support. If you like that, than you´re on the right track to have fun.
For Tolkein fans it is the game to play. The worldbuilding is excellent. You can stroll trough Middle-earth and go to all the places you know from the books. (even Tom Bombadil is in it - looking at you Mr. Jackson)
However, it also has some drawbacks. You can call the graphics engine "dated", if you want to be kind. Personally I think for its age the landscapes are still very beautiful. The NPCs on the other hand look atrocious.
The most irksome problem is the server perfomance. The "lags" are sometimes really horrible. SSG promised, that they´ll switch to new servers, but i´ll not believe that until it finally happens.
If you want to do instances it is recommendable to join a kinship. The server population is mostly very welcoming to new players. Quick sidenote. Nearly nobody uses the group finder tool. Looking for fellowships is done over the chat-channel.
If you like Tolkein and old style MMOs you´ll probably like Lotro, too.
Join us in Middle-earth, the Free People are counting on you! ;-)
It’s almost criminal that the game never gets any sort of big coverage from TH-camrs. For the quality of it you would think it should be on par with WOW in terms of popularity.
@@VagrantVideos There are some. One of the best imo is Ghyngyn (hope I spelled it right). LOTRO has been overshadowed by WoW from the get go. I think if both games had rolled out at the same time, it could have had way more people. So it was always seen as a WoW clone. But for us Tolkien efficionados WoW never stood a chance. We have seen a small rise in players in wake of the god awful Tolkein parody that was RoP. But we lost almost all of them again. I for my part will be there until the servers shut down.
If you like Middle Earth and video games- Lotro is a must to play:D
LOL that Thriller bit.
The fact Rift, Lotro, GW2, FFXIV all have housing and some of them even guild halls is a fucking slap in blizzard's face and WoW not having the feature lol. Lotro is a very decent MMO and I hope the new MMO will be an upgrade if anything
If you are referring to the "amazon" on the horizon, don´t count on it beeing an upgrade. If they follow through on their statements, that "accuracy to Tolkeins lore isn´t as important as fun gamplay" (I´m paraphrasing here), then the game will be just another generic mmo where amazon slapps the lable LOTR in it. And I predict (and also hope) it´ll be a similar desaster as their Tolkein parody.
Hey I wanted to say if u havnt alrdy put it on your list, you should check out Ravendawn, it's just finishing up it's open beta part 1 with a part 2 TBA. It's kinda like if tibia and archeage had a baby, more of a BR population but I've bene enjoying it. Neways thanks again for covering niche and unknown mmos, it's how I found brokenranks, although pretty dead at this point, I have hope when it gets a steam release fresh start server, cheers!
Hey! Appreciate the support! Currently my next video project is Last Epoch but I’ll try to keep Ravendawn in mind. Is it 2D?
@@VagrantVideos Art style is 2D but not like maple story, it's isometric so more like diablo in 2D graphics
pretty sure this game has friendly dueling which is also considered pvp
bit late but the dungeon you didnt isnt all that hard the thing is that its intended for 6 people while you went in with 4. with you beign 3 levels under the instance. meaning you will miss a majority of you attacks. and another person at lvl 20 meaning they cant contubute much at all. so you ended up doing the dungeon with less than half the intended ammount of players.
One Game to rule them all
Pvp will never change in Lotro, it's been the same since launch in 2007 and a BIG reason i left the game many many many years ago
A graphical overhaul was actually announced but still hasn't come to fruition
To be fair. This no such thing as Pay2Win in lotro bc there is nothing special to "win". Additional Stats boost from the shop for examples are basically useless and not worth mentioning at all. You could at least argue that its "pay2skip the grind" and even though there are no big benefits to it besides u wont be able to get best in slot items by paying real money. By loot boxes u probalby have the chance to get a pre bis item wich is - at the current patch - also useless bc there are other ways to optain good items with a fun and engaging way to di so due to the delving system. Also cosmetics shouldnt be bought from the shop bc you can get all of these by playjng the game too...
the best f2p game out there, outside of private servers of course
100%
they gave out all the expansions a while ago and i got em might have to download it again and give it a try
Issue is that it aint as classic as its used to be, as it used to have:
- deeds beingneven more unique
- specs being so unique that they were reasonably not called specs
- difficulty was complete different, aka. instead of "kill x boars" it felt like group dark souls.
As a fan of the game who also is realistic about its limitations, I consider this to be a very fair review. "Play to Earn" is a very apt description of the model.
I would point out that you can buy one month of VIP for $15, and then cancel and become a Premium tier member. Premium folks have more character slots, shared storage (I think) and auction house slots, as well as a couple of other benefits versus F2P accounts.
Additionally - and this is the really important bit! - any characters you create and log in with during your VIP month will retain their expanded inventory slots (75 instead of 45) and Swift Travel access that F2P and Premium folks otherwise do not get.
It is a huge QOL improvement for a fairly small amount of cash in the long run.
Holy potatoes that’s a really neat reward given to premium players. The inventory was definitely a headache that seems to be easily circumnavigated that way. Thanks for checking out the video btw!
@@VagrantVideos A couple of summers ago, I went through a few different classic MMOs to relive some nostalgia. Overall I came to realize something that you seem to have, as well. These legacy games are much better off if they get acquired by some holding companies versus others. I'm very glad that LOTRO did not become another G*****o dumpster fire.
Cash shop is not an issue at all .... in a game you mostly play to "Play the game", to be IN the game world - buying a level boost, or considering it a pay-to-win is just silly
Some would disagree which is why I presented both sides of the argument. I showed how much I earned in 40 hours and that was with casual play so I think most mmo veterans could see that the cash shop is very fair. Others will see that you can buy the stat tomes and view it as pay to win.
it’s a pretty old game but i’m looking to get into mmos, should i play this? can i find people to actively play with?
The game had quite a lot of players
“Nurgolas” lmao
Best name generated 100%
The group finder is pretty bad, just search for a group in the world chat
thank you babby
Eyyyy
I would recommend avoiding this until they implement UI scaling. The games been out for 15 years and you still can’t scale the UI. So if you want to play at anything higher than 1080p you won’t be able to see any of the UI.
It’s funny, for how long 4k has been a thing a ton of computer applications don’t scale properly.
You can scale the UI, on fact you can individually scale each ui element independently and move them wherever you want...it's been that way for at least 7 years, when I first played it, and possibly longer than that. The scaling sliders are in the UI section of the settings menu (exactly where you'd expect them so don't know how you missed that) and you can unlock the elements to reposition them with shift+#
@@unholyxeras8182 show me how to scale your bags and your item icons in your bags and your character sheet and your equipment icons in your character sheet.
@@AFpaleoConI'll admit I use a plugin to manage my bag so I'm not sure what the default bag situation is with scaling but I could have sworn I saw a slider for that. I'm not at my pc at this exact moment though so I'll have to get back to you on that one haha
lets talk about how long it takes to download and install the game
What you mean? Only took me about 20 mins or so but I have decent internet.
He created Thriller....Thriller...
I quit LotR online and went to DDO(Dungeons and Dragons Online), easily the best decision of my life. DDO is smaller of a game, in terms of "Open" world. But DDO gives you limitless freedoms and you can play with your friends/family immediately. When me and my wife tried LotR we were years away from each other, I mean we were on the other sides of the world. With DDO's new lag fix coming out I will find myself spending at least another 500+ hours to 1k+ hours in DDO rather than going back to LotR online. I hope this makes sense to a lot of people, I hope you make a video of DDO after the lag fix. Awesome videos as always! I think LotR improved a lot over the years. I had a 100 ranger back in the day but idk, never liked a lot about the game. Just sharing my expereince of switching from LotR to DDO haha.
LOTRO feels a lot like a more casual theme park mmo while DDO feels like the more hardcore version. Difficulty is night and day between the two games.
@@VagrantVideos right! Looking forward to more mmo reviews!
@@TheWayManREAL Last Epoch is next up depending on if I can get 30-50 hours into it within the next week lol.
You literally have to play for just 1-2 hours to get to each other in the quest storyline leading to Bree-town. Also you could just run or make a character with the same race or starting area 🤦♂️
I can't get LOTR to work on my PC. I have a new machine but it hangs on the launcher update? Anyone?
Not sure on that one, check the forums.
Lotro captain main here. I can only guess 2 things. 1)you might need to update your graphics card drivers(if you have an Nvidia card then you use GeForce experience to see what driver you have) 2) did you download the game using steam? The game has issues with steam.
@@morrowoblivion13 Thanks for responding. I update my drivers all the time. And I play D&D Online just fine...same engine right?
@@Matterian I think it is the same engine. Idk for sure
You can pvp players normally... You just walk up to them and challenge them to a duel
I’m talking arenas or open world pvp. The dueling thing I just didn’t mention, but overall traditional pvp is not in the game. Thematically it wouldn’t make sense though, like why would the last hope for middle earth be killing each other in battle?
@@VagrantVideos Thematically or not I don't think the game was made to support pvp. Class imbalances etc.
next archeage pls
pls
I did archeage a long time ago.
Is this game worth playing for a newbie considering the people playing for 18 years.
I was a newbie when I started playing for the video and I felt right at home as an mmo player.
@@VagrantVideos Thank you I'll give it a shot.
@@Ironclad6661 so how is that shot going so far?
The $$$$ to play this game is nuts
Style world of Warcraft!!!
Style?
@@VagrantVideos I mistyped... this game is similar wow!!
HECK Y#AH
How the hell do you're graphics look like that please help?
From what I remember there is a texture pack you have to download in the options menu or something like that.
This game makes me feel like I had a dad
Can....can you elaborate on that?
i’m gonna download this and get high and i’ll let you know if i feel the same
yeah it did
Is it worth investing time in this game for free are there pay walls?
I think it’s a fun experience.
Very little pay walls, really the only free to play restriction that is a bit annoying is inventory space. You can earn literally everything else.
If u grew up playing legend of dragoon or acorina of time or
Any other adventure type games or if ur someone who enjoys reading and gaming lotro will hit the spot
Is this like eso
No, combat is tab target.
THRILLA
Got about 1000h played time. The world, story, music and lore are the best parts of the game. Community very nice as well. Hopefully SSG doesn't totally ruin the original lore but it seems to be going into a worse direction (looking at the upcoming patch especially)
New class isn’t hype?
@@VagrantVideos It might be good. Not happy about the new "customization" options for humans though... Devs focusing on creating bearded women with orcish features when they should be fixing the lag
@@59Lemony the lag during my play through was terrible
I 100% agree. I was thinking about coming back but once I found out about the woke BS they are introducing I decided against it. First Amazon ruins LOTR and now this. Many other great mmorpg's to play.
@@gamergrandpa1126 So, having all options to make any character you want is woke. The only woke is in your imagination. Christ, are elves, dwarves, etc. real? Stop being a snowflake where there's no need to be.
I don't get this bad habit about saying the LOTRO store is a P2W. Something is P2W when it offers an unfair advantage over another player; no matters what item you check in the Store, they don't fit this definition. No, mixing the Store with MPvP mode is a pretty bad argument 'cos MPvP was created totally unbalanced since minute 0, "thanks" to people like Sapience (Developer in Turbine times). And no, SSG can't build it from scratch, 'cos the game engine has its limitations.
So.... no, LOTRO isn't a P2W. You don't need what the store offers to play and enjoy the game.
Pay to win is just the default term. Pay to skip is probably a better description but like I said, you can earn everything in the cash shop if you are willing to play enough.
@@VagrantVideos That's a more accurate term. However, and probably you noticed it, whenever a new player asks about the Gift of Valar in the chat, veterans always reply this: "If you're a newbie, don't use it; you won't learn to play the class, you'll miss a lot of content and you'll get bored and frustrated. The Gift is just for alt characters from players who already have experience and making extra chars in the same server, or another one."
It's the most boring freaking mmo I've ever played with lazy sections torn straight out the books and movies ....nothing feels original ...it's just boring...it Bores me to death.... this is my own personal opinion.
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unfair review lol. dont play the game guys sounds like he was paid.
Paid by who? 😂
Rofl, seriously? Did you get paid to make this video?
Have you ever played LOTRO?
Jesus H C, the game is a disgrace to LOTR, combat is a yawner, jsnky, slow, over currency, clunky inventory, horrid vendor hud…I gotta stop.
You sure you weren’t paid for this video?
I bet Aragorn puked when he witnessed the LOTRO store….
Absolutely not. LOTRO is among the very worst WoW clones on the market. It started out decent back in 2007, but when Warner Brothers bought the rights and the game went free-to-play, all the WoW rejects jumped on board and ran off the vast majority of the founders and Tolkien fans. Since then, the server hardware has deteriorated to the point where they cannot even handle a handful of simultaneous logins, and frequent, repetitive 45-second lag spikes dominate most players' gaming experience. Leveling up is ridiculously easy, while endgame content is ridiculously difficult. Player crafting and in game economy have been non-existent and irrelevant for years, and the skeleton crew who maintain and "develop" the game (Standing Stone Games) are uniformly terrible at their jobs, and don't even try to mask their contempt for LOTRO players. The big controversy right now is the addition of bearded females, which has pitted progressives against bigots in a debate that is rapidly escalating to the tipping point in which both sides are pushing political agendas while attempting to gaslight others (and perhaps themselves, also) into accepting their talking points are not political. The content reached Mordor years ago, and that's when they should have put this terribad game out of its misery. Watching paint dry is a more satisfying gaming experience.
Who did you wrong in your life to give such hatred just for a game? LOTRO is one of the best MMOs out there, and it still gives a nice revenue with thousands of players. So you can take your hatred and shove it in your place where the sun never shines...
I strongly disagree. But that is ok, you can play different games and I will keep playing Lotro :).
so much better than World of Warcraft
Grind, grind, grind, grind, grind, grind, grind, .....................................
That's MMOs in a nutshell 😂
So you mean it's an MMO?