I played ROTK on the PC and loved it. However, the peak of LOTR gaming was in the RTS genre: The Battle for Middle-Earth, The Battle for Middle-Earth II and The Rise of the Witch-king.
The only reliable way to play bfme2 and most pc lotr games based on the movies now is to download a cracked version from a fan preservation site with its own keygen and mount it. None of them are sold or supported bc of movie ip legal shenanigans. It sucks ass.
They should also bring back the thing where they get views by taking advantage of the youtube algorithm getting their videos out because there just happens to be a R&B star called Mr Weekly. The technique for tagging your videoe as blues music and gleaning the recommendations is called Blue Harvest. Which coincidentally was the working title for the first Family Guy movie
It's crazy how our perception of graphics changes over time. The first time I loaded up this game on my original XBox, on a 20-inch CRT TV, the opening scene with the movie footage from Two Towers "seamlessly" transitioning into in-game graphics blew me away. I literally had to watch it twice to see the transition again I was so impressed. As far as I was concerned, I was in the movie - this was as photo-real as I could have imagined. Like, it still looks nice (probably especially so on a CRT), but I laugh at how impressed I was at the time.
This game, man… I spent hundreds of hours playing it back in my childhood. Me and my cousin would play through it together. I remember writing down the cheat codes on a piece of paper because we had no memory lol, arguing over who got to be Aragorn (which was always him…), fighting over which mission to play through for 100th time which was always The Black Gate which is also why I can never unhear “I have a token I was bidden show thee!” Good times, man… 😊
Oh man there were cheat codes to skip to where you left off? Anyway getting a memory card is still to this day one of the greatest purchases of my life.
There IS an irish wrestler and his name IS Sheamus O'Shaunessy! And the Irish DID suffer from some awful racism under British rule in England and Australia Great episode! 😂
@@cw8867Seeing as the English occupied their country, called them Potato N-words and wanted to eradicate them, you should take it up with the British monarchy.
@@cw8867 it was literally treated as one for most of recent modern history. They even have a specific term for it, Hibernophobia. If you're American or British you should definitely know this bc of how badly they were treated in the states and UK in the 19th-20th century. U can Google stuff before u comment 😂
Fun fact, for us German-speakers, "Gandalf" is pronounced like "Gundalf", so yeah, we got Gundalf from the get-go while you only got his lamer, outgunned brother, Gandalf. ✌️
'Shelob was gone; and whether she lay long in her lair, nursing her malice and her misery, and in slow years of darkness healed herself from within, rebuilding her clustered eyes, until with hunger like death she spun once more her dreadful snares in the glens of the Mountains of Shadow, this tale does not tell.' if she did survive, she did so just barely for she impaled herself upon Sting worse than any blow she'd ever received in the past. She left a trail of goo as she crawled away from Sam...
I mean, they don’t have an American audience.. there are Americans IN their audience, but these videos are not made for Americans lol Americans just enjoy them as much as the rest of us
Everyone's forgetting about Finlay, he was even more of an Oirish stereotype than Shamus. He even had Hornswoggle dressed as a leprechaun as a sidekick
Not doing coop was the right call, they take out most of the checkpoints and it makes it so much harder. How our friendship survived our playthrough is nothing short of a miracle.
I've been playing video games since the late 80's, and The Return of the King is one of my top 5 movie tie-in games. Everything about it is just so good: the graphics, the sound, the gameplay, the unlockables, being able to play as any character in any level (who doesn’t love watching Sam kill the Mouth of Sauron and the Ringwraiths at the Black Gates?), and how it feels like you’re really playing the movie. Even now, over 20 years later, I still enjoy revisiting it up every now and then, and it holds up beautifully!
Unmmm excuse me James and Mason but when Frodo and Sam leave the green dragon after a night of merriment Rosie Cotton says something to the affect of "good night lads" so dialogue......I got 'em!
Ahh. You misses ao many good bits. 1 the unlockable characters. 2 the unlockable movie BTS, cast interviews and making ofs for the games. 3 the upgraded weapons. Arrows that set people on fire. 4 the unlockable bonus level with waves of enemies on top of Orthanc. And 5 the bane combos, parry and reposte to insta kill and set your character to perfect mode for a brief time. Allowing you to mow through the enemies like butter and also farm huge amounts of XP on the southern gate level. You can kill every orc on that level. It comes to around 200.
You should dye your hair bright blue, so you can be a bright blue boy. Unfortunately they don't sell the blue dye you need, you'll have to harvest the pigment yourself which has led to many calling this style the "blue harvest".
I played through this game with every character on ps2. Fantastic game. I'm tempted to boot up the vintage ps2 right now to run Gandalf with orc bane all day.
The coolest part is Frodo's sword, which glows blue when orcs are near. It was of course forged partly from a Shire harvesting tool, giving it the original name of the blue harvest blade. Blue Harvest of course being the working title of the original Star Wars movie A New Hope.
I'm going to start recording and posting all the gameplay from all my platinums from now on in hopes of years later Laurence using my footage and James owing me some money lmao
Two towers was my first ps2 game purchase alongside my ps2 growing up, which was the first console that was MINE, this game was quick to follow and played extensively. Love this thank you guys
He knew what he was saying was bullshit, he was just trying to force a narrative so they could monetize games with loot boxes and shit and that's much harder to keep player retention in a single player game.
Great choice for the irish sounding jig Laurence, it is by a Serbian band called Orthodox Celts - Star of the county down (I don't know if the song is originally from somewhere else and they just covered it, I just know that that particular soundbite is 99% from their version of the song, the very beginning)
I really want to sign up to big sandwich so I can watch the Gollum play through but im not sure I can deal with James pronouncing it Golem for a whole video.
Just watched the 4 hour extended cut in a packed cinema a few weeks ago, they're doing reruns of older movies sometimes. Was an amazing experience. That "for frodo" moment... bone chilling silence just before that!
True story. Rented this game for PS2 when staying at my friend's house. We played co-op and never got through the first stage in the cave, because the game froze in the section with the ghost king. We reset, started over and repeated the process THREE TIMES and the game froze at the exact same moment. I'm curious if others had this experience.
I remember being really confused why these video games seemed to start with Two Towers and then finding out it was because there was already an official Fellowship video game that was only based on the book before the Peter Jackson movies.
I will be watching next weeks video from the comments because I ain't trying to see Shelob (I see enough of that in Melbourne Australia). Also fun fact, Frodo's sword picked up by Sam to fight shelob glows blue when Orc's are near, which is half of the phrase "Blue Harvest" the working title for this movie.
You all really need to look at Lord of the Rings Conquest! Basically a reskin of the original starwars battlefront 2 but one of the most fun experiences of my young life!
Thanks Laurence; no joke is complete without a suffering editor
Right? I mean, why does it always elevate any content?
F’s in the chat for Laurence
I am watching this where it's currently still December 11th, newspaper gag invalid
December 12th in Australia
see you soon space cowboy
well that's YOUR fault for not being Australian 😤
and if you are Australian, settle down mate. (tall poppy syndrome sorry cant help it we all have it)
Stop living in the past, get a better timezone.
When James bleaches his hair he should have the roots be dyed yellow and get green frosted tips so he can be Corn of Coblin.
😂😂😂
I say he should die it blue so it looks like his hair is a plentiful harvest.
That would make him look like Senku from the anime Dr. Stone which I'm sure James is aware of.
I love that in Australia, that newspaper gag is relevant for about 5 hours at most.
posted at 10pm Melbourne time lmao works for a whole 2 hours for them 😂
@s1ckboirari 9:30 Adelaide time for me, so I get a solid 2.5 hours
Time travel is wild
It's also cool for the rest of the world
Becomes irrelevant when it’s not even the same game 😂
I played ROTK on the PC and loved it. However, the peak of LOTR gaming was in the RTS genre: The Battle for Middle-Earth, The Battle for Middle-Earth II and The Rise of the Witch-king.
Also an honourable mention to The Third Age mod for Total War Medieval 2. Would highly recommend if you're into RTS and LoTR if you haven't tried it
BFME2 and ROTWK were absolutely huge parts of my childhood and they’re still alive with a great modding community! Incredible games 😍
The only reliable way to play bfme2 and most pc lotr games based on the movies now is to download a cracked version from a fan preservation site with its own keygen and mount it. None of them are sold or supported bc of movie ip legal shenanigans. It sucks ass.
Yes, the Age of the Ring mod is the most popular version mod of bfme at the moment
Ah!
A man of quality!
Next week would be great to bring Rodney guy back for one time, The Return of the King.
They should also bring back the thing where they get views by taking advantage of the youtube algorithm getting their videos out because there just happens to be a R&B star called Mr Weekly. The technique for tagging your videoe as blues music and gleaning the recommendations is called Blue Harvest. Which coincidentally was the working title for the first Family Guy movie
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAA *points* AAAAA!@ You!
Hearing Nick mention dungeons and dragons made me think about how hilarious a co-op baldur’s gate playthrough with you two could be
It's crazy how our perception of graphics changes over time. The first time I loaded up this game on my original XBox, on a 20-inch CRT TV, the opening scene with the movie footage from Two Towers "seamlessly" transitioning into in-game graphics blew me away. I literally had to watch it twice to see the transition again I was so impressed. As far as I was concerned, I was in the movie - this was as photo-real as I could have imagined.
Like, it still looks nice (probably especially so on a CRT), but I laugh at how impressed I was at the time.
It’s wild isn’t it. I have a similar memory. Now this game has worse graphics than your average mobile action game.
Lawrence you artist, that Bend it Like Beckham clip was so on point.
Good on you Laurence for putting up with all this Aussie bullshit
They pay him with with a regular 24 pack of beer
They send it in the mail! It’s all warm and flat when it arrives! It’s awful!
@@claytonandres1194warm and flat is the preferred way to serve it in Australia
This game, man… I spent hundreds of hours playing it back in my childhood.
Me and my cousin would play through it together. I remember writing down the cheat codes on a piece of paper because we had no memory lol, arguing over who got to be Aragorn (which was always him…), fighting over which mission to play through for 100th time which was always The Black Gate which is also why I can never unhear “I have a token I was bidden show thee!”
Good times, man… 😊
Oh man there were cheat codes to skip to where you left off? Anyway getting a memory card is still to this day one of the greatest purchases of my life.
Parry man! Dammit! PARRY!
Parry and Mippen were my favorite characters as well.
Praise the Parry!
That's all I kept thinking. Parry bonus was OP in this game.
@@dylanmahaffey8920
Parry Mason was mine.
There IS an irish wrestler and his name IS Sheamus O'Shaunessy!
And the Irish DID suffer from some awful racism under British rule in England and Australia
Great episode! 😂
Irish isnt a race...
@@cw8867pfff, for racists, it is... 😅
@@cw8867Seeing as the English occupied their country, called them Potato N-words and wanted to eradicate them, you should take it up with the British monarchy.
@@cw8867 it was literally treated as one for most of recent modern history. They even have a specific term for it, Hibernophobia. If you're American or British you should definitely know this bc of how badly they were treated in the states and UK in the 19th-20th century. U can Google stuff before u comment 😂
@@cw8867
The Irish were often segregated along with 'Coloured' and 'Blacks'. So, race or not, it wasn't great.
Rosie Cotton says "goodnight lads" BOOM your joke is invalid!
What’s good for the goose is good for the Gandalf
Fun fact, for us German-speakers, "Gandalf" is pronounced like "Gundalf", so yeah, we got Gundalf from the get-go while you only got his lamer, outgunned brother, Gandalf. ✌️
0:54 the disdain for the price of a newspaper
Can’t you pirate newspapers like everything else these days?
@@aroccoification
We'd just say James doctored the date. We backed him into the corner of physical media.
23:18 Wholesome fact of the day: While his wife in this scene is an actress, that’s his real child he picks up at the end of the movie.
Best line in the game, when Gandalf yells, "Saruman, Gandalf comes to Isengard... NO LONGER SEEKING YOUR COUNSEL!!!"
At first I thought James was senile, then I realised it was a joke. Then I realised I am senile. Top work, lads.
'Shelob was gone; and whether she lay long in her lair, nursing her malice and her misery, and in slow years of darkness healed herself from within, rebuilding her clustered eyes, until with hunger like death she spun once more her dreadful snares in the glens of the Mountains of Shadow, this tale does not tell.'
if she did survive, she did so just barely for she impaled herself upon Sting worse than any blow she'd ever received in the past. She left a trail of goo as she crawled away from Sam...
“Everyone is going to die on this tower!”
Whoa whoa whoa fellas, I wouldn’t go yelling that with an American audience
I mean, they don’t have an American audience.. there are Americans IN their audience, but these videos are not made for Americans lol Americans just enjoy them as much as the rest of us
I'll allow it.
The newspaper cost complaint made my day
“Killing spiders cuz I’m Australian”
NO LIES DETECTED
My mother was studying Australian spiders…
@@eastvandb he was in Australia with your mom when she was researching spiders just before she died?
@@antzpantz
Yup. Right there in the heart of the Australian rainforest.
Everyone's forgetting about Finlay, he was even more of an Oirish stereotype than Shamus. He even had Hornswoggle dressed as a leprechaun as a sidekick
As a father, I too am always asking, "WHERE ARE ALL MY MATES???"
Not doing coop was the right call, they take out most of the checkpoints and it makes it so much harder. How our friendship survived our playthrough is nothing short of a miracle.
I am once again on my knees!! Begging for the fifth element caravan of garbage!!
Please yes
"You'll get what you're given and like it!" - James (genuine quote)
Or at least the PlayStation 1 game they made for it…
I've been playing video games since the late 80's, and The Return of the King is one of my top 5 movie tie-in games. Everything about it is just so good: the graphics, the sound, the gameplay, the unlockables, being able to play as any character in any level (who doesn’t love watching Sam kill the Mouth of Sauron and the Ringwraiths at the Black Gates?), and how it feels like you’re really playing the movie. Even now, over 20 years later, I still enjoy revisiting it up every now and then, and it holds up beautifully!
I know Maso's the debonair one but James's hair styling in that clip should NOT go underappreciated. Sending thoughts (and prizes) your way.
I remember getting stuck on the Hobbit levels as a wee lad because i didnt realise they could do the stealth stab instakill. So many wasted hours!
The what-stab-who now??? 😳
I've replayed this game so much. What are you on about? 😮
How do u get stuck on hobbit levels Sam's a beast
The three main boys being maso, ben and lawrence
1:46 I love that. It’s not even a meme, but the use of Hacksaw Ridge is so inspired. Honestly, Laurence (and Ben), your brain is a wondrous machine. 🧠
I played this game on Game Cube. It is excellent. Playing Gandalf through the Hobbit levels is so fun. Hobbits through the others is hilarious.
Unmmm excuse me James and Mason but when Frodo and Sam leave the green dragon after a night of merriment Rosie Cotton says something to the affect of "good night lads" so dialogue......I got 'em!
Fuck I played this game when I was waiting for RotK to come to the cinema. The hype was real. Everything was amazing.
Ahh. You misses ao many good bits. 1 the unlockable characters. 2 the unlockable movie BTS, cast interviews and making ofs for the games. 3 the upgraded weapons. Arrows that set people on fire. 4 the unlockable bonus level with waves of enemies on top of Orthanc. And 5 the bane combos, parry and reposte to insta kill and set your character to perfect mode for a brief time. Allowing you to mow through the enemies like butter and also farm huge amounts of XP on the southern gate level. You can kill every orc on that level. It comes to around 200.
Watched a friend replay this on twitch a few years ago and it also bothered me when they didn't kill every orc on that level.
00:48 is that the guy that does the two voices on this channel?
Yeah he's schizophrenic but we do our best to support him
You should dye your hair bright blue, so you can be a bright blue boy. Unfortunately they don't sell the blue dye you need, you'll have to harvest the pigment yourself which has led to many calling this style the "blue harvest".
props to every editor who has endured editing these two dudes
No joke, WWE has had multiple Irish Superstars, one is actually called Sheamus who is a four-time former World Champion.
It doesn't count if their catchphrase isn't "Top of the rope to ya"
We can't rest until we find the Horn of Hoblin!
Living in Australia, you’ve had all the practice for fighting a giant spider in your real life.
Oh, man. Back in the day when sequels in games were improvements to what came before.
I played through this game with every character on ps2. Fantastic game. I'm tempted to boot up the vintage ps2 right now to run Gandalf with orc bane all day.
8:21 - "That still only counts as one" - Gimli
There’s something about SEEING how angry James is about the newspaper that made me laugh harder than I have in a long time
I’ve been thinking about this game a lot recently and how much I absolutely loved it.
I thought Shelob was a super sexy woman!? Why is she a super sexy spider instead?
hol' up
She can be two things.
The Age is $4.80 thats outrageous! I love a green guide but thats lunacy
5:20 the meteors are just like one of the prizes on Thoughts and Prizes
"Am I a dead? Did I get died again?" Peak 40% rambling
I remember going through every level as Pippin and insta killing every enemy. It was glorious
never expected a Skins reference
Oh, this is the game I remember playing with a friend. Not the previous one. I got confused.
Was fun, even if Legolas seemed overpowered to me.
18:40 as a name for a tiny tank I suggest "Twank" thank you for coming to my ted talk
i'd love to see James' setup for capturing the footage on his psp for the copy of the game he owns for real 🤣🤣
I remember rocking this game on the ps2. Good times.
Love James tackling Shelob in one go. AUS ain't slowing down for no spiders. Thanks for the laughs!
I wish Sam was armed with a broom.
The coolest part is Frodo's sword, which glows blue when orcs are near. It was of course forged partly from a Shire harvesting tool, giving it the original name of the blue harvest blade. Blue Harvest of course being the working title of the original Star Wars movie A New Hope.
I never knew I needed parkour Gandalf.
I'm going to start recording and posting all the gameplay from all my platinums from now on in hopes of years later Laurence using my footage and James owing me some money lmao
We need to get to James' house and get a photo of him with jet black/bleached hair. I can't believe he forgot to film the clip of him doing it.
Two towers was my first ps2 game purchase alongside my ps2 growing up, which was the first console that was MINE, this game was quick to follow and played extensively. Love this thank you guys
Funny you mention the EA CEO talking about single player games. He said that the same year God of War 2018 came out instantly proving him wrong
He knew what he was saying was bullshit, he was just trying to force a narrative so they could monetize games with loot boxes and shit and that's much harder to keep player retention in a single player game.
I am here for the newspaper bit, I am a simple creature
“Seamus Shamrock” sounds like JK Rowling trying to write a Celtic character
The hardest thing about editing this for Lawrence will have been deciding which crap joke most deserved the clip of the hobbits clapping.
16:10 “majesticy”-James December 12th 2024
"Did I get died again?"
"That's why they call him Arrowgorn"
@ *chefs kiss
Great choice for the irish sounding jig Laurence, it is by a Serbian band called Orthodox Celts - Star of the county down (I don't know if the song is originally from somewhere else and they just covered it, I just know that that particular soundbite is 99% from their version of the song, the very beginning)
$4.80 for a newspaper is absolute insanity by the way
I really want to sign up to big sandwich so I can watch the Gollum play through but im not sure I can deal with James pronouncing it Golem for a whole video.
He's clearly a big Geodude fan.
Gotem.
There is a highly accomplished prowrestler named Sheamus. He is the most pale and most red haired man in history.
Was not expecting a Skins reference in this
Mr Tuesday Video Games is back!!!
That intro song is so memorable
GunDolph- Dolph Lundgrens twitch handle where he only streams FPS games
Love listening to a man in his mid 60’s and his son talk nerdy to me.
This game was one my favs as a kid, me and my mates spent hours playing it and unlocking everything, awesome game
I miss Godfather the game... id sell a kidney if you guys would review that one...
Someone's probably made Godfather comics before, right? Like if I've thought of it, then surely...
i would also sell your kidney to see that
Just watched the 4 hour extended cut in a packed cinema a few weeks ago, they're doing reruns of older movies sometimes. Was an amazing experience. That "for frodo" moment... bone chilling silence just before that!
True story. Rented this game for PS2 when staying at my friend's house. We played co-op and never got through the first stage in the cave, because the game froze in the section with the ghost king. We reset, started over and repeated the process THREE TIMES and the game froze at the exact same moment. I'm curious if others had this experience.
Laurence you're a legend!!
Your edits are hilarious and I know how much work it is
This game holds a special place in my heart. My dad and I played the coop all the time!
A shockingly awesome finale to an incredible trilogy.
We will never get a series like this again.
Why isn't James using his real voice when he's holding up the newspaper
that COD sound when he leveled up 👌
I remember being really confused why these video games seemed to start with Two Towers and then finding out it was because there was already an official Fellowship video game that was only based on the book before the Peter Jackson movies.
James, that game you own is not the one you’re playing…
DEFENESTRATE THE PYRATE
🤫
Also there is NO WAY James owns and regularly uses a PSP
Future cop LAPD. The most frustrating game from my childhood 😂
This was the very first game my older brother and I got on our game cube. Thank you for the nostalgia.
4:58 just keeps talking 😂
Is no one commenting on how the physical game he holds up is not the game they talk about? What is “Aragorn’s Quest?”
It was one of two good jokes.
Potentially best game of all time. I would murder for a LOTR style game like this
I will be watching next weeks video from the comments because I ain't trying to see Shelob (I see enough of that in Melbourne Australia).
Also fun fact, Frodo's sword picked up by Sam to fight shelob glows blue when Orc's are near, which is half of the phrase "Blue Harvest" the working title for this movie.
When James feels the surge of victory at 15:09 I nearly lost it
COD 4 level up tune was a great addition 👍.
Cowards for not doing Co-op!
I recommend Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor.
You guys should totally check that game out!
You all really need to look at Lord of the Rings Conquest!
Basically a reskin of the original starwars battlefront 2 but one of the most fun experiences of my young life!
1:11 That's not even the same game! 😂