Is LOTRO Worth Playing in 2023?

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  • Опубликовано: 15 янв 2025

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  • @RogdushTheMystic
    @RogdushTheMystic Год назад +59

    LOTRO is unbelievably true to the story. First book is completely found in the game through zones from shire/bree till lothlorien. Everything you havent saw in movie like Tom Bombadil or exploring moria, you can find here. Each fan of LOTR need to see this game, this is just more and beyond. Designers made their best through those 15 years to make it true to the lore as much as possible and more. I personally like that even when new cap increase, its not that all the stuff u did earlier is not important. Each deeds, runes, some cosmetics you earn through game are still good to have when new zone starts. You just got easier begining. Its not so pointless like diablo ladder or blizz games rush to endgame and do nothing except raids lol. You can do much more in this game.

  • @FreeHackerRadio
    @FreeHackerRadio Год назад +28

    I've tried to get a few friends into LOTRO - the thing that has stopped all of them from continuing was the ridiculously low inventory space you get as a new account player and how much real life money it costs to buy more. I think this is a real barrier for new players.

    • @JohnMHammer
      @JohnMHammer Год назад +9

      Purchase a one-month VIP subscription and every character you log in during that month - even for just a second - will get +30 inventory bag slots and swift travel outside the starting zones unlocked forever. Then make all the characters on all the servers your patience can stand (remember you only have to log each character in for a second) and those characters will have those benefits forever. You'll also get 500 LOTRO Points and a bunch of other benefits from that single month of paid time. I know a lot of people who have been playing for years and have never purchased another thing with real-world money.

    • @waltjames407
      @waltjames407 Год назад +4

      FTP LOTRO is a maddening pile of restrictions that have to be grinded away, I don't recommend it. All of those restrictions like inventory space, trait slots, travel restrictions, etc. are gone once you purchase just one month of VIP, or spend money on points.

    • @9thebear
      @9thebear Год назад +5

      Programmers have to eat too. Cough up some money!

    • @roejogan6749
      @roejogan6749 Год назад +3

      Dunno about the "how much" part, as in reality, its not very expensive. 1 month of VIP is around 12 dollars? You can get the benefits (forever) and cancel the sub.
      Skip 1 take out dinner, and youd be able to get it.
      The content up to level 95 now is free, which I think is Helms Deep, so 5th expansion. And MAJORITY of the content (apart from a few things that arent vital) is free, and can be enjoyed without a single penny dropped.
      By the time youd play for free to level 95, youd either already be invested in the game & be VIP. Or youd well and truly know by that point, whether you want to buy the expansions remaining to continue playing

    • @DaleWrecker
      @DaleWrecker Год назад

      ​@Walt James trait slots, virtue slots, gold cap and premium wallet are free to everyone since before last year's anniversary. The only thing vip still unlocks is swift travel and inventory slots

  • @yoji58
    @yoji58 Год назад +12

    Great video! As a returning player after 7 years or so, the game is soooo much better. An idea re: lower level group content is the ff14 model with AI tanks and healers you can unlock to run dungeons "solo". The skirmish soldier model could be reworked for landscape play and dungeon play, at all levels, really. Pretty easy to build up to usefulness, choose and pick your party, something like that. Makes sense in my head, anyway. Maybe limit it to under current content?

    • @Louey7
      @Louey7  Год назад

      That idea would definitely help with some of the lower level dungeons! Starting around level 120, most new 3 and 6 man instances have a solo version for the story (typically without regular gear loot though).

    • @yoji58
      @yoji58 Год назад

      @@Louey7 Cool. Still leveling, at 103 on my cappy. Eastern Gondor is beautiful, and looking forward to the rest of the story line. Love this game.

    • @damir4132
      @damir4132 Год назад

      Does it still have microstuttering every few seconds?

  • @somethingvisceral2003
    @somethingvisceral2003 Год назад +5

    I have played LotRO off and on since 2007. I started MMOs with Asheron's Call way back in 1999 and both having been Turbine titles when they were making MMOs, LotRO was the game that still gave me the nostalgia feel of the original game world I fell in love with in AC. It is not a game to zoom to end game like so many MMOs. This game is more of a meandering around, taking your time and enjoying everything from the amazing story, the amazing size of Middle-Earth, all the little nuances that are a part of the world and exploring. There are many paths one can take to get to the endgame and one of my favorite aspects of LotRO is once I reach 140, I will dabble with end game content for a time with a kinship I am in, but I often find myself going back to a low level character and adventuring through some of the older content that I have not seen in years and reimmersing myself. I also like that there are some new low level areas to explore.
    Sure there are better looking games out there, but LotRO is near and dear to me and a place I will enter into to get away from the chaos that is the real world we live in. Plus I love the graphics of it. They aren't bad, but they don't try so hard to look real that they look...I can't think of a word but for me newer games just look so inorganic and forced. LotRO is a fine balance of not cartoony like WoW, but not pushing the limits of visual processing. It is a blend that for my eyes and my brain is 'just right'
    Same can be said for old school tab targetting. This is my preferred MMO fighting. Due to not being a WASD player (I use the num pad with my right hand and use a right handed mouse with my left hand and click everything - yes I'm peculiar but have always played computer games this way) I don't want to have to strafe side to side and constantly have to aim, I just want ease of play. I don't mind quests of kill x number of this and that, or pick x number of those. I'm used to it and its like comfort food.
    And finally I like that I can play through to end game with the landscape content as a solo player, or with friends - though sadly most of my friends over the years have moved on to other things, or don't want to play low level (the endgame is a strong call for many) which is fine, I have trusty pets in game to follow me around. I do miss running normal content with a friend and not just always going to endgame stuff. Endgame content is good, but is like being stuck in the last chapter of a book, rinse and repeat to get the upgraded armor/weapons/jewelry etc to do the same endgame content to do it faster and get another rare drop to do it again to hope for another rare drop...rinse/repeat/rinse/repeat. I have more fun revisiting the meat of the story. I even have winter cosmetics I wear in cold/snowy areas. I do a bit of mental RPGing as I follow the path less travelled and I love that there are character bands that get together on Fridays in west Bree, or do a spotlighted band on a tavern tour on Saturday evenings on my server and play real life music in game with game created instruments.
    Man, I typed a book, but suffice to say, if you enjoy the old school style of MMOs that aren't trying too hard to fulfill every niche, that have fun graphics that don't take themselves so seriously, but have so many little details that if you take your time, you will see, enjoy a deep and complex story, are a Tolkien fan, or just like the fantasy genre as a whole, don't mind tab targetting and kill x of this or that for a quest, and enjoy taking your time to level, then LotRO is an absolutely amazing adventure played and enjoyed by people around the world. Sure it has its issues on occasion, like all MMOs, lag problems for some (though oddly enough I rarely have lag issues), but as a whole LotRO to me is perfect.
    PS - Brandywine is the best server lol

    • @benfuller3413
      @benfuller3413 Год назад +1

      Lotro in 4k actually looks stunning, just the character creation is really outdated

    • @harveyweiss1610
      @harveyweiss1610 Год назад +1

      Brandywine server is superb - was apart of it at launch and up til Dunland I believe (right before RoI big expansion), I sure do miss playing and plan to be back in ME sometime in the near future as life is finally gotten quieter for me to get lost again

    • @Pulsed101
      @Pulsed101 Год назад +1

      You've got me excited to embark on some grand journey now. I haven't played the game since release but figure i'll give it another crack. Also yes, your control setup is indeed peculiar..! But doesn't sound too bad it's just I'm far too conditioned with WASD / right hand on mouse to even attempt trying it.

  • @mkang8782
    @mkang8782 Год назад +4

    I returned about three months ago, and, agree that finding and joining the kinship that suits your playstyle is a significant help. Unfortunately, sometimes a kin will advertise itself as one thing, but, it turns out it isn't that thing at all. Kin leaders/officers, help keep your kin members engaged. Not that you should generate 100% of the members' content, but, occasional events are generally enjoyed, in my experience.
    Louey7: I like how you broke down what elements would or wouldn't work for the more common types of MMO players.

  • @trainingteam5901
    @trainingteam5901 Год назад +2

    Lotro is a great "on and off" game. I have played this game for years with long stretches of absence and yet every time I get back to it, it evokes a very cozy and familiar vibe that has been missing from many major mmos like FFXIV, GW2. To me, those games lack character. You cannot get immersed in the world and find your place in it, whereas in Lotro you have the Lotr world you saw in the movies or imagined reading the books. It will always feel familiar and cool to go through. On the downside, it has gone through many expansions and different systems so it can be daunting for new players, especially with 150 levels to go but the advice that I would give is to take it slow and enjoy the ride. When you get bored just stop and pick it up sometime later. It's not a game to rush to the end and raid. Also, the gfx can feel dated but the atmosphere and the lighting in certain areas is just impeccable. Beats AAA titles anytime.

    • @fernandapaula5543
      @fernandapaula5543 Год назад

      yeah, totally. I feel the same. I used to play many years ago and the atmosphere there is everything! You really feel inside the books and like the world is alive.
      I used to stay in the Shire, playing music, while I wrote my own fiction stories.

  • @Tomkektv
    @Tomkektv Год назад

    Love the new background :)

  • @alimudbone3413
    @alimudbone3413 Год назад

    Very in depth video thanks for the content I’m interested in the game after seeing this video

  • @midageddann9436
    @midageddann9436 Год назад +4

    I have only been playing a week and finally settled on a Dwarven Guardian. I can say that the game is very much still worth playing as an older MMO player. I would recommend spending 100 points for the equip able XP disabler. I put it on and take it off so i don't out level my quests.

    • @mikesol1162
      @mikesol1162 Год назад

      I don't recommend anyone do this. All you are doing is making it take longer to finish those quests. Not harder, just longer. This game has 140 levels ahead of you. The last thing you need to do is artificially make the game slower.

    • @benfuller3413
      @benfuller3413 Год назад +1

      ​@Mike Sol but some people like this person don't care how long it takes they want to take there time, and do all the quests all the deeds without having to out level content and just feel bored 1 shotting stuff they out level.
      Personally once I level 1/2 characters the proper way and do all the epic storyline shit I just use the lotro points I get from lifetime subscription to boost any other characters I want to play. Like right now I have 33k lotro points from my monthly 50] award (shows how long I haven't played this game for lol) so once I've done my beorning and maybe 1 or 2 other characters up through minas morgul I'll just boost the rest to 130 and play through gundabad when I buy the expansion

    • @smoocher
      @smoocher Год назад +1

      I second this. The xp disabler is great if you want gameplay that isn't insanely easy or if you want to fully experience a zone without outleveling it.

    • @smoocher
      @smoocher Год назад

      @@mikesol1162 But not everyone is in a rush to get to level cap. Some of us love the journey and like to stop and smell the roses and explore. I use the xp disabler and don't find that combat is slower. I can kill signatures that are 11 levels over me (and probably more than that), and it's still very easy to kill red mobs. Sometimes I one-shot or two-shot them. I don't want to one-shot every single mob I see. I like a challenge, even if it's a small one, and the xp disabler allows me to get that challenge.

    • @mikesol1162
      @mikesol1162 Год назад

      @@benfuller3413 With my guardian, I kill on- level mobs in at most, 3 hits. I am guessing it is faster then that with DPS classes. The game is so easy these days, I really do not see the point in worrying about out leveling mobs.
      I would recommend putting that 100 LOTRO points towards something more useful like more inventory space.

  • @Tatsu9522
    @Tatsu9522 Год назад +1

    I love lotro because of the immersiveness I feel everytime I am playing. I just can recommend that to start playing for, esp when you are into the middle earth universe

  • @bravofoxtrotllc6817
    @bravofoxtrotllc6817 Год назад

    I just started playing on Gladden last week lvl 24 Champion named Warchop

  • @anubisftn
    @anubisftn Год назад

    Great video! Thanks for sharing and your work!

  • @TheOnlyGhxst
    @TheOnlyGhxst Год назад

    Thanks for the video, the format was great. I last played LOTRO maybe 10 or 12 years ago, but I'm definitely gonna download it and give it another shot.

  • @julvadas
    @julvadas Год назад

    I’ve just started and having a blast good comunity, everyone is very helpful

  • @electricfootballhero1349
    @electricfootballhero1349 Год назад +2

    Every time I've ever tried to play LOTRO, I'm faced with constant 30 to 45 second lag spikes that everyone "enjoying" the game is constantly complaining about, and the developers have been "looking into it" for the past decade, but it just keeps getting worse and worse. Meanwhile, there are hundreds of other fantasy MMOs out there one can actually play without constant lag. Even farming in the Shire is constantly interrupted by latency. The game is certainly not worth paying for. There's a lot of free content, but with such poor server performance, they should be paying players instead.

  • @VideoGameSlang
    @VideoGameSlang Год назад +2

    >huge Middle Earth map in room
    >4:03 “Hasn’t read the books”
    I’m sorry but what the hell

    • @Louey7
      @Louey7  Год назад

      I like maps better than books!

  • @AtollEntertainment
    @AtollEntertainment Год назад +8

    LOTRO is 100000000 percent worth starting for any new player in 2023 and beyond as it is a masterful MMO with one of the best and prettiest worlds in all of gaming. The art style is like no other, and the characters an overall writing goes with the originals and is god tier!

    • @damir4132
      @damir4132 Год назад

      Ive played it during its peak during Moria. The game went down the toilet after Mirkwood. Does it still have those microfreezes every few seconds?
      I can live with poor content but rubberbanding when Im on my mount and getting freezes every few seconds I cant live with. Did they fix that finally or is the code so bloated at this point that it will never be fixed?

    • @willo1345
      @willo1345 Год назад +1

      @@damir4132 Its awful, do not listen to these guys. Their loyalty to this game is so strange to me. Plus, the nickel and diming from the store has gotten so much worse as well as them "improving" the LI system by implementing a battlepass style system that, you guessed it, you can pay your way through so its unnecessarily grindy to encourage you to spend money on it.
      The micro stuttering is still there and it gets worse as you get further into the later areas. They said they were planning to rework the code before the new LOTR show released but that never happened and I strongly doubt it will ever be looked at. They really dropped the ball after Moria, its a shadow of its former self and nothing will change. If you played the game back when Moria released, the current state of the game will be a disappointment for you.

    • @damir4132
      @damir4132 Год назад

      @@willo1345 yeah. I downloaded it got my 9 year frame and uninstalled an hour later. I tried attacking a mob, the skills lagged and caught up few seconds later.
      Its painful playing that.
      Shame. I hear theyre reworking the engine. Once they do that ill be back on my Guardian. Till then, no thx.
      Sidenote, i offered Standing Stone last year to help get funding by introducing a new monetization system via cryptocurrencies into the game via a system we have. This would turn the ingame coins into tradeable assests. Would bring in millions of dollars to the game and new players.
      They basically told me to go fuck myself.
      Shame because that would reinvigorate the game and make it relevant again.

  • @neoachilleos6891
    @neoachilleos6891 Год назад

    Do you have a video of what you did? 00:25 i'm coming back to the game (left because of too much lag...latency issues) and i wanna make it us enjoyable as possible because i love this game but if changing anything will make it even better im willing to try it

    • @Louey7
      @Louey7  Год назад

      I do not have a video on just my settings and UI (yet!), but for the moment, I went through all of that live around 7:08 into this stream: ruclips.net/user/liveQ7_EyOmwvPI?feature=share&t=427

  • @andrewfanner2245
    @andrewfanner2245 Год назад +2

    It is absolutely worth starting as a newbie, I would strongly reocmmend staring in Swanfleet/Cardolan if at all possible, its a newer area and beautifully made. Lower level areas are busy with on level players and there are regular calls for group play at the lower levels. Its about the journey, not the destination and it is a good plan to explore and keep in mind that you can easily wander into a far more dangerous area, the world is pretty much open.

  • @MrZurbagiu
    @MrZurbagiu Год назад

    fresh new player perspective here! i olny started lotto about a year ago (maybe like a week or two before the 15th anniversary?..) and it was more or less my first video game ever XD never played anything beyond like... a homebrew dating sim and tetris before that, so i guess that's as fresh as it can get :'3
    funnily enough, what sold me on it was corey olsen's exploring the lord of the rings series where they have seminars in-game as they slowly read the book and then have a filed trip through the relevant areas in lotro. i started playing because it was intriguing and i wanted to join haha.
    so as someone who doesn't care super much for gaming side of the things but is a tolkien nerd, this is a great game, very immersive, wonderful stories! and just being out there in the world, i guess. nothing like leaping o to your war steed, cranking the music all the way up and running top speed through the vistas towards the horizon, without even doing anything relevant, just frolicking in middle earth!
    the early experience of a total noob was very funny and kind of magical, in retrospect. i had no idea how to fight or how to equip new weapons, or that you can swift horse to bree from the shire XD and i was so scaredy too, once i discovered i had stealth as a hobbit burglar, i never ventured into a new unknown area unstealthed. still keep this habit even 90 levels in XD but just sneaking through the shire, the chillest and tames zone in the while game, feeling like im way in over my head with all those wolves and bears, it was certainly a unique experience that i will never get again, be it a new zone or even an entirely new game; just because how much of a noob i was :'3 died to wolves behind Dora's farm like three times hahaha; the wayerfalls in little delving and the road past the stone circle where the cows walk will never be not magical for me :D
    i think now is probably a very good time to join actually, since so much content is free, and by the time you get to lvl 95 they might have another of those special code offers to give away everything up until the latest expansions.

  • @felixtheswiss
    @felixtheswiss Год назад

    I just startet last year even though i am a Tolkien Fan for a long time. So long that i once thought there will never be a proper Film.

  • @fernandapaula5543
    @fernandapaula5543 Год назад +2

    I've played for so many years this wonderful MMO! I love the game just for the vibe.

  • @NorthernStrider
    @NorthernStrider Год назад

    Started playing early 2023, Man Warden level 66.
    The game is amazing, friendly community, nice scenery, good main quest line, cool crafting system, it feels as an adventure.
    But my quit moments were:
    - getting lost because the main map is a pain to understand(I wasted more than 2 hours trying to get to the upper east side of misty mounts, I used mithril coins to teleport to the stable!)
    - long running
    - when trying to use stables I need to check the main map and hover other stables to know where to go
    - server lag, as a warden it is sometimes unbearable
    - no one to do instances with I'm level 66 at the moment
    - the graphics needs an overhaul

  • @ant.dacunha
    @ant.dacunha Год назад

    Is there a class that makes things easier for a new player to integrate himself in this Game / Community? Being by leveling and also joining groups.

  • @cavetroll666
    @cavetroll666 Год назад +1

    totally worth checking out :)

  • @gs.558
    @gs.558 Год назад +1

    I downloaded WoW 3 days ago and subscribed for 1 month. Yesterday I removed my subscription. Why ? Well I felt very weird playing this "MMO". I played the game until reaching the level 30 and I asked myself : Why is there nobody ? Litteraly. I played alone on the most crowded EU serveur. The chat was empty beside the advertisment about people wanting to sell their stuff. There was no dialogue. I said hi to the only guy I've met in the game and he didn't even answered. I am actually 27 years old. I wanted to play Wow because I remember when I was 11 I tried this game and I was amazed at how many people were playing at the same moment than me, everybody was talking, it was so alive! Now I felt so depressed playing that game. I finnaly asked why there was nobody where I was and why nobody was talking and they said : "It's normal you meet nobody you are not level max , you should go to the new extenxion dragonflight or shadowland you will meet peopkle there. And also stop raging! ...
    Wow . I felt very frustrated playing that game. Because I just got a new gaming PC (finnaly! :D) and I wanted to play a MMO for thereally first time without lagging! And what do I find ? A dead community that only play the game by clicking the exclamation and question mark on non-playable character , and rushing donjon and doing raid ... WTF! So I just removed the game and I'm forgetting this game for ever, only because of this aspect of community where nobody is social and nobody talk and everybody play solo. I thought a MMO was a game where you can play with other people, where you can exchange with other people, add them as a friend! Go questing, go adventuring together! I got really sad. I'm working right now and after work I really enjoy playing video games because I like that ,but when I played WoW I got really discusted..
    (Sorry for my bad english ahha I'm not native)
    Well Now I heared of this game kinda lately ( LOTRO) and I'm really tempted to play that game. I really love the universe of J.R.R Tolkien and I've read all his book , from Silmarillion to Lord of the Ring , adn I heared a lot of good about this game! It's only the graphical aspect of this that kinda let me hesitated but I don't really mind that.
    I only have a question for you people that play that MMO. : Is there an active community in this game? Is there some real Role Play from one another? Am I gonna play like Wow untill level max and don't meet anyone? ^^' I ask you so I better know. I've played some MMO recently with my new pc beside WoW and it's almost always the same . Like everyone is in a hurry....
    Thank you for reading all this ! :)

  • @alecrizzle
    @alecrizzle Год назад

    awesome vid as usual. off topic but do you have any tips on leveling Scholar? it takes forever!

    • @harveyweiss1610
      @harveyweiss1610 Год назад

      any of the city ruins are a great loop to find mats aside from AH having them on there of course and just buying your way up through the tiers with gold

  • @JCFollower1
    @JCFollower1 Год назад

    Louey are you considering a new class tier list after U35?

  • @Doormat00
    @Doormat00 9 месяцев назад

    I am a new player and found it entertaining for several hours. However the lag spikes and slow progression after level 20 makes it a bit of a bummer to enjoy.

  • @BrolyPowerMaximum
    @BrolyPowerMaximum Год назад

    I also think that there should be a new zone or two or three to replace Rohan because my brother quit the game because he hated amount of combat so much. I hate it too and really struggle to get through it, because it’s just so unfun. I hate to quests in Rohan. So I have perpetually made new characters in interacted with the parts of the game that I actually enjoy and haven’t ever experienced anything past like 85.

  • @Luthorus
    @Luthorus Год назад

    It is worth it!
    I started like 4 months ago and i fell in love with this game, found even a great kinship, very friendly one! :)'

  • @aboomination897
    @aboomination897 Год назад

    I miss yellow warden so much...but everyone else seems to love the new version.
    Been using my Hunter in Carn Dum, nuff said.

  • @KhorinisPictures
    @KhorinisPictures Год назад

    I came back to lotro after a break of three years or so and i feel like leveling is way too easy. I want to dive into the quests and read every single one of them and help the citizens of middle earth i meet on my journey but i feel like leveling is so damn fast that its almost impossible to complete an area and every quest of one area without being overleveled and way too strong. I hope SSG will add landscape (and dungeon) difficulty to regular servers.
    Except that its a really nice game

  • @alphamale4497
    @alphamale4497 Год назад

    Anyone on the fence whether to return to scratch a childhood itch and rally understand the game, or never played before, just download and play it. The world is amazing and like none other. It fills in the gap and completed the world in an extraordinary fashion, so much thoight and detail in every small town and city. The map is amazing and a lot of the game up to lvl 120 is all free. Which is years and years of content.

  • @BrolyPowerMaximum
    @BrolyPowerMaximum Год назад

    The combat system needs an overhaul.
    I have tried to get my dad and sister to play the game multiple times, and they have been able to play a whole bunch of games, but I just can’t seem to get grasp of this one.
    They struggle to move their character around and effective use of the camera . The struggle targeting things in the way what day are targeting and they struggle using their skills and knowing when they are starting and ending.
    Heck, if I’m not looking at the skills myself, it’s not clear a lot of the time when I have used a skill. Because the game operates on a lagging skill queue system, you are often not using the skill that you want it to you when you wanted to.
    So for a new player who can barely even get their character to look into correct direction, having a skill queue system then seemingly randomly activate their skills it’s just a lot.
    I try and play slowly so the new players can attack the mobs before I killed everything on the screen, as they like, quit, surrounds their camera, and try and keyboard turn around, there’s just a lot involved where having a c unky skill system also really keeps them thoroughly confused.

  • @9thebear
    @9thebear Год назад

    Great game, got back into it after a near decade long break.

  • @dinosaurjr4939
    @dinosaurjr4939 Год назад

    hey guys, im thinking to give lotro a try to get a true classic adventure. any EU server suggestions for a new player? is it worth to get on this legendary server treebeard?
    by the way awesome content!

  • @samkorr5579
    @samkorr5579 Год назад

    Maybe this is a boring request, but I would find a true beginner's guide helpful, with information about the riding system, the crafting, the best order of the areas up to the endgame. Is the endgame centered in one place or does it take place in multiple locations?! Thanks for all the effort with the videos!

    • @Louey7
      @Louey7  Год назад +1

      It's not impossible that I would have a video like that, but usually I split those topics into smaller videos because when I have looked into doing a beginner's guide, it's quite difficult to be all inclusive and actually "complete".
      The closest I have right now, of course, is the big leveling guide (which does cover some of those toipcs!).

  • @michaelantoniobeltre9698
    @michaelantoniobeltre9698 Год назад

    I love lotro, the only thing that keeps me for playing it as my main mmo is the max level.

  • @BaalBuster
    @BaalBuster Год назад +2

    You haven’t read the books yet? Dude…

  • @cutthat4643
    @cutthat4643 Год назад

    wait class traits? where is my checkbook

  • @egg_timer
    @egg_timer Год назад

    I'm seriously trying but I don't know if I can do it. The movement is floaty, the UI is a chore, and the game just isn't responsive. I can handle old graphics but the movement and the UI need to be smooth and fast. They aren't.

  • @sofiagoula6998
    @sofiagoula6998 Год назад

    Well I am a new player but the level does not rise to stagnate at level 1 why??? I haven't paid anything I play freely.
    What happened??

    • @JohnMHammer
      @JohnMHammer Год назад

      Are you saying that you can't level up at all, not even from Level 1 to Level 2?

    • @sofiagoula6998
      @sofiagoula6998 Год назад

      @@JohnMHammer Yes. I've been at level 1 for a long time. I can't understand what's going on. Not even at level 2

    • @JohnMHammer
      @JohnMHammer Год назад

      @@sofiagoula6998 I've never heard of that problem in LOTRO before. Try starting a new character (same account and server), you should level up to Level 2 within a couple of minutes. If not, there might be something wrong with your account. Since you're brand new, just ditch your current account and create a new one. You can also submit a help ticket (I can't link it for you, sorry - RUclips will delete my comment if I include a link.

    • @sofiagoula6998
      @sofiagoula6998 Год назад

      @@JohnMHammer thanks you for details 😁 I will try a new character

    • @benfuller3413
      @benfuller3413 Год назад +1

      ​@@sofiagoula6998 did you buy any expansions? I know one of the. Gives you an xp disabler which means you won't level up if it's equipped

  • @alzeriathewanderer
    @alzeriathewanderer Год назад

    best thing about lotro toxicity and non toxicity is the community. its smaller. but it allows friendships to be formed. some of my best friends have been from lotro and we still talk today after 15 years. pvp gets a bad rep cause of lag. the community is not toxic. there just isnt a huge focus on letting smaller servers pvp . so they go to the bigger servers there for causes lag and unnecessary drama.

  • @theharper1
    @theharper1 Год назад

    I like the game for the story (being in Middle Earth), but I wish the graphics engine was like Guild Wars 2. If you can force players to download multi-gigabyte updates, you can upgrade the graphics engine.

  • @tatemessmer4936
    @tatemessmer4936 Год назад +1

    Great game, when you add up the cost to unlock everything for your account like just starting to play another other MMO you actually need to spend around 350-400 dollars... yeah you can grind for like 9 months to lessen this but it is what it is. Cant recommend to friends. Too late

    • @galavorxik1733
      @galavorxik1733 Год назад +1

      IDK what LOTRO you are talking about, but you can easily get level 95 free without spending any money, 0 dollars, in this LOTRO

    • @tatemessmer4936
      @tatemessmer4936 Год назад

      @@galavorxik1733 Getting valar and free levels does nothing for you in this game.... Since you dont seem to understand free to play models. The cost all comes with unlocking account wide items to get your acount to where it should be from the get go...... Cost a TON of money to get every single thing unlocked that most other games give you at a basic purchase.

    • @galavorxik1733
      @galavorxik1733 Год назад +1

      @@tatemessmer4936 What? I'm not talking about Valars or free levels.
      What every single thing do you not get with subscription?

  • @rowe8743
    @rowe8743 Год назад

    Hello Louey7,it is possible play lotro without lags,I have ryzen 5 3600 and rx 5600xt,and have nice fps when I m not in cityes,but whene I go in Bree and others places where is more players my fps goin down on 40 fps and got lags,is that normal for this game,or I need change my gpu and cup,btw I have ssd and 16gb ram.

  • @AxisSabian1
    @AxisSabian1 Год назад +1

    Great review….I really want to come back to thr game, but I love PvP too much and monster play isnt good enough.
    If I was only a PvEer, this game hits the spot….great world, community, classes and storyline !!

    • @nowayjosedaniel
      @nowayjosedaniel Год назад +1

      I used to be almost PvP exclusive for MMORPG's. For an extremely long time. For 2 decades, I was huge into only PvP and multiplayer was a REQUIREMENT no matter what.
      Then I began to play singleplayer indie games for the first time (not multiplayer? that's heresy!). I really loved those, and it opened up an entire world of love for singleplayer games for me in my 30's.
      Not long after though, I still needed every game to still be multiplayer, especially since I play games almost exclusively with my wife now. However I've left PvP and most competition behind in my youth.
      Because of this though, even though I was in LOTRO's Alpha, I missed out on it. I didn't play LOTRO until a few years ago, and it was actually one of the best MMORPG's around. DDO too, surprisingly (but again - I don't play alone - I play with my wife exclusively in a permanent duo). I did enjoy EQ back in the day as well as PvE & PvP in UO. However after DAoC got me hooked on PvP, it's basically just PvP from then on out.
      When LOTRO first released (or right before, when I played in Alpha and Beta) I couldn't stand that it didn't have voice acting, I had too much ADHD-style focus problems to read even a little text, and the game wasn't innovative enough (singleplayer games did so much better in presentation). PvP was something I couldn't experience without being a Monster, and it was super awesome actually, but the PvE was the main focus and that kindof took me away from the game. Weirdly now that I go back, the lack of voice acting isn't a big deal at all and the game's story presentation is fine. Makes me think it was all just ME as the problem, not the game.
      But I wanted to like LOTRO. I wanted to like the PvE. I wanted to play it. But I couldn't for all those reasons. And I missed out.
      I'm just glad it is still being developed on. The newest expansion is pretty awesome and I absolutely LOVE the difficulty slider progression servers since it makes the game as or more challenging than at release. (MMORPG's are way too easy, and thus boring, now-a-days, which is why LOTRO & DDO with their difficulty adjustments are my favorites, among other reasons). Everquest P1999 is great too though, as well as City of Heroes servers - again because all of these have great difficulty. Age of Conan is fine up until level 20 when you leave Tortage as well, but drops off a cliff after that.

    • @AxisSabian1
      @AxisSabian1 Год назад +1

      @@nowayjosedaniel I did Lotro for the first time and loved it, but after a while the PvP itch came back….sometimes I find that itch to be so annoying…it has brought so much pain

    • @nowayjosedaniel
      @nowayjosedaniel Год назад +1

      @@AxisSabian1 I get that. Ever since I had kids for some reason my itch is gone, but for 2 decades I couldnt scratch my PvP itch ever and that honestly sucked.

    • @baphometic8767
      @baphometic8767 Год назад

      @@AxisSabian1 what mmo do you play for PVP? I like pvp too but whenever I ask the internet this question they usually tell me "just play mobas" lol

    • @AxisSabian1
      @AxisSabian1 Год назад

      @@baphometic8767 Yeah my son and I cant find a good one atm. So he just been playing LoL and raging more and more each day.
      Ive chosen the sane route and just waiting…but have been enjoying the char depth and world of LotRO.
      We are both keeping an eye on Throne and Liberty and will probably try out the pvp server in EQ2 (later this month)

  • @Zulgurub
    @Zulgurub Год назад

    Wait, you still haven't read the books?

  • @xboxgamerz22
    @xboxgamerz22 Год назад

    Is this like eso

  • @wumpusrat
    @wumpusrat Год назад

    As much as I enjoy the game, there is one major, MAJOR factor that tends to make me warn new players away from it: the lag.
    The lag is overwhelming and oppressive, on a near constant basis. When I first started, I'd get occasional little bouts of lag, but it was no big deal.
    Lately it's gotten 10x worse. And god help you if you try to play a Warden, because lagging while you're trying to build gambits essentially makes the class unplayable.
    I'm hoping that once the anniversary is over the lag will die down a bit, but jesus christ it is mind-numbing. It honestly makes me log out from irritation and go play another game at least once a day.

  • @Youboremenow
    @Youboremenow Год назад

    Questions I would like to see answered.
    How welcoming is the new player at all levels of the game. ie, are other players plentiful and willing to help out if you have questions in the starting zones. In the middle game how easy is it to make groups for dungeons and maybe help for challenging quests. At endgame how active is the raid scene, and how hard of a grind is it/same for pvp.
    Free to play restrictions. I assume I could get all the information I wanted with some basic googling, but having a SWTOR background I know how out of date the game can be with updating non players with their free to play restrictions and actual effects in game. So a more succint and relevant list of the restrictions and what you get for subscribing (also the best way of getting the most bang for your buck) would be welcome.
    How accessible is this game to a non LOTR fan. I mean I've read some of the books but I would be lying if this was a fictional universe I had much knowledge of.
    Obvioulsy I noticed you touched on some of these points :) but I felt like they could be expanded more. Just a perspective from a this style of mmo fan whose suddenly been getting a lot of LOTRO video reccomendations and have some curiosity in starting an account.

  • @benfuller3413
    @benfuller3413 Год назад

    I just came back after years of not playing, I haven't played properly since roman was released as I hated the kinda forced mounted combat as it was so badly done especially if your a melee class having to maneuver properly just to hit a mob sucked. I tried coming back for mordor but again I found a feature of it annoying and frustrated. I think it was called the light of elendil or something you needed on gear to combat the dread of being in mordor. I'm currently playing minas morgul stuff on my beorning and I'm actually enjoying it, I'll get war of the three peaks and fate of gundabad at somepoint but I'm not sure if I'll bother trying to gear up for end game as alot of the instances you now have to run around and find so it's a real pain. Like on my beorning i had used a 120 level boost I got with minas morgul to skip past mordor part so I don't have things like the durins bane raid unlocked or lost temple dungeon. Having to run around to unlock them all is just a real pain in the ass

  • @JennaRose957
    @JennaRose957 Год назад

    1000% there is still SO much for LOTRO to expand on.

  • @bzutim
    @bzutim Год назад +1

    IMO, this game would be more enjoyable with a graphical revamp

  • @DavetheNord
    @DavetheNord Год назад +2

    ...And a super stellar soundtrack too! 👍

  • @Why_Contain_It
    @Why_Contain_It Год назад

    Love this game and have for a long time, but there are four main problems that stop me from really recommending it most of the time. Lag, combat based around animations, population and mithril coins. The animation reliance+lag is really just awful to play sometimes, and the population makes it feel like a very lonely experience all the way to 140, which is not ideal for an MMO. But the mithril coins being such an invasive UI element makes it feel like even when I subscribe, the game is begging for more at every step. In general the UI is awful honestly, but that's my biggest bugbear.

    • @damir4132
      @damir4132 Год назад

      So it still have the microstutters every few seconds and on skill animation?

  • @SillyFisheh
    @SillyFisheh Год назад

    Its deffo worth playing lotro! Im doing a lite focused playtrough on my channel! Its such an amazing game!

  • @blockmasterscott
    @blockmasterscott Год назад +1

    Depends on the player. Some like only starting on launch day, and others like a starting after the MMO has developed after some years.

  • @charlesmartel3995
    @charlesmartel3995 Год назад +1

    LOTRO is still unplayable for people like me. I simply cannot see the icons and the inventory. They need to revamp the user interface.

  • @chuckk4722
    @chuckk4722 Год назад +1

    Newer player here. Josh Strife Hayes called LOTRO an extremely pleasant, chill mmorpg to just hangout in and I agree. As with many others the lore is the biggest draw for me.
    I’m thinking though a catch up mechanic similar to something like Black Desert’s season characters maybe in order. I just hit lvl 40 and am trying to enjoy the ride. The thought of still having a hundred levels to go can be a bit soul crashing…

    • @Louey7
      @Louey7  Год назад +1

      There technically are "Valars" to level skip, but outside of promotions and expansions, they're a bit costly at base price in the LOTRO Store! (With recent system revamps, these actually set your character up quite nicely for the latest level cap/expansion, just takes a bit of work to get everything settled and applied to your character, then learn the class/mechanics/etc.)

    • @chuckk4722
      @chuckk4722 Год назад +1

      @@Louey7 Thxs Louey, I believe I have a level boost from purchasing Before the Shadow. I’m trying to be strong and level my first character the honorable way through the content. We’ll see if I can tough it out…😜.

    • @mercster
      @mercster Год назад +1

      There's 0 point to level skip, it's not that kinda game, trust me. I know lots of people in the MMO space who say "It's about the journey, not the destination" but LOTRO embodies that completely. This is not a game with a ton of content at end game. If you don't enjoy the game for the first 50 levels or so, it's not worth going through.

  • @jonathansoko1085
    @jonathansoko1085 Год назад +1

    Ive been playing it as a single player rpg, and im loving it. I will team up when i have to, but im very much enjoying just enjoying the fantasy since there is no good rings rpg out there

  • @dragoncrusader3356
    @dragoncrusader3356 Год назад

    Yes its worth til the know how much long to push to level cap. And dungeon finding seems dead

  • @Vradica
    @Vradica Год назад

    The game is worth playing for a bit because of nostalgia, it looks and feels great to be in the world of tolkien :)
    However the gameplay is clunky and feels pretty damn buggy.

  • @BillBillson69420
    @BillBillson69420 Год назад

    The answer to this question has been the same since the game came out. If you love Lord of the Rings then the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. If you like MMOs but don't care about LotR then you could likely do better elsewhere.

  • @albertbachtamjan5546
    @albertbachtamjan5546 Год назад

    My Problem is that we have 2023 the game is to old we need a new fresh lotr mmo with god pvp and pve Systems new graphics etc a Bad side and good side. Like i wanna play a urukai beserk or somthing like that dont understand me wrong i played and loved old games but time goes by and so the games need to improve. The game is more then 10 years old and i tryd it its way to old school. I know that they are planing big updates but i think that this will not be enough. I really just want a new nice loking lotr mmo and i know that lord of the rings have a big community and dont understand why no one see the potential of a new mmorpg. Im realy sorry for my Englisch skills (and hi from germany).

  • @valentinheim7428
    @valentinheim7428 Год назад

    i've just rejoined lotro and i'm having alot of fun

  • @mercster
    @mercster Год назад

    Yep the WORST thing you could do is rush to "end game." It's not even that kinda game, is that even possible?! 😂 This is a game to savor the journey. Thanks Louey!

    • @mercster
      @mercster Год назад

      You haven't read LOTR?! Come on man, it's not even that long!

  • @auxtrem
    @auxtrem Год назад

    New player , 2 months at my pace , legend server, I sincerely love it!!!@❤❤❤

  • @michaeltz4911
    @michaeltz4911 Год назад

    I love the art style and music but the game is terrible slow.I tried it twice and stopped after 20lvl.The worst quest system that takes ages to finish.It feels you make zero progress as a new player.WoW changed its quest system to make it faster for new players to reach max lvl, guild wars 2 created a smart quest system that you don't get the quests from npcs but they are like world events etc.Lotro is a great game but the terrible gameplay mechanics can't and won't bring new players in the game.

  • @FireCrack83
    @FireCrack83 Год назад

    Not since they gone Woke and ban everyone who says "women of the Rohirim and elves had no beards"

  • @hannibalscipio10
    @hannibalscipio10 Год назад

    I'm enjoying it so far as a new player!

  • @_ANGST
    @_ANGST Год назад

    How is this Lord of the Rings, though. Could be Runescape for all I care. Pixels.

  • @choonblaze
    @choonblaze Год назад

    It was until April 16th 2023. That's when they introduced their woke agendas into the game. Servers are also super laggy.

  • @ANRQAngel
    @ANRQAngel Год назад

    total noob, i just want to go traipsing around middle-earth to be honest

  • @waltjames407
    @waltjames407 Год назад

    I played the game rather heavily starting when MoM was the latest Xpac up until Rise of Isengard, had a blast playing, I started slacking when Rohan came out, found Gondor to be incredibly boring and slacked even more, and any more I just can't get into it. Level 140? Never gonna get there, takes too many invested hours, not worth the effort. I play as a fan of Tolkien's works, not to get to max level as fast as possible and have the latest gold nuggets to show off to my friends and rivals. As far as I can tell, there are literally zero players who play for the fun and immersion of it. At least none who are willing to do any group content other than max level dungeons, and then it's the same 2 or 3 instances over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over. And don't get me started on the Legendary Item system. Spending hours and hours in Rivendell doing nothing but picking traceries, buying enhancement runes, applying enhancement runes, with enough clicking and dragging to induce carpal tunnel syndrome. Every 5 levels or so. I'm pretty much done with the game.
    When you couple the insanely high level cap with making character maintenance so g-d complicated and time consuming that it sucks up hours of your time with no adventuring, it's just no fun any more.

  • @mariusbalsys9787
    @mariusbalsys9787 Год назад

    i was looking for lotro gameplay, not for a gay face

  • @BronerBeast
    @BronerBeast Год назад +1

    Graphics are too bad.

  • @barzulbinks
    @barzulbinks Год назад

    I guess so

  • @javierkiman8302
    @javierkiman8302 Год назад

    Is it? No. Designed badly. So, their is no need to play a bad game.

  • @sarosis98
    @sarosis98 Год назад

    The game is mostly trash

  • @Stratigoz
    @Stratigoz Год назад

    If they fix the servers, totally worth it. Until then do not make the mistake and start it.