The Greatest Lord of the Rings RTS Ever Made
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
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@@antikleaperwhoops, finger slipped
@@antikleaper Based
Pretty sure it's considered abandonware at this point though
Yarg
22:57 "Sir a second Sauron has hit the Towers"
Mine liege, a second balrog hath struck the spires.
Glad im not the only one thinking this
It really is sad how many actually incredible games like this there are that have been almost entirely forgotten rather then receiving the remaster they truly deserve. As such my heartfelt gratitude goes out to each and every one of these legendary individuals pouring their blood sweat and tears into keeping these incredible games from disappearing into the void like so many other older titles.
Does anyone remember Lord of the Rings: Conquest? Please don't let me be the last.😢
The Age of the Ring mod for this game is basically a remaster in every category except for the actual game engine which remains the old SAGE.
@@ryantaylor2130Yeah I remember LotR Conquest, haven't played it in a bit though
To be exact there is a group remaking bmfe.
They have been at it for 4-7 years
@msNovaSixx Yeah but honestly, the chances of them being copyright struck once they release is probably high. Also, are they using a new game engine or still SAGE? I would love for BfME in say the Starcraft 2 engine. The dream.
I always liked how this game portrayed units moving and fighting in formations, as opposed to the disorganized blobs in other RTS games. Like a halfway point between a traditional RTS and a Total War game.
So, kinda like Age of Empires II and III, as well as Age of Mythology.
No they all have individual units, not groups@@MrDibara
Command and conquer did it pretty well too, especially 3 where infantry grouped up in squads. They’re not square formations like in this game but that’s because they’re in a sci-fi/modern setting so squad tactics makes more sense. The armor always was good, but was also best and most cinematic in 3.
This game was awesome too, and you’re right about the use of formations in it.
Shadow wizard money gang: the game
Nah, I’d argue that’s the Age Of Wonders series.
@@Bobbert_521 pretty sure that's magicka
*We love casting spells*
Chronoaphere but good: the game
AND to keep it real;
Yes, there is a community, it's alive and there are plenty of mods to make the game as fleshed out and balanced as possible.
I remember one thing I found hilarious as a kid while playing this, was how the upgraded elven arrows would just fling enemies backwards
and tom bombadil
Was thinking during the video about how both of what you mentioned was op af
Tom is a jolly fellow
Tom is a 'Happy Boi'
BOMBADILLLOOOO
Tom Bombadil had a straight up Fus ro dah
Quick tip: Pressing spacebar pans the camera to the most recent alert. So if you press spacebar as soon as you the alert for Gollum, it will pan the camera right to him.
Reggie Hazzor and Kleaper all upload within days of each other? I'm feckin dreaming
I know right like...did they plan this
While your dreaming I’m creaming
They are one entity, don't fall for their lies
Now we need to wait for a sseth upload and a mandalore upload
The holy Trinity of watching at 2 a.m
Edain mod for this game is on another level: new units, new heroes with custom voicelines, new ring heroes with unique mechanics, new factions. Perhaps even greater mod for BFME than Grimhammer is for Wahammer 3 imo
Chefs kiss
100% agree! It brings back the static base and build point design of BFME 1 while expanding the game with tons more factions! I love it! I’ve spent hours playing
I now wanna see Kleaper play thru that
Fr, we need Grim Kleaper also walk through this. This game has lots to show off and honestly? I'm all for it, I'm Hella interested.
aaah but have you heard of age of the ring mod?
@@andrewbraddock5101 I have. I played it a bit, but ultimately went back to Edain mod. I prefer the static base building model to the free building of AotR or base BFME2. Both are solid mods though.
I remember playing this game with a couple buddies a few years back. And one of my friends playing as the dwarfs used the strategy I dubbed as "The Trump Solution" which was basically drowning the map in walls.
Good luck! I'm behind 7000 walls!
“We’s going to build a wall, and we’s gonna make the elves pay for it!”
@@thatoneguyiii1003YES, I hate elves
Build an odd-numbered section of walls, tear down every other segment and the endpoints, build a catapult on every now free standing segment. Repeat the process somewhere behind your base in the corner of the map.
Congratulations! Your enemy now gets to live through the Somme Experience™!
Best results when playing as Gondor/Humans due to their siege equipment having that little bit of extra range that lets them hit enemy catapults and ballistae first.
Man, I played against somebody doing that online years ago and I remember it being a nightmare
"Is this it? Is this all you can conjure, Saruman?"
Maybe, but glub can conjure so much more 😄
These old RTS games have such a cool look to them. Even the really mediocre ones that Mandalore covers frequently have such charm.
I remember playing this game with my brother in an old school gaming cafe! This is a wild surprise mashup of Kleaper nonsense and nostalgia! Much appreciated man
This game was one of my favorites growing up - great vid, Kleaper, thanks for bringing me back to a time when life was simpler.
I stupidly sold the disc a while back, and have been trying to find a way to play both the first and second games ever since. Shame there's no way to do that...
The game is finished in Age of the ring mod. If someone wants to see how many things are added from the books. Dol Guldur faction is a master peace.
Babe wake up, new Kleaper vid dropped
God this brings back memories of watching my mate play this when younger and his utter panic when he saw a Balrog coming for him for the first time
''Its a Balrog....A BALROG! A BAAALROOOOG''
And if they made the newbie mistake of placing their buildings close to one another the balrog's fire breath takes down everything but fortresses in one hit. So you can kill 3-5 buildings in one go.
I think anyone who played this game understood that Mordor players would always rush Balrog ASAP.
I find the Plants VS Zombies music in the intro endlessly funny and fitting
There’s a 3-in-1 launcher for both LOTR battle for middle earth games and the mod version of the second game called Rise of the Witch king! It include the original launch versions of the games along with community updated versions that change how the campaigns play by adding some new units, missions, and hero’s. The launcher also comes with free access to multiplayer arena with a small community that is pretty active, I highly recommend getting the launcher
I remember playing War of the Ring and it is soooo broken. You start a battle with 0 units in your army, stomp the AI in a normal game, as you do, and than the army you build in your skirmish just stays on the world map. Good times.
I have spent so many fucking hours in this game. Pure fun. Wonderful hero system, distinct factions, good gameplay, simple.
Also, I don't think I've ever picked a non-wizard as a custom hero. The variety in capability is just so nice.
Oh yes mine was archer for the good factions which on lv10 would obliterate every high-level unit or enemy hero instantly,and trolls for bad factions because of hacknslash attacks,quakes and best summonings
Trolls were fun AF too. All the heroes really if you built to certain specs.
Man you don't understand how glad I am your covering this this was my childhood. You can play it online through certain... means... and it's just incredible
23:12 all those explosions and the goat lives.
So glad your going trough old games like this one. Hope you do one on Age of Mythology soon enough.
14:17 thank you for spending 40 minutes for that one gag
This is easily my favorite RTS ever. When I think of good RTS with most of everything you could want, this is what I think of first.
Teleporting is cool and all, but I'll just be building that goblin tunnel next to your base minute one before sending the goblin swarms at you.
It's fun bullying Isengard.
The spider, checking out the one ring on its finger: 👀👀👀👀
(Teleport gives me PTSD)
Okay now that we’ve got these two classics
The Command and conquer red alert series is absolutely hilarious
Do it
We need a Kleaper vs Reggie vs Spiffing Brit vs Ambiguous Amphibian battle royale in this game!!!
Time to let loose my favorite bit of useless trivia. The pre-made heroes in the My Heroes builder are all based on the characters of The Lord of the Rings: The Third Age, which was an ff10 style turn-based RPG that I played the hell out of on the Game Cube. Super fun and still available on emulat--er, I mean, viable legal game discs.
I've completed this game so many times I never thought I'd see ppl play it again
Well, there's still an active community for it. Vanilla games are still being casted and posted on RUclips. I recommend checking Ruudevil, though he casts mostly the Age of the Ring mod for this game for years now.
The coolest thing about this game for me was always how you could actually like, be in a full sized city, and like, hold the gates and stuff.
Man i loves this game as a kid.
My favorite pary was always the trolls, you could feed orcs to them to heal, make them pull a tree out of the ground for a club, and once they leveled up they got armor and a huge mace
This game was such a pivotal capstone of my childhood, makes me SO mf happy to see you covering it Kleap! Much love.
Holy crap, I never expected to see my favorite childhood game on RUclips played by the greatest war crime simulator fan ever.
Also reminds me that I currently have a copy of this base game with all the CDs. So uh... might look into doing something with that.
Hell yeah, one of my favorite games of all time that I thought only like 3 people knew existed. Thank you Kleaper, now through your efforts 5 people know it exists
23:12 Damn, that goat survived literal armageddon and still grazing for food next to Sauron.
Thank you for uploading, Kleaper. I just lost a close family pet, and I opened up RUclips to try and cheer myself up, and I saw that you’d uploaded in the last half hour.
Sorry to hear that brother. Rest in peace
@@antikleaper Thanks. They were almost as old as me, so they were around almost as long as I can remember.
Dude that was one of my favorite games of childhood.
It almost brought a tear to my eye, considering bfme was the first game I ever played back in early 2000's.
Thank you for that ❤
Btw,you should DEFINITELY try the Age of the Ring mod for the Rise of the Witch King.By far,the most complete and recently updated there is(also got mod of the year in ModDB I think)
The Goat that just stands next to Sauron after he used orbital bobardment on that draven base
Reggie and kleaper upload in such quick succession? Holy it’s our lucky day
ah yes, the game that instilled me with a primal rage everytime i see the number 98
This was my go to RTS for the longest time. still one of the best ones out there I would say. if they would ever make a new one for the searies that would be hype. although very unlikely since it's a niche inside of a niche.
I used to have this on my Xbox 360 I never thought I'd see it again hell yeah man
*"there is no life in the void, only DEATH"*
oh I can't wait to see you play more old games. Heck seeing you play the old fallout games would be fun to watch
It's so good, it gave me a moment to remember Age of Mythology, another pretty cool game
Me and my dad always loved playing this game on the 360 and it’s what got me into strategy games alongside civ rev.
My dad found a way to win on Helm’s deep against the hardest Ai without losing a single unit. If I remember it right; he spams rangers along the walls then gets some siege weaponry and just kills everything from long range for hours until he gets bored and decides to destroy the enemy base instead of getting a ridiculous K/D ratio
One of the best RTS games ever made. Played a shit ton of it on xbox 360 and have it on my pc through other means ;)
BFME2 is my childhood and I love crazy stuff in it, one of the game of all time if I may say that
Bro the nostalgia of this game I’m loading it up rn because of you
Damn i have been playing this game since i was a kid so glad somebodys made a video on it.
I killed a *lot* of elves in this and Lotr Conquest as a kid. Nice to see it re-enacted all these years later.
Holy shit, I absolutely loved this game growing up. Playing a skirmish as the Elves and picking Helms Deep and just sitting on the walls farming kills with archers... good times. While I'm surprised to see my favorite Total Warhammer/Rimworld RUclipsr playing BFME II (a surprise to be sure, but a welcome one) I'm even more surprised to see it running on a PC. Without the original discs, getting this game to run on my PC has proven nearly impossible.
this game is my childhood, and im so happy the the modding community has kept it going for even online multiplayer
The fucking nostalgia hits like a mountain. Thank you for it. ❤
Please revisit this after giving the mod "The Age of the Ring" a shot. It expands upon the base game HEAVILY, adding some many new units, several new factions, full reworks to each faction, updated graphics, and a stagering amount of new maps. Feels like the sequal I always wanted from this series that we unfortunately never got. Great video, glad to see more RTS games getting the love they desperately need!
Love the Garden Warfare music in the intro! Brings back memories.
The Age of the Ring mod is top tier
I remember playing the xbox 360 port. This video brings a happy tear of nostalgia to my eyes. Thank you.❤❤❤
Kleaper playing a Lord of the Rings game? This is truly a wonderful day!
Oh my god this was my childhood, thank you for reminding this to me
Really like that you show the upgrades and unit descriptions for us to read.
This game is pure nostalgia
God, I love this game oh so much. I really need to get around to re-acquiring it, as well as the Angmar expansion.
I am humbly requesting a video on C&C Generals: ZH. Because once you get advanced tech as any faction, you get an infinite money generator. Start as a turtle, Spam those down, and then you can literally build as much of anything as you want, including Nukes!! Me and my brother were messing around as kids with it and ended up with like... 9 or 10 nukes that literally won us the game in less than 5 seconds and crashed the game to desktop. 10/10, favorite game of all time
I remember there used to be a bug with the Elven Heal spell that heroes could take, where it didn't have a cooldown, letting you spam it continuously healing the hero and all nearby troops forever.
Random fact about Ring Heroes - All 'Good' (Men, Elves and Dwarves) get Galadriel and All 'Evil' (Isengard, Goblins and Mordor) get Sauron if they get the One Ring back to a Fortress (the AI on Brutal not too sure on other Difficulties) can summon their Ring Hero
You need to install the Edain Mod,it takes the Game to a whole New Level.
Feels like you have a new Game
whenever I think of LOTR I always think of The Ent's Marching Song - Clamavi De Profundis
such a great song
HOLY SHIT I JUST DOWNLOADED THIS GAME ON PC AFTER NOT PLAYING IT SINCE THE XBOX 360 FOR YEARS. Thanks so much for playing this and you should try the age of the ring mod.
Man, I loved this game back in the day - along with a couple other games by the same developers: Command and Conquer Generals and Command and Conquer 3.
If you've never played them, just imagine this game, but with tanks and soldiers with over-the-top accents nuking each other.
Thankfully those games are on Steam and don't need mods to work these days - and they hold up just as well as Middle Earth 2.
Mirkwood Archers and silver thorn arrows.
Congratulations you now have an army of elves equipped with the middle age equivalent of a .50 caliber sniper rifle.
Ah, I remember this game very well.
Boy: wizard with Word of Power!
Man: Invisible goblin stealing money with bow.
This bring good memorys back... man. Thanks!
This game made my childhood so good
So many good times on this game just torturing the enemies.
My favorite move was calling in a meteor and a balrog at the same time. Because as if a nuke isn't enough, there's also a pissed off demon inside
God I loved this game as a kid. It and Offworld Resource Base were my two go-to strategy games back then. I bet my dad still has the discs to both games lmao, I ought to ask
I loved this game so much, so many good memories playing LAN with my friends, back when that was something you could do. I’m sad that I have just aged myself with this statement.
I would commit a large variety of warcrimes for any type of dnd video
It's only a warcrime if someone is left to say it is
Ah yes, the invisible elf game.
Bro, you are 2 for 2 for covering my 2 all time favorite RTS games. Thank you so much Kleaper!
For anyone who doesn't know, there is a remake being made by independent developers and its called "LOTR battle for middle earth reforged" they have a youtube channel if you want to check thier work
The way Kleaper said "WIZARD BLAST" is now my new vocal stim
I spent HOURS in the character creator of this game to play with my friends, we used to carry our computers to someone's house to play together (Because I'm that old). Love this game!
Reinventing the drone strike.
I LOVE THIS GAME!! Grew up playing the first one all the time with my dad, Gondor was busted
Try the first one if you haven’t
"Uruk Hai are way cooler" a reaper after my own heart
this brought back so many memories i played the xbox 360 version as a kid it looks very different than the pc version
You should try the Age of the Ring mod for this game, it's crazy good and has a completely custom campaign
My GOD this game was my CHILDHOOD
there's an exploit with making custom heroes in this game. Basically, if you make a second hero and make sure they're alphabetically next to them, if you try to edit your main hero and switch to the second one you'll be able to give the first abilities from the second's current progress in the tree. SO you can multiple level 10 abilities unlocked at level 5, such as summoning an army from the ether
Combine that with the heal glitch where you double clicked the heal ability followed by a move command and it instantly reset the cooldown on the heal. Soloing entire armies with one unit never got old.
as soon as i read the title, I knew he could only be talking about the goat
At first I was like "why is youtube recommending me a video about some old LoTR game I don't care about?"
-then I saw who uploaded it. You have the ability to make any game interesting lol
this is madness, this is my teenhood.
Back in the days before editing ini files and modding was a thing for me as a kid, we used a glitch/bug to give our own hero abillities from other races/factions so you got a ranged fighter with wizard spells for example.
A blast from the past! I loved this game and it got even better once I discovered the Edain Mod 👍