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Shadow of Mordor. And one Lord of Rings game on the Xbox 360, I didn't play much and I don't recall the name. I'm not a Lord of the Rings fan. I've only watched the first half of the first movie. The Lord of the Rings: Conquest looked appealing to me as a Dynasty Warriors, Ninety-Nine Nights lover. I liked how Conquest wasn't a horde of enemies trickling in to fight one character, it feels more chaotic and looks more like a battle for conquest that way. Okay, I just checked my Xbox gamerscore to verify. I played the 2013 game, War in the North. I have 13/46 achievements 180/1000 gamerscore for it. I remember not particularly enjoying it, but getting through some of it anyway. I think I played it with an associate. My achievements all read as being unlocked on the same day, 11/5/2011. Okay, so the the 2013 version is for OS X which seems to be Mac. The games were released in November 1st, 2011 for Windows, PS3, and Xbox 360. Ten days before Skyrim, my gosh. Since I wasn't a Lord of the Rings fan, and I played it 4 days after the release, I must have rented it to play with some people I knew over Xbox party chat.
Actually i think it‘s the best lotr game together with battle for middle earth. It was nice to play aragorn and gimli in the two towers etc. But i think from player fun the third age ist the best , and the best thing is you can couch coop it with someone.
@@iheliocrati9527 a man after my own heart I grew up with final fantasy so I love turn based to to get a lotr final fantasy game was a wet dream for me yea it was linear but for me there was more than enough to keep me occupied unlocking all the skills and the off side quest but I loved the whole story of the game
I loved 3rd Age with exeception of the last boss battle being completely imbalanced and very very long. I've finished it but hated the game after that LOL!
@@TioSalsaTV yea the boss was weak helms deep was a bastard the first time especially when he runs back on his own that was the end when I was younger but did it a few years ago was sooo happy
@@TioSalsaTV the last bost battle is zero problemo if you know the game mate :) use the Item „ Morgul Decay „ it completly removes you enemys armor. And yeah haha helms deep , we are on a replay atm. 2 week ago we did rohan and durring our last hour on difficulty hard we lost xD maybee it was because we were tyred 😂 but we get f***ed haha
Coop in this era of gaming was so important. It's more than playing with your friends. It's visiting your cousin during a family reunion and seeing splitscreen halo for the first time. Or your big brother finding a way to let you play the game your parents aren't letting you. I remember how cool Lego Star Wars was for being able to just hand the controler to someone and tell them to press start, and they could just start playing with me. Also RIP I loved Third Age.
A friend of mine and I played through the PS2 action games in co-op back in the day, so when we saw War in the North was a thing we were so there when it came out. Finished it over and over together. Good times.
Two Towers and Return of the King are definitely my favorites. I played LOTRO for a little bit too and its very fun with a devoted community. If you have read the books, and have 1+ other people to play with, you will definitely get a lot of enjoyment out of Lord of the Rings Online
The Third Age was my favorite. I remember playing it with friends in the early 2000s. Nostalgia is definitely a factor for me. That and the fact that I haven't played any of the other games. I just loved how they had a turn based version of LOTR like a Final Fantasy title.
I loved Conquest because on the quick play mode you can fully explore lore accurate maps like Minas Morgul, Mordor, The Shire and Weathertop, in a way that you can't in any other LOTR game. It's fun just to walk around and look.
Lotr: War in the North feels like comfort food to me. It's not the "best thing since sliced bread" and gameplay feels very simplistic, but smh I finished it twice. The visuals are very nice, weather effect on clothes and armor are kinda rare even nowadays. I played both times as a mage only for cool factor of dual-wielding sword and staff, but maybe it wasn't an optimal choice.
I put so many hours into Third Age, the fact that it basically lets you play through the entire trilogy is still so insane, also customization using all of the movie armors and weapons was a major plus, the only other game that gave me the happiness of running around in full Minas Tirith Fountain Guard armor was LEGO LOTR xD. Two Towers and Return of the King also GOATs of course :P
When I was a kid, my dad played a lot of Lord of the Rings games. He played Two towers and Return of the king. This man hates RPGs. I remembered my parents coming home with this game and my dad finished it. He complained about how he didn’t like RPGs the whole time but he loved the series. If my dad could play this and have some enjoyment from this game, I think others would too
The reason War in the North had such a backlash is the fact that the PS3 version had a game breaking bug in a troll cave that MIGHT occur. That also damaged Snowblind's reputation a lot. The bug appeared in BOTH of our two campaigns. It was so frustrating we never finished the game.
The troll itself (the third boss iirc) might not show up even if you reenter oder restart the game. As its a dead end (you must defeat it to proceed) you can't finish the game. The PS3 pretty much is a closed environment, so it's hard to believe snowblind didn't know about it.
LoTR Third Age is my favorite. I remember when I was a kid i started out by disliking the game but quickly enough it became one of those core memory games. I think it might have been the first game I beat more than once.
I was there Gandalf .. I was there .... 3000 years ago, when The Lord of the Rings Conquest servers closed ! Thanks for the great video ... took me back ! Been playing LOTR games since the DOS era !
I remember playing LotR The Third Age for days, it was fun game mainly playing as Archer that class was the most fun to play. LotR War in the North is better played in Coop, if I remember correctly the dialogues and cutscenes changed depending on who started them which was interesting to listen to. I think there was even some kind of voting system for some of the dialogue choices.
We had so much fun playing War in the North coop with my friends, once we went through the whole campaign in one sitting. It has some overpowered builds!
I discovered the explosive crossbow bolt that the dwarf had at the end of our first playthrough and one shot the final boss on normal. Even though we raised the difficulty to the maximum for the next playthrough, it was stupidly powerful. I'd shoot it off and wipe three quarters of the enemies from each encounter. The bosses would have their health cut in half with one shot. It visually appeared to be just a little explosion to get some extra splash damage, but it was like shooting a tomahawk cruise missile off your crossbow in how much damage it dealt. The radius was like >30m with no apparent damage falloff.
War in the North is my personal all time favorite LOTR game. It’s a solid RPG in its own right. Plus it’s only true RPG for LOTR, the rest are literally hack & slash action games.
@@khrainos3139, what do you mean? I tried connecting with my friends a few times, but the official server is down since about 2019. As far as I’m aware the only way to play co-op these days is with one of those third party server-emulating programs
So even with all the jank, Fellowship of the Ring has a special place in my heart. As a kid, my grandmother had a copy of the demo and I played that demo religiously. I never got to play the full game until a decade later, and yeah, it's jank city, but there's a certain nosgalgic charm to it that I appreciate.
The gameplay of 2002's Fellowship of the Ring may be very simplistic and clunky, but the atmosphere of this game is unmatched. To this day, it has that unique fairy tale vibe that no other LotR game has, apart from LotR Online (It remind me of Oblivion in a way). It also has Tom Bombadil and the Barrow-downs (which are genuinely scary).
DUDE the third age is literally the best lotr video game lol. i really slept on it as a kid because i was coming from playing return of the king and didnt realise that it was turn based, i think i put it aside for atleast half a year after i realised that it is nothing like my beloved return of the kings. only when i did try again. i realised what i had before me. you literally play the entire story of the 3 movies but with different characters. you actually get to both helms deep and minas tirith during their battles. even those characters really grew on me. also kinda funny that when war in the north showed up i thought "why havent i ever heard of that game" only to realise a few scenes later that i actually played it. i literally completely forgot that it existed.
I played the hell out of The Third Age back in the mid 2000's. It felt like a final fantasy game but in lord of the rings and I loved the hell out of it.
Lord of the rings conquest was my favourite game ever when I was younger. Not exactly a RPG but fantastic memories of that game! I wish they would remake it
Return of the kings was amazing… we were absolutely bewildered about it’s graphics back then… and if you compare it relative to its time, it’s actually pretty wild.
I absolutely love War in the North. I used to play it a ton with my sister just a few years ago. I hope we had more of that type of split-screen coop games nowadays.
Never played any of these, but I do have fond memories of Interplay's "The Lord of the Rings Volume 1", which was an Ultima 6 clone for DOS which let you go way off script and recruit all sorts of random weirdos into the Fellowship and get important characters, up to and including Frodo, killed off permanently in random encounters.
As much as i loved return of the king and two towers, I'd have to say conquest gives me the most nostalgia. Playing that game was a blast with my buddies in splitscreen back in the day!!
The Third Age was really fun from what I remember, you might want to try it out. I also had a blast with the Return of the King game but would get stuck on the Black gate level :(
I've played RotK, Conquest, Aragorn's Quest, and War in the North. Return of the King was my freaking childhood, but War in the North is by far my favourite. I still have that cool holographic sleeve it came in.
i grew up playing aragorn's quest on the nintendo ds and its a totally different game, it feels a lot more like an rpg targeted towards teens and adults, with upgrades and outfit pieces with perks that all held a lot of lore
I don't know if you didn't actually play through Fellowship of the Ring, or didn't find it worth mentioning, BUT in its defense there are some pieces I recall being really cool. The game is based on the book, so you get to experience the Old Forest, Tom Bombadil, and the Barrow Downs. As a fan of the books, that was really cool to see. The "adventure" aspect kicks up a bit later when you get to play as Aragorn and Gandalf. Your review implies you never made it out of the Shire, and that definitely doesn't give a complete view of it :)
There were some LoTR rpgs made in the 90s on pc that were pretty good. Only problem was there was no fast travel so you’d have to hold down the direction keys and literally walk all the way to Mordor… it took months 😂
Return to Moria is actually quite a good game, if you like survival/crafting games. It's totally played inside the mountain but they managed to make it feel good. The combat is not the best, but it's not bad either for a survival game.
I loved ROTK growing up but I had a glitch with the multiplayer. The Cirith Ungol mission was impossible because you had to destroy a bridge and both characters had to cross before it collapsed. However, one character would always get stuck on an invisible wall so I was never able to complete it 😢
That little door protection at 8:42 I remember took my father and I FOREVER as I was quite young and not a real “gamer” yet. Nor was my dad. So that shit took us unnecessarily long and many attempts
I remember my father guiding me trough a gaming store when I was young/little and I stopped in front of 2 games. One was Fellowship of the Ring the other was AVP (2000) gold edition. I picked AVP at the time but he bought me the other one later after both watching the movie and I remember I enjoyed it a lot. Thanks for evoking that memory.
I remember getting war in the north for Christmas back in 13, I loved that game so much and even the game case for 360 was nice. All reflective and such.
2:50 I remember I must've been around 8 or 9 years old when playing that quest on Xbox. It was so difficult me and my brother never figured it out after so many tries, we ended up quitting the game and never went back to it. A shame how games back then sometimes had these near-impossible quests, there was no patching or online updates back then to fix it post-launch because it was all hard copies, if a game was broken on release, it stayed that way forever.
One I’ll throw out that’s not in the video. I had the game “the hobbit” on the GameCube. I’m a huge fan of the book so I was hyped getting this as a kid. I hated it. I remember getting to the part where they are captured by the trolls and it’s a horrible stealth section. I don’t think I ever passed that as a kid
Well well well, Came here for the third age, because it's a lovely game and I still play it occasionally. Unfortunate you skipped it. As my name and picture imply, Morwen is my fav character. A fierce dual-axe wielding badass.
I remember I beat war in the north 3 times in one day, first time I ever played it too. Was one of the first Looter games I truly played, aside from borderlands, so it felt really cool. I did also play diablo 1 WAY back in the day as a kid, but I dont think I ever get past act 1.
In my opinion, The Fellowship of the Ring is the best game of LotR. The setting and atmosphere are completely loyal to the books and Tolkien charm, like a genuine product of a time bygone. Modern LotR games are no longer trying to capture that vibe, as they focus on the "new audiences". The game is quite different after The Shire section, it becomes more combat oriented and you get to play as different characters like Aragorn and Gandalf, adding some variation to the gameplay.
Conquest DS was fun. I have good memories of The Hobbit on game cube too. War of the ring is basically warcraft 3, with plenty of fellowship only RPGish missions. And lego lotr is the best lego game. Warrior of Gondor was a cool plug and play lightgun\sword thing. The third age is actually great. I didn't really care for JPGs when I was younger, but the presentation was just so epic. There was a ton of visual gear and I think you even picked skills to invest in, which made it feel a little more western. Since you liked the hack and slash ones so much, you should check out Demon Stone.
Sad the fellowship movie didn’t get it's own game. But at least we got games for 2 out of the 3. 😊 Nevermind? Seems like they kinda combined fellowship and two towers into one game.
14:34 i had the exact same thoughts as a kid. I owned two towers and played the hell out of it. Rented ROTK once or twice and enjoyed it but not as much as two towers and could never really articulate why.
Im a huge LoTR fan. Played two towers obsessively at the time of the PS2 (still own the game and a console). Finished 100% of conquest on the PS3 and platinued Shadow of Mordor without any guide. I love War in the north, sadly thats the game breaking Mirkwood Glitch, the game dont registers an objective at the start of the stage (defeating Wulfrun) and when you finished the stage (defeating Saenathra) you dont go to the next and get stuck with a soft lock. Went thought the game some times, but usually get that game break at the middle, conecting to the online coop usually fixes it, but its quite common to get the glitch/bug and with the servers shuting down, it might become impossible to beat the game, since any of the fixes discussed in foruns work 100% of the times, its quite common to start the game all over because of that.
Also want to drop in Lord of the Rings tactics for PSP. Easily the most underrated LOTR in my opinion. NOBODY talks about it. I’m typically not one for turn-based games, but damn it was addictive.
Me and my brother played war in the north a ton when it came out, and then me and my friends only owned that game in 2017 so we must have gone through it 5 or 6 times in one summer
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all of them of course. :D
Conquest and War in the North
All of them and still own most of them 😅
What about the Lord of the rings Online?
Shadow of Mordor. And one Lord of Rings game on the Xbox 360, I didn't play much and I don't recall the name. I'm not a Lord of the Rings fan. I've only watched the first half of the first movie. The Lord of the Rings: Conquest looked appealing to me as a Dynasty Warriors, Ninety-Nine Nights lover. I liked how Conquest wasn't a horde of enemies trickling in to fight one character, it feels more chaotic and looks more like a battle for conquest that way.
Okay, I just checked my Xbox gamerscore to verify. I played the 2013 game, War in the North. I have 13/46 achievements 180/1000 gamerscore for it. I remember not particularly enjoying it, but getting through some of it anyway. I think I played it with an associate. My achievements all read as being unlocked on the same day, 11/5/2011. Okay, so the the 2013 version is for OS X which seems to be Mac. The games were released in November 1st, 2011 for Windows, PS3, and Xbox 360. Ten days before Skyrim, my gosh.
Since I wasn't a Lord of the Rings fan, and I played it 4 days after the release, I must have rented it to play with some people I knew over Xbox party chat.
The 3rd age is so underrated imo and shame it wasn’t shown with more depth
Actually i think it‘s the best lotr game together with battle for middle earth. It was nice to play aragorn and gimli in the two towers etc. But i think from player fun the third age ist the best , and the best thing is you can couch coop it with someone.
@@iheliocrati9527 a man after my own heart I grew up with final fantasy so I love turn based to to get a lotr final fantasy game was a wet dream for me yea it was linear but for me there was more than enough to keep me occupied unlocking all the skills and the off side quest but I loved the whole story of the game
I loved 3rd Age with exeception of the last boss battle being completely imbalanced and very very long. I've finished it but hated the game after that LOL!
@@TioSalsaTV yea the boss was weak helms deep was a bastard the first time especially when he runs back on his own that was the end when I was younger but did it a few years ago was sooo happy
@@TioSalsaTV the last bost battle is zero problemo if you know the game mate :) use the Item „ Morgul Decay „ it completly removes you enemys armor. And yeah haha helms deep , we are on a replay atm. 2 week ago we did rohan and durring our last hour on difficulty hard we lost xD maybee it was because we were tyred 😂 but we get f***ed haha
Coop in this era of gaming was so important. It's more than playing with your friends. It's visiting your cousin during a family reunion and seeing splitscreen halo for the first time. Or your big brother finding a way to let you play the game your parents aren't letting you.
I remember how cool Lego Star Wars was for being able to just hand the controler to someone and tell them to press start, and they could just start playing with me.
Also RIP I loved Third Age.
War in the North was a lot of fun, and wish it would have continued.
Yes ! I loved it !
They couldn't made as old games... 😢
Great game remember me and my mate playing through back on the 360
loved that game, would love a remaster. first looter ive ever played
@@jaydenherman2224same ! Got me into looters , I played it so many times ! 🤦🏾♂️
The Third Age is still one of my favorites to this day.
You shouldn`t have skipped Third Age, it`s a really delightful game.
A friend of mine and I played through the PS2 action games in co-op back in the day, so when we saw War in the North was a thing we were so there when it came out. Finished it over and over together. Good times.
Two Towers and Return of the King are definitely my favorites. I played LOTRO for a little bit too and its very fun with a devoted community. If you have read the books, and have 1+ other people to play with, you will definitely get a lot of enjoyment out of Lord of the Rings Online
Playing LOTRO since late 2010 and still getting back to it once in a while. It has its flaws but also lots of strengths.
I hope the new LOTR MMO amazon is working on will be the one RPG to rule them all
@@itrunamok8019 Has that not been cancelled already months ago? Also, Amazon's track record of good MMOs is very... well... modest.
I'm afraid that it's been cancelled a while ago.
@@silvereyeraven The just announced about a month ago that they are back to making it!
The Third Age was my favorite. I remember playing it with friends in the early 2000s. Nostalgia is definitely a factor for me. That and the fact that I haven't played any of the other games. I just loved how they had a turn based version of LOTR like a Final Fantasy title.
Like, you do you but The Third Age is easily the most fun among all of them 😄
I loved Conquest because on the quick play mode you can fully explore lore accurate maps like Minas Morgul, Mordor, The Shire and Weathertop, in a way that you can't in any other LOTR game. It's fun just to walk around and look.
Lotr: War in the North feels like comfort food to me. It's not the "best thing since sliced bread" and gameplay feels very simplistic, but smh I finished it twice. The visuals are very nice, weather effect on clothes and armor are kinda rare even nowadays.
I played both times as a mage only for cool factor of dual-wielding sword and staff, but maybe it wasn't an optimal choice.
Absolutely relate
I put so many hours into Third Age, the fact that it basically lets you play through the entire trilogy is still so insane, also customization using all of the movie armors and weapons was a major plus, the only other game that gave me the happiness of running around in full Minas Tirith Fountain Guard armor was LEGO LOTR xD.
Two Towers and Return of the King also GOATs of course :P
third age is so good
Yeah I’m very disappointed he didn’t even at least try it. 😢 it’s a damn good game!
When I was a kid, my dad played a lot of Lord of the Rings games. He played Two towers and Return of the king.
This man hates RPGs. I remembered my parents coming home with this game and my dad finished it. He complained about how he didn’t like RPGs the whole time but he loved the series. If my dad could play this and have some enjoyment from this game, I think others would too
The reason War in the North had such a backlash is the fact that the PS3 version had a game breaking bug in a troll cave that MIGHT occur. That also damaged Snowblind's reputation a lot.
The bug appeared in BOTH of our two campaigns. It was so frustrating we never finished the game.
Oh I remember this bug. I remember being so frustrated
yup, and it's baked into my PS3 Disc and was never patched afaik ;-D
Don't want to play for 10 hours just to check If I can continue.
@@FalkFlak what does the bug do?
The troll itself (the third boss iirc) might not show up even if you reenter oder restart the game. As its a dead end (you must defeat it to proceed) you can't finish the game.
The PS3 pretty much is a closed environment, so it's hard to believe snowblind didn't know about it.
@@FalkFlak oh that stinkss.
LoTR Third Age is my favorite. I remember when I was a kid i started out by disliking the game but quickly enough it became one of those core memory games. I think it might have been the first game I beat more than once.
I was there Gandalf .. I was there .... 3000 years ago, when The Lord of the Rings Conquest servers closed !
Thanks for the great video ... took me back ! Been playing LOTR games since the DOS era !
I was there too... when lotr war in the north is close for buying 😂
I remember playing LotR The Third Age for days, it was fun game mainly playing as Archer that class was the most fun to play.
LotR War in the North is better played in Coop, if I remember correctly the dialogues and cutscenes changed depending on who started them which was interesting to listen to. I think there was even some kind of voting system for some of the dialogue choices.
The Third Age is by far the best LotR-game from that era.
Total war mod? Shogun 2 have it, awesome mod.
Hell nah
We had so much fun playing War in the North coop with my friends, once we went through the whole campaign in one sitting. It has some overpowered builds!
I discovered the explosive crossbow bolt that the dwarf had at the end of our first playthrough and one shot the final boss on normal. Even though we raised the difficulty to the maximum for the next playthrough, it was stupidly powerful. I'd shoot it off and wipe three quarters of the enemies from each encounter. The bosses would have their health cut in half with one shot.
It visually appeared to be just a little explosion to get some extra splash damage, but it was like shooting a tomahawk cruise missile off your crossbow in how much damage it dealt. The radius was like >30m with no apparent damage falloff.
War in the North is my personal all time favorite LOTR game. It’s a solid RPG in its own right. Plus it’s only true RPG for LOTR, the rest are literally hack & slash action games.
I am so glad the dev went with SteamPlay integration so that we can still play coop by just inviting our Steam friends
@@khrainos3139, what do you mean? I tried connecting with my friends a few times, but the official server is down since about 2019.
As far as I’m aware the only way to play co-op these days is with one of those third party server-emulating programs
No? The Third Age exists
@@Walamonga1313 3rd Age isn’t an RPG
So even with all the jank, Fellowship of the Ring has a special place in my heart. As a kid, my grandmother had a copy of the demo and I played that demo religiously. I never got to play the full game until a decade later, and yeah, it's jank city, but there's a certain nosgalgic charm to it that I appreciate.
A video like this should have been like 3 hours
Release the directors cut 😭
The gameplay of 2002's Fellowship of the Ring may be very simplistic and clunky, but the atmosphere of this game is unmatched. To this day, it has that unique fairy tale vibe that no other LotR game has, apart from LotR Online (It remind me of Oblivion in a way). It also has Tom Bombadil and the Barrow-downs (which are genuinely scary).
Fucking loved it and played it countless times... and Bombadil is in it
agree, gameplay wise is a mediocre game, but it has this Tolkien atmophere that other games (inspired more by the movies) does not have.
DUDE the third age is literally the best lotr video game lol. i really slept on it as a kid because i was coming from playing return of the king and didnt realise that it was turn based, i think i put it aside for atleast half a year after i realised that it is nothing like my beloved return of the kings. only when i did try again. i realised what i had before me. you literally play the entire story of the 3 movies but with different characters. you actually get to both helms deep and minas tirith during their battles. even those characters really grew on me. also kinda funny that when war in the north showed up i thought "why havent i ever heard of that game" only to realise a few scenes later that i actually played it. i literally completely forgot that it existed.
Battle for Middle Earth was epic , should of had a honourable mention.
Unless you hate RTS games, the BFME games are all much better than these
Only Legends know the first Soundtrack at the beginning. Love some Classic Gothic music
Fellowship is a classic. The atmosphere, the music in the Shire. Not getting past the Ringwraith as a child. Fun times.
I don't know anyone who made it out the shire
I really like the turn-based GBA The Third Age.
Skipping third age was a major fail
I played the hell out of The Third Age back in the mid 2000's. It felt like a final fantasy game but in lord of the rings and I loved the hell out of it.
LotR Conquest was my one of internet cafe lan party games.
This game was dope as hell with friends.
Battle for middle Earth to this day and return of the king❤
I was looking forward to seeing The Third Age gameplay. Can't believe you just tossed it aside like that
I was so positively surprised when I heard the Gothic soundtrack playing in the background in some sections of the video
Battle for middle earth was an awesome lotr game
The Third Age is the best one, even for someone that doesn't play JRPGS
I agree, except for the very last battle of the game I thought the third age was the best lord of the rings game. I loved alll the new characters
i love the chilling background Gothic 3 music on your videos mate hahaha
War in the North was amazing in co-op!
Lord of the rings conquest was my favourite game ever when I was younger. Not exactly a RPG but fantastic memories of that game! I wish they would remake it
Gothic 3 truly had the best bgm 😁cool video dude
Return of the kings was amazing… we were absolutely bewildered about it’s graphics back then… and if you compare it relative to its time, it’s actually pretty wild.
It’s not on this list but remember Battle for Middle Earth 2 for the Xbox 360? Amazing game ❤
I loved to listen about lord of the rings games with gothic 3 soundtrack in the background, thank you for making my day better
Return of the King 2003 is my personal PEAK LOTR game.
I absolutely love War in the North. I used to play it a ton with my sister just a few years ago. I hope we had more of that type of split-screen coop games nowadays.
as kids we play lord of the rings all night long, over and over again. Game was so much fun!! They need to make games like this again..
Return of the king & Third Age were my favs.
Skipping the Third Age is actually criminal.
Never played any of these, but I do have fond memories of Interplay's "The Lord of the Rings Volume 1", which was an Ultima 6 clone for DOS which let you go way off script and recruit all sorts of random weirdos into the Fellowship and get important characters, up to and including Frodo, killed off permanently in random encounters.
I played the Two Towers as a kid, and I can still vividly remember most of the gameplay. Wow.
As much as i loved return of the king and two towers, I'd have to say conquest gives me the most nostalgia. Playing that game was a blast with my buddies in splitscreen back in the day!!
Where is War of the Ring?
It was a pretty weird, but officially licensed RTS game
Gotta remember that conquest is supposed to be an online PvP game like Battlefront. The Multiplayer of Conquest was glorious!
I played all of these games back when they released. I would have to say my favourite LoTR game was conquest and BFME2.
The Third Age was really fun from what I remember, you might want to try it out. I also had a blast with the Return of the King game but would get stuck on the Black gate level :(
I've played RotK, Conquest, Aragorn's Quest, and War in the North.
Return of the King was my freaking childhood, but War in the North is by far my favourite. I still have that cool holographic sleeve it came in.
i grew up playing aragorn's quest on the nintendo ds and its a totally different game, it feels a lot more like an rpg targeted towards teens and adults, with upgrades and outfit pieces with perks that all held a lot of lore
I have really great memories of playing Conquest with my sister. We mostly played the PvP mode and had a blast
I don't know if you didn't actually play through Fellowship of the Ring, or didn't find it worth mentioning, BUT in its defense there are some pieces I recall being really cool.
The game is based on the book, so you get to experience the Old Forest, Tom Bombadil, and the Barrow Downs. As a fan of the books, that was really cool to see. The "adventure" aspect kicks up a bit later when you get to play as Aragorn and Gandalf. Your review implies you never made it out of the Shire, and that definitely doesn't give a complete view of it :)
Thank you. That game has a huge place in my heart
@@Levelermakelevel yes! I haven’t played it in at least 10 years, so it’s very possible it’s not as fun as I recall, but as a kid at least, it was.
No Battle for Middle Earth 1 or 2? Two of my favorite RTS games.
Man I grew up with the EA games and it brings back so many good memories of playing it with my mom and friends.
In the late 2000s i love the Battle for Middle Earth Games the most. War in the North is my favourite RPG in LotR
The GOAT LOTR games are the 2 Battle for Middle earth games. By far.
Yessss
you forgot a Lotr rpg that it had battle like old Final Fantasy . What a great game it was
i cant remember the name of this game, but i was looking for someone who remembered it
Love how you used the Soundtrack of the Gothic games for your background music. It fits surprisingly well.
*guy who thought of using Gollum sits quietly at his desk thinking about what he's done...
There were some LoTR rpgs made in the 90s on pc that were pretty good. Only problem was there was no fast travel so you’d have to hold down the direction keys and literally walk all the way to Mordor… it took months 😂
Return to Moria is actually quite a good game, if you like survival/crafting games. It's totally played inside the mountain but they managed to make it feel good. The combat is not the best, but it's not bad either for a survival game.
I loved ROTK growing up but I had a glitch with the multiplayer. The Cirith Ungol mission was impossible because you had to destroy a bridge and both characters had to cross before it collapsed. However, one character would always get stuck on an invisible wall so I was never able to complete it 😢
That little door protection at 8:42 I remember took my father and I FOREVER as I was quite young and not a real “gamer” yet. Nor was my dad. So that shit took us unnecessarily long and many attempts
So, basically, you didn't play ANY actual rpg's as it's not something you enjoy...ok. Change the title of this upload maybe?
I remember my father guiding me trough a gaming store when I was young/little and I stopped in front of 2 games. One was Fellowship of the Ring the other was AVP (2000) gold edition. I picked AVP at the time but he bought me the other one later after both watching the movie and I remember I enjoyed it a lot. Thanks for evoking that memory.
I keep LotR Conquest in a very dear and special place
Fellowship, 3rd Age, and Return of the King were sooooo good!
War to the North is one of the best Couch Co-Ops ever created
Respect for using the Gothic 3 soundtrack
Dude I loved War in the North. That game was so much fun. The critical reception was so misleading.
I remember getting war in the north for Christmas back in 13, I loved that game so much and even the game case for 360 was nice. All reflective and such.
2:50 I remember I must've been around 8 or 9 years old when playing that quest on Xbox. It was so difficult me and my brother never figured it out after so many tries, we ended up quitting the game and never went back to it. A shame how games back then sometimes had these near-impossible quests, there was no patching or online updates back then to fix it post-launch because it was all hard copies, if a game was broken on release, it stayed that way forever.
22:35 This game came out in 2011. It even says so on the screenshot. The OSX port came out in 2013.
Yes third age smokes every game on this list! Best rpg for sure
One I’ll throw out that’s not in the video. I had the game “the hobbit” on the GameCube. I’m a huge fan of the book so I was hyped getting this as a kid. I hated it. I remember getting to the part where they are captured by the trolls and it’s a horrible stealth section. I don’t think I ever passed that as a kid
Well well well, Came here for the third age, because it's a lovely game and I still play it occasionally. Unfortunate you skipped it. As my name and picture imply, Morwen is my fav character. A fierce dual-axe wielding badass.
I remember I beat war in the north 3 times in one day, first time I ever played it too. Was one of the first Looter games I truly played, aside from borderlands, so it felt really cool.
I did also play diablo 1 WAY back in the day as a kid, but I dont think I ever get past act 1.
Bro conquest was like the best one.. literally starwars battlefront 2 LOTR edition
In my opinion, The Fellowship of the Ring is the best game of LotR. The setting and atmosphere are completely loyal to the books and Tolkien charm, like a genuine product of a time bygone. Modern LotR games are no longer trying to capture that vibe, as they focus on the "new audiences". The game is quite different after The Shire section, it becomes more combat oriented and you get to play as different characters like Aragorn and Gandalf, adding some variation to the gameplay.
I want to cry just thinking about the game. It was so much fun
lotr conquest was my childhood, i played that game with my cousin so much and often and absolutely loved it. Overhated game, shits fun.
Two towers and return of the king infront of a PS2 COOP was fun times
Conquest DS was fun. I have good memories of The Hobbit on game cube too. War of the ring is basically warcraft 3, with plenty of fellowship only RPGish missions. And lego lotr is the best lego game.
Warrior of Gondor was a cool plug and play lightgun\sword thing.
The third age is actually great. I didn't really care for JPGs when I was younger, but the presentation was just so epic. There was a ton of visual gear and I think you even picked skills to invest in, which made it feel a little more western.
Since you liked the hack and slash ones so much, you should check out Demon Stone.
3rd age, two towers, and return of the king were the best and deserved a remastered or backwards compatability.
really liked this video - just recently played the first Middle Earth game so this world is completely new to me!
Nice review. Though I wish you mentioned The Lord of the Rings: The Third Age. It's extremely underrated.
I absolutely loved the Fellowship game as a kid. I beat it 4 times. Maybe i was just very easy to please.
You were not. I grew up with the Story since my father read it to us... and the atmosphere was amazing
Sad the fellowship movie didn’t get it's own game. But at least we got games for 2 out of the 3. 😊
Nevermind? Seems like they kinda combined fellowship and two towers into one game.
14:34 i had the exact same thoughts as a kid. I owned two towers and played the hell out of it. Rented ROTK once or twice and enjoyed it but not as much as two towers and could never really articulate why.
Im a huge LoTR fan.
Played two towers obsessively at the time of the PS2 (still own the game and a console).
Finished 100% of conquest on the PS3 and platinued Shadow of Mordor without any guide.
I love War in the north, sadly thats the game breaking Mirkwood Glitch, the game dont registers an objective at the start of the stage (defeating Wulfrun) and when you finished the stage (defeating Saenathra) you dont go to the next and get stuck with a soft lock. Went thought the game some times, but usually get that game break at the middle, conecting to the online coop usually fixes it, but its quite common to get the glitch/bug and with the servers shuting down, it might become impossible to beat the game, since any of the fixes discussed in foruns work 100% of the times, its quite common to start the game all over because of that.
I remember i played conquest as a kid, that game was soooo fucking good back then and i remember thinking the graphics were really amazing
Also want to drop in Lord of the Rings tactics for PSP. Easily the most underrated LOTR in my opinion. NOBODY talks about it. I’m typically not one for turn-based games, but damn it was addictive.
Me and my brother played war in the north a ton when it came out, and then me and my friends only owned that game in 2017 so we must have gone through it 5 or 6 times in one summer
Love the Gothic 3 music in the backround