The awful Lord of the Rings game nobody played

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  • The Fellowship of the Ring for PS2 is perhaps one of the WORST LOTR games ever made...
    If you can think of a worse one, please let us know in the comments.
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  • @MindPulp
    @MindPulp  Год назад +146

    Wow, this game is just... Really something else. 🤦‍♂
    Do you wanna see us play a co-op Wallace & Gromit game? Head over to our Patreon now for INSTANT access to next weeks video! 😈😈
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    • @striderjason9863
      @striderjason9863 Год назад +2

      Another better Lord of the Rings game that’s not those other PS2 ones would have been the LEGO version, but I guess that’s for a future video.

    • @Spacething7474
      @Spacething7474 Год назад +2

      ...i dont think wallace & gromit ever had a co-op game

    • @gracekim25
      @gracekim25 Год назад

      YES❤

    • @guysmith5505
      @guysmith5505 Год назад +2

      Pls make barnyard part 2 I’m waiting

    • @kayiscrispy
      @kayiscrispy Год назад +2

      @@Spacething7474 Curse of the Were-rabbit was multiplayer

  • @theflickchick9850
    @theflickchick9850 Год назад +730

    As a LOTR book nerd, the escalation of confusion over the pathless forest, Old Man Willow, Tom Bombadil, and then the Barrow-downs was absolutely hilarious to watch.

    • @A_Black_Sheep94
      @A_Black_Sheep94 Год назад +28

      Which some of those are strange to be confused over tbh, Tom is a huge meme and the barrows downs are in quite a few LOTR games.

    • @lukepeace540
      @lukepeace540 Год назад +13

      That was my second favorite part of the book next to the Mines of Moriah.

    • @mike.94
      @mike.94 Год назад +2

      ​@@A_Black_Sheep94 are Barrow-downs the place they get sword or swords from?

    • @A_Black_Sheep94
      @A_Black_Sheep94 Год назад +1

      @MICHAŁ KOZERA I'm not sure if the place Aragorn rescues them from in the movie is supposed to be the barrow downs or not there are no wights. If I recall they're armed by the elves once the fellowship is formed.

    • @mike.94
      @mike.94 Год назад +1

      @@A_Black_Sheep94 You mean Weathertop right? Can you please remind me how they got these swords in book? By defending some wraiths?

  • @MegaSantaclaude
    @MegaSantaclaude Год назад +331

    Aragorn in the movies: Lay low and be careful who you interact with.
    Aragorn in the game: Just running around offending and starting fights with everyone. 😄

    • @SSchithFoo
      @SSchithFoo Год назад +15

      Thats how he was in the book too. He kinda challanges the whole Rohirrim Eomer was leading to a fight and tells them only a few of them will return home if they do so when in the movie it was Gimli and Legolas that provoked them. He is not a lil bich and is much more Kingly.

    • @Beregond1861
      @Beregond1861 Год назад +11

      Aragorn: "...horse thief."
      Horse Thief: "What?! You gonna call meh a horse thæf?!"
      Aragorn: "I already have. Now be gone!"

  • @psychonautmaddy7409
    @psychonautmaddy7409 Год назад +979

    Escaping the Dark Riders in this game literally traumatized me as a kid. I had to take constant long breaks because I was so scared.

    • @MindPulp
      @MindPulp  Год назад +138

      we had a nightmare of a time escaping the Dark Riders...

    • @psychonautmaddy7409
      @psychonautmaddy7409 Год назад +56

      @@MindPulp Yup, as a kid it was both too difficult AND horrifying

    • @jaimiebowers492
      @jaimiebowers492 Год назад +42

      I THOUGHT IT WAS ONLY ME, I would crap myself whenever I saw them😂🤣

    • @dracoorian3029
      @dracoorian3029 Год назад +35

      I never got passed that level I had a friend do it for me

    • @mattday7337
      @mattday7337 Год назад +28

      If anyone cares the reason the dark riders bit is so awful is because it doesn't use line of sight. The riders just have a circle around them that penetrates walls and any obstacles you might hide behind, and if you enter the circle you fail

  • @zeathosthomas4847
    @zeathosthomas4847 Год назад +240

    Mind Pulp, "Who TF is Tom Bombadil?!" Fans of the book, "The most important character EVER!"

  • @thehornet2916
    @thehornet2916 Год назад +1529

    Tom bombadil is actually quite a big part in the book 😂😂

    • @irishboy_pa
      @irishboy_pa Год назад +51

      Nerd 😂

    • @lazerfluxxy7370
      @lazerfluxxy7370 Год назад +162

      Yes ,an incredibly important part of the story ,I can't understand how they could leave him out of the movies ,he's essential.

    • @theonegoldengryphon
      @theonegoldengryphon Год назад +116

      @@lazerfluxxy7370 I don’t remember him being essential…? The only time he’s in the story (the Old Forest and the Barrows) was cut from the movies, he has no effect on the plot that I recall beyond that one bit near the beginning of Fellowship.
      Edit: Since I’ve needed to clarify myself like 5 damn times further down this comment chain, yes, I know Tom Bombadil saves the hobbits from the Barrow-Wights, and that’s where Merry gets the sword that weakens the Witch-King. However, since the Barrow-sword was cut from the movies, IN THE MOVIES, Tom Bombadil was rendered non-essential.

    • @lazerfluxxy7370
      @lazerfluxxy7370 Год назад +95

      @@theonegoldengryphon I know,I'm actually making a bit of a joke ,as he is in fact not that important and very much just confuses the reader because he takes the ring and puts it on and shows it does nothing to him, so again ,it really would only confuse the reader.

    • @jessekukendall9273
      @jessekukendall9273 Год назад +23

      @@lazerfluxxy7370 but doesn't he give the Hobbits their swords, it's been a long time since reading them. He was honestly one my favorite characters in the book

  • @Dylanquinn666
    @Dylanquinn666 Год назад +492

    I genuinely liked this game back in the day. I got it for PC before I had a PS2 so for a while it was the only LOTR game I had access to. It aged like milk but I'm still nostalgic for it.

    • @martmeisterpaladin4074
      @martmeisterpaladin4074 Год назад +12

      Me too. Didn't have a bad cast to it, either. Tom Kane was a good voice for Gandalf, and I could swear I heard Daran Norris as Aragorn.
      I remember one time when it crashed. It was about the Hobbit Waterwheel Operative lamenting: "Oh never you mind about working-! Oh never you mind about working-! Oh never you mind about working-!" That is what I remember most.
      I also liked the music.

    • @samb3513
      @samb3513 Год назад +1

      I had it on PC as well, and I remember the levels where you play as Aragorn happening way sooner. Maybe the PC version had the mission order different?

    • @andriisokolov1587
      @andriisokolov1587 Год назад +6

      I also liked playing it on PC, probably because I was such a huge Tolkien fan. A friend of mine from our local LOTR gang did not want to play it but already agreed to write an article for “My home gaming computer” magazine (a long vanished magazine every schoolboy with a PC was reading in 2000s in Ukraine). So I told him the game is badly programmed (confirming that with stupid screenshots like Gollum full of arrows who looked like a hedgehog), but actually has some nice vibe that a Tolkien fan can enjoy; he generated some text and it was published…

    • @Tonybologna1127
      @Tonybologna1127 Год назад +5

      Me too I loved this game!

    • @wolfdragox5563
      @wolfdragox5563 Год назад +2

      At the time it wasn’t really that bad, it just aged very poorly

  • @Intrepimid
    @Intrepimid Год назад +60

    "How many arrows can one man take in the chest!?" I dunno have you tried asking Boromir?

  • @lukejenkins4381
    @lukejenkins4381 Год назад +117

    I remember saving this game in Moria as I fell off of a bridge with Gandalf, meaning to load my most recent save. Meaning I was forever stuck falling in Moria and having to go all the way back to the beginning. Fool of a took

    • @djdaddyd5032
      @djdaddyd5032 5 месяцев назад +1

      I did that as a kid and it forever haunted my saves for every game I’ve played

    • @JakeSmith-st6vp
      @JakeSmith-st6vp 2 месяца назад +2

      I did a similar blunder on Skyrim. I saved as I died when I was drunk one night and as I save I used to delete all prior saves for some reason so I lost 600 hours like an idiot.

    • @mrl2h2
      @mrl2h2 2 месяца назад

      Hahahaha I did the same thing as a kid and started crying when I realized how cooked I was

    • @fortheloveofcreepsx132
      @fortheloveofcreepsx132 Месяц назад

      Something about this story creased me up, likely because I've definitely done this myself. Anyway, thank you for making me genuinely laugh out loud, and I'm sorry this happened to you!

  • @TrihardGamesWorkshop
    @TrihardGamesWorkshop Год назад +185

    I think the studio should get credit for imagining this world, in the own vision without being jaded by movie adaptions. It is a book adaption. This is not particularly easy, whereas although EA made definitely better action games, they're copy and pasted digital textures style and music repurposed from 7-8 years of work done by other people(usually the best at their craft like Howard Shore) this was the first attempt at a story adventure game that nobody had tried before, with the addition of the extensive lore of LOTR it was always gonna be different.
    I give alot of credit for this game, even if the mechanics are under developed.
    includes Nazgul chase, Barrow Wights, Old Man Willow and Tom Bombadil. It is a fairly faithful adaption. Most people look down on this solely because it's not Peter Jackson's.
    It's still better than Rings of Power By Amazon.

    • @johnhunter8959
      @johnhunter8959 10 месяцев назад +21

      I actually worked on this game back in the day, these guy's are trashing the PS2 port which SUCKED, not the XBox version we developed. Yes game still sucked but Sony getting involved had a lot to do with that

    • @twall91
      @twall91 8 месяцев назад +2

      Thankfully I’m a mature adult who would never look down on it JUST because it wasn’t adapted from the movies. That would be unreasonable and short sighted, I look down on this one because it flat out sucked and was horrendously abysmal to play as a 12 year old!

    • @declangilmour8184
      @declangilmour8184 8 месяцев назад +2

      ​@@johnhunter8959 wait can you clarfiy the difference? Was it like an origonal splinter cell type deal where xbox had extra content, better loading etc but still essentially the same game or like a star wars force unleashed type deal where there was essentially 3 different games released depending on platform?

    • @gratefulguy4130
      @gratefulguy4130 8 месяцев назад

      Not having anything to do with Peter Jackson is a huge plus.

    • @chriskoegler4881
      @chriskoegler4881 6 месяцев назад +4

      That’s what I was thinking. The dudes in the video are trashing it but considering that the movies weren’t out as a template, the game is shockingly consistent with the looks of the movies. Bravo to the developers.

  • @absolutefoot4594
    @absolutefoot4594 Год назад +93

    "Frodo's virginity increased"
    That's quite possibly the best sentence to ever exist

  • @averyeml
    @averyeml Год назад +92

    This whole game is worth it just to see the boys discover the wonders of Tom Bombadil

  • @Spurdospede
    @Spurdospede Год назад +221

    Tom Bombadil is arguably the most powerful creature in the LOTR canon, and his power of singing is based on Väinämöinen, who is the main character of the Finnish national epic Kalevala, which Tolkien was very fond of.

    • @mattiassvanberg8292
      @mattiassvanberg8292 Год назад

      Kalevala is Swedish.

    • @casualsuspect9878
      @casualsuspect9878 Год назад +18

      @@mattiassvanberg8292 No, it is the national epic of Finland.

    • @mattiassvanberg8292
      @mattiassvanberg8292 Год назад +6

      @@casualsuspect9878 I know. I was kidding. It wasn't funny.

    • @casualsuspect9878
      @casualsuspect9878 Год назад +2

      @@mattiassvanberg8292 Okay dokay. :D

    • @pearse9116
      @pearse9116 Год назад +7

      There is absolutely zero lore to suggest Tom is an extremely powerful being, people just like to pretend he's some being greater than the Valar because Tolkien made him an enigma.

  • @Aywusgod
    @Aywusgod Год назад +57

    When I was a kid my mom got me this game on accident after I had wished for LOTR: Return of the King, I have zero regrets.

  • @dildonius
    @dildonius Год назад +447

    When they said this game was based on the book and not the movie, my first thought was "Ohhhh god....Tom Bombadil is gonna be in this, ain't he? And it's gonna confuse the fuck out of them."
    And I was not disappointed! 😂

    • @skizz0phrenia270
      @skizz0phrenia270 Год назад +51

      I mean, yeah, they are pretty uncultured.

    • @dildonius
      @dildonius Год назад +12

      @@skizz0phrenia270 Idk, they just haven't ever read the _The Lord of the Rings_ books and have only seen the 3 Peter Jackson films (and maybe the Ralph Bakshi animated film too). Which is the same for many people, so there are certain aspects & characters & side-plots of the saga that they won't know about, as both Bakshi and Jackson omitted Tom Bombadil from the story, as the parts of the story that he appears in are kinda inconsequential and can very easily be omitted without it harming the overall narrative whatsoever. The Tom Bombadil stuff IS kinda frivolous tbh.

    • @eragonmarkmc
      @eragonmarkmc Год назад +1

      U know this game was before the movies

    • @lucarioluxray29
      @lucarioluxray29 Год назад +3

      @@eragonmarkmc no it wasn't

    • @eragonmarkmc
      @eragonmarkmc Год назад

      @@lucarioluxray29 yes

  • @collingrant185
    @collingrant185 Год назад +148

    Can we get a whole series of you guys playing through this whole game??? This was hilarious and I’d love to see more of it

    • @tessademsky1156
      @tessademsky1156 Год назад +6

      PLEASE

    • @OldestOldGregg
      @OldestOldGregg Год назад +5

      Wasn't funny at all, worse than a Tik-Tok scrambled up with annoying 20 memes in 30sec video a 15 year old made. Actually that's exactly what this is but 21 minutes of annoying children making fun of something they could never appreciate.

    • @tessademsky1156
      @tessademsky1156 Год назад +26

      @@OldestOldGregg alright that was great! lets get you back to your room now so you can take your medicine

  • @gregsky01
    @gregsky01 Год назад +113

    I still have this game and I thought it was kinda fun. Obviously it hasn’t aged the best but I think it’s kinda charming. It was kinda cool having something that follows the books in a time where movie tie-ins were the norm.

  • @MegaMetallicaMASTER
    @MegaMetallicaMASTER Год назад +124

    I played this A LOT. I loved it then and I love it now, you can spend HOURS immersing yourself into the world. It’s beautiful dude.

    • @richmondlandersenfells2238
      @richmondlandersenfells2238 Год назад +11

      I never played this game. But I find it impressive how they based it from the book!

    • @kieran5191
      @kieran5191 Год назад +10

      Same as one of my favourite games from childhood.

    • @Beregond1861
      @Beregond1861 Год назад +5

      I got this game around the same time I got my first copy of Halo 2. Didn't defeat the Fellowship game until around when I read the trilogy. I genuinely love this game so much.

    • @cashewnuttel9054
      @cashewnuttel9054 Год назад +10

      Yeah, this game is not awful. They're just pooping on it because it looks awful.

    • @Naftiftoffe
      @Naftiftoffe 10 месяцев назад +2

      feels good that i am not the only one. loved it as a kid

  • @borusa32
    @borusa32 Год назад +42

    This was a pretty fair game . It captured the mood of the Shire well enough.Tom Bombadil is a very important character in the LOTR.

    • @mihaimercenarul7467
      @mihaimercenarul7467 Год назад

      yeah, every time people will feel nostalgic about a bad and horrible game and defend it, but to be honest, the game is very bad, but kids are stupid and nostalgia is a sign of brain damage

    • @livelybubbs6242
      @livelybubbs6242 Год назад +11

      Yikes
      Who hurt you, mihai?

    • @Pluelul
      @Pluelul Год назад +4

      @@mihaimercenarul7467 nostalgias normal u cant just let it consume u like any other feeling

  • @deen7530
    @deen7530 Год назад +143

    8:48 just killed me with laughter.
    So there's just this random guy named Robin, who apparently knows Frodo, and he's randomly getting attacked by a wolf, and the wolf literally mauls to death this guy that we've known for like thirty seconds, and Frodo just has no reaction to this, and the wolf just exits stage right immediately after. And during all of this the Ringwraiths are attacking. Tolkien wishes he wrote this scene lmao

    • @Quirderph
      @Quirderph Год назад +5

      And Robin is once of the constables who has been sent to *protect the Shire from volves!*

    • @fantasywind3923
      @fantasywind3923 Год назад +7

      Robin...this must be...Robin Smallburrow :):
      "Sam had been looking the Shirriffs up and down and had spotted one that he knew. 'Hey, come here Robin Smallburrow!' he called. 'I want a word with you.'
      With a sheepish glance at his leader, who looked wrathful but did not dare to interfere, Shirriff Smallburrow fell back and walked beside Sam....
      'Look here, Cock-robin!' said Sam. 'You're Hobbiton-bred and ought to have more sense, coming a-waylaying Mr. Frodo and all. And what's all this about the inn being closed?'
      'They're all closed,' said Robin. 'The Chief doesn't hold with beer. Leastways that is how it started. But now I reckon it's his Men that has it all. And he doesn't hold with folk moving about; so if they will or they must, then they has to go to the Shirriff-house and explain their business.'"
      Never expected this small obscure side character to appear in the games :).
      "'You ought to be ashamed of yourself having anything to do with such nonsense,' said Sam. 'You used to like the inside of an inn better than the outside yourself. You were always popping in, on duty or off.'"

    • @deen7530
      @deen7530 Год назад +4

      @@fantasywind3923 Are you telling me the rando who gets merced by a wolf is an established character

    • @fantasywind3923
      @fantasywind3923 Год назад +5

      @@deen7530 if his name is Robin Smallburrow he might be :) also he is supposed to be the Shirriff which in Shire are the closest thing to police/guards 'justice system' :) though Shirriffs as is said in book:
      "The only real official in the Shire at this date was the Mayor of Michel Delving (or of the Shire), who was elected every seven years.... [The] offices of Postmaster and First Shirriff were attached to the mayoralty, so that he managed both the Messenger Service and the Watch. These were the only Shire-services....
      The Shirriffs was the name that the Hobbits gave to their police, or the nearest equivalent that they possessed. They had, of course, no uniforms (such things being quite unknown), only a feather in their caps; and they were in practice rather haywards than policemen, more concerned with the strayings of beasts than of people. There were in all the Shire only twelve of them, three in each Farthing, for Inside Work. A rather larger body..., was employed to 'beat the bounds', and to see that Outsiders..., did not make themselves a nuisance."
      The Lord of the Rings, Prologue, Of the Ordering of the Shire
      :)

    • @NoBSRecoverfacts
      @NoBSRecoverfacts 4 месяца назад

      Are you talking about?This is exactly word for word from the book

  • @MadfellaDuke
    @MadfellaDuke Год назад +21

    13:20 had me in tears 😂
    You're just following Tom Bombadil to his house and you look over and see Sam, Merry and Pippin just randomly fighting a spider

  • @alternated1323
    @alternated1323 Год назад +36

    16:02 OH I REMEMBER THAT PART IN THE BOOK! You know when Frodo falls a meter has a sudden heart attack and DIES! (By the hands of THE MUCK THAT IS NOT ALLOWED)

    • @danielled8665
      @danielled8665 Год назад +4

      For real that line had very "AI generated Story" vibes. Like that Harry Potter one.

  • @lamasu
    @lamasu Год назад +29

    I played this, and actually enjoyed it. Back then, we wanted to see middle-earth and had very few options aside from some poorly made games and cool art work. We took what we could get.

  • @stevensteviepryde5888
    @stevensteviepryde5888 Год назад +19

    Tom Bombadil couldn't show up in the movies because he was too busy signing deals with the hottest record companies

  • @danielkneslik5091
    @danielkneslik5091 9 месяцев назад +5

    Tom Bombadil is in the books. Some believe he is an ancient demigod because he is immortal and is no affected by the Ring, but he refused to help destroying the Ring because he is a hippie.

  • @odw_99
    @odw_99 Год назад +53

    I remember playing this as a kid, and it was ridiculously difficult

  • @Glass_Eye
    @Glass_Eye Год назад +10

    I remember playing this game. Although it has its issues, I enjoyed the experience of playing it and was genuinely disappointed upon hearing the sequels got cancelled. I think for me, the thing I liked about the game was that it attempted to take you on the journey of going through the story of The Lord of the Rings, giving you time to explore locations like The Shire and Moria. The official tie-in games that came out with the films are good and great fun to play, but they tend to put more focus on combat and mass battles

  • @djwolfenstein
    @djwolfenstein Год назад +57

    As someone who was NOT a Lord Of The Rings fan in the 2000's this games will haunt my dreams until the day I die.

    • @ogbee9690
      @ogbee9690 Год назад +11

      How could you not be an LOTR fan

    • @djwolfenstein
      @djwolfenstein Год назад +5

      @@ogbee9690 I didn't really care for it I was more into scifi than fantasy as a kid but I did watch the movies and they're alright

    • @ogbee9690
      @ogbee9690 Год назад +14

      @@djwolfenstein alright? You either didn’t watch the movies then or weren’t paying attention. They are masterpieces.

    • @dennisdavis5842
      @dennisdavis5842 Год назад

      He favors spoc

    • @Thecuregalore94
      @Thecuregalore94 Год назад +9

      I suppose 17 Oscar wins from 3 films is just an "alright" cinematic achievement.

  • @johnmorris1009
    @johnmorris1009 Год назад +13

    I like that this game follows the book much more closely than other LOTR games do. It would be nice to have a newer version that does the same, only in a far more accomplished way!

    • @bigmanmccheez5342
      @bigmanmccheez5342 Месяц назад

      They absolutely need to make more Lotr games based on the book. The movies haven't really been the inspiration for the games since the mid 2000s, so a game based on the books wouldn't be out of place. The new Return to Moria isn't based on the films and it allows for a much more colourful and fun game.

  • @connorburt6231
    @connorburt6231 Год назад +48

    Please do a complete walkthrough of this 😂 I know it would be painful for you both but it’s so entertaining and funny hearing your humour 😂

    • @jordinagel1184
      @jordinagel1184 Год назад +4

      They need to get to the last level, so that they’ll have access to the most powerful weapon in the game… A fish.
      I’m not joking.

  • @ronniepartridge6694
    @ronniepartridge6694 Год назад +18

    Dead Robin's eyes will watch your sins. (But in all seriousness that scene was creepy as heck.)

  • @STARLORD6789
    @STARLORD6789 Год назад +25

    I really want You guys too do a full play through of this game cause this was hilarious

    • @VITAS874
      @VITAS874 5 месяцев назад

      They playing only for likes.

  • @carnigee77
    @carnigee77 Год назад +11

    It's funny you should compare the Hobbits to the Beatles. If I remember correctly, the Beatles tried to make a Lord of the Rings movie, and Tolkien himself said absolutely flipin' not.

  • @OhSPY.
    @OhSPY. Год назад +5

    I remember spending almost 20 minutes whacking a cave troll with a sword and fire bolts, assisted by the entire Fellowship, only for Aragorn to bitch at me about being overwhelmed; and the cave troll was the only enemy alive.

  • @viktorkrumbs5989
    @viktorkrumbs5989 Год назад +18

    Listen, this game is no Two Towers or Return of the King, but as a kid, this game was my favorite in that it let you explore the Shire, Bree, Moria and you got to play as Frodo and Gandalf. As a kid I liked the music, I like the ability to control the camera, and it was the first of these games that let you play as Gandalf.
    It’s easy to look back and be like Return of the King is so much better, but when this game came out and it was this and the Two Towers, this game had some charm to it. It’s not like we knew games like Return of the King or Shadow of War would ever come out. To call it the awful game that nobody played is unfair to the time it came out in. This was the style of games back then, and for what it was back then, it wasn’t terrible.
    I get where you are coming from and your video is some good work, but dang the past gets shit on a lot! Hahaha!

    • @AZodiacCancer
      @AZodiacCancer Год назад +2

      I loved this game when it came out. As you said we didn't have many options of exploring middle earth in videogame format. Don't get me wrong the movie games were really fun to play too but this game scratched the itch those didn't.

    • @viktorkrumbs5989
      @viktorkrumbs5989 Год назад

      @@AZodiacCancer exactly that!

  • @BeatleGirl37
    @BeatleGirl37 Год назад +9

    I remember playing this as a super young kid. I’ve NEVER seen past the shire because I’d spend forever exploring it and then get terrified of the night riders. Thanks for showing me how hilarious it was. 😂

  • @StormDatIsApproaching
    @StormDatIsApproaching Год назад +15

    I applaud this game. It takes skill to turn the Barrow Downs, one of the scariest and most badass locations Tolkien ever wrote, into a coma inducing fogfest. I had this game, couldn't make it past the first hour because of just how much nothing really happens

  • @woolfieMcP
    @woolfieMcP Год назад +8

    To this day I feel they commited sin by not including Tom Bombadil in the movies

    • @leandromiguel4481
      @leandromiguel4481 Год назад +1

      I mean the movies are already long and adding Tom Bombadil and other stuff from the books would make the movies to be 10 h long lol

    • @woolfieMcP
      @woolfieMcP Год назад +1

      @@leandromiguel4481 I don't think I've heard a single LOTR fan say that making them longer would be a bad thing lol

    • @leandromiguel4481
      @leandromiguel4481 Год назад +1

      @@woolfieMcP I didn't say it would be bad thing , plus the millions it cost of the studio to add more stuff , to find the right person , makeup etc

    • @lazerfrogstudios
      @lazerfrogstudios 4 месяца назад

      @@woolfieMcPI’m a LotR fan and making them longer would be worse

    • @bigmanmccheez5342
      @bigmanmccheez5342 Месяц назад

      ​@@lazerfrogstudiosyeah I agree tbh. The films had to get cut down by nearly an hour each already, adding more would cause the films to be completely incoherent with the theatrical limitations of the time.
      Remember that 3 hour movies weren't common in 2001, hell 2 hour films were rare. The fact the films even came out in theatre at their length was surprising.

  • @i.m.evilhomer5084
    @i.m.evilhomer5084 Год назад +11

    I do find it a little funny that despite being being based on the books to ape on the release of the first film, some of the devs & actors that worked on this game would later end up working on the EA movie tie-in games & even the LEGO & Middle-Earth games!

  • @alexanderb5726
    @alexanderb5726 Год назад +8

    I'll have you know I loved this game as a boy. It was atmospheric and captured the ambience of the first book. It doesn't have to be perfect to me, but as young it was a good level of adventure and difficulty.

  • @TheLoos3Goos33
    @TheLoos3Goos33 Год назад +14

    This was the first game my parents bought with my xbox for christmas. I didn't have any other games so I had no choice but to play this. I rage quit pretty early out of frustration with the ringwraith stealth mission, but I eventually came back and finished it. As a fan of the first movie which got me to read the books, I was able to have fun with it despite the obvious flaws.

    • @sagieboi1204
      @sagieboi1204 Год назад +1

      The Xbox Version is actually quite good at least. The PS2/PC though... Yikes

  • @magesentron
    @magesentron 8 месяцев назад +2

    Nobody knows who Tom Bombadil is. He's a mystery character that Gandalf seems to know but his exact nature is shrouded in myth.

  • @gracekim25
    @gracekim25 Год назад +11

    I remember getting my dad the two towers game and I got terrified to the point of never trying it again 😅

  • @macgyversmacbook1861
    @macgyversmacbook1861 Год назад +2

    Tom has got to be my favorite character in the book too, literally the best explanation for him is he’s an old man who lives in the woods with his trophy wife and gives no shits whatsoever, enough so where the Ring doesn’t affect him

  • @stephenanderson3776
    @stephenanderson3776 5 месяцев назад +3

    Dude I fucking loved exploring the shire in this game when I was a kid . I don't get why so many people hate this game

  • @user-cx6kt3ku2f
    @user-cx6kt3ku2f 9 месяцев назад +2

    The books have soooo many songs. It’s even worse in the Silmarillion, everyone always sings.

  • @sirlink2305
    @sirlink2305 Год назад +4

    I have so many memories of this game. The main one that comes to mind is trying to escape the ring wraiths on the first level and not being able to sneak past it for a few months......

  • @PanzerShrek94
    @PanzerShrek94 Год назад +2

    The old man hobbit was a special kind of dealer.He gave you shrooms for weed.

  • @sithmartyr
    @sithmartyr Год назад +2

    *Doesn't know Tom Bombadil*
    Tell me you haven't read the books without telling me you haven't read the books lol.

  • @MrBaintrain
    @MrBaintrain Год назад +3

    The moment you brought up both The Two Towers & The Return Of The King video games, I shed a tear of nostalgia

  • @natebuxton6036
    @natebuxton6036 27 дней назад

    Literally spent all day thinking about how much I love Jefferson airplanes and white rabbit creeping in and out of any drug reference is pure gold hope the editor sees this

  • @aditghifari5039
    @aditghifari5039 10 месяцев назад +1

    Tom Bombadil is the only person who can wear the ring and treat it like some sort of garbage without fearing of sauron.

  • @ICUQC
    @ICUQC Год назад +5

    How dare you mock tom bombadil

  • @zion6680
    @zion6680 Год назад +1

    The inclusion of Tom Bmbadil is kind of a little bit awesome...
    Just too bad he NEVER SHOWS UP IN A GAME AGAIN, EVER!

  • @willian2848
    @willian2848 Год назад +7

    Tom Bombadil and that bitch i forgot the name were in the first book. Also the books are amazing, this game is oddly accurate.

    • @AroAceGamer
      @AroAceGamer Год назад +2

      My favorite parts of the book was when Merry, Pippin and Sam joined a forest cult while Frodo died in The Muck That Is Not Allowed.

  • @raelogan
    @raelogan 7 месяцев назад +1

    My brothers and I had this on Xbox and played this way too freaking much.
    "MY MAGIC IS SPENT. MY MAGIC IS SPENT. MY MAGIC IS SPENT."

  • @Natasha6090
    @Natasha6090 Год назад +5

    Tom is in the fellowship book quite a big part

  • @HaroonKhan-wd2dz
    @HaroonKhan-wd2dz Год назад +47

    I actually loved this game as a kid. 👀

  • @UnclePhil73
    @UnclePhil73 Год назад +2

    And a mass cry of despair amongst LOTR nerds arose when they said they had no idea who Tom Bombadil was.

  • @damianx1165
    @damianx1165 Год назад +5

    Not knowing who Tom Bombadil is, just makes my soul feel empty. That's just rude. Get your LOTR knowledge straight

  • @warlord1873
    @warlord1873 Год назад +1

    Harry Pothead: And the chamber of weed next
    These LOTR characters looked cracked out

  • @MisteryDMOR33
    @MisteryDMOR33 Год назад +6

    I kinda liked this one. The Shire and Bree parts gave off a sense of mistery and adventure that the others didn´t

  • @NotOnLand
    @NotOnLand Год назад +2

    Well you see son, in LOTR universe there are 5 kinds of people: No powers, Hero powers, Magic powers, Overpowered, and Hilariously Godly Overpowered.
    And then there's Tom Bombadil, who could have just danced into Mordor, punched Sauron in the eye, kicked Melkor in the nuts, set everything right, and be back before lunchtime all while wearing The Ring as a piercing on his dlck.
    If only he gave a fuck.

  • @mungulor
    @mungulor Год назад +12

    I unironically love this game

    • @mihaimercenarul7467
      @mihaimercenarul7467 Год назад

      yeah, every time people will feel nostalgic about a bad and horrible game and defend it, but to be honest, the game is very bad, but kids are stupid and nostalgia is a sign of brain damage

  • @Xehanort10
    @Xehanort10 Год назад +2

    6:51 The most important object in the series and it's in a random chest in any old house.

  • @themannis3749
    @themannis3749 Год назад +4

    Tom Bombadil is actually a chad in the books tbf

  • @Davidh41690
    @Davidh41690 Год назад +2

    Tom Bombadil was a merry old fellow
    His jacket blue and his boots were yellow

  • @SquatPenguin2
    @SquatPenguin2 Год назад +4

    I remember I was absolutely terrified of Smeagle up until I was in high school. Just the combo of how he looks and his voice. Also despite growing up in the 2000s/10s I never really hot into Lord of the Rings or Harry Potter.

    • @AsperaZeit
      @AsperaZeit Год назад

      ah lol smeagle, also known as gollob

    • @bigmanmccheez5342
      @bigmanmccheez5342 Месяц назад

      ​@@AsperaZeitnot really "also know as", he is also Gollum, straight up 2 people in 1 body

    • @AsperaZeit
      @AsperaZeit Месяц назад

      @@bigmanmccheez5342 smeagle

  • @sognar2240
    @sognar2240 10 месяцев назад +2

    I remember playing this game as a kid. The part where you have to sneak around Dark Rider scared the shit out of me

  • @deepredd
    @deepredd Год назад +4

    Would you believe that I own this game, and was very confused that it didn't follow the events of the movie as I remembered it 😅 I couldn't understand all the "new" characters I encountered, or the strange ways that I solved the problems. I didn't realise that it wasn't based on the movies at all, I just assumed I remembered the movies wrong 😂😂😂

  • @BraveLittlePixel
    @BraveLittlePixel Год назад +1

    Tom Bombadil is actually a young Jeff Bezos who bought his way as a fun character into this game before the Peter Jackson movies

  • @fieryphoenix586
    @fieryphoenix586 Год назад +4

    I remember enjoying The Two Towers, even though several levels were flashbacks to The Fellowship of the Ring.
    The Third Age is also rather underrated

    • @JustKelso1993
      @JustKelso1993 Год назад

      The third age is the bane of my existence, no matter how much I enjoy it. I have, to this day, never gotten past a certain massive wave of enemies in that game, it just seems like an endless wave lmao I started that game when I was like...14, 30 now and I still have the save data hell bent on beating it one day.

  • @ofstarsandsun
    @ofstarsandsun Год назад +1

    been laughing at the whole “THE MUCK WAS NOT ALLOWED” part for the rest of the entire video PLEASE

  • @AngmarCosplay
    @AngmarCosplay Год назад +8

    I actually loved this game! It was really hard in some areas, but it was fun

  • @WDonaldson2000
    @WDonaldson2000 Год назад +1

    Petition to bring back the honking noise for censors instead of the annoying bass boost
    ⬇️

  • @jacobdeville1157
    @jacobdeville1157 Год назад +6

    I remember Lord of the rings war in the north and conquest being awesome as hell!

    • @alfredorosiles2018
      @alfredorosiles2018 Год назад

      Dude Lord of the Rings Conquest was my go to game during my teen years. Wow it was so much fun! Even after they immediately removed the multiplayer servers i still played instant action with bots like you have no idea! Hope these guys play it eventually ,would love to see that!

  • @blindiris22
    @blindiris22 7 дней назад +1

    I played this game about 50 times, growing up. This is one of the truest adaptations of the books out there. It gets wonky after Lothlorian, but I loved this adaptation. It doesn't really hold up great in 2024, but this game was a banger and not nearly as bad as claimed in this video. The way their crafted both The Shire and Bree was absolutely fantastic.

    • @thegoodgeneral
      @thegoodgeneral 5 дней назад +1

      Agreed! It was hugely hurt by not being a video game adaptation of the films though.

  • @StickGuyYT
    @StickGuyYT Год назад +5

    Mind pulp got an request for the next video can you guys play the dos version you can kill any of the hobbits you like and you can play as them you want its like an old typing adventure game that's fun.

  • @paradiddledoo6854
    @paradiddledoo6854 11 месяцев назад +3

    Loved this game. My ps2 version came with the soundtrack. Still listen to it every once in a while.

  • @Xv7kyle7vx
    @Xv7kyle7vx 6 месяцев назад +1

    I played this game when I was so young, I couldn’t make it out of the shire. I think I got stuck fighting some bees or something

  • @LoserNamedWyn
    @LoserNamedWyn Год назад +5

    really needed a CLASSIC mind pulp video today, thanks guys x

  • @IndigoFireFandubs
    @IndigoFireFandubs Год назад +2

    It's nice to see what else happens, since our copy growing up was glitched so you couldn't save after you cross the bridge to leave the Shire after avoiding the first Ringwraith. It would say it saved, but when you died or stopped playing and reloaded, it would go back to the bridge in the Shire lol. We got to meet Tom Bombadil at least but being kids, we got annoyed eventually and played the other Lord of the Rings games that we could save 😂

  • @_GRAMPS
    @_GRAMPS Год назад +32

    What a very cursed game 10/10

    • @mihaimercenarul7467
      @mihaimercenarul7467 Год назад

      yeah, every time people will feel nostalgic about a bad and horrible game and defend it, but to be honest, the game is very bad, but kids are stupid and nostalgia is a sign of brain damage

  • @alyssaapoc
    @alyssaapoc 10 дней назад

    6:22 "Nooo I don't wanna experience the game like this" had me dying

  • @simonfredriksson8671
    @simonfredriksson8671 Год назад +4

    Oh i remember playing this as a kid, couldnt even get out of the shire

  • @3rdalbum
    @3rdalbum 11 месяцев назад

    There is one downside to Lord Of The Rings.
    My name is Christopher Lees. It has an S on the end. But since Lord Of The Rings, more people have mistakenly thought my surname is Lee.
    I've kinda leaned into this, in a way, and I adopt a stage name where the surname is Lee and the first name is only slightly similar to my actual first name.

  • @ArbiterofTruth
    @ArbiterofTruth Год назад +5

    I actually like this game! It was definitely flawed but it was worth playing multiple times. The soundtrack is pretty good too!

    • @mihaimercenarul7467
      @mihaimercenarul7467 Год назад

      yeah, every time people will feel nostalgic about a bad and horrible game and defend it, but to be honest, the game is very bad, but kids are stupid and nostalgia is a sign of brain damage

  • @LuckyCharmKitty
    @LuckyCharmKitty 9 месяцев назад +1

    I have this game on my ps2. Played it all the way through back in 2009. Thought it was weird and wondered why Frodo looked like that. it overloaded my memory card with a bunch of save blocks that were all rings and had to delete them all

  • @jessicaable5095
    @jessicaable5095 Год назад +4

    So nostalgic. lots of fond memories of this game. Can't for the life of me remember ever playing any of that between the wolves in the shire and the barrow downs though.wierd 🤔

  • @merkules6
    @merkules6 Год назад +2

    I think about this game more often than I probably should. Back when I was a kid and played it, I remember it being very entertaining. The only thing that stopped me from finishing it was a bug in Moria.

  • @StarBurstRastaman
    @StarBurstRastaman Год назад +4

    damn. This was the first game I had on the PS2... I never once made it past the dark riders. Guess I didn't miss much!

    • @cashewnuttel9054
      @cashewnuttel9054 Год назад

      I guess you didn't but it's not as bad as how these guys are making it out to be; I would even say it's fun.

  • @Charizarzar
    @Charizarzar 9 месяцев назад +1

    The age-long fight against the tree brings back some memories, always thought I was missing some trick. But nope, seems you just have to keep hitting it a hundred billion times 😅

  • @AmbrosiusAmaimon
    @AmbrosiusAmaimon Год назад +7

    The whole "the muck that was not allowed" part killed me 💀

    • @supermariomaker1734
      @supermariomaker1734 Год назад +1

      I cracked up when they said that it was probably one of the funniest jokes I ever heard.

  • @Akt1onDiscgolf
    @Akt1onDiscgolf 9 месяцев назад +1

    Tom bombadil is like lotr jesus. Supposedly one of the most powerful beings but disappears and never shows up for hundreds of years despite strife😅

  • @EricMichaelLP
    @EricMichaelLP Год назад +4

    I played this on PC! It was my introduction to lotr. Loved it and played it again some years ago. Not as good but still fun in my opinion

  • @YangBalanceYin
    @YangBalanceYin 8 месяцев назад

    I like how we were meme-ing about this being bad because it was based on the books, to then acting like the game was actually nonsensical and confusing because it was... based on the books and not the movies.
    Classic MindPulp moment.

  • @Whatsagluten
    @Whatsagluten Год назад +6

    Mind Pulp is a GOAT channel

  • @ErikG96
    @ErikG96 Год назад

    > Whines about game being awful because it's not like Jackson's movies
    > Has no clue who Tom Bombadil is
    Rightooo...

  • @idkanymore_-_
    @idkanymore_-_ Год назад +4

    I'll say I never heard of this game ever in my entire life

  • @claykalmar8131
    @claykalmar8131 Год назад +2

    Tom Bombadil is basically the litmus test to see if someone has read the books. Clearly, you guys haven't read the books haha
    Edit: yep, you admitted to never having read them haha