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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.
@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.
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.
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.
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?
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…
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
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
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.
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!
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.
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
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!
@@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?
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.
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. 😄
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.
A lot of people don't seem to realise that the Fellowship of the Ring game wasn't a movie tie-in. It was an original piece of work. After the success of the film, the rights were given to EA, who went on to make The Two Towers and Return of the King tie-in games that basically serve as unconnected sequels to the Fellowship game.
@@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.
@@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.
@@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
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
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.
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.
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
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.
i grew up with a dad who collected old computers including games and consoles so we had it intentionally. loved it. always struggled with the stealth section at the start. i am haunted by that god forsaken cutscene.
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.
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.
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
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 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 :)
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
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.
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.
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!
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.
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)
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. 😂
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!
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.
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.
How fitting to compare the hobbits to the Beatles--one of the older movie pitches (obviously the plans fell through) involved casting the Beatles as the four hobbits. I wonder if they'd've made it more jokey overall and thrown in goofy shit like calling the pool at the gates of Moria "the octopus' garden' or had "A Little Help from My Friends" playing as the Fellowship was hiking.
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.
I will literally fist fight you for saying this game is bad. This was one of the first PS2 games I played, and despite it being far from perfect, I would never call it "bad". I wish we got the next 2 books in this format.
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.
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
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!
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.
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......
@@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.
This game has wveryone. Robin from teen titans, Admiral Yularen/Yoda, Jorgen von Strangle, Obi Wan Kenobi. How have i never heard of it? They loaded the cast with great or soon go be great stars.
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
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.
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 😂😂😂
Best Lotr game I've played that stayed true to the books. I replayed the game yearly for some years it was truly a magical experience I still have my physical copy, the music, Shire, Moria everything was great! A jewel among games. Sad they canceled the sequel Treason of Isengard.
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.
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.
I actually played this game for quite a while as a kid. I made the mistake of saving while falling off a cliff and couldn’t recover an earlier save. Safe to say I stopped playing after that. 😂
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 😂
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
I rented this game from Hollywood Video back in the day after Fellowship (the film) came out and was SO confused lmao. Thanks for bringing back some core memories boys.
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 🤔
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
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.
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
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!
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.
Man I used to replay the start of the game so many times, something about it when I was a kid was just so peaceful and calming but also just creepy and offputting. The dark rider part I basically could never do, I think I always had to get my brother to do it because I was too scared to do it. I always planned on finshing it but I got to a point where you play as Aragorn and I must have saved it in a really bad spot and it was literally unplayable and so I had either hours of progress lost or literally all of it so I just stopped playing.
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
while tom bombadil never made it in the hollywood series, he did make it as a very annoying super power in lord of the ring 2 the ea video game... so the legend lives on 😁
Tom Bombadil is a powerful being who's old as creation itself, chaotically cheerful and is not a affected by the one ring. And all he wants to is just vibe in the woods with his hot River waifu aka: CHAD
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 😅
Wow, this game is just... Really something else. 🤦♂
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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.
...i dont think wallace & gromit ever had a co-op game
YES❤
Pls make barnyard part 2 I’m waiting
@@Spacething7474 Curse of the Were-rabbit was multiplayer
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.
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.
That was my second favorite part of the book next to the Mines of Moriah.
@@A_Black_Sheep94 are Barrow-downs the place they get sword or swords from?
@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.
@@A_Black_Sheep94 You mean Weathertop right? Can you please remind me how they got these swords in book? By defending some wraiths?
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.
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.
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?
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…
Me too I loved this game!
At the time it wasn’t really that bad, it just aged very poorly
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.
we had a nightmare of a time escaping the Dark Riders...
@@MindPulp Yup, as a kid it was both too difficult AND horrifying
I THOUGHT IT WAS ONLY ME, I would crap myself whenever I saw them😂🤣
I never got passed that level I had a friend do it for me
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
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
I did that as a kid and it forever haunted my saves for every game I’ve played
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.
Hahahaha I did the same thing as a kid and started crying when I realized how cooked I was
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!
Damn we all did this....
Mind Pulp, "Who TF is Tom Bombadil?!" Fans of the book, "The most important character EVER!"
Goldberry: "He is."
Goldberry 😂
Water lillys
God
Isnt he like one the most powerful thing alive?
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.
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
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!
@@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?
Not having anything to do with Peter Jackson is a huge plus.
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.
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. 😄
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.
Aragorn: "...horse thief."
Horse Thief: "What?! You gonna call meh a horse thæf?!"
Aragorn: "I already have. Now be gone!"
A lot of people don't seem to realise that the Fellowship of the Ring game wasn't a movie tie-in. It was an original piece of work. After the success of the film, the rights were given to EA, who went on to make The Two Towers and Return of the King tie-in games that basically serve as unconnected sequels to the Fellowship game.
"Frodo's virginity increased"
That's quite possibly the best sentence to ever exist
Tom bombadil is actually quite a big part in the book 😂😂
Nerd 😂
Yes ,an incredibly important part of the story ,I can't understand how they could leave him out of the movies ,he's essential.
@@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.
@@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.
@@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
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.
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
Yikes
Who hurt you, mihai?
@@mihaimercenarul7467 nostalgias normal u cant just let it consume u like any other feeling
"How many arrows can one man take in the chest!?" I dunno have you tried asking Boromir?
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.
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.
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
This whole game is worth it just to see the boys discover the wonders of Tom Bombadil
Painful game mechanics and lack of direction leading directly to the most annoying character ever? Wow! Such wonder
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.
I never played this game. But I find it impressive how they based it from the book!
Same as one of my favourite games from childhood.
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.
Yeah, this game is not awful. They're just pooping on it because it looks awful.
feels good that i am not the only one. loved it as a kid
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.
i grew up with a dad who collected old computers including games and consoles so we had it intentionally. loved it. always struggled with the stealth section at the start. i am haunted by that god forsaken cutscene.
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.
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
PLEASE
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.
@@OldestOldGregg alright that was great! lets get you back to your room now so you can take your medicine
@@OldestOldGreggexactly.. so annoying
@@tessademsky1156 you must be a child, go back to your dad.
Tom Bombadil was a merry old fellow
His jacket blue and his boots were yellow
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
And Robin is once of the constables who has been sent to *protect the Shire from volves!*
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.'"
@@fantasywind3923 Are you telling me the rando who gets merced by a wolf is an established character
@@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
:)
Are you talking about?This is exactly word for word from the book
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
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.
Kalevala is Swedish.
@@mattiassvanberg8292 No, it is the national epic of Finland.
@@casualsuspect9878 I know. I was kidding. It wasn't funny.
@@mattiassvanberg8292 Okay dokay. :D
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.
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!
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.
@@AZodiacCancer exactly that!
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)
For real that line had very "AI generated Story" vibes. Like that Harry Potter one.
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. 😂
Dead Robin's eyes will watch your sins. (But in all seriousness that scene was creepy as heck.)
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!
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.
And one that entirely removes Tom Bombadil
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.
I remember playing this as a kid, and it was ridiculously difficult
I THOUGHT IT WAS ONLY ME😅
Haha same I didn’t get past the night time forest level
Same
Nobody knows who Tom Bombadil is. He's a mystery character that Gandalf seems to know but his exact nature is shrouded in myth.
Tom Bombadil couldn't show up in the movies because he was too busy signing deals with the hottest record companies
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
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.
How could you not be an LOTR fan
@@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
@@djwolfenstein alright? You either didn’t watch the movies then or weren’t paying attention. They are masterpieces.
He favors spoc
I suppose 17 Oscar wins from 3 films is just an "alright" cinematic achievement.
How fitting to compare the hobbits to the Beatles--one of the older movie pitches (obviously the plans fell through) involved casting the Beatles as the four hobbits.
I wonder if they'd've made it more jokey overall and thrown in goofy shit like calling the pool at the gates of Moria "the octopus' garden' or had "A Little Help from My Friends" playing as the Fellowship was hiking.
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 😂
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.
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.
The Xbox Version is actually quite good at least. The PS2/PC though... Yikes
I really want You guys too do a full play through of this game cause this was hilarious
They playing only for likes.
I will literally fist fight you for saying this game is bad. This was one of the first PS2 games I played, and despite it being far from perfect, I would never call it "bad". I wish we got the next 2 books in this format.
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.
tolkien was a moron for that lol
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
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!
The inclusion of Tom Bmbadil is kind of a little bit awesome...
Just too bad he NEVER SHOWS UP IN A GAME AGAIN, EVER!
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.
I forgot this game existed, wow. Also, Tom Bombadil is easily my favorite character from the books. He is supposedly incredibly powerful.
How? He's beyond annoying, especially in audiobook-form.. And he completely breaks the mood of the book.
I remember getting my dad the two towers game and I got terrified to the point of never trying it again 😅
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......
To this day I feel they commited sin by not including Tom Bombadil in the movies
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
@@leandromiguel4481 I don't think I've heard a single LOTR fan say that making them longer would be a bad thing lol
@@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
@@woolfieMcPI’m a LotR fan and making them longer would be worse
@@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.
This game has wveryone. Robin from teen titans, Admiral Yularen/Yoda, Jorgen von Strangle, Obi Wan Kenobi.
How have i never heard of it? They loaded the cast with great or soon go be great stars.
Tom is in the fellowship book quite a big part
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
Tom Bombadil is the only person who can wear the ring and treat it like some sort of garbage without fearing of sauron.
I kinda liked this one. The Shire and Bree parts gave off a sense of mistery and adventure that the others didn´t
The squad just disassociating in the woods while Frodo is being attacked by monsters 😂
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.
ah lol smeagle, also known as gollob
@@AsperaZeitnot really "also know as", he is also Gollum, straight up 2 people in 1 body
@@bigmanmccheez5342 smeagle
6:58 -- 7:23 -- 7:54 that thing is creepy as hell
really needed a CLASSIC mind pulp video today, thanks guys x
I actually loved this game as a kid. 👀
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How did you beat it?
I remember this game. The best weapon in the game is a fish that gollum throws at you and hits you in the face.
Completely forgot about this detail xD
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 😂😂😂
Best Lotr game I've played that stayed true to the books. I replayed the game yearly for some years it was truly a magical experience I still have my physical copy, the music, Shire, Moria everything was great! A jewel among games. Sad they canceled the sequel Treason of Isengard.
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
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.
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.
I actually played this game for quite a while as a kid. I made the mistake of saving while falling off a cliff and couldn’t recover an earlier save. Safe to say I stopped playing after that. 😂
I actually loved this game! It was really hard in some areas, but it was fun
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 😂
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
I rented this game from Hollywood Video back in the day after Fellowship (the film) came out and was SO confused lmao. Thanks for bringing back some core memories boys.
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 🤔
I played this as a kid and I loved it. It wasn’t trying to be the movie and I respected it as so.
Tom Bombadil and that bitch i forgot the name were in the first book. Also the books are amazing, this game is oddly accurate.
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.
*Doesn't know Tom Bombadil*
Tell me you haven't read the books without telling me you haven't read the books lol.
What a very cursed game 10/10
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
The books have soooo many songs. It’s even worse in the Silmarillion, everyone always sings.
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.
Harry Pothead: And the chamber of weed next
These LOTR characters looked cracked out
I unironically love this game
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
Rofl I want to watch you guys play this entire game 😂. Ive watched this episode several times and never gets old.
Loved this game. My ps2 version came with the soundtrack. Still listen to it every once in a while.
I remember renting this game at Blockbuster back in 2002. I was just 13 years old. I don’t think I gotten very far in the game.
I remember Lord of the rings war in the north and conquest being awesome as hell!
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!
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.
Tom Bombadil is actually a chad in the books tbf
I remember playing this game as a kid. The part where you have to sneak around Dark Rider scared the shit out of me
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
Man I used to replay the start of the game so many times, something about it when I was a kid was just so peaceful and calming but also just creepy and offputting. The dark rider part I basically could never do, I think I always had to get my brother to do it because I was too scared to do it. I always planned on finshing it but I got to a point where you play as Aragorn and I must have saved it in a really bad spot and it was literally unplayable and so I had either hours of progress lost or literally all of it so I just stopped playing.
I actually like this game! It was definitely flawed but it was worth playing multiple times. The soundtrack is pretty good too!
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
I've been wondering why I'm bindge watching these videos, then I realised it's all the games I missed out on 😂 incredible
How dare you mock tom bombadil
while tom bombadil never made it in the hollywood series, he did make it as a very annoying super power in lord of the ring 2 the ea video game... so the legend lives on 😁
Oh i remember playing this as a kid, couldnt even get out of the shire
Tom Bombadil is a powerful being who's old as creation itself, chaotically cheerful and is not a affected by the one ring. And all he wants to is just vibe in the woods with his hot River waifu
aka: CHAD
Mind Pulp is a GOAT channel
How dare you besmirch this game! Clearly never unlocked Gollum’s fish as a weapon for Aragorn.
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!
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.
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 😅
The whole "the muck that was not allowed" part killed me 💀
I cracked up when they said that it was probably one of the funniest jokes I ever heard.
And a mass cry of despair amongst LOTR nerds arose when they said they had no idea who Tom Bombadil was.
Not knowing who Tom Bombadil is, just makes my soul feel empty. That's just rude. Get your LOTR knowledge straight
gee sorry for not reading the damn book