Aug 4
Waste. Of. A. License.
Turbine’s MMOG take on Tolkien Middle-earth universe steps out the hobbit hole in a fresh gameplay movie. A monster movie featuring nearly five minutes of gameplay footage from Turbine’s MMOG The Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar has appeared in a puff of magic smoke.
News: Lord of the Rings Online: New footage - ComputerAndVideoGames.com
Boring. Boooooring. It’s five minutes of the same. damn. thing. as. every. other. game.
It makes me want to spit what a waste of time watching that movie was. Please make sure and take a look if you’d like to see ….
- People hitting orcs
- Hobbits hitting orcs
- Rogue-characters stealthing
- People firing bows and arrows
- Walking
- More Walking
- Walking in pretty underground areas
- Walking in dull lifeless towns
- More Walking!
I’m so glad that Turbine caught my favorite part of the LOTR experience: THE WALKING.
I caught this link from Joystiq, and much of the commentary on that post is negative too.
4. Jeez that looks like a dull time. Why do all mmo developers feel the need to make the combat so goddamned boring? Slow battles & running around large empty spaces? Count me out; games like this make me happy I’m a console gamer.Posted at 3:23PM on Aug 4th 2006 by AoE
LOTR Online gameplay footage - Joystiq
It’s making me want to commit to being one, AoE. It’s making me want to commit to being one too.
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I was going to post something to this effect, but it wasn’t worth my time. Turbine is a dinosaur in this genre now and they are going to become extinct soon enough. That video should of never made it past the cutting room floor. I can’t even think the developers were exciited to watch that video…
Blah.
well at least there was another video there for Lumines2.
Honestly, it was like a puppet show. Nothing moved. AI’s just stand there. And do the PC’s break contact if they move? Wow, underwhelming. Again.