I've played the GBA version which is the completely different from the console version. The GBA plays like a tacitcal strategy RPG. It's pretty interesting.
It really isnt. Why anyone would want to play as not aragorn and not gimili as opposed to the original cast is beyond me. The only cool parts of the third age is when you get to team up with the fellowship which is few and far in between.
Two Towers and Return of the King and 3rd Age all for the GBA are pretty good. Two Towers and King are diablo like clones which is pretty neet for the GBA
>War in the North
Completely forgot about this game. I stopped playing it for some reason, I think it was performance issues. Also, it felt a bit repetitive.
The only thing I remember about this game is the totally absurd final boss. They threw all the lore-friendliness out of the window at the very last moment.
The final boss is the fricking Eye of Sauron. Seriously. The whole game is about catching up or assisting the Community in their journey and you suddenly are up there fighting the eye.
I like games where I can exp max and be super strong.
With the third age; when you get to the chapter at helm's deep, when you're up on the wall and the orks are climbing the ladder; as long as you don't break the ladders, the orcs will keep coming indefinitely. While a bit time consuming; it only has to be done once. Afterwards, can feel like a true hero of middle earth with most skills and magics unlocked. Really enjoyed this game; would play again.
It's not, but I still like it. Wish we had more FFX-likes.
Playing through it right now. Just beat the balrog. Animations take too long in battle, most of them don't come close to actually connecting which is annoying every time I see it, and on hard mode enemies have just a bit too much health and that adds to the overall length of battles.
>tfw no silmarillion games
they'd probably just make up some haradrim woman anyways who mysteriously knows magic and is also the greatest swordsman ever and make her the savior of middle earth...
>who mysteriously knows magic and is also the greatest swordsman ever
Uhhh, because she went to the future and learned from Gandalf? Also she's the daughter of a Blue Wizard and a Pink Wizard (who are just like the Blue Wizards but more powerful and also they're GIRLS!) and has 1 blue eye and 1 yellow eye but they turn green and red when she's casting magic or is angry! She also made friends with a good balrog and a good dragon and they beat up Sauron (that's why he hates girls)! Her only weakness is giant spiders, she can still beat them up but she doesn't like them because they're gross ugyuu~!
Difficult to imagine what it'd look like. A RTS with factions and a campaign covers different segments?
Failing that, there's that one roguelikes that references it.
I've only played The Two Towers for the Gamecube (pretty good) and Shadow of War (It was for free on PS4) which was OK.
Shadow of War was funny because they turn Shelob into a sexy lady who looks like a bawdy Liv Tyler for some reason.
I'm reading The Hobbit right now and it would make an excellent adventure game. Isn't there one of those?
Tolkien would vomit at literally all aspects of what his writing has become in the 21st century.
Pic is him being unable to get through a single page of a potential LotR script that was about a million times more accurate than than the Peter Jackson movies.
I wish but not really. I'm sure you know the guy wrote all day every day for like 80 years and people have spent their lives publishing and analyzing it but he had very little interest in pop culture or adaptations
His letter to the Nazis when they asked him to prove his German ancestry so they could translate LotR to German is solid.
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that's fake, anon
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Anonymous
It's not. It's right there in the Letters of Tolkien book July 1938. I'll wait for you to respond.
I'm sick and tired of autists pretending like Tolkien was the best fantasy writer that ever was. He had his lore down pat, but that's about it. In terms of characterization, plot, and his burning hatred of metaphor making his fantasy less poetic as a result (no, those drunken shitty pub songs he threw in are not good either) makes his work feel particularly derivative.
Sure, you can make the most realistic, the most well articulated, the most structured and organized fantasy story in the history of human kind, but if it isn't fun and entertaining, why even fricking bother? It's still all made-up nonsense in the end.
I had this game as a teen and I hated it
Being a knock off version of the fellowship following their footsteps but doing nothing of import was so stupid. The whole game is pointless.
If it had a strong original story it could have been good.
Its not pointless what the frick is your problem?
You want to sit there and claim its pointless?
You get in my face with that Ill beat your goddamn ass you son of a b***h.
What the frick did you just fricking say about me, you little b***h? I'll have you know I graduated top of my class in Tolkien studies and have been involved in numerous secret raids on Electronic Arts forums.
That sounds pretty ironic to me.
I've played the GBA version which is the completely different from the console version. The GBA plays like a tacitcal strategy RPG. It's pretty interesting.
One of the most genuinely average games I've ever played. Nothing great, nothing awful. It is a game that exists.
Its still the cream of the crop on LOTR games
It really isnt. Why anyone would want to play as not aragorn and not gimili as opposed to the original cast is beyond me. The only cool parts of the third age is when you get to team up with the fellowship which is few and far in between.
Are any of the Lord of the Rings games worth playing?
Two Towers and Return of the King and 3rd Age all for the GBA are pretty good. Two Towers and King are diablo like clones which is pretty neet for the GBA
The frick are you talking about? TT and ROTK are closer to Dynasty Warriors than fricking Diablo.
He's talking about the GBA versions specifically, not the console versions.
PS2
>two towers
>rotk
>third age
PC
>Shadow of Mordor
>Shadow of War
>BFME 1&2
>LOTRO
>PS2
Wouldn't the GameCube and Xbox versions be better?
Shadow of Mordor is good. The sequel is full of cultural enrichment and garbage aimed at selling microtransactions.
They gave awaay the microtrannies
>cultural enrichment
rent free
on PC
BFME
LOTRO
War In The North
Shadow Of Mordor
Shadow Of War
only these 3 are worth playing the rest are garbage for nostalgia blinded homosexuals (especially Battle Of Middle Earth the janky slop)
>War In The North worth playing
kek
you didn't play it and no one e-celeb every shilled it so ofc you will assume it's bad
>War in the North
Completely forgot about this game. I stopped playing it for some reason, I think it was performance issues. Also, it felt a bit repetitive.
War of the Ring
The one that mogged Twilight Princess' unoriginal ass.
This game and it's sequel were awesome, the graphics blew my mind back in the day an it still holds up really well.
The only thing I remember about this game is the totally absurd final boss. They threw all the lore-friendliness out of the window at the very last moment.
Explain right now okay?
The final boss is the fricking Eye of Sauron. Seriously. The whole game is about catching up or assisting the Community in their journey and you suddenly are up there fighting the eye.
I like games where I can exp max and be super strong.
With the third age; when you get to the chapter at helm's deep, when you're up on the wall and the orks are climbing the ladder; as long as you don't break the ladders, the orcs will keep coming indefinitely. While a bit time consuming; it only has to be done once. Afterwards, can feel like a true hero of middle earth with most skills and magics unlocked. Really enjoyed this game; would play again.
Based game...loved all the debuffs and turn order shenanigans you could do.
It's not, but I still like it. Wish we had more FFX-likes.
Playing through it right now. Just beat the balrog. Animations take too long in battle, most of them don't come close to actually connecting which is annoying every time I see it, and on hard mode enemies have just a bit too much health and that adds to the overall length of battles.
more like bored of the rings, amirite?
I wish. That was back when mainstream humor was still legitimately funny.
>tfw no silmarillion games
they'd probably just make up some haradrim woman anyways who mysteriously knows magic and is also the greatest swordsman ever and make her the savior of middle earth...
>who mysteriously knows magic and is also the greatest swordsman ever
Uhhh, because she went to the future and learned from Gandalf? Also she's the daughter of a Blue Wizard and a Pink Wizard (who are just like the Blue Wizards but more powerful and also they're GIRLS!) and has 1 blue eye and 1 yellow eye but they turn green and red when she's casting magic or is angry! She also made friends with a good balrog and a good dragon and they beat up Sauron (that's why he hates girls)! Her only weakness is giant spiders, she can still beat them up but she doesn't like them because they're gross ugyuu~!
I will now play your game.
Difficult to imagine what it'd look like. A RTS with factions and a campaign covers different segments?
Failing that, there's that one roguelikes that references it.
>Difficult to imagine what it'd look like
dating simulator
>Discuss.
No I will not discuss your low-quality bait. I will sage your thread so it stays buried at the bottom of the catalog.
I've only played The Two Towers for the Gamecube (pretty good) and Shadow of War (It was for free on PS4) which was OK.
Shadow of War was funny because they turn Shelob into a sexy lady who looks like a bawdy Liv Tyler for some reason.
I'm reading The Hobbit right now and it would make an excellent adventure game. Isn't there one of those?
There's a Hobbit adventure game that's pretty average but incredibly soulful. Probably my favorite Tolkien game.
tolkien would vomit at the sight of that
Tolkien would vomit at literally all aspects of what his writing has become in the 21st century.
Pic is him being unable to get through a single page of a potential LotR script that was about a million times more accurate than than the Peter Jackson movies.
Do you have more of these? I find this stuff fascinating
I wish but not really. I'm sure you know the guy wrote all day every day for like 80 years and people have spent their lives publishing and analyzing it but he had very little interest in pop culture or adaptations
His letter to the Nazis when they asked him to prove his German ancestry so they could translate LotR to German is solid.
that's fake, anon
It's not. It's right there in the Letters of Tolkien book July 1938. I'll wait for you to respond.
I'm sick and tired of autists pretending like Tolkien was the best fantasy writer that ever was. He had his lore down pat, but that's about it. In terms of characterization, plot, and his burning hatred of metaphor making his fantasy less poetic as a result (no, those drunken shitty pub songs he threw in are not good either) makes his work feel particularly derivative.
Sure, you can make the most realistic, the most well articulated, the most structured and organized fantasy story in the history of human kind, but if it isn't fun and entertaining, why even fricking bother? It's still all made-up nonsense in the end.
I had this game as a teen and I hated it
Being a knock off version of the fellowship following their footsteps but doing nothing of import was so stupid. The whole game is pointless.
If it had a strong original story it could have been good.
Its not pointless what the frick is your problem?
You want to sit there and claim its pointless?
You get in my face with that Ill beat your goddamn ass you son of a b***h.
What the frick did you just fricking say about me, you little b***h? I'll have you know I graduated top of my class in Tolkien studies and have been involved in numerous secret raids on Electronic Arts forums.
This shit was impossible
I think it might just be an awful game
https://cml-a.com/content/2021/04/06/lord-of-the-rings-snes-bugfix/
It's also on Romhacking as a patch.
Really fun, but a bit of a slog in the overworld.
It's for younger ages, but it was still fun to play.