Was this game really good?
Or is it just nostalgia mixed with the fact that it was the last LOTR RTS?
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LOTR Battle for Middle-earth II
Was this game really good?
Or is it just nostalgia mixed with the fact that it was the last LOTR RTS?
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Yes
it was enjoyable but mechanically or meta-wise it was beyond stale and broken
just spam elite archers, they'll melt everything
at least cavalry charges were fun
>Spam elite archers
*Laughs in goblin hordes scavenger perk*
Someone should slay those goblins
homosexual goblins get mow down by archers easily
>Spend a majority of the early/mid game shitting out malorn trees to get your kekwood archers and silvermeme arrows
>Spamming goblin warriors and archers right out of the gate and swarming the map with patrols and tunnels
>Win or lose, every engagement gets me to scavenger
>Every single hit on anything steals resources
>Mfw when 10+ caves flooding your ass with goblins
>Muh team battles!
Out of all the players I've GOBBED, elves get it the hardest, and are usually the saltiest.
The campaign of the first BFME was more fun.
This game has some really good mods however.
Create a hero was cool but you'd always end up making the same guy with the same stats and abilities because they were clearly better.
>play BFME 1
>use gandalf on everything
>win
Child me was a strategic genius
It's very questionable, but still fun.
More balanced than the first game, but single player campaign is worse and there's general fanfic-y weirdness with it.
>gandalf
Rohan heroes are better.
I really dont remember any other hero abilities besides gandalf. I remember he could destroy whole armies and buildings himself.
That anon is generally right because horsemen were just plain OP before the patch and remain very strong afterwards as well. But you really used to have your hero blob roaming together anyway.
NTA but rohan heroes had armor piercing spear throws that did overtuned damage, a lot of auras which were really strong in BFME, most could mount and run down the other heroes, and i believe it was theoden had an ability that made it so all the rohirrim around him didnt suffer momentum losses when running things down and i think even stopped the damage blowback when running things over. plus rohan had the orc genocide trio, which were all 3 very powerful.
Several squads of pikemen could uno reverse the rohan god charge, when you play them you need to utilize the archers. Learned that the hard way.
sure, but with access to the bs elven archers and a power tree ability that summoned 3 of them you shouldnt really have much of an issue with that. plus rohan making an ent moot successfully, while hard to do, is basically an instant win.
>not assembling as many heroes as you can
>not just steam rolling through the entire enemy hordes
>not capping your rohirrims to max levels and upgrades while careful not using any unit
Army of the Dead was also a straight up win button, nothing could kill them.
The game has a good presence online after all these years. It's still receiving balancing patches by the community. It's not just nostalgia; it really is fun to just sit down and play a skirmish.
It's a fun casual RTS, tho being LOTR helped a lot too
it's honestly pretty shallow mechanically. It does however go to great lengths to include shit from the movies like the witch king swooping down on the wyrm thing and clutching away a soldier, or cavalry charges being truly devastating. Overall, not something I keep around installed
Worst part of this game was how fragile buildings were
Fricking hated the AI coming out of the fog of war with a single unit of archers and destroying a building before I react
Wish it kept the building system from 1.
Nostalgia. I played this game for the first time a few years ago and it's shit compared to even other RTS games of the time. I think it's a mix of nostalgia and buyer's remorse/sunk cost fallacy
Yeah it was a good game for lotr standards, but nothing special in term of RTS. The only thing that stood out for me were cavalry and monstrous units and how they could be used as battering rams to knock smaller units around.
I don't know about the second one, but I just started playing the first game for the first time and I'm having fun. Its not great just good basic RTS game in the LoTR setting.
I keep trying to install the game and get it working, but it never does. When I finish creating a character, the game crashes. If it's anything like the first BfME game, then it's probably pretty good. I loved the hell out of the first one.
I'd say that the circle jerking about BfME2 is from rts gamers that have a major hardon for LOTR.
most rts gamers just lose their minds over slightly different map control mechanics. the outposts and in particular the farm distance mechanics in 2 are really good and allow for some wiggle room in how you manage your resources.
i played it again a few months ago and i cannot handle how zoomed in it is
Download the fan patches. They fix the zoom
It's a good and fun game, I prefere BFM2 vanilla (not witch king) because the factions feel more unique from each other in vanilla. Patch 1.09 is I think a custom patch / HD mod basically that's what I play but the expansion WOTWK is popular online.
It was rather simple, but edain really did help keep things fresh, for a while that is.
Picrelated is actually more enjoyable then any BfME
For me it was genuinely fun. Playing Isengard and just troll rushing anything or making a company of great sword uruks who would glitch into invincibility if caught by an explosion, it was just great. Dwarves were fun too, goblins were broken to an extent.
I still have a dvd somewhere with the cracked game in an iso, I reinstall it every so often. So yeah, partly nostalgia partly a great game, something like an 20-80ratio, 30-70 maybe.