Trying to give some love to LotRO
Just wanted to give some love to Lord of the Rings Online! I was extremely surprised picking up this game for the first time recently.
Unfortunately I started playing a couple of days before the WoW Forever beta, but I think LotRO will become a permanent addition to my MMO repertoire between WoW sessions.
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My favorite LotRO experience was the open beta. Characters were capped at a very low level but most of the world was open to explore. So as a plucky hobbit thief, I snuck around some preposterously dangerous areas. In that game, when there are powerful enemies present, it has an Eye of Sauron effect on the screen, like when Frodo puts on the ring. So I'm sneaking around/running for my life in these dark, deadly areas, all while being oppressively harrassed by THE EYE at the edges of the screen and filling the ambience. So visceral I remember it 20 years later.
That sounds like such a cool experience! I'm really not surprised you still remember that 20 years later!
I've always noticed this with MMOs in particular, that the most memorable moments are when we weren't following an objective, or just doing another raid, they tend to be us players just goofing off and having fun with the world the devs built.
My most memorable WoW memory was when I participated in my guilds "Naked Fun Run", which was a no gear, level 1 fun run from north Kalimdor all the way to the southern point. Seems like while we were off in Azeroth goofing around, plenty were doing the same in Middle Earth :)
Haha definitely. I ran a game with my WoW guild called Find Soybean (my character). I posted screenshots of all my characters scattered across Azeroth and the guild had to track me down and be the first to do an emote to me. So yeah, shenanigans are always the most memorable :D
I have very fond memories of lotro from when it first released. I could spend hours just running around the shire and enjoying the sights. I used to play with a group of friends, we had a guild called 'king of the underhills'. we all had hobbit characters with king of the hill inspired names (mine was cotton underhill) and we'd hang out in front of taverns playing instruments with the king of the hill midi and '/drink'ing.
I load it up every now and again just to run around the shire some more and remember the good times.
Haha King of the Underhills is amazing!
Do you still play any other MMOs? Or is LotRO the one "come back to every now and again" game?
not much anymore. never really got into any others after playing wow for a while and lotro. I did try to get into guild wars and ffxiv, but I never got the same feel from them.
I don't really have the time to invest in those kind of games anymore, so I'll take a nostalgic trip over the grind any day.
Love me some Lotro! Been playing off and on since about 2012 and its still my favorite MMO of all time. This post reminded me that its been a bit since I last hopped on. Might give it a go later today!