Video Game Chat Thread - Pre-Alpha Experimental Version

[CIS White Droid]

I'm kinda interested in it because I've heard it's very story heavy and most of it can be solo'd. I've also heard it has serious latency issues, as in you click and wait 2+ seconds for it to register, and enemies teleport around buggily in combat.

Let me know if those issues are fixed, I got a lot of free time for the next couple weeks and wouldn't mind something LOTR-related.

The latency issues are weirdly intermittent; it's one of those things were you'll just randomly lock up for a few seconds, more of a minor annoyance than anything in my experience. While the majority of content is soloable certain classes will, obviously, have an easier time than others and some quest chains have the climax in a group dungeon. The thing I love the most about LOTRO is that your story plays out parallel to the story of the Fellowship so you get to see the events from an outside perspective. I'd say it's worth at least trying out despite the issues.

 

[Lurkerish Kandor]

That was my experience with ram. Some new games that barely chugged on all low, now had the space to run on medium and it was a huge breath of fresh air to postpone a major upgrade.

Funnily enough I thought I was having RAM issues for a while, despite doing at least a couple of very diligent overnight error checks on my sticks and they returned no issues both times. It's bizarre how just the OS dust of 5 years manages to fuck with everything.

While the majority of content is soloable certain classes will, obviously, have an easier time than others and some quest chains have the climax in a group dungeon [...] I'd say it's worth at least trying out despite the issues.

I'm not really bothered, i'm not an MMO guy and there won't be any commitment to it so I'll just skirt around anything that tries to get me to party up until I'm tired of the overall experience (assuming I don't find the latency issues so annoying I immediately drop it).

 

[EmpGulcasa]

I'm kinda interested in it because I've heard it's very story heavy and most of it can be solo'd. I've also heard it has serious latency issues, as in you click and wait 2+ seconds for it to register, and enemies teleport around buggily in combat.

Let me know if those issues are fixed, I got a lot of free time for the next couple weeks and wouldn't mind something LOTR-related.

As was already said, the latency issues come and go. I'll go days without having an issue but then after maintenance yesterday the game was downright unplayable for a couple hours.

You can solo 90% of the game, particularly if you're willing to go back and do dungeons later when you outlevel them, but pretty much everything questing related (which is the bulk of the game) is doable solo at level with any class. If you're just looking to immerse yourself in the LOTR lore and have a relaxed time I'd suggest playing a Hunter or Beorning, both are very strong for questing and simple to play and hunter especially gets lots of travel options that make getting around a lot faster.

One thing that you'll need to be ready for is that unlike a lot of modern MMOs you will be traveling back and forth on foot/horse quite a bit, most of the zones aren't streamlined at all until you get to more recently added ones so it's not unusual to be sent back and forth to places repeatedly. On the one hand this can turn a lot of people off who hate backtracking, on the other it kinda fits with the game being more about the journey than the destination and with LOTR in general being one long road trip for a huge chunk of the books.

The community is nice and trends older than most MMOs, lots of people aged 30-40+ who have been playing for decades, so it tends to be less obnoxious (usually) than other games.

 

[ChiribiscoToo]

Mixtape looks like discount Dustborn. A great oneyplays game