Please don't shoot the Balrog in the knee, the last thing i need is that goof showing up in Whiterun in an ill fitting guard uniform giving me a hard time when i'm doing important Dark Brotherhood business.
Gonna be honest, there's something very mid-2000s about playing a Hobbit and doing menial chores (framed creatively to be tutorials) before the adventure.
I played this game so much when I was about 10 years old, and I love it. I haven't played it in a long time, but just seeing it makes me fall in love again, eventough most of it is probably just nostalgia
Stryder Heap, Yeah when LOTR started it got a little more adult feeling as well but to me the books still seemed childish... I dont know why but they did for me.. But still you are right LOTR took a more adult approach
Of course, the tone became darker and more adult which I like but it is still quite comical and childlike throughout especially the likes of Tom Bombadill and the talking fox.
I fucking love Conquest. My favorite part was near the end you play the alternate bad guy story and go to the Shire. Finally I got to be Sauron and IMMEDIATELY got picked up by a griffon (or whatever they're called) and killed... So I played the entire last battle as just some random joe cause the big bad got done in by an overside bird.
I actually really liked that game, sure I was a jag off who only played that rogue type character and exploited the fuck out of the 1 hit KO back stab and the near invincibility of the roll dodge...but still
I played this on the Wii and absolutely loved it! Just being part of the big battles was amazing, I think I played the battle at the gates of Mordor at least 10 times xD But I understand that it is objectively not a great game, you have to really love the movies for this ^^
3:24 this made me lol Wow, it must make you really FEEL like Aragorn. Absolutely amazing. Been on a lil Cantina binge. That little noise plays in my head all the time now lately. "Bbrrumbrumbrrrdrrrdrrr" lol
when elrond tells you "the enemy" is behind the attack he means The Enemy as in SAURON!! not a generic opponent. this is a title used numerous times even in the movies
I've played a bit of this with my brother, and it's hysterical. The inexpressive faces, awkward animations, and playing as Gandalf when the cutscenes insist he isn't there (our theory is Gandalf is Aragorn's imaginary friend) had me cracking up the entire time. Maybe I'm just easily amused.
Similar: Got one of those retro/miniature consoles for Xmas. Playing it later that day w/ my bro was fun as hell.. but bringing it home and plugging it in on a random Tuesday was a one-star experience!
I keep getting back to the Co-Op mode on occasion, because, weirdly enough, it's one of the few LOTR games out there that lets you play as Gandalf the Grey in a 3rd view adventure game. There is the old Fellowship of the Ring from Vivendi for PS2, but that version doesnt look too much like the movies version, and the overall game is disappointing. Most games that let you play as Gandalf only tend to focus on him as Gandalf the White - also an iconic and decisive character, but far less interesting in my opinion.
God I don’t know what you mean this game is the greatest game I’ve ever seen it’s better than games like oblivion and fallout new Vegas this game is clearly 10/10 quality content
So I know I'm giving waaaaay to much credit to the devs but it feels like this is the exact story a man with PTSD would tell his kids of the war. Skipping over the part where a friend is killed brutally, saving villagers etc.
War in the North is not far behind - the claptrap griffin(griffin in the Middle Earth uh-huh) gave me headaches, oh how glad I was when he got shot it in the end
I got this lord of the rings-game as a christmas present from my parents because they know how much I love that franchise and even then I couldn't bring myself to play it more then three times...
When I first played Aragorn's Quest on the PSP as a child which didn't speak anything other than Polish, I didn't even realise the game I was playing was Lord of the Rings.
The reason Aragorn has to deal with all shit in Rivendel is because Elrond is riding him like mad and Aragorn has to do it since he is Elrond is his father-in-law. Sure Aragorn would want to say "Deal with your own shit old fool", but then he wouldn't get super pretty waifu.
“We have the rights to a great series about a large party of people who go on a quest together - lets make the game single player and just about one member!”
What's really sad is that they actually got Sean Astin and John Rhys-Davies to voice their characters. And it has a very respectable voice acting cast.
Why the hell was it marketed for PS2? It was released in 2010, when the PS3 had been out for years already. And PS2 was discontinued 3 years later, too. ~ TDG
Love the video but I'm fairly sure 'the enemy' is used as a euphemism for Sauron in the books. The protagonists, especially the Elves, often refer to him as 'the enemy.'
even though the game is a fucking mess, it's one of the most graphically impressive Wii games I've ever seen, lots of really nice lighting and post processing going on, and the artstyle isn't halfbad either
I have this game on the DS, and I can confirm 100% that this version is way different. They're like two completely different games. But I still enjoy playing it none of the less, but then again that could just be from nostalgic reasons.
Bro I get we all have personal tastes but bagging on Hobbit game! Step to far! That game was so good! The play style, the art style, everything about it was insane!
I can look past the parts that don't line up with the films because it is being narrated by a guy telling kids a story. I can work with a flawed narrator. What I find weird, is that the developers decided to go with a character that didn't witness half the events around Aragon. They had two other hobit's that saw just about everything Aragon did.
Why is Conquest so hated? It was just a Battlefront 2 clone which is lazy true, but that game's beloved where as Conquest is universally shat on. There's far worse LOTR games.
This game reminds me a lot of the Lego Lord of the Rings game, what with the side quests, shoehorned puzzle elements, and skipping random parts of the films. But yeah, this does sound worse. And I have no idea why they thought forcing you to do dumb fetch quests as a hobbit kid would be more fun than saving Middle-Earth.
I played it on the PS3 and Tbh I absolutely loved it. I always figured it'd be a nightmare to play with a Wii or PS3 Move controller, but the game felt great on the PS3, sure it's no shadow of Mordor but I honestly think it's a lot better than some people think. I think I should get it on PC sometime in the future to play it again
The DS verison of this game is still one of my favorite titles on the DS, but that's the DS, the bar isn't too high. I'm pretty suprised to see that the PS2 verison is the same game with better graphics. Why they didn't make it the Wii and PS3 verison with lowered graphics is beyond me. Btw, I recommend War in the North if you really want to play an awful LOTR game.
I remember playing this game years ago (the same Wii version.) Me and my brother struggled with it so much -- not sure if you experienced this, but the game was buggy as HELL. I remember that we quit on the Balrog fight because we glitched between a door and could literally do nothing about it. What an amazing game.
This game actually gets worse it has a co-op, where Player 2 plays as Gandalf for the whole game including just after he died and scenes where he wasn't even there (during the shire stuff they play as Frodo's sister but cant do anything important Player 1 has to do all those parts)
Actually Sam naming his kid after Frodo makes a lot of sense lore wise, the hobbits always had a way of honoring their history through hobbit names, lore and street names and such and by the end of the lotr books they both regarded each other as legends amongst hobbits
I played this game on the wii as a kid and loved it. But I haven‘t played it since then so I probably woudn‘t like it today Still seeing this gives me total nostalgia
I like the ds version because its the ps2 version but very pixelated. Its no masterpiece but when you play it on the ds it feels like an old arcade game. Like runescape but a storyline. Changable powers, weapons, clothes that work as armor with perks, it just feels cool idk.
