Why LOTRO is still AMAZING in 2024!

Been there since Beta and I take breaks but I always come back. Love this game. Now playing with my son so it's crossed a generation. Very special. 💕

This is one of the MMORPG games that is aging like a fine wine.

Hi. VIP and Founder here, playing since closed beta. I have played and still do play other MMORPG games, and I agree with everything our Youtube friend Snow Fluff has supplied as opinion. I have not seen another that matches the love of the base lore, or the grandeur of LotRO. This game has come with me through 4 OS updates. So far. There will be more. LotRO forever, friends. There is another positive about this game: By and large, the player base is in the friendly/helpful range. All love. Barukh Khazad!

from the clip youre showing the game visuals looks pretty good for something that came out in 2007

This concept of the journey beeing the game instead of just endgame and raid content is what made Vanilla WoW so amazing. Even as someone who was a very active raider until WoW Cataclysm i always missed that concept in WoW after it all changed when Burning Crusade came around and started to focus almost completely on endgame . Before that raiding in Vanilla WoW especially in the very early days with Onyxia and Molten Core felt more like a fun mass event. When it got more serious with time it at least for me felt like a weekly chore. I couldnt wait when the raid id was clear and i could go back lvling my alts for the journey. I still do it today sometimes... Maybe i should take a look at LotRO it looks like the entry is pretty easy for a WoW veteran in regards to interface and all.

Ok i will re download the game after 10 years. You've twisted my arm

When you finally exit Moria for the first time, and see the starry night sky above. ❤

The gameplay isn't my favorite but no other MMORPG has the Role Play like LOTRO does. Great community of players.

what's amazing about it, is that it still exists.

The game does indeed cater to a different type of player. While it is rather sad that the much-needed graphic overhaul won't happen, and the lore exposition through text-based questing is admittedly quite archaic now, the feature that drew me the most and prompted me to play again is the landscape difficulty mode. So, i grabbed a few buddies from my Dungeons and Dragons campaign who are also invested in Tolkien lore and we started levelling together at a higher difficulty. We don't feel like a party only in dungeons, we are a party all the time and it has given us the chance to play the roles we want in a fellowship from the get-go! MMO devs, take the hint please, not all of us want to just rush to the endgame and grind the same dungeons ad infinitum. Now the whole world is a dungeon crawl, in a sense. We are creating our own little story in Middle Earth, and this is just priceless, even if it only becomes true for a few hours a week. Haven't had so much fun in an MMO in a very long while.

As a rabid Tolkien fan, I agree. LOTRO is about the most important thing in the Tolkien universe: LORE. Amazon clearly does not respect the lore, at all, and one has to look no further than "Rings of Power" to see that.

I will have to give this game a try! Thank You for the video :)

Longer form is fantastic for your channel; important to have that tension/relief ratio just right throughout the content and you obviously killed it with that here lol, keep on keepin' on, bright future for ya!👍

Never ended up playing it but it is nice to see some games not only stayed alive but kept delivering experiences long after the MMO rush of the late 2000s where so many would be pronounced DOA before even releasing. Side note: I know in the video you explain some of this lower level focused content might not work for WoW or FFXIV but being honest as someone who put thousands of hours into and now have moved on from both it would have been nice so see them try, after a while the whole idea of the game being about the destination gets old, no matter how good the destination is. That's why I still think vanilla WoW was a better experience than anything since, it wasn't treated the same way they treat the mainstream games now.

Came back to lotro after 9 years. Never seem the game so populated. Feels like 2013

I started day 1 and I’ve still never been past the base game. I’ll play, stop for months, then start over haha. I need to buckle down and actually progress.

I just started playing as a free to play mmo gamer. LOTRO's shop system is like Helldivers 2 - play the game to earn credits which can be used to buy expansions. Its like WoW Classic but completely free and with a focus on storylines.

It needs an UI overhaul

Hi There! I am a Tolkien & LOTRO Youtuber myself. Your video popped up and I must say I really enjoyed it! I love that you pointed out the Goods in the game instead of the negative stuff, Since the good WAY outweighs it. LOTRO is in Fact the Biggest "scale" game in the world besides infinite games like Minecraft or no mans sky. Loved you pointed that out. Now personally, The "graphics art style" I love in lotro, I know some don't like older, But I mean, Lotro dose looks better then WoW. BUT, I don't think comparing there "graphics works" since they are both "art styles" more then anything else. I also am a WoW player in the past great game too. I agreed with Most your video! A few, small things, I won't go into all of them, But... I may be that guy that wants flying mounts since I started the game the first week it was out. lol. Now, hear me out... the other side of me is like NO, it will break things in the game, lore and feeling Like you said. I am torn on that, Also, when it comes to UI I think a lot of people just don't know how set it up, Being older. I think the UI has aged really well (besides a few skill icons). I have a guide video on how I setup my UI to look so good etc. Now, to finish up. Almost everything else you said I agree on! They are fixing the "lag issues" I almost never get them anymore myself, but others still do at times. You did a really good job putting this video together. I wanted to thank you and encourage you on how good this video was. It was balanced and fair points both the goods and bad. It was very refreshing to me to watch a video I was not cringing at knowing they did not do there research (happens way to much). But you DID do the research! I was impressed you even knew the stuff about amazon game and the worry that standing stones put to rest. Well done! Keep it up man! Maybe I will see you in game sometime! I play on the server CrickHollow mostly, but also on others too. Cheers! BARKH KHAZAD! P.S. They are planning on doing a scaling system to let you lower your personally level to help out a lower level ally with out needed to get on a different toon. This is new info and should be a welcome addition! :D

This game holds a very special place in my heart. I’ve been playing for eight years now and appreciate this game more than any other game.