Still mostly playing LotRO (hunter now level 51, minstrel 37), with the occasional little console gaming (Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood mostly, lately - a very good game, like all previous ones thus far).
Oh, and as for 2010 and non-gaming stuff; Machete and The Walking Dead rocked.
One was funny, full of satire and over the top gory violence and the other was like watching a George Romero movie that was six episodes long. One of the older, good Romero movies.
Showing posts with label LOTRO. Show all posts
Showing posts with label LOTRO. Show all posts
Tuesday, January 4, 2011
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
Monthly update - still on a hiatus.
Good news; got a couple cheap games; Wet (7 eur from Gigantti) and Crackdown 2 (14 eur from Play.com).
Bad news; still haven't bothered to boot the consoles, aside from a small stint with the latest Splinter Cell - Conviction.
Enjoying my VIP-time at LOTRO. First character made level 40 yesterday (hunter), with the minstrel following at level 31 and a new addition, the guardian at level 21 (made as a "jeweller / cook alt", really).
The guild I'm in, Keepers of the Palantiri, is full of nice people who are helping each other out (hi guys!).
And to make sure I don't have too much time for console games, I just bought a .308win rifle and I'm shopping for a suitable bird scope now... :D
Bad news; still haven't bothered to boot the consoles, aside from a small stint with the latest Splinter Cell - Conviction.
Enjoying my VIP-time at LOTRO. First character made level 40 yesterday (hunter), with the minstrel following at level 31 and a new addition, the guardian at level 21 (made as a "jeweller / cook alt", really).
The guild I'm in, Keepers of the Palantiri, is full of nice people who are helping each other out (hi guys!).
And to make sure I don't have too much time for console games, I just bought a .308win rifle and I'm shopping for a suitable bird scope now... :D
Wednesday, November 3, 2010
Still playing... LOTRO.
Haven't even bothered to boot the Xbox 360 or PS3 for 3-4 weeks.
Only other game that I took a quick peek at was Fallout: Las Vegas (10 minutes, can't comment on it very much - except it's "very Fallout 3").
Actually ordered the Mines of Moria addon for LOTRO; new areas and quests, higher level cap, two new classes and two more character slots, higher tier of crafting and 30 days free VIP status.
Not too bad for an addon selling as low as $9,99 in the US (more like $26 with shipping overseas, dammit! ;) ).
Only other game that I took a quick peek at was Fallout: Las Vegas (10 minutes, can't comment on it very much - except it's "very Fallout 3").
Actually ordered the Mines of Moria addon for LOTRO; new areas and quests, higher level cap, two new classes and two more character slots, higher tier of crafting and 30 days free VIP status.
Not too bad for an addon selling as low as $9,99 in the US (more like $26 with shipping overseas, dammit! ;) ).
Tuesday, October 5, 2010
Too. Busy. To. Post. Must. Play. More. LOTRO...
So Lord of the Rings Online went "free" to play.
I shelled out the $6.50 to get a "premium" account like I did with Dungeons & Dragon Online. Now, I could've got all this (sans the Turbine Points) for $2 if I paid with the mobile phone option, Paymo - but it didn't pan out (the operator thinks it's a leisure SMS and it won't work since I've blocked them and all adult stuff on my phones).
But, anyway. The "premium" account got me...
Anyways, I played LOTRO in the beta back in... 2007 I think. It didn't grab me then. But since then DX10, lots of polishing and a thousand new quests later, the game looks pretty damn spiffy. Oh, and it has players. A lot of them.
In fact I can't remember the last time I saw a town as busy as Bree in a MMORPG. And it doesn't stop there - the countryside sometimes has more players than orcs or bears. An "orcicide" can be seen in the rush hours. Which is sometimes a problem when you have to wait for a rescue target NPC to spawn for 5 minutes - the boss mobs thankfully spawn quickly, sometimes too quickly (as in "right after you kill and loot the previous one and haven't healed up yet" ;P ).
Running with all the bells and whistles, huge view range and maximum textures on (with my HD5850) the game doesn't have to be ashamed vs any modern MMORPG.
Oh, and I can't think of a game that had this much... for the lack of a better word, "geometry". I don't think Middle-Earth has a level spot, aside from the fields (where you can grow crops, naturally). Everywhere you can see hills, mountains, pits, lakes and... oh did I mention lakes and ponds? Damn there are a lot of those around - feels downright at home (Finland is the "Land of the Thousand Lakes", remember? ;) ). Oh, and the Tolkien borrowed names help too; how about the troll tribe of Rauta-Lehmä? While being completely stupid ("Iron-Cow"), it's still Finnish, as are a lot of place names too (just as silly, most of them)...
So after a couple of weeks in the Middle-Earth - I recommend anyone interested in MMOGs take a tour. It's free!
www.lotro.com
I shelled out the $6.50 to get a "premium" account like I did with Dungeons & Dragon Online. Now, I could've got all this (sans the Turbine Points) for $2 if I paid with the mobile phone option, Paymo - but it didn't pan out (the operator thinks it's a leisure SMS and it won't work since I've blocked them and all adult stuff on my phones).
But, anyway. The "premium" account got me...
- 5 auction house slots
- 5 gold maximum (like this is a huge problem yet, with 0,6 gold having been my maximum before I bought the 500 silver horse I had to buy a "riding skill" for)
- ability to trade with players
- better chance to get in if there's a queue (there might be, read on)
Anyways, I played LOTRO in the beta back in... 2007 I think. It didn't grab me then. But since then DX10, lots of polishing and a thousand new quests later, the game looks pretty damn spiffy. Oh, and it has players. A lot of them.
In fact I can't remember the last time I saw a town as busy as Bree in a MMORPG. And it doesn't stop there - the countryside sometimes has more players than orcs or bears. An "orcicide" can be seen in the rush hours. Which is sometimes a problem when you have to wait for a rescue target NPC to spawn for 5 minutes - the boss mobs thankfully spawn quickly, sometimes too quickly (as in "right after you kill and loot the previous one and haven't healed up yet" ;P ).
Running with all the bells and whistles, huge view range and maximum textures on (with my HD5850) the game doesn't have to be ashamed vs any modern MMORPG.
Oh, and I can't think of a game that had this much... for the lack of a better word, "geometry". I don't think Middle-Earth has a level spot, aside from the fields (where you can grow crops, naturally). Everywhere you can see hills, mountains, pits, lakes and... oh did I mention lakes and ponds? Damn there are a lot of those around - feels downright at home (Finland is the "Land of the Thousand Lakes", remember? ;) ). Oh, and the Tolkien borrowed names help too; how about the troll tribe of Rauta-Lehmä? While being completely stupid ("Iron-Cow"), it's still Finnish, as are a lot of place names too (just as silly, most of them)...
So after a couple of weeks in the Middle-Earth - I recommend anyone interested in MMOGs take a tour. It's free!
www.lotro.com
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