Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar Comments by Dan Griliopoulos

23 April, 2008

Fishing for details of Book 13 with Jeffrey Steefel.

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Dizzy

23/04/08 @ 15:10

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Playing this more and more now. Awesome game!

WoW is just for some guild raids atm.. LOTRO is for fun (IMHO)

hiddenranbir

23/04/08 @ 15:10

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--Tolkien Estates doesn't even have the right to license us the Silmarillion or Children of Hurin.
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Who does then?

AHiFi

23/04/08 @ 15:14

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Ah, back from the days of OXM Dan? How nice to see you. :p

anomagnus

23/04/08 @ 15:16

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if i have one criticism of the EG MMO channel, its summed up in this question

or old boots? To a lot of players this will sound very similar to the WOW system. No offence intended, but lot of the little things you're adding in feel like checking off a list; WOW's got that, now we've got that. Is that unfair?

Now, i understand WoW is the market leader, but i do feel that the site is biased towards the game.

WoW is a good game, not a great game.

Other games can't win. They are punished if they do something different, and criticized if they take an idea WoW had, try and improve on it

TheMoonRat

23/04/08 @ 15:55

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Anomagnus: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simpsons_Al...

SleepyMagpie

23/04/08 @ 17:00

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LotRO is THE MMORPG at the moment, IMO. And I'd wager I'll be spending most of my time here, and not in Hyboria, come the end of may (this coming from an AoC gen. beta participant).

"If it gets too cold, you'll have to gut him and crawl inside."

Haha, great caption!

KillerMonkey

23/04/08 @ 17:28

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I'm doing the trial right now. It's a really nice MMO. Actually fun and so far the grind isn't bad at all. Not a lot of people on my server though, need more for fellowships and such.

robg

24/04/08 @ 09:52

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anomagnus - they aren't punished at all, unless it's a bad idea. Tabula Rasa was praised for being innovative.

Also, does anyone else think this interview ended a bit abruptly?

4thVariety

24/04/08 @ 11:07

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I don't play WoW, I don't get these endless barrages of comparisons. I don't even get why WoW is made the default setting from which any deviation can only mean getting worse. That's neither objective, nor is it helping the reader understand the game better.

If LotRO and WoW have one thing nailed down to perfection then it is the fact that their marketing of every patch and small area upgrade to the game is celebrated as if it was the second coming.

gremly

25/04/08 @ 02:13

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"If it gets too cold, you'll have to gut him and crawl inside."

I think someone has been watching to much Bear Grylls XD

SleepyMagpie

25/04/08 @ 12:58

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I just want to add a couple of comments.

In asking the question if Turbine is ripping off fishing from WoW, the interviewer seems to display a lack of knowledge of the history of MMORPGs.. I mean, FFXI had a great fishing system, which actually could be very beneficial to your character, a long time before WoW came along and brought fishing. WoW's fishing is also much more diluted than FFXI's.

Most of WoW's content is actually re-processed stuff from other MMORPGs. A lot is taken from Everquest, Dark Age of Camelot, Anarchy Online, and FFXI to name a few. Blizzard fed this stuff through the grinder, sugar-coated it, simplified it, and possibly bettered some of it, and called it WoW. That today, some videogaming writers refer to WoW as the start of it all is just wrong.

4thVariety writes: "If LotRO and WoW have one thing nailed down to perfection then it is the fact that their marketing of every patch and small area upgrade to the game is celebrated as if it was the second coming."

That may be, the only difference is that Turbine does not charge you hand over fist for every chapter they release for LotRO, which they do quite often, whereas Blizzard for WoW does..

GriddleOctopus

14/06/08 @ 11:05

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Yep, sorry the interview ended a bit abruptly - EG published an early draft and we didn't notice until it had gone up. I've still got *yet* more interview with Steefel to transcribe - the man can talk!

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