Tag: MMO
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LOTRO Tour Part 6: Stock to Bree
Leaving the relative safety of the Shire, the road to Bree is dangerous to low-level adventurers. Wolves, bears, and boars wander along the road, while bandit camps are on either side. This area is for players of levels 13-20ish, with many quests that will allow players to explore the area. It turns out FRAPS is…
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LOTRO Tour Part 5: Hobbiton to Stock
Now I purchase a ride from Hobitton to Stock on the East side of the Shire. I pass by lots of places whose names are recognizable from the Lord of the Rings books. Next up: on to Bree.
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LOTRO Tour Part 4: Tour of the Hill
In this segment, my Hunter rides around “the Hill” suburb of Hobbiton. The Hill contains the Party Tree and Bag End where Bilbo and Frodo lived. As you can see in the video, the Sackville-Bagginses have moved in already. I’m disappointed by how much the compression by YouTube muddies the textures. The game is quite…
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LOTRO Tour Part 3: Michel Delving to Hobbiton
This time, I am using my Hunter to take the tour because Hunters can easily zip between the major Middle Earth locations. This video shows the path from Michel Delving, where the last part of the tour left off, to Hobbiton, with a short detour to the Great Smials in Tuckborough. Again, no loading screens…
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Trying out Age of Conan MMORPG
I downloaded and have played just a bit of Age of Conan, just to try it out. I don’t actually need a new game to play at the moment, but I had been told that Age of Conan (AoC) was a nifty free-to-play MMORPG. AoC is certainly prettier than Lord of the Rings Online (LOTRO),…
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My Latest LOTRO News
It has been a while since I posted any LOTRO news, and my video upload project is stalled because I’ve been busy. Most of my characters have left Thirst for Power, which couldn’t seem to gain critical mass in terms of having enough active members online at any time. Most of the kin members jumped…
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LOTRO Middle Earth Tour Part 2: Needlehole to Michel Delving
This video continues my Middle Earth tour in LOTRO. I start at the entrance to the Shire from Ered Luin (see the first video) and the ride to Waymeet and Michel Delving, ending at the Mathom House. This video was captured using the Blackmagic Intensity Shuttle using an HDMI connection. While the sound was set…
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LOTRO Middle Earth Tour Part 1: Ered Luin
This is the start of my tour of Middle Earth as envisioned by The Lord of the Rings Online (LOTRO). LOTRO is such a huge game that I thought it would be worthwhile to show people how amazing it is. I decided I would ride from end to end and post the video, but I…
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Enjoying the story quests in Lord of the Rings Online (LOTRO)
I’ve really been enjoying the story missions in LOTRO recently. I had neglected them for a while, because I was having so much fun in skirmishes and generally exploring Middle Earth. I had completed the missions in Lone Lands and North Downs (Esteldin), so was sent to Rivendell for more. Elrond had me running all…
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Why I like LOTRO so much
Note: as I write this, LOTRO is down. There is big activity on Twitter where everyone is telling which server they’re on. Look for the #Servername hashtag. I posted mine. I have been enjoying Lord of the Rings Online a lot recently. I have 4 characters (the natives call them “toons”) on the Gladden server,…