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Nothing about this topic on the first page. Maybe its nothing new but Im posting my first impressions from beta and this one is very "impressionable."


Also you missed the part where I said it isnt a WoW clone in my eyes but it will be seen as one to the common consumer.


Edited, Apr 9th 2007 12:14pm by tombiggy

For every player that complains that LOTRO is just like WOW, there's another that complains that it's not enough like WOW.

Maybe we can have this thread stickied so that it is always on the first pages and any new player who decides they'd like to get the WoW comparison off their chest can come on in. lol

daskinnybear strikes again.

look at that amazing sentence structure, the diction, the symatry, the beautiful thesis statement, the three paragraph essay of pure unadulterated intellegence.

Whyisitthateverypersonwhopostthesethingsagainstlotrodon'teventakethetimetoconstructadecientstatmentthatisreadable?

No offense, but seriously, play the game, get out of Archet, explore a little, try playing for more than a few hours. Test out the differnt systems, and if you don't like it, go somewhere where your opinion will actually be useful to the reader.

We LIKE lotro, that's why we come onto this website, and write up in these forums. Telling us that "I don't like lotro and no one should order" is just a waste of time. Most of us have already pre-ordered.

Well when WoW first came out everyone compered it to EQ and FFXI, but now that WoW has been such a success it a game most people fall back on to analyze a new MMO. But to the person that started this thread yes there are alot of things that the same as wow but also it like EQ and other mmo's to. Blizzard came up with nothing new with there game but took the best parts out of the MMO's that around when it was in development and Turbine did the same thing with LOTR. They both fun games. One is more grinding and farming and the other is more quest and story based. there more dereference too and in a year the world will be bigger than WoW to.

Okay so you think it's a WoW clone.

Uh..what, so what do you think?

The game itself is great. The interface seems a bit more like Lineage II's interface than it does WoW's but that's just my opinion. I hate it when people compare this game to lolwow.

Oh really?

To the OP: Insulting anyone on here isn't going to win you points with a single person.

Here are a few things to consider when comparing this to WoW:

1. The graphics are much better in LOTRO, it isn't a cartoon like I've always thought WoW to be.

2. Crafting system is a little more involved in LOTRO. After you master a tier, you get a % to crit (get more or a better quality item), plus some recipes call for special drops, which can up the % to crit rate to an almost guaranteed crit.

3. The combat system in LOTRO actually fosters team play when in a fellowship. In WoW, there are no Conjunctions, everyone just does whatever moves they want, with no timing or coordination between teammates. In LOTRO, if you aren't paying attention, you could cause the conjunction to fail, thus making the fights longer (or you lose a heal/buff, which causes you to die).

4. The classes are nowhere similar to WoW's classes. Even the same name Hunter is different in that it actually has a decent amount of close combat moves compared to the WoW Hunter.

5. Trait system. Enough said.

The OP indicates that he doesn't think this game is a WoW clone, but that it's similar enough that other people may think it is.

Interestingly, I've heard that same sentiment at least a dozen times in the last two days, but never once have I heard anyone say they actually thought it was one.

Even though its still in beta (I think) is the community very helpful? In WoW people were such ******

I thought the very same thing, moreso than WoW.

All MMORPG will look alike because they are all MMORPG. Go play RTS or FPS if want something different.