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Of the MMORPGs I've played (WoW, EQ, EQII, LOTRO), I definitely enjoy LOTRO the most. I feel it has the richest world as far as NPCs goes as well as the most intersting quests. I love the character classes and how customizable your character is. I also prefer the craft system to WoW, though I also really like the EQII crafting system. The addition of the quest helper to the map system has made LOTRO much more playable for me, making it my prefered MMO hands down.
Don't get me wrong... I really like LOTRO... in fact, I played through all of beta plus I'm a founder and a lifetime subscriber.
But I gotta call a spade a spade here and there are several major areas where LOTRO just fails and EQ2 wins...
Inventory - Gimmie a break but having come from EQ2 where I could equip my character with a huge variety of bags enabling me to carry pretty much anything I could ever want to carry blows away the pathetic "5 bags X 15 items each - PERIOD!!!" thing that LOTRO has going. Factor in the variety of bank boxes and stack sizes and overall, inventory in LOTRO is a joke! I didn't subscribe so that I could make choices regarding what I wanted vs what I needed... I subscribed so I could kill pixel mobs and take their stuff!!!
Housing - the "hook" system flat out sucks! And the limitations placed on the number of items you can place in your home and where you can place them really make housing in LOTRO ho-hum! In EQ2 I can have 500 items in my 5 room home and I can place them wherever and however the hell I damn well please!!! Want that beer mug to sit on top of the piano... no problem! And if that's not enough I can also stretch or shrink any item I own to fit the area I want it to occupy. Rug too big for that area of the floor? Shrink it! Statue too small for that corner? Stretch it!
Crafting in LOTRO... don't even get me started! Not only is the crafting system needlessly tedious and boring but once you make stuff, you come to find out that NOBODY wants to buy it at any price!!! In EQ2 crafting is an interesting and challenging aspect of the game and in many cases learning a trade can and will lead to a viable income stream. In LOTRO... not so much!
Mounts in LOTRO suck too! What's that you say... I have to be lvl 35 before I can even begin to learn to ride? And this fits the lore how? In "The Hobbit", Bilbo had a pony at lvl 1. And in LOTR, Frodo had a pony at... lemme do the math... ummm... lvl 1...
The mail system in LOTRO also sucks... the cost of mailing goods is stupid high and the fact that you must type in the entire name of the recipient EVERY time you mail them something is just lame beyond imagination... This might not be such a big issue if they offered us more room in our banks or... wait for it... SHARED BANK SLOTS, but no... and haven't the devs ever heard of an address book???
And finally, the auction house is a freaking joke! OK, you're gonna bill me just for the privilege of putting an item up for sale but you're only gonna let it stay up there for 48 hours.. Gimmie a break!!!
Yeah it's a wonderful game filled with the flavor of Tolkein but they have a LONG way to go before they can be considered the BEST game out there...
But I gotta call a spade a spade here and there are several major areas where LOTRO just fails and EQ2 wins...
Inventory - Gimmie a break but having come from EQ2 where I could equip my character with a huge variety of bags enabling me to carry pretty much anything I could ever want to carry blows away the pathetic "5 bags X 15 items each - PERIOD!!!" thing that LOTRO has going. Factor in the variety of bank boxes and stack sizes and overall, inventory in LOTRO is a joke! I didn't subscribe so that I could make choices regarding what I wanted vs what I needed... I subscribed so I could kill pixel mobs and take their stuff!!!
Housing - the "hook" system flat out sucks! And the limitations placed on the number of items you can place in your home and where you can place them really make housing in LOTRO ho-hum! In EQ2 I can have 500 items in my 5 room home and I can place them wherever and however the hell I damn well please!!! Want that beer mug to sit on top of the piano... no problem! And if that's not enough I can also stretch or shrink any item I own to fit the area I want it to occupy. Rug too big for that area of the floor? Shrink it! Statue too small for that corner? Stretch it!
Crafting in LOTRO... don't even get me started! Not only is the crafting system needlessly tedious and boring but once you make stuff, you come to find out that NOBODY wants to buy it at any price!!! In EQ2 crafting is an interesting and challenging aspect of the game and in many cases learning a trade can and will lead to a viable income stream. In LOTRO... not so much!
Mounts in LOTRO suck too! What's that you say... I have to be lvl 35 before I can even begin to learn to ride? And this fits the lore how? In "The Hobbit", Bilbo had a pony at lvl 1. And in LOTR, Frodo had a pony at... lemme do the math... ummm... lvl 1...
The mail system in LOTRO also sucks... the cost of mailing goods is stupid high and the fact that you must type in the entire name of the recipient EVERY time you mail them something is just lame beyond imagination... This might not be such a big issue if they offered us more room in our banks or... wait for it... SHARED BANK SLOTS, but no... and haven't the devs ever heard of an address book???
And finally, the auction house is a freaking joke! OK, you're gonna bill me just for the privilege of putting an item up for sale but you're only gonna let it stay up there for 48 hours.. Gimmie a break!!!
Yeah it's a wonderful game filled with the flavor of Tolkein but they have a LONG way to go before they can be considered the BEST game out there...
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