Let me tell you a little bit about the game so that you can make an informed decision for yourself in order to answer those very good questions of yours. Let’s first start with the basics of the game. Latra was launched the public in April of 2007 and there have been many changes over the years.
The world stories and characters are all based on the books of J. Are Tolkien, not the Lord of the Rings movies. If you’re a fan of Tolkien’s Middle Earth, take heart in knowing that it is a faithful licensed game to its source material.
Even when the developers create their own stories, they always fit well within the bounds of Tolkien’s mythos.
The Lord of the Rings online has a free to play model, meaning that you can download and install the game on your computer for free and have content available to play. Now is an excellent time to do just that because now, through August 31st of 2020, you can use a coupon code in the local store to get all of the packs in the entire game for free. Expansion packs are also heavily discounted, so it’s easy and inexpensive to pick up playing the game right now.
Just because Lotoro currently has a bunch of free and discounted content doesn’t automatically make it the best game in the universe, of course. So let’s take a little bit of a closer look. How well has Lotoro aged? It is pretty old after all. The Lord of the Rings online has aged better than many other games. It’s age, but its graphics, especially the appearances of NPCs, are dated now. The systems under the hood, so to speak, are also a bit dated.
Now, for example, the game requires direct X nine in order to run. Many computers don’t have this anymore and you will need to install it along with the game in order for it to work. But the game does this automatically for you. The game is updated regularly with different fixes and new content.
The long awaited wedding of Aragorn in Darwin, for example, was added recently as A Midsummer Festival.
All Things Considered, I think that the Lord of the Rings online has aged pretty darn well. Updates and new content are all well and good, of course. But what is the overall quality of the game right now? Is it still an enjoyable experience to this day?
Many Lotoro players come to the game because they love the law of Tolkien’s world and they want to explore it in video game form. Or they may want to role play. If that describes you, you’re in luck. The law runs deep throughout
the game, and even when the developers tell stories of their own, they still make perfect sense within the world created by Tolkien.
The tales told by the quests in game can get very emotional and are so compelling. For example, a certain quest line that shield currently remain nameless made me cry. Lordan Na M.F., I’m looking at you too. Well, that’s great. But there are other newer MMORPGs out there that you could play. Why should you pick Lotoro over any of those?
For starters, the Lord of the Rings online has far more good content for the price, even when there aren’t free quest packs and massive sales compared to most other games in its genre. Also, if you want to skip to a higher level, you have multiple options available to do so in the local store. Whereas with many other games you just have one option for level shipping or you have no options at all.
In most MMO ah pages, you need to have groups of other players in order to make much, if any, progress through quests levels, just the game in general. One nice thing about Lotoro is that it works well for solo play and small groups, as well as for larger groups and raids, giving you more options for how you can play and who you play with.
While Lord of the Rings online is definitely. An MMO RPG, it’s different from a lot of other games in the genre for various reasons, and because of that it can appeal to different tastes than most of them do. For example, if you’re not into cartoon style graphics and you prefer a somewhat more realistic style, Lotoro has got you covered.
And at the end of the day, if you really want to, you can play more than one MMO RPG and put time in both. That’s right. I said it. You can play more than one MMO RPG. I have done that myself. I played Lotoro and another game in the genre at the same time.
So if I can do that, so can you. Well, that’s fantastic. You might be thinking, but what sort of community does the Lord of the Rings online have? What are the people who actually play the game like?
When I first installed Lotoro back in 2012, I was essentially a refugee from another MMO RPG that I had actually been playing for quite a few years. And the reason I say that is because I ended up having to leave that game because I kept getting harassed every single time I would play just because I’m a woman.
All the male players decided to gang up on me and attack me and say all sorts of horrible things. I will not repeat here just because I happen to be a lady.
After I abandoned that MMO RPG with the very toxic community, I booted up Lotoro for the first time and I discovered the wonders of the Lotoro community. Nearly everyone in the local community is respectful, polite, kind and actually nice to new players. Unlike a lot of games where the veterans are nasty to newbies.
In Lotoro, I was actually welcome and so are any of you who might be thinking of joining Lotoro for the first time. By the way, the community still is kind to new players and just everyone in general. I’ve been playing for over seven years now and I can legitimately count on one hand, one hand people the number of times that somebody has been legitimately nasty, inappropriate, rude, whatever to me in Lotoro, seriously, just one hand in seven years. That’s an absolute miracle.
I’ve made some fantastic friends from playing the Lord of the Rings online, and that is because the members of the community are so high quality. Just about everyone is happy to help new and returning players with whatever they need, whether it be advice, a newly crafted weapon or directions on where to go to pick up the next set of quests.
And even if you’re not brand new to the game or you’re not a returning player and you just need a helping hand, there’s loads and loads of players out there willing to give you whatever assistance you need within reason, of course.
So should you play the Lord of the Rings online in 2020? If you enjoy Tolkien’s Middle Earth, want to be part of a fantastic online community and you’re willing to give an older game a chance, then yes, you absolutely should play the Lord of the Rings online, even though it’s twenty twenty now. And if the answer is no, well, there’s plenty of other games for you.