Comments on: The Legacy of Tolkien Strip

By: Dwight

Dwight — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 10:32:10 +0000

That’s one hot elf on that screenshot btw. :D

By: Krulin

Krulin — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 23:15:37 +0000

Thank the lord for cached sites on the internet.

By: Josh

Josh — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 21:44:34 +0000

Holy shit, where did you even find that picture?

By: Krulin

Krulin — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 18:30:33 +0000

Back…by popular demand.

By: Josh

Josh — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 10:06:44 +0000

Cool to hear. My creative side enjoys exploring, and enjoys world building, which is part of the reason I started the fantasy Aikida arc… mainly to have an outlet for this.

By: Dwight

Dwight — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 08:41:26 +0000

Yeah, stupid quests. One of those things I noticed in AO a few days ago (damn it! You got me hooked on that game!). There is still so much to explore. Exploration, seeing new things, finding hidden places, that’s what attracts me to those games. Maybe I should take a look at LOTR online, but right now, I have other priorities.

I like the idea of character backgrounds a lot. I used to pen & paper RPG as a boy and it sure helped me to evolve fantasy, creativity and a love for good stories and writing. I created a small story around my party in Icewind Dale.

I should emphasise that Fenris was one of the creative minds who inspired me to write a story of my own. The whole thing started as a short story I wrote at work (night shift security with too much idle time) and now is a 200+ pages - well - book with a nice film noir touch to it. I liked his creative work and character development in Pepperwood and the Aikida Fantasy storyline. I just thought “Hey, I should do something like this on my own someday.”. That’s basically what happened. So I was sitting there for days at night at work, having the building perimeters alarms armed and secured, writing, drinking coffee and being creative.

Roleplayers.

That special very creative breed.

By: Jared

Jared — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 07:46:58 +0000

I’ll just hold off on MMO’s till Champions Online comes out…archetype-less super heroes? ROCK.

By: Josh

Josh — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 01:51:29 +0000

I probably should have explained how deeds work, to non Lotro players.. they’re not quests, they’re accomplishments that are gained while doing quests, kind of like the achievements on Xbox Live. I find them all very fun, especially the exploration ones. As for starter quests, LOTRO has the old staples, but some interesting new ideas too. Newbie quests in the Shire are pretty interesting the first time around, and the epic storyline quests are a nice touch.

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 01:33:51 +0000

You’re lucky that kid doesn’t punch you in the groin, lol.

By: Robert

Robert — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 01:12:24 +0000

Many MMO quests, particularly the low level ones, seem to make very little sense. I’ve been playing Everquest off and on (mostly on) since 2000 and still get annoyed by the lack of logic behind many of the quests. You have to wait until the upper tiers of the game before you really start getting into the quests that are imaginative and closely tied in to the game’s lore.

That said, it’s obvious that most of these “nonsense” quests exist solely because low-level characters can’t be expected to rush out and kill a Nazghul (or similar high level villain). The developers have to create the classic “collect 15 rat tails” type of quests just to give low level adventurers pretty much ANY introduction to questing. I’m sure there have to be some more imaginative ways to do it, but given how quickly most people tend to move through the lower levels (one of the things that help us to get addicted to the game and our character) I guess the devs do not choose to devote a lot of time to creating intricate and imaginative content for characters that will level past it in just a few hours.