Amongst my many obsessions is Tolkien and his works. I have read all the books, own the movies (legitimately even) and was waiting for this game. Supposed to be available tomorrow, or today whichever way you look at it, the 24th. But now, apparently BT Games have announced a delay, it's only available on the 7th June.

What are your guys thoughts on it as an mmo though? Is it the sort of one you would be interested in or not, and why?

What what?
MMORPG? Lord of the rings?!
What!!!!!!

Im also a Tolkien fantic, and I had no idea about this!

Yeah, it wasn't exactly well publicised or anything like that. If you're interested, the official site
I will start making regular posts on new or upcoming games here if anyone is interested

Wow lotr mmorg?! Might buy it (evil sensation tingling)

RevQ that would be awesome

Then consider it done, on average I spend 5 hours a day just looking at news and all, some of that includes games

Thanks dude!

Anyone have any idea what this game costs and what the minimum specs are going to be?
It looks absolutely awesome

Lets just say i'm going to have to buy a new PC to play it,

nno way is my P4 and 512 MB of ram, 128 MB GPU going to even get up the loading screen of the game

CAB,

its about time you upped your machine

Y don't you come with me tomz and perhaps you should pick a rig like mine (now that i am getting the 8800 GTX fitted - its officially uber)

Its not that expensive and to be honest its a miracle how you play warcraft on that thing

The preorder price through btgames is R365. The minimum specs apparently are :-
PIII 1.6GHz or equivalent, 256MB RAM, 3.5GB HD space, 64MB DirectX 9.0c video card

Nothing too hectic in terms of the machine needed, although that's minimum, not sure what the recommended spec is

looks like they are trying ot do a wow! Downsize the gfx so that it becomes more accessiblle - worked pretty well for Blizzard though

Yawn

Btw what gameplay ganna be based apon? Like are u taking role of like a Gondor Warrior or Elf or Orc? Any links to see? You got my attention

Well, I did post the link to the official site in my second post, but click here. It's only the good races, elves, hobbits, dwarves and men. Then the obligatory classes like captain, champion and so on, the site's got it all, alternatively, click here. Sorry I am not very detailed, but I'm tired, my back is stiff and my right arm is cramping following several hours of uninterrupted pool games. Well, one interruption, relic got lucky

hahahaha tell relic to post more!

anyhow I was looking at this game pity I have R20 left for the month

wonder if it'll be any good. Do you also have to pay like WOW? if so then this game isn't for me.

DAMN guess I wno't be buying this game then

Really sorry to dredge up this old topic guys, but I was wondering if anyone had actually played this yet?

Im downloading the free trial now (4.2gb )

Im just wondering what to expect.

I played it, loved it, for a while. I got snowed under with work at one point, didn't play it for two weeks and never went back to it. I was getting bored with it anyway. The same happened to me with Wow and GW (and GW in less than an hour iirc) so me getting bored doesn't mean much.

It's a damn nice game, one of the better MMO's I played. The crafting and professions system is nicely thought out, the character classes are/were well balanced and it's generally a lot of fun. Worth the download

Thanks Rev!
Whats it cost for interests sake?

The game was about R365, can't remember what the monthly fee was, will bug ninja_mo a bit later to find out and let you know

You joking, Alex plays it?
Damn, he never told me Thought he was still addicted to WoW

Damn, forgot to call him

Yeah, Alex rotates, one evening is wow, the next lotro. He was doing hectic grinds at one point and cut out lotro, not sure if he went back to it