Lord of the Rings Online

I completely love the world of Middle Earth. I read the books when I was in high school and totally fell in love. They were what pushed me into role playing. First it was sit down games, then I moved on to LARPs. I did throughout high school and college. Oddly enough I was the only chick at the sit down games and one of only a handful at the LARPs.

Then I found online MMORPGs. Ah, heaven. Who knew there were millions of people around the world that like to role-play? Not me, that’s for sure. I live in a very small town and was pretty much looked at like a freak (not saying I’m not a little odd, but geesh) because I liked to pretend to be someone (or thing) else every once in awhile. The first MMORPGs I found were fun and escapist but then I found my first true love in this version of gaming, Lord of the Rings. How great is that? You don’t often get a chance to rekindle your first true love, you know.

It’s a lot like other MMORPGs but it’s Lord of the Rings people. Wow. You get to be part of the magic. I’m gushing, I know. I’ll try to control myself. So the only thing I noticed that was a bit of a drawback was that occasionally the game will lag. On the boards some people suggested defragging the hard drive when this happened and I’ve found that solution works quite well. Apparently a fragmented hard drive slows down everything and can muck up fighting (I really hate getting killed because of something as mundane as a fragmented hard drive, yuck).

Were you in love with Lord of the Rings before the game? Were the books the reason you fell in love or the movies?

Photo Credit Playadura

May 29th, 2009 by birdievogel | Posted in MMORPG | (0)