THE BORE

General => Video Game Bored => Topic started by: GilloD on November 08, 2007, 09:37:44 PM

Title: LotR: Battle For Middle Earth DOS (And by DOS, I mean 2, for 360, not MS DOS)
Post by: GilloD on November 08, 2007, 09:37:44 PM: Verdict: Snooze fest. I remember all the hubub about how OH IT MAKES AN RTS PLAYABLE ON A CONSOLE. And that's true. But it does so by making it fuck-boring. You command "brigades" instead of individual units. Which sounds playable, but if it was hard to manage a unit of 13, it becomes impossible to manage a unit of 100. They never seem to follow directions and base building and economy management are rudimentary at best.

All of this would be excusable if the game itself was any fun, but it looks great in the wrong places and awful in the places where it should look great. All of the "Name-brand" units look like every other unit to the point where if isn't a cave troll, I have no idea if it's friend or foe. My units sluggishly meander to and fro, sometimes killing, sometimes dying and the objectives were all "Kill x, level Steve to level y, get to a waypoint". It was just. Bleh. It could be fun as a budget purchase, something to kill time, but in a season of must-play games it was barely worth getting past the title screen.
Title: Re: LotR: Battle For Middle Earth DOS (And by DOS, I mean 2, for 360, not MS DOS
Post by: Howard Alan Treesong on November 08, 2007, 09:42:22 PM: how do you have DOS 2 on your 360
Title: Re: LotR: Battle For Middle Earth DOS (And by DOS, I mean 2, for 360, not MS DOS
Post by: GilloD on November 08, 2007, 10:11:01 PM: Quote from: Synthesizer Patel on November 08, 2007, 09:42:22 PM
how do you have DOS 2 on your 360

What.
Title: Re: LotR: Battle For Middle Earth DOS (And by DOS, I mean 2, for 360, not MS DOS)
Post by: demi on November 08, 2007, 10:14:56 PM: RTS are boring period, no surprise
Title: Re: LotR: Battle For Middle Earth DOS (And by DOS, I mean 2, for 360, not MS DOS
Post by: Howard Alan Treesong on November 08, 2007, 10:50:16 PM: what's a DOS

is that Dawn of Sorrow

Doom of Sauron

I don't speak your language and I'll be fucked if I'm gonna look something up.
Title: Re: LotR: Battle For Middle Earth DOS (And by DOS, I mean 2, for 360, not MS DOS
Post by: GilloD on November 08, 2007, 10:58:23 PM: "Dos" means "Two" in Mupepe
Title: Re: LotR: Battle For Middle Earth DOS (And by DOS, I mean 2, for 360, not MS DOS
Post by: Howard Alan Treesong on November 08, 2007, 11:08:46 PM: I thought it was an acronym you son of a bitch

I figured that Battle for Middle Earth 2 had a subtitle with the acronym "DOS" instead of the number 2

you suck, so does this thread, so does the game
Title: Re: LotR: Battle For Middle Earth DOS (And by DOS, I mean 2, for 360, not MS DOS
Post by: GilloD on November 09, 2007, 12:42:33 AM: Quote from: Synthesizer Patel on November 08, 2007, 11:08:46 PM
I thought it was an acronym you son of a bitch

I figured that Battle for Middle Earth 2 had a subtitle with the acronym "DOS" instead of the number 2

you suck, so does this thread, so does the game

:'(
Title: Re: LotR: Battle For Middle Earth DOS (And by DOS, I mean 2, for 360, not MS DOS)
Post by: Ichirou on November 09, 2007, 02:15:53 AM: Patel, I'll teach you spanish, don't be mad, babe.
Title: Re: LotR: Battle For Middle Earth DOS (And by DOS, I mean 2, for 360, not MS DOS
Post by: Howard Alan Treesong on November 09, 2007, 03:23:51 AM: ichirou can teach me many things and spanish is only one of them
Title: Re: LotR: Battle For Middle Earth DOS (And by DOS, I mean 2, for 360, not MS DOS
Post by: brawndolicious on November 09, 2007, 04:49:46 AM: I have this. is it not even worth it for the achievements?
Title: Re: LotR: Battle For Middle Earth DOS (And by DOS, I mean 2, for 360, not MS DOS
Post by: GilloD on November 09, 2007, 06:21:04 PM: Quote from: am nintenho on November 09, 2007, 04:49:46 AM
I have this. is it not even worth it for the achievements?

Maybe. It's just painfully slow and boring.
Title: Re: LotR: Battle For Middle Earth DOS (And by DOS, I mean 2, for 360, not MS DOS
Post by: brawndolicious on November 09, 2007, 09:47:54 PM: Quote from: GilloD on November 09, 2007, 06:21:04 PM
Quote from: am nintenho on November 09, 2007, 04:49:46 AM
I have this. is it not even worth it for the achievements?
Maybe. It's just painfully slow and boring.
gawd how do you do that with a lotr rts? I hope C&C 3 didn't suck.