Return to Middle Earth

Posted by Stropp on September 15, 2007

Rapture has been my gaming home for much of September. The underwater world of Bioshock has provided some of the most fun that I’ve had gaming for quite some time. At least in the single player world. Last night I finally got to the end of the game, knocked off the big nasty guy, and watched the final cutscene. No spoilers here, but the final scene in the game is dependent on how you treat the Little Sisters on the journey. Since I’d harvested a few, even though I’d stopped a long time before the end, I received the bad man version. Naughty Stropp, no praise for you!

I was tempted to start over, this time making sure that none of the Little Sisters come to harm, just to see the good guy version. If I do, I figure I’ll do it on the easy mode. But I’m not going to do that, not right away anyway. I might pick it up down the track, if I can pull myself away from any of the numerous games coming out in the near future.

In the mean time I loaded up Lord of the Rings Online today.

The last time I played, I had just got a new Dwarf Champion up and running, but hadn’t taken any of the online quests yet. Surprisingly, he was still guilded with Eventide Revelry, even after three months offline. I wasn’t expecting that. My timing was good though, because a few minutes after I logged in, the GM came online and started removing guildies who hadn’t been online for three months or more. Hmmm. Perhaps my psychic abilities aren’t that rusty after all.

I spent a couple of hours with the starter quests during the afternoon, and reached about halfway into level 6. Once I did the final quest in that sequence, which involved accompanying Dwalin on a quest to save an Elf ally, prevent Skorgrim from being resurrected by the Dourhands, and keep Dwalin alive in the process, I was able to enter Thorin’s Hall.

One of the things I like about the Champion class is the survivability. The Champion is perhaps not as much of a tank as the Guardian, but the dual wielding and damage dealing along with the hard to kill factor makes this class fun. It’s possibly one of the reasons that the Champion is such a popular class.

Anyway, now that I’m in Thorin’s Hall the fun really starts. I’ve got access to the rest of the world now, and also the professions. I decided to pick Armsman, so I’ll be knocking up a few tidy weapons in the future. There’s still a lot of quests to do before I get to Bree, but it won’t be that long before I get there,

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