Snes : JRR Tolkien The Lord of the Rings - Vol. 1 (Gameplay)

[MrROTD]

this game pissed me off, it had such shitty combat and it just got impossible once I got to the Black riders, It has some good things aboput it, the art and music was really cool at the time

[tenegon]

Never finished this game =/

never...

[robert23456789]

dosn't really look like that much of a bad game to me

we are talking the super nintendo here you

and well i find like not really many rpgs were rea;;y goood bak then

[c1k4ml3kc3]

This game possesses a soul. I'd pick this over any modern day crap that they serve to the people thinking what we'd like.

[hitokirimasamun]

what's the soundtrack at 0:33 called?

[BasaraPK]

Blizzard's 4th game!!

[MacDragard]

What I find interesting in this game is the pictures of the characters on the menu screen are taken from the Ralph Bakshi movie.

[xxxCRAZYLOVExxx]

i was expecting something way better, after seeing the nintendo ds version, but this isnt half bad, anyways tolkien is a genius to have imagined such a story

[Rickokun]

Oh god, I've spent ages playing this game (was about 10 years old)

THe barrow downs (or w/e the name was) was so horrible :'), finding those gate gems was a horror.

I remembered keeping entire booklets for those shitty password combinations. At times I probably entered the wrong codes, since I was suddenly playing with Gandalf (who was firing glitched lasers, i was like: WTF is this shit)

[coolguyscottydont]

wow i remember getting the 5 player adaptrer and having my friends over almost every night playing this game ... good gosh that was in 95!!!! I remembered If you Didnt have the booklet to this game with you all the time you were screwed .... the maps are the key to even getting anywhere in this game

[sigoog]

there also was a pc version of this, wasn't it?

had a really great score.. any hints on where to find it on youtube?

[Chilavert2010]

yeah! but its kinda different.

[seansapir1]

@Chilavert2010 didnt blizzard make this?? what is SNES?

[Chilavert2010]

@seansapir1 dude, there was life AND before blizzard. Snes is Super NES or Super Famiom or Super Nintendo. Wikipedia it

[seansapir1]

@Chilavert2010 but, did Blizzard make this?



[Daramue]

@seansapir1 No. Interplay made this.

[seansapir1]

@Daramue then how come on "Blizzards' Original Games" it showd J.R.R Tokien The Lord Of The Rings. Vol. I

[Daramue]

@seansapir1 Blizzard handled the porting of the Amiga version of this game. They did not develop this title. Only ported it.

[seansapir1]

@Daramue whats amiga

?

[Daramue]

@seansapir1 The Amiga was a personal computer that debuted in the mid 80's. This is a bit before my time so I only know what I've read. It apparently went through many iterations, from 1000 to 4000. Sometime in its lifetime, apparently, the PC version of this game was ported to it.

[seansapir1]

@Daramue @Daramue ya, so Blizz made it then sent it to Amiga and then Amiga had it. = Blizz made it. Wikipedia says that Blizzard (silicon and Synapse) and Interplay made it. Silicon and Synapse is Blizz old name

[Beck84]

@Chilavert2010 that's wrong, blizzard made it ;) but this was a time, where blizz wasn't called blizz

[Jusseppe]

@Chilavert2010 Actually Blizzard DID make this game back when they were called Silicone & Synapse. Wikipedia it.

[MegaPoepdrol]

@seansapir1 you dont know snes?????

its only the greatest , best gameconsole ever in game history if you dont know snes

you dont know games

[seansapir1]

@MegaPoepdrol thats only the answer to 1/2 my question :). did blizz make this game? or not.

[fuskanu]

@seansapir1:

Well, not exactly. Interplay developed the SNES version but Silicon & Synapse (the former name of Blizzard Entertainment) developed (or at least ported) the version for Amiga.

So, in a way: Yes, Blizzard was involved in this game.

[seansapir1]

@fuskanu WTF is amiga?

[couchtr26]

@seansapir1 Amiga was a computer. It was a successor to the Commodore series. I used to use the Commodore 64 but never had another computer similar. We moved to NES (Nintendo Entertainment System) for gaming and various IBMs for computing needs.

[fuskanu]

@seansapir1:

From Wikipedia: "The Amiga is a family of personal computers that was sold by Commodore in the 1980s and 1990s."

[xxxCRAZYLOVExxx]

@sigoog are u saying there was a pc version this snes game? lotr volume1 ??

[kingpin22299]

game is not rare cost 5 bucks at any disc replay store

[Estelnin]

and here i thought there were none before the movies. now i need a nes or one of those new consoles that let you play all old nes and snes, etc and get this one.

[MassNssen]

Ever heard of emulation?

[arizonaliteicedtea]

i beat it and love it

[zzco]

The AI is also retarded in this game..

Several times, I've had my party members not attack one Orcs that were murdering my party

<,<;

[SeveriousLive]

did n e 1 kno that this game is 2 players??? thats AWESOME!

[tobs001]

Yeah it was awesome discovering that the 2nd player could be sam! Then u find strider and P2 gets all jealous since he's stuck being frodo lol

[naturaldisorder]

"hullo Frodo" classic haha

[CrissJami]

For some reason I think it had potential, but FAILED. Sometimes I still wanna give it a try.

[Bauglir100]

AVGN should review this game!

[Icewind10]

lol yeah, and he has this game, too, so maybe he will

[GenyaArikado]

@Bauglir100 exactly, i don't understand why people think this is good ? i read about swedish reviewers giving it a 5/100

[Pwnyou]

man those bats were annoying

but despite all bad things on this game I beat it and it was semi-worth it

Why? Because perhaps it was a challenge it's the first and prolly last game I had to draw maps of the caves rofl (and overworld like barrow downs)

[patjng02]

Can someone say why this game actually sucks?

In general i hate SNES RPG's just because they are turned based in combat. But this is without the turned based element.

It seems very promising to me and i wanna buy it to play on my snes. But can someone say: dont? because..?

[Skateboykyle]

It is fun at first. You get sick of going through caves that look the exact same. There are sooooooooooo many of them. No one tells you what your supposed to do, and you have to figure it out for yourself. If one of your partners dies, they start out level 1 again. Legolas doesn't attack for some reason too...

[patjng02]

Thats to bad, since it looks pretty decent and the music is great^^. Thanks for the explanation!

[jkdskinhead]

the colition boxes and hit detection look all weird too.

[zzco]

... colition? what's a colition?

[JerodDenny]

yeah pretty well said. Why does it have to be so repetitive? I mean everything is identical to each other it seems and with no map or direction.....bah.  And of course after watching the movies and seeing how badass Legolas was to have him.....not do anything is a dissapointment to say the least

[Skateboykyle]

I bought it for 25 dollars and was expecting it to be great. I told all my friends i was playing LOTR on SNES and they were surprised. None of them have heard of it before. We all know why now though.

[elpy124]

I've tried this game many times... but for some strange bug, sam doesn't move. So I left it, but I love the music.

[BradRedfield]

Even though the gameplay was horrible, I do have to say that the music was pretty damn cool.

[Careless4321]

Jesus, what a shitty game this was.

[eyhexs]

Brilliant

[Doink1981]

I received this game as a Christmas present. I still like it.

[Aibit654]

its hard to find this one for emulator :(

[windego999]

yeah! I kinda wanna try it again.....although I doubt I'd do any better 10 years later :(

[Bauglir100]

@Aibit654 i know this is a year late, but you can visit a website called Game Guerilla to download the Rom of this.

[nintendofreinds]

man i got my copy of the game yesterday at jumbo video micro play never used still in the box it was fitthy bucks and someone lay away it for a week but we gave it a higher price and then i got it its a good game but good luck for finding it its one fricken rare game!

[Kitentoji]

lol retarded A.I.

[midgiemarsh]

this game sucks but the music is nice

[zeustaco]

my phone has better

[zeustaco]

lol what a game

[dbz5450]

Where can I find Volume 2, I cant find it anywhere.

[Chilavert2010]

theres is not volume 2 in SNES.

I think only PC has Vol 2. You can find it in abandonware sites ;)

[DrPhilMusic]

they never made volume 2. because this game sucked so bad.

[SNESguy]

I tell ya, this game bring backs memories!

[windsortomacco]

Thanks. I like the music. Need to DL it somewhere.

[Mirzic1]

omg

[hunarf]

lol I beat this game=)