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Are you a Broodwar LoTRish Lover?
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Deleted User 97295
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ThatGuy89
United Kingdom1968 Posts
LoTR = Lord of The Rings i guess.....but elaborate more please | ||
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RoyGBiv_13
United States1275 Posts
 . Wouldn't mind running into a sc2 lotr scene, except for the whole lack of custom maps thing :/I was one of those BW players that shunned the wc3 lotr scene. I think rightfully so... the mechanics required and gameplay is not condusive to the wc3 unit style. Arb maps in BW weren't great either, but still better than wc3 lotr | ||
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AMaidensWrath
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puppykiller
United States3137 Posts
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iSometric
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JollyJim
Australia7 Posts
So what did I do to kill the time in BW? Custom maps mainly. A large variety of them in fact. Defense maps, RPGs, Hero Wars, anything. But one map in particular shone brightly above the rest. That map which if spotted in the custom maps list I would join immediately. Subconsciously even. That one map that I could just never seem to get enough of... LoTR SoG RH. The sheer amount of time that I must have sank into this single custom map is incalculable. It became a part of by daily routine. But compared to many other maps, it was hard to find a game. Most days went like this: Log in to BW -> look at custom maps -> get disappointed that SoG isn't there -> try and host it -> remember that nobody could join my hosted games in BW ("game creators latency is too high") -> sit in a chat channel waiting for a freind to come online to host it. In fact, that's probably one thing that I loved so much about SoG. Something that's missing from SC2. That community feeling. The fact that so often, I'd log into BW, only to be instantly greeted by a group of people saying 'JOLLY! Get the fuck in here! We need one more!". The fact that we could sit in a chat channel for an hour, just trying to get a game going, failing multiple times because we can't get enough people, but still having fun just hanging around in the chat channel. The fact that even if the game wasn't organised with friends, upon joining I'd still recognise the names of most of the players, just because the community was so small. I even keep in touch with a few of them today over facebook. For a long time I've been hoping someone would remake it in SC2, but now that I think about it I'm not sure I'd enjoy it as much, becuase the community feel isn't there in B.Net 2. Half the fun wasn't the even the map (even though the map was awesome :D), but just playing with people that were brought together by it. I miss SoG...  | ||
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Deleted User 97295
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TBone-
United States2309 Posts
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LlamaNamedOsama
United States1900 Posts
Kind of funny how you managed to get so many posts without every spelling out that LotR = lord of the rings, lol  . Also, why do you keep capitalizing T in LotR? Just curious. | ||
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Deleted User 97295
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SoulSever
Canada779 Posts
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Klockan3
Sweden2866 Posts
On March 06 2012 09:29 SoulSever wrote: Played Helms Deep everyday for hours on bnet before sc2 came out. Really hate new custom game system, doesn't give a chance for games like Helm's Deep or HLD to be played Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think that Helms Deep is really a lotr style map. | ||
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BreakfastBurrito
United States893 Posts
On March 06 2012 09:56 Klockan3 wrote: Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think that Helms Deep is really a lotr style map. Kinda sorta loosely. Some basic tenets are there... Heroes don't res, you can't rebuild structures, and there are spawns every x minutes, specific hero maneuvers to accomplish x goal. But on the whole they are very very different, SoG is a lot harder IMO. I was never good at LotRish Edit and off topic: Best custom ever was temple siege C1F though :D | ||
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iSometric
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Deleted User 97295
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UltimateHurl
Ireland591 Posts
On March 06 2012 08:46 Laertes wrote: Hey, thanks for all your posts! Lemme get some stories! How did you guys get into LoTRish? Ever have a win you are significantly proud of? Also, ThatGuy, LoTRish is an interest custom map game mode. Here is the idea. Every player gets a good amount of heroes based of Lord of the Rings, one or two, maybe sometimes THREE arbiters, and a bunch of bases which spawns minerals and units periodically. Together with these resources, most of which don't come back, one must defeat his opponent. In attempting to do this, one must be creative and perform certain maneuvers such as hero ops, elite rushes, and other tactics that abound in LoTR maps. I hope this helps .Sounds like great fun, I was super confused there for a minute! | ||
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Kukaracha
France1954 Posts
The only downside was that many of those games weren't noob friendly AT ALL, and there was no other way to learn. The minute people realized that the one controlling the Fellowship was a noob, they would all leave. I really loved the epicness of the battles. Like really really loved them. And heroes were sooo valuable and yet so squishy sometimes (especially some melee fighters who were prone to get stuck in front of other units). Does SC2 have any similar mods? | ||
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EleanorRIgby
Canada3923 Posts
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Klockan3
Sweden2866 Posts
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MidnightGladius
China1214 Posts
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Deleted User 97295
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MidnightGladius
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GGTeMpLaR
United States7226 Posts
LOTR has always been popular on East though (especially Helms Deep games which are like always hosted and there's about a dozen unique versions of it). Battle for Osgiliath, Battle for Minas Tirith, LotR Last Alliance are all good too and there's probably several I can't remember off the top of my head. By far my favorite would be LotR - March of Sauron. | ||
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MidnightGladius
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