Remembering The Lord Of The Rings Video Games
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- čas přidán 21. 08. 2024
- My friends, you bow to no one... except these wonderful video games. Following the Rings Of Power release, I wanted to reflect on such a rich collection of classics. These are not only some of the best movie tie-ins that exist, but also the liberations taken with the franchise created some lifelong memories. Now, let the celebration begin!
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Two Towers and Return of the King were incredible games, I wish they were available on current gen.
Ran thru these games weekly in the rentals loved em
been getting into them on the steam deck , I owned them on GameCube
Da fehlen die nötigen Lizenzen um diese grandiosen Spiele auf die aktuellen Konsolen zu bringen.
The necessary licenses are missing for this
100% agree i played them 2 death
Licensing hell
Oh man Conquest was the one, it was the pinnacle. I spent so many nights playing that game and its as cherished as Battlefront.
Exactly, was literally LOTR battlefront and easily the best LOTR game. if the servers were still online people would still play that to this day
I loved this game so much as a kid, it’s a shame that it’s almost impossible to find a copy these days
Conquest is SOOOO Underrated. Imagine if we got an updated version with hero vs villains with the similar mechanics as the newer battlefront game
I feel like the odd man out. Conceptually, Conquest was everything I ever wanted: love LotR, loved the original Battlefront games. But the ultimate product just didn't do it for me 😞
That was like literally worst one bro lol…
Third Age might be one of the most underrated games of all time, and one of the best RPGs on the GameCube. Loved it. Evil Mode is sick too.
Yeah I remember having it when I was young and thinking it was rubbish because it wasn't like other games I do look back at that with regret
the end was dumb though
Literally my favorite LOTR game
I’m playing it right now. So fun!
@@WyldWhetherBrothers me too bruh
So glad you mentioned “War in the North”, definitely needs a revival. I mean hell, it’s too bad Monolith moved on, cause it would look great in the Firebird engine
It was THE best 7/10 game I've ever played. Wasn't amazing, but goddamn it was fun, lore accurate and it had multiplayer. I'm still mad how I lent my disc to a friend and he lost it.
Favorite thing about that game was how it spanned across various areas of Middle Earth. I want more of that!
Also the coop. Being able to play with a friend was just awesome.
shadow of mordor/war was like
the best.
My friend and I played ng+ on every difficulty setting and managed to one shot the last boss! I really wanna play that game again!
@@Walamonga1313 Nice megadeth pfp, they kick ass.
One of my favorite things about two towers and return of the king was how the movie clips would transition to in game graphics. It blew my mind as a kid.
Just made a comment on how I was amazed with Gandalf riding down helms deep then going to in game cutscene for the first mission. Mind was blown as a kid. Lol
I remember watching my dad play two towers growing up!! We would take turns, him doing aragorn levels, then I would pick up the controller and do the legolas levels. Little did I know, he was using me to grind through the story mode to unlock isildur!
jajajajajaj cool dad
me and my dad used to play doom the old one. so fking nostalgic
The third age was the only party and turn-based game I played up until P5R. I played loads of party-based games like dragon age, loads of turn based games like Pokemon, but TTA was the only one I played that combined them, it was a weird revelation
Played a chunk of the third age through a gba emulator on my phone, enjoyed what I played 👍
@@DraculaTepes420 the third age on gba is not the same as the third age on home consoles. Try the jrpg one!
@@statesminds Yeah I know the more powerful hardware had a different version of the game but the concept is the same lol.
@@DraculaTepes420 no the game concept is not the same. The gba version is a tactics game akin to Final Fantasy Tactics, the home console versions are a JRPG similar to FFX.
@@chrisrichfield8906 Both are turn based games is what I meant.
The Third Age is one of the most underrated games of all time!
Agreed!!!
The gba game especially. I never hear anyone talk about it, but it's one of my all time favorites. It's such a nostalgia trip for me to play.
Agreed! I never played it as a kid but I'm playing through it now on an emulator and it's so amazing
Return of the king was my favourite. I completed every mission and the 2 extra missions where there’s a rock in the middle of map and you run around it killing waves of enemies that get tougher every wave. It was so addictive back then. Would love to see it in updated graphics and on new gen. Game developers were just so loyal to making a fun game back then. Rather than just making cash cows as to what we see today
Palantir of Saruman/Sauron - so good. Eventually you’re just against tonnes of trolls!
@@RKSDT amazing bro 👍 ps2 gaming is the most I miss
Just replayed the Lord of the rings the third age on my PC through a PS2 emulator about a month back and OMG I enjoyed it. The nostalgia was unreal!
Dude what’s the emulator because I would love to play through the lord of rings game again
@@TwitchyTango Dolphin emulator. GameCube version .
The two towers last battle was crazyyyy
Broooo right I remember you had to kill the troll in a certain amount of time or else they break through the gate lol it had me PRESSED as a kid 🤣
As a kid I got so mad at certain levels in the two towers and return of the king lol. They should bring back all those games through remasters, conquest included.
Hard as hell
@@LastExile123 yeah it was hard asf bro
@@masonite2356 it was so hard indeed brother they destroyed the gate when i was a kid like a 100 times ngl jajajajajajaj
Third age and return of thr king were my couch coop drugs. We need them back 😭
The lord of the rings battle for middle earth series will always have a special place in my heart such dang good games
I remember loving War in the North when it released. I grinded religiously for that platinum trophy!
I love The Lord of the Rings. It's my 2nd favorite movie of all time and I consider the trilogy as one epic movie.
What's your first?
@@plustico2846 Batman (1989).
@@Harri927 Nice :)
As you should since The Lord of the Rings really is just 1 book split into 3 volumes
I found The Lord of The Rings Aragorn's Quest for PS3 sealed this year at Walmart. 😄 They must of found it beneath the storage shelf in the back. It came out in 2010.
Love the lego LOTR game, you cant go wrong with those
I love how the day after I do a TLotR watchathon (the extended cuts of course) Matty gives us a LoTR videogames Retro Rebound episode.
I just watched the extended trilogy with my friend as well like a month or so ago lol. 👊
AragoRn is correct. EA had the license to make games based on the movies. And some other company had the license to make them based on the books.
Isn’t it pronounced both ways in the movies?
@@vintageoriginallegit No, some use that british soft r, but its not Ara-gone
Seeing that Third Age GBA footage really took me back! I loved it so much, even though I was a little kid at the moment who didn't fully grasp the game :p
I played all the way into the mines of Moria without knowing you could upgrade the characters or equip better equipment when I was a kid. Never played an RPG before so I didn't know
I LOVED The Third Age on consoles was crazy to have LOTR JRPG basically lol. The GBA one was good strategy rpg too imo.
The third age is one of the best rpgs ever made
Is it tho..? I heard it was awfully easy
“Based solely on my nostalgia”
The Hobbit game is a good one. It's silly at times due to its target audience, but it's more book accurate than the films. There are a few expanded additions and it's mostly to take advantage of the settings all over the company's journey.
@BATS2288 I agree. The Hobbit was definitely fun for the time. But tbh, a lot games looked better to me when I was young. However, I loved how colorful the game looked.
I'd love even a remaster of The Two Towers and The Return Of The King.
Matty just wanted to shout out and say thank you for you growing as a content creator and look forward to the many more years to come! Big ups man
Love these games. Star Wars had some solid ones in the catalogue, but most every LotR game was gold (RotK, Middle Earth, Third Age especially). This channel's a great way to revisit some of these gems (especially under-appreciated entries, like Conquest and War in the North). By and large, media properties were fascinating back then because the books, movies, and games would flow together and create a level of world-building and intricacy that was greater than the sum of its parts. Great stuff pal!
I’m so glad these games are getting their much due respect. They brought so much life to Middle-Earth and were some of the first games I ever played.
Read our mind after watching Rings of Power! LEGENDARY 🔥
Played the everliving shit out of RotK co-op with my brother and friends back in the day. Such a great game for the time.
same here lol
I'm super excited about the fan-made Battle for Middle Earth Reforged. I put a lot of time into a few of these games, but that one consumed me
I think we will end up getting an actual EA remake before that one is released taking forever
@@knuckalar you’re probably right. Or EA will just squash the fan-made right before it’s released. I hope not though.
Either way I’ll donate a couple more times to help move things along!
When I was but a boy me and my uncle got the Return of the King game, because it was released a week or 2 before the movie, and it was so exciting to see some of the scenes from the movie before it came out. It is a memory and feeling I will never forget.
War in the North and Conquest were my favorite games for awhile there
I loved Conquest, and even though it had a little bit of jank to it, I still played it a lot of the time. One of my favorite things about it was the ragdoll effect and how it was applied to almost everything if you could play as it and it has some of the funniest things I've seen in a game. Especially with the hero characters. There's something about Gimli getting sent flying and ragdolling after being killed that just never gets old
I like to imagine how it would be if something similar was made today and what would be added. I do know there's an indie dev team that's working on a remake of the game so I really hope everything goes well for them.
Shadow of Mordor should have been on there, that was FR one of the best games I have ever played
yeah and the sequel shadow of war. But then again theyre more of middle earth games and not lotr.
The Return of the King was that game I will always go back if I have someone to play with.
As for The Third Age, the simple fact that you could explore Moria and Helm's Deep is enough to convince me that this game is one of the best ever made. It's nothing new today since you can do the same in today's games (like Lotro) but back then it was unique. It's sad that character development was poor but it's still a sick game.
Eragon is a series of dragon centric ya novels from the mid 2000s written by Chris paloni. They were written as the lotr hype was at its hype. So yeah people confuse them.
Good books bad movie..lol
@@THENEVERDEADIV Yeah my brother had an obsession with them and the dresden files. Way to kill 2 birds with one stone
@@THENEVERDEADIV Completely disagree. The other way around. Why do people hate the movie so much? Just because it Change things doesn’t mean it’s bad. Honestly, with the exception of the were cat, I do not miss a single thing That they changed/left out of the movie. Honestly, such a blessing that they changed things the way they did.
The arcade games from the '90s were amazing. Sidescrolling beat em ups with different classes, huge colorful sprites, and RPG elements like level up, stronger weapons and unlockable skills. Super addicting.
What 90's games? What are you talking about?
God LOTR Conquest had to have been one of my favorite games as a kid. Was so sad when they shut down online servers
The beauty about this game was the film scenes were a teaser and extended edition cut. The films weren’t even out yet and you could watch parts if the film. I remember playing the intro and stopping because I didn’t want to spoil all of the film scenes!
Matty coming in clutch with great content. Saving my days as of late.
Third Age and Battle for Middle Earth were always the best LOTR games for me. I never wanted to play as the established known characters, I've always preferred to play as a nameless character within the TOLKIEN lore. I guess the idea of starting my own adventure or building my own army within in Earth was what excited me more. The story of Frodo and the fellowship has already been done, I wanted my own adventure.
Really miss these days of gaming where your guaranteed a good game 7 times out of 10 at least. Wish these times would come back.
Compared to today it takes years to make a game, buggy launches and plenty of delays.
LOTR Conquest was my whole childhood I would love to have a remaster of it so much!
Conquest was so fire when I was a teen. It was the Lord of the rings battlefront I always wanted!
Conquest was severely underrated. It was the spiritual successor to the original Battlefront games and despite it being a little odd in some areas, it captured the feel of the LOTR movies and was one of the most fun games I ever played on that console generation. I’m still sad that it was Pandemic studio’s swan song and they shut down not long afterwards.
Funny that I played almost all of these games, being my favourite The Third Age by far.
The couch coop made that one and war in the north really fun.. i should have never traded it in
Man, these games were my childhood. I loved the Southern Gate from Return of the King. Wave after wave of enemy with no end in sight. My friend and I played the absolute crap out of these games growing up. The Third Age is such an underrated game. One of the best RPGs of the 2000s. The War in the North wasn’t really given a chance by a lot of people despite it being a solid experience with great gameplay.
The Third Age is the GOAT, one of the only LOTR games I come back to every year or so
I loved Return of the King, I remember getting it for Christmas from my brother, I might have to get out my Xbox and play it again. Never played Conquest but always wanted to. Thanks for the video, some great games in here!
Getting The Two Towers in Nov 02 and Return of the King in Nov 03 having actual clips of the movie before they were out was so incredible. My brother and I would replay levels just for the clips. Back then there was on CZcams and with dial up Internet it took awhile to watch a movie trailer
Return of The King was superior on a technical level but daaaamn The Two Towers is nostolgic bliss lol that Helms Deep battle.... Legendary
suggestion for RR: ratchet and clank series
I wish the battle for middle Earth games would get a revival. I have so many fond memories playing through them. And the third age!!! My goodness I spent some time playing that as a youngling. I didn’t really understand how to play an RPG the first time I played it. I got stuck fighting the balrog for the first time as I didn’t have the revive spell on my elf. But I was so in love with it, I spent the learning the mechanics and really fell in love with gaming because of it.
Yessss! Let’s go, Matty. Let ‘em know 😎
Return of the King and Third Age are my favorites btw
Dude you leave no stone unturned love your channel
The Two towers and return of the king games are so well done imo bro. Especially with the amount of fan service put in for fans of the movies. Also the gameplay is surprisingly good with the hack n slash gameplay and the set pieces you play thru. Slap on some coop too and you got a complete package game 🔥👍🏼
I still have my gamecube copy of return of the king to this day.
i think we all want remembering the shrek games COME OON haha
Return of the King is nostalgia overload. Gotta love it 🤟
i loved The Third Age back in my childhood days, i have so much beautiful memorys with it, and the summer i spend inside with it because of a surgery i had back then and this game, and the other Lord of the Ring games saved this summer for me.
You gave me a Memory, of times when Videogames where made with passion.
The Third age is one of my top 5 games of all time. I love that game
A man of culture
I still play it.
return of the king was so cool man I spent countless hours playing co-op with my brothers
Return of the King was absolutely goddamn masterful in terms of its levels and how much fun the fighting was. The weight of the swords, the bow/arrow range attacks the BADASS Parry animations! Ugh return of the king was so goddamn fun.
that’s so weird conquest was my first ps3 game as well 😂 loved that game to bits
Great vid
Omfg you got lotrs tactics! As a kid it was literally my only psp game think i played 1000 times! What a game 😍😍😍😍
Battle for Middle Earth 1 and 2+ the expansion for 2 we're my favorite games growing up. I still got the physical PC games from my childhood with the boxes and everything ^^
A friend of mine used to mock me for playing The Third Age on the GBA but I love it and still play it.
Lord of the Rings: The Third Age was the first Turn-Based Final Fantasy inspired game that I actually completed. So yeah, it's definitely a good game. Jumped into Final Fantasy afterwards with much more appreciation.
Same lol. Well, I played TTA as a kid and loved it. It took me almost a decade to try FFX, because I had no idea what turn based combat was called. Then I heard FFX was basically the same. And from that point on I got into FF and JRPGs
Always great content Matty. Loved these games as a kid.
Conquest and The Third age were so dope as a kid, I played the third age but never beat it I’d just play the first chapter unlock the orca then restart after I got bored. But the amount of hours spent was a joke. Thanks for the bid the nostalgia alone in this video for me is enough to leave a like!
this makes shed tear seeing a couple games in here that our computer couldnt run. Amongst the limited number of games we had, they just sat on the shelf collecting dust.
The one they had on gamecube was fire.
Congrats on the 100th video!
Hey, Matty! Can you talk about the Hobbit game that came out in 2003? That game was a big one from my childhood, and I still go back and play it often. Keep up the good work, I'm loving these videos! :)
Lotr conquest will always have a place in my heart
The Third Age is so underrated. Definitely one of my favorite games ever
This video really touched my heart man. I felt that massive nostalgic feel and longing for my childhood back when you talked about third age and conquest. Ya got me bro 😂
I remember playing this when i was a kid. Loved and love the Tolkien lore, and these games were awesome, as where the books. Got heavily invested in Lord of the Rings stuff because of them. Great stuff Matty
My parents wouldn't buy me a proper console for years and all I had was the GBA, I played the shit out of the Two Towers for GBA, I remember it being pretty expansive with weapons you could pick up, upgrades, and when you reach the end and there's A MOVIE CUTSCENE OF HELMS DEEP! ON A GAMEBOY! Man that was living.
I own almost all of them:P I own The Hobbit, Fellowship of the Ring, Two Towers, Return of the King and Third Age for PS2. And War of the Ring and Battle for Middle-Earth 1 & 2 for PC. I also owned Conquest for Xbox 360 but I honestly didn't like it very much, probably because I'm not a huge multiplayer guy and that was basicly the game. It had no proper singleplayer campaign.
Many people like to hate on The Hobbit but I actually like it for what it was. It's a fairly good adaptation for the most part and a fun Zelda like platformer. I think the problem with the game was that it didn't depict the style from the lotr movies and looked very cartoony and childish.
I also like Fellowship for all its flaws. It has bad voice acting, the graphics aren't bad considering release year, but they arn't good either. They look kinda lifeless and boring and clearly shows the sign of a very rushed development.
The combat is a bit basic and underdveloped and the pacing is all over the place. The start is escpecially slow. But I respect the effort of staying so true to the books and give us a different experience from the movies (which I adore btw). I really liked the atmosphere of the game and despite the combat being a bit shallow it was fun exploring and fighting as Aragorn and later Gandalf since the game was very short and didn't overstay its welcome.
There is no doubt though that the true stars on consoles were Two Towers and Return of the King, and The Third Age despite its wacky fan fic story. And the Battle for Middle-Earth games for PC. The others had their moments but fell a little bit short.
I really liked fellowship and hobbit too despite the hate. Especially if I was playing alone. If I had friends over we played two towers and return of the king though.
Ohh man the times that made me love gaming. Playing Age of empires with my dad, watching movies and going to the lan house to play lotr games.
There were a lot of gems from lotr, i remember one similar to the official movie games that were in chapters.
Also one of them i really want to play again, a RTS age of mythology style.
Still remember to this day summoning a horde of balrogs to destroy rohan's capital, amazing
I believe the game you’re referring to is Battle for Middle Earth. IMO one of the best RTS games ever made.
oh my goodness i remember absolutely loving lord of the rings the third age!
It's called refined taste
my cousin and i would play the return of the king together when we went to her house. i was always legolas and she was aragorn and it was some of the fondest memories i have from that time in my life
I really wish games had physical manuals. Having to download them is just stupid.
Played the first Battle for Middle-Earth to death. It had some really awesome community creators content with the most epic settings. Never got the 2nd game as WoW took the majority of gaming time.
CeX is still very much alive in the UK! I still get my PS5 and Switch games from them to this day
I completely forgot about Lord of the Rings: The Third Age!
I played that on the ps2 back when I use to visit my grandfather's house. His brother (my great uncle?) was a big LotR fan and I would play it with him while drinking the 2 liter of dr pepper at the tender age of 12.
Good memories
My childhood
Just started reading these books and they are my favorite ones ever, I love lord of the rings just a great franchise
That’s pretty awesome I think the books do some things better than the movies tbh
I really wish we could get remasters of The Two Towers and Return of the King
You and me both dude 🤟
@@DraculaTepes420 Hopefully THQ actually considers
Movie licensed games are usually pretty horrific, but I have such fond memories of the Two Towers and especially Return of the King.
I also never beat X Command mission, game beat my ass as a kid I would like another crack at it
I had a friend who told me about the first game. He explained that the games were based on the books, not the movies, so it took the two of them 10 hours to get to Bree. They found out after the first hour and a half that the game had no autosave feature. They went back and replayed the game all the way up until Bree, where they ran into a bunch of barbarians. They had run out of healing items, but they agreed to save, so they wouldn't have to replay all those hours again. The game saved, then a barbarian slammed them to the ground. The save was reloaded, but the barbarian was already midswing. They both decided not to return to the game again.
Battle for middle Earth and third age were both my childhood and I have fond memories of doing couch co-op with my friends playing conquest 😎😎😎 we loved whenever we got to play as ents trolls or the balrog
Thank goodness you praised Conquest, I thought me and my buddy Nathan were the only ones who enjoyed it.. Watch Mojo dampened our spirits back in the day by throwing so much shade on it.
My Dad never played video games but he did enjoy playing LOTR Conquest and Halo 1.
Im from the us and had never heard of CeX until 2021 when I visited the UK. they still exist there, had n64 games in good condition and gamecubes as well as new GPUs.
Return of the King is to this day my favorite movie game, followed by Star Wars Episode III. Battle for Middle Earth I and II are also some of my favorite games of all time, some of my most played, along with RotK and of course the original Star Wars Battlefront 2.
me and my little brother use to play conquest soooooo much i loved that game so much about as much as you talked about it
well this will be fun, i didn't like the Amazon series so far so this will be a great video to remember some of the good stuff with Lord of the Ring, i have a nostalgia for the Return of the King game
I haven't seen it yet, but I'm very interested to hear the (spoiler free please) reason you haven't enjoyed it. I've been hesitant about watching it myself.
Edit: auto spell turned my intended "very" into "not", making me sound very rude.
@@chrisj320ac3 it just doesn't have the charm of the films, simple as that :)
@@James-gj8rn Fair enough. Thank you. :)