If not then bye bye. I want go where I want...can I or can't I simple answers only and no flaming because this is an honest question I really really need answered because I found myself wandering aroubd in wow abd I got depressed and need a game to give meaning to life again.

Sandbox < [---------------------------------LOTR-] > Linear

No.

There aren't any good sandboxes on the market right now IMO.  Eve doesnt count because you have to be a cold piece of textured metal floating in a vacuum of space instead of a character.

First, please learn to slow down and correct typo's in your sentances. Second, no it's not a sand box game. It's a well developed linier story based MMO. It come's with a free trial so why dont you try it out?

Originally posted by ketrine

No.

 

There aren't any good sandboxes on the market right now IMO.  Eve doesnt count because you have to be a cold piece of textured metal floating in a vacuum of space instead of a character.

Ok sorry for the double post and off topicness but I just need to respawned to this.  I dont see why you would say that at all. Your not a peice of metal floating in space. you are a pod pilot which is a character that fly's a ship. Second, a sand box is a sandbox no matter if it's an rpg, rts, fps, or what have you.

It was planned as a sandbox called Middle Earth Online, but as soon as WoW was successful the entire game was revamped and turned into LotRO.

Originally posted by unherdninja

First, please learn to slow down and correct typo's in your sentances.

Dude, you just pegged my irony meter.

It's pretty much anti-sandbox. A lot of instancing, a lot of scripted events and missions, a lot of "Sit back and watch the story...OK, we can fight now."

This doesn't mean I don't like it. I am enjoying working through the unfolding plot and find the pacing of quests/XP gain to be just about perfect. However, SWG/UO/EVE, it ain't.

Originally posted by Lizard_SF

Originally posted by unherdninja

First, please learn to slow down and correct typo's in your sentances.

 

Dude, you just pegged my irony meter.

Ok first what's wrong with the word typo? Second I’m not talking about little mistakes like putting an a instead of an e in sentence. The OP butchered his whole post. You have to agree. If you don’t then your just being argumentative.

This game is as far from sandbox as you could possibly get.

Originally posted by unherdninja

Originally posted by ketrine

No.

 

There aren't any good sandboxes on the market right now IMO.  Eve doesnt count because you have to be a cold piece of textured metal floating in a vacuum of space instead of a character.

 

Ok sorry for the double post and off topicness but I just need to respawned to this.  I dont see why you would say that at all. Your not a peice of metal floating in space. you are a pod pilot which is a character that fly's a ship. Second, a sand box is a sandbox no matter if it's an rpg, rts, fps, or what have you.

o yea and your post right here is filled with typos. '

Worst one is "Respawned" its "Respond"

Nice try though.

-Jive

Originally posted by unherdninja

Originally posted by ketrine

No.

 

There aren't any good sandboxes on the market right now IMO.  Eve doesnt count because you have to be a cold piece of textured metal floating in a vacuum of space instead of a character.

 

Ok sorry for the double post and off topicness but I just need to respawned to this.  I dont see why you would say that at all. Your not a peice of metal floating in space. you are a pod pilot which is a character that fly's a ship. Second, a sand box is a sandbox no matter if it's an rpg, rts, fps, or what have you.

Two things:

1.) I said there arent any GOOD sandboxes on the market now IMO.  Eve is a sandbox, granted, but In my very very humble opinion it is not a good one because my character has no legs with which to jump.  I need legs before its a good MMO.  You cant put on pink shoes without feet, and I hate outer space unless I can run around the spaceship decorating it.

2.) A spaceship is a metal chunk of electronics floating in space.  (as far as I am concerned)

Lotro is a good game.  It is fun.  It has player designed music, it has .. ahem.. "housing" (no matter how inferior), it has fun emotes, it has an outfit system that is super, and a very very beautiful game world.  It is not a sandbox.  It is a theme park.  Therefore if you get tired of being a healer, you cant drop your skills and decide to be a burglar. 

Three cheers to the next game designer that can incorporate all the good things about Lotro and put them in a skill based, open, do-anything kind of sandbox game.

This game is not a sandbox but you can go where you want when you want.