Moormur Demonstrates Siege of Mirkwood’s Skirmish System

Tony posted this on November 19th, 2009. It has No Comments »
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LOTRO­Cast presents an exclu­sive Video Pre­view of Siege of Mirk­wood.

Want some footage of Mirk­wood? Want to get up-close and per­sonal with the Skir­mish sys­tem? Check out part one of a Video Pre­view series pre­sented by LOTRO­Cast: The Lord of the Rings Online Pod­cast at http://​lotro​cast​.blogspot​.com/​2​0​0​9​/​1​1​/​s​i​e​g​e​-​o​f​-​m​i​r​k​w​o​o​d​-​v​i​d​e​o​-​p​r​e​v​i​e​w​-​p​a​r​t​.​h​tml.

Skir­mishes are turn­ing out to be a bit cooler than I even thought they would be. :)

Video of the Final Moments Narya

Tony posted this on September 30th, 2009. It has 1 Comment »
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ven­erab has a video on his site that’s really worth see­ing. Recorded by turezuretei, it depicts the last 9 min­utes of the Japan­ese server, Narya, in action. Check it out.

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I guess it was more of a bang than a whim­per! There’s quite a big turn out.

Video Tour of Bree

Tony posted this on January 17th, 2009. It has 2 Comments »
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I’ve always wanted to put together videos from my time play­ing LotRO, but was never entirely sure how to go about it. Rog has been cre­at­ing some and reminded me that FRAPS allows you to grab video in-game. I had com­pletely for­got­ten about that since I’ve only used it for screens. I’ve not edited video in years and even then that was only in school, so I’m def­i­nitely a bit rusty.

I’ve been play­ing around with that, a free edi­tor I found and var­i­ous codecs to com­press the video and finally put together some­thing I was happy with: a video walk­through of Bree. This won’t offer any­thing new to exist­ing play­ers, but I think it does a good job of show­ing off how well Tur­bine crafted the city and how large it is. This was dur­ing off-peak hours, so there weren’t too many peo­ple in the way.

If you’re inter­ested, you can down­load a larger ver­sion too that’s about 640×440. My orig­i­nal was 1280×720 or so, but resulted in videos over 100 MBs for some­thing this length. I think that res­o­lu­tion might be bet­ter suited for shorter clips.

I hope to make more in the future, some sim­i­lar and some not. Hope­fully I’ll get bet­ter at it too.

New Developer Diary and Screens

Tony posted this on November 15th, 2008. It has No Comments »
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Appar­ently I was added to Turbine’s press mail­ing list, which was a bit of a sur­prise. Through it I dis­cov­ered that two things were released today: a new devel­oper diary video and screens of Sil­ver­tine Lodes. I posted a video of the area yes­ter­day, but the images have been added to the gallery if you’d like to check them out.

The devel­oper diary has been embed­ded above (if you some­how didn’t notice that) and cov­ers the art and world of Moria. It dis­cusses how they were cer­tain to research the books as much as pos­si­ble to bring Moria to life.

Back when the game was being devel­oped as Mid­dle Earth Online, there were some early shots of Moria itself. I have to say that I am extremely happy they waited for an expan­sion to really do this area jus­tice.

New Mines of Moria Trailer: Nud-Melek

Tony posted this on November 8th, 2008. It has No Comments »
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A new trailer for Mines of Moria has hit the Inter­net. It fea­tures a new area in Moria known as Nud-Melek. Mas­sively wrote in the past that the sec­ond hall of the area (shown off in the lat­ter half of the video) was actu­ally inspired by pho­tos of ancient Cam­bo­dian tem­ples. It has a really inter­est­ing organic look, which is great to see in a land carved from stone.

If you’d like to down­load it, Big Down­load has the full HD 720p video as well.