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You’ve got a version of the game where you’re with Arwen, one with Eowyn, one with Legolas, and one where you focus on Frodo and his subtle hand-holding bromance with Sam. Okay, so you’re playing through this game - you’ve played through parts 1 and 2 several times, in fact, sometimes as a goody-two-shoes, and sometimes as a total bad-ass. (Though, thankfully, all the dialogue options with Legolas are the same.) Hell, there are even a few weirdos who chose NOT to recruit Samwise back at the beginning of the story, and actually play through the whole first game without him (though the writers reintroduce him as a non-optional party member once you get ready to leave Lothlorien).Īnd what about the players who rolled the main character as a female? That changes a LOT of stuff, as you might well imagine. For some, Gimli dies at Helms Deep for others only Merry escapes into Fangorn (which makes recruiting the Ents all but impossible). Some folks don’t split up the party, and spend most of the game recruiting supporters through the South and North, from Aughaire down to Dol Imren. Some players actually managed to save Boromir (though he leaves the party regardless, but gets you a whole extra army in the third game if he’s alive, and makes Denethor much less of a pain in the ass to deal with).
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Whole forums were filled up by fans of the series comparing notes on their versions of the game, with guides on how to get into a romantic relationship with Arwen (the obvious one), Eowyn (more difficult, as you have to go without any kind of romance option through the whole first game, but considered by many to be far more rewarding), or even Legolas (finally released as DLC for the third game).Īnd that’s certainly not all of possible permutations. That means that some of people playing through this Lord of the Rings story would end up with a personal game experience that was pretty much exactly like the one you and I all remember from reading the books, but that story is just sort of the default. More importantly, the company behind the series decided to do something really hard but rewarding with the game - they were going to let you make decisions during play that substantively altered the elements of the story. Let’s pretend for a moment that The Lord of the Rings was released not as a series of books, but a series of games. First of all, that’s really too bad, because it is very, very good both in terms of play (which steadily improves from game to game) and story (barring one steaming exception) and (I think) completely worth the time.īut secondly, I’d like to keep you non-ME people involved in the conversation, so I’m going to draw a comparison that I think most anyone likely to visit here will understand, so that we can all proceed with reasonable understanding of the issues. Now, I realize that many of the folks reading this may not have played through the Mass Effect series. It’s fair to say that it’s soured many players’ impression of the experience as a whole. If you follow gaming news at all, you’ll already know that there have been great clouds of dust kicked over this particular story - the gist of it is that Mass Effect was brought to a conclusion with the release of Mass Effect 3 (note: not brought to its conclusion, just brought to a conclusion - more on that later), and while 99% of the game was the same top-notch, engaging, tear-inducing stuff that we’ve come to expect, the last five minutes or so is a steaming, Hersey’s Kiss-sized dollop of dog shit that you are forced to ingest at the conclusion of the meal, like a mint, before they let you out the door. Since then, the executive producer for Mass Effect 3 has been working tirelessly to get me to retract that statement. In late February, I said (on twitter) that I thought the Mass Effect universe was probably the most important science fiction of a generation. Everything that follows is my opinion and, further, is infested with spoilers for both the Mass Effect series and, I suppose, The Lord of the Rings. I debated where I should post it, but ultimately this is about writing as much or more than it’s about gaming, so here it is. It may seem a bit odd that I’m posting this here rather than on my gaming-related blog, since it is about the Mass Effect game series and other related geekery.