[Criken] Movie Game Monday - Fellowship of the Ring ft. Lawlman

[@MediumChain]

56:07 if you wanna skip the technical difficulties.

[@aaronwilliams7031]

tbf, most of these streams are rife with technical difficulties throughout xD

[@galaxypest9503]

Criken slandering Boromir was a real lembas moment

[@brendanduffy9698]

The "ITS HIM" part is so funny. I come back to watch this VOD just for that whole bit.

[@jsweizston5410]

Would love to see you guys finish this, this was all too good to watch.

[@BirdRaiserE]

Wish granted

[@Dylan-ph2iz]

Orcs were created by "The First Lord Morgoth" as a slave race by torturing elves. Goblins are a specific race of Orc that lives in the mountains. And Uruk-hai are another race of Orc that are much stronger and more resilient than regular Orcs or Goblins. It's like how a toad is a frog but a frog isn't necessarily a toad.

[@fuckyoutube9305]

so the original orcs were made from corrupted elves but now they are their own race

[@gee8648]

@@fuckyoutube9305 Epigenetics, bro. Environmental variables directly affecting the genetic expression and eventually the evolutionary divergence.

[@uncledoctor6920]

@@gee8648 what about ologs, trolls, and whatever those giant behemoths with catapults on their backs are?

[@DoomNeb]

@@uncledoctor6920 Ordinary trolls are ones generally found near the misty mountains and ettenmoors (like the ones encountered in the Hobbit) and turn to stone in daylight. Ologs or Olog-Hai are trolls bred closer to Mordor that are capable of withstanding sunlight. Dunno about the other thing though

[@isaacsorrels4077]

@@uncledoctor6920 All those probably originate from the first trolls Melkor made as his own personal version of the ents. The reason I say probably is because of the catapult things you mentioned. The other two were creations of Melkor. Ents are to wood as trolls are to stone.

[@twtpatr]

I remember playing RoK with my mom when I was younger. Will always have special place in my heart.

[@lemeres2478]

you can tell this came out before the movie. I mean... your first quests are about selling your house to a competing land owner just to get money for your quest, and then you have to find a small mechanical part for a watermill that belongs to an asshole. Maybe I'm just blanking out the first movie, but this is not what you would focus on in the cinematic version if you are making a game. This is deep down the Tolkein hole, where there are random world building chapters everywhere about random junk.

[@calumsanderson6741]

That's because this had nothing to do with the movies, it was a separately licensed game based on the book, released around the same time as the movie to capitalise

[@LucasCarter2]

Same thing happened with Harry Potter on the GBC. The original game came out before the movies, and thus doesn't have any of the iconic music (but to me the game music is very nostaglic) and certainly portrays a different Hogwarts than the movies do.

[@Shambles_44]

It helps to hear others share my trauma from Bilbo's little slip in the Fellowship.

[@sarahsanders9587]

NAAAARRRGGGHHHH 😈

[@bob6784558]

Thought they brought back the Warcraft LoR and had a slight heart attack, hope they play that again.

[@personadan]

Man i remember this as a kid, loved it then and realize now as an adult all the Voice actors and the fear of the black riders.

[@user-zb9hu4qr7g]

I rented this game when I was a kid, and I never made it out of the shire. The riders terrified me and I kept getting cornered by them. Its nice to see someone else tortured

[@JustJ1m]

I got to Moria, took a wrong step and fell down a hole to my death. But I thought "hey if I save the game, when I reload I'll be safe!". Instead whenever I loaded the game, I was alive for about 4 frames before I died in the hole. It was my only save, so I had to delete it.

[@lizardmedia2257]

Fucking how dude?! That part is beyond easy!

[@lizardmedia2257]

Bro I love the ring-wraiths when you die man. One of the coolest game over screens ever.

[@jcvines369]

2:41:25 Tom Bombadill is completely unbothered by the giant spiders murdering children before his eyes

[@lizardmedia2257]

Fredonia and Sam are like 33🤣🤣

[@FrodoBaggins2006]

@jcvines369 They're Hobbits

[@riverwood9844]

Gameplay starts at 55:50

[@TheScrambledBacon]

This game has a special place in my memory. I don't know how many times I rang that warning bell as a kid.

[@TheDoomlord7]

2:27:48 one of the funniest parts of the stream. Tree combo

[@dooppooter]

Is this the Valheim game everyone was talking about?

[@MistaMeowmers]

Why is it so hard to understand the last scene of LotR? Everyone was happy that Frodo was alive! XD Also, RotK was one of my favorite games on PS2, still want to go back to it again some time

[@lemeres2478]

I had this running in another window, and I was panicking for an hour thinking my own computer was doing the error noises.

[@YotsubaSnake]

I'm about 99.998% certain the meeting to discuss the game design involved a line of coke that was violently snorted before the following pile of cocaine was faceplanted into

[@uncledoctor6920]

Sorta true, there's a physical biography of the game floating around that never got digitized that details the creation of the game. According to it, the creative directors went to the parking lot of the studio, shoveled out cocaine into long lines, and then sprinted along them while snorting it through comically large straws. Whoever stayed on their feet and went the longest without slipping into a fit of spasms after they finished their line would get the privilege of having 1 thing put into the game they wanted, no exceptions. This happened every meeting over the course of the game's development, so it's a miracle it's not filled with silly, bizarre or anachronistic things that make no sense. I'm making all of this up btw.

[@TheEgrona]

We had this game on PC and on PS2 and we absolutely loved it as kids. It was super hard though.

[@LairdWackyla]

this is a pretty accurate getting lost in the woods simulator.

[@wannahakaluguy]

Wait, did he say his birthday was September 22nd? They use the Gregorian calendar in Middle Earth?

[@gamerman782]

Yes they do. It's even in the books as far as I know

[@squaeman_2644]

Actually a lot of the dates in middle earth corroborate with important dates in Tolkien's faith, catholicism

[@darkranger116]

bro you could totally turn nilla waffers into cereal

[@uncledoctor6920]

I'm pretty sure it's already a thing

[@greendude7650]

Turns out actually this is based on the actual books then the movies

[@Shambles_44]

1:24:11 - 1:24:23 woah that was pretty

[@bludhuuntr4946]

I loved this game on ps2

[@dr.4422]

3:15:55 gamble

[@lgblizzird2750]

How did you play LOTR and not have Joe in it?

[@YourAverageUnitologist]

You cannot wield it!

[@DoomNeb]

None of us can!

[@TrapDullahan]

Dam I rember this on pc and the fact once it start you need to take the disk out or the game won't work

[@MediumChain]

Don't know if Criken knew this, but there is literally another ps2 game which is actually based off the films, unless he already played it.

[@asphaltape]

i swear on the original xbox this game was alot more orange the entire beginning takes place during sunset even the cutscene with gandalf i never got past the forest part after stealing from the farmer tho because i was so young. me and my older sister rented this game like 15 times

[@SenArmstrong-R-CO]

Yo, my brother and I played all three of these games all the time growing up

[@Ulrist]

Gandalf! Take this!

[@jaanusandrejev1196]

some quality wrighting here :P

[@uryuu300]

The chase scene in which Frodo is riding alone against the Nazghul to the river was from the book; this same scene but w\ Arwen carrying Frodo to Rivendell was exclusive to the film so she had more screentime\ a girl power moment. The game is adapting the book, not the film. :) I don’t know if the later games follow the books or the films, or are a mixture of both...

[@CommanderZx2]

I hope you'll will come back to this one to finish it some time.

[@hawke7471]

This is so painful.

[@bludhuuntr4946]

Still waiting for King Kong

[@Fedakeen]

I am still amazed that I managed to get through this game. You should really stream the rest of the game since you're nearly finished.

[@bekkioffenheiser7384]

badapple

[@lorendeputy7449]

lucahjin

[@icyphoenix2401]

I have not watched the movies or read the books, but i know the universe and the general outline of the story

[@acew2306]

Man I envy you, I wish I could watch the movies for the first time again honestly. Listen to the audio books and then watch the movies, thoroughly enjoyable.

[@Reac2]

What I wouldn't give for a open world LOTR rpg that has no connection to the movies. LOTR online is the closest we'll seem to ever get, but a Dragon Age like game in the LOTR universe... Man, I want to believe

[@pyschofish2137]

I cannot fucking believe you didn’t play the actual game associated with the first movie. That series of games were the best. You have lost it criken.

[@sarahsanders9587]

You fool! This was the only game produced for The Fellowship of the Ring.

[@RainrixIasant]

Gandalf! Take this!

[@ShasOSwoll]

Gandalf! Take this!