The awful Lord of the Rings game nobody played

The Fellowship of the Ring for PS2 is perhaps one of the WORST LOTR games ever made...
If you can think of a worse one, please let us know in the comments.
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[@MindPulp]

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[@striderjason9863]

Another better Lord of the Rings game that’s not those other PS2 ones would have been the LEGO version, but I guess that’s for a future video.

[@Spacething7474]

...i dont think wallace & gromit ever had a co-op game

[@gracekim25]

YES❤

[@guysmith5505]

Pls make barnyard part 2 I’m waiting

[@kayiscrispy]

@@Spacething7474 Curse of the Were-rabbit was multiplayer

[@theflickchick9850]

As a LOTR book nerd, the escalation of confusion over the pathless forest, Old Man Willow, Tom Bombadil, and then the Barrow-downs was absolutely hilarious to watch.

[@A_Black_Sheep94]

Which some of those are strange to be confused over tbh, Tom is a huge meme and the barrows downs are in quite a few LOTR games.

[@lukepeace540]

That was my second favorite part of the book next to the Mines of Moriah.

[@mike.94]

​@@A_Black_Sheep94 are Barrow-downs the place they get sword or swords from?

[@A_Black_Sheep94]

@MICHAŁ KOZERA I'm not sure if the place Aragorn rescues them from in the movie is supposed to be the barrow downs or not there are no wights. If I recall they're armed by the elves once the fellowship is formed.

[@mike.94]

@@A_Black_Sheep94 You mean Weathertop right? Can you please remind me how they got these swords in book? By defending some wraiths?

[@zeathosthomas4847]

Mind Pulp, "Who TF is Tom Bombadil?!" Fans of the book, "The most important character EVER!"

[@paleface171]

Goldberry: "He is."

[@Salamander676]

Goldberry 😂

[@wimpymate]

Water lillys

[@MegaSantaclaude]

Aragorn in the movies: Lay low and be careful who you interact with. Aragorn in the game: Just running around offending and starting fights with everyone. 😄

[@SSchithFoo]

Thats how he was in the book too. He kinda challanges the whole Rohirrim Eomer was leading to a fight and tells them only a few of them will return home if they do so when in the movie it was Gimli and Legolas that provoked them. He is not a lil bich and is much more Kingly.

[@Beregond1861]

Aragorn: "...horse thief." Horse Thief: "What?! You gonna call meh a horse thæf?!" Aragorn: "I already have. Now be gone!"

[@lukejenkins4381]

I remember saving this game in Moria as I fell off of a bridge with Gandalf, meaning to load my most recent save. Meaning I was forever stuck falling in Moria and having to go all the way back to the beginning. Fool of a took

[@djdaddyd5032]

I did that as a kid and it forever haunted my saves for every game I’ve played

[@JakeSmith-st6vp]

I did a similar blunder on Skyrim. I saved as I died when I was drunk one night and as I save I used to delete all prior saves for some reason so I lost 600 hours like an idiot.

[@mrl2h2]

Hahahaha I did the same thing as a kid and started crying when I realized how cooked I was

[@psychonautmaddy7409]

Escaping the Dark Riders in this game literally traumatized me as a kid. I had to take constant long breaks because I was so scared.

[@MindPulp]

we had a nightmare of a time escaping the Dark Riders...

[@psychonautmaddy7409]

@@MindPulp Yup, as a kid it was both too difficult AND horrifying

[@jaimiebowers492]

I THOUGHT IT WAS ONLY ME, I would crap myself whenever I saw them😂🤣

[@dracoorian3029]

I never got passed that level I had a friend do it for me

[@mattday7337]

If anyone cares the reason the dark riders bit is so awful is because it doesn't use line of sight. The riders just have a circle around them that penetrates walls and any obstacles you might hide behind, and if you enter the circle you fail

[@thehornet2916]

Tom bombadil is actually quite a big part in the book 😂😂

[@irishboy_pa]

Nerd 😂

[@lazerfluxxy7370]

Yes ,an incredibly important part of the story ,I can't understand how they could leave him out of the movies ,he's essential.

[@theonegoldengryphon]

@@lazerfluxxy7370 I don’t remember him being essential…? The only time he’s in the story (the Old Forest and the Barrows) was cut from the movies, he has no effect on the plot that I recall beyond that one bit near the beginning of Fellowship. Edit: Since I’ve needed to clarify myself like 5 damn times further down this comment chain, yes, I know Tom Bombadil saves the hobbits from the Barrow-Wights, and that’s where Merry gets the sword that weakens the Witch-King. However, since the Barrow-sword was cut from the movies, IN THE MOVIES, Tom Bombadil was rendered non-essential.

[@lazerfluxxy7370]

@@theonegoldengryphon I know,I'm actually making a bit of a joke ,as he is in fact not that important and very much just confuses the reader because he takes the ring and puts it on and shows it does nothing to him, so again ,it really would only confuse the reader.

[@jessekukendall9273]

@@lazerfluxxy7370 but doesn't he give the Hobbits their swords, it's been a long time since reading them. He was honestly one my favorite characters in the book

[@Dylanquinn666]

I genuinely liked this game back in the day. I got it for PC before I had a PS2 so for a while it was the only LOTR game I had access to. It aged like milk but I'm still nostalgic for it.

[@martmeisterpaladin4074]

Me too. Didn't have a bad cast to it, either. Tom Kane was a good voice for Gandalf, and I could swear I heard Daran Norris as Aragorn. I remember one time when it crashed. It was about the Hobbit Waterwheel Operative lamenting: "Oh never you mind about working-! Oh never you mind about working-! Oh never you mind about working-!" That is what I remember most. I also liked the music.

[@samb3513]

I had it on PC as well, and I remember the levels where you play as Aragorn happening way sooner. Maybe the PC version had the mission order different?

[@andriisokolov1587]

I also liked playing it on PC, probably because I was such a huge Tolkien fan. A friend of mine from our local LOTR gang did not want to play it but already agreed to write an article for “My home gaming computer” magazine (a long vanished magazine every schoolboy with a PC was reading in 2000s in Ukraine). So I told him the game is badly programmed (confirming that with stupid screenshots like Gollum full of arrows who looked like a hedgehog), but actually has some nice vibe that a Tolkien fan can enjoy; he generated some text and it was published…

[@Tonybologna1127]

Me too I loved this game!

[@wolfdragox5563]

At the time it wasn’t really that bad, it just aged very poorly

[@Intrepimid]

"How many arrows can one man take in the chest!?" I dunno have you tried asking Boromir?

[@absolutefoot4594]

"Frodo's virginity increased" That's quite possibly the best sentence to ever exist

[@averyeml]

This whole game is worth it just to see the boys discover the wonders of Tom Bombadil

[@gregsky01]

I still have this game and I thought it was kinda fun. Obviously it hasn’t aged the best but I think it’s kinda charming. It was kinda cool having something that follows the books in a time where movie tie-ins were the norm.

[@Aywusgod]

When I was a kid my mom got me this game on accident after I had wished for LOTR: Return of the King, I have zero regrets.

[@TrihardGamesWorkshop]

I think the studio should get credit for imagining this world, in the own vision without being jaded by movie adaptions. It is a book adaption. This is not particularly easy, whereas although EA made definitely better action games, they're copy and pasted digital textures style and music repurposed from 7-8 years of work done by other people(usually the best at their craft like Howard Shore) this was the first attempt at a story adventure game that nobody had tried before, with the addition of the extensive lore of LOTR it was always gonna be different. I give alot of credit for this game, even if the mechanics are under developed. includes Nazgul chase, Barrow Wights, Old Man Willow and Tom Bombadil. It is a fairly faithful adaption. Most people look down on this solely because it's not Peter Jackson's. It's still better than Rings of Power By Amazon.

[@johnhunter8959]

I actually worked on this game back in the day, these guy's are trashing the PS2 port which SUCKED, not the XBox version we developed. Yes game still sucked but Sony getting involved had a lot to do with that

[@twall91]

Thankfully I’m a mature adult who would never look down on it JUST because it wasn’t adapted from the movies. That would be unreasonable and short sighted, I look down on this one because it flat out sucked and was horrendously abysmal to play as a 12 year old!

[@declangilmour8184]

​@@johnhunter8959 wait can you clarfiy the difference? Was it like an origonal splinter cell type deal where xbox had extra content, better loading etc but still essentially the same game or like a star wars force unleashed type deal where there was essentially 3 different games released depending on platform?

[@gratefulguy4130]

Not having anything to do with Peter Jackson is a huge plus.

[@chriskoegler4881]

That’s what I was thinking. The dudes in the video are trashing it but considering that the movies weren’t out as a template, the game is shockingly consistent with the looks of the movies. Bravo to the developers.

[@MegaMetallicaMASTER]

I played this A LOT. I loved it then and I love it now, you can spend HOURS immersing yourself into the world. It’s beautiful dude.

[@richmondlandersenfells2238]

I never played this game. But I find it impressive how they based it from the book!

[@kieran5191]

Same as one of my favourite games from childhood.

[@Beregond1861]

I got this game around the same time I got my first copy of Halo 2. Didn't defeat the Fellowship game until around when I read the trilogy. I genuinely love this game so much.

[@cashewnuttel9054]

Yeah, this game is not awful. They're just pooping on it because it looks awful.

[@Naftiftoffe]

feels good that i am not the only one. loved it as a kid

[@collingrant185]

Can we get a whole series of you guys playing through this whole game??? This was hilarious and I’d love to see more of it

[@tessademsky1156]

PLEASE

[@OldestOldGregg]

Wasn't funny at all, worse than a Tik-Tok scrambled up with annoying 20 memes in 30sec video a 15 year old made. Actually that's exactly what this is but 21 minutes of annoying children making fun of something they could never appreciate.

[@tessademsky1156]

@@OldestOldGregg alright that was great! lets get you back to your room now so you can take your medicine

[@borusa32]

This was a pretty fair game . It captured the mood of the Shire well enough.Tom Bombadil is a very important character in the LOTR.

[@mihaimercenarul7467]

yeah, every time people will feel nostalgic about a bad and horrible game and defend it, but to be honest, the game is very bad, but kids are stupid and nostalgia is a sign of brain damage

[@livelybubbs6242]

Yikes Who hurt you, mihai?

[@Pluelul]

@@mihaimercenarul7467 nostalgias normal u cant just let it consume u like any other feeling

[@Spurdospede]

Tom Bombadil is arguably the most powerful creature in the LOTR canon, and his power of singing is based on Väinämöinen, who is the main character of the Finnish national epic Kalevala, which Tolkien was very fond of.

[@mattiassvanberg8292]

Kalevala is Swedish.

[@casualsuspect9878]

@@mattiassvanberg8292 No, it is the national epic of Finland.

[@mattiassvanberg8292]

@@casualsuspect9878 I know. I was kidding. It wasn't funny.

[@casualsuspect9878]

@@mattiassvanberg8292 Okay dokay. :D

[@pearse9116]

There is absolutely zero lore to suggest Tom is an extremely powerful being, people just like to pretend he's some being greater than the Valar because Tolkien made him an enigma.

[@alternated1323]

16:02 OH I REMEMBER THAT PART IN THE BOOK! You know when Frodo falls a meter has a sudden heart attack and DIES! (By the hands of THE MUCK THAT IS NOT ALLOWED)

[@danielled8665]

For real that line had very "AI generated Story" vibes. Like that Harry Potter one.

[@dildonius]

When they said this game was based on the book and not the movie, my first thought was "Ohhhh god....Tom Bombadil is gonna be in this, ain't he? And it's gonna confuse the fuck out of them." And I was not disappointed! 😂

[@skizz0phrenia270]

I mean, yeah, they are pretty uncultured.

[@dildonius]

@@skizz0phrenia270 Idk, they just haven't ever read the _The Lord of the Rings_ books and have only seen the 3 Peter Jackson films (and maybe the Ralph Bakshi animated film too). Which is the same for many people, so there are certain aspects & characters & side-plots of the saga that they won't know about, as both Bakshi and Jackson omitted Tom Bombadil from the story, as the parts of the story that he appears in are kinda inconsequential and can very easily be omitted without it harming the overall narrative whatsoever. The Tom Bombadil stuff IS kinda frivolous tbh.

[@eragonmarkmc]

U know this game was before the movies

[@lucarioluxray29]

@@eragonmarkmc no it wasn't

[@eragonmarkmc]

@@lucarioluxray29 yes

[@deen7530]

8:48 just killed me with laughter. So there's just this random guy named Robin, who apparently knows Frodo, and he's randomly getting attacked by a wolf, and the wolf literally mauls to death this guy that we've known for like thirty seconds, and Frodo just has no reaction to this, and the wolf just exits stage right immediately after. And during all of this the Ringwraiths are attacking. Tolkien wishes he wrote this scene lmao

[@Quirderph]

And Robin is once of the constables who has been sent to *protect the Shire from volves!*

[@fantasywind3923]

Robin...this must be...Robin Smallburrow :): "Sam had been looking the Shirriffs up and down and had spotted one that he knew. 'Hey, come here Robin Smallburrow!' he called. 'I want a word with you.' With a sheepish glance at his leader, who looked wrathful but did not dare to interfere, Shirriff Smallburrow fell back and walked beside Sam.... 'Look here, Cock-robin!' said Sam. 'You're Hobbiton-bred and ought to have more sense, coming a-waylaying Mr. Frodo and all. And what's all this about the inn being closed?' 'They're all closed,' said Robin. 'The Chief doesn't hold with beer. Leastways that is how it started. But now I reckon it's his Men that has it all. And he doesn't hold with folk moving about; so if they will or they must, then they has to go to the Shirriff-house and explain their business.'" Never expected this small obscure side character to appear in the games :). "'You ought to be ashamed of yourself having anything to do with such nonsense,' said Sam. 'You used to like the inside of an inn better than the outside yourself. You were always popping in, on duty or off.'"

[@deen7530]

@@fantasywind3923 Are you telling me the rando who gets merced by a wolf is an established character

[@fantasywind3923]

@@deen7530 if his name is Robin Smallburrow he might be :) also he is supposed to be the Shirriff which in Shire are the closest thing to police/guards 'justice system' :) though Shirriffs as is said in book: "The only real official in the Shire at this date was the Mayor of Michel Delving (or of the Shire), who was elected every seven years.... [The] offices of Postmaster and First Shirriff were attached to the mayoralty, so that he managed both the Messenger Service and the Watch. These were the only Shire-services.... The Shirriffs was the name that the Hobbits gave to their police, or the nearest equivalent that they possessed. They had, of course, no uniforms (such things being quite unknown), only a feather in their caps; and they were in practice rather haywards than policemen, more concerned with the strayings of beasts than of people. There were in all the Shire only twelve of them, three in each Farthing, for Inside Work. A rather larger body..., was employed to 'beat the bounds', and to see that Outsiders..., did not make themselves a nuisance." The Lord of the Rings, Prologue, Of the Ordering of the Shire :)

[@NoBSRecoverfacts]

Are you talking about?This is exactly word for word from the book

[@MadfellaDuke]

13:20 had me in tears 😂 You're just following Tom Bombadil to his house and you look over and see Sam, Merry and Pippin just randomly fighting a spider

[@lamasu]

I played this, and actually enjoyed it. Back then, we wanted to see middle-earth and had very few options aside from some poorly made games and cool art work. We took what we could get.

[@ronniepartridge6694]

Dead Robin's eyes will watch your sins. (But in all seriousness that scene was creepy as heck.)

[@stevensteviepryde5888]

Tom Bombadil couldn't show up in the movies because he was too busy signing deals with the hottest record companies

[@odw_99]

I remember playing this as a kid, and it was ridiculously difficult

[@jaimiebowers492]

I THOUGHT IT WAS ONLY ME😅

[@MrWashed_]

Haha same I didn’t get past the night time forest level

[@gundogatisbest5039]

Same

[@johnmorris1009]

I like that this game follows the book much more closely than other LOTR games do. It would be nice to have a newer version that does the same, only in a far more accomplished way!

[@connorburt6231]

Please do a complete walkthrough of this 😂 I know it would be painful for you both but it’s so entertaining and funny hearing your humour 😂

[@jordinagel1184]

They need to get to the last level, so that they’ll have access to the most powerful weapon in the game… A fish. I’m not joking.

[@djwolfenstien305]

As someone who was NOT a Lord Of The Rings fan in the 2000's this games will haunt my dreams until the day I die.

[@ogbee9690]

How could you not be an LOTR fan

[@djwolfenstien305]

@@ogbee9690 I didn't really care for it I was more into scifi than fantasy as a kid but I did watch the movies and they're alright

[@ogbee9690]

@@djwolfenstien305 alright? You either didn’t watch the movies then or weren’t paying attention. They are masterpieces.

[@dennisdavis5842]

He favors spoc

[@Thecuregalore94]

I suppose 17 Oscar wins from 3 films is just an "alright" cinematic achievement.

[@Glass_Eye]

I remember playing this game. Although it has its issues, I enjoyed the experience of playing it and was genuinely disappointed upon hearing the sequels got cancelled. I think for me, the thing I liked about the game was that it attempted to take you on the journey of going through the story of The Lord of the Rings, giving you time to explore locations like The Shire and Moria. The official tie-in games that came out with the films are good and great fun to play, but they tend to put more focus on combat and mass battles

[@STARLORD6789]

I really want You guys too do a full play through of this game cause this was hilarious

[@VITAS874]

They playing only for likes.

[@alexanderb5726]

I'll have you know I loved this game as a boy. It was atmospheric and captured the ambience of the first book. It doesn't have to be perfect to me, but as young it was a good level of adventure and difficulty.

[@OhSPY.]

I remember spending almost 20 minutes whacking a cave troll with a sword and fire bolts, assisted by the entire Fellowship, only for Aragorn to bitch at me about being overwhelmed; and the cave troll was the only enemy alive.

[@carnigee77]

It's funny you should compare the Hobbits to the Beatles. If I remember correctly, the Beatles tried to make a Lord of the Rings movie, and Tolkien himself said absolutely flipin' not.

[@Spacething7474]

tolkien was a moron for that lol

[@BeatleGirl37]

I remember playing this as a super young kid. I’ve NEVER seen past the shire because I’d spend forever exploring it and then get terrified of the night riders. Thanks for showing me how hilarious it was. 😂

[@danielkneslik5091]

Tom Bombadil is in the books. Some believe he is an ancient demigod because he is immortal and is no affected by the Ring, but he refused to help destroying the Ring because he is a hippie.

[@i.m.evilhomer5084]

I do find it a little funny that despite being being based on the books to ape on the release of the first film, some of the devs & actors that worked on this game would later end up working on the EA movie tie-in games & even the LEGO & Middle-Earth games!

[@woolfieMcP]

To this day I feel they commited sin by not including Tom Bombadil in the movies

[@leandromiguel4481]

I mean the movies are already long and adding Tom Bombadil and other stuff from the books would make the movies to be 10 h long lol

[@woolfieMcP]

@@leandromiguel4481 I don't think I've heard a single LOTR fan say that making them longer would be a bad thing lol

[@leandromiguel4481]

@@woolfieMcP I didn't say it would be bad thing , plus the millions it cost of the studio to add more stuff , to find the right person , makeup etc

[@lazerfrogstudios]

@@woolfieMcPI’m a LotR fan and making them longer would be worse

[@magesentron]

Nobody knows who Tom Bombadil is. He's a mystery character that Gandalf seems to know but his exact nature is shrouded in myth.

[@StormDatIsApproaching]

I applaud this game. It takes skill to turn the Barrow Downs, one of the scariest and most badass locations Tolkien ever wrote, into a coma inducing fogfest. I had this game, couldn't make it past the first hour because of just how much nothing really happens

[@viktorkrumbs5989]

Listen, this game is no Two Towers or Return of the King, but as a kid, this game was my favorite in that it let you explore the Shire, Bree, Moria and you got to play as Frodo and Gandalf. As a kid I liked the music, I like the ability to control the camera, and it was the first of these games that let you play as Gandalf. It’s easy to look back and be like Return of the King is so much better, but when this game came out and it was this and the Two Towers, this game had some charm to it. It’s not like we knew games like Return of the King or Shadow of War would ever come out. To call it the awful game that nobody played is unfair to the time it came out in. This was the style of games back then, and for what it was back then, it wasn’t terrible. I get where you are coming from and your video is some good work, but dang the past gets shit on a lot! Hahaha!

[@AZodiacCancer]

I loved this game when it came out. As you said we didn't have many options of exploring middle earth in videogame format. Don't get me wrong the movie games were really fun to play too but this game scratched the itch those didn't.

[@viktorkrumbs5989]

@@AZodiacCancer exactly that!

[@gracekim25]

I remember getting my dad the two towers game and I got terrified to the point of never trying it again 😅

[@sirlink2305]

I have so many memories of this game. The main one that comes to mind is trying to escape the ring wraiths on the first level and not being able to sneak past it for a few months......

[@sithmartyr]

*Doesn't know Tom Bombadil* Tell me you haven't read the books without telling me you haven't read the books lol.

[@Natasha6090]

Tom is in the fellowship book quite a big part

[@TheLoos3Goos33]

This was the first game my parents bought with my xbox for christmas. I didn't have any other games so I had no choice but to play this. I rage quit pretty early out of frustration with the ringwraith stealth mission, but I eventually came back and finished it. As a fan of the first movie which got me to read the books, I was able to have fun with it despite the obvious flaws.

[@sagieboi1204]

The Xbox Version is actually quite good at least. The PS2/PC though... Yikes

[@PanzerShrek94]

The old man hobbit was a special kind of dealer.He gave you shrooms for weed.

[@dexterhaysler3070]

By far one of the funniest videos you guys have done. We definitely need to see more of this game and try to meet the Fellowship😂

[@willian2848]

Tom Bombadil and that bitch i forgot the name were in the first book. Also the books are amazing, this game is oddly accurate.

[@AroAceGamer]

My favorite parts of the book was when Merry, Pippin and Sam joined a forest cult while Frodo died in The Muck That Is Not Allowed.

[@ICUQC]

How dare you mock tom bombadil

[@MrBaintrain]

The moment you brought up both The Two Towers & The Return Of The King video games, I shed a tear of nostalgia

[@LoserNamedWyn]

really needed a CLASSIC mind pulp video today, thanks guys x

[@HaroonKhan-wd2dz]

I actually loved this game as a kid. 👀

[@mihaimercenarul7467]

ew

[@alonsolupercio9108]

How did you beat it?

[@SquatPenguin2]

I remember I was absolutely terrified of Smeagle up until I was in high school. Just the combo of how he looks and his voice. Also despite growing up in the 2000s/10s I never really hot into Lord of the Rings or Harry Potter.

[@AsperaZeit]

ah lol smeagle, also known as gollob

[@sognar2240]

I remember playing this game as a kid. The part where you have to sneak around Dark Rider scared the shit out of me

[@Xehanort10]

6:51 The most important object in the series and it's in a random chest in any old house.

[@MisteryDMOR33]

I kinda liked this one. The Shire and Bree parts gave off a sense of mistery and adventure that the others didn´t

[@mungulor]

I unironically love this game

[@mihaimercenarul7467]

yeah, every time people will feel nostalgic about a bad and horrible game and defend it, but to be honest, the game is very bad, but kids are stupid and nostalgia is a sign of brain damage

[@zion6680]

The inclusion of Tom Bmbadil is kind of a little bit awesome... Just too bad he NEVER SHOWS UP IN A GAME AGAIN, EVER!

[@user-cx6kt3ku2f]

The books have soooo many songs. It’s even worse in the Silmarillion, everyone always sings.

[@fieryphoenix586]

I remember enjoying The Two Towers, even though several levels were flashbacks to The Fellowship of the Ring. The Third Age is also rather underrated

[@JustKelso1993]

The third age is the bane of my existence, no matter how much I enjoy it. I have, to this day, never gotten past a certain massive wave of enemies in that game, it just seems like an endless wave lmao I started that game when I was like...14, 30 now and I still have the save data hell bent on beating it one day.

[@KingMarco_iv]

@8:46. Totally shocked that he died after being mauled by a wolf for a good 20 seconds 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@commanderredjonkks5268]

It was surprising cause he should've died way faster - it looked like he was invincible until he suddenly changed from "oh no, I'm frightened" to "DEAD"

[@aditghifari5039]

Tom Bombadil is the only person who can wear the ring and treat it like some sort of garbage without fearing of sauron.

[@macgyversmacbook1861]

Tom has got to be my favorite character in the book too, literally the best explanation for him is he’s an old man who lives in the woods with his trophy wife and gives no shits whatsoever, enough so where the Ring doesn’t affect him

[@jacobdeville1157]

I remember Lord of the rings war in the north and conquest being awesome as hell!

[@alfredorosiles2018]

Dude Lord of the Rings Conquest was my go to game during my teen years. Wow it was so much fun! Even after they immediately removed the multiplayer servers i still played instant action with bots like you have no idea! Hope these guys play it eventually ,would love to see that!

[@paradiddledoo6854]

Loved this game. My ps2 version came with the soundtrack. Still listen to it every once in a while.

[@warlord1873]

Harry Pothead: And the chamber of weed next These LOTR characters looked cracked out

[@LuckyCharmKitty]

I have this game on my ps2. Played it all the way through back in 2009. Thought it was weird and wondered why Frodo looked like that. it overloaded my memory card with a bunch of save blocks that were all rings and had to delete them all

[@themannis3749]

Tom Bombadil is actually a chad in the books tbf

[@IndigoFireFandubs]

It's nice to see what else happens, since our copy growing up was glitched so you couldn't save after you cross the bridge to leave the Shire after avoiding the first Ringwraith. It would say it saved, but when you died or stopped playing and reloaded, it would go back to the bridge in the Shire lol. We got to meet Tom Bombadil at least but being kids, we got annoyed eventually and played the other Lord of the Rings games that we could save 😂

[@UnclePhil73]

And a mass cry of despair amongst LOTR nerds arose when they said they had no idea who Tom Bombadil was.

[@just_an_elli]

4:09 I am ashamed you haven't seen the walking meme 😭😭

[@simonfredriksson8671]

Oh i remember playing this as a kid, couldnt even get out of the shire

[@stephenanderson3776]

Dude I fucking loved exploring the shire in this game when I was a kid . I don't get why so many people hate this game

[@merkules6]

I think about this game more often than I probably should. Back when I was a kid and played it, I remember it being very entertaining. The only thing that stopped me from finishing it was a bug in Moria.

[@deepredd]

Would you believe that I own this game, and was very confused that it didn't follow the events of the movie as I remembered it 😅 I couldn't understand all the "new" characters I encountered, or the strange ways that I solved the problems. I didn't realise that it wasn't based on the movies at all, I just assumed I remembered the movies wrong 😂😂😂

[@StickGuyYT]

Mind pulp got an request for the next video can you guys play the dos version you can kill any of the hobbits you like and you can play as them you want its like an old typing adventure game that's fun.

[@raelogan]

My brothers and I had this on Xbox and played this way too freaking much. "MY MAGIC IS SPENT. MY MAGIC IS SPENT. MY MAGIC IS SPENT."

[@Xv7kyle7vx]

I played this game when I was so young, I couldn’t make it out of the shire. I think I got stuck fighting some bees or something

[@jessicaable5095]

So nostalgic. lots of fond memories of this game. Can't for the life of me remember ever playing any of that between the wolves in the shire and the barrow downs though.wierd 🤔

[@Davidh41690]

Tom Bombadil was a merry old fellow His jacket blue and his boots were yellow

[@Charizarzar]

The age-long fight against the tree brings back some memories, always thought I was missing some trick. But nope, seems you just have to keep hitting it a hundred billion times 😅

[@Eevolved32]

I played it and still have the mental scars

[@AngmarCosplay]

I actually loved this game! It was really hard in some areas, but it was fun

[@vrriody14teenlightworkbruv48]

Robins voice actor of samwise ganjes lines are reminiscent of durins line of "give mw the meat and give it to me raw" in the amazon rings of power

[@ofstarsandsun]

been laughing at the whole “THE MUCK WAS NOT ALLOWED” part for the rest of the entire video PLEASE

[@favoritemustard3542]

Enjoyed watching you two _mucking_ about with The One (🐓) Ring! Glad it was allowed lols

[@_GRAMPS]

What a very cursed game 10/10

[@mihaimercenarul7467]

yeah, every time people will feel nostalgic about a bad and horrible game and defend it, but to be honest, the game is very bad, but kids are stupid and nostalgia is a sign of brain damage

[@brandonxpagano]

I rented this game from Hollywood Video back in the day after Fellowship (the film) came out and was SO confused lmao. Thanks for bringing back some core memories boys.

[@SlipdeGarcondeJour]

I love the way when Tom Bombadil turned up, Frodo just left his three mates being mauled by a wolf.

[@StarBurstRastaman]

damn. This was the first game I had on the PS2... I never once made it past the dark riders. Guess I didn't miss much!

[@cashewnuttel9054]

I guess you didn't but it's not as bad as how these guys are making it out to be; I would even say it's fun.

[@EricMichaelLP]

I played this on PC! It was my introduction to lotr. Loved it and played it again some years ago. Not as good but still fun in my opinion

[@0Bennyman]

Man I used to replay the start of the game so many times, something about it when I was a kid was just so peaceful and calming but also just creepy and offputting. The dark rider part I basically could never do, I think I always had to get my brother to do it because I was too scared to do it. I always planned on finshing it but I got to a point where you play as Aragorn and I must have saved it in a really bad spot and it was literally unplayable and so I had either hours of progress lost or literally all of it so I just stopped playing.

[@Akt1onDiscgolf]

Tom bombadil is like lotr jesus. Supposedly one of the most powerful beings but disappears and never shows up for hundreds of years despite strife😅

[@ArbiterofTruth]

I actually like this game! It was definitely flawed but it was worth playing multiple times. The soundtrack is pretty good too!

[@mihaimercenarul7467]

yeah, every time people will feel nostalgic about a bad and horrible game and defend it, but to be honest, the game is very bad, but kids are stupid and nostalgia is a sign of brain damage

[@AmbrosiusAmaimon]

The whole "the muck that was not allowed" part killed me 💀

[@supermariomaker1734]

I cracked up when they said that it was probably one of the funniest jokes I ever heard.

[@TheSamppa1994]

My sisters are huge LOTR fans so I saw them playing this a lot in 2002 on PC when it came out. I got to play it too and it was fun to play. I always wondered why this this game had nothing to do with the movies when I watched them. My sisters explained that it was inspired by the books. I never read them.

[@seankerwin1559]

I've been wondering why I'm bindge watching these videos, then I realised it's all the games I missed out on 😂 incredible

[@Whatsagluten]

Mind Pulp is a GOAT channel

[@idkanymore_-_]

I'll say I never heard of this game ever in my entire life