Diane & I play Lord of the Rings Online.
About a week ago I came up with the random thought of riding my little digital horse manually from the north western most city in the game (Thorin’s Hall) to the south eastern territories around the Great River just to see how long it would take. I mentioned something to our friend Bridget who decided she wanted to go along, too. Suddenly the whole thing ballooned. I was going to manually ride through every region currently in the game in a circuit that became known as the “Because We Can Tour.”
Why on Earth would we want to do this? That’s a pretty easy question to answer. We, as gamers, get very consumed with completing the quest. We rush to our destination, kill the bad guy, and rush back. In LotrO especially with the Hunter class, it’s easy to rush around because we can get just about anywhere we want with no travel time. In essence, we forget to enjoy the game and since I’m always belly aching about people who rush to max level in a month without actually looking around I figured it was time to put my time where my ideals were.
I quickly began to calculate destinations that would give us a maximum amount of coverage in each region. I came up with a pretty hefty 27 point travel plan that was going to take more than one night. Hell, it’ll probably take several. I decided I was going to take screenshots of my favorite places along the way.
What took me by a very pleasant surprise was four other guild members who said, “Hey, this kinda sounds fun – we’ll come, too.” Two of them weren’t able to join us last night but two others were.
I’m going to attempt to put together a photo gallery of the screens I took throughout the four regions we went through. I’m quite pleased in that not only did we see some fantastic scenery and relive moments in the game from our earliest days playing, but we managed to kill two bosses we’ve never killed before!
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