LEGO Lord of the Rings; Helm's Deep

Third posting about LEGO Lord of the Rings. This posting is mostly since fight in the Helm's Deep looked so awesome. Of course it is lego game still but I think they got something right in the atmosphere but still I it was easy to pass. So great summer game when you do not want to anger yourself with failures.

Worg riders were hunting us. 

Aren't these elves simply cute?

Armies of the orcs are marching.

You were once again playing three heroes.. Gimli, Aragorn and Legolas. It was fun to watch how these three had gained friendship. Even when fighting they had some humour and they worked together helping each other. Just the way it should happen if you ask from me. I Kind of like using Gimli as much as possible since he is grumpy he has so much humour in his words. And yeah swinging lego orcs with an axe is good sport!

Helm's Deep is good stronghold.

Poor Gimli can't see everything.

Orcs with white hands.

Pushing ladders down was important job.

It is funny  how you begin to tolerate weaknesses of the game when the story is interesting enough. I believe I wouldn't ever be this fascinated about LEGO Batman since Middle-Earth has special place in my heart. Actually first PC game I ever bought was J. R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, Vol I. It was a treasure since I even had to collect money for the game by picking berries and selling them at the age of 11 or 12. 

The orcs has plans.

The wall is exploded.

Trying to buy time for evacuation.

Time to ride with King Theoden.

Are of the Helm's Deep was darl but still it was amde so that it felt that there was a big army attacking endlessly. And it seemed desperate moment when we had to withdraw from the battle. But yet the morning arrived and sunlight brought new hope to us.

Gandalf the White arrives!

The orcs are fleeing.

Victory!

Fight in the Helm's Deep was actually rather short but it looked so cool so I decided to make special posting about it. I might make only one or two postings about this game anymore but trying to summarize it when I have played the story through at least and been testing those quests then. But yes.. still this game isn't for serious gamers. It is fun and lego game. You will be disappointed if expecting something epic. 

Minecraft minigames: Build battle!

Lately I have found myself playing Minecraft again but instead of building my own world I played some minigames again. Now I just tried Hypixels games. If you want to try them out log into multiplayer server. The address is mc.hypixel.net.

Amazing dragon was greeting me when logged in for the first time!

There are several games in Hypixel but first I decided to try  minigame called Build Battle. There you will build from blogs something what is like theme informs. And you have only five minutes time to finish your work. Then each participant will evaluate others work and vote about them.

Basketball was hard theme for me.

My version about the guitar.

I was 4th but here you can see winner version about guitar.

It is hard to build fast something. I also noticed that I have some lag problems since my character freezed for short moment. You can add special miniblogs, voices, weather and climate to your work so that you can make it nighttime if you prefer that over the daylight. But it takes some time to learn to use blogs and stuff fast. At least it was hard to me since I am get used to build slowly. So this is good practice.

My desert was a bit lame.

Nicer desert I think.

Build battle is nice since it won't take much time but still it has challenge. Even it really depends with who you're playing that how your rating can be. I noticed that some of the participants always voted  things being bad no matter how well they were made. Perhaps I am disappointed a little as well since when you try your best, it would be nice to get positive feedback instead of lols. But since you  can't choose with who you're playing.. it will always be that way. At times you have nice team in game and best work wins. And at times there are friends who votes each other to win, Depends on your luck, truly.

This superhero was awesome and winner!

My super hero was more bulky but got second place for once.

Build battle is for those who loves to build in Minecraft. Lack of time gives extra challenge but it is nice way to work your building skills better. At least I tend to think so since you have to be creative when themes can be everything from sharks to sports. But if you wanna give it a shot it will be easy to try.

LEGO Lord of the rings part II

Somehow Summer becomes always busy. I do tend to play more but found myself travelling to see relatives, friends and working. Well luckily my holiday is still in front of me so perhaps I will have more time to play. As a rainy day like today it was good time to continue story of the Lego game anyways. If you haven't read the books nor watched the films.. these screenshots from the game might give you hints about the story.

Final battle against Balrog.

Boys are a bit lost

Sam climbs to catch fishes to Gollum.

Dead Marshes isn't the nicesst place to spend time.

I am glad that story of the game still follows rather well the movies and the books. But The Lord of the Rings movies were following books better than the Hobbit films followed the original book. So when I try to play Lego Hobbit I might growl in pain when I really liked the book! This game is made for whole family and it would be nice to play even with little ones. Characters has their special skills like Sam knows how to use elven rope for climbing and Frodo can use elven cloak to hide himself. So when you do play alone.. it is common to switch from one character to other. If there would be two players playing they could team up and and help each other but when you do play on your own, use all of the characters which remains in the group at that moment. 

Mighty Oliphants!

Between the ares you can run freely and pick some extra quests to do later.

Meeting the Rohirrim.

The creepy Fangorn

Lego games are full of humour. Since I do know the original story well it was fun to laugh sometimes to Gimli when he was grumbling about Fangorn or complaining about something else. Of course there are also frustrating moments when your char isn't an exact point and you try to jump only falling to your death. That happens a lot since you can move in every direction but game is always shown from one angle. Even I have played several Lego games I still do not like this system at all!

Treebeard is suspicious.

Treebeard just stomps everything.

Meeting old friends again.

The story has continued and hopefully on the next update I can tell how did the fight of the Helm's deep went. It might be interesting to see how they have created that big battle and how much you can move from your fighting spot to  look through stronghold. Yeah and since I still play the basic story I haven't tried those extra quests so far so new things to try still.