I could only just get into the new volume of the epic quest at level 91 (it starts at 95 and quickly ramps up to 100).
My Lore-master has been racing behind the level curve of these new areas and quests. I don’t, but hey, it’s a break from wall-to-wall Man stuff we’ve had ever since Dunland. It even worked in some Elves, if you go for that sort of thing. But it really is a terrific region, with its own music, architecture, and narrative.
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Rohan was admittedly gorgeous and got a lot of press, while Gondor seems to be an expansion that was chopped up into smaller parcels and never given its full due. Happily, LOTRO seems to go back and forth between attractive and dismal settings, and being able to explore the beauty of Gondor makes getting up to these high levels worth it.Įven though this is my second time going up through the levels, I’m still incredibly impressed with what the devs did with Gondor. Naturally, there are exceptions to this, and this trope does seem to be changing these days, but that’s the rule of thumb.
The standard format of MMOs goes that the higher up in levels you go, the uglier and more visually oppressive zones get. As my wife said the other day when we were driving, “Is this the theme to the Snorks?”
Also, I’m realizing just how weird my tastes are. Plus, it’s a chance to reaquaint myself with some of my old favorites and remember when I had added these. It’s that satisfying feeling of cleaning out a room that you’ve neglected for too long. It’s going to be a slow process, to be sure, but I’m glad I’m finally getting around to it. I’m also taking the opportunity to fix spelling, capitalization, and other formatting errors. The whole idea of this mix is that it’s Syp’s personal radio station, and I should never want to skip a song of it because I don’t like it for whatever reason.īecause of this realization, this week I sat down and started a lengthy project to go back through all 4,500 tracks, listening to them one by one, and culling the songs that don’t have high replay value. I might have liked them at one time or included them because I thought they were noteworthy, but they weren’t “listen to all of the time” candidates any more. Second, many of the songs that I had thrown into that folder were no longer appealing to me. Firstly, it takes my car almost three minutes to index all of those and start playing them after I turn it on, which has caused a few hilarious moments when music abruptly started blaring while we’re already driving and my wife jumps out of her seat. At the start of this week, the folder contained over 4,500 tracks, which I had come to realize was causing issues. Over time, I kept throwing files willy-nilly into the Mobile Mix folder to the point where it started to buckle from being too big. A favorites mix, if you will, which is something that I imagine many people have. So as I listen to and sort tracks, I have thrown the best into a folder that I’ve called “Mobile Mix.” Since I have too much music to fit on most mobile devices (first iPods, later the iPhone and my car’s flash drives), I wanted to pull music that I would listen to the most while I was on the go. The only exception to this plan these days are MMORPG soundtracks, which I have kept in full due to the projects that I use them for. I used to keep EVERYthing, but having long since realized that there are tracks I will never listen to ever again, I stopped doing that and only saved songs that I liked for one reason or another. It’s nothing fancy, just a dozen or so folders devoted to various musical genres (pop, video game, comedy, Christian, etc.), into which I would put songs that I generally liked. So if you’ll excuse my extreme nerdiness and self-indulgence today, I wanted to talk about my music collection.Įver since I started collecting digital music in the early 2000s, I had my own organizational system.
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