When you play nothing but rpgs and it takes months to beat some of them, well... I haven't been so good about finishing games lately.  Or at least it takes me forever.  I finally bought The Lord of the Rings: The Third Age on a whim a few weeks ago and got so swept up in my love for LOTR that I finished it off in just 2 weeks.  The mechanics are ok, the story is weak (the story they give you on top of the film story I mean).  But I love the environments and enemies, and kicking ass on Middle Earth was a lot of fun.  35 hours for me.  Highlights were fighting the Balrog and Mumakils (those giant elephants, and fighting 2 at one point was maybe the toughest fight of the game).  Time to go back to Final Fantasy XII, so I don't repeat what happened to me 4 years ago:  getting really far then not finishing.  I'm further now than I was back then after restarting in October, and though I fell victim to this pleasant orc slaughtering distraction, I'm lucky it didn't derail me too much.  I was in the thick of some rare monster and esper hunting.

When you play nothing but rpgs and it takes months to beat some of them, well... I haven't been so good about finishing games lately.  Or at least it takes me forever.  I finally bought The Lord of the Rings: The Third Age on a whim a few weeks ago and got so swept up in my love for LOTR that I finished it off in just 2 weeks.  The mechanics are ok, the story is weak (the story they give you on top of the film story I mean).  But I love the environments and enemies, and kicking ass on Middle Earth was a lot of fun.  35 hours for me.  Highlights were fighting the Balrog and Mumakils (those giant elephants, and fighting 2 at one point was maybe the toughest fight of the game).  Time to go back to Final Fantasy XII, so I don't repeat what happened to me 4 years ago:  getting really far then not finishing.  I'm further now than I was back then after restarting in October, and though I fell victim to this pleasant orc slaughtering distraction, I'm lucky it didn't derail me too much.  I was in the thick of some rare monster and esper hunting.

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Wait, isn't this that crazy-ass RPG about the fellowship that follows the fellowship and somehow ends up fighting the Eye of Sauron?

" Wait, isn't this that crazy-ass RPG about the fellowship that follows the fellowship and somehow ends up fighting the Eye of Sauron? "

I stopped playing at Helms Deep.

LOL yeah they sort of ignore the story of the films just as often as they try to remain faithful to it.

I remember that game, played it on the gamecube. I thought it was great! The writing is pretty clever, by being on the trail of the fellowship all the time,  great game.