Lord of the Rings Online Kicks Off April Fool's With The Battle of Amon Hen - Kotaku Comments

Lord of the Rings Online Kicks Off April Fool's With The Battle of Amon Hen

TrevWolf — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 03:01:16 MDT

I hope this doesn't run afoul of the current class balance system. Otherwise they'd end up with egg on their face and hen-pecked by irritated subscribers. Chicken.

TrevWolf

Lord of the Rings Online Kicks Off April Fool's With The Battle of Amon Hen

Mara — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 02:59:36 MDT

They still haven't added the smurfs that they announced exactly a year ago!

Mara

Lord of the Rings Online Kicks Off April Fool's With The Battle of Amon Hen

Captain Impulse — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 02:17:15 MDT

@Jamie_W: It's a spoof event. Same as the holiday events in WoW. Do you really have to shit on it that much?

Captain Impulse

Lord of the Rings Online Kicks Off April Fool's With The Battle of Amon Hen

Tei — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 02:00:40 MDT

Lotro: The Minigame (also include raiding)

Tei

Lord of the Rings Online Kicks Off April Fool's With The Battle of Amon Hen

Jamie_W — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 01:58:50 MDT

April Fools that are this obvious are just really shit. This wasn't funny. April Fools are only worth doing when they have the ability to make people believe.

Jamie_W

Lord of the Rings Online Kicks Off April Fool's With The Battle of Amon Hen

yashichi8bit — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 23:56:41 MDT

@The_Inquisitor: Ah come on, "Crush your foes into 6, 12 or 20 pieces!"...thats comedy!

yashichi8bit

Lord of the Rings Online Kicks Off April Fool's With The Battle of Amon Hen

The_Inquisitor — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 23:23:40 MDT

Maybe I'm just tired.

Or maybe it's because I tried that game, and I felt it was awful grindfest dren.

But I totally failed to find anything funny in that site.

The_Inquisitor

Lord of the Rings Online Kicks Off April Fool's With The Battle of Amon Hen

labrats5 — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 22:18:51 MDT

Damn, it's April fools already. Better start spreading rumors:

Starcraft 2 is coming out in '07!
Merfolk a playable race in WOW!
Master Chief is really Captain Planet!

Should hold me off 'til I wake up.

labrats5

Lord of the Rings Online Kicks Off April Fool's With The Battle of Amon Hen

cokpendejo — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 21:25:23 MDT

one shot cook recipe: yourself

cokpendejo

Lord of the Rings Online Kicks Off April Fool's With The Battle of Amon Hen

VioletArrows — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 21:11:56 MDT

Maybe I should install that trial...

VioletArrows

Lord of the Rings Online Kicks Off April Fool's With The Battle of Amon Hen

Digitalguardian — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 21:06:40 MDT

This how april fool's is done.

Digitalguardian

Lord of the Rings Online Kicks Off April Fool's With The Battle of Amon Hen

Spiffyness — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 21:05:19 MDT

@ShaggE: Hullabaloo is a kickass word, especially when used in context of a Muse album.

Spiffyness

Lord of the Rings Online Kicks Off April Fool's With The Battle of Amon Hen

Michael McWhertor — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 20:25:04 MDT

@ShaggE: You have a "buoy" friend in Polywhirl! Vocabulary match makin'!

Michael McWhertor

Lord of the Rings Online Kicks Off April Fool's With The Battle of Amon Hen

Michael McWhertor — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 20:24:28 MDT

@Polywhirl: You know, sometimes I'd just appreciate a "Hey, another post without a 'teh' in it, McWhertor! Keep up the good work!" But I still appreciate your honesty. You drunk?

Michael McWhertor

Lord of the Rings Online Kicks Off April Fool's With The Battle of Amon Hen

Polywhirl — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 20:17:31 MDT

@ShaggE: To buoy his spirits, McWhertor decided to visit a little soiree. However, to his major dissapointment, his incontinence caused him to suffer a nipplesplosion and turn the whole thing into a giant hullabaloo.
There. Feel better?

@Michael McWhertor: It's because we're all subconsciously jealous. You get to live a life we only dream of. To help alleviate the suffering of not getting to be you, we scrutinize everything you say, and tear it apart when we can, in a desperate bid to buoy our minuscule egos.

Polywhirl

Lord of the Rings Online Kicks Off April Fool's With The Battle of Amon Hen

Toprem — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 20:17:28 MDT

If they actually went through with it, that would top EQ's prank of making all player models display as just the red wire frame skeletons last year for it. There's a patch tonight for EQ, but they said it wasn't for an april fools' joke, dunno if that can be trusted or not though.

How bad is it when I want those wire frames back because the game's models suck so bad :OX.

Toprem

Lord of the Rings Online Kicks Off April Fool's With The Battle of Amon Hen

ceilingFANBOY — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 20:12:22 MDT

Now April Fool's jokes aren't going to work because you've left a big reminder to everyone that tomorrow is April Fool's Day.

ceilingFANBOY

Lord of the Rings Online Kicks Off April Fool's With The Battle of Amon Hen

AppleTamer — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 20:02:27 MDT

You fools, May 31st was just an ingenious April Fool's prank McWhertor played a day early to coincide with LOTROs joke. YOU ALL FELL FOR IT! LONG LIVE THE SUPREME PRANKSTER.

AppleTamer

Lord of the Rings Online Kicks Off April Fool's With The Battle of Amon Hen

ShaggE — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 20:01:54 MDT

@Michael McWhertor: "Incontinence" is so vastly underappreciated as a word...

Same goes for "hullabaloo", "soiree", "buoy", "adjacent", and "nipplesplosion". Although I may have made that last one up.

ShaggE

Lord of the Rings Online Kicks Off April Fool's With The Battle of Amon Hen

FP Shindokie — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 19:56:45 MDT

@Michael McWhertor: It's much easier getting the words you get wrong to be honest. If you got all the words right then we would have to go on topic. Who wants that?

FP Shindokie

Lord of the Rings Online Kicks Off April Fool's With The Battle of Amon Hen

goldwings — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 19:52:09 MDT

OH SHIT April 1st is coming already?! RUN TO THE HILLS THE INTERNET IS NOT SAFE.

goldwings

Lord of the Rings Online Kicks Off April Fool's With The Battle of Amon Hen

Sap_My_Sentry — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 19:50:56 MDT

Damn it, they fixed it already.

Sap_My_Sentry

Lord of the Rings Online Kicks Off April Fool's With The Battle of Amon Hen

Spiffyness — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 19:49:27 MDT

lol, batter.

Spiffyness

Lord of the Rings Online Kicks Off April Fool's With The Battle of Amon Hen

Michael McWhertor — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 19:42:05 MDT

Man, I can't believe you guys fell for that "May 31" joke. Buncha rubes. LOLz.

Also, how come I never get credit for all the words I get right, huh? I mean, "incontinence" isn't exactly a word I use everyday (thank God).

Michael McWhertor

Lord of the Rings Online Kicks Off April Fool's With The Battle of Amon Hen

majatt — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 19:41:32 MDT

And with this I disappear from the internets for the day and come back when sanity has returned, lol.

majatt

Lord of the Rings Online Kicks Off April Fool's With The Battle of Amon Hen

FP Shindokie — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 19:41:15 MDT

I never knew May came before April. Har Har. It's May April March. Take it anyway you will

FP Shindokie

Lord of the Rings Online Kicks Off April Fool's With The Battle of Amon Hen

MisterSleep — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 19:40:52 MDT

I'm glad they decided to keep everyone a breast of the changes and didn't just wing it with the updates. I'm egg-cited to try it out but I hope the fowl-mouthed mothercluckers don't get me down...

Eggs Benedict. Wait. Shit. That didn't work.

Okay, I'm down. Jesus, I think I'm bleeding from my eyes.

MisterSleep

Lord of the Rings Online Kicks Off April Fool's With The Battle of Amon Hen

okenny :) — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 19:37:11 MDT

It's the time of year where all the news you hear are lies... yes folks... it's election time... err, I mean April Fools :\

okenny :)

Lord of the Rings Online Kicks Off April Fool's With The Battle of Amon Hen

Mike918 — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 19:33:43 MDT

Hey this is the first typo that i can see yay!, but is fine we get your point ;)

Mike918

Lord of the Rings Online Kicks Off April Fool's With The Battle of Amon Hen

ShaggE — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 19:32:52 MDT

Birds, schmirds. Needs more Cow Level.

ShaggE

Lord of the Rings Online Kicks Off April Fool's With The Battle of Amon Hen

InsidiousTuna — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 19:30:29 MDT

I need to try this game out again. Every time I try, I get bored when it tries to update, and I stop.

InsidiousTuna

Lord of the Rings Online Kicks Off April Fool's With The Battle of Amon Hen

Jagged Toaster — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 19:29:43 MDT

Har har, I found a typo! OH EM GEE.

Jagged Toaster

Lord of the Rings Online Kicks Off April Fool's With The Battle of Amon Hen

Polywhirl — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 19:29:04 MDT

I only appreciate these gags if they make them real. For example, I want them to actually make a chicken race now. It might be a gag, but they should make it.
@ArAcHnAdZ: Of course. Kotaku has to be in May. That's how they know all the latest gaming news ahead of time. And Kotaku Tower itself is a state of Zen that transcends all boundaries, not a physical place.

Polywhirl

Lord of the Rings Online Kicks Off April Fool's With The Battle of Amon Hen

HuffmanDickings — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 19:27:41 MDT

Really guys? Is it "May 31 on the Kotaku Tower desk calendar"? haha, i found a typo, i get a cookie! ;)

HuffmanDickings

Lord of the Rings Online Kicks Off April Fool's With The Battle of Amon Hen

DigiMish — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 19:26:22 MDT

How's GTAIV? Cause you know... you've already been playing it for an entire month, Mike...

DigiMish

Lord of the Rings Online Kicks Off April Fool's With The Battle of Amon Hen

ArAcHnAdZ — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 19:25:43 MDT

Confirmed, Kotaku Tower is 2 months in the future.

ArAcHnAdZ

Lord of the Rings Online Kicks Off April Fool's With The Battle of Amon Hen

DesmondHume — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 19:24:14 MDT

Sounds.....interesting.

DesmondHume