{"id":43604,"date":"2018-08-29T14:44:34","date_gmt":"2018-08-29T14:44:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pockettactics.com\/articles\/watch-two-hours-of-lord-of-the-rings-living-card-game-gameplay\/"},"modified":"2018-08-29T14:44:34","modified_gmt":"2018-08-29T14:44:34","slug":"watch-two-hours-of-lord-of-the-rings-living-card-game-gameplay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/08\/29\/watch-two-hours-of-lord-of-the-rings-living-card-game-gameplay\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch two hours of Lord of the Rings: Living Card Game Gameplay"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By Joe Robinson<\/span> 29 Aug 2018<\/span> <\/p>\n

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Asmodee Digital have now put the archive of last night’s Lord of the Rings: Living Card Game<\/em> stream up on their Twitch page, if you didn’t get a chance to watch it last night. It’s about two hours long, just so you know, and we’ve replaced the embed below with the archived stream instead of the live feed. Enjoy!<\/p>\n

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As Hearthstone<\/em> continues to dominate the digital CCG market, new and interesting variations on the formula are slowly starting to emerge. Faeria<\/em>, despite abandoning mobile development, tried to change the game by adding a physical board. The Elder Scrolls: Legends<\/em> iterated in a subtler way by providing more tactical depth.<\/p>\n

The Lord of the Rings: Living Card Game<\/em> is the latest contender for the throne, but it represents an interesting quandary \u2013 for one, it\u2019s an adaptation of an existing, and highly successful physical card game of the same name. Secondly, it\u2019s co-op, not PvP, so you\u2019re playing against an AI opponent who uses slightly different rules and the whole design is bent towards a more bespoke, story-driven experience.<\/p>\n

When it first announced last year, it was generally accepted that Lord of the Rings LCG<\/em> will be coming to mobile. Sadly we\u2019ve heard no further news on that score, but since the game\u2019s out in Steam Early Access today<\/a> and I\u2019m sure some of you are interested in seeing how it plays, can\u2019t hurt to highlight the on-going gameplay stream over on Asmodee\u2019s Twitch account:<\/p>\n

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The stream started at 4pm UTC \/ 5PM GMT, so you may have missed the beginning, but the archive will probably be made available tomorrow if you want to catch up.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve been playing it myself, and so far it\u2019s proved a fascinating experience \u2013 the narrative-driven nature of the game throws up some very interesting and unique mechanics you won\u2019t find in more PvP games. On top of that though, I\u2019m having conflicting emotions over how differently the digital game has evolved from the physical one \u2013 the physical game is a very good co-operative card game, and I\u2019m surprised by how much the team at Fantasy Flight Interactive have decided to distil the game\u2019s core tenets and try to mould into Hearthstone<\/em>\u2019s template.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ll probably do a full write-up over on Strategy Gamer since this isn\u2019t officially a mobile thing yet, so keep an eye out over there for more impressions. Otherwise, enjoy the stream!<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Joe Robinson 29 Aug 2018 Asmodee Digital have now put the archive of last night’s Lord of the Rings: Living Card Game stream up on their Twitch page, if you didn’t get a chance to watch it last night. It’s about two hours long, just so you know, and we’ve replaced the embed below […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43605,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobile-game-releases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43604\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}