Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor
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Hatorade
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Vitality
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Don't worry about it I'll skim through this thread and add id's after bowling tonight.
I have a super legacy account back when steam was just as good as xfire (remember that program?) or whatever.
Quineloe
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This game is fucking A. Usually the best you can hope for in an cash-in-on-IP-game is that they provide a solid game based on known mechanics, basically copy a good game and make it work through the IP alone.
I've only played an hour or so, but Shadow of Mordor actually has a few features I haven't seen before in any game yet. Get killed by a random uruk, it actually promotes the uruk to captain and gives him a name, and he'll come back at you twice as strong later.
Also in any other game if you get surrounded by ten guards, you usually just die. Here, they'll form a circle and come at you only 1-3 at a time while the rest watches. Fighting through a large pack might take a minute or two, but never before could a make actually make you feel like one of these story super heroes that can take on infinite Uruks like Aragorn. Every time that actually happens and you win, it's fucking awesome.
The other thing I really liked is how Stealth here actually makes sense. Kill a guard in thief and have it spotted? The other guards reaction makes no sense, eventually they even go back to idle.. in Mordor, one uruk said after they looked around for a while "Uruks die all the time, this was probably just a brawl". It's not that much different from Thief stealth, but in this setting it's not face palm 90s stupid.
I've only played an hour or so, but Shadow of Mordor actually has a few features I haven't seen before in any game yet. Get killed by a random uruk, it actually promotes the uruk to captain and gives him a name, and he'll come back at you twice as strong later.
Also in any other game if you get surrounded by ten guards, you usually just die. Here, they'll form a circle and come at you only 1-3 at a time while the rest watches. Fighting through a large pack might take a minute or two, but never before could a make actually make you feel like one of these story super heroes that can take on infinite Uruks like Aragorn. Every time that actually happens and you win, it's fucking awesome.
The other thing I really liked is how Stealth here actually makes sense. Kill a guard in thief and have it spotted? The other guards reaction makes no sense, eventually they even go back to idle.. in Mordor, one uruk said after they looked around for a while "Uruks die all the time, this was probably just a brawl". It's not that much different from Thief stealth, but in this setting it's not face palm 90s stupid.
Nester
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This^
I love the voice acting and script of the Named when they stumble on to you. I love how they point out "Hey didn't I kill you already? oh well, I am an orc and more killing is a comin"
This is the first true Next Gen game imo
Man i laughed at whoever died to a large troll right out the gate. Then I went out and bought it, and died to a large troll right out the gate. Too much fun
I havent seen it mentioned here yet but if you click on the fast travel towers (forge towers?) you get an option to advance time, its square on ps4, and when you do this it will create new captains for you to kill and also promote captains that escaped you or you escaped to the next rank if there is an opening. Also, I think it replenishes all the herbs.
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I had a fucking Captain leave me on the ground while I was about dead and tell me it was too easy, he was gonna let me live, and he took off while he had the upper hand.
I felt ashamed.
Nester
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Make sure you guys are interrogating who you can. It tells you the strength and weakness which can be crucial, Just as Bragon said, one of the guys has "Humiliation" meaning he will not give the death blow because you are not worthy.
My Nemesis, Hozza (or something) can block my attacks and counter the counters, but vulnerable to stealth kills. This duded leveled from 9 to 16 off me until he attacked me while fighting other captains in the golumn mission. I had to run away and climb to rehind then shanked him from behind for one of the best revenge feelings I have had in many games!
My Nemesis, Hozza (or something) can block my attacks and counter the counters, but vulnerable to stealth kills. This duded leveled from 9 to 16 off me until he attacked me while fighting other captains in the golumn mission. I had to run away and climb to rehind then shanked him from behind for one of the best revenge feelings I have had in many games!
Vaclav
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Karen
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Having a ton of fun in this game so far. Like Ut, only got an hour or so in last night but enjoyed the piss out of it. 70" Sony LED arrives today, so going to get that all set up before cracking into this more. Hope they expand on this going forward to include other area's of the LOTR universe.
Noodleface
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Man I got stuck at the gym last night helping some bangin' ass chick with a huge ass do some workouts. Figured it was worth it.. now I feel like I missed out. Game is just sitting on my coffee table..
