Middle-earth: Shadow of War (Shadow of Mordor Sequel)

spronk said:

If you have GCU at best buy its $48+tax, you get back $10 in RZ points after 15 days, AAAAnd you get a free silver replica ring (shipped) if you pre order
https://www.bestbuy.com/site/gaming.../pcmcat1487784831976.c?id=pcmcat1487784831976

i couldn't resist the silver ring for $38. I bought it for xbox one weirdly though, might be the first game i boot up on my xbox one X on nov 7th to check it out. At $38 I can trade it in during Nov for $30-35, shouldn't really be a big loss. I still haven't played much of the first one though, got the GOTY on PC and both consoles

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Against my better judgement I’m going to do this. $38 for the game, a dumb ring to sit on my nerd shelf, and some DLC. There are quite a few things coming out towards the end of the year it’ll be worth using as a trade in for.

Crap reviews are now coming up.

https://www.gamespot.com/reviews/middle-earth-shadow-of-war-review/1900-6416783/

7/10.

It's an entire section that should have been cut or severely truncated, and playing through the repetitious levels felt like padding meant only to make the game last longer. But although the game's final act is the most egregious, there are several other systems that Shadow of War fails to justify.

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and....

As an example of how overwrought with options the skill system is, there's an upgrade that unlocks the ability to "collect items by walking over them." In normal play, you actually have to manually push a button to pick up every item you come across. It's an ability worth prioritizing when you're looking to spend skill points, but it's nonsensical that such a basic quality of life improvement isn't just the default way item collection works.

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Hahahahahaha!

These idiots actually made a skill spend option to collect items by running over them rather than pressing a button. Seriously.

Oops.

The game is full of good ideas and potential, that cannot be truly fulfilled due to a storytelling without personality and a huge but boring endgame.

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IGN and Gameinformer, the bastions of ethics, somehow gave a warner brothers game a higher score. Gee, wonder how.

spronk said:

Metacritic - 86
OpenCritic - 85

COGconnected – 94/100
Polygon - 7.5/10
Gameinformer - 9.5/10
Press-start - 8/10
PCGamer - 7.3/10
WCCFTech - 8.9/10
Criticalhit - 9/10
Gadgets 360 - 8/10
Pushsquare - 8/10
Gamesradar 4.5/5
Shacknews - 9/10
USGamer - 4/5
Gamespot - 7/10
IGN - 9/10
GodisaGeek - 10/10
Dualshockers - 8.5/10


Review scores seem suspiciously high given people are bringing up big problems. Fuck game journalists though for real, most of them are giving Forza 7 also a 9/10 or so and the game had serious flaws at launch. I'm going to wait for Angry Joe review.

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Warner Brothers and the usual suspects obviously with the higher scores. We all remember this one.

Warner Bros. paid YouTubers for positive game reviews

WB - Unethical pieces of garbage.

From the reviews the loot crats and MTX are a big nothing burger, which means that Utnayan has to buy us all copies of the game.

I feel like either the gameplay will be amazing and the grind will just be a curve you slowly climb, or the gameplay will be somewhere between bad and merely good and once the story-mode is done it'll be time to put it down.

I thought Shadow of Mordor had the makings of amazing gameplay, but instead of improving upon it and fixing some issues (including Tallion becoming OP) Monolith moved onto Shadow of War.

In other words, some games put the fun behind a grinding barrier (like, all MMOs, especially PvP based ones), but I'm betting in this game you either enjoy the grind or you don't.

Then again maybe the fortress assaults are extremely fun, but require hours of prep time that can be bypassed with a quick purhcase of 9.99 tolkein bux.