Middle-earth: Shadow of War (Shadow of Mordor Sequel)
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Zaphid
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Yeah, the previews sound like they added a bunch of extra systems that you will have to balance, or at worst they just become checklists and it will play like The Ubisoft Game, diluting the original system. I buy very rarely at launch, so I might just wait for the GOTY edition with all the extra DLC like extra tribes and chiefs baked in. I also want to know if they tackle the progress, where you had no time at all to play Mordor Manager, until you got to the very end.
Ladro
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Ladro
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If this were a $40 game, I could maybe accept that, but it's not. Loot crates have no business in a single player game.
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My concern with implementing them in a single-player game is that that the developer / publisher have an incentive to make the game more grindy to sway more players towards microtransactions. Not saying that will happen, I have some trust in the developer and I'm willing to bet that the tuning and core gameplay will be just as awesome as in the original so it shouldn't even matter, but it's still concerning to me.
Zaphid
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Because it compromises the objective of making the best game possible. If there's a shitty grindy part, is it because of malice or incompetence ? I'd love to believe the latter, but you can never be absolutely certain. I'm waiting for the GOTY anyway.
Ambiturner
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I think the point is that if it sinks its roots too deep into single player then game developers will make a game harder so that without the gear benefits from the cash shop you will have a much harder time completing it.
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Palum
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Hey, soon every single player game can just be like the old arcade games where the bosses would just instagib you randomly to make you dump quarters in.
"Hero! The dragon is too strong, but buy these potions of divine light to resurrect mid battle for only $4.95 each! Of course, you could go defend the town for sixty more hours instead to gather the strength you need..."
"Hero! The dragon is too strong, but buy these potions of divine light to resurrect mid battle for only $4.95 each! Of course, you could go defend the town for sixty more hours instead to gather the strength you need..."
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Gavinmad
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Hey in Dungeons and Dragons you had to click past THREE warnings before the game would let you challenge the Ancient Red Dragon.
Amzin
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It's non-cosmetics which means the game, at least to some degree, is balanced around the cash shop. Considering they mentioned things like the power level of your minions and there was pseudo-Diablo loot in the first one, this really is obnoxious. The only reason they'd make it is if they thought it'd make money. If the game wasn't going to have factors where it's potentially worth spending money, it wouldn't make money. Thus, it probably has fucked the game already.
Only exception would be if the shop idea was forced on the devs from higher up (which seems likely regardless) and devs managed to completely screw over the cash shop instead with game design.
Either way, fuck it. Too many good games that don't have this nonsense to worry about it. Wolfenstein will keep me busy.
Only exception would be if the shop idea was forced on the devs from higher up (which seems likely regardless) and devs managed to completely screw over the cash shop instead with game design.
Either way, fuck it. Too many good games that don't have this nonsense to worry about it. Wolfenstein will keep me busy.
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Cause you are a complete fool if you think this will just be simple innocuous MT. MT is everything wrong with gaming today as it allows developers to put all of the coolest and best behind paywalls and huge grind timesinks.
