Every time you play, every enemy is randomly generated with their own strengths and weaknesses.
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Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor |OT| One Title to rule them all
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Every time you play, every enemy is randomly generated with their own strengths and weaknesses.
I don't think it's every enemy, I think once they move from Grunts->Captains that their traits are generated. But it happens even without your input (but you can accelerate promotion by..uh..dying to them, lol).
Err right, that's what I meant. Though I wonder if it's generated every time you load up or is it per play-through like a seed is generated and every big dog then gets their traits and they stick until killed or you beat the game?
mordecaii83
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The 4GB RAM might be a problem, but the rest seems ok.
Near positive it's for the whole playthrough! Be cool to compare across our games in the OT to see how significant the differences can be. Obviously we have to hope that they are more than just little inconsequential alternations.
DarthPrince
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Just wanted to say you did a fantastic job on the OT op. It's really good =]
ermagerd, I forgot about this one, still haven't finished it! Got about... 10ish hours in when I got distracted by life and other games =( The pics reminded me of how much fun it was! Maybe I'll boot it up while we wait for Mordor =p
ermagerd, I forgot about this one, still haven't finished it! Got about... 10ish hours in when I got distracted by life and other games =( The pics reminded me of how much fun it was! Maybe I'll boot it up while we wait for Mordor =p
Death Metalist
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It's a fantastic game. Took me a full week to get done with everything it has to offer. I really got lost in the world, I hope we get a sequel some day.
They have intentionally kept the story under wraps. It's written by the guy who wrote Red Dead Redemption. There's also lots of exploration and collectible type stuff in the game too.
zkorejo
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If that turns out to be true, I might be interested in getting this.
For now, I am assuming an average story of about 8 hours and no life in the world except for the Orcs you have to kill one after another. They shown alot of gameplay but it has been just the nemesis system. It sounds good but I wont decide to buy a game based on just one feature.
Not a tremendous amount of "life" in the game world, it's true. But lots of optional little side-things to do - doo-dads to pick up, stealth/combat side missions, hunting challenges, etc.
Game is a good bit longer than 8 hours.
WheelHoss1
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Any word on graphical differences of Xbone vs PS4? Wanna get this baby preloaded. . . .
They've been really quiet about XBO. Pretty much all preview footage has been PS4 to my knowledge with some pc. It seems pretty clear XBO is sub 1080p since they comfirmed it for PS4 otherwise. As for framerate, my guess is that both console versions will run at a "unlocked 60" but I guess we will know for sure in a few days.
theonerayman
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Director has stated on more than a couple occasions that their average play through was around 30 hours. As far as things to do there are collectables, tons of runes to combine and use. As well as unlocking the towers. So there is going to be more than just slaughtering orcs one after another.
That randomly generated Orcs engine is a feat unto itself. They look and move as if hand-made, yet they really are truly random and generated. The gameplay remains to be seen, but it looks very promising.
Messofanego
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I better get Ratbag and Hell Hawk in my playthrough!
bigboss370
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can someone show me a clear example of an enemy "remembering" you and their dialogue reflecting that? I'm watching an archived twitch stream of the game and the player is about to be killed by this orc chef guy, but he decided you're too pathetic for him and walks away. A little later when you go confront the same chef, he doesn't really say anything that indicates he remembers letting you go.
iirc Ratbag i story related "nemesis tutorial" so i guess that one will be there for everyone
Krappadizzle
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I noticed exactly what you're talking about too and chalked it up to a bug as even the director mentions prior to the encounter that it should happen. That with the fact that they love to mention it makes me believe it was just a bug.
LurkerPrime
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There was a trailer highlighting it somewhere.
I'd personally be glad if they don't lord it over you every. single. time. because that would get old fast.
Given it's usually a single line out of reportedly thousands of lines during a sword-fight, I doubt it'll get as stale as the commentors in FIFA.
Watch the Machinima pre launch stream. They get killed by an orc who they go back to fight again later and he mentions something about you coming back to life.
Messofanego
Banned
Aww yeah
RoyaleDuke
Banned
I thought there was a lot of Xbone footage out there. The first gameplay video was on Xbox One.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFgvvgGEpkQ
Ratbag appears to be part of the story :/
The Dear Leader
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Everyone should post their first nemesis after Ratbag, so we can get an idea of how diverse the system is.
No problem, brotherrrrrr. If you're short on cash, some of the nice people in the BST thread can help you out.
The Dear Leader
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Yeah there is a mass dumping of 670's, 770's and various other cards as people are upgrading to 970's and 980's. Some mighty tempting deals in the BST thread.
I was talking about games, but this too.
The Dear Leader
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Oh lol, you definitely can get a good deal on the game as well, saw it for $26 a couple days ago.
Messofanego
Banned
Will do!
Krappadizzle
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Great idea. Everyone should try and post screenshot of said nemesis too.
Finished all the LotR movies as well as the prequels. Anyone have any more epic fantasy movie suggestions or the like? Watched Game of Thrones and that was great. Need more.
GoncaloCCastro
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Really looking forward to play this, got the game on steam and the season pass as well (I hate season passes), but I really think I'm going to like this game.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJc_ezRa8Go&list=UUJ2ZDzMRgSrxmwphstrm8Ww
dunno if thats been linked but looks pretty good from it!
Though you have to endure the commentary..
dunno if thats been linked but looks pretty good from it!
Though you have to endure the commentary..
DigitalDevil
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I am so hyped for this. I hope that guy that tweeted about the Destructoid review releasing tomorrow was right. I want to see some reviews! Not that it matters, I preordered this game in April lol.
Messofanego
Banned
I love that PS4/XB1 can now do all that capturing game footage functionality. And copying to a USB disk, don't have to worry with all that bad youtube/facebook compression. It almost makes my laptop worthless. Almost.
To me this machinima stream really is the best overview of what we know of the game (okay it doesn't have a story mission maybe).
It answers I think most of the questions that people who come into this thread are asking for (like "what is besides the combat" and "how can nemesis work with this combat" and also shows skills, runes, etc...)
This should probably be linked in big fat letters as a "tldr" at the top of the OP
That is most likely PC using a 360 controller. I'm pretty sure there isn't any XB1 footage out there. It wouldn't matter much anyway. Most of the difference will likely be resolution, which wouldn't be very noticeable in a YouTube video anyway.
Net_Wrecker
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I don't think I've ever watched so much gameplay pre-release of any other game. It's kind of crazy how much footage is out there and how willing they've been to let people stream/record hour long chunks of it. Granted, it's only the Nemesis stuff and we've barely seen the missions/collectables/hunts, but still.
It's because it really is different each time.
I think it's per playthrough (though there will be lots of "rotation" due to them dying and stuff
)However, there is also a "challenge mode" (= not challenge rooms, it takes place in the open world) where it basically generates a whole hierarchy with 5 warchiefs, different every time, and you start with 0 intel, and you get points based on the time it takes you to brand all warchiefs or stuff like that, so that's probably the most obviously "replayable" part.
I've watched way too many streams to rembember which one, but I think it was in the machinima one where the player arrives on a caragor, a captain flees because he has a fear of it, then during a next encounter when they clash swords (because he's the bodyguard of the dude you're going after) he says something like "there's no filthy caragor to save you this time !".
I think it was the most obvious I've seen.
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