CosmicQueso
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Don't feel too bad, you have a kick ass wife. Jeez man I can't even get my girl to make toast. Off topic, yeah, but seriously, that's cool.
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Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor |OT| One Title to rule them all
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Don't feel too bad, you have a kick ass wife. Jeez man I can't even get my girl to make toast. Off topic, yeah, but seriously, that's cool.
Corpsepyre
Banned
Is there more to the game than fighting orcs and the much hyped up and marketed Nemesis system? Any big boss fights and creatures from the Tolkien lore?
The final boss fight is against Tom Bombadil.
Codeacious
Banned
For people on PC wanting SLI: The F.E.A.R. 3 DX11 bits seems to be working very well for a good number of cards- even my 670MXs, which aren't even desktop cards. There's an empty SoM profile with the latest Nvidia drivers (341.11) too, so I added them in there and am now rocking a solid 60FPS. You also have to add the actual SoM EXE to the profile, which is sorta weird (the default profile has some irrelevant sounding executable names tied to it).
GifGafIsTheBestGaf
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where? i checked it before work and i had it locked out too. thanks in advance
shinobi602
Member
*sigh*
I'm finding myself a little more apathetic with each battle...quickly getting surrounded by 2 dozen orcs, multiple captains, spear throwers in the background and archers to boot, dying over and over again. It's beginning to get a little tedious. Getting to the point where I'm almost not looking forward to the next battle. To make matters worse, I look at the minimap and see a near constant stream of orcs coming to join the battle, almost feels never-ending...
It doesn't help that the bow feels a little useless since I have to find arrows in the world to recharge the thing often which is annoying. Traversing the environment isn't as smooth and intuitive as I thought it'd be, Talion moves a little slowly for my liking when climbing or moving through structures. Found myself stuck on geometry a few times only to get killed by a group again. Just been my experience so far...thing is it's not like I don't particularly enjoy the combat, I really like the Batman Arkham games. For some reason there's just so many goddamn enemies here that swarm you. Damn, I don't know...
I'm finding myself a little more apathetic with each battle...quickly getting surrounded by 2 dozen orcs, multiple captains, spear throwers in the background and archers to boot, dying over and over again. It's beginning to get a little tedious. Getting to the point where I'm almost not looking forward to the next battle. To make matters worse, I look at the minimap and see a near constant stream of orcs coming to join the battle, almost feels never-ending...
It doesn't help that the bow feels a little useless since I have to find arrows in the world to recharge the thing often which is annoying. Traversing the environment isn't as smooth and intuitive as I thought it'd be, Talion moves a little slowly for my liking when climbing or moving through structures. Found myself stuck on geometry a few times only to get killed by a group again. Just been my experience so far...thing is it's not like I don't particularly enjoy the combat, I really like the Batman Arkham games. For some reason there's just so many goddamn enemies here that swarm you. Damn, I don't know...
FairXchange
Member
You guys said the game was easy, and I'm a vet of the Batman and AC series. I got my butt kicked by a gang of Orcs, and one of them ascended the ranks to a captain for killing me! On the brightside, I discovered a captain and killed him with his group by chance. It was pretty exhilarating. I'm loving this game so far, though I knew going into it that it would be right up my alley. The graphics are great, the combat is tight and visceral, and the nemesis system is downright impressive based on the few hours I've spent with it.
Fuck yeah! I need to buy this!
XANDER CAGE
Member
You jest, but the real answer isn't any less ridiculous.
nice, nice.
Was out to buy it today but it still wasn't available so I got naruto revolution instead... I got pressured by my housemates.
Weak willed I know
Just killed 2 warchiefs at the same time. It was... "godlike"!
Amazing game.
I had 2 warchiefs, and 2 of their bodyguards in the same area. It was insane.
MisterCrow
Member
Is it possible to get the dark ranger skin having not pre ordered the game? Like as a paid DLC or something?
XANDER CAGE
Member
Night and rain is so good.
Wolvesinthebathroom
Member
So I'm fighting like 8 orcs and kicking their asses and some asshole named nazdug who was standing on top of a tower shoots me with an arrow and kills me. Now he's nazdug the beast slayer and he's a captain. Fuck that guy.
Admiral Woofington
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GifGafIsTheBestGaf
Member
cool, now can i begin my play through without worry
Dio Brando
Banned
damn, just noticed now that achivements were not working while i was playing. had to restart steam. hope work retroactively D:
Youre letting ONE members' comments control your choice of buying?
Everyone else seems to be having a blast from what Im reading.
Don't you think you are going about it in the wrong way? If you see hundreds of orcs milling about, do you just jump in and hope the game plays itself?
Poison some grog, unleash some dogs or flies, explode some barrels, shoot or stealth kill some archers. Otherwise, turn the fight to your advantage before blindly charging in.
I've noticed this game does have an air of difficulty about it if you don't pay attention to your surroundings.
I'm at a awful stealth mission atm, The Outcasts.
Great great game, but I HATE these kind of missions.
I struggled with that mission too. Having instant failure states is really poor game design.
Admiral Woofington
Member
what the ever living fuck lol this worked. Thanks.
Well, I've always trusted his opinions on stuff in the past, and he's been spot on in what my own thoughts have been, but I hear what your saying...mega reviews can't be wrong...
Garrett Hawke
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diggmcbadass
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I am liking this game a bit more than I thought I would. The nemesis introductions get a bit much though. I was running away from two of the dudes and an alarm in a fortress when this third dude stops me to introduce himself. I just kept on running after the cutscene. Guy probably thought I was rude, because when I came back he told me that I wouldn't be running away this time. Sadly for him, he was right.
Dead Prince
Banned
is that before or after you read his impression? impression could sway you into that direction thinking it might be bad/good.
ShadowKingpin
Member
It looks like 30fps to me, but I could be wrong?
Dont be such a Frodo dude. Get the game if you can afford it. You should not what type of games you like, an the type you can tolerate with a few dissenting reviews
SlasherJPC
Banned
LOL
shinobi602
Member
That's what I've been doing, believe me. I don't mean I jump head first into a hundred enemies, I head into a group of 4-5 and suddenly I'm surrounded by 20 lol. I always try to take advantage of the environment, exploding fires, attracting a group to barrels and shooting those as well as well as the hornet nests. The other points I posted still happen though :-/
You have to use stealth to take out some orcs before you corner the rest so you don't get a whole mob going.
LabouredSubterfuge
Member
How do you interrogate the green dudes?
Garrett Hawke
Member
I was feeling this until I decided to pick my battles. Like, if there are too many enemies and I know I can't handle them, I just run away.
stufte
Member
grab them?
Giantbombs quicklook was quite firm.
Must buy. Also stated that the parcour was less restrictive than AC and had much more satisfying combat to boot.
Pretty much the exact opposite of what is stated here.
The game has come out of nowhere for me. Never bat an eye lid until the reviews hit last week, which then got me looking ...
Some impressions after a couple of hours:
Unless the game does something surprising, the strong suit of the game is for me the difficulty of the combat and the highly praised nemesis system. Otherwise this would be audiovisually bombastic with amazing production values, yet highly superficial and dumb AAA trash to me.
- The Assassin's Creed mechanics with the opposite control scheme is kind of frustrating. Stealth is on right trigger which in AC is High Profile. So whenever I'm running, I end up holding right trigger.
- Talion's design isn't as great as it could be. Small head, huge hands, small legs, huge torso. It unfortunately ends up looking like a WoW character, which clashes with the other designs in the game, such as Gollum.
- The animation sequences suffer from the same problems as the AC games. Sometimes you end up going up a wall you don't intend to, sometimes the wrong enemies are targeted when dropping down, etc.
- The copy-paste stuff from AC games is also pretty brainless. So many of the mechanics are lifted straight off the AC games. It's like Tomb Raider's reboot of doing a by-the-numbers carbon copy of the scripted, cinematic Uncharted formula.
- Collect-a-thon like flower picking and tower unlocks can be excruciating and dumb as well. "3 inches deep ocean", indeed.
- I appreciate the difficulty of the combat. It isn't easy. And while losing, the captains and war chiefs become better and better - I now have some dude who killed me 3 times in a row because it was at the beginning of the game for me, and he's now invulnerable to both ranged and physical attacks. However, it's still hit X, counter with Y, and then sometimes roll/dodge, until I can instakill with enough hit combos. However, the other options (instakilling stunned enemies and stunning enemies) are useless as long as I'm swarmed.
- The use of colors are also nice, and the lighting and texture work are both excellent (playing on my TV, so no discern look with my monitor).
- The fanservice can be too much. "Gollum might play an important part in the future, I can feel it". Uh huh. The writing isn't strong either.
Unless the game does something surprising, the strong suit of the game is for me the difficulty of the combat and the highly praised nemesis system. Otherwise this would be audiovisually bombastic with amazing production values, yet highly superficial and dumb AAA trash to me.
LabouredSubterfuge
Member
Do they have to be on the floor or can you just sneak up on them and grab?
ThoughtsOfSpeaking
Banned
Sounds like my kinda game honestly.
I love the idea that the guy who kills you gets stronger.
Basically, the game is telling you, get gud.
stufte
Member
i think because they're just peons you can just sneak and grab. I may be wrong though.
shinobi602
Member
I wouldn't want anyone to listen to just what I have to say on it at all. Read everyone else's impressions and form your thoughts around it
Other outlets and places like Giantbomb can say the exact opposite of my feelings but I don't think their opinions are somehow more valid than mine or anyone else's and automatically negate what I felt...everyone plays and enjoys different games, those were just my thoughts so far.
Other outlets and places like Giantbomb can say the exact opposite of my feelings but I don't think their opinions are somehow more valid than mine or anyone else's and automatically negate what I felt...everyone plays and enjoys different games, those were just my thoughts so far.
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