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Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor |OT| One Title to rule them all
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James Woods
Banned
I preordered this on PS4. Do I not get the special ranger skin? It shows up as locked.
Agreed. It is something that should be experienced and is worth the price of admission. Now I am dreaming of systems like this in GTA, Batman, Skyrim and practically every other game. This is going to be heavily copied. Ironic that a game that copies quite a few game mechanics from other games will itself be heavily copied by others for different reasons now.
I am sure people will find some glitches eventually but damn my early impressions of the system are great. I feel like this might be something that pushes storytelling and game design forward in really innovative ways in the future.
Wondering if this is happening to anyone else, when Talion goes in to do the finisher on some of the captains after an interrogation, he will do the choke one that I guess is suppose to blow off their heads like I have seen in previews of the game, but when he does it their heads stay on and the animation just looks weird because Talion's hand is like no where near their head
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took about an hour for me on steam...
Edmond Dantès
Dantès the White
Very interesting. The first could be construed as analogous to the Drúedain or more so the individuals not included among the Three Houses of Men in the First Age.
The second seems to bear some resemblance to structure of the Second House of Men and Haleth.
None here. Pre-downloaded digital PS4 here.
I think you just got a bit unlucky.
So far I've not had any issues and I only touched Batman and Asscreed a bit - it seems really forgiving.
Maybe run away if there are a million of them
Admiral Woofington
Member
So I've been playing for a while now. I gotta say I don't see the problems. I wasn't particularly hyped for the game but man the nemesis system is 99.9999999999% of the fun. If you don't want to kill orcs who have little cutscene intros and names to you then I don't know what you want in life.
It's fun as all hell. It's especially fun because some of the orcs you defeat come back again with scars/injuries and want revenge so the whole nemesis system works even more so when a familiar face shows up in the middle of you doing something and wants your head. Also he's probably stronger lol.
There's one in particular who has a hard-on for me and has come back like 3 times already. It's hilarious.
I would kill to have your guy. The guy who is obsessed with me now has this metallic eye patch because I've killed him with headshots so many times. lol
It's fun as all hell. It's especially fun because some of the orcs you defeat come back again with scars/injuries and want revenge so the whole nemesis system works even more so when a familiar face shows up in the middle of you doing something and wants your head. Also he's probably stronger lol.
There's one in particular who has a hard-on for me and has come back like 3 times already. It's hilarious.
I would kill to have your guy. The guy who is obsessed with me now has this metallic eye patch because I've killed him with headshots so many times. lol
That's what supposed to happen, yeah. You need to confront them more than once to really kill them. (they are only really dead if their head comes off)
DarkoMaledictus
Tier Whore
Dûsh Blood-Hand is my new BFF!!
ChawlieTheFair
pip pip cheerio you slags!
I'll say it guys, getting a lil sick of the dark ranger skin, gonna need some more ASAP
The_Hitcher89
Member
Watched the Quick Look
Holy fuck this game looks awesome. Talk about flying in under the radar.
Holy fuck this game looks awesome. Talk about flying in under the radar.
Great read, I fundamentally agree with this guy.
Admiral Woofington
Member
If you kill him you must film yourself looking down at your hands then say
"Looks like there is now blood on these hands"
I love doing stealth kills and staying in the shadows, so it's perfect for me. I mean I won't complain if I get like a "One hobbit sitting on another Hobbit's shoulders" skin.
Justice_Bolt
Member
I'm having a blast with this game!
GodParticle
Member
That's exactly why I avoided buying. Everything I've seen has been kind of repetitive. I still want to try it, though
Just attempted a fort challenge that required killing everyone in a crazy arena. Something like thirty orcs on screen surrounding me and reinforcements keep coming. Killed so many but still couldn't last. Guess I need to try again with more melee skills. Way more enemies than the game has ever thrown at me.
Fun game and the nemeais system now includes vengeance events that pull Orcs from friend list deaths to kill Diablo 3 style. Neat
Fun game and the nemeais system now includes vengeance events that pull Orcs from friend list deaths to kill Diablo 3 style. Neat
WheelHoss1
Member
Finally died for the 1st time (after at least 4 recoveries with that mini-game). Killed a pyro captain and his minion shot me while I was picking up my reward. Screwed up the mini-game because my nerves were shot from fighting the captain. I'm angry. I wanted a no-death run. That bitch is staying a captain for about 5 minutes.
My GOTY so far. . . .
My GOTY so far. . . .
Nice tips for playing article on Kotaku.
http://kotaku.com/tips-for-playing-middle-earth-shadow-of-mordor-1640847458
http://kotaku.com/tips-for-playing-middle-earth-shadow-of-mordor-1640847458
drotahorror
Member
I'm still playing through it, but in GB's Quicklook, Brad said something about there being some crazy shift later in the game that no other game had did or somethin? Is there really some big thing that no one's talking about?
That's Bradley Shoemaker not "this guy"!
PepperedHam
Member
Loving this game a lot but is there some lock on system that I'm missing because the camera eats total shit in tight spaces, like, total shit.
Also fuck fighting Caragors.
Also fuck fighting Caragors.
Hawk269
Member
Do you have that code? I think I am going jump in now.
The_Hitcher89
Member
Honest question, why would you want to know the specifics in advance, rather than being surprised when you play the game?
Question that wasn't answered in the QL
Brad was clearly button-tapping, just mashing the attack and counter buttons from the looks of things. Does this have the same system as the Arkham games where combat is more efficient when you time your attacks, ie pressing Square just after aking contact with a prior attack? Also, likewise with the Arkham games, are you punished for spamming the counter button?
Enjoyed the bit where he flipped over someone the moment an orc threw a spear at him, and it hit the guy who he'd flipped over in the arse
mejin
Member
I have the same problem.
WheelHoss1
Member
This game is sick. If you're on the fence, I feel bad for you, because you're not playing it.
Wish those shots weren't so compressed. The PQ is much, much cleaner.
Is the Xbone locked at 30?
I'll take 900p and a locked 30 over 1080p and an unlocked 60, I hate fluctuations.
But if the 30 isn't rock solid I'll grab the PS4 version.
BouncyFrag
Member
3.5 hours to wait. Argh!
Hawk269
Member
I have 2 friends currently playing it and both said that the frame rate has been rock solid so far on the Xbox One version. One said he cant tell if it is 1080p or 900p, but the other said he was pretty sure it was 900p. But both said framerate was very smooth and solid.
That is all I got since they wanted to get back to playing.
Can't believe that it is this hard to get information on the Xbox One version however. I have been at work all day and cant keep up with this thread, but no one seems to want to answer that resolution/framerate. I saw someone post some great impressions of the game (X1 version), but he/she failed to mention anything about framerate or resolution.
drotahorror
Member
Honest question, why would you want to know the specifics in advance, rather than being surprised when you play the game?
Question that wasn't answered in the QL
Brad was clearly button-tapping, just mashing the attack and counter buttons from the looks of things. Does this have the same system as the Arkham games where combat is more efficient when you time your attacks, ie pressing Square just after aking contact with a prior attack? Also, likewise with the Arkham games, are you punished for spamming the counter button?
Enjoyed the bit where he flipped over someone the moment an orc threw a spear at him, and it hit the guy who he'd flipped over in the arse
It's not that I want to know what it is. Just if there is actually something at all.
Yes, there's some timing involved. You get crits and build your hit count up twice as fast.
TheApatheticOne
Member
Didnt see it asked on this page, but it may have been discussed... is anyone else having issues using their XB360 controller with the PC version? Specifically - doing ground and stunned executions? I'm hitting R2 + X while they are on the ground, doing Y + B while they are stunned, and it seems to work 20% of the time. Feels like Im doing it wrong, but of course, looking up the attack prompts in game and through the internet has oddly yielded no results.
Pops Maellard
Member
After about four hours, I'm almost entirely sure it's a locked 30, which feels pretty terrible but whatever.
Again, from what I have played the framerate has been pretty rock solid. The only time I have noticed any slowdown (and this occurred only occasionally, not every time) was when switching from the wraith vision to normal vision when lots of stuff was going on.
If you want I could try to capture some hectic gameplay using gamedvr and upload it. Although game DVR is not the greatest quality video, it should represent the solid framerate well enough unless something messes up with the video processing.
The_Hitcher89
Member
Cool
I still have nightmares about my brother playing the Arkham games. Don't think his combo metre ever went above 10
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