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Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor |OT| One Title to rule them all
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[NaK];131781131 said:Havent gotten vary far in the main story, because I'm busy slaying orcs and having a blast.
The combat is fantastic. You feel so friggin badass, chopping of heads and breaking necks from left to right.
It's like a mix of Batman: Arkham series and Assassin's Creed on steorids. Great and varied animations and finishers.
Every time I land a combo and finish off someone with an execution move, I giggle like a little girl from the brutality on screen.
Tha graphics are a bit of a let down though, with some really low/muddy textures and blurry view distances. But the lightning effects and the creature design are great.
PS4 screens bwlow:
Yikes
Now that I know PC is the only version for me I just need to decide if I want to go with greenmangaming or wait for one of GAFs awesome B/S/T thread sellers to put it up for a better price.
GavinUK86
Member
Yikes? What in the world?
The Godfather is an objectively good movie, but I know at least 10 people off the top of my head that just don't really care for it (ok, maybe more like 3-5). My point? Not everything is for everyone.. and that's not always an objective reflection on somethings quality.
You love Monolith, and you want a good action RPG. SoM is reviewing well, so you've obviously got a reason to want to play this. Had you posted all of that and asked whether or not the game was worth buying, I'd have said "yah, for sure," without hesitation.
The person I was responding to didn't. He stated that he doesn't like Lord of the Rings, and was looking for a reason to care. The fact that he was even asking suggests that he had some definite doubts, right? I assume his curiosity is more of a response to the good word of mouth... but clearly he's seen footage and probably even some reviews. If he's not on board, I doubt the game is for him.
To put a cap on all this: I'm really just using myself as an example here. I often get caught up in hype and buy games that I kind of know I'm not particularly interested in. It's usually a case where the universe is aesthetically or narratively not my thing... and despite good gameplay, I often feel like I shouldn't have bothered.
I sensed something similar with that poster, which is why I chose to not recommend the game to him. The fact that I've gone this far to defend myself is kind of absurd.
stufte
Member
n64grapix. amirite?
CyberPunked
Member
[NaK];131781131 said:Havent gotten vary far in the main story, because I'm busy slaying orcs and having a blast.
The combat is fantastic. You feel so friggin badass, chopping of heads and breaking necks from left to right.
It's like a mix of Batman: Arkham series and Assassin's Creed on steorids. Great and varied animations and finishers.
Every time I land a combo and finish off someone with an execution move, I giggle like a little girl from the brutality on screen.
Tha graphics are a bit of a let down though, with some really low/muddy textures and blurry view distances. But the lightning effects and the creature design are great.
PS4 screens bwlow:
Fingers crossed on the PC ultra textures!
"game looks like straight up PS1 era graphics, all blurred and low res textures all around." .-IGN
Death Metalist
Member
Looks gorgeous. GODAMN I CAN'T WAIT!
I've started to really get a hang on the combat now, about 4 hours in. And it's still really solid. Trying to get as many combos as possible without fucking up, to stack up for a finishing blow is rewarding.
I've probably slain a thousand orcs so far and the sheer amount of fighting animations is amazing. It looks and feels like you're in the middle of one of the Aragorn fight scenes from The Lord of The Rings. Im sure they studied those a lot when they picked out some of the stabs and dismemberment animations. (Including Aragorns grunts and shouts).
It's pretty easy to simply smash square in the beginning, but more and more enemy classes are presented throught the game as you progress, making the fights much harder. Soon, you have to start dodging arrows and spears, and trying to backstab shielded enemies and so on. Sometimes there's a captain or chief that joins the battle, and they are imune to some of your moves... which hurts. I've died quite a lot actually. And of course, when they kill you, they level up and become eaven harder to defeat, and learn some of your moves to counter in the future.
Most objectives seem to leave you with quite a bit of choise on how to finish them.
I've tried both stealth, sword bashing my way through hundreds of orcs and releasing beasts by destroying their cages with arrows from afar.. Kinda like in Far Cry 3.
Fun as hell. (And you can tame the beasts and ride them into battle).
Also, the music is great! It sounds as if you're playing through the movie trilogy.
Anisotropic filtering. It's like the distance on the ground before the textures start blurring. It looks like the sharp textures go on for quite a bit in this game, which is good.
This would be an example of having no AF:
Oh good, you've reminded me. NaK how much of the HUD can you remove? Mind showing the options?
Dead Prince
Banned
ugh. graphics are so dated. my atari pushes more pixels than that.
Oh nice, thanks, yes that is great news!
RoyaleDuke
Banned
Wow that looks incredible, and that's only the PS4 version?
Goddamn this game.
THIS GAME.
Goddamn this game.
THIS GAME.
Frankiebass
Neo Member
[NaK];131799674 said:
Thanks for your thoughts, still looking forward to it.
I must be really old (I'm not) or something because the fact that we even have graphics anywhere near as impressive as this is god damn mind blowing
Garrett Hawke
Member
I pre-ordered it digitally! Shame pre-load isn't already available.
DigitalDevil
Member
Can anyone who has actually played this tell me if there is a gore option?
Either way, there's no way I'm playing this around my daughter haha
I'd definitely assume that a game with this much gore would have that sort of option though
shinobi602
Member
Very happy seeing this:
I know, it should be more dismemberment, the game has alot of gore man so dont worry.
BouncyFrag
Member
Faith in humanity... restored!Very happy seeing this:
DigitalDevil
Member
Uh, actually I was hoping I could REDUCE the gore, not increase it.
GavinUK86
Member
Yeah, I agree. It's pretty hideous.
DigitalDevil
Member
Playing on ps4 so I'll just have to take my chances.
I have always wanted something like this, the first time I saw a glimpse of what it could be was in TTT when that orc wanted fresh meat and the Uruk cut his head off, some rebels in that little group was fascinating, second time was in The Hobbit when that orc went to Azog with bad news and got killed only for the next one to replace him, that was neat.
Now we have an entire game of that and I can't be more happy!
Long live the orcs and uruks baby!!
Now we have an entire game of that and I can't be more happy!
Long live the orcs and uruks baby!!
DigitalDevil
Member
Yeah I know. I'd be happy if I could turn the blood off
It looks gorgeous. Tuesday cannot get here fast enough.
My advice, wait for the GOTY edition and ask the same question in like a years time.
Very happy seeing this:
Are you involved with the game or just a fan?
Dead Prince
Banned
it's not even that animated. they need to improve on it.
shinobi602
Member
What lol? I just think the game looks great, looking forward to it.
Sales are important to fans, too. To ensure industry health, prevent developer layoffs, ensure potential sequels, possible post-launch support, etc.
In this case, it's nice to see a developer whose name hasn't been so hot in a while back at the top.
If anything it's neat to see gamers react to hearing that a game in fact turned out well so now they're ordering the game.
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