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Middle-earth: Shadow of War Endgame Revealed
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Sad Affleck
Member
Will watch the 'true ending' on Youtube.
davepoobond
you can't put a price on sparks
But that's not how you're supposed to do it. You're supposed to endlessly grind for it!!!
Salty Rice
Member
But Ben its Warner Brothers! Dont say quitting Batman is true!?
Evil Monkey DTT
Banned
Where's that guy that told me loot boxes don't effect the game design. Because it's pretty clear how this is gonna go.
Well I think the Shadow of Middle-earth franchise captures faithfully Tolkien's themes about the passing of the ages and all great works and earthly things being eventually lost to time. This feeling of loss is represented by Talion's loss of life, Celebrimbor's loss of his body, and on the other side of the conflict by the disposable nature of the orc troops that function as cogs in Sauron's cruel war machine.
I hope Ring: The Other One lets you breathe atomic fire like Godzilla. And Talion should grow spikes on his back that glow when he does it, and they should show him growing the spikes in a really gnarly cutscene that's like half Gremlins and half Saw. And I hope he does a rad lute solo but he channels the power of lightning into it and it comes out all meedely-meedely-mauwww.
I hope Ring: The Other One lets you breathe atomic fire like Godzilla. And Talion should grow spikes on his back that glow when he does it, and they should show him growing the spikes in a really gnarly cutscene that's like half Gremlins and half Saw. And I hope he does a rad lute solo but he channels the power of lightning into it and it comes out all meedely-meedely-mauwww.
Frozenprince
Banned
This sounds like just my kind of stupid.
Vincent Grayson
Member
Play it on PC, use a trainer. Bypass all the bullshit, if it turns out they tuned the game to require buying shit.
AHA-Lambda
Member
Screams of busy work like Arkham Knight's true ending :/
the anime man
Banned
Which wasn't worth it, lol.
Stealthcobra
Member
Once I heard Microtransactions, i was already done with it
IXI FalcoN
Member
I loved SoM to pieces, warts and all. Stupid cathartic fun in a year full of broken games and letdowns.
But I just can't get excited for the sequel here. I don't have any confidence that WB isn't going to mandate that this game is designed around pushing players towards MTs as often as possible. Pay or grind is not fun.
But I just can't get excited for the sequel here. I don't have any confidence that WB isn't going to mandate that this game is designed around pushing players towards MTs as often as possible. Pay or grind is not fun.
Combichristoffersen
Combovers don't work when there is no hair
MetroidPrimeRib
Banned
So its like Arkham Knight grind for the true ending but with lootboxes. Nah fuck this game
Lord of Castamere
Member
You wait, watch the third game be Shadow of Middle Earth. Talion is Sauron, and you have to recapture Middle Earth, fighting against the Fellowship. You can't use the ring, and remain pure.
Also, this Endgame sound fantastic. Micros or not, it sounds like this game's packed with content.
Also, this Endgame sound fantastic. Micros or not, it sounds like this game's packed with content.
Mr. Phellps
Member
"True ending" sounds like Batman: Arkham Knight? Which just so happens to be a WB game as well...
KeyBladerXIII
Member
I hope the true ending is Talion fighting Sauron inside Mt. Doom and destroying him, becoming the ultimate evil. Then he uses his orcs to build a mighty fleet to go into the West and invade the Undying Lands.
Fuck the lore, that'd be awesome.
Fuck the lore, that'd be awesome.
TemplaerDude
Member
Video game prompts reducing world altering historical events to button prompts is a pretty good meme, IMO.
HelloNewman
Member
When I read Lord of the Rings and they called Shelob she spider I thought they meant she was half woman half spider I was also in fourth grade when I read the books. So maybe the fourth grader they have in charge of writing these games just needs to have it explained to them that Shelob is a giant funnel web spider.
PeregrinSe7en
Member
well its gaf, what do you expect lol
Just treat this like it was a "what if" kind of one-shot/alternative take on some comic hero story. The LOTR world is a decent setting to have some creative fun in, it doesn't all have to be canon to offer some enjoyment.
Shift Breaker
Member
Plot twist: To avoid contradicting the existing lore, instead of being located on Middle-Earth, Tailon actually takes over Mordor, New Jersey.
Little Old Man
Member
Could you imagine if Tolkein came back to life, and having somewhat caught up on the modern world, Austin Powers style, Warner Bros turned up to give him a special preview of the game. He'd probably cry.
Further plot twist. It turns out Mordor is actually 'murder' pronounced in a Glaswegian accent. The game is actually the drunken ramblings of a drunk Scottish man sitting in a police cell having been fighting with with cockney tourists, screaming 'murder murder'.
Further plot twist. It turns out Mordor is actually 'murder' pronounced in a Glaswegian accent. The game is actually the drunken ramblings of a drunk Scottish man sitting in a police cell having been fighting with with cockney tourists, screaming 'murder murder'.
Infinite Stars
Member
Except that's functionally impossible, because the Undying Lands are basically removed from the earth.
I mean, I know they've already said "Fuck the lore", but that would just be straight up "Contradict Everything"
Diablohead
Member
Lord of the Gacha
But this stuff isn't even creative. The first game was about the most creatively bankrupt schlock you could write
Sad Affleck
Member
Why?
This game is kind of already in "Contradict Everything" territory anyway.
Lord of Castamere
Member
I mean, yeah, the story was pretty bad, and I'm expecting this to be too. Honestly, I only want it because of Nemesis + Fort stuff. I buy Samurai Warriors Empires and Dynasty Warriors Empires for the same kick.
Yeah. Loved the first game because of its just balls to the wall stupid fun.
People complain all the time from what I see that triple AAA games try to be too serious or edgy at times, and then this game comes along and people complain its too 'silly and gamey'
Look forward to playing it.
WheelHoss1
Member
Slowly, with each announcement, we get closer to realising Tolkien's original vision
You know the way
Eppy Thatcher
God's had his chance.
This system in the Warhammer universe (pref 40K). Essentially GorkaMorka + Space Marine's combat = all my money.
Give it to me you feels GameWorkshop... GIVE IT TO MUH!!