It's been a while since I finished the game, but I'm pretty sure the protagonist's powers have to do with Shadows, which may be why they want it prominently in the title
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Leak? Middle Earth: Shadow of War [Box Art, Game Details, tons of DLC]
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It would be a far better time to release than September through November, which looks like even more of a Bloodbath than usual this year.
Yup, so much so that gif literal makes me feel ill.
Back-In-Black
Banned
What?
Tizoc
Member
In Europe and Middle East mainly.
0ptimusPayne
Member
Playing SOM on my PS4 Pro currently, pretty hyped. Now that theres no more cross-gen BS, cannot wait to see how the game looks/plays on current gen only hardware!
WraithWalker1893
Banned
Supposedly going to be revealed monday, so tomorrow depending on what timezone you're in (UK here) so I guess there's still a chance for that March 8th date to be for Arkham. It's 50/50. Played mordor, find it extremely repetitive and boring. Hope the sequel is much better.
NeonDelta
Member
That image says shadow of mordor and not shadow of war
Frostman
Member
I agree, I would prefer this date. August has usually been a dry month for me last year being an exception with Deus Ex
Right, Square Enix is a good example of this.
They're digital only in North America, but have physical PC versions in EMEA.
kostacurtas
Member
Target removed the listings.
CaptainSmirnov
Member
With the obvious faults of the first one and now Horizon raising the bar for open world games I will remain cautiously optimistic about this but it has potential to be great!
Frostman
Member
Didn't even notice that! Considering the pre order mark, as well as the boxart, I'm going to say it's a half finished posting.
How dare they plan to support their game after launch.
I fucking love the first game, so I'll probably day 1 this if I'm not busy with life. I know a lot of people here didn't like the game, but it was my GOTY when it came out. I know the game was simplistic as hell, but I had SO, SO MUCH FUN just screwing around with the Nemesis system.
Hope they fix the difficulty though. Main issue in the last game is that you eventually got so powerful dying was less a rarity and more an impossibility. And that affected the Nemesis system quite a bit sometimes and you had to handicap yourself to die more often, which was unfortunate. If they fix this, it will be one of my favorite games ever.
Hope they fix the difficulty though. Main issue in the last game is that you eventually got so powerful dying was less a rarity and more an impossibility. And that affected the Nemesis system quite a bit sometimes and you had to handicap yourself to die more often, which was unfortunate. If they fix this, it will be one of my favorite games ever.
CaptainSmirnov
Member
I mean no one is forcing us to buy it... never understand the complaint
Emperor_EL
Member
Hopefully the Nemesis System works this time, the game rarely if ever adapted to what I did. It kept throwin generals at me whose weakness was arrows to the head, they rarely got "stronger" after killing me & there were a few times where it brought back Orcs that I decapitated which I thought signified the final encounter you were gonna have with that particular Orc.
Killing Orcs by throwing them off ledges & cliffs that were only 2 feet off the ground never got old though.
Killing Orcs by throwing them off ledges & cliffs that were only 2 feet off the ground never got old though.
DeathByBacklog
Member
Too late Target!
DarkoMaledictus
Tier Whore
Didn't knew there was a sequel coming. They better have a proper campaign and fix the difficulty, spamming evade and trashing mobs with eyes closed got pretty old quickly!
pizzaparty
Member
Same. Picked up the first game for 10 bucks with all the DLC.
SargerusBR
I love Pokken!
Maybe i'm not following release dates so close this year but Q1/Q2 looks much stronger than Q3/Q4. I mean besides the usual annual releases like CoD and Battlefront 2, what else is there this year?
Red Dead Redemption 2 supposedly
Hypothetically Destiny 2 and Red Dead Redemption 2, though I'm skeptical of the latter.
There's also Ubisoft who will assuredly wheel out at least one game they want to sell 10+ million copies.
If we assume they all make it out, that gives us six or seven 10-20+ million selling games in three months.
That's before we even get to smaller titles that do 5+ million like Madden.
I didn't write down Nintendo's potential line-up yet since it's not 100% clear what's actually shipping, but there's overlap potential there.
Mind, Q1/Q2 is stronger for games GAF is interested in, but launching next to Persona and Nioh is way less scary than Destiny 2 and RDR2 for something like this.
YEEEESSS I'm so pumped.
Mordor is my GOTY 2013 and one of the best games of the generation so far, and the only AAA breaking some new ground with open-world structure and systems on a macro scale, AND it did it marvelously well in its first try.
All of this as a delicious wrapper around a very good core gameplay based on batman and lots of very cool unique powers and mechanics and meaningful upgrades to unlock. No complaints here either. Shadow Strikes and Caragor riding/taming/attacks were two of my most fondly remember bits.
I can't wait to see where they go with this sequel. Hopefully an actual reveal soon.
Though this is probably the worst way to leak, with your whole monetization pre-order DLC season pass thingies going out before you even got the chance to pitch your game, as shame for the devs
Mordor is my GOTY 2013 and one of the best games of the generation so far, and the only AAA breaking some new ground with open-world structure and systems on a macro scale, AND it did it marvelously well in its first try.
All of this as a delicious wrapper around a very good core gameplay based on batman and lots of very cool unique powers and mechanics and meaningful upgrades to unlock. No complaints here either. Shadow Strikes and Caragor riding/taming/attacks were two of my most fondly remember bits.
I can't wait to see where they go with this sequel. Hopefully an actual reveal soon.
Though this is probably the worst way to leak, with your whole monetization pre-order DLC season pass thingies going out before you even got the chance to pitch your game, as shame for the devs
Sevket-Erhat
Member
Hopefully God of War
Red Dead Redemption 2, Destiny 2, the new AC, etc..
MyNameIsRye
Member
Love all that DLC. Gonna buy it all! !!!!!!
ComputerBlue
Member
I really enjoyed the first one but they really need to flesh out the world/environments for me to bite on the second. It was boring as shit to look at. Music was forgettable as well. In hindsight it was an okay game, not great, but not bad.
bigboss370
Member
so far this sounds more like a big expansion as opposed to a sequel.
but we'll see
but we'll see
HeisenbergLannister
Member
I should play the first one.
I have it sitting around here, uh, somewhere.
I have it sitting around here, uh, somewhere.
YEEEESSS I'm so pumped.
Mordor is my GOTY 2013 and one of the best games of the generation so far, and the only AAA breaking some new ground with open-world structure and systems on a macro scale, AND it did it marvelously well in its first try.
All of this as a delicious wrapper around a very good core gameplay based on batman and lots of very cool unique powers and mechanics and meaningful upgrades to unlock. No complaints here either. Shadow Strikes and Caragor riding/taming/attacks were two of my most fondly remember bits.
I can't wait to see where they go with this sequel. Hopefully an actual reveal soon.
Though this is probably the worst way to leak, with your whole monetization pre-order DLC season pass thingies going out before you even got the chance to pitch your game, as shame for the devs
This is one of the few games I just cannot understand this opinion. Normally something just isn't my cup of tea and I can understand it. Shadows of Mordor I just completely cannot comprehend this amount of praise for it.
Shao Kahn Brewing a Stew
Banned
Best licensed game in a while. Play it!
What else were you expecting to change? Honest question.
kostacurtas
Member
I am hoping Shadow of War will have a better graphics engine than the modified LithTech that Shadow of Mordor used. Unreal Engine 4 will be perfect.
So,this is not day 1? i guess shouldn't have jumped to conclusions.
SargerusBR
I love Pokken!
Yeah, i completely forgot Destiny 2 is a thing, not sure on RDR2 releasing this year given Rockstar's history though.
Some Nobody
Junior Member
If we're being honest, anything after mid-September is just asking to get killed. If its not accurate, it's close to being accurate.
kostacurtas
Member
No. The gold version includes the season pass of the game.
