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Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor Screenshots
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I would kill for a No One Lives Forever sequel.
WhereAreMahDragonz
Banned
Yum.
It doesn't have to be so generic and brown looking. Any color can be dark. Dark blue sky, grey ash wastes / cold blues / red skies / etc, this is just hyper boring looking.
XANDER CAGE
Member
Main character sorta looks like boring buff Aragorn with glowing eyes, but I'm pretty excited about the rest of this.
Sentenza
Member
It's not like "dark and gritty" can't fit Tolkien's work. Just... Not this kind of gritty.
It should be more like, say, a medieval German fairy tale, rather than "EDGY LINKIN' PARK RANGER CURSED WITH AWESOME IS LOOKING FOR REVENGE".
HueyFreeman
Banned
Trying to decide if this is concept art or not - zoomed in some of it looks like the game engine.
EDIT: My bad :|
It's art, the artist signed their work on the bottom right corner.
More images, for those who missed them.
Yeah storywise it's just The Force Unleashed.
Character who has something special that makes him more powerful than the movie/book heroes goes and fights the bad guys before the original heroes do, and then loses because he has to for plot reasons, but not before doing something that is super important to the main plot despite the fact that no one has ever mentioned him.
Character who has something special that makes him more powerful than the movie/book heroes goes and fights the bad guys before the original heroes do, and then loses because he has to for plot reasons, but not before doing something that is super important to the main plot despite the fact that no one has ever mentioned him.
Don't forget that the character and perhaps the antagonist as well, are probably clones.
rasberryjam
Member
Oh, cool! Glad to see they're letting you play as Aragorn in this game!
I'm hilarious. For reals, though, the game looks pretty good. I like how Not-Aragorn's blanket cape looks.
Wraiths didn't have any form, they just wore the black robes to give themselves a shape. So yeah, they weren't really staring anywhere since they didn't have physical eyes anymore.
These screenshots look pretty meh to me. I hope it's good because of love the LOTR universe, but I'm skeptical. I hope they prove me wrong.
When I was detailing this from the game informer issue I remember thinking the graphics/art style were nothing worth mentioning yet. They have a lot of fairly big gameplay elements they'll need to worry about nailing 100% correctly instead of worrying about having great graphics. I have doubts they can do it but I *hope* that they can, because the ideas are ambitious and somewhat unique in the AAA space.
Not really. Fear (2005) looked like a generation behind HL 2 (2004 title) graphically and NOLF and Aliens versus Predator 2 looked outdated compared to stuff like Rogue Spear or Soldier Of Fortune. same with their recent games Fear 2 and Condemned1/2.
it's good that they make good games tho.
Uhm, NOLF1+2 and F.E.A.R. were testimonials of their time; they looked fantastic on high-end-hardware and were the benchmarks back then, especially since you could set the resolution of F.E.A.R. to crazy high levels
But yeah, not sure what happened afterwards; the second and third F.E.A.R. don't look bad per se, but I assume this is because they switched to console development instead of just focusing on PC like previously. The title was just announced though, so yeah we'll see how it ends up looking at launch
I love me some middle-earth
This is simply untrue. FEAR was heralded as a much more graphically impressive game in 2005 with a ton of effects. Meanwhile, AvP2 and NOLF were incredibly far from bad looking at release and they were absolutely not subpar compared to RS or SoF.
TheJollyCorner
Member
anyone else like trying to say 'Mordor' the same way Hugo Weaving does?
Mordor.
Mordor.
FEAR was astoundingly impressive on release visually and a performance killer if you set up all the bells and whistles. The bullet impact on surfaces was something I'd never seen before at the time. The slow motion affect was awesome too.
I do.
peanutbutterlatte
Member
I patiently await the game that accurately captures the atmosphere of Middle Earth. This, it seems, will not be it.
Morrigan Stark
Arrogant Smirk
So uh... what's the gameplay/combat like? I'd play a LotR game with Dark Souls like combat. -)
It's Mordor, of course it's gonna be dark and gritty.
It's Mordor, of course it's gonna be dark and gritty.
I don't think a game like that will ever exist, every developer is eager to use the setting to facilitate combat scenarios. I want a LOTR game that focuses on mystery, serenity and the expansiveness of the land, a game that has lots of downtime so when the action does start it's really meaningful. A game like this but obviously with a larger budget.
one of the side effects of ritalin is glowing blue eyes.
SeventhSon
Member
The Dark Souls of Middle-earth?
YOU ARE THE LORD OF THE RINGS!
YOU ARE THE LORD OF THE RINGS!
peanutbutterlatte
Member
chickdigger802
Banned
all the screenshots look nice except for that last one lol.
that sword swing looks like something from a shitty 80's conan ripoff box cover.
that sword swing looks like something from a shitty 80's conan ripoff box cover.
WarMacheen
Member
Looks good, would play
Chance Hale
Member
Have they said whether this is shooting for an M rating like War in the North?
nelsonroyale
Member
Looks alright, certainly not as impressive or interesting looking as Witcher 3, probably not even Dragon Age 3.
flabberghastly
Member
Has anyone involved with the creation of this game even bothered to crack open a book with Tolkien's name on the spine? There's Legolas fan fiction written by 13-year-olds scattered across the internet that evinces a better grasp of the legendarium than this drivel.
Exactly. Bullshit trash to step all over Tolkien's work. Hooray!
"Wraith powers" is so fucking stupid. Designed by committee nonsense.
Same here, but this will do.
peanutbutterlatte
Member
When are we getting Radagast's Rustabelle Rabbit Rally anyway?
SolidsnackooFoxhound
Banned
I hope this will be interesting but i can only feel that we've gotten games like this already in the PS2 era and it will just feel the same : ( (combat wise).
Red Mage
Member
Looks like it might be a neat game, but it's not Middle-Earth.
Nah. Wraiths are evil, regardless of what they were like in life. I'm guessing they don't know the difference between a ghost, a wight, and a wraith in Arda. Is it too much to ask that if you want to make a game in an already existing world, you know what the heck the proper terminology is?
Also, any attempt by someone to do something solo always ends very, very badly in Tolkien's world. Friendship, and remaining connected to your fellow man/elf/dwarf/maiar/valar is a major theme of his stories. Melkor becomes corrupted when he starts going off on his own all the time, for crying out loud. Of course, that's not cool enough these days. e_e;
Nah. Wraiths are evil, regardless of what they were like in life. I'm guessing they don't know the difference between a ghost, a wight, and a wraith in Arda. Is it too much to ask that if you want to make a game in an already existing world, you know what the heck the proper terminology is?
Also, any attempt by someone to do something solo always ends very, very badly in Tolkien's world. Friendship, and remaining connected to your fellow man/elf/dwarf/maiar/valar is a major theme of his stories. Melkor becomes corrupted when he starts going off on his own all the time, for crying out loud. Of course, that's not cool enough these days. e_e;
Honey Bunny
Member
Honestly has mediocre written all over it. I'll be glad if I'm wrong though.
