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Middle-earth: Shadow of War |OT| Attempted Mordor

Bought gold edition, put in season pass code, gave me a copy of the game and no season pass. Uttt ohhhhh.

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These screens with gold crap... gaming woooo!
 

drotahorror

Member
Huh, the loot stays for me after death. Also SoM didn't have loot.

The runes in SoM were absolutely loot.

We really gonna argue semantics on what loot is?

To me, loot is your prize for doing something in a game. In SoM killing captains gave me loot AKA runes.
 
The runes in SoM were absolutely loot.

We really gonna argue semantics on what loot is?

To me, loot is your prize for doing something in a game. In SoM killing captains gave me loot AKA runes.
I didn't consider the runes in SoM loot. Just physical icon representations of upgrades for the same weapons.
 

Alexious

Member
For some reason, the 4K Cinematic Pack doesn't seem to be available on Microsoft Store for Xbox One and Windows 10 PC...While it's available on PSN and Steam. What gives?
 

Maximus P

Member
I used to be unbeatable on Shadow of Mordor. I'm dying alot on this. Last fucking Uruk adapted to 2 of my moves which made him almost impossible to kill, and to add salt into the wound the son of a bitch decided to humiliate me by walking away and laughing at me rather than finish me off.
 

nynt9

Member
How do I deal with much higher-leveled orcs?

Like, I'm level 4 and I'm ambushed by a level 12, most of my hits miss.

Try different techniques. Use the glaive, vault over them, if you have an execution use that, use wraith stun (tap the wraith drain button) and get in a few hits, shoot them with arrows, lure them to a barrel and shoot the barrel with arrows, give them the slip then stealth stab them... there are a lot of options.
 
Try different techniques. Use the glaive, vault over them, if you have an execution use that, use wraith stun (tap the wraith drain button) and get in a few hits, shoot them with arrows, lure them to a barrel and shoot the barrel with arrows, give them the slip then stealth stab them... there are a lot of options.

I've barely learned anything. There are some floating tips for the button combination moves but I could catch them most of the times.
 

heringer

Member
Does the game feel like Lord of the Rings? How is the soundtrack?

Also, did they change the controls from Mordor? I hated that I couldn't run and move the camera at the same time (since you had to hold A). Why do something like this?
 
I used to be unbeatable on Shadow of Mordor. I'm dying alot on this. Last fucking Uruk adapted to 2 of my moves which made him almost impossible to kill, and to add salt into the wound the son of a bitch decided to humiliate me by walking away and laughing at me rather than finish me off.
I'm sorry but that's freaking amazing hahaha
 

Zojirushi

Member
Does the game feel like Lord of the Rings? How is the soundtrack?

Also, did they change the controls from Mordor? I hated that I couldn't run and move the camera at the same time (since you had to hold A). Why do something like this?

Be ready for people to tell you to use that ridiculous "claw grip" lol
 

witness

Member
I've had the game since friday and put in around 35 hours (jesus), you guys are in for a treat. Still in Act 2, but already in my Top5 for the year.

Lots of cool nemesis story so far, favorite one: I stumble across this mystic assassin orc WAY above my level and it takes me around fifteen minutes to take him down using a graug, drakes, and lots of sappers that I can call in as a set bonus of an equipped legendary gear set. As I dominate him, naturally I cannot recruit him since his level is too high, so I shame him to level him down.

Next time I meet him: he ambushes me, only his level is even higher and he does this speech that he embraced my shaming and feels even prouder because of it (he has, at this point, my hand mark tattoed all across his body). So i beat him again and shame him again, and this time he becomes "deranged" and a blubbering idiot. Using SUPER shame, a special shaming skill aquired later, his level is supposed to go down drastically, but of course that doesn't happen and he becomes a "dangerous maniac" , an even stronger, but mentally impaired, version of himself.

Since then he ambushes me time and time again, blubbers unintelligible gibbberish, and fucks my world up. I love him.

This is an amazing story, I love it.
 
Does the game feel like Lord of the Rings? How is the soundtrack?

Also, did they change the controls from Mordor? I hated that I couldn't run and move the camera at the same time (since you had to hold A). Why do something like this?

Yes it def feels more LOTRs in every way.

Running is still hold a.
 
Is the story good in this one ?

The open world is great fun but man... the poorly structured narrative is such a let down. The character motivations and conflicts are very sketchy, made even more complicated by the (on the surface) interesting idea that Talion and Celebrimbor have opposing agendas. Unfortunately this means you're doing missions with only a vague idea why you're supposed to give a damn as a player. You'll be watching a lot of portentous dialogue of people rubbing against each other without caring which side gets their way / betrays the other / whatever. Shelob as a story axis still makes no sense to me. I'm sure someone can patiently fill in the blanks with a lot of explanation but I'd rather just have a story engine that runs on its own momentum and energy without requiring meta-knowledge.

Coming off games like The Witcher III, Horizon Zero Dawn and Divinity OS 2, games that have a very organic relationship between what the protagonist cares about and what you as a player are doing moment to moment, the shortcomings are glaring to me.
 

drotahorror

Member
Are Shelob memories broken on PC? Every time I complete one it acts like there's going to be a cutscene, it will show something for a second or two, then the audio will pop and it goes back to gameplay.
 

Rowsdower

Member
The open world is great fun but man... the poorly structured narrative is such a let down. The character motivations and conflicts are very sketchy, made even more complicated by the (on the surface) interesting idea that Talion and Celebrimbor have opposing agendas. Unfortunately this means you're doing missions with only a vague idea why you're supposed to give a damn as a player. You'll be watching a lot of portentous dialogue of people rubbing against each other without caring which side gets their way / betrays the other / whatever. Shelob as a story axis still makes no sense to me. I'm sure someone can patiently fill in the blanks with a lot of explanation but I'd rather just have a story engine that runs on its own momentum and energy without requiring meta-knowledge.

Coming off games like The Witcher III, Horizon Zero Dawn and Divinity OS 2, games that have a very organic relationship between what the protagonist cares about and what you as a player are doing moment to moment, the shortcomings are glaring to me.

Yeah, if you're not invested in Tolkien Lore you're gonna have a hard time with the main storylines. You better know what Nazghul are or what a Palantir does. The in-game index is extensive and accessible enough, but still.

I enjoyed the smaller, self-contained storylines like the Bruz one though. Basically, this game is still about the personal stories generated by the Nemesis System.
 

Rolfgang

Member
Yeah, if you're not invested in Tolkien Lore you're gonna have a hard time with the main storylines. You better know what Nazghul are or what a Palantir does. The in-game index is extensive and accessible enough, but still.

Anyone who watched the movies will probably get the gist of most of the stuff presented in the game, I think.
 

Fliesen

Member
There's the exact same system in Mad Max. And it was before BoTW.

So no, they indeed lifted the system from another game. But i doubt Zelda is the one since Mad Max is a WB game.

Oh, that's right! I totally forgot about the binoculars in Mad Max, good point.
 

noomi

Member
So what is this optional 4k video pack on ps4/xb1?

Higher res textures or something?

*edit*

Just found it lol:

The 4K Cinematic Pack renders cinematics at 4K resolution.
Experience the epic story of the Bright Lord and the war for Mordor brought to life in breathtaking detail.
 

TheBowen

Sat alone in a boggy marsh
I used to be unbeatable on Shadow of Mordor. I'm dying alot on this. Last fucking Uruk adapted to 2 of my moves which made him almost impossible to kill, and to add salt into the wound the son of a bitch decided to humiliate me by walking away and laughing at me rather than finish me off.

Only in my first three hours, but yeah the game really kicks your balls against higher level of a

You really have to mix up tactics of stealth killing, sword fighting, grabs, arrows, explosives, beasts, etc to really be effective

Also you get so much silver and gold and orc recruits it's rididiculous

Honestly the loot boxes is so dumb because you don't need them at all ( from what I can tell)
 
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