[ALL] Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor

[Twigg4075]

Nope. He has the Brand and Dispatch abilities. With Brand you can basically "brainwash" an Uruk and he becomes an undercover ally for you. Then when you also have the Dispatch ability, you can instantly kill those Uruks that you've branded.

that sounds pretty...lame.

 

[Swarley]

that sounds pretty...lame.

I've played for 13 hours and I still don't have the Brand ability unlocked. That's also not really what those abilities are meant for. It's meant to help you in Warchief fights, not for a mass murder like that lol.

Sounds like you keep trying to talk yourself out of the game. GOTY so far for me.

 

[Twigg4075]

I've played for 13 hours and I still don't have the Brand ability unlocked. That's also not really what those abilities are meant for. It's meant to help you in Warchief fights, not for a mass murder like that lol.

Sounds like you keep trying to talk yourself out of the game. GOTY so far for me.

Not at all. I'm getting it, just waiting for a sale. No time to play it now.

It just seems like a lame ability where you press a button and then like 20 enemies just drop.

 

[Swarley]

It just seems like a lame ability where you press a button and then like 20 enemies just drop.

Like I mentioned, it's not at all how you'd utilize the ability during a real playthrough. This was just done for a funny video.

 

[JayDizzle]

I... kinda want to do that myself.

After Gorfel the Unkillable and I had a few "conversations" last night, all I wanted to do was explode his head Scanners-style.

...soon.

 

[Maynard]

Sounds like you keep trying to talk yourself out of the game. GOTY so far for me.

funny u mentioned that cause i dont know of any other games that would be considered.

 

[Swarley]

The year as a whole may not stack up yet to others, but there's always games to consider throughout the year. Second Son was high on my list until Shadow of Mordor.

 

[Garrett67]

$38 on PC

http://www.cdkeys.com/pc/games/middle-earth-shadow-of-mordor-pc-cd-key

 

[SethMode]

funny u mentioned that cause i dont know of any other games that would be considered.

Divinity Original Sin, Mario Kart 8 and Wasteland 2 are kind of all that I would even consider so far.

 

[Maynard]

divinity is the only game i enjoyed all year. wasteland 2 was a major let down imo. the new borderlands should be good. i would have said GTA5 except it wont come out on pc until next year lol

 

[SethMode]

divinity is the only game i enjoyed all year. wasteland 2 was a major let down imo. the new borderlands should be good. i would have said GTA5 except it wont come out on pc until next year lol

I don't think that Wasteland 2 lived up to Fallout 1 or 2, but I definitely wouldn't call it a let down. It certainly has all the bugs that one can expect from a game trying to be like late 90's early 2000 CRPGs.

Anyway, that being said, I agree with you. This year in general has kind of been letdown after letdown (at least to me). I do think that this game stands on its own though. It's been a while since I've played a non-RPG for more than 2 hours at a time, and this one has me doing the blinking "it's WHAT time!?" thing. Which is always a good sign.

 

[Maynard]

i never played FO1 or 2 so i was really excited to play what was supposed to be the real FO3. But i think my expectations were that of Divinity in its approach as far as the combat and over look of the game. i was really dissapointed to see how poor it looked and played by comparison.

Middle Earth is awesome. i love the game

 

[SethMode]

i never played FO1 or 2 so i was really excited to play what was supposed to be the real FO3. But i think my expectations were that of Divinity in its approach as far as the combat and over look of the game. i was really dissapointed to see how poor it looked and played by comparison.

Middle Earth is awesome. i love the game

Yeah, it's definitely not as good as Divinity, by a large margin. I'm not saying it was a great game...just that it's one of the only few I can say that I really loved this year. Divinity is hands down the best, IMO.

 

[Garrett67]

You guys should get this on PC. PC platform is so much , SOOOO much better than console.

You're missing out if you're playing this on a far inferior platform.

 

[Maynard]

finally decided to do another mission...the gollum one in the cave. i am just running around doing the side quests. i loved the one where you have to kill 50 orcs and try and get the 100 hit streak. fun fun

 

[j.hen]

About that head exploding video, if you actually took the time to hunt down and brand all of the Uruks like that guy did then you deserve to get to watch all 20 of their heads explode at once if you ask me. :dunno:

 

[Swarley]

After a lot of failure on Thursday, I did quite a bit of wreckage to Sauron's Army last night. Took down two Warchiefs with relative ease and then about six or seven Captains including the level 20 one that's been a real pain in my ass. I did some scouting around the Warchief's camps and was able to plan some good attacks where I lured the them away from that gang of goons. It was super satisfying, especially after getting my butt whipped a few times Thursday night.

 

[SethMode]

This game is so wonderfully fun to play...it's a shame the story is so fucking dumb. My likely 1 and 2 for this year have the worst stories.

 

[j.hen]

This game is so wonderfully fun to play...it's a shame the story is so fucking dumb. My likely 1 and 2 for this year have the worst stories.

Is the story really that fucking dumb? I think it's pretty good as far as video game stories go. It would be foolish to go into this game expecting The Last of Us or some shit. But the story is well acted by the lead (obviously) and if you don't care about all of the LotR references then the story wasn't really meant for you anyway. :dunno:

I for one am loving the tie-ins with the movies.

 

[SethMode]

Is the story really that fucking dumb? I think it's pretty good as far as video game stories go. It would be foolish to go into this game expecting The Last of Us or some shit. But the story is well acted by the lead (obviously) and if you don't care about all of the LotR references then the story wasn't really meant for you anyway. :dunno:

I for one am loving the tie-ins with the movies.

As I've said, I definitely don't care about the calls to LoTR that much (although, I do know enough from reading that it shouldn't be possible to have an Elven Wraith). But yeah, the story is pretty fucking dumb. Guy's family is killed, here's how we shoehorn his story into an already bloated mythos.

Comparing it to other video games is really neither here nor there, and something I won't do, personally. It's just kind of disjointed and unimportant. I'm not playing it to see what happens to Talion, I'm playing it to level him up and murder more shit. I wouldn't even have cared if the game didn't seem to be so far up its own ass storywise at times.

Still, it really doesn't matter though, as I said. My favorite two games of the year (this and Divinity) have terrible stories. No biggie. Just an observation on my part.