[ALL] Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor

[j.hen]

Again, not sure how you weren't expecting the main character's story in a LotR video game not to be shoe horned into the LotR mythos? I get that you don't care about LotR but I mean come on. For what it's worth the story does its job. And expands on itself within the extras you can collect and unlock throughout the game world.

Maybe I'm still too bitter about Destiny's story (or lack there of) so that once a game makes ANY more of an effort than Destiny has to engross me in the world it's just too easy for me to be down for that. At least this game made a solid attempt at presenting you with a coherent story.

/Troy Baker video game bias

 

[SethMode]

Again, not sure how you weren't expecting the main character's story in a LotR video game not to be shoe horned into the LotR mythos? I get that you don't care about LotR but I mean come on. For what it's worth the story does its job. And expands on itself within the extras you can collect and unlock throughout the game world.

Maybe I'm still too bitter about Destiny's story (or lack there of) so that once a game makes ANY more of an effort than Destiny has to engross me in the world it's just too easy for me to be down for that. At least this game made a solid attempt at presenting you with a coherent story.

/Troy Baker video game bias

I don't see how me saying that story is fucking dumb equals it not doing its job. If I'm talking about the story of the game, I'm not going to give points for giving a good effort. I don't know why I would.

For what it's worth, EVERY game story does its job. I just am bummed out at how much this game wants me to care about its story, but still doesn't follow through. There were times where I barely remembered your buddy Baker's name.

There are SO many games that make a focused, better emphasis on story, that it's not even worth bringing up. It's the second best game of the year, in my mind. In spite of what I think is a supremely lacking story. I'm sorry?

 

[j.hen]

Every game story doesn't do its job if you don't know what's going on in the game's world or care about the characters in it. There are PLENTY of games who fail at this, Destiny being a great example. So I don't see how you can say every game ever made's story does its job. I think I really am just too hung up on Destiny's shortcomings (story-wise) like I said though and that may have contributed to me being perfectly satisfied with Shadow of Mordor's story.

 

[SethMode]

Well, I beat it tonight and I thought that the ending was super underwhelming. Oh well.

 

[Maynard]

i dont mind the story. personally i like a simple story that i can easily recall as i play the game. im not playing games for the story. they are generally stupid and after 20-30 hours, who the hell remembers half the shit anyways.

i will say that the mission setup is lame. its kind of all over the place. and all the Red Marker missions are pretty weak too. the game is combat driven and it kind of annoys me that everytime i find a captain, he is not in the region he is supposed to be in, then while fighting him another one appears out of nowhere and interrupts the fighting.

its a fun game, but feeling very repetitive. the batman combat doesnt have enough to hold my interest long term. I was never a fan of the button mashing combat anyways. this is a bit better than batman imo.

 

[Maynard]

http://www.ign.com/videos/2014/10/03/7-must-have-abilities-in-shadow-of-mordor

 

[Twigg4075]

I finally started this the other day. I played for a little over two hours on Saturday and played about ten hours yesterday. I love the game. There are a few things that can be annoying. It still has the same issues AC has with the character doing things that you don't want him to (grabbing cover, jumping up a wall, NOT jumping up a wall, hurdling an enemy instead of running, etc) which can be very frustrating when trying to escape the 100 enemies that are all trying to murder you. That is my other issue. Sometimes the amount of enemies attacking you is absurd. And then when you're fighting a ridiculous amount of enemies and a captain shows up out of nowhere. Ah!

Other wise, I'm hooked on the game. It looks decent enough, the story seems cool even if I'm not a LotR fan and the action is great.

 

[tigstah]

yeah, I said I was going to jump back into this.......still haven't yet. I never have arrows when I need them.

 

[Twigg4075]

yeah, I said I was going to jump back into this.......still haven't yet. I never have arrows when I need them.

Just make sure you upgrade so that you can carry more, plus they are usually scattered aall over the map. I will admit that if you run out in the heat of battle it is a pain in the ass finding them because you don't know if they're at your level, above you, below you, etc. Then you factor in the character not doing what you want a lot of the time and battles can get frustrating when you're vastly overwhelmed.

I will say I had quite the epic battle one time. I had around 15 enemies all trying to take a piece of my ass and then not one, but TWO captains show up. I was able to take out one of the captains fairly quickly amidst fighting the other uruks. Then I still had around 10 uruks and one captain left, that was back for revenge mind you. I broke out the arrows and took out the remaining uruks with headshots and was able to focus on battling the captain. I wish I would've recorded it. It was a thing of beauty.