Shadow of War

Does the game look like a promising enough upgrade from its predecessor, or has it been tainted past the point of no return by microtransactions?

Do the changes outweigh the last-minute cashgrab attempt?

Little off topic, but was it true that the Mordor sequel is going to kangz-wash our white heroes?
Why do Jews have to taint all white culture they take control over?

It's trash simply for the fact it bastardizes Tolkien's work beyond belief. It's just an extremely generic fantasy pretending to be bigger than it is by saying it's LOTR related.

No clue, and I don't really care. The Shadow of Mordor series is basically bad fanfiction with high production value. I'm pretty sure it's not even canon.

It's why I like Kingdom Hearts 2. The story is absolutely one of the most retarded things I've ever seen in my entire life, but the gameplay is so solid that I can just ignore it and have fun slashing evil little monsters.

Whatever little promise this game shows will be nullified by the fact that this is a Shadow of Mordor sequel.
I'd love to ask the developers what's the point of the orc army and all the hullaballo about fucking up orcs and whatnot if you can very easily I might add, run around, fight a hundred orcs and 5 generals without breaking a sweat because you're so insanely overpowered to boot and every upgrade makes you more and more powerful while the so called bred for war, powerful cousins of the orcs drop like flies.
You can talk shit about lore the rest of the thread but the fact stands that without difficulty or challenge this game will be just as boring and bland as its predecessor and I don't care how much you flaunt the wars and the cockney ogre.

I think the difficulty lies within the siege sections of the game. We won't know how hard it is until we get to play it, but they'll probably vary in difficulty depending on how prepared you are. The only gameplay I saw for the siege gave the person playing the game unlimited executions or some shit, probably because that guy was actually retarded so they needed to give him a handicap.

Yeah right. I guarentee you any and all strategy will boil down to zerg rush and use your strongest troops, or it will just be the same game except there are some orcs you can't kill and the game is going all out with making the game "feel" epic without you actually doing anything remotely impressive.

The devs said that they've added additional difficulty modes for players who want a harder experience than the base game provides, which is cool. The best part of SoM were the earlier segments when fighting three/four captains was actually a tall order.

From what I understand there are a lot of ways to approach the siege invasions, which is kind of neat. You can use spies and sabotage before starting the siege proper, and each tribe has unique abilities that can fuck you up if you don't prepare accordingly.

I'm sure it'll still be too easy late-game but hopefully it can maintain some level of grit much later than the original game did.

I remember hearing about them adding loot crate gambling shit into single player, so wait a few days after launch until we know more.

Yeah, they're taking the next step up from The Hobbit with that bullshit. I'm really starting to understand why Christopher Tolkein is against adaptation's of his father's work.

I sincerely think these devs have listened to all the criticism beforehand and tried to make improvements based on what people complained about. The people behind the game aren't bad, it's just that they're chained to a really shitty publisher. That's a pretty popular trend when it comes to good games.

It will be worse than the first one somehow. Added bonus of microtransactions, jodd whedon tier dialogue and shoehorned agenda.

Shadow of Mordor was already pretty bad, now that they're adding fucking lootboxes and turning Shelob into an uninspired spider-themed stripper, Shadow of War is going to be an indefensible pile of shit.

Those two things are hardly gameplay features, user.

What's the quote about story being as important in video games as it is in porn?

There is a big difference between a game like doom and a game like this where it puts in cutscenes and actually tries to tell story the player should give a shit about and rubs it in their face

This, basically.

Monolith aren't shitty devs, but they're attached to one of the shittiest publishers (WB Interactive) in the industry.

WB flies below the radar because they're several orders of magnitude smaller than an EA or Ubi, but they're just as awful.

I have no idea but I hope that it will be good. The first game was complete trash but had a few good mechanics and left room for a lot of improvement. There's always hope for another Assassins Creed 2.

You mean that quote said by the autistic programmer who doesn't care about games, only the technology behind them when it was relevant?

Fair, but you can probably button mash your way through cutscenes. I'm just trying to be optimistic in the face of a lot of controversy for a game that has a lot of potential to be good.

That doesn't make it any less true. Why do you think walking simulators are so widely panned? They're basically overpriced, really shitty books.

I can only imagine the kind of stupid shit they get told to do with their game

Thing is, the gameplay in Shadow of Mordor wasn't very good to begin with, and the sequel's shaping up to be more of the same but with the addition of looboxes IN A FUCKING FULL-PRICE GAME on top of the shittery of stripper Shelob.

Also, story still counts in porn because unless you're mentally damaged it's much harder to jerk off to a character you do not like.

Isn't this one just another giant open sandbox with many repetitive and boring things to do? Also, it suffers from (Y) counter syndrome.

I wonder if Shadow of Mordor was an original idea at some point, but the only way they could get the funding to make what they wanted was to get funding from a big publisher.

It arguably does the Arkham combat better than the Arkham games. Boring is subjective.

I assume you accidentally left the flag on from another thread because thats exactly what the previous game was, so its likely that this will be too.

Monolith's getting assraped by Warner Bros and you must be forgetting that they made a halfassed CONSOLE moba(an LOTR one at that) if you think otherwise. It's hard to believe anything in Shadow of Mordor was even remotely original.

Who gives a shit about this copy-pasted nordic folklore?

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A lot of people unfairly blame the developers for this sort of thing when the majority of the time, the only reason the game gets greenlit is because the publisher pushes for this sort of thing. You can see it with Mankind divided's preorder bonuses as well.

It's to the point where the only reason the game exists is because of the microtransactions and most of the time the individual developers working on the game are just as against it as the fans of it.

By this point Monolith was bought by WB. And WB had the rights to Lord of the Rings games. WB got Monolith to make Gotham City Imposters before Shadow of Mordor. It was most likely built from the ground up as a Lotr game.

They still agreed to the contract, they still made the game, they still went to all the gaming expos and lied their asses off to sell it.

Always gets me
Skyrim wasn't out at the time but still

These games would've been much better if they were set in generic fantasy setting #64325 instead of fucking Middle-earth.

They're owned by the publisher they can't exactly say no

So does Bethesda and all that happens to them is their game sells 30 million copies

Even normalfags are shitting on it, it's dead on arrival.

The first game was very polarising. I'm a fan of it. Like it to this day, eventually creating a new game. It's Arkham mordor's Creed, but actually good.
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I'm not getting the sequel. All that talk of dlc got me salty over it. Simple as that.

So, you're telling me the publishers told the liberal cunt and her nigger pet to make the plot about dindunuffins during a period BLM as their peak niggering? If nothing else kikestarter has showed us that without publishers whipping them to work these lazy shits would never release a finished fucking product.

So? They weren't Islamic wives sold into servitude. They chose to sell(out) their talents to a AAA publisher for a fatter paycheck and at the end of the day they have primarily themselves to blame.

The gameplay footage of the siege taking place has a million views and the like/dislike bar is almost completely on the side of likes.

I think that's a sign that normalfags are still eager to play it.

Fair enough.

The trailer came out before it was revealed the game had lootboxes and always online though. I'm more upset about the WE WUZ GONDOR part than the microtransaction kikery.

Isn't this a single player game? What in the ever living fuck would make someone want to pay for that shit in a single player game?

Also, I'm gonna bet it'll be like 60-70gig.

Leaderboards. Yes, user, there are people so desperate for validation they'd pay thousands of dollars to lord it over others in a single-player game.