Middle Earth meets Assassin's Creed in Shadow of Mordor

[Butan]

http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2014/10/08/middle-earth-shadow-of-mordor-paid-branding-deals-should-have-gamergate-up-in-arms/

This would be revolting if the game was completely shit and they tried to make it appear as remotely good.

But since its good and they want to make it appear as such, I can only facepalm at the marketing move, it was completely useless and counter-productive to do such things.
"Do not show bugs/glitches and focus on nemesis system": I've yet to encounter a bug/glitch (there may be some) and the nemesis system is so innovative that the reviews WOULD HAVE talked about it on their own.

Shot themselves in the foot.

[Dooz]

It's revolting anyway. It's weird to give them a pass just cause you like the game. More importantly, this can safely be assumed to be happening at large on a much greater scale in society as a whole. Not just video games. Not just things you happen to agree with anyway.

[Molly]

Honestly, those deals are happening since the first youtuber went viral with some silly Let's Play.
Wonder why there is such a fuss about it now when this has been public and known for ages.

[Overdriven]

Didn't something similar happen with the most recent J.K Rowling books? The non Harry Potter ones. If I remember rightly it was quite widely reported that only a select few reviewers were allowed early readership and that her lawyers/publicist forced these reviewers to sign stuff that meant they couldn't criticise the work for the privilege. Pretty obvious why. They were terrified the book wouldn't be good enough and wanted to sell as many copies as possible on the back of Rowling's name before reviewers came out with heavy criticism.

I guess it may have been a similar concept here. They were worried and wanted to sell copies based on the LOTR fandom before reviews came out criticising the game. It definitely shows a lack of faith in their product.

Stuff like this happens all the time and is hardly surprising.

[Dooz]

Honestly, those deals are happening since the first youtuber went viral with some silly Let's Play.
Wonder why there is such a fuss about it now when this has been public and known for ages.

There is no fuss. That's the problem. It is and has been commonplace for ages. That's the problem. It's tacitly accepted and hardly surprising to anyone. That's the problem.

This isn't about being shocking to anyone. Your own acceptance and compliant attitudes about the state of things is what should be shocking. But we're all much too cool to be shocked by anything anymore. Too cool for school.

[Molly]

Nonsense.
I just don't see the point in getting my blood pressure up about shit that I can't change and can't be bothered by.
It's Youtube ffs

[Dooz]

yes... youtube... that's all... whatever you gotta tell yourself to keep that blood pressure in check.

hey good luck, keep your head down, do what you're told to do, like what you're told to like, it'll all be fine. it's all fine.

[Molly]

For a native to the English language you really do suck at reading comprehension if I may say so
Guess I am too much of a realist to get carried away by some minor bullshit. I am actually glad not to be one of those wannabe world changing hippies
Damn hippies... so annoying... all talk and only hot air...

[Dooz]

I don't want to change the world. I want you to be crushed under the yoke, willingly as you are.

Shadow of Mordor was pretty fun, as far as a tech demo goes.

[Kafein]

Didn't something similar happen with the most recent J.K Rowling books? The non Harry Potter ones. If I remember rightly it was quite widely reported that only a select few reviewers were allowed early readership and that her lawyers/publicist forced these reviewers to sign stuff that meant they couldn't criticise the work for the privilege. Pretty obvious why. They were terrified the book wouldn't be good enough and wanted to sell as many copies as possible on the back of Rowling's name before reviewers came out with heavy criticism.

I guess it may have been a similar concept here. They were worried and wanted to sell copies based on the LOTR fandom before reviews came out criticising the game. It definitely shows a lack of faith in their product.

Stuff like this happens all the time and is hardly surprising.

It doesn't really matter with books or movies or other media products because the critics are so numerous and varied that there's no bottleneck with a wide influence over the audience. There's also the lack of an impression that some critics are above corruption because that dream is long dead when it comes to books and movies whereas in videogames the critics and the audience are much younger. Many more are subject to the illusion that reviewers are infallible.

[Overdriven]

But then I suppose it's naive to think that the video game industry would go any other way than in the footsteps of other entertainment.

[Falka]

Didn't something similar happen with the most recent J.K Rowling books? The non Harry Potter ones. If I remember rightly it was quite widely reported that only a select few reviewers were allowed early readership and that her lawyers/publicist forced these reviewers to sign stuff that meant they couldn't criticise the work for the privilege. Pretty obvious why. They were terrified the book wouldn't be good enough and wanted to sell as many copies as possible on the back of Rowling's name before reviewers came out with heavy criticism.

Eh? That sounds pretty... weirdly. She has sold around 500 000 000 HP books and her recent books were relesased under the nickname - not the best move to get highest publicity and sell as many books as possible. Doesn't seem to me she cares about critics any more.

[lombardsoup]

...its an entertainment medium, none of this should be surprising.

[Overdriven]

Eh? That sounds pretty... weirdly. She has sold around 500 000 000 HP books and her recent books were relesased under the nickname - not the best move to get highest publicity and sell as many books as possible. Doesn't seem to me she cares about critics any more.

She did release one under her own name.

It was her crime ones or whatever that had a different name.

She may not care but the people making money off of her will.

[Thryn]

I don't typically pay for new releases, so I'll wait for a price drop if I ever decide to pick this up. I think fooling around with the Nemesis system would be fun.

I'll be preordering the Witcher 3 for $44 however I beat Witcher 2 on Dark Mode, Witcher 3 will be ezpz