Middle Earth meets Assassin's Creed in Shadow of Mordor

[Xant]

But... why.

[Kafein]

numbers on screen must grow

[Falka]

That's how LoTR fight scenes should look like, beheading, gore, I like it

[Taser]

numbers on screen must grow

Skimmed your post and thought you said numbers must glow..

either way I agree.

Really tempted to buy this at full price but.. I'm holding back regardless.

[Butan]

Really tempted to buy this at full price but.. I'm holding back regardless.

Or start fishing.

[Gravoth_iii]

That's how LoTR fight scenes should look like, beheading, gore, I like it

The gore seems pretty weak though, only beheading except for that no major damages just bloodspurts.

[Butan]

Yep, no other dismemberment... a bit odd.

[Molly]

Yea, the head is the only thing coming off really, be it a beheading or exploding into bits. But I have to say that I don't really miss anything. Sure, would be cool to see a leg come off when you sweep the guy with the sword but on the other hand, I'm German and I am grateful that I can play it uncut

Tried to go for a Warchief last night, just like that, taking one of those 4 missions about them. Yea, got my ass handed to me
Guess I'll have to take out his bodyguards separately first to have a proper shot at one of those Warchiefs. Any advice?

[Xant]

It's funny how so many people say the game is too easy, yet there's also lots of people having a hard time.

I think it's because this game is a weird combination of supereasy and really hard fights. Like, I wouldn't call it a difficult game, but I've died like 8 times and there's definitely some difficult fights to be had. I think it could be just a little bit more difficult overall, but the balance is pretty nice: makes you feel like you control a sword-master when you can stylishly kill ten orcs in a few heartbeats, but then there's also challenge...

[Butan]

Yea, the head is the only thing coming off really, be it a beheading or exploding into bits. But I have to say that I don't really miss anything. Sure, would be cool to see a leg come off when you sweep the guy with the sword but on the other hand, I'm German and I am grateful that I can play it uncut

Doesnt black blood and non-human race (orc) mean that even countries like yours would legaly accept seeing them chopped to bits without problems?

[Tibe]

Biggest reason why I had hard time at the start was cause I didnt play the story enough to get all the ways to abuse the nemesis system unlocked and controlling other orcs. Game turned into a breeze after that and its pretty fun to mess around with. Im quite positive AC will rip this idea off in one of their games eventually, cause they lack ideas to beat that dead horse of a series. Last fight I had was basically a massacre. My controlled warchief with his 2 my controlled captain bodyguards against an enemy warchief with no bodyguards.

[Molly]

Doesnt black blood and non-human race (orc) mean that even countries like yours would legaly accept seeing them chopped to bits without problems?

Not necessarily. It`s about a humanoid look.

[Xant]

Biggest reason why I had hard time at the start was cause I didnt play the story enough to get all the ways to abuse the nemesis system unlocked and controlling other orcs. Game turned into a breeze after that and its pretty fun to mess around with. Im quite positive AC will rip this idea off in one of their games eventually, cause they lack ideas to beat that dead horse of a series. Last fight I had was basically a massacre. My controlled warchief with his 2 my controlled captain bodyguards against an enemy warchief with no bodyguards.

I've played maybe 13-15 hours, still don't have any orc-controlling abilities, doubt I'll even use them much.

I recommend turning off all the combat prompts and outlining et cetera, makes the fights a lot more fun with no block indicators and shit like that.

[Kafein]

I recommend turning off all the combat prompts and outlining et cetera, makes the fights a lot more fun with no block indicators and shit like that.

Blocking stuff without a UI visual alert? Sound horrible. Oh wait...

It's funny how so many people say the game is too easy, yet there's also lots of people having a hard time.

I think it's because this game is a weird combination of supereasy and really hard fights. Like, I wouldn't call it a difficult game, but I've died like 8 times and there's definitely some difficult fights to be had. I think it could be just a little bit more difficult overall, but the balance is pretty nice: makes you feel like you control a sword-master when you can stylishly kill ten orcs in a few heartbeats, but then there's also challenge...

I think it's difficult to call this game hard when apparently (I'm making an hypothesis here) mere persistence is sufficient to overcome all challenges, in the most traditional "jRPG" sense. But you could argue that using this argument games like Dark Souls are not hard either, because you can also farm the easy mobs non-stop until reaching max level and crushing everything.

Of course this argument is not valid if going all "die and retry" on it makes it harder and not easier over time.

[Xant]

Of course this argument is not valid if going all "die and retry" on it makes it harder and not easier over time.

It does. If you die, the boss you were trying to kill levels up and gets tougher... and so does a lot of other bosses around the map. You might have almost killed off all the captains on a map, and if you die, most of them get replaced.