Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor ?

[JasonPratt]

They also die easily from being pummeled by a Titanosaurus.  ;D

Or the equivalent thereof. 

[W8taminute]

^ O0

[MengJiao]

Incidentally -- can't remember if this was mentioned upthread -- but unlike the EA Game adaptations from movie elements, this has more of a blessing from the Tolkien estate, down to the contractual obligation not to include pumpkins and tomatoes. (Because those are New World foods which wouldn't be in ancient European prehistory history.)

  I got this game for the pumpkin-free environment.  I haven't seen a pumpkin yet.  But maybe Talion looks like a pumpkin to the Orcs?  is that possible?

[JasonPratt]

Devs: "But we can have elves turn into wraiths, right? That's important to our story."

Estate: "Oh, sure, even though JRRT would have spit blood at that. BUT NO PUMPKINS!"

[MengJiao]

Devs: "But we can have elves turn into wraiths, right? That's important to our story."

Estate: "Oh, sure, even though JRRT would have spit blood at that. BUT NO PUMPKINS!"

  It's funny how the Orcs quickly become much more likable than that "glowing" pruney elf.  I like this game, but being an Orc would be more fun it seems to me: no wife, no wriath, no phone, no luxury, primitive as can be.  So join us here each undead moment, there's millions of Orcs to be.

[Gusington]

^HA

Damn I need to start playing this again.

[MengJiao]

^HA

Damn I need to start playing this again.

  I played as hard as I could last night.  I'm in the difficult early hours (hiding and sneaking and running away -- and/or getting killed).  I stabbed all the Orc archers and picked off henchmen and finally got the first Orc Captain (?Ugh? the Slaver).  It was intense and very cool.  I hope it gets easier though, at least as far as not getting killed so often.

[Gusington]

I only played about a dozen hours but I died probably 100 times at least.

[MengJiao]

I only played about a dozen hours but I died probably 100 times at least.

  I've played for almost 4 hours, I guess I've been killed about 15-20 times.  There was a bad string early last night since low-level orcs where finishing me off (I was trying some new stuff in a new area -- that's my excuse).  they would lose their duels against ?Gorgoth? the wrestler and now he's up to a 9 (having started at 3, I think).  After that I went to another area and was more cautious and went on the Gollum quest.  I think I'm about to reach a new plateau with flips and whacks and stealth from above!
  The Wraith is getting pretty tiresome.  I wish I was an Uruk.

[Gusington]

Don't we all :)

[JudgeDredd]

Don't get too disheartened. I was dying constantly - mainly because I had no idea who to attack and where and specifically when. I was ending up in battles with Captains I had no need to be near

Now I enjoy nothing better than running into a stonghold and causing havoc



I should point out I haven't played it for a while because the open world of Far Cry 4 and GTA V have sucked me in

[MengJiao]

Don't get too disheartened. I was dying constantly - mainly because I had no idea who to attack and where and specifically when. I was ending up in battles with Captains I had no need to be near

Now I enjoy nothing better than running into a stonghold and causing havoc

  The Stronghold thing.  Now I watch out for that warning.  I'm also learning to scout and plan as much as possible.  You'd think that would be obvious, but it definitely pays off in this game and all the more so when you have some options like Detonate.

[BanzaiCat]

Anyone interested that hasn't bought this yet (like me) might want to go check out Bundle Stars.

https://www.bundlestars.com/en/bundle/middle-earth-shadow-of-mordor-bundle

For $9.99 you can get the base game and 18 DLCs. Yeah, eighteen DLCs.

Over 43GB in downloads. I started it about 20 minutes ago and am at 4%. LOL

[Gusington]

^One of the top games I've purchased in the last couple of years.

[Greybriar]

$9.99 is $2.50 cheaper than what I paid for Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor Game of the Year Edition while it was on sale at Steam in April.