I really miss the early days of the community of this site. Things have gone so downhill in the comment sections over the last few years. There used to be fun interactions and discussions of the content of the video. Now it's all just bickering, politics, and looking for any excuse to dislike Dan. I guess now that Neogaf imploded it's only bound to get worse. There are literally people writing essays in the comments about what it means to be offended and how they feel personally attacked.
Keep doing what you're doing guys. Great vid, and good job on seemingly turning this campaign around. I'll do my best to avoid the comments for my own sanity's sake.
@humanity: It's really not disquieting at all. I don't understand people leveraging this complaint against Shadow of War. Not every stupid game mechanic has to have parallels to real life--sometimes it's just a stupid game mechanic. Even if you take the enslavement of orcs at face value, in that universe they are the literal embodiment of evil. They don't have any redeeming qualities. You shouldn't feel any compassion for the plight of creatures that have the sole desire of killing everything that moves. I just don't understand this hangup that some people have with the "ethics" in this game.
@chaser324: This is a really level-headed response that I agree with 100%. Some commenters appear to be going a bit far on the Dan hate. I can understand where they're coming from with this episode, but I still can't really feel that it's justified.
How did they botch the console versions so badly? I'm nearly 60 hours into a PC playthrough and haven't experienced many (if any) of the bugs reported in this review. The game actually runs quite well on my machine. This game is a definite step down from the original trilogy, but I've still been enjoying my time with it. I'm able to look past a lot of the goofy facial animation, it just makes me laugh more often than not. I guess the major takeaway here is if you really feel the need to play this game and have a PC that is able to run it, get it there over the console versions.
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