Unfinished: Middle-earth: Shadow of War 03/07/2017

This looks crazy in a good way.

I also really enjoy this form of unfinished videos

Shadow of Wardor

This just seems like a system where you gather resources before storming a castle (the dragon, the tiger, etc.) which play out in a similar way to mass effect where it just checks if you've done a certain thing and then throws them in during the fight.

I think mordor would've been much better with a harder difficulty setting for people already very familiar with its Batman-esk gameplay systems. I hope they have that option in the new one because if we don't I'm not sure how the bigger scope and all these other things are going to matter if I can just roll in and kill everything as easily as I did in the first game.

@bathala: My thoughts exactly.

I thought the first game had solid but derivative gameplay, and fine visuals as well as good sound design, but overall I wasn't impressed with it. It's one of those games that I played through and didn't think much of, then moved on. Forgettable is definitely the incorrect word for it, so I guess unimpressed will have to do. I'm not excited for this, but I'll check it out; it could be good.

Not sure about this. Got excited when Brad mentioned they had blown out the Nemesis System, until I realised what he meant was that there are 5 separate hierarchies instead of 2.

Looks like a dynasty warriors game.

Shadow of Warriors.

Sold. This looks fun.

Damn, this looks cool as hell! I'm thinking Talion isn't even necessary in this game, it would be interesting to see them set up the game so that you play multiple generals on different fronts.

How dare you put that thought in my head.

@boomsnapclap113: How dare you put that thought in my head now...

I really wish they had done these games in a generic fantasy setting instad of the LotR-universe. This game looks neat but the world they built is too far removed from the tone of the books for my taste. But hey, at least @sloppydetective is getting a kick out of my discomfort concerning this games setting.

Did anyone else move their mouse around the four minute mark when Brad brought up the VLC mini-bar? lol

The speaker lady in the trailer... Is she the same one who introduces Hitman levels?

Yeah, this seems fun. Loved the first game, will probably pick this one up too.

This game looks epic! I loved the first one, so I'll probably buy this at some point.

I really enjoyed the first game. I'm not a diehard fan of the franchise, so I don't care about the canon/lore implications. I put 40+ hours into the game and DLC because it was just plain fun. I loved the combat and the abilities. I even got all of the collectibles, and did all but one of the weapon challenges which I wasn't able to beat. The final battle was terrible, it was just a weird, confusing QTE.

I liked the Nemesis system in theory, but it wasn't perfect. I didn't get how the game chose my nemesis, and it was really weird seeing him show up like three different times after I killed him again and again. A few other orcs somehow cheated death, too. The first time I saw one that I had killed, he showed up with part of his face covered in metal and I thought, "Oh, that's cool." Then it happened more. I don't care how crazy orc medical science is, I distinctly remembered his head flying through the air. I'm no doctor, but I'm pretty sure a prosthetic can't help with that.

This...... doesn't even seem like gameplay. That just looked like a bunch of cut scenes like this was Asura's Wrath or something

I can't be the only one that will call this Shadow of Wardor

@itsalita: I believe they did something similar for the first game, the reveal gameplay looked way more cinematic than the finished game.

A unique set of Orcs! Frankly, this sounds exhaustively large.

Looks complicated, kind of been procrastinating starting this game because it seems so involved.