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Batman vs Orcs 2: Shadow of Wardor
Peccavi
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Remember this game?
Well, it's getting a sequel tomorrow:
Follow the continuing bromance of Talion x Celebrimbor as they commit genocide against the inhabitants of Mordor.
Well, it's getting a sequel tomorrow:
Follow the continuing bromance of Talion x Celebrimbor as they commit genocide against the inhabitants of Mordor.
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probably just wait until it's on a "90% off with all DLC" sale in late 2018.
Maybe next year
but i've been playing the first game again and fuck if i don;t got an asshole orc that comes back from EVERYTHING, runs at the earliest opportunity and is so powerful now his only weakness is "Afraid of burning". He's immune to everything else. I don;t know how I can get rid of him.
You also get to import your best follower though, and I wouldn't mind importing Naz, Ghul Hunter.
I still hope to find Dush and make him my best follower
edit: as for the video; it pretty much tell me what I knew. gameplay will still be a blast, marketing and set-up and story is dumb as all hell.
Anyway, I get the impression that this sequel is about the same. Competent and fun but not a must-buy. Certainly not until there's a GOTY edition, anyway.
I really liked the nemesis system because I had been playing Assassins Creed games for years, and it just felt like any time I stabbed a guy, it didn't matter.
Then SoM comes along, I find a bad guy early in the game that is weak to ranged attacks... so I get in position and I shoot an arrow at him. One headshot and he's down.
And then a few hours later I'm fighting a different boss and in the middle of the fight he comes back and he's got a bandage on his head and he's yelling at me that I didn't finish the job and OH MAN this matters now?! I thought "defeated" and "dead" were the same thing and they're NOT! And now I'm fighting 2 boss groups and it's so cool!
After figuring out some of the mechanics (like "decapitating makes them perma-dead") it lost some of the shine, but the first time it happened it was a great gaming experience.
My impression was the orcs were too dumb and violent to care otherwise, plus their information network was notes tied to spiders at best. And, eventually, they DO shit themselves and run, you even get an ability that causes more shit running!
But really take ANY open world game with combat and you have a hero/heroine that kills things by the hundreds with inappropriate reactions from the populace, this is really no different.
And then that stopped being so easy, and it became amazing
not actually true as it turns out
plus motherfucking pokeorc battles
i was totally kidding when i joked about those weeks ago and here we are
they pretty much only happened during finishers or, more likely, after interrogating an orc then choosing to kill it. but as far as i found there was never a 100% guaranteed move that did it.
I reserved and paid this off months ago though, and I get off work early all week, so fuck yessss
Gonna murder some orcs and hang with sexy spider ladies
I got waaaaay into creating my perfect orc army last time around. Except sometimes they'd run away before I could turn them and the only way I found to lure them back was for them to jump in on a Captain fight.
Which was impossible to do end game when I converted everybody already. So I had this one empty slot. Very frustrating, I hope they address this.
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There's so much time spent in menus! And I'm sure that appeals to a certain crowd, but not for me.
Half the time Brad is playing he's just able to run past any orcs or fights and when he does fight it looks just way too crowded.
Sexy Shelob makes it a flat out no
Is it really that hard not to objectify women
They made Injustice 2 much more engaging
And from the GameSpot review, it sounds like he was swimming in the currency to buy them by endgame without ever spending any real money
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The reviews I read said the opposite, they had run through all the currency they had earned all game in just about an hour and then had to grind.
Also lootboxes that you can buy with real money are complete shit.
there look at all the time I saved you
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It looks like they maybe tried to merge the Ranger face and the Elf face and wound up with...that.
and to fix it they decided to superimpose elf-guy's face over his half the time?
sounds distressingly believable, actually
I wonder if the PS4 version is hosed?
maybe it's just bad on the ps4?
no worries, it'll only get cheaper. and patched!
i swear those were in november
From what Ive heard the post game "grind" has been overstated, for what basically amounts to a separate post-game infinite play mode thats there if you want more challenge and to keep playing, with the reward of a bonus cutscene being less the goal than simply just playing more of the gameplay. Its not some true ending you have to grind towards or the game feels incomplete.
Also reports are that you basically dont need lootboxes, they provide you with lower level orcs and the randomisation means youre better off hunting down and finding orcs with abilities you like in game, and you are swimming in gear and orcs anyway just through normal gameplay by the end apparently. Still, as a practice lootboxes are predatory and disgusting, but it doesnt sound like it affects the gameplay which is what i was worried about
Really good summary here: https://www.kotaku.com.au/2017/10/what-you-need-to-know-about-shadow-of-wars-controversial-loot-boxes/
You can throw enemies to their death and it goes into a little like "fall to death" cam. Also lava. And while the environments are all basically the same in terms of creatures and things to do, (and it may be my penchant for all things orc and orcish talking here) but I love how alive the worlds feel, with orcs working slaves, and building stuff, training, eating, fighting, etc.
Graphics are subpar but the art and design is fantastic, especially on the orcs. Im getting a scorpio so im hoping theres a bit of a boost there