Like, didn't Melkor nab a whole bunch of them at some point early on in history and corrupt them?
Or is my brain just making that up
That's one version
Tolkien himself never even settled on one
It's the version most popularized, though, because in LotR Treebeard mentions that orcs were made in "mockery of elves." Which could mean orcs were made from elf stock or just made from something else in imitation of elves. It's a vague statement.
Yeah I bet it's the ears.
Melkor was all "oh man, this'll piss them right off"
Told the girlfriend she should try Mordor. So this morning she boots it up and gets to where it first let's you roam the world. You know, like eight minutes in. She getting a hang of the controls and picks a fight with some orcs.
Three of them are captains. She dies relatively quickly. So she respawns and tries to find some easier prey. Gets surprised by a captain. During the fight two more walk up. She finally kills the first one and runs the fuck away from the other two. I dunno if she'll stick with it but those two immediate engagements were worth it.
Having to run the fuck away from some fights is part of the charm of SOM. Also makes it more satisfying when towards the end of the game you are a god and can seek vengeance
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Just started SOM and damn is it a fun game. I played just a bit when it came out on a friends XBOX. God does it control great on a PC though, especially a modern one. Pegged at 60fps @1080p. I'm able to handle pretty large groups. I can't wait to get more upgrades though.
I have been getting text messages at work updating me on her game. She falls silent for a while. Turns out she was in an hour and a half hit and run campaign against three captains.
I'm really spoiled for choice with all these damn orc captains.
Is it better to do some of the story stuff so I can get some more abilities before going full on orc huntin', or should I kill some orcs now and level up that way?
A lot of the games best powers are locked behind story stuff. It's up to you but I'd recommend keeping a balance between story progression and "grinding"
Fuck, with Shadow of War coming out this summer, I want to go out and get a copy of Shadow of Mordor to play again. Something almost zen about tracking across the land, finding some Captain, and ruining his day. Especially if he tagged me a half hour or so prior. Damn shame about the last hour or so of the game.
Also, I miss Ratbag. He was a weasel and a sniveling sneak, but he had more character than a lot of sidekicks in recent memory, and the sinful little bastard grew on me over time.
"Go down, kick ass, and set yourselves up as gods, that's our Prime Directive!"
Decided to replay the campaign in this, gives me something to keep me occupied until Mass Effect comes out. Not sure if I'm moving quickly or if it's just shorter than I remembered, but after a couple nights I've already finished the first area (story wise, not completionist wise).
The story is short, and only feels longer the first time because you probably spent a lot more time with thinning out the Army. Since that can he done any where at any time and even by total surprise, it kind of blues in to the story quests
At the moment I'm mostly doing story quests and occasionally doing side stuff. I met Gollum, which definitely feels kind of forced, but also whatever.
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What got me was that you can install your bros as fortress-kings and they trick it out differently depending on their personalities. And you can upgrade those fortresses, and it sounds like there'll be siege defense battles and upgrading your craptastic starting orcs into uruk-hai-esque badasses, and and...
if they can actually pull all of this off it'll be something people still play twenty years from now
I did a Confrontation mission with an orc last night. He was a... Defender? So regular full-on attacks didn't work on him, plus two other orc captains showed up with him. So I had this trio of orc dickheads chasing after me along with a handful of mooks. Ended up losing them well enough to stealth attack the defender captain, killing him, then running to some wild caragors that were sitting around. One of the remaining captains was afraid of them so he ran away, and the other got enraged by them. As I chased after the one who ran away, almost immediately after killing him, the other captain was killed by caragors.
I also started playing this for the first time recently.
Personally I felt pretty ridiculously overpowered from the word go, so, throwing more and more power on top of myself hasn't changed much. It's pretty fun but silly being essentially death incarnate with a sword, and absolute shadow stealth master with a dagger, and a machinegun headshot machine with a bow.
I've mostly been following the main quest line and when it takes me to a new area I knock out the stuff in that area.
The moment to moment gameplay feels pretty solid but the story feels kinda undercooked and the presentation of it feels really disjointed.
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Shortytouching the meatIntergalactic Cool CourtRegistered Userregular
I played this for like six hours straight when it first came out and then basically forgot about it
but a few days ago I was like "oh yeah" and I've been chipping away at it when I don't feel like playing Zelda or overwatch
not sure if I'll ever finish it but it's a fun game and I'm glad it's getting a sequel
overpowered for what? there aren't really any big story fights except the last one which you don't even need to do anything in to win. story is also how you get branding
yeah the story is serviceable but its very clear they were rushed when making it. Has some great armour designs for the bosses though.
This game is very strange in terms of how people experience the difficulty, ive heard a lot of people say its way too hard and a lot say its way too easy, and talking about different points in the game too.
For me there is enough variety that I always felt interested in combat, no matter how difficult or easy it was
Pinterest is often better for those kinds of image searches than Google, which is going to give you tons of the most popular stuff.
I've had trouble finding much even there. Nobody seems to capture how disturbingly verdant the Morgul vale is in Tolkien's descriptions. The fields of corpse-flowers, the great ranks of dark pines, the ominous vapors of the river, the almost Lovecraftian carvings of the bridge. Almost everything you see if a copy of Howe's design for the movie, with the rusty bits of iron clamped onto the battlements of a pale Minas Tirith imitation in a desolate, rocky valley.
So with Horizon and Mass Effect pulling at me to play them, I did the only logical thing and decided to play neither, and instead finish this game.
Turns out when I had last left it over a year ago I was right on the cusp of getting the Brand power and I only had a few weapon challenge missions left.
So, now that I've finished all the weapon stuff, and unlocked almost all the skills, the save slot thing reads something like 78% complete.
I have the DLC that came with the Season pass, so that's Bright Lord and the Hunting one?
Should I finish the main story, then do the DLC, or should I do the DLC, then finish the story?
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Yeah I bet it's the ears.
Melkor was all "oh man, this'll piss them right off"
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Having to run the fuck away from some fights is part of the charm of SOM. Also makes it more satisfying when towards the end of the game you are a god and can seek vengeance
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had a weird graphics issue (maybe??) with the lighting during a thunderstorm, every time lightning struck the area was lit up with rainbow coloring.
Sauron needs to stop experimenting with Mordor's weather.
Is it better to do some of the story stuff so I can get some more abilities before going full on orc huntin', or should I kill some orcs now and level up that way?
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Also, I miss Ratbag. He was a weasel and a sniveling sneak, but he had more character than a lot of sidekicks in recent memory, and the sinful little bastard grew on me over time.
But I also got killed by an Orc named Barfa, so I'm sorta breaking even here
if they can actually pull all of this off it'll be something people still play twenty years from now
I did a Confrontation mission with an orc last night. He was a... Defender? So regular full-on attacks didn't work on him, plus two other orc captains showed up with him. So I had this trio of orc dickheads chasing after me along with a handful of mooks. Ended up losing them well enough to stealth attack the defender captain, killing him, then running to some wild caragors that were sitting around. One of the remaining captains was afraid of them so he ran away, and the other got enraged by them. As I chased after the one who ran away, almost immediately after killing him, the other captain was killed by caragors.
I dunno, there is a certain enjoyment in being an Orc slaughtering machine.
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Personally I felt pretty ridiculously overpowered from the word go, so, throwing more and more power on top of myself hasn't changed much. It's pretty fun but silly being essentially death incarnate with a sword, and absolute shadow stealth master with a dagger, and a machinegun headshot machine with a bow.
I've mostly been following the main quest line and when it takes me to a new area I knock out the stuff in that area.
The moment to moment gameplay feels pretty solid but the story feels kinda undercooked and the presentation of it feels really disjointed.
but a few days ago I was like "oh yeah" and I've been chipping away at it when I don't feel like playing Zelda or overwatch
not sure if I'll ever finish it but it's a fun game and I'm glad it's getting a sequel
This game is very strange in terms of how people experience the difficulty, ive heard a lot of people say its way too hard and a lot say its way too easy, and talking about different points in the game too.
For me there is enough variety that I always felt interested in combat, no matter how difficult or easy it was
thrak thrak thrak
I've had trouble finding much even there. Nobody seems to capture how disturbingly verdant the Morgul vale is in Tolkien's descriptions. The fields of corpse-flowers, the great ranks of dark pines, the ominous vapors of the river, the almost Lovecraftian carvings of the bridge. Almost everything you see if a copy of Howe's design for the movie, with the rusty bits of iron clamped onto the battlements of a pale Minas Tirith imitation in a desolate, rocky valley.
Turns out when I had last left it over a year ago I was right on the cusp of getting the Brand power and I only had a few weapon challenge missions left.
So, now that I've finished all the weapon stuff, and unlocked almost all the skills, the save slot thing reads something like 78% complete.
I have the DLC that came with the Season pass, so that's Bright Lord and the Hunting one?
Should I finish the main story, then do the DLC, or should I do the DLC, then finish the story?