5 Open-World Franchises That Should Steal Shadow Of Mordor's Nemesis System

GI: Open-world games are more popular than ever, and while we're still seeing some of the best the genre has to offer, there's always room for improvement. Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor may not be the largest sandbox around, but it makes up for it in spades with the intriguing nemesis system. This feature procedurally generates powerful Uruk captains with distinct names, appearances, and attributes. Players can kill these named bad guys for powerful upgrades, or accidentally earn them promotions by dying by their hand. The nemesis system has inspired us, and we've already started thinking about other open-world series that would be even more fun with something similar.

[Rickgrimes95]

Not sure about dead rising but red dead redemption, batman, borderlands would be awesome with the nemesis system

[Stallion]

Holy shit, if Batman had randomly generated super villians with Batman villian-like creativity.

[Antifan]

Skyrim already has a nemesis-like system. I remember stealing a lot of stuff from someone, and the person I stole from sent hired thugs after me.
I eventually found the guy who hired thugs to kill me, and I killed him.

[Neixus]

That's not a nemesis system, that is an event which you triggered. In other words, a script.

[FullmetalRoyale]

That's totally on the same level.

-_-

No sir.

[Dragonopolis]

Sorry Antifan...... but the others are correct. In Skyrim an event is triggered and is easily repeatable with very little decision making done by the A.I. and the Gamer. Nemesis system is a much deeper system and even if a gamer repeats their actions there is a lot more a gamer and the A.I. can tweak in game to make the experience seem random or more "alive" for a lack of a better word.

A.I. is where all games including PC games have been lackluster and the industry is screaming for better A.I. experience in games. I would even forgive some graphics in favor of better smarter A.I. over NPCs and other aspects of the environment.

In my opinion if Microsoft wants to make a come back with the xbox A.I. is where they need to innovate. I also believe that Player vs Player is not where gamers really want to interact (friends want to play with each other not really against and I am speaking collectively/majority not for every gamer of course or for every genre of video games where it does make sense). One Example is Skyrim...... players screamed for online but neither the Developers or Gamers really did communicate what really was wanted. The Developers created a generic MMO around the Elders Scroll universe and gamers freaked (not in a positive way). Then in many forums around the internet you start to see people wanted something more like Skyrim (open world) but with a Party system that they could get together with friends (both online and offline) and go raid, monster hunt, even questing.

One way to make that fun and challenging is by improving A.I. in games.......

Games have had hard modes for years but really all they do is make the enemy take more damage and players die quicker the "hard mode" is still dumb. My weapon should still do the same damage it always does (all of a sudden my enemy has skin made of stone) and I shouldn't magically take more damage from the same weapon .... in my opinion breaks the immersion for the player in a game

............The industry needs to just start making the A.I. "smarter" in games as well as increasing the number of enemies and decreasing resupply it would go a long way to making a game more difficult without breaking the immersion of the game.

Hats off Monolith........... for creating and contributing to the Gaming World a smarter system that keeps the player immersed in the world and makes the game feel more "alive". More work needs to be done...... its not perfect but it is a very good start and the rest of the Gaming Community needs to follow.......