"Well it looks like the rumored sequel to Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor has been leaked early by Target. An image and description showed up on the site’s page today which you can see below."
It's the only game that did something revolutionary that we had not seen before and wasn't possible to achieve on last gen consoles: nemesis system. All the other games that I played this gen could be made on last gen consoles if the graphical fidelity was toned down. In short I've been playing last gen games with better graphical fidelity.
I started gaming in the SNES/Megadrive era and I've experienced true revolutions in each generation until this one that changed how we play our games. I don't consider better graphical fidelity to be a next gen experience because it's the obvious thing you'll get due to better hardware.
I also don't consider fish AI, chest hair and ants running around as something that qualifies as a next gen experience. Those are the kind of details that do nothing where to me where it truly matters: gameplay mechanics or how we play our games.
I enjoyed the gameplay in the first one, but for me the story, characters and "final boss" is very very mediocre. I hope this sequence brings several improvements in this sense.
I actually agree I never really cared for those overly wannabe political type games.
I never really even cared for what was going on with the whole War stuff I think the gameplay in the combat was just so amazing I did like the cutscenes and I like how the narrative was told I just didn't really care for the specifics.
The combat and the gameplay was just absolutely amazing in that game and I just want more of that
@UnHoly_One - The entire cast was great and full of high profile voice actors. Troy Baker as Talion and Nolan North as The Black Hand of Sauron. Jennifer Hale, John DiMaggio, Laura Bailey, Alastair Duncan, Brian Bloom (Voiced B.J. Blakowitz in Wolfenstein TNO/TOB) Let's hope the sequel is great as well.
That's the key! I hope it has evolved quite a bit. Also, I hope more customization etc. has been added. Open world games have had the bar raised quite a bit so we will see.
The Nemesis system was simply brilliant and to this day, still unmatched. Considering how quickly gameplay concepts are copied from game to game I'm amazed that nobody managed to replicate this in their title.
Wow this came outta nowhere. Shadow of Mordor was a great surprise when it come out. I wasnt even in to lord of the rings and it was very enjoyable. I hate that we didnt get a surprise reveal but im hyped now.
Awesome, hope they pull back on the open world more and concentrate on the story. The nemesis system was amazing but the story disappeared in how big the world was and by the time you took out all the grunts they were replaced so rising up the ranks took forever. Keep it open world but don't forget about the story, that is what LOTR was created for. Still excited to see what they do with this. Hopefully, something completely new after LOTR or have the story take place during The Hobbit era or even before like the original War over the Ring.
Well from the picture it looks like the same character and he's still binded to the ghost of the guy that created the rings. So I'm pretty sure it will be a continuation of the last game...
first was pretty fun but was pretty flawed. hope this builds upon the strong points of mordor (gameplay and nemesis). also why call it "shadow of war" instead of "war of mordor"
Some people say this because they only know the Hobbit - the new trilogy is a far cry from the book and I like both - or they know the The Lord of the Rings in book or film. They are not familiar with the much more massive Complete History of Middle Earth, Children of Hurin, Unfinished Tales of Numenor and Middle Earth, Tales From The Perilous Realm, or The Silmarillion. There is so much more to be told in Middle Earth. Yes they took some license with the forging of the Rings as well as the loss of the One Ring but it does have many elements on point with only a few to make you shudder.
Sweet. The first game was enjoyable, but a bit short. I hope they expand on the story and maybe more variety of missions. Would also like more enemy variation.
I was actually slightly disappointed in the narrative and gameplay of the original, but a sequel is intriguing. Supposedly Mordor is nicely enhanced on PS4 Pro.
I'm still waiting on these guys to make Condemned 3. I've been waiting since 2008 to find out about the damn cure. I tried Shadow of Mordor with high hopes but died alot so I gave up.
No big surprise here, the original was really good fun, had a fantastic nemesis system, it got good reviews and sold well. The recent PS4 Pro support for the original was also a big hint that there was more coming from this series.
Hopefully they don't rush it toward the end like the last one. All that build up to that final boss and they make it a QTE event. Such a wasted character.
Totally right. While I don't subscribe to ALL QTEs being bad I must say that the last boss in SoM was a bad, bad let down. He'll, if they'd even done the old GoW thing where you basically earn the QTE by to all intents and purposes already winning the fight they'd have been okay but it was literally three QTEs.
That , and one other weak ass boss fight more where's Wally than video game battle, aside the original was a very classy game. The Nemesis system worked and was legitimately new and combat was a fabulous hybrid of the best bits of already good systems. Top cast, decent story(plus a few liberties with source material) and colour me interested in the sequel. Should be good if they polish out the few flaws.
Do we ever stop and ask ourselves do we do ourselves a disservice in posting these leaked pictures and ruining what would have been a cool surprise? Could you all imagine if last year before E3 someone leaked that Hideo Kojima was revealing a game with Norman Reedus in it, that moment he came down and showed us Death Stranding wouldn't be special
You can avoid spoilers but you can't get away from leaked reveals. You can't stop it on our front. Why doesn't rockstar or many others have leaks? They are on top of their shit. They probably don't trust the idiots at Target with such information.
Oh hell yes!! One of my favorite games this gen so far, I want to see how they expand on the nemesis system.
Wow this came outta nowhere. Shadow of Mordor was a great surprise when it come out. I wasnt even in to lord of the rings and it was very enjoyable. I hate that we didnt get a surprise reveal but im hyped now.
Awesome, hope they pull back on the open world more and concentrate on the story. The nemesis system was amazing but the story disappeared in how big the world was and by the time you took out all the grunts they were replaced so rising up the ranks took forever. Keep it open world but don't forget about the story, that is what LOTR was created for. Still excited to see what they do with this. Hopefully, something completely new after LOTR or have the story take place during The Hobbit era or even before like the original War over the Ring.
Oh shit!
It's on...
Oh hell yeah that is a day one buy for me. Shadow of Mordor was hands down my favorite game of 2014.