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From: candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid>
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Subject: Re: What Have You Been Playing... IN MARCH 2024?
Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2024 14:30:10 -0000 (UTC)
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Kyonshi <gmkeros@gmail.com> wrote at 20:03 this Tuesday (GMT):
> On 4/2/2024 3:10 PM, candycanearter07 wrote:
>> Kyonshi <gmkeros@gmail.com> wrote at 19:03 this Monday (GMT):
>
>>>
>>> I have been playing and finished Shadows of War.
>>> This game actually was pretty good despite (or maybe because) it played
>>> a bit fast and lose with the Tolkien legendarium.
>>> The true star of the show was of course the Nemesis system, which
>>> allowed the randomly generated orcs you meet to have some actual
>>> personality and history with you. I think most of the game's huge size
>>> (over 100gb which is kinda insane) might have been made up of assets to
>>> create this huge variety of characters. Even after playing 90 hours on
>>> this game I still was encountering variations that I hadn't met, or at
>>> least not recognized before.
>>>
>>> The ending was a bit weak, the DLC promised some more thorough ending,
>>> but in the end it also was quite a letdown. It ended with a cliffhanger
>>> that didn't really feel like it had the impact they wanted from it.
>>> (Sauron is defeated and the Bright Lord escapes).
>> 
>> It's wild to me that DLC can just retroactively "fix" a game's ending.
>> IMO, the only game that did it well was the first Phoenix Wright.
>> 
> Well, in this case the storyline was progressed. The main story was 
> about Talion fighting against Sauron between the Hobbit and The Lord of 
> the Rings (hampering Sauron's efforts in the time the ring was in the 
> Shire). You can play part of that in the epilogue of the main game, as 
> you have to fight a series of increasingly difficult sieges of your 
> fortresses (originally that was over 20 of them, this has been updated 
> to just 5 in the current version). Then you get a cut scene where it 
> lays out that the main character succumbed to the ring he was wearing 
> after all, finally getting killed when Sauron falls at the end of LOTR.
>
> The DLC goes into that process a bit more, showing his corruption by the 
> ring from the position of another person (the Elvish assassin Eltariel). 
> She also is in Mordor when Sauron falls and the Bright Lord 
> (Celebrimbor) escapes.
> I am conflicted if this actually was better or not. It does show a bit 
> more of the progress of the corruption in a way that was not possible to 
> show in the main game without changing the status quo too much (after 
> all you were supposed to keep playing and doing further sieges and 
> defenses).
>
>>> This was nominally the game Middle-Earth 2, even if you'd be hard
>>> pressed to remember that main title. Unfortunately it doesn't look like
>>> we are getting a part 3.
>>> I did hear WB games is working on a Wonder Woman game implementing the
>>> Nemesis system from this game, which... I dunno. it doesn't sound quite
>>> right. Might be good if they put some work into it.
>> 
>> 


Oh interesting.
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