This game is actually very good and much better than the first one

This game is actually very good and much better than the first one.

Would you say that it's worth the $40 price tag?
or should I wait some more years for it to go super cheap?

It's worth it
Game is long enough and the Nemesis System is definitely mind blowing, a lot of things can happen with the enemies and it's fun as hell
And one advice: play it on Nemesis difficulty

If I play it on Nemesis will the combat turn into hitting bullet sponges like the first one did?
It got really unsatisfying and boring

With good gear and skills, no. But you will die a lot and that's the point: you have to die if you want the Nemesis System to work properly, and create personal stories with your enemies.

It wasn't so much dying that pissed me off with the first one, more of just spending 20 minutes hitting a warlord for me to actually kill him.
Shit just got tiring after awhile.

Well at some point, if you're unlucky and stumble upon a unkillable son of a bitch, it will get spongy. It happened to me once because i kept dying to a captain, in that case use their weaknesses, they'll always have one.

an*

At least you can count on your followers to kill some globs for you this time

Yes exactly.

Alright, sounds good anons, I'll definitely buy it later.

My fellow ebonic gentleman.

You can say both games are bad, but Shadow of War is a rare case of a sequel that made the previous game obsolete.

Seriously, you don't need to play SoM since everything is already covered and improved on SoW.

My thoughts exactly, SOM was only a prototype.

Well it's always good to see a sequel that just improves on the first game to be bigger and better.

Well, it's Sup Forums. Most people here wouldn't appreciated it because bamham combat and shit plot that fucked up the lore.

It's not my GOTY but it's possibly the game I had the most fun with in this year. Well, it could be my GOTY.

Too bad devs shot themselves in the foot with the lootboxes drama. They aren't even nearly as bad as i thought, just a way to milk casuals

MUH FUCKING LORE

MUH LOOTBXES

I think it's entirely WB's fault and not the dev. The game is perfectly fine to play without using lootboxes albeit that they obviously made it too grindy towards the end.

It does fucking the game in the ass tho with the whole ordeal.

As someone who loved the original and was really looking forward to the sequel, I quit after about 2 hours of playing.

Main problem is that everything takes SO LONG to do now. The combat isn't especially fun (it's exactly the same as the first game except everything is way more spaced out and grindy) enough to warrant that much grind-to-reward.

Is there a patch that just removes the lootbox mechanics and let's you level up at a normal rate, or what? I feel like it would be a very adequate sequel if that was the case.

At least it's not short like the first one, and yes the combat is fun, there is more possibilities now.

Only good on Nemesis difficultity with hit counters disabled.
Gravewalker is just a game of "run away, shoot arrows, run more" and Nemesis is too easy with counter icons enabled.

No, it's boring cash grab with loot boxes. Grind fest of a game.

I can't play without counter icons. You have no way of knowing if captains or olog attack is unblockable based on animations and when you are surrounded by lots of enemies while getting spammed by spears and bolts its impossible to keep track of everything

Generally dodging is superior to countering - dodging leats you reposition yourself and bump into Orcs to put them into an animation for a second so you can attack, countering just stops that one enemy for one attack and is vastly inferior

i never bought a single lootbox and i never have a single problem playing, the end game grind that all people said is a grind is an exageration, yes you need to look for better orcs, but is incredible easy to do it, and at the end of the day, thats whats the game is about.

Again, lootboxes and grind pull down an otherwise enjoyable game.

TALLION YOU NIGGER GET THE FUCKING PALLANTIR ALREADY AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

...

>mfw Zog resurrects your nemesis on the minas morgul arena

Imagine pokemon
Now imagine pokemon where you have to give up your team after each town
Now imagine pokemon where your team is overall meaningless because you can't really interact with them in any meaningful way
Got all that?
Good, then add in some bamham combat

Just wait for game of the year, complete edition or definitive edition people. It not worth the asking price at all.

>mfw I didn't remember any of those fuckers except the one I killed 4 minutes ago

>go to a store
>a guy say to his friend "Im playing this game name Shadow of Mordor, and every time I kill an orc somebody else take his place, its so much bulshit"
>I said "well... obviously you mindcontrol a general and then nobody will take its place"
>Do you have mind control? OH SPOILERS!!!!
>I... That is the point of the entire game....
>YOU JUST SPOILED IT FOR ME

I... understimated how blindly people can try and play some videogames...

>buys blindly some game
>it doesnt appeal to him
>wow this game sucks!!!!11
I hate people who do no research before buying something and then cry because they didn't like it

Should've just told him to eat ass and walked away

Im pretty sure he was talking about it like it was cool game.
Its just thouse moment where you say "Damn, this boss is an asshole" but you still like the game...
Was suprised he didnt knew you could mind control in that game... so he have not played much or heard anything about it.

>TALION, STOP LOOKING AT THE SPIDER'S TITS, IT'S DISGUSTING.

stop shitting on my work