Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor

Downloading now! This is the first game I've bought for full price on release since forever. 35gb though, my poor 20mb conenction is shedding a tear

WTF! Not to be selfish and a huge dick but I hoped it would suck!

I still got Metro Redux in plastic and I've only touched Wasteland 2 while Destiny is sucking up my time. Alien Isolation and The Evil Within are around the corner and all this positive talk makes me want to get this game as well. Hype machine in my head going: "Get his", "You need this",.....

It's definitely fun. I'm about 8 hours in now, and it is starting to get a little repetitive, and it's sooooooo easy!

Played 4 hrs. Kept creating stronger orcs! Didn't mean to... LOL

Having fun with the game so far. Good stuff!

So I'm 3 hours in. Here are my thought's that no one cares about:

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The start was over so quickly I didn't even notice the game had started. I was beating the shit out of my kid, stalking my wife, then I was suddenly grey, then I was hiding behind a table stabbing some orcs, then I was talking to a grey elf dude I HAD NO IDEA WHAT WAS HAPPENING. Then I'm standing in a tower in Mordor? Wut? Ok then. *Pauses the game for 30 minutes and reads all the game lore*

I jump off the tower and start running around killing everything in sight with no real aim or purpose trying to learn the odd controls. An hour later I start paying attention to the objective icons. I meet Gollum, choke slam him, get my finger bitten, my guy gest really angry about it, then go to bed.

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Downloading now! This is the first game I've bought for full price on release since forever. 35gb though, my poor 20mb conenction is shedding a tear

I assume via Steam on PC?

Anyone get this for console via download direct from XBL or PSN? (That's really a topic for another thread...)

This is on my list to get...

Aye steam PC. I continually hold down the sprint key, otherwise the camera is too close to the player model and I can't see ¬_¬

Yeah the default FOV is a bit shite.

Yeah, I'm def hating on the Fov atm. You feel like you are constantly missing things.

I wonder if they did that for optimization purposes.

Are you all playing with mouse and keyboard? FOV doesn't really bother me when playing with the controller tbh.

Yeah I'm playing with mouse and keyboard. But I feel as if the game is trying to force me to plug my controller in... but I don't wanna

The PC controls have gotten me into some situations that I wasn't intending to be in on a few occasions now!

I was streaming the game to my big tv and sitting back on the couch with my controller. Still feels bad.

Anyone playing on a console have an opinion on controls and FOV?

I'm playing with a controller, I can't imagine playing this game with mouse+keyboard. The combat is 360 degrees, I've no idea how you'd get that level of control with 4 arrow keys!

You use wasd in conjunction with the mouse you console tard

What I can't understand is how anyone with a controller can get quick rapid fire precise headshot kills with the bow. You'd be sat there tapping the sticks all day to line it up. I'm like Legolas with the mouse in this pew pew pew.

Ugch these fucking quick time events are ruining it for me.

Damn this game is addictive, once it's started up I pretty much can't stop playing it, there's always just another thing you wanna take care of. Played it for 7 hours straight today and could easily have gone for more, so fucking good.

The combat is really good isn't it?! Really enjoying it. I'm finding it reeeeeally easy now though. I find I just jump over most enemies and mash X until I get enough for a double execution, then rinse and repeat.

Yeah, the first few hours were really easy for me too, but once I started getting in situations where there are multiple captains at the same time + a crowd of 20 going for you then it gets pretty damn brutal, especially when the targets are immune to ranged attacks. The hardest bits I've encountered have been situations where there's been so much shit going on that I didn't notice someone going for the alarm, and then sudden you're just swarmed, but every time I've been so close to taking out my targets that I got greedy and then ended up spending all my last chance saves and died :G It's always a better idea to just hide and start picking them off from higher up, but I always get carried away when there's a huge battle going

Once the larger guys that constantly counter and the shield wielding assholes start appearing then it also gets a lot harder. Not that they're hard to deal with on their own, but in the situations where you end up with an entire army after you and you have to counter and dodge every second then it starts getting more tricky in close combat. But that's also what's great about the general dynamic and flow of the game, you can often make things a whole lot easier for yourself if you play it really stealthy, but a head on approach also works, and both are so much fun.

Anyway, I'm at the second half now, loving how they mix it up at the halfway point. Mechanically and design wise there's just so much stuff to be excited about, and all the progression stuff has just been perfectly balanced so far. I guess my only complaint so far is that it's also incredibly dense when you start out, theres a lot of button modifiers to remember, and they only keep adding to that, but that's also part of what I like about it, it constantly adds new shit to play around with.

How is this game on PC? Solid "port"?

On PS4, is it 1080p/60fps buttersmoothness?

Need to know which platform to aim for!