>play through shadow of mordor >pretty fun >get to rivendell

>>266068735
holy shit un-preordered. im no sperg but thats too far.

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>>266068735
>LITTLE JIMMIES LARPING AS THEIR FAVORITE STORYBOOK HEROES
you didnt as a child?
and this is coming from a guy who has no plans on buying or playing the game

>Talk to Elrond
>These are dark times. This land of Middle-Earth lies in the Shadow of Mordor.
T-thanks Warner!

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>getting this upset over a small nod to the memorable scene in the first movie

Kill yourself.

>>266068735
>go to rivendell

See, this game would have gotten Witcher 3 levels of hype if it had a vast open world in middle-earth set on the movies, and you play as a random guy with a separate story arc. Maybe one of gondor's soldiers? mercenary? Play as an orc?

>>266069831
sounds like the mmo

>>266069164
No. Those 3 kids were gimli, legolas and aragorn. How can they 'larp' as their heroes, when this game is set 60 years before lord of the rings.

>>266069831
>muh dream game

>>266068735
>tfw gandalf shows up and saves your ass
>talion, you're the only one who can stop sauron, you're the chosen ranger
THE fuck. And he isn't the only one who can stop sauron clearly.

Hey guys, remember that one time Aragorn told Sam to go find some weed?
Let's make that a major gameplay element!

>>266070556
Time to sperg

>elrond, chief boss of all elves

Is that how he is actually addressed in this game? I thought ht was just the big guy of rivendell, not all elves..

>>266069831
>play as ranger of ithilien
>final level is in Osgiliath
>get knocked off your horse
>final quest: Survive
you don't

>>266069478

>Play War in the North
>Exactly the fucking same "nod"

It's lazy writing, is what it is. It's on par with trying to get Viggo to play Aragorn in the Hobbit.

I could handle it all way up until gollums dad is a mini-boss, and he looks just like gollum just older.

>>266071078

afaik, Celeborn is head bossman of all elves

>>266071375

Nigga what? Are you yanking my chain?

Why would Gollum's dad even be evil, just because his son was a little shit?

>>266071375
Is this real? Smeagol/gollum is just a hobbit whos been around the ring for too long, why the hell would his dad be the same?

>>266071556
>>266071845
Yeah apparantly his father is his 'enemy', when you meet gollum he asks you to kill 'the other creature' which turns out to be his dad. They've been fighting over the ring for years in the mountain.

>>266069831
>>266069831
>mercenary

What pisses me off is talions dagger is actually Sting, and he loses it in a field. BRAVO.

>>266068735
They threatened legal action against any negative comments

this must be a totally shit game

>>266072135
It's just WB completely fucking up the PR. The game itself is mediocre clone with one cool, innovative feature.

>tfw when the blue wizards show up at mordor
literally just blue gandalf/saruman clones

>>266072189
>>266072135
but with that hanging over the reviews, i now can't trust ANY positive press about it either, so i guess i'll just hate to totally ignore this game. which is a shame because i was looking for a new game to play. oh well.

>>266072415
Many people on twitch are playing it. Just go watch and see for yourself if it looks cool.

>>266068735
Another sellout that puts 4chan memes in games
What a scumbags

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>"In other news, Britain is set on using Tolkien's grave as a power supply. The late author has recently started to spin in his grave with a force stronger than 5 hydroelectric dams."

>>266071350
How is getting Viggo to play Aragorn a bad thing? Doesn't that make sense even from a cinematic point of view? It would look awkward if Gandalf was played by a different guy each movie.

>>266068735
>implying it's not just an easter egg
>implying it's not just a tease
>implying it's ever confirmed those are the same characters as kids

>>266069831
Orcs are evil, no point in making them playable in a lotr game unless you'll be doing evil shit.

>>266068735
that's cute

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>Open world LOTR game
>It's set in fucking Mordor

>>266072490
You're absolutely correct. That nod was unacceptable and completely took me out of the experience. Everyone cancel your orders, LOTR games are finished.

>>266072670

what if I WANT to do evil shit? what if I want to rape and pillage hobbit villages?

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>>266071479
Not even him. The elves of Valinor are higher up the boss chain.

>>266068735
Jackson's movies aren't exactly lore-friendly as well, Anon.

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>>266072727
>LOTR video game
>It's still based on Jackson LOTR

>>266072490
>>266072732
lotrgate thread when
This shit is unacceptable

>>266072614
Viggo refused, because there was no Aragorn in the Hobbit books. Imagine that someone still has some artistic integrity.

>>266072528
>5 trillion hydroelectric dams

Forgot a word there, anon.

>people getting this bent out if shape over another take on a shitty book series

Christ.. Go out more people..

>>266072727
If one does not simply walk into Mordor, then how can the game even be set there?

And how does one leave? I can't image one can just walk out of Mordor as well...

>>266072614
Because he wasn't in the book.

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>>266072967
You do not walk, you must dance

>>266072875
Looks like we have somebody here that DOES IT FOR FREEEEEEEE

>>266072614
because aragorn wasn't born when the hobbit took place you dumb faggot, and biggo knew that.

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>>266072727
You could still try Lord of the Rings online and ride from Thorins Hall in the Blue Mountains all the way to Dol Amroth or Edoras, stop in Lothlorien,Moria,Annuminas,Fornost,Isengard etc along the way

>>266072829
Well books and movies don't always work as cohesively if the director follows the source material word by word. I doubt I have a better idea how to make a great movie than Jackson. But why bother trying to explain this shit to a virgin like you.

>>266073059
muh method acting

>>266073059
>aragorn wasn't born when the hobbit took place

Are you retarded?

>>266073109
look up words before using them, retard.

>>266072415

just fucking pirate it goddamn.

If you want an honest opinion, it's pretty good. Not 10/10 best game ever, but if you want a solid game to play, get it.

>>266073059
He was born, but he was only 10 years old

>>266073035
is tom bombadil in the game?

>>266073148
hodor? hodor

>>266073098
Except it did when Jackson made the first 3 movies. Then for Hobbit he fucks it all up.

He cut material from the other movies so they wouldn't be 9 hours long. Why is he adding stuff that didn't exist in the hobbit?

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>>266073035
Ca-ca-ca...Can I...SAFETY DANCE?

>>266073126

Not that guy, and yes, he's wrong, but Aragorn was about 10 years old when the Hobbit took place.

Definitely not someone you want played by an aging Viggo Mortensen. There's also no reason to add the character to the story other than one more lame insert.

>>266073254
>>266073126
sorry I got the timeline wrong, but the point still stands, a 55 yr old man didn't fit into the already established story.

>>266073439

I don't know. -Can- you safety dance?

>>266071193
Very good sir very complimentary.

>>266073474
Even that would have been better than the face drama with the white ork they turned into a nemesis, "hurr theres a huge fucking dragon in the story that kills people but the viewers need an antagonist"

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I still want a middle earth game that lets me just explore the whole of middle earth and visit all the ancient places without being completely over the top and ridiculous like everything LOTR we get nowadays.

Why does every game need to be Jacksonized Tolkien?

>>266068735
Peter Jackson? The director of the LotR and Hobbit movies? The films based off of iconic work written by somebody else entirely? The one that's still alive?

>>266073619

Well, if they didn't have that, they couldn't have an "epic" battle to finish the first installment on.
Can't have that, might make people not want to go see the second part.

Ed Sheeran did that perfectly well on its own.

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>>266073745
What about LOTRO?

>>266073959
It's shit

>>266073993
Then it fits very well into this shadow of mordor thread

>>266071908
For fucks sake

>>266072490
what?

>>266073889

I still don't understand their thought process behind splitting up the book. Stretching out the battle with Smaug into a whole full-length movie is retarded as fuck.

>>266073959
Does it have everyone throwing magic around like it's candy, with wow styled powers and cool downs?

Is it just like every MMO?

I had completely written it off since the concept of an MMO seems diametrically opposed to what I'm looking for in a middle earth game.

Everything is ridiculous about the game, especially the plot. I could deal with it all up until saruman and sauron 'fuse' together, stating that with this true power, they're now the darkest lord ever to reign middle earth, Sauronman.

>>266073959
>>266073993
PvMP was pretty cool when this game was in it's prime. The only thing that pissed me off is the bambi worgs that would knock you off your mount run away stealth and fucking do it again.

>>266074182
Maximum profits anon.

>>266072614
Because aragorn was like 2 in the hobbit.

>>266074186
I only played Pre-Moria but from what I remember it was WoW set in a Lotro setting. However the raids themselves were pretty legit.

>>266072654
>implying anything in this thread is real
Dumbass.

>>266071193
>>266073571
It's the Demon's Souls like start, where you're expected to die but rewards you if you don't but then kills you anyway

The beginning of the level is a tutorial but then it just starts throwing more and more shit at you. It starts with just orcs, then it's lots of orcs, then it's a whole host of orcs, then the wargs, then the orcs on wargs, then the trolls, then the oliphants, then the trolls on oliphants, then the orcs on the trolls, then the orcs on trolls on oliphants, then the orcs on trolls on oliphants on wargs, and then the nazgul, and then the nazgul on fellbeasts, and then the spiders and then the unnamed terrors from the dark parts of the world. And if you somehow evade all that death you get an "I survived ithilien and all I got for it was this shirt" t-shirt and then the credits roll

>>266072735
Then you'll die without fulfilling that fantasy because no videogame will be made for that.

>>266074302
Yeah, so not my thing.

>>266074186
Initially no, there was the class of "lore masters" who doesent exactly use magic but kind-of-magic, its all become a bit dilluted with the new classes

since it was made a free2play game there has been a huge paywall for everything after Eriador and Moria, or simple stuff like Inventory bags, horse riding etc, so you either grind for "destiny points" by completing tasks to pay for that stuff or use real money. lately they have been shitting out terrible expansions every one or two years, Moria was better than the core game, then mirkwood was okay, isengard was terrible and riders of rohan and helms deep have kept up that tradition. Its still worth trying just for seeing so many places from the books including tom bombadil and his house, the old forest, Angmar, Rohan,Gondor, Mirkwood, Lorien,Moria etc.

>>266074507
>because no AAA videogame will be made for that.

FTFY

>>266074182
the public still view a trilogy as an acceptable thing, regardless of the subject and if it fits. also making it a trilogy helps sell the wow factor.

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>>266074182
Gee I wonder why.......

>Game based off book/movie
>has 2 fucking ™s in the title
>expect it to be good in anyway

wow tallion, you really are the shadow of mordor
really peter?

>>266074778
Fuckin peter stillman man

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>>266074684
This and faggots always complain about something being left out. Even though there is always a major part of the story removed an and extra movie ain't gonna fix it.

>Rip scarring of the Shire

>>266072790
>Watch Hobbit: part 2
>five minutes of the dwarves building a giant golden dwarf statue

It was so stupidly hyped in them movie that I honestly believed for a second they'd create some magic controlled dwarf mech to fight Smaug with.

>>266074883
No Imrahil and his Knights, no Forlong the Fat and other allies marching in through the gate before sundown

>>266074959
that would have been fucking rad

>>266074883

Come the fuck on, Hobbit ain't exactly high literature. You could probably do it in one movie if you abstain from adding unnecessary shit and pace it better.

Watch this 6-4GB VRAM thing be a Nvidia marketing stunt. They pay studios to bump the VRAM requirement so their overpriced 6-4GB VRAM cards becomes more demanding, sure their most commercial cards right now only goes to 4GB right now but watch them in a month or so release GTX 970ti with 6GB cram. Maxwell is struggling to make a significant performance leap, the latest cards brags about faster memory bandwidth while performance wise they perform like OC'd 770/780s.

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>>266074883
>split hobbit in 3 movies to get more space to fit in your wife's OC

>>266075164
But think of all the wonderful money Jackson san if you make 3 movies out ot if and add a little fan fiction

>>266074883
Come on man, in a movie after destroying the ring do you think the audience would want to go through 10-30 minutes more of Saurman and Wormtongue taking over the Shire?

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>Meet gannondalf
>"Talion times are hard and sauron is on the move......."
>"and we are in the times of Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor"

Really Hackson? Realllyyy???

>>266068735
Peter jackson didn't create lotr idiot. And he's still alive. Holy wow retards everywhere.

>>266075374
of course they wanted the movie to never end

>>266074196
>saruman and sauron fuse
>sauronman
What the fuck. Cancelled my torrent right now.

>>266074578
Yeah but when you visit these places the characters aren't very fleshed out and at most will give you a lame fetch quest that rewards you with tickets you can take to the front desk to trade in for cheap 10 cent toy.

At least that's my impression of MMOs. I have a very negative opinion on the genre and don't really give them a chance. I expect tons of shitty content with very little substance and plays like absolute shit. At best everything feels lifeless and sterile and at worst everything is a truncated caricature of the original that makes you question why you're even playing the thing to begin with. They seem to be geared not to entertain their players but to get the weak willed people hooked on the never ending treadmill.

Maybe I've misjudged MMOs, but I'm really not about to jump in anytime soon MMOs are such a hassle.

>>266075374
Instead we got 30 minutes of dragged out feelings.
Shortening that and breaking it up with some Scrourging action would've been better.

>>266075374
Considering most of the orginal audience was people who read the movie. Yes.

>>266075191
That character is probably my least favorite in the history of movies. Its so painfully shoved into the movie with a fucking dwarf romance that I'm sure the amount of lube needed for Hackson to pull this plot line out of his ass was 40% of the budget.

Did anyone really like this character? Was she really necessary and did legolas really need to be out shinned by her (as well as have his own 'super cool fight scene!'?)

>>266075645
I liked her. I'm no sperg though. I liked mass effect 3s ending (with extended cut) too.

>>266075580
thanks doc

>>266075464
Yeah its the same threadmill as everywhere else, now that they made faction rewards you can no longer buy with money but have to grind reputation for every single one of those factions, its terrible, i only play occasionally because i started playing years ago when it was different

>>266075645
Nah, really would have been fine with Legolas doing all the "Superior Elf Race" acrobatics. At least Legolas fits since he's a prince of Mirkwood right?

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Still the best Middle-Earth game out there.

3.3 when.

>>266075580
whew, prescription almost ran out.

>>266073435
the books and movies are completely in different order from each other buddy.

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>>266075795
>prince of mirkwood
Holy shit PJ literally made him the last prince of mirkwood, didn't he? How did I not realise this before.

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Guys, can I play with these speccy:
W 7 64bit
i5 460 @ 2.53 GHz
4 GB ram
Ati Radeon HD 5650 1 GB

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>>266075639
>the orginal audience was people who read the movie

>>266075804
Have you tried "Last days of the third age" for mount and blade? its also breddy gudd

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I know we have the occasional deep sea thread, but just think for a minute.
What kind of monsters would dwell in the seas of Arda?

>>266075374
>non extended edition
>saruman is left on top of his tower
>end of return of the king
>waiting for scourging of the shire
>it never happened

>extended edition years later
>saruman gets killed

In the original cut Saruman's story just didn't have an ending.


We did get this gem out of it.
http://www.ebaumsworld.com/video/watch/82119503/
Sorry for ebaums, the video is no longer on youtube.

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>>266074196
Why the fuck would a fallen angel of Eru fuse with a Second Age wizard?

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Hobbit movies are shit honestly.
It's all about CGI now.
If anyone wants to watch a good Hobbit adaptation there is a 80's cartoon "Hobbit" which is actually pretty cool.
Some stuff was skipped but overall it's better than Peter Jackson's shit.
Or better, just read the fucking book, it's not so big.

>>266074196

Yeah, I'm gonna need a source, bucko.

>>266076090
man, lee is so fucking based

will be very sad when he passes away

>>266073959

>tfw constantly playing songs from other games on my dwarf+lute on busy squares

>>266076216

>Not knowing the wizards are angels just the same, but their power got capped by the Valar

Do you even lore?

>>266076216
Arent both of them angels?

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>>266076090
I actually never knew Lee was a secret service agent in WW2. Thats some bad ass shit.

>>266074507

>Overlord does not exist

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>>266076220
>It's all about CGI now.
It's amazing what Jackson did to avoid CGI in the LOTR movies.
He built two scales of the Bag End set to put gandalf and the hobbits properly in it.

And in The Hobbit we get a green screen Bag End.

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>>266075580

>>266075639
I've only read subtitles.

>>266076498
3D is a curse on movies.

>>266076028
Hydras, giant cancers, magic sharks that fly, the usual shit

>>266076578
What about the 48 frames version? Was it any better?

>>266075070

But at least we got a redheaded Evangeline Lilly

>>266076024

I have! And I agree that it's not bad.

Just more my thing to command giant armies, and watch them clash, you know?

Still, not going to bash Last Days of the Third Age. Fun times.

>>266076747
Which is one of the worst parts of the movie.

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Tolkien-verse dueling simulator when?

>>266076498
I don't see what the issue is, that scene was fine

>>266076341
>>266076343
you're mums are and angel

So what's the verdict, shit or not shit? pay is in tomorrow & there's only room for 1 game.

Saw some gameplay footage months back and the animations look pretty bad, like Skyrim levels.

>>266077004
shit
pirate first if you really want to try

>>266076028

None.

The Valar that controls the seas of Middle Earth is the last deity that still actively protects his realm.

It's why the servants of Sauron shit themselves when nearing the sea, or dealing with running water.

>>266068735
I was gonna say there's no way that happens, but I can actually really believe they would really do that.

>>266068735
what are you even sperging about? Peter Jackson already raped the hobbit lore by adding legolas in hibbit 2

>>266077221

>Adding Legolas

Adding Legolas was possibly the least offending stroking of the lore

>>266076786
battles would take days

>>266077603

Some would need the Guitar Hero guitar.

>>266068735
>Wooooooow, really? Peter Jackson is turdning in his grave at this lore rape
Why am I t he first one to bite here? Is everyone else too retarded to see how this is just wrong or am I an idiot for getting trolled too easily?

>>266077918
>or am I an idiot for getting trolled too easily?

Gee, now that's a tough one!

>>266071479
>afaik, Celeborn is head bossman of all elves

>implying that faggot has anything on Thingol or Ecthelion the Ass Rapist

>>266077167
Wouldn't Ulmo create mythical beasts to protect water from evil even more?
It would be neat
>>266077918
You got tricked

>>266077918
OP here. If that's the part that's ''trolling you'' you need to read everything again.

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>>266076786

Never.

>>266068735
>get to rivendell
All I've seen of the game is the brown, brown and brown main area, what's Rivendell like?

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>>266078410
Imagine these two giants duking it out
and then fucking afterwards

>>266077918
The whole post is a troll dude. 80% of the posts in this thread are.

>>266078705

Is that still LotR?

Why is that ship flying?

>>266078705
>flying boat spaceship
>those metal tank wurm things
>the entire continent that fell to the sea
>those massive underwater galleries
>fuck huge dragons
Age of Lamps Musou when?

>>266078884
>He doesn't know about Ancalagon the Black
>He doesn't know about ye olden tyme elf magic
Read the Silmarillion or google it

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>>266068735
>peter jackson
>in anyway related to the lore of lotr

>>266072528
Holy fuck this would sort out our energy crisis.

I want to play this but the protag is like an uber generic mix of every other generic protag and I just can't find it in me to help this bland fuck go through his bland story.

>>266072795
Don't worry anon, there's still the Lego games.

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>>266068735
>Peter Jackson is turdning in his grave at this lore rape

>>266073089

Tinnudir, why are you so based?

>>266078205

Let me move that goalpost.

During the Third Age in the lands encompassed by Middle Earth

>>266078884

The first two Ages had some pretty overpowered shit, anon.

The reason the Istari are such low powered bitch wizards is basically because the gods went "nope, not doing that again"

>>266081324

The elves didn't really have a single ruler in the third age. Despite Celeborn's kingship, Galadriel was the de facto ruler of Lothlorien and arguably the one with the greatest influence. Still, she wouldn't meddle in Elrond's businesses, or vice versa. However, in addition to these two, there was also Cirdan in the Gray Havens, who was the eldest and wisest of the elves in Middle Earth. But he wouldn't ever try to influence the others or tell them what to do, even though he possibly could have.

>>266075756

>people who don't eat shit like myself are spergs

Nice projection there.

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There will never be a game outside Middle Earth.

Ratbag did nothing wrong.

>>266074054
While it's not good, I can actually see that. I mean, Gollum's father, if anything, would probably also be greedy as fuck, and perhaps even Gollum as he found the ring showed it to his dad and he also got as possessed by it.

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>>266073474
I'd love to play a game who focuses on Aragorn's story

>prologue part is when he's raised and trained by elves
>explore middle-earth as a Hobo
>do quests alongside Elladan, Elrohir and others pnj
>meet major characters such as Gandalf, Denethor, ...
>The Hunt for Gollum

>>266068735
>Peter Jackson

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>Only good LotR game is still the PS2 one

>>266086454
But Two Towers and Return of the King got PC ports.
Also War of the Ring was good.

>/v/ not liking good games

rat bag is not surprised

>>266068735
its a joke, spergio get your autistic ass out of here

Is this game good for someone who never gave a shit about the movies or books?

>>266087054
as someone who doesn't give a shit about fantasy in general, yes

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>>266073089

>lotr will never be as big as it was during the SoA and Moria :(

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>>266068735
Ok, i have to admit it. I'm one of those who always bitch about AAA games these days, all the bribes over journalism and all that bullshit, but for what i have seen, the games looks pretty awesome.

Didn't preorder it, will pritate it, and if i find out it's as good as other people said (in forums and reviews), this is going to be a solid buy.

Hope it's true.

Fuck the lore by the way.

>>266068735
> Peter Jackson
;^)

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Does anybody have a decent torrent for this?

No way am I paying for this game to find out that it runs like shit on my system

>>266073287
The PC is Tom Bobadil

>>266088251
>you'll never fug a qt full of adrenaline

>>266088251
I'm having fun, it's not the greatest thing ever but it's great when you can finally kill th e orc fucker that has been beating your ass for 6 battles straight

>>266088251
Codex

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> requires 6 GB VRAM to run on ultra
> still looks worse than Crysis

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>>266068735

But Jackson loves lore rape OP.

>>266073287
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZouiWmzWoY

>>266076498
Is that the scene where McKellen cried because he didnt sign up for soulless CGI shit ?

>>266089005
Poor Sauron

>>266073959
Isn't pay-to-win? I been looking for a alternative to WoW, trying Rift right now.

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>Four (4) bosses at the same time
>two of them summon hordes of Uruks
>one of them cannot be parried and has a shield
This "dynamic" open world shits on me very often

>>266089005
oh wow

>>266089440
Yes.

>>266074578
>Initially no, there was the class of "lore masters" who doesent exactly use magic but kind-of-magic, its all become a bit dilluted with the new classes

Oh man, I remember that shitstorm when the game just launched.

>LORE BREAKING GARBAGE

And now Turbine aims to add a fucking shapeshifting class this year.

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>>266074578
Probably because MoM was the only really legit expansion that felt like one. Everything after it was essentially just a glorified content patch.

>>266089585
isnt it good that a game is challenging

>>266089440
No, it's the scene where Freeman challenges McKellen to a dance off. Can't you see them doing it in the image?

>>266089005
Tom Bombadil, the God of Faggotry from the Forest of Faggotry

>>266089761
poor guy
>be old school actor
>get told to sit infront of a green screen and pretend to be in a small house while talking to some cans with pictures on them

>>266075464
thing with lotro is that you're just some guy who occasionally intersects with the fellowship and other well know characters. or at least that was the case until these last two expansions when the story started ramping up and you become more of a soldier than anything else. of course, this means a ton of menial tasks like delivering pies to hungry hobbits and slaughtering wild boar populations.

>>266073474
I thought Bilbo had the ring for 50 years or something before LOTR though.

>>266090171
Aragorn is 89 by the beginning of the LotR trilogy.

>>266089926
One of the bosses alone is nearly impossible for me, he has killed me 4 times so far because he has a bullshit combo of strengths. The other 3 are just icing on the cake

>>266090657
they get super upgraded then right?

do you play with gamepad btw? is it necessary?

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>>266068735
>play game
>literally Press a button, beat the shit out of 10 orcs the game
>people say it's fun

I don't see it.

Isn't there a fan theory that Tom is the end-game and is some sort of old god?

>Combat master
>Invulnerable to stealth
>Invulnerable to ranged
>Battle hardened (harder to kill(
>Quick shot
>Other misc strengths

>Only weakness is fear of burning

HOLY SHIT WHAT DO

The guy just one shots me with his crossbow, the only move which works on him is the wraith flurry but I aint likely to get that off when a bunch of caragors keep swarming my asshole (by the way they also enrage him making him harder to kill)

I'm fucking terrified of this guy, holy shit

>>266089545

Not really, since you can earn the currency you spend in the store by grinding.

Might take a lot of it though.

I'd say it's worth a try just for the atmosphere.

>>266090835
> Diablo 2 champion mobs are back
Hhohoho

>>266090835
same thing happened to me, I don't know what to do

>>266072829
>Viggo refused, because there was no Aragorn in the Hobbit books.

A friend of mine who has read all of the original middle-earth material told me that there was no encounter with the necromancer in the Hobbit either, but that was in some separate story. And in that story Gandalf teamed up with young Aragorn and went to Dol Guldur to face the necromancer. Aragorn is 87 years old in RoTK afterall.

But I might be remembering it wrong. Anyway, the point is that if they took the storyabout the necromancer and combined it with the story of the Hobbit, then why couldn't one of the characters from the necromancer story be in the combination?

>>266090785

The most plausible theory is that Tom Bombadil is the personification of Ea itself.

The real explanation is that Tom Bombadil makes no fucking sense whatsoever and Tolkien only added him to the story because his kids/grandkids thought it'd be cool, sort of like adding trains and talking boats to Zelda.

Repack when?

>>266090785
>>266093545
Tom doesn't fit with the known cosmology, but that's not a problem. Ungoliant doesn't either and can only be classified as an extraterrestrial. Tom Bombadil might just be an alien too.

>>266090938
>tfw hammerdin and facing a champion mob that's immune to physical immune to magic
OH FUG

>>266091753

Then the point becomes they shouldn't have combined the story of the necromancer with the Hobbit in the first place, not added heaps more lore raping bullshit.

Mortensen declining is probably one of his most noble career moves.

>>266093703
So the Void is just empty space then? Or some extra dimensional bullshit?

>>266093846
The void is space. Morgoth was banned from the planet, like Kars.

>>266073035

Best vidya Tom Bombadil incoming:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAFXbeUKxKQ

>>266068735

I'll turd on YOUR grave

>>266091753
>Gandalf teamed up with young Aragorn and went to Dol Guldur to face the necromancer

I doubt it. Even if he was already born he would have been either an infant or a small child. Aragorn is old, but not THAT old.

>>266074196

Lel

Why can't vidya devs create anything original?

>>266094478
They prefer to play it safe.

>>266094478

Because it's a business, and they treat it like one.

So I'm about to buy this game.
Is the Season pass worth it atm?

>>266095597
NEVER PAY FOR JEW SHIT LIKE SEASON PASSES

holy shit /v/...

>>266094478
Your mom can't create anything original.

>>266095597

I'm gonna go about this the same way I do Bordelands

Pirate the base game and if it's good enough, buy it later on when there's some GotY edition that comes with all the DLC for $40 or whatever

>>266094478
Implying anyone would have given a shit if it didn't have Middle-Earth or Mordor slapped into the title.

Would anyone have cared if it was Shadow of Whateverthefuckistan instead?

>>266091753
Gandalf teamed up with Saruman, Elrond and Galadriel to drive Sauron out after he found out that Sauron was chilling there - Aragorn wasn't involved. Dol Guldur wasn't actually destroyed until later, though, when Galadriel and Thranduil got sick of it shitting all over Mirkwood.

I'm not really sure which incident the film is drawing from. I guess it's an embellished account of Gandalf 'discovering' that the Necromancer is Sauron, by the subtle means of Sauron's giant CGI darkness explosions.

>>266095906
Frankly, if they played their cards right, yes.

Look at Dishonored

Real talk: How do I deal with the pig things? Dodging is like MLG tier timing and often I'm stuck in an animation so it won't work anyways. I never know when I can mount them either. Some times I get the button prompt some times I don't. Fucking contextual gameplay.

>half people complaining game is too easy and derp combat
>half people complaining game is too hard with IMPOSSIBRU bosses
wowowowoowoweowerwi

>>266068735
You autistic cunts should really stop bitching about the lore rape.

The game is fun.
Peter Jackson already fucked up the Hobbit so why care so much?

>>266074196
dammit anon i'm laughing like an idiot here
is this for real?

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This game is too hard in many situations.
I'm not a shitty player it's just the game likes to pile on you because of its randomness

Bosses spawn entire armies of poison-throwing ranged mobs, more often than not you'll get 3 or 4 bosses on top of each other instead of fighting just one or two etc
And there's nothing you can do about it except run away and hope you get luckier next time

Also some bosses spawn with skill combos as retarded as in Diablo 2 making them nearly impossible to beat, while others are even easier than a normal Uruk

I've never really got into LOTR. Tried to many times but it seems so cliche, everything about it.. Am I stupid?

>>266090657
Kill off their captains first by doing the power struggles missions. It will make it easier and you will be able to upgrade your dude before facing the final boss. It also took me a while to realize there is some tactics involved after getting killed 4 times by the Warchiefs because I was getting gangraped by 4 captains.

>>266097439
>it seems so cliche, everything about it
That's because he made most of what became cliches ya dunce.

>>266097439
>cliche
If it seems that way its because its like the original big fantasy setting and so many things have copied it over the years that it may seem cliche. but its the original so it's excused.

>>266097439
It's only ''cliche'' because everyone else copied it.

If lord of the rings just came out right now it'd be shat on, but tolkien invented alot of the tropes we see in fantasy today and alot of other settings copied it or were influenced by it. He started writing the books in the trenches during world war 2 dude.

At least nobody said "one does not simply walk into Mordor".

>>266097561
He's not a warchief the game just likes to spawn multiple bosses near the same tiny area so you often get 3-4 bosses together

Have you done the sword quest to clear the ghoul cave with the ghoul boss at the end?

How the fuck do you beat that?
The small ones are pretty much endless, and the matron constantly either spits poison on you (nearly impossible to dodge) or immediately counter attacks (can't be parried) after getting hit

>>266068735
Jesus fuck how can you people be so fucking retarded, ITS NOT CANON.
You have to be a stupid nigger to not get it.

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>>266097969
>get killed by the ghoul matron
>respawn
>3 caragors waiting below the tower
>they just spam attack me and I can't even dodge fast enough
>game's face when

>>266086454
The first fellowship game was strange. I don'tz remember whether it was shit, but it let you play as various charactewrs with different strengths, it had rpg elements and I believe it followed the book.

>>266097979
Then neither is pjs movies.

Checkmate, you're turn.

>download 20something gig repack
>ERROR DURING INSTALLATION
>INTRO.ARCH05
>OTHER ARCH05 THINGS
Cool so I've wasted my fucking time.

So is there a repack that's not 40gb yet?

>>266076802
https://uk.movies.yahoo.com/ian-mckellen-broke-down-over--hobbit--green-screen-scenes.html

>>266095859
yeah that's the best way of doing it anon, props

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>>266098664
>Then neither is pjs movies.

HE'S CATCHING ON

BEGIN DIVERSION

yeah but how about those sonyggers with there nogaemstation I mean the only console ever made with fewer games than the peestinkforever is the xboner "go home" am I right unless you count the peepoo which you can't because DED CONSOLE but not as ded as pc I mean do pc owners play anything but mobas or what and how about those handheld autists playing games on the bus in their fedoras

>>266090835
Haven't palyed the game, but maybe create a big ass power struggle so you can swarm him?

>>266098867
all i want to know from someone who has actually played the game is, is it fun are there any good side quests and how long does I roughly take to complete the game?

>>266097617
>>266097763
noobs right here who don't realize that lotr was never original and never invented anything, tolkien stole all the ideas from fairy tales and shit

>>266069164
People don't know that aragorn was 80 during The Lord of the Rings. Legolas is god knows how old

>>266070556
I'm pretty sure it was just a reference, dude.

>>266099136
thats rough, and yeah, he has a point, you dont sign up to be an actor to talk to green screens

>>266099364
>No fiction is ever original because it uses words that already exist

>>266076578
That's not true.

It's a tool; like any other tool it can be used or abused.

>>266076498
He's phoning these in. He didn't want to do them in the first place. His passion is gone.

>>266076710
The 48fps is the type of thing 90% of people won't notice without being told, and half of the remaining 10% would not be able to explain what it was that was different, just that it felt different.

It's not the same as vidya, where jumping from 24fps to 48fps is hugely noticeable and an objective improvement. It's different in movies for a variety of reasons.

In my personal opinion, I don't care for it. But it's more of a style decision that anything else, I just don't think a LOTR movie is the right place for it.

>>266099560
No fiction is ever original, ever. Which makes you and the anon you're responding to dumb. "All art is theft".

>>266098794
Since I just woke up and had a shower, I have come to the conclusion that I have downs as I was trying to install the client through the texture pack.

>>266099364
The true sign of a pleb spouting shit he's heard from another idiot on the internet. His works share common themes with the literature he studied because that's what he enjoyed. If Tolkien isn't authentic enough for you then you might as well write off all fantasy and most science fiction.

>>266075942
Hey, he IS the prince of mirkwood in the books.
And since he sailed to the west with gimli and no childrens, he was also the last. (unless he had a brother or something)

>>266099816
>No fiction is ever original, ever.
What about the epic of Gilgamesh?

>level 10 enemy
>full armor and shield

>blocks dodge over him
>cannot parry
>cannot grab
>immune to range
invincible.jpg
>call in other captains

>vulnerable to finishers

Rest of the game was easy so far, but just how the fuck am I supposed to beat this guy. Could not make him fall in 3 deaths. I might be able to manage 1 on 1 but this fucker keeps calling in elites almost as good as him.
How do I beat shield? The usual tactic of vaulting over or headshots doesn't work here.

>>266100482
pj straight ripped dbz. he will never stop at nothing.

>>266072528
this made me laugh and i wasnt expecting it

>>266095906
Yes. I could have considered buying it if it wasn't for the horrendous lore-rape.
The Nemesis system, IMO, is a good enough concept to stand on its own without the crutch of a licence.
At this point the licence is detrimental to the game.

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>enjoying the nemesis system
>one orc hates me because of the scar I gave him from an earlier encounter
>cool.jpg

>run into a pinkish orc
>read his name
>''Krunch P'Orc''
>do a triple take
>he starts wailing at me and runs towards me
>take him down with one swipe
>Talion laughs and shouts out ''Looks like meats back on the menu boys'' to the remaining orcs nearby

dropped.

>>266099816
>The 48fps is the type of thing 90% of people won't notice without being told,

This is the most ignorant fucking statement I've ever heard.

>>266068735
>>266070772
>>266071078
>>266072528
>>266071908
>>266074196
Holy shit this thread. Laughed so much. Imagine if that shit was real though. Maybe in shadow of mordor 2: Return of the wraith ranger.

>>266101820
this thread... this thread..

>>266070556
But Gimli was almost 80 years old during Shadow of Mordor.
Legolas was between 440 and 850 years old.
Aragorn was 28 years old.

>>266101820
>that moustache

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>Got to the second map
>Retrieved the tiny hammer of vaguely evil smithing
>Still can't make people my minions

>>266074182
Uhh, the battle with smaug is going to be about 15-20 minutes in Hobbit 3.

The bulk of the movie will be the Battle of Five Armies.

Don't see why the main character ever had to be human.

A ringwraith would make so much more sense, with sauron giving missions to stabilise the army and gradually turning on Sauron as you come to control the show.

>Game is not canon
>m-muh lore !

how the fug do you do the aoe wraith stun? sure it was A+B on xbox controller, but either the timing is extremely tight or something because my guy just rolls or melees

>>266102831

Tolkienfuns are the funniest. They sperg out over a poorly written book by a poor writer and then like to pretend they are berry literate. visiting these threads is a bit like watching the special olympics

So when do I get to take control of orcs n' shit?
I just did Ratbags 2nd mission.

>>266103079
Let me guess, you're an ASOIAF/game of thrones nerd aren't you.

>>266068735
Which missions do I have to do to obtain the domination ability? I just got to the Mordor.

>>266102831
>game is literally shit
>b.b.but it's fuuuuuuuuuuuun

I fucking hate mousetards "game of the week" fads. You all act like you've got a big shit in the hand, and by monday it will be forgotten, but damn at this very moment, you are just so fucking obnoxious.

Things that straight copied lord of the rings...

Witcher series..

Game of thrones..

Dragon Age

>>266103491
Chill out? It's a vidya game, we're playing it and having fun until the next vidya game comes out to have fun with. What's your problem? Im personally a fan of all LOTR games, re-played BFME2 last week.

Okay legitimate question, is it worth getting? I'm looking for a new console RPG to get and I've got fuck all PS4 games.

>>266103864
If you can pick it up for $30-40 it definitely is worth it. Not for the full-blown $60. I got a steam key off a site for 23 euros. No regrets.

Next up is star wars for the lore raping.

>>266103864
why did you buy a ps4 in the first place

http://a.pomf.se/tpjtha.webm

>>266103864
Yes?

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>>266104040
>QTE'S
FUCKING DROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOPED

>>266074258
10 years old, actually. Look it up.

>>266074615
>Protag forges a Ring of Power at the end
>After killing Morgoth

why

>>266104018
Christmas present. I like it though, smooth as fuck when you're coming from the 360

>>266089545
Guild Wars 2. Seriously, get it.

>>266068735
Nice try
Aragorn was 80 when LOTR started and Legolas was fucking old as fuck

>>266104435
>http://a.pomf.se/tpjtha.webm

That's the end boss, that's all it is, is just a QTE.

>>266104018
>>266104018
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>>266104729
thats neat, but i really wanted to get angry at someone buying consoles that have no games they want to play

>>266072829
>Imagine that someone still has some artistic integrity.
It's more likely that his son went NO DONT PLAY ARAGORN HE'S NOT IN THE HOBBIT because he's a massive LOTR fan while Viggo doesn't give a shit either way.

>>266105274
>>266105274
Didn't stop monolith putting it in the game.

>>266100778
It was still drawn upon folklore, it's not like one Sumerian bastard just up and wrote it alone out of the blue

>>266094202
>implying
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enUgkYN7TFI

>>266075185
This retard doesn't look at power usgae

>>266103363

> IMPLYING ANY FANTASY IS WELL WRITTEN

GG FAG

>>266075464
Actually the book quests in LotRO are pretty fucking baller, and focus on side and OC characters. You only meet the Fellowship once or twice per expansion, and usually you're in no position to actually impact their quest.

>>266088749
It doesn't even need that much, I run it on a 970 with 4GB VRAM with the HD texture pack and it never dips under 60.

>>266068735
the cover art alone screams teenage bait

why would you guys even play this? It's clearly not age appropriate to us matur...

have fun

>>266090835
>>266099241
>>266091281
Bait him to a fire, shoot at the fire. Shoot at him with fire arrow.
He'll start running away, then you grab him and suck his face off.

I'm really liking the gameplay so far, I think with the rest of the year being mediocre it's by far the strongest competitor for the GOTY.
However the technical side is atrocious, I'm playing it from SSD with OCd 780Ti on high/ultra settings and framerate drops to 30fps whenever it has to load textures. And it has the worst memory leak I've encountered in games in my whole life, just an hour of playing and any sort of switching the screen results in complete frame-freezing.

Quick question, I heard someone contrast this game to assassins creed saying it was similar in quite a few aspects of game play - Is that true?

>>266068735
http://www.gamerheadlines.com/2014/09/shadow-of-mordor-review-totalbiscuit/

>>266068735
Well DSP, I wasn't going to get this game but now I'm interested. Guess I'll preorder.

>>266107135
The gameplay feels like a mix of Batman Arkham and AC2 combat styles.
That said, I personally really like it.

>>266074196
>Sauronman
What makes it worse is you can't kill him, you get him down to 1 HP and a cutscene ensues, complete with crappy QTE's. Then he beats your ass in the cutscene (hate when games do this, I was doing just FINE a second ago...) and then sauronman has the balls to taunt you and you can face him again in the upcoming DLC. He literally talks about dlc...

''You can face me again, ranger, perhaps in the future, for a price...''
I choked on my lambas bread when I saw it.

>>266101294

Doesn't sound like he's immune to stealth.

>>266108974
Holy shit. Not as bad as mass effect 3 with the pop up ''continue shepards adventures with downloadable content!'' after the shitty ending cutscene.

The last two words of the epic trilogy were 'downloadable content'. So insulting.

Where do your get the ability to dominate Uruks?

I see my friends getting the achievement like when they just started playing but apparently I missed it?

>>266102238
>Legolas was between 440 and 850 years old.
Nigga wasnt he like 3000 in Lotr?

>>266109804

It's in the second map, just keep continuing the storyline

>>266110006

So are my friends literally just blasting through the storyline then?

I've been running around gathering intel, collecting shit, doing hunter/survival missions etc.

>>266108974
This fuckin game.

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If you bought this game you deserve everything you get fucking lore-rape enablers.

>>266110096
I spent 8 hours just walking slowly across the plains (dont like to run, not realistic, i like to save energy for battles.. unless i jog alittle is ok)

admiring views, collectin herbs, etc. Barely touched the story.

>>266110110

I got it around halfway through the game 6/7 hours in. There's a lot of sidequests you can do but if you're good you can skip those and just hunt the chiefs from the start.

>>266110208
>skull spider
Literally cliche

>>266110323
It's fan-art dickweed.

>>266110208

If you actually care about LotR lore you've never seen a vagina

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>>266110364
Nice try, dudebro. Go watch The Hobbit now.

>>266110284
>67 hrs
This game really has that much content?

>3 hours to install
>FROM DISK

what the fuck

>>266110364
My gf is the biggest lotr nerd ever. I like the series too but dont sperg over changes/lore rape. I even like the hobbit movies.

>>266110805
But the hobbit movies are shit.

>>266110765
Reminds me of xbot nerds complaining about ryse taking an hour and half to install from disc, from a FUCKING DISC why does it need to install in the first place. Fucking devs.

>Playing Shadow of Mordor
>Enjoying myself
>Recruit all the warchiefs
>"Okay, that was alright, what next?"
>Suddenly, after a 'final boss but haha not really' moment, Sauron appears
>"No ranger, I will be the shadow of mordor"
>Uses some magic shit to make all my warchiefs his again and makes them all 5 levels stronger
What the fuck?
Are they seriously artificially extending the game by just making me repeat the same shit over again?
I'm considering uninstalling

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>>266110672

>LotR is a well written fantasy series