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Dominic White posted:It gradually unlocks the finer points of the game, admittedly, but it still gives you a hell of a lot of rope to hang yourself with right from the start. And those plot missions are hardly hand-holding, either. Yeah the game doesn't mind you hanging yourself one bit. Which is a good thing, because I'm noting from the thread and the Internet at large that people who play more cautiously, or otherwise never really die from being Good At Video Games, kind of have a crappy time with the Nemesis system, because a proper nemesis never really develops. Lesson to be learned: gently caress being careful, 
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All I know is I've been asking for less tutorial in games for years now, and SoM got me into the world in ~15 minutes. Yeah I died right away, but that's the point. It got me a Nemesis right off the bat, and I learned through violence. Within 30 minutes I selftaught myself everything I needed to know.
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Ciaphas posted:Yeah the game doesn't mind you hanging yourself one bit. Which is a good thing, because I'm noting from the thread and the Internet at large that people who play more cautiously, or otherwise never really die from being Good At Video Games, kind of have a crappy time with the Nemesis system, because a proper nemesis never really develops. gently caress that, I've been careful and still get my rear end handed to me on occasion.   >Edit: vvv Honestly, that's one of the strongest points of the game. Morter fucked around with this message at 03:26 on Oct 2, 2014 |
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Oct 2, 2014 03:17
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Morter posted:gently caress that, I've been careful and still get my rear end handed to me on occasion. It's pretty easy to get pulled into an ever-escalating ball of murder. Not unusual to end up in a Dynasty Warriors-esque horde of orcs with three captains taking potshots at you, and then dropping a Caragor into the mix for extra chaos. I'm looking forward to levelling up so I can actually fight those kinds of odds head-on later. Morter posted:Edit: vvv Honestly, that's one of the strongest points of the game. Agreed. It's rare that a game like this will actually force me to run away through anything other than growing tedium. Dominic White fucked around with this message at 03:31 on Oct 2, 2014 |
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Oct 2, 2014 03:20
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A little late but if anyone wants to be my zombie suplexin' coop buddy for Resident Evil 6 just add me. http://steamcommunity.com/id/houstonwehaveuhoh/
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Oct 2, 2014 03:55
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Dominic White posted:Agreed. It's rare that a game like this will actually force me to run away through anything other than growing tedium. I had to break up some recruiting that a captain was doing, this guy is one that I'd tangled with a couple of times, so he was wearing the full face mask and throwing attitude. So I'm batmanning around because there are a lot of orcs in the vicinity, and I notice that he gets hit a couple of times and his health drops, so I think, heh, stealth off the wall and leg it. Of course, I didn't have intel on this guy, so predictably he was immune from the stealth attack, but not the panicked flailing of the sword. The strengths and weaknesses being largely hidden is actually a bit of a masterstroke.
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Deakul posted:Figured as much, why the hell wouldn't they have that crap in the game in the first pl- oh wait, it's 2014... I forgot.
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Oct 2, 2014 06:26
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Shadows of Mordor is pretty awesome. My only thing is that there are SO MANY artifacts to find and such. And I have to find them. All of them.
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Oct 2, 2014 06:31
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The Sun At Night: 9Q724-7BCA5-VE2ZK Hero of the Kingdom: 0R7QM-F9D4F-68JM2
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Oct 2, 2014 06:38
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It gives you XP for dying. At first I was a bit annoyed because when the numbers pop up it's natural to think there is some sort of penalty. But no. It's loving beautiful. You are a ghost, dying is just a skill you use.
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Oct 2, 2014 06:40
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Holy loving poo poo WB Games, stop loving with the price of Shadow of Mordor! It's back up to $66 on AusSteam. I *was* about to buy it (It was 50) until I saw that poo poo. Yes, it's still cheaper than console/instore but the price isn't the point. It's the constant price fuckery. I'm still interested in it though  . Looking for an Aussie that could Nuuvem it for me and I can just send the money to their bank online, my Paypal is slow as poo poo.
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Oct 2, 2014 07:00
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Try using this guy: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3528291&pagenumber=38#lastpost It will be 15% off too.
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Oct 2, 2014 07:16
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The steam app is incredibly broken on iOS 8 it seems like. Im kind of surprised that despite how messed up everything is, I can still log on and chat people. Anyone else having weird white flashes when chatting and rubber banding while scrolling?
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Oct 2, 2014 07:42
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Armor-Piercing posted:IGN Prime says they've run out of keys. Is that just a temporary thing? Somebody update the rest of us when this happens, please? Seriously interested in Endless for $7
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Oct 2, 2014 08:02
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Can I subscribe, get the game and cancel my subscription? 
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Oct 2, 2014 08:15
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Azran posted:Can I subscribe, get the game and cancel my subscription? Yep, though not before it charges the sub.
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Avocados posted:Anyone else having weird white flashes when chatting and rubber banding while scrolling?
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Oct 2, 2014 08:20
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Arnold of Soissons posted:Somebody update the rest of us when this happens, please? Seriously interested in Endless for $7 The date they give for more keys is oct 8 4pm pst
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Oct 2, 2014 08:22
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Mootallica posted:Civ: Beyond Earth is $89 USD, and surely Australia is a smaller market than Canada. So that's what happened! I was looking at it yesterday and figured I must have seen the premium price and confused it with the regular price before released. I'm still going to wait for a sale to buy it but good to know I'm not crazy.
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Oct 2, 2014 08:22
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So out of nowhere I got randomly gifted a Road Redemption key by the devs as part of a random selection of people who had the game on their wishlist, or something. I'm not sure if it's $20 worth of fun, it has a handful of issues like poor balancing, but holy poo poo, keep an eye out for this one in future sales. It starts off Road Rash-y enough, but an hour in I just spent a couple tracks bopping up and down with my jump jets, grapple-swinging from helicopters, dodging entire waves of wrecked cars flung at me by a rampaging tornado, all the while spitting my grenade launcher everywhere. And then I raced on loving Rainbow Road. 
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Oct 2, 2014 09:08
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Someone out there is really dedicated with this Shadow of Mordor thing.
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MonkeyforaHead posted:So out of nowhere I got randomly gifted a Road Redemption key by the devs as part of a random selection of people who had the game on their wishlist, or something.  So, Road Rash gone apeshit?
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Oct 2, 2014 10:26
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This is my favourite article about SoM  http://www.theverge.com/2014/10/1/6881161/middle-earth-shadow-of-mordor-torture-terrorism
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Oct 2, 2014 11:20
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SynthOrange posted:This is my favourite article about SoM That's just wonderful.
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Oct 2, 2014 11:35
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SynthOrange posted:This is my favourite article about SoM I can't tell if this is serious or not. I like the quote at the end about how you shouldn't torture orcs though.
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Oct 2, 2014 11:54
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I don't think it's really torture, because in contrast with torture, dominating actually gives 100% accurate and true information 100% of the time.
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Oct 2, 2014 12:03
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SynthOrange posted:This is my favourite article about SoM In all fairness, torturing elves was how orcs came to be in the first place so more torture is probably not the solution. It probably doesn't beat Thomas Jane Punisher video game in terms of torture, though.
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ymgve posted:I don't think it's really torture, because in contrast with torture, dominating actually gives 100% accurate and true information 100% of the time. You can get the same with torture, assuming you have two people who know whatever you are after. Torture them separately until their stories match! 
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Oct 2, 2014 12:25
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SynthOrange posted:This is my favourite article about SoM The concept of this game is shocking when you think about what's actually happening. As an ultra-powerful white dude, you use fear and extreme acts of violence to manipulate an enemy's behavior, destroy its militaristic structure, and ultimately gain control of it in the form of living bondage despite being outnumbered by the thousands. Really, chew on this: This is a video game about a spurned man terrorizing an entire foreign culture, literally killing, branding, torturing and enslaving hundreds of living beings. And really they're only tangentially connected to the man's real enemy: another ultra-powerful white dude.
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Oct 2, 2014 12:57
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Inevitablelongshot posted:The concept of this game is shocking when you think about what's actually happening. As an ultra-powerful white dude, you use fear and extreme acts of violence to manipulate an enemy's behavior, destroy its militaristic structure, and ultimately gain control of it in the form of living bondage despite being outnumbered by the thousands. Really, chew on this: This is a video game about a spurned man terrorizing an entire foreign culture, literally killing, branding, torturing and enslaving hundreds of living beings. And really they're only tangentially connected to the man's real enemy: another ultra-powerful white dude. I like this the same way I love the Michael Bay Transformers movies: the heroes you are supposed to cheer for are kinda terrible people.
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I haven't finished Mordor yet but I am sure that Talion is going to be called out on becoming a mass murderer or be ~corrupted by darkness~ because every sandbox game for the past few years has done it.
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Urukhai are grown in vats purposely to be stupid and mean, right? I mean if I'm remembering correctly Tolkien deliberately created something that no one would have to feel bad about massive huge numbers of, since that's what was going to happen to them.
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Oct 2, 2014 13:09
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Inevitablelongshot posted:The concept of this game is shocking when you think about
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Oct 2, 2014 13:11
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I sort of wonder how many modern games media folks tried writing mournful letters of condolence and regret to Johnny Cage's fictional pixelated family after ripping out his spine when they were younger.
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Arnold of Soissons posted:Urukhai are grown in vats purposely to be stupid and mean, right? I mean if I'm remembering correctly Tolkien deliberately created something that no one would have to feel bad about massive huge numbers of, since that's what was going to happen to them. The selling point of SoM is that your enemies are personalized, even if the characterisation is limited to "likes torture, dislikes heights". Whatever happens in SoM pales in comparision to Watch_dogs still, that one dances on the edge in a very stupid and creepy way.
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Oct 2, 2014 13:22
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In "News you've all been waiting for" news, Sakura Spirit now has Steam Trading Cards.
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Palpek posted:It also adds leaderboards with Steam friends for a huge number of stuff/activities/actions which is pretty cool and made the game way more fun to me. Hmm, that is neat. Hopefully all of my cool gamer steam friends have played the game!
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Haven't played too much Endless Legends yet, but the default factions are incredibly neat along with the sci-fi/medieval flavor.
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