Middle-earth™: Shadow of Mordor™ Game of the Year Edition

Got it for free from Prime Gaming

I've been raging a lot against GOG, recently especially about their shift towards a pornish-mangaish-making-money-from-suckers-before-caring-of-real-gamers-policish... But a few moves like releasing this great game at such a discount, and gifting oldies like Dink Smallwood make me think that there are still real GOGers in the the company who care for us.

I can't even get out of the needlessly brutal tutorial, this is so punishing. The tutorial doesn't clearly explain what you need to do to get the numerous "moves" to proc and so they don't and you are killed repeatedly by orcs. Not fun, too frustrating, simple "avenge the murdered family" plot if you can even survive long enough to get into the game itself. A masochist's paradise. I'd demand my money back but I didn't pay anything for it. Thank God.

Why do you teach how to fight by throwing them right into battle where you know they will die??

I try to make it short: After 5 min, after all the cutscenes and intro, I was killed by a huge group. It started small, only 3 enemies. But many more joined. Even a stronger one (red healthbar). And I was killed by a crossbow guy. This happened way too often. You get in a fight with only a small group, but you will be swarmed by an army and getting killed with two shots from archers. I died five times because of this. So the rest: It is boring. Im still in the beginning and dont want anymore. Running after collectible garbage and stronger type enemies gets tired pretty fast. Thje "Nemesis" system is overrated in my opinion. It is nothing more than a menue which keeps track of randomly generated enemies with bigger health bars. If you die, the killer gets a name and a bigger health bar. That's it. So the world maybe? I have read the books, and watched the movies. Im not knee deep into the lore at all. So maybe you can get something out of there, but to me it is just a wasteland with rocks and way to quick respawning enemies. Kill some, turn around, walk 10 metres and they respawn. Sadly, this is no joke. I didnt knew that orks could multiply that fast. With such a multiplication rate, the world would be swarmed by the end of the day! How can they lose any war? The ruins maybe look nice first, but quickly you notice that these are the same assets used hundreds of times. The novelity will wear of fast. The combat. Batman? Not quite, more the "we have batman at home" guy. You are weak. Even if posessed by an elf. You are so weak, you wont be able to down anything as you should. Enemies will swarm you before you can even take one out. So fighting open becomes obsolete and sneaking it is. Which gets stupid by the design and huge crowds the enemies are travelling with. For me, it is way overrated. It isnt a good game with such a poor design at all. At least it was only five bucks.