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General discussionRelease: Middle-earth™: Shadow of Mordor™ - Game of the Year Edition(222 posts)(222 posts)
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Posted September 01, 2022
“From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring [...]"
J.R.R. Tolkien

It's time to return to the epic fantasy world that already inspired feature films, a tv series, and quite a few great video games.

Middle-earth™: Shadow of Mordor™ - Game of the Year Edition takes you to the titular dark realm where you'll discover the origins of the Rings of Power, build your legend, and ultimately confront the evil of Sauron.
Genre: Action, Adventure
Discount: 75% off until 8th September 2022, 1 PM UTC.

Feel free to discover other games inspired by the works of famous fantasy writers, like A Game of Thrones: The Board Game or The Wheel of Time. For more GOGalicious deals on unforgettable title, check The GOG Sale that will last in our store until 5th September 2022, 10 PM UTC.
Posted September 05, 2022
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Ancient-Red-Dragon: Now I've played this game for about 8 hours.

For those who are wondering what it's like: I'd say it's a mash-up of the older style AC games (prior to Origins) and also the Batman Arkham games, both of which it heavily borrows/steals elements from.

It's a fun game, but I wish there was more to do other than just massacring Uruks/Orcs 24/7, which is literally all the game is. Likewise, the game could use a much wider variety of environments, rather than just the one and only one that it actually has (i.e. a Hell-like barren wasteland).

Except for at the very start of the game, where there is a couple of 30 second long or so scenes with the protagonist's wife and son in the real-world.

That was really interesting and gave me the (wrong) impression that this game was going to have a strong story and strong characters (meaning, story-wise), which it actually doesn't.

But those brief scenes at the start show that the devs could have made a good story and rich characters if they had put in the time and effort to do that.

If someone took the combat system and Nemesis system (or an imitation of it if it's non-Warner publisher doing it, since Warner patented that system), and built a real story-rich RPG over it, that could make for a masterpiece-level game.

In regards to the technical issues I mentioned earlier:

1. Achievements are showing up for me now; not sure if this game previously suffered from the "invisible Achievement" bug and GOG fixed that today, or if it was just a glitch on my Galaxy page, but either way, they work perfectly now.

2. Forcing VSync from the Nvidia control panel for some reason does not fix the screen tearing that occurs specifically during cutscenes, such as when you first start a mission. I have no idea how it's possible for this game to ignore Nvidia control panel's VSync setting.

Or otherwise, maybe what I'm seeing in the cutscenes is not technically VSync-related screen tearing, even though it has the same appearance of such.

Anyway, I wish there was a solution to this, because it's very immersion-breaking every time it happens, which it almost always does for me when this game plays any cutscene.

3. I still have no idea why the voices are way too low in this game. Did the devs just make a really bad audio mix? Is there no real solution to this problem? I assume there is not, since I didn't see any posted anywhere on the internet.
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JoaoPauloZA: I'm pretty sure the cutscenes are only 30 fps. That might be what you're seeing. There are actually 2 areas in the game: Udun and Nurnen, which look vastly different. Fair assessment of the game though. I still love it myself. Wondering about that audio though as i've never had the problem, but seen it reported back in the day. Supposedly, it's some issue with an older version of DirectX that might be needed.
The prime keys seem to be up now.
Posted September 05, 2022
user Decked93 needs some help based on his review, if a blue or someone wants to reach out to him. unfortunate he doesn't know the appropriate places to ask for help.
Posted September 05, 2022
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Ancient-Red-Dragon: 3. I still have no idea why the voices are way too low in this game. Did the devs just make a really bad audio mix? Is there no real solution to this problem? I assume there is not, since I didn't see any posted anywhere on the internet.
Do you play with headphones? If so enable Sonic surround sound if it isn't.
Posted September 07, 2022
The Game is not starting for me. In the Launcher the play button is greyed out, but the game will not start. Anyone else with this problem?
Posted September 09, 2022
Had a couple dozen very entertaining hours in this so far.
Biggest surprise for me too was how the dynamic of the off-screen succession wars among the Orcs, or more correctly, Uruks is also present in the open world. Just watching the Uruks and Mordor's fauna duke it out will probably never get old.

With Shadow of Mordor available we now have all games resp. at least one title of every franchise that make use of the Arkham freeflow combat system, correct?
Post edited September 09, 2022 by Swedrami
Posted September 09, 2022
Another review (from beyond the grave), if you can spare about 50 minutes.
Posted September 20, 2022
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Shihimase: The Game is not starting for me. In the Launcher the play button is greyed out, but the game will not start. Anyone else with this problem?
I have the same problem. It is running in the background but can't play it.

Funny because it worked for me and suddenly after a few days it stopped working. I did a full system reinstall since then, but the issue remained.

Have you or someone else found a way to fix it?
Posted September 21, 2022
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Swedrami: Had a couple dozen very entertaining hours in this so far.
Biggest surprise for me too was how the dynamic of the off-screen succession wars among the Orcs, or more correctly, Uruks is also present in the open world. Just watching the Uruks and Mordor's fauna duke it out will probably never get old.

With Shadow of Mordor available we now have all games resp. at least one title of every franchise that make use of the Arkham freeflow combat system, correct?
I think Spider-Man Remastered uses a similar system as well. Hopefully PlayStation releases more of their games here.
Posted September 29, 2022
Seems the sequel -Shadow of War- is coming October 1st
Posted September 29, 2022
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A.M.R.: Seems the sequel -Shadow of War- is coming October 1st
Will it be available via Prime again?
Posted September 29, 2022
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A.M.R.: Seems the sequel -Shadow of War- is coming October 1st
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Nergal01: Will it be available via Prime again?
Yes:

https://www.dealabs.com/bons-plans/prime-gaming-fallout-76-la-terre-du-milieu-lombre-de-la-guerre-total-war-warhammer-ii-et-dautres-jeux-offerts-sur-pc-dematerialises-2415001
Posted September 29, 2022
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bluethief: Yes:

https://www.dealabs.com/bons-plans/prime-gaming-fallout-76-la-terre-du-milieu-lombre-de-la-guerre-total-war-warhammer-ii-et-dautres-jeux-offerts-sur-pc-dematerialises-2415001
Cool, thx. :)
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