Shadow of Mordor didn't try faking any gameplay. What you saw from the publisher or a "massaged" Youtuber was completely legit gameplay that you could very much perform in the final product. Just like the marketing of any product, you're going to see the product at its best whether it's a game or a McDonald's Big Mac.
What WB did was literally illegally manipulative. You might be okay with that, but I'm not.
And I don't have my self-imposed "no launch day reviews=no sale" policy because I have a problem with marketing. Marketing is fine as long as it isn't lying. What WB did was illegal by even the incredibly lax standards of the FTC.
I have it because it's anti-consumer garbage. Shill for publishers if you want, the facts on the ground are that most sales happen early, and having customers go in blind with only hand picked influencers showing guided gameplay is deliberate misinformation.
Whether it was illegal or legal isn't much of a difference IMO. When your livelihood depends on insider knowledge and contacts, there's always going to be back-stratching going on even if money technically doesn't change hands (and is then technically illegal). To think that any site/Youtuber getting early access is completely 100% unadulterated opinion (conscious or even unconscious) is a fallacy on your or anyone's end. I watch the official dev previews and can tell from that alone on whether game is something I wanna play or not. I'll be able to tell watching any full mission say from Red Dead 2 if Rockstar's missions are still super linear thereby defeating the purpose of their open worlds or if the controls still suck regardless of how much the developer or Youtuber is over-hyping the shit out it. You're not going in blind and the gameplay you see is ACTUAL and not fake. I remember back in the magazine days, the most you got to determine if a game was good were pages of screenshots. Now publishers show hours of unedited gameplay that you can find if the game is for you rather easily. If let the obvious marketing get you hyped for a game like how the aforementioned Red Dead 2 is getting hyped from GAMERS THEMSELVES, that's on you.
Tried to install this 2 days ago and it crashed. I heard the game was great but it had gone full SJW in terms of everyone evil being white and all the heroes one eye lesbians or something. Seems unlikely but we'll see.
It does get tedious when a message is too blatantly shoehorned in but who cares, just ignore it and shoot stuff.
Tried to install this 2 days ago and it crashed. I heard the game was great but it had gone full SJW in terms of everyone evil being white and all the heroes one eye lesbians or something. Seems unlikely but we'll see.
It does get tedious when a message is too blatantly shoehorned in but who cares, just ignore it and shoot stuff.
Sounds like you came across /pol/. You're fighting nazis, of course they're white and evil. There are no gay people in the game afaik, there's this black chick who's full SJW and a little racist towards white but that's about it. You recruit a couple of commies to join your crew (It's in the trailers) but not until the main protagonist expresses his own opinion about those ''Bolshevik cowards''.
Plus, this is a world where the USSR got smashed by the Wehrmacht war machine. Most of the excesses and despicable-ness of the Red Scare never had time to happen.
Tried to install this 2 days ago and it crashed. I heard the game was great but it had gone full SJW in terms of everyone evil being white and all the heroes one eye lesbians or something. Seems unlikely but we'll see.
It does get tedious when a message is too blatantly shoehorned in but who cares, just ignore it and shoot stuff.
Sounds like you came across /pol/. You're fighting nazis, of course they're white and evil. There are no gay people in the game afaik, there's this black chick who's full SJW and a little racist towards white but that's about it. You recruit a couple of commies to join your crew (It's in the trailers) but not until the main protagonist expresses his own opinion about those ''Bolshevik cowards''.
Plus, this is a world where the USSR got smashed by the Wehrmacht war machine. Most of the excesses and despicable-ness of the Red Scare never had time to happen.
Which the West didn't know or care about before the war, and which a genocide of the Russian people would cover up in Wolfenstein-verse, yes, I know.
Like, in real life, there were SS groups following the main divisions executing whole civilian populations. That would have expanded if Germany was actually successful with Barbosa.
Played it, beat it in 20 hours (still have some stuff to do, but it's basically worthless busywork) in the hardest difficulty available on a new game (permadeath difficulty is unlocked after beating it an I ain' tryin' that). Enjoyable game, overall. More cutscenes than I would've liked. Story is incredibly B-level, which I appreciate (even if I can see why some people don't). Nice character beats, the base you have feels lived in (much like the first one).
Weapon variety is hit and miss (with the Laserkraftwek basically being the best overall gun). On the hardest difficulty stealth sections could be done if you flarked up, but it was hard. On easier difficulties it would probably be a piece of cake. Not a lot of enemy variety, and very few new enemies. The contraptions are ok but not game changing.
Solid 8/10. I'd recommend waiting for a sale. Also it isn't very well optimised, as far as I could tell. Suffers from some glitches (most notably one that messes up the fonts) but I didn't run into anything gamebreaking.
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