re: Shadow of War: who here is planning on getting it in two days?

It’s sitting on my Xbone waiting for me to wreck shop on some Orcs! This game has the potential to get me in trouble this week.

I bought the PS4 to play Shadow of Mordor, so there's no doubt I get this.

Skill tree is larger and more advanced this time. Plus you can upgrade your gear.

Went up against a LVL17 captain right off the bat and got stomped.

Bought it yesterday and loaded it onto the Xbox. Will start playing tonight.

the first one didnt even have difficulty levels did it? i started on the nemesis difficulty and i'm getting spanked

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the first one didnt even have difficulty levels did it?

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Yup. There was no difficulty level. I got killed a ton the first time I played. One guy kept showing up and killing me with his damn crossbow.

But...once you really learned how to keep moving while attacking, you could kill just about anyone without any upgrades.

Not that I didn't love becoming a super god.

I just didn't want to start the new game with my knowledge from the first and be able to kick everyone in the arse.

Glad to hear there are difficulty levels.

I’m just trying to boost levels as quickly as possible. You can’t recruit orc captains if they are higher level than you. I’ve only been able to turn three and I’ve had to kill some cool looking orcs that I’d like to have taken under my wing.

I don’t have many complaints so far. Just a more fleshed out shadow of mordor which is awesome.

The difference in quality in the game is so huge it's amazing. It's fun to play and am Definitly enjoying it but some of the animation is laughably bad. The landscape are great. The rat animations are just laughably bad. I was on the back of a troll and stabbing it and the knife was like a foot away from its back.

I also find the captains to be much more challenging. Not too many you can take a straight approach too. Either they're ranged and stay away or they don't allow you to leap them and if you leap over them too much, they'll stop that shite.

really like it so far. played a handful of hours and I'm still in the first city you start in. barely scratched the surface, but it feels like I've gotten deeper.

only big complaint is trying to climb something while in combat. I always roll into what I'm trying to climb instead of climbing it. have to stop what I'm doing, allowing the enemy to damage me, then jump onto whatever it is I'm trying to climb. very annoying

Guess I'll have to wait until tomorrow. Apparently this is a zillion GB download.

Thought about waiting for all of the major reviewers to hit but from what I have read the micro transactions aren't needed at all to finish the game unless you want to finish it fast without leveling your toon.

I tend to grind the hell out of all RPGs to max levels so I won't mind grinding this to max levels.

Not sure I will wait up for the download to finish, but I'll start the grind tomorrow.