Middle-Earth: Shadow of Morder thread | Reviews look great

A bit surprised, I lost a bit of my hype for it after watching the 1 hour of gameplay video, thought it didn't look all the great.

Still going to get it though, probably just for PC.

I was keeping an eye on this game and thought it looked pretty good. I got it for cheap on PC.

Steam sale purchase

Oh man. Really want to get this from Steam instead of the Xbone. Do you think my computer will be able to play this?

MINIMUM:
OS: 64-bit: Vista, Win 7, Win 8
Processor: Intel Core i5-750, 2.67 GHz | AMD Phenom II X4 965, 3.4 GHz
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 | AMD Radeon HD 6950


My specs:
OS: 64 bit Win 7
Processor:Intel Core i3-4130 3.4GHz Dual-Core
Memory: 8 GB
Graphics: XFX Radeon R9 270X 2GB Double Dissipation Video Card


So pretty much all I am behind on is the processor. Will the game not even run? I have never had an issue playing games such as Skyrim and CK2.

Do you guys know of any demo to test the playability out?

I downloaded it last night and played for a couple hours just messing around with it. It plays quite smoothly for me. I didn't realize the "Ultra-HD" textures were a separate download, so I just went in and put everything to ultra settings to see how it went. I ran the benchmark and averaged 76fps with everything on ultra. Playing with everything at ultra went very smoothly (1080/60hz at the moment). The game looks "pretty" to me. I'm downloading the Ultra-HD texture pack (the one that apparently needs 6GB VRAM) just to see how it looks and runs.

This is the first RPG of this style that I have played. I've seen people comparing it to games like Arkham (which I've never played) and Assassin's Creed, which I've only played for a combined 6 hours across the series, maybe. I've played the shite out of Dark Souls 2 lately and coming from that, the combat/playstyle is completely different. Although I'm still messing around with the keyboard/mouse controls for Mordor, it seems like it is somewhat of a button masher. I didn't even know what most of my controls were going in, but I was able to kill shite pretty easily just slamming L/R mouse buttons.

I never died so I can't really comment on death penalties. But, like I said I'm coming from DS2, which has some harsh death penalties. By the same token the difficulty of DS2 is what makes me like it as much as I do. Tomorrow night I'm gonna actually sit down and get my controls laid out to see what you can really do in combat, because I'm sure that the game gets harder (I hope). But, it does seem really fun, and the combat animations are just...frickin awesome. Based on just the couple hours I would recommend it. I'm pretty picky when it comes to games because I don't have a shitload of time to play, so when I do I obviously want it to be a good one. This is the first game I've tried in a while that I can't wait for some free time to get into.

For reference I have an FX-8350 @ 4.7, R9 290 @ 1180/1475, 16GB Trident-X @ 2400.

To the people who have played this. What out of 10 would you give this game?

thank you guys for talking me into this game. i was on the fence but now i know that this game is awesome