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.