Middle Earth: Shadow of War

Heh, I haven't seen a game besides, Planetside 2 perform a gameplay mechanic like that well. It'd take a different studio with MMO experience that isn't, Monolith Productions to produce a game like that. Define what genre you'd want this MMO to be.

I just hope we can have big open set pieces against Sauron's other armies, rather than being restricted to sieges.

As a regular free encounter - I doubt there will be anything more than first game's warchief vs warchief riots.

But there will probably be prepared set pieces along the lines of the old final missions.

edited 2nd May '17 7:38:25 AM by Adannor

Sauron's super evil.

Water is wet. Mustafar is hot.

Dwarves have beards, hobbits have big, hairy feet.

Sam loves Frodo.

Heh, Ho Yay.

One little note: notice when you capture a fortress etc, it's Cerebrimbor who is at th victory screen, and not Talion?

The Lord of the Rings does not share power.

Talion is Celebrimbor's vessel. I bet that Celebrimbor would cast him aside in an instant if he could have a body. It'd be just like a son of Feanor.

I can't wait for Talion's inevitable middle finger to Cerebrimbor.

Which would be dying.

Though Celebrimbor was the one who wanted to give up first. Talion wanted to continue.

Talion wants to die.

He could do that at the end of the first game.

But it's him saying "Time for a new Ring", not Celebrimbor.

He could have done that at the end of the first.

Celebrimbor was ready to pass on. Then Talion convinced him they should continue.

Talion has moved on from revenge and wanting to die.

Now, he wants to do something to save Middle Earth.

He's found something worth undeath.

I do wonder if this is all a massive Batman Gambit by big black spiky guy, that he wants them to make a new ring so he can steal it and use it as a substitute until he gets the One, throwing countless orcs and captains under the bus.

If I was making this game, I would have Sauron break your hold on his minions right at the end, not unlike in the Bright Lord DLC... And they stay on your side, deciding they like Talion more than Sauron.

Well the main thing is he was able to undo Celebrimbor's brainwashing because Celebrimbor was using the Ring to do it. Now Talion is doing it with his own Ring of Power, which was made independently of Sauron.

And Cellogg's is still bound by the One.

I think.

It might be, but if anyone knows a way around that, it would be the original Ringsmith. I can't remember the precise reasons the One Ring was the master of all others. Is it because it was forged last, and thus was able to be forged specifically to exploit flaws in their power to take control, or is it a magical skeleton key that will automatically control all Rings, even ones made after it?

Yeah, apparently its purpose was to control other Ring-wielders. No idea how the narrative will justify that it can't control us, though, unless that comes up in the story.

Actually, Cerebrimbor in the first game was taking over Talion little by little, or did you not notice the subtleties. Look at the Bright Lord DLC.

Fact is Talion is losing himself. When he says he wants to forget a new ring, that's Cerebrimbor's influence, not Talion's.

It's Celebrimbor, with an "l."

Maybe he has a speech impediment?

Be vewy vewy quiet, I'm hunting Cewebwimboh.

But yeah, if Celebrimbor really is slowly starting to subvert Talion's personality we may see that in the game.