Shadow of Mordor reviews are in * 8 on GS, 9.3 on IGN

GS review 8/10

IGN review 9.3/10

Looks like we have a really good game on our hands after all.

I like IGN´s review more as Dan Stapleton is a PC gamer, he reviews PC games on IGN, so his review is mostly PC-based, meanwhile the GS version is PS4´s one.

Additional reviews:

Gamesradar 9/10

Polygon 9.5

Game Informer 8.25

Those scores were definitely not expected.

IGN reviews are so inflated. How they be worth anything anymore is beyond me.

I definitely am excited to try this game now.

This game comes out at such an unfortunate time

6gb vram for max settings?

On the PC side Mordor also compares to the Batman games, in that it’s of good quality. There are even some enhanced graphics settings, including an ultra-high texture setting that requires a full 6GB of video memory. My only issue with it is some awkward menu controls, but most of those are customizable and those that aren’t aren’t too inconvenient to get used to.

@monstersfa: Crapler no one cares. There's a reason why you were banned.

Sadly, Lord Of The Rings is about hobbits gaining courage and going on whimsical adventures. This is Assasins Creed with monster men.

Whose crapler? Did he own you too hard? Was he that rough with you? Must be, you sound full of butthurt.

@monstersfa: Mmm you are starting to get salty.

This thread is about Mordor not your obsession with another forum user. Please try to stay on topic.

@monstersfa: What does 6 gb VRAM have to do with reviews for the game? There's a reason you have been banned Cranler.

So i'm not supposed to discuss info from the review that's in the thread title? This obsession of yours is clouding your judgement.

So there are games that actually take full advantage of the latest PC GPUs after all. And now piss off.

@monstersfa: At the end of the day. You are the one ban dodging. Enjoy, Cranler.

If it's a good game, who cares

As someone with high moral values and a fan of series that promoted love and adventure, to see a cynical bastardization aimed at young people looking to inflict death for personal gratification, it is sadly a betrayal of everything MR Tolkien and his stories stood for.

In many ways, this is grave robbing.

Man, this game sounds amazing.

I actually expected a 7 or something. This is good news.

I thought the latest gpu's have 4gb.

Piss off? Why? What did I ever do to you?

So in this thread we're not supposed to discuss the details of said reviews just the scores?

So we should have another thread to discuss details of the reviews. Then another thread to discuss pc console differences at which point all Mordor discussion will be stickied so everything remotely related to Mordor will be in one thread anyway.

You're really not thinking this through bldg.

If you think the lore is shit you could just pretend it's non-canon. That's what I do for MGS4 and a lot of people do it for Warcraft post-WoW

No, you are wrong. There are GTX Titan, 6GB versions of GTX 780 and 780ti, meanwhile 6-8GB versions of 970 and 980 are planned to be released in a few months.

God damn, yet another multiplat best on PC.

It never ends.

Cranler was banned?

He gets banned every week.

Unexpected review scores which is great. No wonder the devs allowed reviews prior to release date. All companies should allow reviews before release. 6GB VRAM, so even a GTX980 cannot run this title on Ultra...wow. Wish nVidia would rush the 8GB models out.

Got the game for 25 bucks on PC from Neogaf, and looking forward to it. Read the destructoid review where he argued it's more repetitive than it should be, and that's a bit worrying, but overall I'm interested, the nemesis system looks to deliver some interesting combat encounters, and I read the achievement list to the game which was neato. Plus for 25 bucks it's not a huge sting if it sucks.

980 is the latest gpu and they're 4gb

I heard he gets karma banned by butthurt hermits.

Yeah...the IGN review is much better...he didn't ruin some of the story within the first minute of the review by blabbing out about how the Ranger becomes a white ghost like figure or anything.

Fucking dumbass.

yes, the guy who has to pit 3 systems against 1 and use sales in scores discussions is totally not the one being totally butthurt and owned....

@Jankarcop said:

@monstersfa said:

I heard he gets karma banned by butthurt hermits.

yes, the guy who has to pit 3 systems against 1 and use sales in scores discussions is totally not the one being totally butthurt and owned....

Makes sense. Consolites are fragmented by competition. You would need 3 x as many consolites as pc gamers for a single console to have a chance.

When did he bring up sales in a score discussion? Sales and scores are directly related. Please take a moment to show where he got owned.

Not sure if serious. You sound like a hall monitor wannabe

I wouldn't doubt it...it's been done to me 3 times since I've been here.

^This will never be proven.

By compiling data released on Steam, Orland discovered that getting a 90+ Metacritic score almost guarantees some success, with games selling at least 50,000 copies when reaching that score.

http://www.shacknews.com/article/84203/higher-metacritic-scores-impact-game-sales-positively

• Titles rated below 80 typically sell poorly
• Average review score is around the 68-71 out of 100 range
• These games rarely sell over 100,000 copies.
• Using the 3-month average sales of titles in 2011, games in the 70-79 range sold only 62,000 units
• 60-69 range sold roughly 57,000 units
• 1,024 games were rated at 50 or below last year
• These titles average 30,000 units in 3-month sales
• 216 games rated at 90 or above in 2011
• These titles saw average sales of 700,000 units
• 80-89 rated games saw a 3-month average drops to 236,000 units

http://mynintendonews.com/2012/03/10/metacritic-scores-really-do-matter-to-video-game-sales/

I said latest GPUs, plural, learn to read.

this is the problem with reviews, im not saying the game looks bad.

I'm rather more entertained that people who posted in this thread saying "WOW IM EXCITED NOW, IT GOT AN 8 HUR DUR DERPA DONG"

do you guys really let reviews be the forerunner in choosing whether or not you will play the game? sure, use it as a base, but at least think for yourself. shit is just embarassing

970 and 980 are the latest gpu's.

"almost guarantees some success" is nowhere close to "Sales and scores are directly related."

"Sales and scores are directly related" is not yet proven. I'm thinking it's going to need an r² to support a statement as bold as "Sales and scores are directly related."

would you like to retract your statement, and rephrase it to "getting a 90+ Metacritic score almost guarantees some success"?

even the other evidence, not close to that statement. at best you could say influence, "directly related" - that is wrong.

Don't play stupid, Cranberry. You were the only person to mention sales/popularity in the thread. You tried to discredit high scoring games by using sales:

Do you want your alt banned too?

Shutup, Cranler's 2nd alt.

Yeah, it's not hard to figure out when you see "mr_huggles_dog replied to your message" 1 minute after every time Monster or Cranler posts agreeing with them. Cranberry, don't be so stupid please.

Oh please just stfu and enjoy the game its not like they are trying to disgrace Tolkien, I mean god for bid someone comes a long as does something different and trys to tell a different story you should be happy they even made this game considering how bad the games have been lately.

So you agree that PC has more 8's and 9's than console? Do high scores also need high sales to "count"? Or did you change your mind on this.

And holy **** you killed this thread fast. Why do you do this, were you mad that this game was another multiplat better on PC?

There will always be exceptions to the rule like Destiny for example.

Retract what? This is concrete data.

Some publishers actually give bonuses to the devs if they meet a specific metascore. Obsidian missed out on a $1 million bonus because they missed the goal of 85 by one point.

No, they are not. Titan Black, TitanZ and gtx780ti are still considered as latest GPUs as well. And this is why I had told you to piss off, because you are fucking idiot that will try to derail the thread by insisting that 6GB GPUs don´t exist. **** off.