I was thinking of getting the game during the black friday sale and wanted to get an idea of why it was so popular.
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I was thinking of getting the game during the black friday sale and wanted to get an idea of why it was so popular.
Poor taste, last year had a lot of games that were better than Shadow of Mordor. It's a fine game, the nemesis system has its moments and it can be quite enjoyable to toy around with that system, but the core gameplay loop of ghetto batman combat with ghetto ass creed bored me by the halfway mark.
It definitely seems like a game that wouldn't normally win GOTY. In 2015 it might not have even been top 10 - and 2015 wasn't even as strong as we originally thought it might have been heading in.
Still, it's an 84 metacritic - so while not a normal GOTY worthy game, it seems it will be worth giving it a shot. I plan on going ahead and picking up this complete edition for black Friday as well... just because I've always enjoyed Lord of the Rings, want to catch up a few of the older PS4 games I skipped, and this should at least be "good" if not great.
Answer: System Nemesis. Gamespot thinks they're on the ground floor of a feature that will become the standard in gen 8. So far they're wrong. Not a single game has taken on this feature. Unlike the cover system of gen 7 the nemesis system has not trended as successfully.
Game of the year is and was and forever shall be Bayonetta 2.
But gamespot gonna gamespot.
Weak competition (especially in terms of innovation) combined with the nemsis system. The latter was seen as a breakthrough mechanic that would transform open world games.
Tbh I thought it was one of the weakest GOTY-winners. Gameplay was ok, the world subpar. Ubisoft gets (rightfully) criticized for filling out there maps with low quality content. But SoM was worse imo. So much trash. Since the world didn't offer anything in terms of vistas, interesting locations or NPCs the game just ended up a bit boring imo. Think GS lost there heads a bit.
Some dumb gimmick that randomized enemy encounters.
It was a bad game and there were plenty of other games more worthy of GOTY 2014. Bayonetta 2 was the obvious choice. But even fucking Dark Souls 2 would have been a better choice than Assassin's Creed: Mordor.
A bunch of GS and Giant Bomb staff were hyping/band-wagoning on that game and I guess that momentum let it win. I found it pretty boring myself, enemies repopulated the map super quickly and the whole orc-hierarchy got repopulated whenever you died so it felt like you were just spinning your wheels in the open world
I just finished it on the weekend and I have no f*cking idea. Another Arkham Creed game, nothing special. The Nemesis system they fap so much about is basically a grinding system that bloats the game. Typical Ubi checklist open world where you go over a tower and it marks every single thing that should be "explored". The content itself, either main story or side quest is mostly weak. The only pro I can find is that it's easy/accessible to play. Most probably only Arkham Creed fanboys will think this game is actually good.
Stupidity and hard on for western developed games.
The rest of the year being total fucking trash.
Bayonetta 2 is one of the best games ever made in its genre and came out that year. Most outlets gave no shits
Stupidity and hard on for western developed games.
The rest of the year being total fucking trash.
Bayonetta 2 is one of the best games ever made in its genre and came out that year. Most outlets gave no shits
Agreed. There were a couple good games, but none of them would proceed to be acknowledged in most outlets.
Still, as a whole, the year was pretty bad.
For one thing, Shadow of Mordor release back in September 2014 and The Hobbits: Battle of the Five Armies movie release in December 2014, meaning it was part of the hype train for any Lord of the Rings fans [like me] and it made me get Mordor and it was really if not, the best Lord of the Rings game I ever played.
It was a good fun game with very little competition but overall GOTY should have been Divinity: Original Sin.
D:OS took PC GOTY ahead of SoM, where as SoM took both console awards while being a better game on PC. This is Gamespot though, so they can't let down their console overlords and award a PC game GOTY, no matter how much it deserves it.
Nemesis system, Great combat ( even better than batman games ). Those are its strong points but honestly any other year probably it wouldn't have been goty.
Good game though even if it gets a bit repetitive midway through the game
Fun game but Divinity: OS and Bayonetta 2 deserved GOTY more TBH, especially when you think that DOS defeated best version of SOM when it got PC GOTY. But then again this is GS, logic is forbidden here.
It was actually decent fun, worth the discount price, decent combat but the real fun comes from the orcs, so learn how the their hierarchy works and play it for some amusing results. The DLC isn't all that great (so I hear anyways), but $20 for the game is decent.
If you're playing catch up on games you missed, then by all means. If you're just looking for something to pass the time cheaply and is good... well, I'd choose something else. They had good sales last few weeks on Deals With Gold, Titanfall $5 for the game and all DLC, Alien Isolation $15, Evil Within and all DLC bundled for $26.
I'd much more recommend the Metro Redux collection (that's Metro 2033 & Last Light) for $18 it's going for. Also take notice of Dark Souls II for $20. They even have the Halo MCC on sale for $30, that's Halo CE, Halo 2:A, Halo 3, Halo 4, plus optional Halo ODST add-on for only $5 you can get anytime (fingers crossed we get Reach in future); now that's value.
lack of good games last year maybe? mordor was ok but i got bored about halfway through. never finished it. also gamespot is becoming one of the worst review sites.
Tolkien universe is awesome, it had one of the better open worlds of recent years, the combat and upgrades were fun if you like Arkham (and every critic and millions of gamers do), and of course the cherry on top is the Nemisis system, which made the world feel very organic and whose rivalries and systems of strengths and fears added a nice bit of strategic depth.
It wasn't my GOTY but it was one of the better games that year.
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