looks like it doesn't unlock via steam until 11AM tomorrow


was looking forward to a late night of gaming

Wow that is some weak ****, was about to ask if it opens at midnight on steam

looks to be the same as console

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Oh my. A 9.5 from polygon, the same guys who gave The Last of Us a 7.5.

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lolwut

That says midnight eastern... Pretty sure it's midnight Pacific on consoles. Pretty lame if you ask me. If these publishers want to make digital more attractive they should fix that so that 80% of the country doesn't have to wait.

Speaking of consoles, still no official word on the XB1 version. So dumb. No reason to withold info and/or review copies since we are all gonna know sooner or later. We get it, you guys didn't have time to optimize the XB1 version. I'm getting it either way and excited, but it's a distraction reading reviews and everybody is pointing out they don't have an XB1 version.

Still hoping to be pleasantly surprised by this game that was a real sleeper.

I'm a little confused why consoles make it a pain in the ass with a pacific release time on single player games.... Just put the game out at midnight EST or at the very least midnight in your time zone. They are pissing off 75% of the nation with a 2 hour wait.

Played for a little over an hour, very hard to put down. Having a blast so far, already got killed a couple times by a caragor and had a fortress alarm raised on me with about 20 orcs chasing me and a captain. Good stuff!

same for me. Got in 30-40 mins this morning. Tried to attack some massive orge thing and got rekted! Then i started to sneak around and kill things the right way. The game is BEAUTIFUL. I mean really easy on the eyes and looks awesome. Cannot wait to get further into it. And it's nice and extra bloody.

Will pick it up after work today and hopefully be able to play it once kids are in bed (what little I've seen tells me I can't play this in front of them).

I'll follow up with some XB1 < PS4 info... best I can tell from other boards is the PS4 version is 1080p with a framerate that might hit 60 at times, but it fluctuates (some say between 40-50 most of the time). Most people are thinking the XB1 version is locked at 30 (it never goes up or down) and that the resolution is probably 900p. What's really funny is now people are complaining about the PS4 version because they'd rather have a lower locked framerate than one that goes up/down at times. Go figure.

In short, it doesn't look like anybody can really tell... both are good looking games so in the end it's a non issue really. Those digital foundry guys will most likely do a very technical comparison of both, but us normals could care less. I can only guess the reason for holding back on the XB1 review copies was part of the "deal" with Sony. All these "dlc 1st", "bonus missions only on...", etc. are getting really lame.

Looking forward to hearing what you guys think of this one. I'll probably bail on Destiny this week to take advantage of the high trade-in value.

Can't decide between ps4 and pc... Think I'll wait for sale anyways.

Picking this bad boy up when I get off work!

Watching some live streams of this... Looks amazing.

Brought destiny to work, and will be trading in after.

Game looks awesome and I can't wait to stealth around to even the odds a bit. Kinda disappointing to hear the story isn't the strongest but looks like graphics, gameplay, and nemesis system more than make up for it.

I have a feeling the nemesis system will be copied and emulated by many games in the future. I game that is based 100% in this type of system not out of the question either.

I have a couple of games that GameStop is giving $20 a piece for, so it looks like I might be trying this out. Might trade in Destiny, too, since I doubt I will really invest the time to grind to get to VoG, but might hold on just to see what Bungie does with it.

Looks good, but man they straight up copied Assassin's Creed, put on LotR sprites and story.

The Wraith World = Eagle Vision, the HUD map looks almost exactly like AC's, hell, even the ropes for crossing buildings are direct copies from AC2.

Combat is very different from AC series combat. Which is a good thing.

Anybody that's played it want to comment on stealth? Is it a good system and can you do a lot of missions stealthily? It won't scare me off if the answer is no, I just like to do that as much as possible and they mention it a few times during trailers so I'm wondering how it turned out.

Will probably purchase for PC on Steam tonight.

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Combat is very different from AC series combat. Which is a good thing.

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No they copied that from Arkham which is just timed button presses for countering 90% of the time

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Combat is very different from AC series combat. Which is a good thing.

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No they copied that from Arkham which is just timed button presses for countering 90% of the time

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If you're going to copy items from Batman and AC, at least they copied the good parts from each game.

Bad language

This looks awesome

I think they specifically call out those copies of AC and Batman in most previews of the games.

theRadBrad has already started his play through if anyone wants to check out the Prologue and some of the fighting mechanics.

Just picked this up for XB1, but also got Forza Horizon 2, so that will probably get the most of my time early on... either way, if there's a "list" put me on it. XBL - TonsterPS

Isn't the game SP only?

Welp, that goes to show you how much I know! Haha

another couple hours spent and it was sooooo hard to put down. I found a couple of lower grade captains and kill them and had power grow....I also died a few times and it's awesome to see the random orc that killed you just into the power rankings and start to battle their way in. The whole system is extremely dynamic.

Not one to do in front of the kiddies I think, but plenty of other times to play.

Unplayable for me due to this bug:

http://shadowofmordor.wikia.com/wiki/Thread:19978

I played for like half an hour earlier and already had those random moments everybody is talking about:

Right after I am set loose in the open world I kill a lone orc and then jump down off a cliff... We'll, there just happened to be an orc captain right there so I get the brief intro scene with his name... So I'm like, OK, let's do this. I'm all over him quickly and a couple lower minions jump in, no problem. And then the brief cut scene starts again... I was confused at first, but quickly realized it was a 2nd captain joining the party! I started losing quickly...

... And that's when #3 showed up! Really!? He literally said what I was thinking "You'd probably have trouble with 3 grubs, what are you gonna do against us!" I'll tell you what I did... I friggin ran away and started climbing to get away. As I'm escaping I can hear one of them in my rear surround speaker "so much for the bravery of man!"

It was pretty awesome... The game was definitely not hand holding a noob!

Played for a couple of hours today, and I've already had what might be my favorite gaming moment ever:

I started one of the quests to increase the legend of your bow, which involved me picking off 20 uruks out of a horde of 40 or 50. The uruks had some bad "grog" and are puking everywhere. As soon as I kill my quota, the rest of the horde freaks out, and they all run away screaming.

I've never had a moment like that in a game that made me feel so powerful and feared.

Putting it in "borderless" mode fixed my bug. Hooray for having a 15 year old son to trouble shoot!

Wow, this is definitely my kind of game. Loving this so far.