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And Now to post reenactments of my facial expressions while watching this...
When they fired the arrows
When he jumped off the top.... Fired Mid Air Slow motion arrows and when Full Matrix on the Orcs..
When the dude you thought you killed came back for revenge only to be killed by your Spy..
When the Ranger fucking Dominated a Drake and proceeded to go Inferno..
My face during the fight with the Overlord..
When they fired the arrows
When he jumped off the top.... Fired Mid Air Slow motion arrows and when Full Matrix on the Orcs..
When the dude you thought you killed came back for revenge only to be killed by your Spy..
When the Ranger fucking Dominated a Drake and proceeded to go Inferno..
My face during the fight with the Overlord..
I want to see a black video game like this. I hope to pull it off in my lifetime. After my animation phase is complete I plan to go into gaming.
I checked out that Moorish Kingdom game Tariq put out. Kinda primitive compared to state of the art.
I checked out that Moorish Kingdom game Tariq put out. Kinda primitive compared to state of the art.
damn man...August smh
Ain't even watch it yet. This will be had on day 1.
Warcraft on HGH.
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loved the first one. i watched the video and got giddy. cant wait
Loved the first game. Can't wait for the sequel.
The first game was that crack. Jump in the middle of 10-15 Orcs and slaughter them or stealth it out and take them down one by one.
Kingdom?
Or set up 5 stealth trap Orcs under your command and let them get close to a general... so you can unleash a betrayal when he doesn't expect it.
Oh and this is Alpha footage...
It can actually get better then this.
It can actually get better then this.
Middle-earth: Shadow of War could let you import your save to keep your Mordor nemesis
Middle-earth: Shadow of War may have a way to bring your old nemesis back from Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor. In an interview with Monolith Productions creative vice president Michael de Plater, we raised the possibility of transferring saves between the games to hold on to some of the characters that players have grown fond of facing off with, and it seemed to take Plater by surprise.
"Oh... I don't remember what we're allowed to say about that," Plater admitted, before darting off to consult with a representative. Then he returned with a good old, "We're not saying anything at this time."
That's definitely not a "yes", but if it was a plain "no," they probably wouldn't have handled it so carefully. Shadow of War is trying to make players even more involved in its procedurally generated story elements and a great first step would be to bring in some familiar orc faces from Shadow of Mordor.
There is one minor problem, of course (spoiler warning for Shadow of Mordor). The climactic battle of the first game sets Talion against an army led by whichever orc has become his nemesis, and you can't reach the ending until you kill him super dead. But orcs frequently come back from apparent death at your hands with spiky metal prostheses and quips about 'not letting that happen again' - no reason Shadow of War can't do the same.
Again, this isn't confirmation of a new feature, but consider save importing a strong possibility for now.
http://www.gamesradar.com/middle-ea...import-your-save-to-keep-your-mordor-nemesis/
The fucking wait
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Middle-earth: Shadow of War could let you import your save to keep your Mordor nemesis
Middle-earth: Shadow of War may have a way to bring your old nemesis back from Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor. In an interview with Monolith Productions creative vice president Michael de Plater, we raised the possibility of transferring saves between the games to hold on to some of the characters that players have grown fond of facing off with, and it seemed to take Plater by surprise.
"Oh... I don't remember what we're allowed to say about that," Plater admitted, before darting off to consult with a representative. Then he returned with a good old, "We're not saying anything at this time."
That's definitely not a "yes", but if it was a plain "no," they probably wouldn't have handled it so carefully. Shadow of War is trying to make players even more involved in its procedurally generated story elements and a great first step would be to bring in some familiar orc faces from Shadow of Mordor.
There is one minor problem, of course (spoiler warning for Shadow of Mordor). The climactic battle of the first game sets Talion against an army led by whichever orc has become his nemesis, and you can't reach the ending until you kill him super dead. But orcs frequently come back from apparent death at your hands with spiky metal prostheses and quips about 'not letting that happen again' - no reason Shadow of War can't do the same.
Again, this isn't confirmation of a new feature, but consider save importing a strong possibility for now.
http://www.gamesradar.com/middle-ea...import-your-save-to-keep-your-mordor-nemesis/
This option sounds very ambitious.
I like it a lot....
I may have to buy the old game too
Middle-earth: Shadow of War could let you import your save to keep your Mordor nemesis
Middle-earth: Shadow of War may have a way to bring your old nemesis back from Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor. In an interview with Monolith Productions creative vice president Michael de Plater, we raised the possibility of transferring saves between the games to hold on to some of the characters that players have grown fond of facing off with, and it seemed to take Plater by surprise.
"Oh... I don't remember what we're allowed to say about that," Plater admitted, before darting off to consult with a representative. Then he returned with a good old, "We're not saying anything at this time."
That's definitely not a "yes", but if it was a plain "no," they probably wouldn't have handled it so carefully. Shadow of War is trying to make players even more involved in its procedurally generated story elements and a great first step would be to bring in some familiar orc faces from Shadow of Mordor.
There is one minor problem, of course (spoiler warning for Shadow of Mordor). The climactic battle of the first game sets Talion against an army led by whichever orc has become his nemesis, and you can't reach the ending until you kill him super dead. But orcs frequently come back from apparent death at your hands with spiky metal prostheses and quips about 'not letting that happen again' - no reason Shadow of War can't do the same.
Again, this isn't confirmation of a new feature, but consider save importing a strong possibility for now.
http://www.gamesradar.com/middle-ea...import-your-save-to-keep-your-mordor-nemesis/
Take it all...
Middle-earth: Shadow of War's director of technical art talks Project Scorpio
The biggest console release of the year is still months away, but already we know one of Project Scorpio's launch games. Let's just say, it has a distinct Tolkien flair.
Middle-earth: Shadow of War by Monolith Productions was revealed last week as the first confirmed title for Microsoft's forthcoming console. Project Scorpio is a brand-new, next-gen system, so naturally there were some jitters and kinks to work out from a game development standpoint, right?
"We've been launch games on next-gen systems since the [Xbox] 360," Matt Allen, director of technical art at Monolith, tells TechRadar. "Launch titles don't scare us at all."
Allen describes Monolith and Microsoft's working relationship as "fantastic" – both are based in Seattle, for starters – but what about the actual Project Scorpio hardware?
"So far, we really like it," Allen says. "I don't know how much they've revealed the specs, but it is an upgrade. It's not just sort-of, 'We're going to upgrade some stuff.' There's things you can do with it. So, we're pretty excited to be working with them specifically."
If there's one feature Allen has to pick when it comes to defining Project Scorpio as a great system to make a game for, it's as easy as three letters.
"HDR," he immediately offers. "Until you've seen the game at 4K and HDR, it's a different ... you can watch it [in HDR] for a while, and after seeing it for a couple of months, you normalize it. Then you go back to not looking at it [HDR], and it actually is really different."
"I don't know how much consumer uptick is going to be of 4K HDR TVs, but we've got a couple, and the game looks fantastic," Allen adds. "For me, I'm really excited about showing it off at some point. Hopefully in the near future we can show that off."
'A machine shop in the basement'
Fans of the first game, Shadow of Mordor, and newcomers alike will no doubt savor Shadow of War's epic-ness, both from a story and technical standpoint.
Allen says that with Shadow of Mordor, Monolith had its head down on nailing the game. With Shadow of War, the team was free to flex their technical muscles, too.
"We have a new renderer that we did, a new facial animation system, a new core animation system. We really picked a lot of things and started to go crazy," he says. "It's basically a full upgrade of the engine."
"The last game we really just focused on the game, but this one we knew what we were doing from a game standpoint, and then the engine guys were like, 'Alright, can we show off a bit?'"
This engine upgrade and Shadow of War's other souped up features are due in large part to Monolith's in-house engineering capabilities – like having "a machine shop in the basement," Allen says.
"I've been with Monolith for 20 years, and obviously people make the game, but we've dogmatically always wanted to have our own technology, and I think that has allowed us to be flexible and agile and take advantage of stuff at the drop of a hat."
This approach served well in developing for Project Scorpio.
"Another thing with having our own technology is when Microsoft comes to us and says we're really pushing HDR, we can look, get my engineers together and be like, this is a thing. This is pretty straightforward to do."
Epic war zone
Middle-earth: Shadow of War takes place in the six to seven decades in between The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings trilogy, a period Tolkien "never really wrote about."
"All of a sudden, we've got 70 years that we can do some really interesting stuff with," Allen says. "Really for us, we want it to be bigger, we want the stakes to be higher, and we have this big time period to play with. That's fertile ground for any writer, and our writers really dug into it and had a lot of fun with it."
The game promises to be an epic adventure – "epic feels like an overused word, but really that's what it is – it's war, right?" – and as a vessel for one of the most cherished IPs of all time, the director calls the endeavor equally scary and fun, especially the second time around.
"Shadow of Mordor was pretty exciting for us as a studio," Allen says. "The response we got from it was overwhelming.
"We knew we had made a good game, but we had no idea anyone else thought we made a good game. So being able to take that, and know the stuff that we wanted to do that we knew could have made it better, doing that and expanding everything else [in Shadow of War]. It’s really exciting."
Middle-earth: Shadow of War will be available for Xbox One, Project Scorpio, Windows 10 PC (Windows Store and Steam), PS4 and PS4 Pro beginning August 22, though there's no word on pricing yet. According to Microsoft, Shadow of War will be available for Project Scorpio when the console launches this holiday.
http://www.techradar.com/news/middl...technical-art-talks-microsoft-project-scorpio
oh god please.... does everything have to be black?!
I think they said it's open world in the video
Watched this yesterday and had to cast it to the big screen.... I am SO FUCKING DOWN.
Anyone know if its open world?
You damn right!
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