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The middle earth game just seems like all the frustrating shitty parts I hate of different games put together. The run around and fall all over a thing you just want to climb for ten minutes bullshit from assassin's creed, the wail on thirty guys with one button combat for 2 hours while you wait for an opening to slowly execute them one at a time from arkham asylum, and all the content grinding busywork horseshit from modern open world games every five feet on the map. and the army thing isn't really like every orc has it's own name and whatnot, it's not like there's a finite amount of them. there's like 20 captains at any time that are named and have special traits and if they kill you they get stronger and if a regular grunt kills you he might try to kill another captain and move up and he'll become a named guy. it's neat but it just ends up being more frustrating bullshit when your trying to do a basic mission to upgrade your sword an hour into the game and a captain is in the area and he's some god orc invulnerable to melee and ranged and stealth attacks and basically unkillable by any means I'm aware of at this point in the game and there's a million other guys in there area also constantly coming in to harass you during the fight and the mission was sending you into a stronghold to begin with so somebody runs off to sound an alarm so you're fighting a never ending army for some rinky dink little upgrade that still isn't going to do shit in any of these decade long brawls anyway.
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It does feel weird and uncomfortable when you meet a captain guy and you lock swords and his name pops up and he talks about how he's hoping to kill you and get a promotion and you look at him and he looks just like a big green anthony hopkins with boar tusks for teeth and it's like the orcs are just big green versions of us and you wonder how much of this orcs are evil shit is the result of propaganda and institutionalized racism in middle earth, maybe sauron is the only one who gives them a chance

I feel like I'm playing the fantasy equivalent of the chicago police/fbi assassinating fred hampton
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is archeage the uo-ish one where you can be put on trial and go to prison and stuff
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not sure which was more boneheadedly designed, diablo 3 or the homicide desk in la noire
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that's not the turian home planet, it's palaven's moon, menae, get it right jack
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not you, ronnoc's the one up shit creek without an envirosuit here
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