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I have no idea what determines whether or not you will do Y+B finishing moves*, but I've found that it's impossible to not-win large group engagements while mashing those two buttons. Y parries any attack coming your way and then, when the game decides it's time, Y+B will kill an enemy and make you invincible while doing so. I spent a considerable amount of time earlier mashing Y+B with my eyes closed in an area where enemies seemed to rush in indefinitely.

The stealth mechanics in this are pretty ridiculous. You can just run up to an orc's face and press RT+X to kill him. Orcs are still vulnerable to stealth kills while doing their little battle cry after seeing you. At one point I flipped over an orc's shoulders (as in putting my hands on his shoulders and using his body to lift myself up), he said "what was that noise?", and I stealth killed him.

I like this more than Assassin's Creed because LotR stuff looks cool and it gives me a lot more freedom to wander around doing shit.

The premise is also pretty cool, I suppose.


Anyone else playing this?

I was going to call this thread Shadow of Arkham, but then I thought that might be stupid.

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*Oh, I misread something in the upgrade screen before. Apparently you just have to get 8 hits first then do it while your sword is glowing.

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I like that.

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The highlight of the game so far for me has been fighting a dude with a mace like Sauron's from the movie (can't remember if it had gravity hammer effects in the books, is all) because I fucking love that weapon, but like all boss battles in these games you're constantly swarmed by lesser enemies the whole time which I've never enjoyed.

Just got the final (I assume?) tier of upgrades so I'm doing executions like crazy now.

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I had a captain that was invulnerable to all melee damage, ranged, stealth, and he had a perk that would make him just mock you and walk away if you were down in "last struggle" mode. That guy was the real legend.

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I "branded" some other uruk and they killed him for me. It's kind of ridiculous though that he can parry me with a damn crossbow every single time I attack him, but then a low-rank uruk with a shitty sword can hit him normally. Aside from that I'm pretty sure wild caragor or this wraith flash ability would hurt him, but the wraith thing doesn't do a whole lot of damage.

This guy had a crossbow that would take out most of my life with a single shot and poison me, so I didn't want to stick around and experiment with him as much as I probably could have. He was also one of a few captains around a warchief in a fortress where you're pretty much always being swarmed, so yeah.

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I played it for nearly 20 hours and finished it, but had mixed feelings in the end. I mean, it must've been doing something right since I finished it and I almost never finish AAA games now, but it could have been a lot better imo.

Do you like those Batman games?

Does a lack of enemy variety bother you much? It's really just a handful of Uruk types, one boss battle that isn't a dumb gimmick, and 2 types of aggressive wildlife.