pantyfire wrote:

In many ways this is more of the same re the first one. The combat is still just as good but it didn't grip me and I don't know why.

Me too. I loved the first one, there's not many open world games that hold my attention but SoM did.
I think it just felt more personal due to its smaller size maybe and smaller army's. Relationships with enemy's felt consistent and meaningful to the point id remember the actual fights I had with them which was a great achievement by the devs imo. I even finished the game which is rare for me.

I realy want to love SoW as I did SoM. I'm gonna give it another go soon as I've completed the first fortress and it was alot of fun, i mean, who dosnt want to ride a Dragon whilst a battle rages beneath you trying to take a fortress.

I think someone said earlier in this thread they may have over egged the pudding and as much as I wanted this to be the perfect sequel to one of my all time favourite games, I think they hit the nail on the head with that prediction.

yourfavouriteuncle wrote:

I said that about over-egging the pudding before they’d even announced they were doing a sequel. It was the smaller scale of the work in the first game that helped its success. Clearly both publisher and dev were going to just go down the bigger is better road of sequel production. I’m starting this Friday so want to keep a pretty open mind to it but I’ve my concerns that they’ll have gone too wide.

It was a bloody good prediction.

I realy like the extra stuff they've put in like the dragons and other races of creatures, basing this one on taking fortresses was also a brilliant addition as was increasing the variety of traits the captains have. There's so much to like about what they added, it's just the feeling that you never get as intimate with captains and war chiefs as you did in the first one that I thinks missing. Unfortunately that was the one unique thing that game had.

Maybe I havnt dedicated the time to it yet that it deserves / demands to realy feel sucked in by it all. It's definitely worth another shot though.

For some reason, I really enjoyed watching The Hobbit part 3 on the telly the other night (got v. bored watching it originally in the flicks though) so I am in the mood for some Orc bashing.  Played the first game and enjoyed it, before it got too samey. A bit like the films. This sequel any good then?

Dang, I was thinking of playing it at some point too.

So this is why we never never get to see the Nemesis in other games. What a dick move by Warner Bros:

https://metro.co.uk/2021/02/01/warner-patented-shadow-of-mordors-nemesis-system-but-never-used-it-14000458/