been playing shadow of mordor nonstop
Yeah, I finally put some more time into it last night. Really fun game.
I started doing some story missions yesterday and was surprised at how enjoyable they are. Helping Ratbag ascend to the rank of warchief was hilarious. Hopefully I get to see more of him in the game. Best character so far.
It's kind of ironic that a game set in Middle Earth is the best Assassin's Creed game ever made. This game is literally exactly what I've wanted from all the AssCreed games that they all failed to deliver. Fun, skill-based combat, solid stealth, and missions that actually assassination, something that has mostly been missing from the Creed games since the second game. The writing and acting are solid too, even if the story is a pretty standard revenge tale.
I was also wrong about the game not having a tutorial. I guess the story missions serve that function. I was just kind of wondering around doing side missions and ignoring the main quest, so I didn't see any of that stuff until yesterday.
So far, my favorite experience in the game was fighting a captain without any intel. I had no idea what his weaknesses were, but I was in a giant stronghold and he was one of four captains there (I had taken out the first three already), so I decided to go for it. That was a tough fight, and it's a little nerve-wracking going into a fight in this game without knowing if you'll even be able to kill the guy you're targeting. He immediately called for reinforcements, including those shield guys. He was a shield guy himself, so I couldn't hit him directly and his attacks weren't blockable. It made the fight interesting.
I survived two "last chance" QTEs in the fight before I finally took him down. The fight lasted around ten minutes and I probably mowed down about thirty orcs during the course of it. Fun stuff.