TL;DR - Will the game companies ever get the news that we do not like micro transac/loot boxes in our full priced games???
Even though they have been removed now at the time i played this game, It still is a horribly imbalanced mess with a few good things going for it.
The Good - Nemesis System - One of the best Game mechanics to come out of the gaming industry. Decent Combat Mechanics - Talions Skill tree makes for a fluid play style. Some Canon Bending story - a positive for me since I am a Tolkien Noob.
Look and Feel - The world is Breath taking though often same feeling at times, nevertheless easy to get **** into the story.
The Bad - Oh My... here we Go
The Camera - Often had an Unresponsive camera during battle and traversing which respectively makes getting stuck in the world and off screen attacks very prominent, the camera would routinely not respond to my input of a camera pan.
The Pit Fights - OMG this is the biggest offender in my opinion as all of the ferocity that you face while fighting the Enemy seem to disappear in the pit, they just poke, prod and make noises at each other compared to the fights you have with the captains.
This along with a stupidly imbalanced RNG that can have your dominated characters die to low level scrubs, this is just a stupid waste of time especially since you will spend a lot of time in the pit fights.
The Controls - It feels like the controls are fighting back at you almost all the time, Talion will often face and attack, move or preform an action in the direction opposite to where you are facing.
The highly slick Arkham series of Combat scheme that made us love the first Shadow of Mordor is downright unfinished and unpolished here.
Excessively Grindy - This game really gave me my money's worth with side-quest busy work... But most of it is meaningless busy work since the EXP for the main missions and kills seems severely throttled as u cross level 25.
No doubt designed to force players to buy the nasty loot boxes and exp boosts.. which got even worse once the said loot boxes were removed since the grind was already inbuilt into the game.
Act 4 GrindWall - Of course. But since Enough has been said about I am not gonna elaborate.
It just feels like a giant disappointment to not finish the game considering all the noted cons you have to deal with just for the True ending.
Just Youtube the final ending.
Conclusion - All in all Sadly this highly anticipated game turned out to be very underwhelming for me since Shadow of Mordor was a refreshing firestorm and scratched the itch of more Batman Arkham feels.
Even though they have been removed now at the time i played this game, It still is a horribly imbalanced mess with a few good things going for it.
The Good - Nemesis System - One of the best Game mechanics to come out of the gaming industry. Decent Combat Mechanics - Talions Skill tree makes for a fluid play style. Some Canon Bending story - a positive for me since I am a Tolkien Noob.
Look and Feel - The world is Breath taking though often same feeling at times, nevertheless easy to get **** into the story.
The Bad - Oh My... here we Go
The Camera - Often had an Unresponsive camera during battle and traversing which respectively makes getting stuck in the world and off screen attacks very prominent, the camera would routinely not respond to my input of a camera pan.
The Pit Fights - OMG this is the biggest offender in my opinion as all of the ferocity that you face while fighting the Enemy seem to disappear in the pit, they just poke, prod and make noises at each other compared to the fights you have with the captains.
This along with a stupidly imbalanced RNG that can have your dominated characters die to low level scrubs, this is just a stupid waste of time especially since you will spend a lot of time in the pit fights.
The Controls - It feels like the controls are fighting back at you almost all the time, Talion will often face and attack, move or preform an action in the direction opposite to where you are facing.
The highly slick Arkham series of Combat scheme that made us love the first Shadow of Mordor is downright unfinished and unpolished here.
Excessively Grindy - This game really gave me my money's worth with side-quest busy work... But most of it is meaningless busy work since the EXP for the main missions and kills seems severely throttled as u cross level 25.
No doubt designed to force players to buy the nasty loot boxes and exp boosts.. which got even worse once the said loot boxes were removed since the grind was already inbuilt into the game.
Act 4 GrindWall - Of course. But since Enough has been said about I am not gonna elaborate.
It just feels like a giant disappointment to not finish the game considering all the noted cons you have to deal with just for the True ending.
Just Youtube the final ending.
Conclusion - All in all Sadly this highly anticipated game turned out to be very underwhelming for me since Shadow of Mordor was a refreshing firestorm and scratched the itch of more Batman Arkham feels.