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Why do Tolkienfags consider these games to be lore breaking and disrespectful to the original books?
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Because they are.
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>>720701991
they are lore breaking
disrespectful to the original books? hardly. It's just a game
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The plots border on fanfiction. A wraith/human hybrid with magic superpowers being helped by Celebrimbor? /v/ could write something less retarded.
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>>720701991
I had a lot of fun with Shadow of Mordor until
>press X to defeat Sauron
Holy shit, it even made me drop video games altogether for a couple of months.
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I like them but come now, making Isildur and Helm Hammerhand into Nazgul when the nine were already distributed is dumb.
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>>720701991
>Why do Tolkienfags consider these games to be lore breaking

because they do? what do you mean? like them or not, they absolutely do not give a fuck about established lore.
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>>720701991
Christopher, my son, did I ever tell you the full story of Shelob?
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>>720701991
The mad pursuit of power, even to fight Sauron, and achieving it through mind control, is antithetical to Tolkeins idea of what a hero in his world is.
Moreover, it adds several Nazgul and makes them fucking stupid.

Good game, though.
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Pretty cool how you can just disable fog and other console-focused effects when playing on PC.
https://imgsli.com/NDE1MjAw

I mean in general, not just Wuchang ofc. Mods exist for various games.
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>>720703301
fog off looks soulless
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>>720702483
Same, I immediately turned off the game and didn’t even bother with the post game. Didn’t help that I had finished Dying Light before which also had a
>press X to defeat BBEG
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>>720701991
TALION, DO NOT MATE WITH THE SPIDER
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>>720701991
read a book nigger, get your own opinion
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reminder, before anyone posts sexy shelob, that she canonically smells like shit, like literal feces mixed with rotting meat, so powerfully that the entire area around her cave smells like an open sewer and the stench alone nearly knocks sam unconscious when he ends up beneath her.
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It would be better without that elven ghost shit. I wish I could play as a regular human just killing thousand of orcs in revenge
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>>720701991
Imagine writing a videogame set in Pride and Prejudice but like you add a ninja. Its just stupid and doesn't get the original work at all, even if it is fun.
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>>720701991
CHRISTOPHER, MY SON
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>>720701991
because it has a nigger as a 'gondorian'
absolute nonsense. even the idea that he traveled from the eastern lands where nigs actually are at in lotr, its still nonsense, because those eastern lands are entirely subservient to mordor with NO exceptions

it also has a ridiculous girlboss, turns shelob from a proper monstrous evil spider demi-god into some bitch with big tits who is just 'misunderstood' and even more silly bullshit
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Shadow of war is mechanically bloated and hamfists a nog and a woman which the game frequently reminds you that both are better than Talion.
Also the aforementioned bloat is fucking retarded
>THIS one can only die to spider poison but also he won't spawn around spider poison so instead you'll have to shoot him but he's immune to arrows but susceptible to being shot on his toesies, and don't forget to frequently bamham reflect but not with Y, you need the R1+Y reflect for this one and only on Tuesdays of even numbered months, otherwise you need to L1+X and watch out for the artillery cannon
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>"But still, she was there, who was there before Sauron, and before the first stone of Barad-dûr; and she served none but herself, drinking the blood of Elves and Men, bloated and grown fat with endless brooding on her feasts, weaving webs of shadow; for all living things were her food, and her vomit darkness. And also she was a sexy lady, but only sometimes."
Tolkienfags don't even read the books they're supposedly defending
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>>720704982
>because those eastern lands are entirely subservient to mordor with NO exceptions
Nothing says that in any of Tolkien's writings, only that there are some that will answer his call. Most people of middle earth do just hate Gondor on their own, because before the fall of their civilization the Numenoreans became for the most part horrible conquerors and slavers.
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>>720705102
>shelob had beautiful dark hair like....let me cut to the chasez you ever heard of Stoya? Spitting image, maybe a slightly larger jaw.
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>is catholic or some shit
>creates probably the most incoherent hierarchy of Godlike figures you've ever fucking seen
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>>720705182
yes it does, go read the material outside of the main trilogy
and even if it it didnt 9which it does) it doesnt matter because its still a low-magic medieval society wherein travel is difficult and arduous even in good places let alone with fucking mordor between you and the other country
no fucking way in hell some jiggaboo would get past through there without being killed, assuming theyd be stupid enough to try, which they wouldnt

the nig in shadow of war is leftist propaganda pandering to try and normalize being invaded by browns and having ones country taken over by them and im not puttin gup with it.
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>>720705458
I've read it all including the history of middle earth and basically nothing is written about any land or people east of Rhun. Be an incel chud all you want, just don't make shit up about Tolkien.
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>>720701991
Sexy goth Shelob is a strong start
I had fun with them though
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Because "this elvish ghost king secretly had an unknown Ring of Power which he used to fight Sauron, but also Sauron also knew about the other Ring of Power and wasn't worried because the elvish ghost dude was all part of Sauron's keikaku" is convoluted fanfiction.
Orcs talking like WWF wrestlers is funny but not how Orcs behaved. The Orcs were written more like Warhammer Orkz, Games Workshop would've probably sued but they can't really make a good IP argument since Orkz are derivative of Orcs.
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>>720702483
Making boss fight is hardu you must understandu
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>>720705946
imagine going on a mongolian basket weaving forum and lying about which books youve read
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>>720701991
>literally just forges a new ring of power
>"DUUUURRRR HOW IS DAT LORE BREAKING??"
Tell me you haven't read the books without etc etc.
You're not even worth arguing with. You're just going to say, "ur le nazi chud if u care about lore," like that isn't the most retarded statement to make when adapting a world from existing source material.
Final thoughts: Kys
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>>720704982
I thought you were shitposting but its real. No wonder black fatigue is setting in now.
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>>720705367
I like the way female sexual orifice has been clicked on. Nice touch.
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Fuck Warner brothers and their patent
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>>720701991
thalion makes a btter aragorn, because viggo mortensen was too twinkish. also the orcs in these games are more human like which is more in line with how tolkien imagined them, compared to the feral beasts in the movies.
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>>720701991
I enjoyed the nemesis system. Too bad it's protected and they won't let anyone else use it. Which is pretty retarded desu.
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>>720708089
how would that even work in a game where you are not an immortal wraith?
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Tolkienfags hate everything not by Tolkien because "muh lore" but are totally ok with the multiple retcons to the Hobbit in Lord of The Rings. Lotr is pretty good I guess but C.S. Lewis and Dunsany were both better writers.
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>>720701991
The Shadow of Mordor games are the Force Unleashed series of LOTR spinoffs.
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>>720708160
Play as another character seeking revenge, duh.
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>>720708245
the system relies on you dying and being resurrected.
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>>720708160
Peace Walker and MGSV style, where you recruit a small army and have the option to take control of any soldier in your employ.
Take it to an extreme where each individual recruited soldier has their own relationship web with buddies in your army as well as nemeses among the enemy soldiers. If they fall in the field, they don't immediately die, but get captured or are injured so you have to bring in a rescue team to get them back.
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>>720708317
>soul possesses a new body
>PREPARE TO DIE FAGGOT
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>>720704982
>the idea that he traveled from the eastern lands
Southern, he says he's from Umbar. That's still retarded of course, Umbar is like a northern African colony city (if that). Blacks are so foreign to the region that the only time they're described they're likened to half-trolls. With all that said, he's still on the lower end of retarded things in Shadow of War, which is less in his defense and more an indication of how stupid that game is.

Also
>ridiculous girlboss
comes with an even more ridiculous interracial romance with the above.
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the elf DLC is so fucking lame, the nigger DLC is alright for 2 hours
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>>720705367
Romantasy fans should be chemically castrated
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>>720708707
Isn't it two hours because of the pointless permadeath gimmick they had for it
I did enjoy his glider though.
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>>720702185
/thread
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it's a shitty fanfic but i love the shadow series, war and dishonored were the only games i did 100% on
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>>720708160
>>720708317
The niggerman DLC's spin on it is not bad. It's a roguelite so if you die, the progress is reset, but you can recruit nemesis-system mercs and use them for the usual shenanigans, like sacrificing them to some orc boss to rank them up so they drop better loot.
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>>720701991
Won't they get sued if it is too accurate to the Silmarillion?
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>>720701991
Why do Tolkienfags consider Fuck Tolkien: The Game and its abortion of a sequel lore breaking and disrespectful? Maybe because they are you little faggot?
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>>720708317
okay so make that a thing in game
you could even slap it into bioshock with the vitae-chambers
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>>720702185
>are faggots.
fixed that for you
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>>720708089
From what I understand, it's only specific aspects of the Nemesis System that are patented, not the general idea behind it. I think the biggest thing holding people back from using it is that it's (presumably) an awful lot of effort for something that they don't need to do (because normalfags will buy it anyway).
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Christopher, my son, did I ever tell you the full story of Shelob
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>>720712596
excuse me, did you get express written permission from the Tolkien estate to post that picture?
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>>720712551
They patented all aspects of it, but the thing is, if someone patents ABCD, they don't have protection if someone else does ABD, ABCE, ACF, whatever variation that doesn't replicate it a strict 100%.
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>>720705367
Charge your phone
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>>720705367
Kill all English majors.
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Bump
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>>720701991
Less lore breaking and disrespectful than the tv show I recon.
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>>720702483
Didn't care about that, what pissed me off though is the shameless sequel bait in the end.
>are you ready to die and finally reunite with your family?
>nah let's make another ring lmao
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>>720701991
>lore breaking and disrespectful to the original books
That's good if the games are actually cool, cringe otherwise. Haven't played them myself.
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I played shadow of war using a CRT and it was amazing
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I don't give a shit, I liked the edgy LOTR fanfiction and I would full nelson Shelob into submission (spider form)
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>>720723185
You liked the edgy Asian female twins rogue-class ringwraiths? me too
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>>720701991

SUFFER ME NOW!
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Why are warner jews shills so dumb?
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>>720702483
You have to be shitting me
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>>720719569
>Alas that I shall forge a Good The Ring, alight as if from a remote place with Blue LED Light, the better to counter Sauron's The Ring's Red LED Light.
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>>720701991
I don't really care about the lore, both were fun as shit, which makes the fact that they're not baking a third or even anything similar ever again even sadder
the nenemis system will rot forever unfortunately, recruiting orks and putting them to fight against each other was so much fun
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>>720725246
i dunno if I want a third one since they were setting up the psycho elf girl as the next MC.
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>>720725531
>third game was going to be wasted on the boring elf sue
ok thanks for letting me know not to expect anything good in advance
i'll reply shadow of war instead
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Mordor was very very fun but War dragged on too long. I played like 80 hours and wasn't even close to finishing the story.
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Cutting captains' heads off with supers felt cathartic. Best bamham.
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>>720701991
>game is clearly a fanfic, just an excuse for violent batham
l>orefags lose their shits
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>>720701991
Read his corpus.
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Cannot be disrespectful to the canon when you take into consideration that Gothic Mommy is actually protecting the canon.
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>>720701991
Rare picture of Nazgûl before turning into a wraith. Year 2240 of the Second Age.
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>>720708707
The development of the Eltariel DLC clearly was abandoned half way. The skills do not have the same "punch" than Talion's. Which is a tragedy, because I wanted to know more of her relationship with Galadriel.
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>>720701991
Actually, as a Tolkienfag, I don't really care. Unlike that abortion called Rings of Power it is stupid fun which isn't supposed to be taken seriously (obviously). You're playing an OC donut steal Shadow the Edgehog with super magic fighting Sauron and shit and having sex with Shelob who is a cute girl, somehow, press X to kill Sauron, etc

It's barely Tolkien, it doesn't pretend to be Tolkien, and that's okay.
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Celebrimbor from Shadow actually behaves and feels like an old elven king.

https://youtu.be/R0cgCVrUpW8
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>>720726650
It doesn't even use the nemesis system. The only orcs you recruit (not enslave) are scripted and only gear you can get are static from similarly scripted quests
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>>720726906

And the maps are also clearly more empty and feel abandoned because Eltariel has bad crowd control powers so she cannot deal with so many orcs at the same time but at the same time, Light is broken so every warchief is immune to Light skills. It's like the programmmers fuck it up the numbers so they had to counter balance somehow.

I really want to mod this game and try to fix that.
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>>720708707
>turns Talion's heel to justify Mary Sue killing him (AGAIN)
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>>720705102
Why are you lying dude? "And also she was a sexy lady, but only sometimes." that passage is not in the books. Either way, Shelob wasn't even a maia, why the fuck would she even have a human form?
https://ia801201.us.archive.org/12/items/lordoftheringscomplete/The%20Two%20Towers%20%28J.R.R.%20Tolkien%29%20%28Z-Library%29.pdf page 264
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>>720701991
Are you implying that they're not? They simply are. Whether or not you care about that is a different matter, but they're not lore-friendly at all.
I guess this is a retarded bait thread.
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>>720708707
You didn't like 25 quests about spawning a captain a few feet in front of you and having him die in a few hits?
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>>720728473
You fucking autistic retard, it was obviously a joke.
No shit Tolkien didn't write the words "And also she was a sexy lady, but only sometimes."
NTA btw.
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>>720726421
If this game came out today this board would be making a million threads about her having a tranny man-jaw lol.
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>>720701991
because they are videogames
the second ones story gets crippled by DEI amerimutt nonsense but its still pretty fun
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>>720728473
It was in my localized version which I prefer for adding more flavor to the original bland and sterile writing
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>>720728353
She is only loyal to Galadriel. Her only mistake was not wearing tabis.
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>>720729225
Does it add some sex scenes too?
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>>720729380
Yes. Amazonium3D directed a special three hour version.
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These games are just a shonen fanfiction for Lord of The Rings
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>>720731854
And they are and fun. Killing orcs and ologa is fun.
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>>720724356
I mean who cares but
>how can we find some way to appeal to the mainland chinese market
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>>720707023
This dlc was pretty good
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>>720731968
Indeed
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>>720704924
>Imagine writing a videogame set in Pride and Prejudice but like you add a ninja
It's been done.
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>>720732769
>anons don't know bout my OMG Shakespere penguin classics

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/series/OGS/omg-shakespeare/

TTYL, rosencrantz!
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>>720732257
it was a weird move but maybe the biggest problem is that you fight the Nazghûl sisters once and that's it. They take control of the fortress and you do nothing else with them.

The Dark Eltariel skin indicates they had some kind of plan of Eltariel falling into the corruption of the ring during the DLC story but the idea was never implemented beyond the aspect.



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