• @morphballganon
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    1 month ago

    What the fuck

    What game is this

    For, uh, research

      • @shneancy
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        431 month ago

        for the next 11h it’s still on -95% sale on steam too!

        • BigFig
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          371 month ago

          As far as actual lotr story, not good. As far as gameplay though, for 95% off there’s MUCH worse games you could play. I easily put over 100 hours into this and it’s dlc

          • Annoyed_🦀 🏅
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            381 month ago

            Shadow of mordor’s story is also just passable, but the nemesis system of both game is really something else. It’s a shame the system is trademarked.

              • JackbyDev
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                21 month ago

                2036 if they don’t extend it. It was granted in 2021.

                • @[email protected]
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                  31 month ago

                  Oh wow, patent was only granted 7 years after the game was released so the game will be 22 years old when the patent expires if not extended. Patent law is bonkers.

                  • JackbyDev
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                    1 month ago

                    It’s because many of the iterations of the patent they tried to file were too similar to prior art in other games. Plus I’d hope 22 years is plenty of time to make a profit off of an idea you have lmao. Better that than 70 years after the crator’s death like copyright.

            • BigFig
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              51 month ago

              And they don’t seem to want to implement that system in anything else

              • Annoyed_🦀 🏅
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                31 month ago

                It’s the kind of thing that fit so well within this franchise because any uruk can be somebody and nobody at the same time, it won’t work well with most of WB other franchise. The only other game that could utilise this system well is Mad Max, so maybe there might be a chance?

                • @turmacar
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                  11 month ago

                  Well now I’m retroactively annoyed they didn’t use it in the Mad Max game a few years ago. It was still really fun but that would’ve been a great addition.

              • @Renacles
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                It got patented, nobody can use it anymore.

            • @pelerinli
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              21 month ago

              Even on hard nemesis is something you can really avoid by picking who to fight with, and even by then it is not that difficult in Shadow of Mordor. They can surely sell the idea but the implementation in my opinion.

              • BigFig
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                61 month ago

                Look at mister “I never died to a random 7 uruk gangbang”

        • @Pencilnoob
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          31 month ago

          Ok, sold, now my partner has a new gift of their favorite movies