User blog comment:The.Outsider/Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor/@comment-4829046-20140127143257

Sorry for continuing this, but I don't want to go over to the Lotr wiki.

I don't know about others, but I am not too enthusiastic. They promise so much and I know from experience now that you don't really get everything. According to the gameplay trailer, there is some serious AI intelligence and memory + physical changes integrated and knowing how they did AC3 and The Last Of Us and the more recent Ryse:Son of Rome, I doubt it will be able to be that grand.

That being said, I currently have every single Lotr game and I was disappointed in quite a few but for different reasons. The games of Two Towers and Return of the King were super difficult and quite possibly some of the hardest games ever but they did have a certain charm when you not raging over the fact that you have to replay over and over and over and over again -_-. The Third Age was turn-based and shit(at least for me) plus it just tweaked the FF-X system. War in the North was disappointing from the get-go. Partly it might be from my slight dislike for RPGs that have waaaaaay too much to do but I didn't like that it required you to travel so much and be forced to explore several times in order to find something useful. I'm the kind of guy that doesn't want to be forced to go through a map god knows how many times just to get one item or reward each time. Also was the fact that enemies were so twisted. They were difficult but built to be not-so-difficult as well. Its so confusing and I didn't get the satisfaction I need from a Lotr game.

Out of all the games, the ones that I enjoyed the most and didn't mind playing several times were Battle For Middle Earth 1, 2 & Witch King, Conquest and Aragorn's Quest. This game would have to be exceptionally good for me to put it in that list. But I have to say that not counting all those troublesome mechanics they have to put in, the ability to explore open world and have choices and more fluid combat is awesome!!!