Re: Middle-earth: Shadow of War - New trailer. Has to be seen to be believed.
Posted: Wed Aug 30, 2017 10:11 pm
WTF are you doing, WB?
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Photek wrote:Games not out yet lads.
Knoyleo wrote:Yeah, but it could still be a good game, so we can't laugh at the trailer until we know if it is or not.
Saint of Killers wrote:WTF are you doing, WB?
Photek wrote:Games not out yet lads.
Saint of Killers wrote:
WTF are you doing, WB?
Saint of Killers wrote:Knoyleo wrote:Yeah, but it could still be a good game, so we can't laugh at the trailer until we know if it is or not.Why choose to make a licensed product if you're then going to deviate from it to such a scale? Yeah, the game could still be not gooseberry fool, but when you do deviate from the source to such an extent (to say nothing of the nickel-and-diming) then expect to have the piss ripped.
Trelliz wrote:Saint of Killers wrote:WTF are you doing, WB?
At this point a tonally incongruous trailer is slim pickings but holy gooseberry fool, everything they say and do around this game makes me want it less and less.
Peter Crisp wrote:Is it me or is that the most inappropriate music they could have chosen?
The Lord of the Rings universe lends itself to epic orchestral scores not some stupid rap music.
To me it's like having a Morris Dancing game and trying to shoehorn in phat techno beats cos that's what all the kids want these days a mashup between thumping beats and jingly bells while dancing round a pole.
It actually makes me less likely to even try the game which for a trailer is pretty special.
Shadow of War developer who died of cancer immortalised as an in-game orc slayer
DLC proceeds go to his family.
A Shadow of War developer who died of cancer has been immortalised as an orc slayer in the game.
Monolith executive producer Michael Forgey, who died from a brain tumour last year aged just 43-years-old, appears in Shadow of War as DLC character Forthog Orc-Slayer.
If you have the £3.99 DLC, Forthog will on occasion appear to one-hit kill whichever enemy the player character is up against. Think the Mysterious Stranger from the Fallout series.
More info here: http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2017- ... orc-slayer
Knoyleo wrote:Yeah, but it could still be a good game, so we can't laugh at the trailer until we know if it is or not.
Saint of Killers wrote:
WTF are you doing, WB?
jiggles wrote:My point was and still is that entrenching yourself into a position where you're incessantly bleating that this is a bad game or a game to avoid based on the mention of microtransactions, or Goodbye Tomorrow in the trailers, or changing of the lore from the source material, is obnoxious. Even if it turns out to be great, discussing it in earnest on here will still be an uphill struggle, because people would rather think everyone else is wrong than admit they were.
Trelliz wrote:jiggles wrote:My point was and still is that entrenching yourself into a position where you're incessantly bleating that this is a bad game or a game to avoid based on the mention of microtransactions, or Goodbye Tomorrow in the trailers, or changing of the lore from the source material, is obnoxious. Even if it turns out to be great, discussing it in earnest on here will still be an uphill struggle, because people would rather think everyone else is wrong than admit they were.
Is the implication here that you are somehow objectively right and anyone critical of it is delusional or blind to the 'truth'?
Trelliz wrote:Does "discussing it in earnest" mean only talk about it in a positive light or in a reductionist framework which omits things like how the drop rates of rare stuff may well be skewed to make spending real money on sight-unseen lootboxes more appealing for no good gameplay reason but for sheer greed?
Saint of Killers wrote:Shadow of War developer who died of cancer immortalised as an in-game orc slayer
DLC proceeds go to his family.
A Shadow of War developer who died of cancer has been immortalised as an orc slayer in the game.
Monolith executive producer Michael Forgey, who died from a brain tumour last year aged just 43-years-old, appears in Shadow of War as DLC character Forthog Orc-Slayer.
If you have the £3.99 DLC, Forthog will on occasion appear to one-hit kill whichever enemy the player character is up against. Think the Mysterious Stranger from the Fallout series.
More info here: http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2017- ... orc-slayer
Trelliz wrote:Saint of Killers wrote:Shadow of War developer who died of cancer immortalised as an in-game orc slayer
DLC proceeds go to his family.
A Shadow of War developer who died of cancer has been immortalised as an orc slayer in the game.
Monolith executive producer Michael Forgey, who died from a brain tumour last year aged just 43-years-old, appears in Shadow of War as DLC character Forthog Orc-Slayer.
If you have the £3.99 DLC, Forthog will on occasion appear to one-hit kill whichever enemy the player character is up against. Think the Mysterious Stranger from the Fallout series.
More info here: http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2017- ... orc-slayer
That story is sad, however the story gets more complicated (and more scummy).
TL;DR - Not only does not all of the money go to the family, if you buy it from outside the US or certain states WITHIN the US, NONE of the money goes to the family, all of it goes to WB - a fact hidden in the tiny text at the end of the video. Its not as if WB is lacking money from their international tax haven bank accounts which they could donate instead.