Everything GREAT About Middle-earth: Shadow of War!

My craziest experience with the Nemesis system actually spanned both games. I have no clue how it happened, but there was this guy that I kept killing in SoM who kept coming back, until I eventually threw him off a cliff. Well, after a long time, when I was in the fighting pit in SoW, he shows up and says, "Ranger! The last time we met was back in [insert location here], but it'll take more than a little tumble to kill me!" My mind was blown.

This game convinced me that walking with a hunch and a groggy British accent talking about booze and eating lesser animals (chimpanzees) was the best way to go

Some of my favorite moments in this game happened when I was stalking normal Uruks. I distinctly remember one of them (in the Nurnen area) saying "It's a lovely day today... I hate it." I had to pause the game from laughing so much.

My best nemesis story. In my game, I had two Uruks who I loved, one was an Orc who donned the tower's armour, and the other was an assassin. Originally, I had these two as overlords of different regions, but eventually I demoted them and brought them with me to whatever region I was fighting in so that they could assassinate any Uruks I needed help with. As they were in the same region, they developed a rivalry, meaning that whenever they would see each other, they would start fighting, regardless of context. Well demoting them both from overlord was a mistake as one day, they betrayed me, they showed up out of nowhere and gave a long speech about how they were done fighting for me and were going to tear me in two; typical uruk stuff. But as soon as their joint speech was over, the rivalry kicked in, and I watched my two favourite uruks tear each other to pieces, neither survived. In honor of these two, I filled my Gorgoroth of nothing but Towers, I call it the Tower of Towers.

Something about Bruz I think you missed (which I never thought about it either until watching this) was his opening speech about being an optimist; sizing up an impossible situation and then having a go at it anyway, which is pretty much exactly what he did when he stabbed Talion in the back for the Fort.

I love both Shadow of Mordor and Shadow of War. Talion and Celebrimbor are such compelling characters, and nothing will change my mind! ❤️

In my most recent run I got shot dead by some grunt archer, he got promoted and earned the title ‘the lucky shot’. I figured “Yeah, lucky! I’ll flay him later” and then returned to the region later only to find he’d becoming overlord while I was gone…

I never really had a memorable nemesis. That's because I had two loyal, badass badass followers: Stakuga the Thinker (poisonous machine marksman) and Grom Iron Skin (machine berserker). I took them everywhere, and summoning either of them was an instant win, because they both had stupidly agressive AI. This one time, Stakuga killed FOUR CAPTAINS, with barely any help from me! Grom was enraged by everything, and when he wasn't spamming the crazy spin aoe attack, it was the wrestling moves. When I had to defend a fort, I let him hold the point BY HIMSELF, so he wouldn't kill my other captains in a fit of rage. None of them was legendary, but they didn't have any glaring weaknesses either. The most important thing, however, is that they NEVER BETRAYED ME! That would have been fucking terrifying!

On the one hand, I love Shadow of Mordor and Shadow of War and feel that they did a good job wrapping the story by finishing Talion's story. On the other hand, the Eltariel dlc kinda set up potential for a 3rd game by pretty much straight up confirming Celebrimbor's story isn't over, giving us a potential protagonist in Eltariel and even having a perfect potential name what with Celebrimbor being the obvious villain where you could follow the formula of the first 2 and call it Shadow of Sauron.

My Nemesis memory: I also went head to head with ‘The Machine’ in my first playthrough. Got merc’ed repeatedly from Lvl 1 & had around 15-20 head to head battles with him (as I learned the game mechanics). Finally got him at Lvl 25, where he had all 4 missing limbs replaced with metal limbs, & enough metal covering his head to look like a silver Iron Man cosplay. Initially frustrating, finally satisfying & definitely memorable! 👌🏼🇦🇺😎

My craziest Nemesis was actually a captain from the first game that I made my rival (or whatever the function was called) which ported him over to the second game. In the first game I killed him at least three times, and in the second game I bisected him four times, burned him twice, poisoned him once, crushed him with a graug and finally, FINALLY, killed him in the final mission.

this game made a sick comeback after getting so much backlash when it released. But it felt like nobody even noticed it or cared. This game remains Under rated.

Shadow of war is the type of game you play and finish it once and leave it but it is just slightly nagging you in the back of your mind just wanting to go back to it. Its such a perfect game

I love how most of the extra voice actors also did nemesis orc voices. Matt Mercer is both the witch king and the machine orc you mention in the video.

Damn, this game is amazing. I ran into an orc called Bagga on my second playthrough whom I killed. He then became Bagga the Dismembered, and came back to life. I killed him again, and then again, and again. He just kept coming back. I killed him the same exact way every time, and we did everything the same way, like he said every same thing. But then I killed with with a different way, poison, I think it was, and he became Bagga the Blight. When he died, he said how he'd just keep coming back. He didn't come back again. And I'll remember this for a long time! You were a great foe, Bagga.

I'm so glad this game finally got covered, Talion is easily one of my favorite protagonists in all fantasy, and his relationship with a lot of the Uruks shows how he appreciates them even while Celebrimbor is whispering in his ear, 1000000% one of my absolute favorite games of all time, up there with rdr2

What i loved about the game was the orcs: THERE'S SO MUCH DIALOGUES, DIFFERENTS LOOKS AND POSSIBILITIES created just to make sure that you'll never be bored or meet an already meeted situation!

Finally! Yes!!!! I freaking love this game so much I’ve wanted a win counter for soooo long!!! Yesssss!!!

I finished this game with the true ending literally a few hours ago and honestly, it was worth every second.

My Nemesis story: I completed the game and wanted to play it again. I never killed Bruz after he went insane. When starting a new game, I deleted the old save file first making sure I can’t go back. As I’m starting a new game in the first little area, an insane Bruz shows up. I wasn’t even at the city yet, and what’s even stranger is he was the same level as in my old save file I just deleted. Somehow, Bruz survived a permanent deleted save file, crossed into the next one, because he wanted me dead so bad. Hardest fight I ever had as I was level 1, and he was almost max. Bruz, for transcending space and time in a game, you have my eternal respect.