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ImpAtom posted:My personal favorite is the description of the Battle of Five Armies from the Orc perspective:  that's awesome.
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Gonna pick this up, even though I loving hate Lord of the Rings.
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Sep 27, 2014 00:12
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the game looks pretty drat good imo
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Sep 27, 2014 00:13
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slev posted:You can get this on GMG for $37.50 using this code: Thanks for this. I have both a PC and a PS4, I'm torn on which platform to get this on. Wonder how good a port it is. Seems like they're using PS4 for all the promotional content so I imagine it was console first. This deal is pretty good though.
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poo poo, the deal makes me want to get it for PC. My PC is kinda old though, with an older Gen i7 (Pretty sure it is a 920). I do have a GTX 560ti at least. I was hoping to get it on PS4, but if my computer could run it I would get on that deal. I mean, I got Wolfenstein on the PC and it was fine, but any large scale battle has it tank. I do not want to repeat that experience. Unlucky7 fucked around with this message at 00:34 on Sep 27, 2014 |
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Sep 27, 2014 00:26
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Yea I'm wondering how it will run on my computer as well. I've got 2x GTX 460 in SLI with an i5 760 (~4 years old).
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Sep 27, 2014 00:53
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ImpAtom posted:My personal favorite is the description of the Battle of Five Armies from the Orc perspective: Ahahaha, orcish  . That loving rules.
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Sep 27, 2014 01:07
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They've really gone all in on turning the orcs into Warhammer Orcs, haven't they?
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Yeah, it's kinda great and makes me want another Warhammer game. The last one was great until it became waves of Chaos jackasses spewing plasma around, I just want to chop orcs 
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Sep 27, 2014 01:11
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WORST FORUMS GUY posted:the game looks pretty drat good imo Im insanely tempted to pick this game up. But I've been burned on full retail so many times. I want to make sure there is some depth to this game before diving in. But it do be lookin good yo
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Unlucky7 posted:poo poo, the deal makes me want to get it for PC. My PC is kinda old though, with an older Gen i7 (Pretty sure it is a 920). I do have a GTX 560ti at least. Sounds like you have almost exactly the same set up as me, I'm going for PS4 since I'm thinking the framerate is going to be all over the place at PS4 equivalent detail levels.
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Sep 27, 2014 01:14
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Pre-Load is up for anyone who pre-purchased it on Steam. The install is 33.9 gigs. 
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Sep 27, 2014 01:20
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Oh man I can't wait to read more Orcish accounts of stuff we know from the books. 
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Sep 27, 2014 01:20
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gently caress... I've jumped onto the hype train. I want it. 
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I want it...but I'm gonna wait. Either until it's $20 on Steam or until the reviews confirm that it's absolutely amazing.
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Sep 27, 2014 02:20
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Stupendous Man posted:Pre-Load is up for anyone who pre-purchased it on Steam. The install is 33.9 gigs. 
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Phylodox posted:I want it...but I'm gonna wait. Either until it's $20 on Steam or until the reviews confirm that it's absolutely amazing. Hey, hey you, check the bottom half of the OP.
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Orv posted:Hey, hey you, check the bottom half of the OP. Yeah, I know, but I mean more layman reviews. A combination of friends and youse guys in here, really.
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Jerusalem posted:Oh man I can't wait to read more Orcish Maybe I'm the academic fey latté guy but this game has a chance to give depth and sympathetic angles to orcs as people and characters that's lacking from all of Tolkien's source material. It can read as comedic, but the concept of an entire race of sentient beings that utterly hate the person they're bound to serve, and live in constant fear and violence, is kind of tragic and fascinating
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Sep 27, 2014 02:35
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The cockney orcs are almost making me like them too much.
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I only found out this game existed today but now I'm excited as all poo poo and really glad I have all next week off from work  Edit: Talion is Troy Baker? gently caress yes! 21 Hoot Salute fucked around with this message at 02:44 on Sep 27, 2014 |
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Sep 27, 2014 02:41
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Cometa Rossa posted:The cockney orcs are almost making me like them too much. I'm beginning to wonder... are the orcs cockney, or are cockneys orc?
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Nitevision posted:Maybe I'm the One reviewer mentioned being uncomfortable with the idea of essentially forcing orc society into servitude under a new master (Talion). I wonder if they'll go anywhere with that in the story (probably not). Also yes, at this point cockney is the only appropriate orc mode of speech, thanks WH, WH40K, and now LotR 
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Sep 27, 2014 02:52
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They're not cockney in Blizzard! ...they're Yoda there.
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Sep 27, 2014 02:58
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I can't remember the last time a game came from out of nowhere like this. I hadn't heard anything about this until a couple of days ago.
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Comrade Flynn posted:I can't remember the last time a game came from out of nowhere like this. I hadn't heard anything about this until a couple of days ago. The reaction to the initial announcement was tons of scorn (seriously, look at the early pages of the first thread). Then the game went completely under the radar until Monolith launched a marketing blitz in the last few weeks. Now that people have seen the game and the Nemesis system outside carefully scripted trailers, opinion has taken a full 180. I would honestly kind of prefer if more games stayed quiet about what they were packing until they had actually completed enough of the game to show off the cool bits.
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1stGear posted:The reaction to the initial announcement was tons of scorn (seriously, look at the early pages of the first thread). Then the game went completely under the radar until Monolith launched a marketing blitz in the last few weeks. Now that people have seen the game and the Nemesis system outside carefully scripted trailers, opinion has taken a full 180. I had completely ignored it due to the IP. But yeah, it's an awesome surprise to not have an exciting game launching in 4 days.
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Speedball posted:They're not cockney in Blizzard! And blizzard orcs are boring, Quod Erat Demonstrorkum 
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Ciaphas posted:Quod Erat Demonstrorkum The puns in this thread. Good lord. But I like 'em.
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Comrade Flynn posted:I can't remember the last time a game came from out of nowhere like this. I hadn't heard anything about this until a couple of days ago. I reread the entire LoTR trilogy this summer and then on a whim I checked Games, and lo and behold, out of nowhere there was the Best Game Ever. Best possible outcome to keep my Middle-earth steam going.
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Ciaphas posted:And blizzard orcs are boring, Quod Erat Demonstrorkum And you were in askance at my use of puns, guddam.
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Orv posted:And you were in askance at my use of puns, guddam. Yeah once I remembered how much I loved that pun (think Beer4TheBeerGod came up with it) I knew I was gonna get called out as a hypocrite
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Sep 27, 2014 03:39
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Orcs being cockney is just kind of a THING now, like how dwarves became Scottish (shouldn't they have been Germanic or Norwegian??)
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Tolkien in his letters characterized his dwarves as most resembling Jewish enclaves, and Hebrew allegedly influenced the morphology of Khuzdul, their language 
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Nitevision posted:Tolkien in his letters characterized his dwarves as most resembling Jewish enclaves, and Hebrew allegedly influenced the morphology of Khuzdul, their language Really... the society ruined by their greed and love of gold... are Jewish. Good stuff.
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Comrade Flynn posted:I can't remember the last time a game came from out of nowhere like this. I hadn't heard anything about this until a couple of days ago. They showed the cool features off earlier this year at something (E3 was it? I can't keep track of all the promotion things anymore) but I've had high hopes since then. Looks like it's going to pan out. Monolith makes a really kick rear end game every so often.
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Skandranon posted:Really... the society ruined by their greed and love of gold... are Jewish. Good stuff. He was a turn of the 20th century Englishman, it's astonishing the entire thing isn't just one secret racist tirade.
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Orv posted:He was a turn of the 20th century Englishman, it's astonishing the entire thing isn't just one secret racist tirade. Maybe it is?
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Tolkien called Hitler a "ruddy little ignoramus" so he's cool in my book.
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Skandranon posted:Really... the society ruined by their greed and love of gold... are Jewish. Good stuff. To be fair, they're also proud, staunch, loyal, and can fight like hell. Further, though, here's John Ronald Reuel on orcs: Wikipedia posted:they are (or were) squat, broad, flat-nosed, sallow-skinned, with wide mouths and slant eyes; in fact degraded and repulsive versions of the (to Europeans) least lovely Mongol-types.  Oh well. Ponder for a moment that the source material can seem racially problematic, then get on with the slaying and ghostly mind control
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