FWIW, although TB's reflexes don't appear stellar, not knowing exactly what the fuck is happening is pretty much a staple of this game's combat. Once you get over a certain saturation point (for me it's about 6 guys), it's just impossible to keep track of all the uruks. You kind of scan the crowd for shields and pole arms, and once in a while you'll get hit by a spear or arrow and that's how you know there are ranged attackers. Add in the fact that bosses are complete wild cards (does that guy have a power that will kill me in two hits? How about the guy with exploding arrows in the video there? Who knows? I haven't memorized all the character sheets for all 20 bosses out there), and the additional fact that more bosses can and do show up out of the blue to fuck things up even further, and the additional fact that more grunts can and do show up very frequently and with no warning, and you get a very chaotic battle experience. It's not at all like in Batman where you start a fight and go, OK, there are two guns and two riot shields, I take this guy out first and then that guy, and then mop up. It's more about just attacking whatever's closest to you until you get in a situation where you can concentrate on the real target without getting blindsided, or until things get so out of hand and unsalvageable that running away seems better. It's mostly impossible to methodically eliminate minor threats and establish a "safe zone" for your boss fight ... although sometimes that "safe zone" does emerge.
Watched bro playing it a little. The elven wraith's identity is p. surprising. And TB is right, hope you like killingorcsuruks or you're gonna have a bad time.
And yes, you have to give the nemesis system a hand after a while. If you hunt down the captains as soon as they get promoted, they'll still be easy pickings. Use the waiting function to let their politics play out a little. I still don't quite understand how promotion works, though. Do they gain strengths, lose weaknesses or a mix of both? Because I can't imagine those guys with lame weaknesses (ex: dies in one headshot) getting very far, but sometimes they do. Could you orchestrate it so only weaklings become leaders, so you can take them in quick sucession later?
Oh, and apparently they can come back after being killed...bug or feature?
I had pretty much the exact same experience (finished the game this morning). Even the power-ups didn't matter that much once I learned that stunlock + flurry is highly effective against every boss (though sure, power-ups helped make everything trivial).
Intended as a feature. Uruks are tough. If you don't decapitate or destroy the brain, they may walk away no matter what else you do. Sadly I only saw like two 'dead' guys come back over the course of my playthrough. I guess too little is better than too much.
and where in arkham asylum was this decent game design exactly? i must've missed it somewhere between the dull challengeless platforming and the click-LMB-until-everyone-ded combat
To be fair, this one actually does make sense ... but yeah, the rest is a fine muddle, especially the end.
Eh, we can pick it apart if you want, but I'm going to leave out the major spoiler since clearly even spoiler tags aren't sacred to you
. Just trust me, there's a very good reason. In a story filled with unconvincing things that made no sense, G's motivation to get on the elf's good side was immediately believable.
Why do you say that? I watched the ending on youtube and it seems to end on a sequel hook
I don't know, I just don't see this one being enough of a success to justify it, but hey, I can be wrong.
