Am I missing something.. game seems boring and repetitive

[OdoG]

After 4 hours I'm at the point where I'm thinking of uninstalling... should I be playing with a controller? I'm feeling that the game is super overrated and just kind of meh at this point???

[Tesseract]

What have you done so far? I don't think I saw all that much of the game in the first 4 hours. If you haven't fought a warchief yet then you haven't reached the main challenge. If you're just running around killing the basic warriors then I can see why you'd think it was repetetive.

Bu this is a game about killing orcs. If you feel like if you've stabbed one orc in the face you've stabbed 'em all, maybe this game isn't for you. :)

There is actually a lot of depth though with the various strengths and weaknesses of the captains and warchiefs, and with the various options for dealing with them once you've unlocked all the abilities.

[SeaBee]

Try walking into a stronghold and take out thirty orcs without getting a scratch.

[deeper]

Originally posted by OdoG:

After 4 hours I'm at the point where I'm thinking of uninstalling... should I be playing with a controller? I'm feeling that the game is super overrated and just kind of meh at this point???

I would definately play with a controller, this genre and driving games are the only thing I'll use my xbox controller for.

I've heard this game refered to as a murder simulator/tech demo and I understand where that is coming from and I kind of agree with it but I also really liked it even though I found it incredibly bleak and a bit depressing. I would give it a bit more time before abandoning.

I will play through again at some point.

[PerplexedArcticWolf]

Originally posted by SeaBee:

Try walking into a stronghold and take out thirty orcs without getting a scratch.

The problem with that is that the orcs spawn infinitely... You won't easily know if you have killed 5 or 50.

[SneakySnail]

Originally posted by PerplexedArcticWolf:

Originally posted by SeaBee:

Try walking into a stronghold and take out thirty orcs without getting a scratch.

The problem with that is that the orcs spawn infinitely... You won't easily know if you have killed 5 or 50.

I've run out of orcs to kill and have not come across this infinite mode you speak of.

For the OP, I use a mouse and keyboard, no problems whatsoever. This game if you only play to follow the story, it can go by too fast. I broke off and explored the open world, made my own objectives, made it even more fun. When it comes to killing, it's all about the combos.

[PerplexedArcticWolf]

Originally posted by BaBa:

Originally posted by PerplexedArcticWolf:

The problem with that is that the orcs spawn infinitely... You won't easily know if you have killed 5 or 50.

I've run out of orcs to kill and have not come across this infinite mode you speak of.

For the OP, I use a mouse and keyboard, no problems whatsoever. This game if you only play to follow the story, it can go by too fast. I broke off and explored the open world, made my own objectives, made it even more fun. When it comes to killing, it's all about the combos.

Really? Because I've gone into a stronghold and killed at least 30 orcs and the crowd of orcs was the same size as at the beginning.

[Ancient]

Originally posted by PerplexedArcticWolf:

Originally posted by BaBa:

I've run out of orcs to kill and have not come across this infinite mode you speak of.

For the OP, I use a mouse and keyboard, no problems whatsoever. This game if you only play to follow the story, it can go by too fast. I broke off and explored the open world, made my own objectives, made it even more fun. When it comes to killing, it's all about the combos.

Really? Because I've gone into a stronghold and killed at least 30 orcs and the crowd of orcs was the same size as at the beginning.

If you allow them to set off the stronghold alarm repeatedly, then yes, they just keep spawning a fresh batch for each alarm sounded. The trick is to both manage the circle of melee opponents and use your bow and focus to take down any who break off to set off the alarm. They will have a special icon over their heads.

If done right, you can effectively clear the entire stronghold of enemies. That is, at least until you leave the area. Leaving the stronghold for a while, fast traveling, advancing time will also make them all return.

[Tesseract]

If they don't manage to raise the alarm then you can kill them all. Once the alarm is raised, I don't know if it's actually infinite, but a *lot* will spawn.

[ShaDoW]

Maybe refund this game and go back to TF2.

[-𝖘𝖔𝖋𝖎𝖘𝖙-]

Instead of killing "all the orcs" as everyone here suggests, create an army of orcs under your command.

[Oh No I am now a snake demon!]

I've played over 40 hours and just now started to have my fill of the game. This is one of the funnest games I've played in a while. But I love the Batman style combat with swords and the personalities of the orc captains.

[Metro]

It's another rinse and repeat semi-open world game with Arkham style combat. I don't get the hype it generated. It's basically the new Mad Max game wrapped in the LOTR IP.

[anaphylactic god]

how this game get mostly positive ratings on steam is one of the greatest mysteries of our world
they just take fighting from batman and item exploration from lara croft and called it a game
game has literally no story, you can throw out 90% of all missions and will not miss a thing
nemesis system is a joke, its only purpose is to force players spend aditional 4-6 hours on capturing orc generals.

[PerplexedArcticWolf]

Originally posted by Ancient:

Originally posted by PerplexedArcticWolf:

Really? Because I've gone into a stronghold and killed at least 30 orcs and the crowd of orcs was the same size as at the beginning.

If you allow them to set off the stronghold alarm repeatedly, then yes, they just keep spawning a fresh batch for each alarm sounded. The trick is to both manage the circle of melee opponents and use your bow and focus to take down any who break off to set off the alarm. They will have a special icon over their heads.

If done right, you can effectively clear the entire stronghold of enemies. That is, at least until you leave the area. Leaving the stronghold for a while, fast traveling, advancing time will also make them all return.

That's not true though. Several times I've killed a bunch of orcs in stealth, turned around and seen a bunch of icons pop onto my maps. Guess who they were. Orcs. They respawn immediately

[Maestro (it)]

I didn't have a controller before, and mouse/keyboard gaming was getting boring to me, a couple of months ago I got an xbox 360 controller and gaming changed, my job for 2-3 weeks was to play and finish mad max, which I did (50+ hours), now I started with Shadow of Mordor.

I don't really understand what people mean bu repetitive games, each game is repetitive: racing is all time racing, fighting is all time fighting, action has 2-3 things to do over and over, FPS is running and shooting. is there an example of a non-repetitive game?