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Clord

Jul 25, 2017 @ 4:03am

Talion's in-game face needs cosmetic surgery

His face was much more detailed in Shadow of Mordor. At least with the official HD texture pack. Now as they made more detailed faces to Shadow of War, somehow Talion's face actually became less detailed, like it's hardly even the same character.

Last edited by Clord; Jul 25, 2017 @ 4:03am

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Roderick

Jul 25, 2017 @ 7:34am

Has anyone else the felling this "less details" make him look junger? I don't like this, since he is a veteran warrior, griefing with loss... he shouldn't look like a boy soldier freshly recruited.

Gekkibi Jul 25, 2017 @ 8:45am

An example picture so that we have an objective point of reference: *click*[gematsu.com]
Emotionless Ken from Barbie (as in, literally. Just look at that shiny plastic...). That's all needed to be said.

Last edited by Gekkibi; Jul 25, 2017 @ 8:46am

Hermit

Jul 25, 2017 @ 10:38am

and beard http://steamcommunity.com/app/356190/discussions/0/2217311444343746333/

Gekkibi Jul 25, 2017 @ 10:39am

Originally posted by Eremita Silvano:
and beard http://steamcommunity.com/app/356190/discussions/0/2217311444343746333/

Beard is not a choice. If you don't have one, you're not a man. Period.

Hermit

Jul 25, 2017 @ 10:45am

Originally posted by Gekkibi:
Originally posted by Eremita Silvano:
and beard http://steamcommunity.com/app/356190/discussions/0/2217311444343746333/
Beard is not a choice. If you don't have one, you're not a man. Period.

dude, probably i have better beard than you.
Anyway they should give the choice to change beard, or having a dynamic one like in the witcher.

Hermit

Jul 25, 2017 @ 10:46am

and those hair.. damn.

Gekkibi Jul 25, 2017 @ 10:47am

Originally posted by Eremita Silvano:
dude, probably i have better beard than you.

I wouldn't be so sure about that. I haven't touched my goatee since circa 2007.

Back to topic, I'm not sure a simple beard would save Talion's face.

Hermit

Jul 25, 2017 @ 11:06am

Originally posted by Gekkibi:
Originally posted by Eremita Silvano:
dude, probably i have better beard than you.
I wouldn't be so sure about that. I haven't touched my goatee since circa 2007.

Back to topic, I'm not sure a simple beard would save Talion's face.

oh well, suffer me now

Clord

Jul 25, 2017 @ 6:23pm

I suspect the change to make talion shaved and clean like that was because of the equipment system. Essentially Talion's customizable look via various equipment etc made it so that his face was made plain (stuff like clipping with beard etc would be a problem without a lot of extra coding.) It could even be that his face can get dynamically damanged until respawn or something.

Last edited by Clord; Jul 25, 2017 @ 6:24pm

Lord_of_the_Bacon has Middle-earth™: Shadow of War™

Jul 25, 2017 @ 11:18pm

Everything about his entire head is just wrong; compared to SoM.

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`Creative

Jul 26, 2017 @ 6:31am

Yea, how he looked in SoM was much better. More appealing in a " i'd tap that " sort of way :P

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Ravenbones has Middle-earth™: Shadow of War™

Jul 26, 2017 @ 4:01pm

I never liked his face in SoM, but I grew used to it with Lord of the Hunt.
Now his new face looks....

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Abyssrocker Jul 27, 2017 @ 11:27pm

His new face looks like they were going for a discount Aragorn,which might not be so bad if the entire Shadow of... Series didn't feel like they went out of their way in some places to distance themselves *just* enough from the representations in the LOTR films.

As for the textures, a lot of the content shown looks strangely less detailed, but I never paid attention to what system they were running on. At least they're not wasting resources trying to port to the 360/PS3 this time around.

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