Middle-earth™: Shadow of War™

Honestly a really fun well put together, has some of the best mechanics.

My main race in WoW is Orc, this game is racist.

Game is fun for a time. There's a lot of nuance and issues that simply nag at you and wear you down over time. Orcs will randomly "adapt" to any ability you use on them (to prevent cheesing or spamming the same attack). The problem is they START immune to several of your abilities in the first place; for example stealth and arrow immunity. So you get into a fight with an orc captain who is immune to a few of your moves, then becomes immune to more abilities mid-combat, and then to top it all off he can simply ignore your "final" execution and "defy death". This means he will swing at you, do a quick time event in which you either take damage or do not take damage. In either case the captain is restored to full health and you have not killed him, but retains all immunities he gained while fighting you. The game spends the ENTIRE time building you up, only to make most of your abilities completely useless versus an enemy (arrow immunity). Want to be an expert elite archer that never misses? Guess what, immunity to arrows, now your whole build is worthless. Better diversify your build and git gud :) -Devs, probably. It's one of those power fantasy games that quickly removes all your power in an effort to make the game more challenging. The game will give you wings and lock you in a cage moments later. To nitpick the point further, you can get weaknesses that are so absurdly powerful you can 1 shot an Orc captain like it's nothing. There's a mixture of unkillable god captains and wet paper bags sprinkled in. In both instances you don't get to enjoy your move set because against one of them they are immune; the other instantly dies due to mortal weakness. They try to throw you a bone by saying you need to get intel and find the orc captain's weakness. A common weakness is stealth. The absolute trash part about that is you need to "reset" after a single stealth attack on a captain which involves running around in circles resetting their awareness and trying to stealth attack them 3-5 times in a 2 minute time frame. It's totally immersion breaking and goofy as ♥♥♥♥ to fight an orc like that. The loot system is absolute garbage RNG based idiotic design. If you want to collect a set, say mystic, you have to kill the EXACT type of orc captain or you simply will never get that set piece. This involves either betraying your own orc captain to kill him for his loot drop, or hunting for them in game. Sounds fine until you realize your region has no Mystic Assassins, so you have to search every single region one by one in their TERRIBLE ui design from hell to find the right type (only to never find one spawned in your game). The "solution" by players is to kill all orcs and reset the area allowing more captains to respawn. At that point the captains are now unknown, so to discover their "type" you have to hunt around for intel. That means EVERY SINGLE CAPTAIN THAT IS UNKNOWN HAS TO BE DISCOVERED ONE BY ONE. Some go even further and the only way to unlock them is to specifically spam a certain move so they guarantee drop the weapon you want. This is double dipped RNG mechanics which is a cardinal sin. My play time is misleading. I played the game initially and got bored of it only to come back years later. I also AFK frequently with the game in the pause menu which still counts towards play time. All said and done, the game is fine and fun but has huge issues that will never be fixed. The DLC is trash, the goofy friendly comic relief "architect" Olog with Eltariel was absurd cheesy bulls--t that made me quit shortly thereafter. Felt like seeing jar jar binks in clone wars all over again. Couldn't stomach the human portion either, didn't give that one much of a fair chance though.

best game of all time...

The optimization sucks ass

Excelente