I played both games and the main thing I miss in SOM was how intimidating the uruks looked. The uruks in SOM looked bigger, stronger and uglier than the Uruk in SOW. On SOM the smallest grunt orcs were still meeting talon at eye level while in SOW talion is taller than most grunts
Posted Dec 3, 2018, 3:36 PM UTC
Yeah, I miss that too. The orcs looked really ugly, they had disgusting faces, a lot of them were like permanently sweaty, or drooling, or bleeding, some looked like demented monkey monsters, while in SoW they look like eccentric humans with weird noses and eyes
Not to mention that the overall tone and constant raining and nighttime made the orcs look even uglier and it gave the general ambience a lot grudgier. Overall, I miss the graphical yet realistic mess that was SoM
I think the Shadow Wars would be strange if the Orcs were more intimidating than Talion at that point
Certainly was a lot better textures and "grittiness" in SOM. But, the scale of SOW is pretty ambitious, combined with all the new features added in, clothing, a deeper skill tree, new additions to the nemesis system. I guess if you have to sacrifice something, better be something thats worth it.
if you have to sacrifice something, better be something thats worth it.
I read that in Shelob's voice.
Now I can't not read it in her voice.
Believe in something. Even if it means sacrificing everything
I love the optimization of SOM, but will take SOW any time of the day. The gameplay was improved so much in ways I never thought possible, that I cant return to SOM now.
The orcs in The Bright Lord DLC looked the best. The war chiefs you have to dominate looked damn good.
Character texture isn’t as detailed in SoW as in SoM, which makes the orcs look more funny ugly than scary ugly :(