Shadow Of Mordor Won A Best Story Award, Which Actually Makes Sense

8 responses to “Shadow Of Mordor Won A Best Story Award, Which Actually Makes Sense”

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   jason9110110

   February 7, 2015 at 9:54 am

   Completely agree with every award handed to shadow of mordor. Best game to come out of last year imo and sure it didn’t do a whole heap of new things but that nemesis system omg so good.

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   shane

   February 7, 2015 at 10:50 am

   Shadow of Mordor was a great game, no mistake… but best character award for Talion…?

   For serious?

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      transientmind

      February 8, 2015 at 8:51 pm

      Yeah, that seems a little odd. I wonder if it was restricted to protagonists.
      I mean, Talion’s VA was good, the character design was aesthetically fantastic, and as a man in an unenviable position, he reacted in a relatively relate-able way and was admirably noble in general. Not a ‘great’ character, but if limited to protagonists, there’s not much competition.

      I don’t know what it takes to get nominated or if those were the only games in the pool, but if the category was restricted to protagonists, then out of the games above… it makes a bit more sense. Lotta blank slate non-character protagonists in the year’s big games.

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   zzzonked

   February 7, 2015 at 11:10 am

   Really don’t understand why this game receives so much praise. Story was worse than Destiny’s.

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      walksunseen

      February 8, 2015 at 8:55 am

      Agreed.

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      transientmind

      February 8, 2015 at 8:28 pm

      Ugh. No it wasn’t. At least Mordor actually had characters and a protagonist and a single plotline that developed over time with some twists (no matter how predictable) to something beyoned, “There is a big bad. Here is a weapon. Go kill shit.” Destiny’s ‘story’ is one of the deepest insults to video game storytelling in years.

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   aussiemuser

   February 7, 2015 at 3:18 pm

   Goes to show how high on the list story is in games. Second from the bottom…

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   losturtle1

   February 8, 2015 at 11:43 am

   Whilst I finished the game, I felt rather underwhelmed. I mean, yeah I could start a little feud with a monster thing which would get it to make a comment. Then I could find it, extending or ending the little feud by killing them the right way or the wrong way. I’m not sure how much this really pertains to narrative though as I found it an entirely empty experience. Just a list that has a clever way of refilling itself.

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   this

   February 9, 2015 at 1:38 pm

   well if hobbit 3 wins any awards, not that its a whole movie, but those awards should go to this as well since they just copied the cgi and even the sound effects.