Shadow of War, a sequel to Shadow of Mordor announced, no word on Linux yet

Hm...!

I liked Shadow of Mordor, but got bored over time with its Ubisoft formula. So I just played through the main story in the second half. I wonder if I should do the same with this one. Either case it would be great to have it ported on Linux!

I hope this gets ported, I had a lot of fun with the original.

Shadow Of Mordor came across to me as a patchwork with the custom skins that skipped to default skin in cutscenes. That was particularly stupid if you played with the female skin/model, like I did.

So I hope one can select gender as part of the main game (and not just a DLC skin) and stick to that gender throughout the game this time.

Tried and tested formula but you get the feeling that once you have played AC, SOM, MadMax or any other 'open world' Ubisoft title then you have played them all. Same core game with a different skins & audio.

Still if you enjoy that forumula then that's good and it is more AAA on Linux. Il take a pass on this though unless it's radically different.


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One more reason to Valve for push up Linux.That game supports "play anywhere".Which means if you buy it from Windows Store via your Ms Account,you will be able play this on Xbox too.Resident Evil 7 has this feature as well.

If this thing continues(which it will); people who wanna switch for computer or switch for a console will stick to Ms solutions.

At some point you will see people will prefer Ms store to Steam.

Amazing news and as a LOTR fan I hope that Feral and WB will make it appear on Linux :)

Quoting: LeopardAt some point you will see people will prefer Ms store to Steam.

Amongst the Xbox console owners, true. But only those. And that will not change - Steam will never be able to offer a cross play to that segment anyway.

But yeah - it's of course a good thing for those with both a Steambox and a Windows PC.

Quoting: EikeI liked Shadow of Mordor, but got bored over time with its Ubisoft formula.

I think it's just the unimaginative and tedious execution of the formula that did it for me. I loved Mad Max. I liked the early Batman Arkham games and AC IV Black Flag on my brother's Playstation, and even the positively moronic Just Cause 2 was very entertaining. These all build on the same core mechanic but do it better IMHO. I uninstalled SoM before getting even close to halfway in I think. I will try to pick it up again at some point, but I'm not looking forward to it. Maybe you need to be a Tolkien fan to appreciate this game?

Quoting: BeamboomSo I hope one can select gender as part of the main game (and not just a DLC skin) and stick to that gender throughout the game this time.

I doubt it. The teaser suggests you'll be playing the same main character.

Quoting: Beamboom

Quoting: LeopardAt some point you will see people will prefer Ms store to Steam.

Amongst the Xbox console owners, true. But only those. And that will not change - Steam will never be able to offer a cross play to that segment anyway.

But yeah - it's of course a good thing for those with both a Steambox and a Windows PC.

That thing will be much more strong argument i guess,which MS do their own platform exclusive titles now and then.

So if you want to play them,you must stick with MS solutions.If you start to invest a platform or a store,it will be hard for to let it go.Just look at the Apple ecosystem,most of the people are highly bounded with them because people don't want to buy their paid apps once more.

That threat is so strong,only PlayStation and Origin can survive this because they have some kickass exclusive games.

Quoting: Leopard

Quoting: Beamboom

Quoting: LeopardAt some point you will see people will prefer Ms store to Steam.

Amongst the Xbox console owners, true. But only those. And that will not change - Steam will never be able to offer a cross play to that segment anyway.

But yeah - it's of course a good thing for those with both a Steambox and a Windows PC.

That thing will be much more strong argument i guess,which MS do their own platform exclusive titles now and then.

So if you want to play them,you must stick with MS solutions.If you start to invest a platform or a store,it will be hard for to let it go.Just look at the Apple ecosystem,most of the people are highly bounded with them because people don't want to buy their paid apps once more.

That threat is so strong,only PlayStation and Origin can survive this because they have some kickass exclusive games.

Just to add to the discussion...

http://www.pcworld.com/article/3174483/windows/new-windows-10-feature-blocks-desktop-apps-points-to-windows-store-instead.html

It seems that Microsoft is gearing up to push UWP to it's full potential... Usually it starts like that and in a future update becomes mandatory. That's Microsoft's usual way of imposing stuff.