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

I need it!

[Shadow of War](http://www.ign.com/articles/2017/02/27/middle-earth-shadow-of-war-officially-announced) will be released on August 22 in USA and August 25 in Europe and will be released for "PC" on the Steam store and Windows 10 store), Xbox One, PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 4 Pro.

If the Linux version is not available on day 1, I'll pass.... Or maybe I will buy it for my Windows machine.

I prefer an internal Linux version made by Monolith, like 4AGames did with Metro Last Light and the two Metro Redux, instead a third party port.

The original one was a lot of fun to me. Hopefully the sequel will see a port too.

Press button, watch lengthy swordplay animation in visually unattractive environment, rinse ,repeat...
Personally I could probably live quite well without it if the choice was to have limited resources port this or something actually fun gameplay wise. On the other hand more AAA is still welcome for the platform ... .
Tough call but given we have quite a selection of games available by now I would rather see third party porters concentrate on quality titles instead of mass produced blockbusters. The big names with their yearly reincarnation of one and the same game should be able to press the export to Linux button themselves if they can do so for every other platform on the planet.

Shadow of Mordor was one of the few games I got really excited about, and have played a lot of. Also, the only game I have ever bought at launch price on Steam. Currently I have 40 hours on the game, and I'm betting some a few more are coming on top of that as I'm in the process of playing it again, as I recently upgraded my CPU and GPU, and the AMD drivers are FINALLY optimized enough to run it properly. I might even try to 100% it.

Other games I've liked recently enough to get huge amounts of hours in Steam (anything over 30 is a lot for me, I like to try out a lot of games and rarely have the patience to keep on playing the same game forever). Tomb Raider was one such game, the first game I ever 100% (although I don't have all the achievements)-

Unfortunately I bought both games when I was still gaming on Windows, around 2013-2014. I changed to Linux when Windows 10 was released (I used it a day and decided that eff it, and what I've seen myself at work and read and hear, I made the right choice).

I've contributed to Linux ports though: The odd one out here is Rocket League which I started playing at work on a PS4, and I instantly bought it when the Linux beta was released. That game (the only non-singleplayer game I have played as much since my teenage Quake2 summer of binge - I probably clocked nearly 1000 hours just during the few months of the summer vacation) is so awesome!

And yeah, Mad Max. That I bought for Linux as well. Very nice. I have more hours on it than Shadow of Mordor.

So definitely. For me, games like Mad Max, Shadow of Mordor, Tomb Raider etc. fit like a glove. I feel they have a good story, awesome game mechanics (they are fun to play even if you do repetitive tasks), lot's of stuff to do and collect - and the stuff usually has some reason to be there, game-world wise, even though they usually are tacked on just for the sake of having collectables.

If Shadow of War is anything like those, gimme gimme gimme!

BTW. Is it just me, or did they change Talion's face in the Shadow of War trailer?

Am I understanding this right? These guys port other companies' games to Mac and Linux with their permission?

Am I understanding this right? These guys port other companies' games to Mac and Linux with their permission?

Feral? Yes. They are buying the right to port the game, get the source (and hopefully some support) and then publish these versions for own account (I hope my translation website is right on the last one: they have all expenses and get all the money). Feral is the main publisher of big games on Linux.

Steam says that I spent 81h of my life on Shadow of Mordor on Gnu/Linux. Directly bought on Feral store. For sure, I will day-one-on-linux-release buy the sequel Shadow of war if Feral ports it.

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Skyrim, The Witcher3, Ghost of a tale, Fallout new vegas & 4, Everspace, Mordheim: City of the Damned


And oldies like Morrowind, Oblivion, Heroes of M&M 3 HD (even if Loki port in its time but we can't find it anymore), the Stalkers series

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Steam says that I spent 81h of my life on Shadow of Mordor on Gnu/Linux. Directly bought on Feral store. For sure, I will day-one-on-linux-release buy the sequel Shadow of war if Feral ports it.

#THEREQUESTINATOR (I don't like twitter ^^)
Skyrim, The Witcher3, Ghost of a tale, Fallout new vegas & 4, Everspace, Mordheim: City of the Damned


And oldies like Morrowind, Oblivion, Heroes of M&M 3 HD (even if Loki port in its time but we can't find it anymore), the Stalkers series

You can use OpenMW for Morrowind.

I didn't really like the first game. I hated the cut scenes with the bosses speaking that halted the combat. And there are many other games where I can have a lot more fun with the combat.

I do hope that the game comes to Linux though, for those who want to play it and to better the Linux gaming platform.

It could feel boring and repetitive over time, but not to me! Somehow, I enjoyed the first game and its visuals a lot. Being able to play it on Linux has been a great benefit too. I very much hope I could say the very same thing about the sequel. Please!

[...] And there are many other games where I can have a lot more fun with the combat. [...]

We want a list ^^ ... to discover hidden gem(s) and test!


Last edited by Geppeto35 on 28 Feb 2017 at 3:54 pm UTC

[...] And there are many other games where I can have a lot more fun with the combat. [...]

We want a list ^^ ... to discover hidden gem(s) and test!

None of the games I'm thinking about are hidden gems. The games where I enjoy the combat most are Baldur's Gate II, Pillars of Eternity, Mass Effect 2, Dragon Age: Origins, Star Wars: The Old Republic, Guild Wars 2, The Witcher 2 and The Witcher 3.

Almost pure Windows

No idea how people find time (or patience) to rack up thousands of hours in games.

That is the question. My most played game on Steam happens to be Mad Max at ~90h and I cannot imagine investing much more than that on a single game. I'm sure some online games take a lot more time and dedication, which is probably one reason I never properly got into any of them.

Ha, I think I have tons of hours in Star Trek: Online, but only because I launched it under Wine, then left the launcher running for days and forgot it was going.

Am I understanding this right? These guys port other companies' games to Mac and Linux with their permission?

Feral? Yes. They are buying the right to port the game, get the source (and hopefully some support) and then publish these versions for own account (I hope my translation website is right on the last one: they have all expenses and get all the money). Feral is the main publisher of big games on Linux.

That's awesome!