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LOL @54th void.
Your age hasn't taught you any tolerance, just the opposite (I'm 56 btw). This is the video game medium. Why would you even be still interested in gaming if you expect all games to follow books precisely? I mean how many really do? And the ones that DO follow books or movies closely usually fail, because they don't bring much new and original to the table.
They take liberties here because this is a completely new timeline between LotR and The Hobbit, and I think even Tolkein would admit it's not out of the ordinary for some to want to fight Sauron with more than mere mortal human ways. Even in LotR they show such temptations, but they're not used because the ring corrupts the mind.
There's no ring here, there's a wraith. Different timeline, different events. Whether you accept that or not is up to you. It takes a bit of imagination.
@ Ford,
LOL, how much do you really know about that icon? 1. it's not styled to look like an AC counter icon, 2. we don't really know yet if it's just an imminent attack indicator or a QTE type press button to counter feature like in AC, and even if it is, such features are common in a lot of games, Batman being just one of them.
And I'm sorry but wraith mode is far from being a mere vision enhancement like Eagle Vision, nor does Eagle Vision even allow you to see that well in most AC games. It was pretty useless because of that. Wraith is a power you buff and has many capabilities, and is also a separate entity.
Knock yourself out though. If you keep it up you just might manage to find a handful of things that are similar (some vaguely so) by the end of playing the game in this quest of yours to prove "virtually everything" is the same.
@ Solaris,
Again, pay attention, this is not LotR nor does it intend to follow the LotR story. It's a separate timeline and events loosely woven into the same universe. In fact if anything it's that looseness that is meant to give the game originality, diversity and replay value.
Your age hasn't taught you any tolerance, just the opposite (I'm 56 btw). This is the video game medium. Why would you even be still interested in gaming if you expect all games to follow books precisely? I mean how many really do? And the ones that DO follow books or movies closely usually fail, because they don't bring much new and original to the table.
They take liberties here because this is a completely new timeline between LotR and The Hobbit, and I think even Tolkein would admit it's not out of the ordinary for some to want to fight Sauron with more than mere mortal human ways. Even in LotR they show such temptations, but they're not used because the ring corrupts the mind.
There's no ring here, there's a wraith. Different timeline, different events. Whether you accept that or not is up to you. It takes a bit of imagination.
@ Ford,
LOL, how much do you really know about that icon? 1. it's not styled to look like an AC counter icon, 2. we don't really know yet if it's just an imminent attack indicator or a QTE type press button to counter feature like in AC, and even if it is, such features are common in a lot of games, Batman being just one of them.
And I'm sorry but wraith mode is far from being a mere vision enhancement like Eagle Vision, nor does Eagle Vision even allow you to see that well in most AC games. It was pretty useless because of that. Wraith is a power you buff and has many capabilities, and is also a separate entity.
Knock yourself out though. If you keep it up you just might manage to find a handful of things that are similar (some vaguely so) by the end of playing the game in this quest of yours to prove "virtually everything" is the same.
@ Solaris,
Again, pay attention, this is not LotR nor does it intend to follow the LotR story. It's a separate timeline and events loosely woven into the same universe. In fact if anything it's that looseness that is meant to give the game originality, diversity and replay value.
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