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Shadow of Mordor's Nemesis System was only created because WB Games wanted something to combat Batman Arkham Asylum's second-hand sales, exec says
Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor's Nemesis System is still beloved ... "Trend-chasing has always been a thing in the games industry," former WB Games executive Laura Fryer explains in a new ...
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Shadow of Mordor's beloved nemesis system exists because the publisher threw a tantrum about second-hand sales
One unexpected consequence of that weird industry huff is Shadow of Mordor's nemesis system. Laura Fryer, who was vice president of WB Games in charge of the publisher's Seattle studios during ...
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How GameStop And Used Games Inspired Shadow Of Mordor's Nemesis System
Shadow of Mordor and its 2017 sequel, Middle-earth: Shadow of War. Those LOTR games were beloved by fans in part because of Monolith's innovative Nemesis system, an AI procedural program that ...
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Shadow of Mordor's Nemesis System Created to Combat the Used Games Market
The Nemesis system is a way for a game to track your progress and interactions with the world, and then use that information to breathe life into NPCs. For example, in Shadow of Mordor ...
Shadow of Mordor's innovative Nemesis system is locked behind a patent until 2036
This has put one of the coolest game mechanics of the 2010s in limbo. Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor's excellent Nemesis ...