How do you interrogate the "worms" in Shadow of Mordor? I did it once, but I went through the instructions so fast I can't remember how I did it, and there's no tutorial for it in the Appendixes.
Sauron allowed Al-Pharazon to capture him as a hostage. He then deceived Al-Pharazon into turning him into an advisor. Numenor mostly fell into a worship of Morgoth with human sacrifices. Eventually Al-Pharazon even tried to conquer Aman. Essentially invading God's back yard turned out to be a bad idea. The contininent/really big island of Numenor sank under the sea. Some Numenoreans survived on Middle Earth, setting up new kingdoms, but there were some Sauron followers like the Mouth of Sauron who did as well.
OK I'm a hour or so into The Outer Worlds, it's fun I guess but I wouldn't exactly rave about it. Lots of pretty graphics and stuff but nothing really to write home about. The ship Ada has the same personality as Android from Dark Matter, so that's a bonus I guess.
I finished Ori and the Blind Forest and started Ori and the Will of the Wisps. I ended the first one somewhere between 6-7 hours of total playtime. The second one is an five hours in and it feels like I am just getting started. The revamped skill system (which borrows from Hollow Knight) is tons better. Instead of a linear skill tree I can now pick and choose which additional abilities I want to use. Customizable characters are always better.
I got the platinum trophy on Assassin's Creed Valhalla after 150+ hours. I started playing Man Eater, the game of the month on PlayStation Plus. Pretty funny so far as you're a shark terrorizing a beach community while Rick and Morty and Archer's Chris Parnell narrates a Discovery Channel-type documentary on sharks I also started Spider-Man: Miles Morales which looks frigging AMAZING (pun intended).
^ I had fun playing Maneater. If you're playing Miles Morales on a PS5, make sure you give the Performance RT mode a try. It's basically a 60fps mode with slightly lower resolution, however ray tracing is turned on. And IMO it looks amazing. It's just as smooth as the regular Performance mode plus it has RT which looks great. And you don't really notice the lower res while playing.
Afaik it’s calculated light rays from point light sources creating dynamic lighting. Opposed to a uniform flat lighting in any given volume of space.
Yeah those AC games are ridiculously long. I wouldn’t mind if most of it wasn’t just fluff. I learned to just do the main story, which I can’t do since I gave a bug in the Asgard land which won’t let me complete a mission. Hopefully they fix it one day. I’m curious to see what that is about
In layman's terms it means that things like reflections and shadows can look much more realistic. Here's an example from Miles Morales.
CK2. Charlemagne era start. I have reestablished a Hellenistic-Pagan empire with Rome as a capital, but it is actually Alan/Damatian in culture and ethnically mostly Croatian. Ending the Papal States early in a truly horrific war and sending the pope packing for Aquitaine has led to some strange effects. In other news of the world: The Abbasid Caliphate has collapsed but the kingdom of Leon has emerged as a strange Muslim super power has in Visigothic Spain and West Africa, leaving the Umayyad Caliphate as a small rump state. Leon's npc leader is an over-powered Alexander the Great type, and once he dies, Spain and west Africa will become a power vacuum. Mali is about to become an empire, maybe, and if so might invade north. The Nubians kicked the Muhollabids out, but it may be temporary. Ethiopia is carving out a fat slice of Arabia as sectarian warfare breaks out across the Middle East. In the far north, the Viking era wasn't a thing. The Picts became druid again, and conquered most of Ireland, Wales and Northumbria before splintering immediately, but held off Norse advances long enough. The viking raids fizzled. Oh well, they still have Iceland. Pagan Saxony (Charlemagne's rule did not end well.. see France on the map) controls much of Sweden, Denmark and Finland, even into Siberia. The Serbian kingdom is.. odd. Not sure what's going on there. I love this game.
OK, thanks. When they started announcing info for the PS5 everybody was talking about ray tracing, but I never saw any explanations for what it actually was.
Indeed! But I never grew bored of it. Odyssey started losing me at the 100 hour or so mark because a lot of the side quests and exploration points were just wiping out bandit camps. While you still do that to an extent in Valhalla, I liked the World Mysteries as they were shorter and usually pretty funny and full of some Easter eggs