I died 100 times in Shadow of Mordor (on purpose) 

Hura solos all of fiction. No one can change my mind.

Turns out watching the orc society is very similar to watching a soap opera except there's more dismemberment

It was Shadow of War, and I don't remember his name, but I found an orc who was terrified of Morgai flies, so for kicks I dropped a nest on his head and laughed while he ran away. He proceeded to come back as "of the flies" with practically no weaknesses and kill me two times in succession, level up to 70 something and get promoted to overlord of the keep I was trying to take down. Karma's a bitch, I guess.

I always killed every single orc that could speak, only leaving those alive that only grunt and scream. It got pretty hilarious at one point, because not a single one of the Leaders was now talking anymore, just screaming at each other.😂

Hura legit did more to further the main questline than the literal main character

I wish the nemesis system wasn’t trade marked because imagine more games with this. Like imagine a game like Ghost recon wildlands but when killed by a Narco they can become a Buchon. So many missed opportunities in game because of greed. (Even tho these games were amazing)

In shadow of war I was taking a fortress with two orcs. One titled the unashamed, and one titled the shamed. They seemed to get on surprisingly well

One of my all time fave SOW moments was when I was leading my orc horde against a tough castle defense, and as I went through the carnage I saw my orc strong boy, who was a bloody wimp and scared of insects. As the Boyz are fighting for my glory, I see him screaming for his life running down an alley and away from the action. He disappears. I laugh and remark how it's totally in character for that to happen. I make my way to the grand amphitheatre of the orcs, and as I'm about to die, WHO OTHER THAN MY SCAREDY PANTS COMES TO MY AID (voiced by a goofball with some renown) he stops my death save by kicking a lit bomb down the bastard's throat! Tells me "look who saved ya!" And then runs off screaming again as I shoot a hanging hive nearby. Good times.

The nemesis system is porbably one of the most unique things a videogame has introduced. Brogg's journey was exhilarating and really did feel like an actual story inside a story. Thank you for this video, have a sub

Kâka tried so hard to become a great and fearsome leader, but he will always and forever be number two

So it was my first day of playing the game and I was not fully used to the controls so eventually I got killed by this random orc named Mormag of the Black Guards. He was tall and tough and became my number one enemy. Evertime I tried to do a mission he would always come on in and on of two things would always happen I would either kill him only for him to come back a few hours later or he would kill me and only get stronger. But eventually I unlocked the ability to dominate captains, so after roughly 20 minutes of fighting I was able to dominate him. And he was good... really good. He practically one tapped anybody we came up against. But then tradegdy struck. We had just killed this random captain and Mormag was injured to the point where I could one tap him. So I misclicked and MURDERED him. But this ain't the end the end of the story. It was about a day later I was cutting through some Ghouls, WHEN THE BASTARD CAME BACK. But there was an issue he was on the enemy side now because of my 'Betrayal' he fought me. And he killed me. So I tracked him down and I found him executing a random captain we fought for roughly 10 minutes until I finally cut him down and was about to rerecruit him. ONLY FOR THE DESCION TO BE BLOCKED. I was forced to kill him. And that was the last time I played Shadow of Mordor for two years because around this time Shadow of War came out. I practicaly forgot about Shadow of Mordor until in 2019 i cam back to it and guess what happend seconds after i went out and about in mordor...................HE CAME BACK AND HE MURDERED ME ATLEAST SEVEN TIMES JUST LIKE THE GOOD OLD DAYS. But then one night I saw a mission it was an excution and Mormag was there excuting a guy name Ghorag the Mauler. Went down and enturupted it and I started fighting Mormag it was tough but i got him pretty low. But then coming from behind was Ghorag and he with his mace MURDERED MORMAG TO DEATH. at first i was not woried but after two days of him not returning I was woried. So i looked in the code and said next to Mormag's name IT SAID THAT HE WAS PERMANANTLY DESCEASED. I TRIED TO FIX THE CODE TO SAVE HIM BUT I ONLY MESSED UP THE GAME FURTHER. The game kept on crashing when i tried to start it up i knew the only way to play the game again i need to reinistal the game practiticaly making Mormag diseaper forever. And to this day i ahve never done that. It still remains at the bottom of my steam list never to be played again until the King of Mordor comes back...............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................I am going to try my hand at fixing th code and resurect the king but we shall see if that works..... UPDATE I ACTUALY DID YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH UPDATE 2 HE KILLED ME ONE SHOT UPDATE 3 THIS IS GLOUROIUS UPDATE 4 I HAVE NEVER HAD SO MUCH FUN FIGHTING AN NPC IN A VIDEO GAME UPDATE 5 ANY TIPS ON HOW TO RERERECRIUTED HIM I THINK THERE MIGHT BE A WAY IF A SHAME HIM A LOT

"He's immortal because his wife is dead" Almost woke my wife up both times laughing

I love how the orcs, fighting each other, all yell at you.

Lamlugs death was the funniest sh*t. Shadow of Mordor and War both have crazy moments nobody would believe unless recorded.

I actually clapped when he said "big round of applause everybody" ...it was the loneliest moment of my life

If more games featured a Nemesis System, I’d feel less obligated to save scum when thing don’t go my way.

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You had me at hierorchy.

I had a Nemesis in SoM that I remember practically hand crafting into a powerful enemy, I fought him at the end of the game, killing him, but when I booted up the Nemesis Forge there he was, missing an Eye. He followed me into SoW and was an absolute terror, I had created an orc that was too powerful and I only beat him barely. Then he decided he wasn't dead, and terrorized me in Minas Ithil, and actually followed me into Cirith Ungol (if I remember right). Either way, I didn't see much of him until I returned after getting the ring back, and he took over the Fortress, meaning I couldn't avoid him. I broke down the walls, killed his Orcs, but I couldn't bring him down, it was only through a Follower who saved me from a killing blow that took down Malmug Wrath-Breeder.

I had an orc named Horza who was the first guy I ever fought. He killed me about four times before I finally learned the game enough to kill him. Then he came back, his skin bright white and a rag around his throat. I killed him again, but.... He came back again. I don't even remember his title because eventually the game took his title away. I killed the orc 21 times, and each time he came back more and more incomprehensible. His power got up to 29, but.no orcs followed him. In fact, orcs attacked him on sight. He was a scarred mess of bandages and stitches holding his body together to the point where he stopped talking, I don't even know that he could anymore. He hunted me down relentlessly - I remember infiltrating an execution where one captain had three others that he was executing. I was already overwhelmed fighting them, but then Horza ran in from off screen and made everything so much worse. I fought that orc so many times that I never forgot him, and that was my favorite experience in this game.

But who killed Uggu? the orc didn't even had a name? Man he was my favorite

I love how they've made the killing of Talion into a game that determines who becomes a Captain.

I've never played this game in my life but I'm so glad this channel is active again. I shall now base all my knowledge of Shadow of Morder on this video

The nemesis system is honestly amazing, cannot explain the frustration of losing to the same orc over and over again, each time getting these crazy dice rolls of some of the most powerful traits in the game, only to finally, defeat them, turn them and be betrayed by them, honestly hours of gameplay out of just one rivalry that ended up frustrating me so much I'd just run as fast as I could to get away from them rather than fight, as it was just suicide trying, even though I thought I was rather good at the combat system by that point

If you look closely, approximately 12 frames after the camera begins to zoom in for the interaction (or 4 frames before Lamlug's death), you can see a berserker's thrown axe fly through the ground upon which Lamlug is kneeling. I believe this to be the cause of death.

Kaka makes the biggest splash in our hearts

Would love to see this Re-done with Shadow of War. The increased variety would be cool to see.

I've been watching several LotR lore videos recently, so when I saw the thumbnail, before reading the title, I thought this was a video about what happens to the orcs after Sauron's defeat.

I remember this one orc that had all resistances, was enraged by everything and had poisonous weapon, he killed me like 3 times before i finally killed him after like a 25 minute fight, after which he came back to life. What an amazing game

Gursha Hot Tongs was my first legendary captain.He killed me 20+times when I was still a freshly minted gravewalker.He was the orc that taught me the harsh reality of mordor.I just wish I could fight him again

That they could patent this system is beyond insane.

I had one ork that was practically invincible as he was immune to stealth ranged melee and fire (although I’m not sure about poison I’d have to check) and his only weakness was his fear of morgi flies

You should repeat this in Shadow of War with the more updated Nemesis system. It’d be great

07:33 is a uruk expression that means: "that was a great fight my lord, best luck for the next time!"

I love how this game is so much better when the player is genuinely terrible at it. At last a game dev truly understands the modern need for content.

You could say that Kakas career got repeatably flushed down the toilet... but he just kept resurfacing. Great video, loved the humor and the edits. Keep up the good work!

I wish we could see more of the nemesis system in other games. Its pretty cool.

the shadow of war system is better no? would be interesting to try it there

He's back!

I still remember Azgrom the Elder. A small and tough bastard that kept coming back from the dead. Killed him once more just before going off to fight the final boss. Then he shows up once again when I'm storming Minas Morgal in Shadow of War, where I finally beheaded him.

Ive been wating so long

Rewatching the beginning answered my question: Was your first death at Hura's hands? He was linked to you as your 'personal' nemesis it appears.

My toughest nemesis so far (I haven’t made it very far) was folgum. He killed me at least 30 times but not without help, he had two captains with him (can’t remember their names but they’re dead now). Folgum was the only war chief that’s taken more than a few tries for me to kill so far so I started to get frustrated. Eventually I was able to set it up just right where the captains were busy with caragors and Morgai flies but folgum was still interested in killing me. I lured him away from every one else and sliced his head off. It was so satisfying

The loving legend has returned!

I hope you upload more often, i been here since your first video and as soon as I see your videos pop up I immediately pick them, they are so funny and well done.

Never really understood the people who fondly wax poetic about the orcs they met in SoM/SoW, how they created unique stories by interacting with them (looking at you, Yahtzee). Personally I never really cared too much for any of the randomly generated orcs (some of the story npcs were fun, like ratbag or bruz), there were just too many of them, with too many recurring characteristics. Might be my fault for spending too much time grinding (cause unlocking new abilities in these games is like crack to me) and after a while you´ve just seen it all 5 times already.

Man, I subbed after the first 10sec. Loved this!! Upload more! I need you in my antisosial life

The return of the king!

Dude your dry sarcastic form of humor is so fucking good lmao. Time to binge all your content.

A throwing axe killed Lamlug you can see it if you look very very closely , this death was funny af tho

What happens if you die 100 times? I've known this for years. Happened to me trying to kill this one strong ass captain

this video truly answers the question: what happens to the orcs if you die a hundred times watching them? thank you

*died at hierorchy*

My most memorable orc was from Shadow of War. In the game's opening region I ran into a spear-tossing orc early and died to him. A bit of intel gathering afterward to plot vengeance revealed that he was weak to fire, which made short work of him in the re-match. A while later he returns, burn-scarred but still afraid of fire, and is killed AGAIN by fire. This warped him into an insane orc whose biggest fear and weakness became his strength. When he returned again he had become the Flame-tongue, speaking of a fire goddess and his devoted worship to her, and he became the biggest thorn in my side throughout the rest of my time in that area (three fights, he killed me in two and I got him in one). At the end of my time in that opening act he appears one more time for a final duel and it took me ten minutes to fight through his horde AND fight off another orc and his gang that crashed our battle but in the end the Flame-Tongue fell, chopped in half and the first of many, many memorable rivals in SoW. He dropped a legendary sword that bore his title and it's been in my inventory ever since, and was one of my most heavily used flame weapons. This is about when I fell in love with the Nemesis mechanic. There's nothing else like it in modern gaming.

My favorite Uruk ever was Prak The Elder, he was the first Uruk to kill me and his catchprhase was to practically shriek " YOUNG MAN" Across the room for all to hear when he'd spotted me , he would murder me two more itmes before I'd finally get the upper hand . I slit his throat, shot out his eye , and killed him in an explosion only for him to come back again and again . I thought i'd killed him in the explosion yet one day while sneaking around a base I heard a loud shriek. YOUNG MAN from far behind me, Prak at this point was faceless from the burns he'd received and had a bad hastily thrown over the majority of what remained of his face. I ran as he caught me at a terrible time and I decided to finally kill him one last time and plotted. I would hunt Prak and we'd have an epic sword fight, when I finally made him yield and drop to his knees the eyes peering through the bag were big and he expressed a solemn " No Like this" before Talion shoved a sword through his face. Honestly one of my favorite videogame enemies ever.

He's baaaaasck!

I once witnessed true Horror in the Form of one hooded Orc who just kept on adapting and becoming immune to almost everything, so he was impossible to beat in direct combat, with him evading almost every hit, countering frontal attacks, said immunity to Missiles, Execution and elven Light/Fist or how the stun move was called. He killed me more times than i can remember, showing up in fights with other captains and whatnot, ruining everything, so when i was finally able to finish him for good with one single stealth attack, the one thing he wasn't immune to, it was incredibly satisfying. (Not that i didn't tried this before, but every other attempt failed.) It's a wonder that he didn't even come back from the grave after all the trouble he gave me, but needless to say, guess who was waiting for me at the Black Gate?

Babe wake up, GamesOnHardMode just dropped a new video

It was my brothers first game, and it was a archer named Hura the Tiny. He killed him before they even beat the slavers mission, the first mission in the game. He lasted until the very end of the game. If my brother died and he was even in the area, he got XP, he died, he came back. He came back at the end, when you attack the towers base. He didn't last much longer.

Ain't nothing on my nemesis. That man was a monster I just avoided fighting. He got so sick of fighting me he just didn't show up when called by the black hand.

He died by arrow. No idea who shot it but I'm at 10:38 he's dying just off the screen but there's an Arrow that's above him traveling through where his bit box was when the death animation was triggered.

I had this one berserker orc who must have killed me a dozen times. He would just show up everywhere. Iirc he was immune to stealth and ranged, and was a combat master or something so would block attacks and counter and i couldnt jump over him. After killing me so much, i finally captured him by, iirc, some caragor and fire shenanigans, and he became my best champion. Just one shot everyone.

Damn, like those literary geniuses of orcish descent, you are quite witty. Subscibid

Return of the king

I have a warchief who legit one shots me at max health he's level 20 and he has the powerful attacks trait and also no chance so he pretty much one shots every thing

We NEED a 1 Hour Special of this Series idk why but it’s so entertaining seeing captains kill each other, beefing , recruiting , killing talion and all the stuff Orcs do 😂

For me in Shadow of Mordor, it was Gorbag, every time i killed him, he came back without fail

I don’t know how you’d do this for shadow of war, as it’s so big, but I’d watch it

if you wanna see someone put together a really compelling narrative with this system I'd recommend hitting up tearofgrace's shadow of morder series, he built up some of the most legendary and memorable nemesis's ive ever seen and still remember until this day

Azdush the stout I believe, I expected him to be a weak little detour as I went to do more important things, but then I saw his traits. He was immune to almost every way I could kill him, and could instantly kill beasts if he so pleased. So he just ruled until beat the game and dedicated 5 minutes to stun locking him, bashing his head into a wall until he finally died.

Kaka ghul lover, the toughest orc I’d ever seen, got up to level 20 before I had done a single story mission and was destroying me, and so I thought it fitting to pick his brain for intel when I killed him, and hopefully explode it, but that was not to be, as soon enough he was back up, his skin bleached and eyes blue, he hated me for using my wraith magic on him, and how it scrambled his brain. He couldn’t think straight anymore, as confessed by himself, but he sure could fight straight as he put me down plenty more times before I finally and eventually got the upper hand and he was proud in a way, as he said I had finally brought him down, and then I cut his head off, and he was finally ended and free

THE MAN RETURNS FUCK YES

10:32 Not sure if somebody already answered. but... Execution missions have a hidden timer. You need to save orc within a time limit. Otherwise he will automatically die. I assume you was hanging there for a while (for executor to kill other captured orks before coming to main one). So when you started the fight - time was already up and he.. died...

Hahahaha, such an awesome role playing, makes me want to reinstall the game again :)

I just returned to SoM again, discovered that if you die, new uruks are created at a lower level. In the Act 1 area I was getting steady Lvl 8-10 uruks until I died once, then started seeing Lvl 4-7. When I saw you were getting new uruks starting at Lvl 1, I was like... ah, that's why... Hilarious video though. As many times as I've played SoM and as many times as I've had unique nemesis uruks, this vid made it much more memorable.

I forget his name but I had this one orc that betrayed me and then i killed him i swear 10 times at least and he just kept comming back.🤣

Cod I wish I could remember, it's been many years since I played Mordor and War. Still love them to bits though. One of a kind. Cod, if only everyone else could use the Nemesis system… >:c

08:10 Thank you for your generous gift of nothing

I recall an epic Beastmaster Olog that had a party with him. When he called in a Graug (which epic beastmasters are wont to do) his party ended up summoning MANY more at the same time! I BADLY wanted him to by my bodyguard after that, but he ended dying in an offscreen duel

Another banger Mr. Hardmode

GamesOnHardMode's Hura the Hell-Hawk vs TearOfGrace's Prak Jaws Match of the century

Lmao your content is so underrated, I haven't laughed this hard in a long time 😂

I wish I could reminisce about tough orcs, I really do... but by the time I played this game, I'd already done several playthroughs of Batman: Arkham City, which has a virtually identical combat system. I was an expert in this game from the word 'go', which wasn't helped by the way I customized my build around health regen. The only thing that ever killed me in my first playthrough was a Caragor. I didn't even recognize the orc the game picked as my 'nemesis.' By the time I had the idea of making the game artificially harder by doing stuff like removing counter prompts, staying away from overpowered runes and not leveling health... it was too late. I already knew too much about the game. The only orc that ever REALLY gave me a challenge was a orc that got transferred from a friend's game for a Revenge quest. THAT orc was level 20, and immune to literally everything... except for his fear of fire. You simply could not damage him until you set him on fire... and on that playthrough, I was low-level enough that I had no means of creating my own fire, and low health-enough that a single shot from his triple-shot crossbow could put me in bleedout state. And I STILL beat him on my first attempt, after luring him over to an explosive. I missed the most interesting mechanic this game had to offer because of Batman.

I have no idea who you are, but the algorithm suggested this. Watched it, loved it, subscribed! I’m glad that your channel is active again, your style is excellent You should do a Pokémon Nuzlocke run, the emergent gameplay would be perfect for you

I played hundred of hours only to make my favorite orc kill eachother to get stronger, having control to the whole orc society and watch them live fight and die is the best. I missed this game, i'm going to play it again now. I wish more game would have the same system this.

I can't remember his name, but we fought and killed each other like 13 times, pretty even on the k/d, the day he died for good kinda took the wind out of my sails for this game which I think says a lot about how good of a system it is.

An Orc off screen shot an arrow at Lamlug, I heard a crossbow in the slowed down clip and he flies backwards

Hura is clearly voiced by Travis Willingham, who voices Grog in Critical Role. This is why he both ascended Mordor society and transcended the Shadow of Morder itself. The game code cannot let such a resonant baritone be randomly recycled into another orc. No, Hura is unique. Hura is the hero of Shadow of Mordor. Hura can never die because his wife too is dead.

Soooo funny😂😂 thanks for the video! 🤙🏻

in Shadow of War, I had an Orc that had probably the strongest weapon i've seen an Orc have. A crossbow that shot wall-penetrating, poison rounds (IIRC, havent played in a while). He showed up during one of the colosseum fights, and on the bridge fight at the end where i managed to turn him onto Talion's side. I'm pretty sure he's still around, working as an overseer with his prized crossbow.

How is it even legally possible to trademark the nemesis system? You generally cannot trademark general ideas. And the idea of enemies leveling up and rising in their ranks for their accomplishments is NOT a novel invention because it has its roots in realistic logic. Of how promotions work in the real world. Just use a different name and there's ZERO CHANCE any lawsuit against your system would ever win based on that trademark. It's not a patent after all, so you're just not allowed to call it a nemesis system basically, since I cannot imagine that the actual idea is protected. It must be simply the name that was trademarked.

that Ozymandias reference was class

*Starting a nemesis with an Orc:* "All good relationships begin with healthy communication." Orc: "No, go fuck yourself!" "Here, let me start: I like romance novels and movies, I love long walks on the beach, and my favorite color is purple." Orc: "I don't care, go haunt somebody else!" "But I love you. They're always in denial at first."

The first orc captain I killed came back TWELVE TIMES, I went on a bunch of chatting websites like Reddit to figure if he was like a key character or something but I could 't find any mention of him.

HELL YEAH

Tuka the Survivor (in Shadow of War actualy) I hated that guy. He killed me like 8 times in the first chapter in Minas Ithil, while I only managed to kill him 3 times. I moved on, conquered both Nurn and Cirith Ungol. After that came the Zog questline. In the final quest you travel to Minas now Morgul. I was wondering I would meet Tuka again( as he stayed dead after the 3rd kill). I knew Zog would resurrect some of the Orcs I've encountered so I hoped to meet him there, and that motherfucker ambushed me on my way to the quest. Then I realised how much I missed that guy, and an actual fight (he was enraged by everything, and immune to everything but poison and curse) I was finally able to recruit him. So I did. After that I went to Seregost, I moved him with me, and leveled the shit out of him. Thus he became my bodyguard. After like 10 hours of gameplay(I was near the end of the game excluding shadow wars) he decided he got fucking bored and just casualy betrayed and killed me. I wanted him back. Unfortunetally he had iron will so I had to shame him. After the 3rd shame still didn't bring good results, I killed him, because, he will come back right? He's the survivor. He didn't in fact, come back. I finished the whole game waited long, very long Please come back Tuka, I miss you

immediately subscribed after the hier-orcy joke. Absolute gold.

I can't remember his name, but my 'nemesis' in Shadow of Mordor somehow wasn't my nemesis in Shadow of War... instead of that random nemesis I don't remember, the guy who killed me 3 dozen times before I killed him FINALLY magically came back to life in War. I found him in the arena mission. I hadn't forgotten him. He hadn't forgotten me. He had poison and no weaknesses. I had to do that fight like 8 times.... He scares me to this day.

I can't remember his name, but there was an orc I came across in shadow of war who was immune to stealth, ranged and melee. He proceeded to follow me across a third of the map like the goddamn terminator while I desperately fought any grunts I could find to build up enough combo to hit him with an execution, constantly needing to check over my shoulder to make sure he wasn't getting too close. He killed me at least seven times in my playthrough and he came back once after I killed him. That was the closest I've come to having a warrior's rivalry in a game.

At the end of SoM I put a goofy bard uruk in charge. Thought it would be a funny sendoff. Little did I know he'd follow me into SoW, become glitches with 7 legendary attributes, and end up going on a 50+ undefeated streak in arena.