Warner Bros have been trying to patent the Nemesis System that featured in their Middle-Earth games.The Nemesis system, developed by Monolith Productions for Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor was well received for its ability to track player’s in-game actions, such as their victories and defeats at the hands of the game’s various procedurally generated Orcs.These Orcs would remember the player’s actions, and work their way up a complex hierarchy of other Orcs, taunting and challenging the player, as well as gaining special abilities to make them tougher to defeat.The video by Game Maker’s Toolkit on YouTube goes into great detail on the mechanic in the game, and how it is able to forge stories for the player.The brings up WB’s attempts to.
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