Favorite orc from Shadows of MORRDORR

[JennAnge]

A bit late, but I was busy with DA:I and only recently started with Mordor - sorry, Yahtzee, I mean *gargle*MORRRDORRR*gargle*. I thought the Nemesis system was just hype. 'Randomly generated orc names and features, blah blah, whee, break out the fun...'

Nosko the Painted is my orc war story. I ran into him and two patrollers shortly after I started, only my second Captain encounter. Beat him and moved on.

I died shortly thereafter - the only times an orc killed me, my other three deaths I was covered in claw marks rather than stab wounds - and was surprised to see Nosko still in the lineup. Had I missed somehow? Gotten mixed up? I invaded his event, beat him and he ran away. Nosko's weaknesses were Morgai Flies, Draug, Karagor, Fires, Sharp Pointy Things and Dirty Looks, it seems, because running away just as I was about to kill him became a thing with Nosko. That happened again. And AGAIN. Each time he'd be all puffed up: "I'll get you this time, Ranger! Revenge!" I'd whack him a bit - Nosko was only really any good in his imagination - and he'd run off, swearing eternal vengeance. Yeah, Yeah, see you in a couple of hours, Nosko.

But it turned out Nosko's Strengths, as well as those listed, included PR, because each time he ran off, he'd spin that into a survivalist victory story and gain power. Orcs are, it appears, gullible. And dumb.

Eventually Nosko reached power 11, and he suddenly wasn't so funny anymore. I invaded his event with the express intent of finishing him off once and for all, before he got too powerful. It took some work and a few blows to the back I had to ignore while I was running after the fleeing scumbag, but I finally stuck my sword through him. End of Event, red cross through his name, bye bye Nosko.

I was creeping towards my first war chief event. I exit a bush, hear a bellow, the camera pivots - a tub of lard with his face held together with DUCT TAPE comes at me shouting that he'll get me this time!

I dropped the war chief and everything else I had going. I used Drain, I used grab-n-shank, I might have used flurry too; I can't say for certain, all I remember is this rage-red blur. When I was done, there were pieces of Nosko all over the plains of Udûn.


He's no longer in the lineup so I guess he's dead? I'm on war chief 3 and Captain Who's Counting, so I assume he's gone. But every time a bush rustles or an orc bellows, my stomach clenches at the wild thought it could be Nosko again, and maybe this time he'll get me, if only by dint of fouling up my action against a tougher orc.

Man, I love this game more than I thought I would Though my husband's popped his head into my office twice now to ask me to stop shouting "DIE! DIE! NOW STAY DEAD DAMMIT!" at my monitor.

Anybody else got any good orc stories? (You don't need this much detail, though if an orc got to you as much as Nosko got to me, you probably remember them)

 

[hazabaza1]

The only one I remember was some guy who wore a crown that was on fire but it bugged out at the end and he just had a fiery head.
I cut it off.

 

[SoreWristed]

Dush, for comedy reasons

lonk : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atWRu6SGK8g

 

[small]

i cant remember his name but id killed him 4 times he escaped 3 assassination attempts and went from unknown minion to warchief immune to practically everything apart from his 4 bodyguards chopping him to pieces

 

[Sonicron]

-SNIPPITYSNIP-

I sadly have no story to contribute to your thread, as I haven't played the game yet (waiting until I get a PS4, should be sometime this year). However, I wanted to congratulate you on crafting this wonderful piece of condensed hilarity... oh lord, I'm still crying with laughter. You totally made my day, and now I'm even more stoked for this game.

 

[Amaror]

I had this one guy, who was a pain.
I don't remember his name but i always called him Lucky. Because he was lucky. Always. I was on the quest to kill a warchief and had my first encounter with lucky because he was a bodyguard of said warchief. The battle wasn't anything special and just when i was about to kill lucky another orc who i had wounded earlier came and shot me, which gave lucky the chance to stab me dead.
Now i was angry at the stupid orc who had come back and swore to really make him dead this time.
I make my way were the orc is supposed to be and it turns out he was currently in the proccess of being executed, by lucky if you can believe it. I could have just waited but raging as i was i said to myself "THIS IS MY KILL" and attacket lucky before he could finish of the other orc, which made the other orc flee. I was really angry at that other orc and ran him down, but once i got and killed him i had allerted three more captains to me and an freaking army instantly slaughered me.
After that lucky had now:
Weapon-master, which means he is basically immune to melee attacks
Stealth-immunity
Combat-finisher-immunity
Poisened weapon. He was a freaking beast.
I only managed to defeat him in the end by cheap kiting and shooting him in the face roughly a thousand times. But at least he didn't come back.

 

[Truth Cake]

Pushkrimp Man-Stalker. First met him as a captain in the latter half of the game but by that point I had figured out the game pretty well and I'd killed probably a dozen of his chums mere minutes ago so I figured I could pretty much handle anything he threw at me. I snuck into the fort where he was residing (not that I knew it at the time, I was going to assassinate a totally different captain who was in said fort and ran into Pushkrimp before I found the other, less interesting captain), and engaged Pushkrimp in direct combat because I'm a man's man and I can't be bothered to sneak around (alright, it's because I'm just bad).

Well, little did I know Mr. Man-Stalker was immune to stealth kills, direct combat (both regular attack and finishers) and any form of animal attack, as well as having enhanced health regeneration and a poisoned weapon that took out like 3/4 of my health with the first hit. Yeah, not kidding. Not that I knew it at the time of engaging him though, I actually didn't know of his existence until I ran into him and found I was totally out of my league.

With all of my usual methods of orcicide nullified, the only reliable option was my sad, underutilized bow that I could only carry 6 arrows for at the time. Even 6 direct headshots only dropped his health like halfway and in the time it would take me to gather up 6 more arrows his enhanced regeneration would heal up all of it, so after realizing I was quite boned I turned to run before running into one of his fat armored buddies that I had previously killed but now returned with half of his head made of iron, Ishgka Death Blade, a much less frightening adversary but- here's the kicker- Ishgka, evidently having gained some new combat skills from the new iron half of his skull, was now immune to vaulting when he wasn't before so my attempt at jumping over his head to escape from Pushkrimp was sadly thwarted and Pushkrimp promptly murdered me.

But I paid him back. After killing me Pushkrimp was promoted to bodyguard of some schmuck warchief whom I don't remember much, and naturally when I got back into the action I made a beeline for Pushkrimp, seething for revenge. Once I found him, I managed to lure him next to some grog barrels before shooting them with an arrow, blowing him up and taking out 90% of his health and lighting him on fire.

Being the good samaritan that I am though, I saved him from burning to death by performing ye olde brainwashing technique. Killing the warchief he was supposed to be protecting with him on my side was almost too easy, hardly had to lift a finger. Of course Pushkrimp became warchief in what's-his-face's place and by that point the game might as well have just thrown up it's arms and said 'well, that's about it for the challenging part of the game, now Pushkrimp will do all the work for you'. After a while I got bored of how easy Pushkrimp made killing literally any other orc captain or warchief so I just killed him off and went back to doing things myself.

EDIT- Almost forgot one of the more interesting parts of the story being that later in the final mission I brought Pushkrimp with me (I didn't kill him until after the story ended and I was free to dick around) I wound up fighting Ishgka Death-Blade with Pushkrimp on my side (and the other warchiefs who I either don't remember or aren't terribly interesting, or I don't remember because they weren't terribly interesting). I wish I could say that Pushkrimp was the one who killed Ishgka a second time because that would be an interesting conclusion to this story, but it was such a clusterfuck of myself and orcs both under my control and not that don't really know who killed Ishgka.

 

[DemomanHusband]

I had a fellow named Mogg The Brave, this annoying chubby orc who started out as little more than a mook Defender who ended up killing me while I was half asleep and had the reaction time to match. I went on a simple revenge quest, killed him at his feast, and thought I was done with it. Next thing I know, he's creeping after me while I go attack a stronghold for funsies. My little sister had decided to watch me play, so I tried showing her how the Nemesis System works by using whatever I could to scare the orc. Turns out, he had no fears, not even a weakness, only some vulnerabilities. Mind you, this was early in the game, so I think the system may have screwed up and boned me on this one.

Anyway, I end up finishing him off on accident with a Wraith Stun, since I was cheesing him in a crowd of other Uruks. I thought all was said and done until, once again, he appeared with just a couple of blue eyes and blue-veined scars on his face. Something like that. Claimed that he wanted revenge, and also stated that he hated the names he got for his scars. Killed him again, rinse, repeat.

To cut a long story short, I ended up killing him five more times until I reached the Nurnen Sea. By then, I gained the ability to brand orcs, and I ended up managing to bran Mogg after I finished all my business in Nurnen (Except for the last mission). We had some great stories to tell, but it's been so long since my first playthrough that I forgot most of the memorable bits. I was honestly sad that I couldn't bring him to attack the Tower with me. It was like having to leave behind your angry older brother when you go hunting. You know he'd be helpful, but it's probably for the best that he didn't come anyway, because he might hurt himself.

 

[happyninja42]

I think his name was Fogrim the Shield. I might have the name wrong, but "the Shield" part is right. He was a big, pudgy orc, who developed a little place in my heart. I was looking for him, because I had learned that one of the warchiefs was afraid of him. So I thought I'd mind-shackle him and send him against him. So I went hunting for him, but didn't know where he was. I was in a big orc camp, trying to navigate my way through, and noticed a few orc captains that were going to be tough. So, I decided to unleash some wargs to cause some chaos. As soon as I did, a high pitched, piercing scream of terror split the night. The camera zoomed in on a terrified orc, and happily told me his name was Fogrim the Shield! Well lucky day! I found him and learned his weakness all at once. He was able to get away though due to a massive orc horde delaying me. But I came back later with a warg and ran him down. I bent him to my will, and then set him up to become the bodyguard for the warchief. His upgrade mission pit him against his biggest fear, a warg. I thought this was actually pretty poetic, that he stood and faced his greatest fear, and accomplished it. When he was promoted, he lost that weakness to wargs. I then called out the warchief, and set his bodyguards against him. All 5 of them were my minions at that point, so they stomped him easily, especially since Fogrim made him freak out and panic right away.

I still question the logic of the warchief, to make the one orc he was terrified of his bodyguard, but hey, it made for a great little story.

 

[JennAnge]

Those are some awesome stories Thanks, all you long-suffering rangers!

Yahtzee called it: the Nemesis-generated orcs are often more interesting than the protagonist(s), though I find the way Talion loses his rag with a few of the more bumbling orcs in cutscenes rather hilarious too. It's probably unintentional, but it's still funny. I did not expect Mordorrrrr to make me chuckle as much as it does, gotta say Chalk this one up to Nice Surprise of 2014.

 

[JennAnge]

....Aaaand I got to the end of SOM. In that first line fight as I storm the gates...



NOSKO THE PAINTED!! You're back from the dead! AGAIN!

Though he was more Nosko the Taped Together at that point.

So the game decided that Nosko was my nemesis. Can't fault it on that logic. Though maybe not in the way the dev's intended - he was more MY nemesis than Tallion's at this point. When he said our fates were twisted together, I said "Ew!!!" so loudly the dog started to bark. But it made that first fight at the gate personal and, when I (finally?) killed him for good, very satisfying. The fight against the Talons was pretty badass too.

Then there were the two bosses, but less said about them the better.

I'm going to go back to Udun again and see if Nosko is still around. Just for kicks. Killing him has become something of a hobby.

FInal verdict: really fun game, and I will never look at an orc in a LOTR movie/book the same way again, without wondering what secret fears hide behind their bluster, what horrible battles they survived to rise to power, what kind of animal drives them crazy and what their favourite colour is.

 

[Scarecrow1001]

Ishmoz Blade Sharpener!! He was the first Uruk I let kill me, as I was testing out the Nemesis system. So, naturally, I went after him. First time I saw him, I shot him through the head with an arrow. He was killed, I picked up the rune, and that was that!
Until he came back.
And then again.
I killed him (and once finally) a total of 5 times. By the end, he had metal plating, wrappings all around his face, and a caption of 'Cannot chew his food without his scars hurting'. Because I cannot figure the silly system of image posting, here are links.
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Ishmoz prior to final Death
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Close up (blurry) of his strengths
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Ishmoz FINALLY FULLY dead.
I miss him sometimes...

 

[freaper]

I'll just copy and paste what I wrote in a similar thread a few months back, if that's okay.

I'll tell you the story of Pûg Fleet Foot, a lowly, scrawny orc who was minding his own business under the shadow of a broken tower with two of his uruk palls. He had the scare of his life when some darkly clad pigskin came crashing down, dagger first, onto Grom, killing him instantly. The human, with one quick movement, slit Nathôg's throat, leaving the only one standing, you guessed it, Pûg. Completely shocked by that unusual display of violence (for a ranger) the little orc mustered what courage he had left in the back of his head and charged his friends' killer. Strangely, the man put up no fight, and seemingly let himself be clubbed to death. And that's how Pûg received the rank of Captain, but that's not how his story ends.

He quickly rose the ranks, overcoming difficult challenges with an eerie ease. From the corner of his piss-yellow eyes, the ashen skinned orc believed he saw a shadowy figure on multiple occasions, felling Pûg's opposition for him, but running away as soon as the orc turned his attention towards the figure's location. Not even a week after that lucky accident, Pûg had become Warchief, a rank the simple orc had figured to be unattainable. With the power grew the respect for him, and not long after his promotion he was assigned a bodyguard, a tough looking uruk with a shield the size of Pûg. A second bodyguard joined his posse, follow by a third, a fourth and... a fifth? It wasn't unusual for strong and imposing warchiefs to have a large gang backing them up, but even the most feared leaders didn't have five bodyguards guarding them at all times.

Pûg, however, wasn't concerned. He believed himself to be nigh immortal; assisted by a divine figure and defended by five uruks twice the size of him, nothing could go wrong. Until, of course, his hunter bodyguard defied him openly in front of his whole crew of guards. He had lured Pûg away from his gang to ask him something about the next feast. Not even one second after the backstabbing guard had spoken his betrayal, Pûg felt a blade enter his spleen. Once again he felt that complete terror he had felt that afternoon his palls were killed by the human. Twisting his head he saw the blue-grey eyes of the dead ranger staring into his soul. With a faint whisper Pûg died, betrayed by his five guards, and stabbed by his divine providence.

If you enjoy setting up these kinds of stories for yourself, you should play the game.

P.S.:I did get the achievement

 

[The Wykydtron]

My favourite was the most tenacious bastard ever, he had some really shit name I think Pog The Coward or something similar. He lived through 3 deaths, by the time he came back the fourth time his face was nothing but bandages and scars and he was nursing a grudge beyond belief. I was half expecting him to come back with his head attached by string when the 4th kill beheaded him. He was this really shit thin, short crappy orc with a short sword and no special combat traits and he just would not stop trying. Like I'd be on my own doing something then my camera would whip around with this joker shouting "ROUND 3, I'LL WIN THIS TIME" then he gets rekt in 5 seconds because he decided against doing a training montage between tries.

He was basically what Talion must feel like to the more awesome Orcs when they keep killing him. "Really man? Again? Damn you're a filthy tryhard"

 

[Spacewolf]

Heh I had a Nosko myself only he was Nosko the Destroyer.

Think he was about the 4th orc captain I killed, and when he showed up the second time I was in the middle of fighting another two captains when he ran me though with his spear. After that he came back another 7 or 8 times with the final score being something like 3-5 to me. He was also by far the strongest Orc in the first section for the entire game with him being maxed out at level 20 while most of the others where stuck around the low teens. By the end he even somehow managed to have an eye patch over a bag for a head and I absolutely refused to turn him to my side just so I could have the final word.

 

[Uncle Comrade]

Gorfel the Tainted was just a lowly bottom-rung captain, until the day he and his crew managed to corner and beat down the hated ranger. Naturally, the ranger immediately sought revenge, but there was one thing he hadn't counted on; Gorfel, being the luckiest bastard alive, was immune to everything. Ranged attacks, stealth attacks, combat finishers and even just getting straight up hit with a sword.

Naturally, the ranger had to pull a hasty retreat and rethink his plans (rushing up behind orcs and jabbing a dagger into the sides of their heads had worked so well up until then...) leaving Gorfel to boast of managing to scare away the might gravewalker, and net himself a nice little power boost. Every time they met after that was the same, Gorfel shrugging off the attacks of the increasingly desperate ranger, who eventually had no choice but to give up and run off. Gorfel even started to enjoy his indestructibility, and started to make a point of showing up to ruin the ranger's carefully planned operations, taunting him all the while. The sheer badass credentials he built up from being the only orc who the gravewalker wouldn't even dare try and kill eventually led to him being promoted to Warchief after the previous chief contracted a mysterious case of head explosion.

Gorfel had finally made it to the top of the heap, but sadly it was not to last. His own bodyguard Pash turned on him, luring him away from his cronies and attacking him in a secluded part of the camp. Even then Gorfel wasn't worried. He was the invincible orc, nothing could touch him! Blinded by pride, the warchief strayed too close to a barrel of grog, which suddenly exploded, covering him in flaming home brew. His one weakness, that he had tried so hard to keep secret - his fear of burning!

All bravado forgotten, Gorfel turned and fled, perhaps hoping to find a puddle to stop, drop and roll in, but he never got the chance. Out of nowhere someone charged into him, knocking him to the ground. The ranger, allied with the treacherous Pash, had been biding his time all along! As the ranger's knife stabbed into his fire-ravaged body again and again, and his life drained away, Gorfel could swear he heard a triumphant voice, coming not from his enemy, but somehow beyond the world itself, saying "Ha, fucking burn you goit! Not so unkillable now, are you?"

 

[Haerthan]

I forgot the orc's name, cause I played it sometime ago and I didn't come back. So this dude I killed him 4 TIMES. 4 TIMES. I was trying to do a story mission when he came after the 5th time and I said to myself : You got Brand buddy. That dude deserves to live. So the 5th time I branded him and made him mine. Now he tenaciously hunts down everyone for me. Damn buddy it's like the orc version of the whole Come back to life to gain revenge. Seriously, the 5th time I was like YOu gotta be kidding me. Branded.

 

[CpT_x_Killsteal]

Mine was some guy named Prakk. He was pretty much immune to literally everything except ranged attacks, and I was so early in the game that I had fuck-all I could do against him, especially with no dash attack and limited arrows.

Here's what he was immune to:
Melee attacks
Jumping over
Stealth attacks
The dog things
Morgai flies
and probably satan too.

Oh, and he was always surrounded by allies, and he had a crossbow that fired exploding bolts. So if I wanted to drain someone to get more arrows, he'd blow us both to smithereens. I eventually beat him with great difficulty. He came back once, but I was powerful enough by then to handle him.
He was the very first prick I met too, and he was around for most of the first map making my life hard.

 

[Prime_Hunter_H01]

I don't remember their names but I started a riot using a branded Warchief, doing the main story required branding of warchiefs, my warchif had no body guards but the opposing warchief had 4 branded body guards. So with those odds I figured I would swoop in and dominate the warchief when he was down, except that at 75% health he was instant killed by his body guard, so I got my branded warchief in the end, but i did not expect it to be a field promotion.

Also the achievements in this game are some of the best I have ever seen because is feels like such an accomplishment and dick move to get the nemesis system related ones.

 

[RedDeadFred]

Slak the Puny

He was a massive asshole to me early on in the game. He always seemed to show up when I was low on health. He'd beat me down just as I was finishing a tough fight. Best part about him was that he wouldn't actually kill me. He'd just taunt me after his victory and run off since I wasn't worthy.

After three ambushes by this fucker, I finally put a stop on the story, gathered some intel, and hunted the guy down. My attack was surprisingly successful since there were some morgul flies nearby to scare him. I defeated him by shooting him in the face a few times as he ran towards me (fleeing from the flies).

Flash forward a bit and I'm in another tough fight. Suddenly, fucking Slack shows up again. Turns out, you need to do a combat finisher on captains to make sure they stay dead. Slak was now sporting a nice new helmet that made him immune to ranged attacks. Our duel was much tougher this time, but in the end, his head was removed from his body. Very satisfying.

There have been other memorable orcs, but Slak was the first. He was a special kind of asshole who seemed designed to prey upon new players.