8 More Video Games You Can Break By Playing Perfectly

4. Breaking The Nemesis System - Lord Of The Rings: Shadow of Mordor

If you’ve played Shadow of Mordor or hung around here with us at WhatCulture long enough you’re probably across the fact that the Nemesis system is pretty special. The mechanic works by building a network of enemies in a hierarchy who remember your actions and react to them in interesting ways. Enemy Captains, Warchiefs, and Overlords will develop their own quirks, strengths, weaknesses, and traits as a result of the battles they take part in. On top of that, when they kill you they get promoted.

Of course that really does work best assuming you actually get killed.

If you don’t get killed then you pretty much break the whole thing and it doesn’t work. If you actively try and subsequently succeed in killing off all the Orcs then you won’t die at all, you’ll just kill off the Captains and then the whole revolutionary gameplay system won’t really affect you. They do sometimes reincarnate and cheat death so you’ll sometimes see them again but by-and-large there’s a decent chance you’ll have seen the last of them, so you were accidentally too good for your own good.

Congratulations, you played yourself.