so I got bored enough to torrent it and it's good fun popamole. Like, it's pure popamole, don't expect anything less, but the nemesis system stuff is actually really fun and it does a lot of cool little things that skip the fillery bullshit that take up a lot of your time in open-world games. It knows you're here to fuck around with orcs and gives you that on a platter. My girlfriend was laughing at me earlier because I got one nemesis, a horrible little archer shitler, who kept popping up at the most inconvenient times and murdering me with a volley of fire arrows, and he made me so fucking mad. I can't believe how angry I got at an imaginary videogame orc, then I actually felt bereft of something special when I killed him off for good. It's a great system that deserves crafted on to a much better game - imagine STALKER with this shit, it would be incredible.
I feel like it's going to get too easy very soon though. Glad I torrented it but don't think it's worth paying above-steam-sale prices for. I like the Arkham games and if you like those you'll like this. If you don't - and I can see why you wouldn't - look away.