{"id":3644,"date":"2025-08-03T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-03T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.satecsite.org\/?p=3644"},"modified":"2025-08-04T10:14:27","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T10:14:27","slug":"middle-earth-shadow-of-mordor-is-the-best-game-thats-never-getting-a-remake-readers-feature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.satecsite.org\/index.php\/2025\/08\/03\/middle-earth-shadow-of-mordor-is-the-best-game-thats-never-getting-a-remake-readers-feature\/","title":{"rendered":"Middle-Earth: Shadow Of Mordor is the best game that\u2019s never getting a remake \u2013 Reader\u2019s Feature"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Middle-Earth: Shadow Of Mordor – gone but not forgotten (Warner Bros.)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A reader makes the case for Middle-Earth: Shadow Of Mordor getting a modern remaster, as he laments the fate of it and other aging \u2018not-quite-classics\u2019.<\/p>\n

When video games<\/a> take more and more time and budget to make, remasters and remakes are the closest thing publishers have to easy money. I can\u2019t really criticise them for that, as long as the end result is good, but we\u2019re at the point where some games have been remastered multiple times. Gears Of War: Reloaded<\/a> this year is going to be the second one, and it\u2019s not the only game in that position.<\/p>\n

The downside to this is that when a good game doesn\u2019t get a remaster it feels very unfair. There\u2019s a lot of talk about online games being abandoned by publishers nowadays, and no longer existing, but there\u2019s also single-player games that you can\u2019t buy anymore. Good luck getting a copy of Forza Horizon 4<\/a> or any of the old Spider-Man<\/a> games now, as anything other than physical versions, because they just don\u2019t exist now thanks to licences running out.<\/p>\n

Thankfully the game I want to talk about today isn\u2019t in that position, yet, and you can buy Middle-Earth: Shadow Of Mordor<\/a> for dirt cheap on Steam and the PlayStation Store. Although the Game of the Year Edition (that year being 2014) is still full price.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not that you can\u2019t get hold of Shadow Of Mordor if you want it, but that it\u2019s a great game that nobody talks about anymore and that\u2019s held back by being a cross-gen Xbox 360 game. Although I do recommend buying and playing it if you never have, I\u2019ve got to admit it\u2019s showing its age and that in an ideal world it would get a remaster or even a remake.<\/p>\n

If it wasn\u2019t a licensed game I\u2019m sure it would\u2019ve got a remaster or another sequel by now but I\u2019m not sure Warner Bros. even owns the Lord of the Rings licence anymore. They\u2019re still selling the game, but they haven\u2019t made a new one in over a decade.<\/p>\n

The biggest problem is that they shut down developer Monolith Productions<\/a>, so they can\u2019t make a new game or a remaster. Someone else could do it, but at this point that seems like it would be disrespectful, given there was no reason to close them in the first place.<\/p>\n

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