Uploaded September 2021 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Credit to The Real Ranger - bit.ly/2usglWP || Ed's Twitch: twitch.tv/editedward || Ed's Patreon: bit.ly/2pNOtYn || Fan-Run Discord: bit.ly/2GeJNoB || "Murmurs have been heard of a second Gravewalker in Mordor. A much less suave, much less skilled one..."
For anyone wondering, yes this is STILL from the recording batch during release week. When you start seeing Outlaw Tribes, Slaughter Tribes, #Gravewalker Difficulty etc. you'll know we're in the modern day but back then, none of those existed.
(Yeah, but real talk a mo) I know there's all likelihood to be a good chunk of people who scream "RIPOFF!" in the comments so lemme just beat y'all to the punch. I know I'm not the glorious man himself, I ain't trying to be. Doesn't change the fact I've seen people decry many a decent Shadow Of Mordor video for being a knock-off even when they weren't trying to be. Thus, I, another English shouty (admittedly less graphic-ish) bloke looking to experiment with edited content knew I was going to get a smack with that old hammer too. So why fight it? There was no way to pass this up, but to do the joke properly I had to embrace the knockoff and help Tallioon to his true destiny! To be, THE DISCOUNT RANGER! Congrats! You're a wraith, banished from death! But someone else has already been owning that gig for years, now what? And the narrative just writes itself :D
So instead, go celebrate the return of our Mordor lord. The T to the O to the amazing G! (Yes, that's Tearofgrace for you folks at the back, who somehow still keep missing this and think either I don't know or am however trying to "get away" with something under the radar). Link in the endcard and description. Peace y'all! For on this day, The #DiscountRanger rides for Mordor!
Other than that. I hope you enjoy this satire story of shameless knock-off as it revels in the ripping! :D That said I didn't want to steal the WHOLE style (e.g. bad joke cutaways, screams etc.) - the older more sedate (but still dramatic) SoM-era style was the aim. Plus there's a growing amount of "me" in here as time goes by since, well, we're different dudes.
TLDR; cut a guy some slack eh? :)
Sound Assets pinched from Various Games
Bought from HumbleBundle
Downloaded from sites offering freebies over Covid
& some are straight up custom Frankensteins I made myself
Additional Music By:
Samuel Kim: youtu.be/kNtBqSET7dw
The Toons: youtu.be/TPp_WRtZnfE
#Shadowofwar
Credit to The Real Ranger - bit.ly/2usglWP || Ed's Twitch: twitch.tv/editedward || Ed's Patreon: bit.ly/2pNOtYn || Fan-Run Discord: bit.ly/2GeJNoB || "Murmurs have been heard of a second Gravewalker in Mordor. A much less suave, much less skilled one..."
For anyone wondering, yes this is STILL from the recording batch during release week. When you start seeing Outlaw Tribes, Slaughter Tribes, #Gravewalker Difficulty etc. you'll know we're in the modern day but back then, none of those existed.
(Yeah, but real talk a mo) I know there's all likelihood to be a good chunk of people who scream "RIPOFF!" in the comments so lemme just beat y'all to the punch. I know I'm not the glorious man himself, I ain't trying to be. Doesn't change the fact I've seen people decry many a decent Shadow Of Mordor video for being a knock-off even when they weren't trying to be. Thus, I, another English shouty (admittedly less graphic-ish) bloke looking to experiment with edited content knew I was going to get a smack with that old hammer too. So why fight it? There was no way to pass this up, but to do the joke properly I had to embrace the knockoff and help Tallioon to his true destiny! To be, THE DISCOUNT RANGER! Congrats! You're a wraith, banished from death! But someone else has already been owning that gig for years, now what? And the narrative just writes itself :D
So instead, go celebrate the return of our Mordor lord. The T to the O to the amazing G! (Yes, that's Tearofgrace for you folks at the back, who somehow still keep missing this and think either I don't know or am however trying to "get away" with something under the radar). Link in the endcard and description. Peace y'all! For on this day, The #DiscountRanger rides for Mordor!
Other than that. I hope you enjoy this satire story of shameless knock-off as it revels in the ripping! :D That said I didn't want to steal the WHOLE style (e.g. bad joke cutaways, screams etc.) - the older more sedate (but still dramatic) SoM-era style was the aim. Plus there's a growing amount of "me" in here as time goes by since, well, we're different dudes.
TLDR; cut a guy some slack eh? :)
Sound Assets pinched from Various Games
Bought from HumbleBundle
Downloaded from sites offering freebies over Covid
& some are straight up custom Frankensteins I made myself
Additional Music By:
Samuel Kim: youtu.be/kNtBqSET7dw
The Toons: youtu.be/TPp_WRtZnfE
#Shadowofwar



![(Outdated. Patch 6) I Beat BG3s Honour Mode With No Party, Levels, Respecs, Elixirs Or Equipment.
Baldurs Gate 3 and I have...a strange relationship.
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Honour Modes been a heck of a time, and now after so very long playing on and off Ive finally proved to myself it IS indeed possible to beat an HM challenge run without using elixirs, respecs, (excessive) barrelmancy, levelling or even party members. Safe to say Im really looking forward to continuing the sane co-op runs I have going with my friends, my Mum, and my own for-fun modded escapades in Patch 7 (praise be!).
Just in case it wasnt clear enough, Ill repeat it here one last time for the folks at the back. I rib a lot in this video, most of which is engine or adaptation based - about 90% is jest, so do take my sass with some salt. This old bag of bones does sincerely like BG3, and Ive loved Larian Studios for over 2 decades now - they made some of my modern faves (Divinity: Original Sin 2) and games that shaped my tastes growing up (Divine Divinity, represent!).
The game still has some wobbly points, actually quite a lot as you get deeper in (almost like public EA development pushes a lot of focus to the early segments and risks the latter portions). But its still undeniably great by modern standards and deserved a lot of the praise it garnered.
A lot of the gripes I hold arent Larrys fault, theyre consequences of time cuts (ostensibly to not release-compete with Starfield of all things. LOL) and after some less-than-great treatment by WotC...no surprises there. Theyve also done an ADMIRABLE amount of work patching up the product after the fact. They even fixed my biggest single gripe in Patch 5/6, finally making the non-lethal knockout system actually function (mostly)!
But even if its more to gaming overall that Larry directly - I still think Im within rights to say as a consumer I wouldve just personally preferred something a bit more consistently spread; an opinion thats thankfully now safe to say - since at release it was considered heresy to be punished in flames.
Hats off to you, Larry. See you in Rivellon!
~Chaptering~
0:00:00 Intro
0:02:17 Character Creation
0:04:18 Nautiloid
0:07:01 Act 1, Easy Bits
0:17:01 Act 1, Delving Deeper
0:30:59 Act 1.5, Monastery
0:33:49 Act 1.5, Grymforge
0:36:14 Act 2, Beginning
0:47:43 Act 2, The Ketheric Conundrum
0:54:49 Gith Of Doom
1:00:17 Gith Of Doom 2: Astral Boogaloo
1:06:18 Act 3, Grief & Sundry
1:13:34 Act 3, Family Reunion
1:15:26 Act 3, Gortash Floorsplash
1:16:30 Act 3, The Final Stretch (Outdated. Patch 6) I Beat BG3s Honour Mode With No Party, Levels, Respecs, Elixirs Or Equipment.](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/obXNifC_LQ0/mqdefault.jpg)






