Shadow of Mordor wasn’t bad. In fact, all reviews agreed the Nemesis System is amazing. Shadow of War, with its microtransactions that were later removed, was the problematic one. I only bought it long after the transactions were removed so I never got to experience them and was overall very happy with the game, having spent aboit 200 hours on it.
Which one? Infdev? Pre-combat update? That update before everything changed in the stages before release?