I know it's more of a preview so far, but I hope this isn't the main idea they're going to go with for the main story. Or at least the dark lord should have a really good reason for letting himself captured like that.
Like a really god damn good reason, not just some stupid excuse like "I did it to get directly to the queen" because that is just plain moronic.
In the previous game, at the end, it was made very clear that the elves are powerless and vulnerable, ripe for the taking and cannot hope to win against the player in a direct confrontation, which is why the elf queen sent assassins after the dark lord, and when that didn't work she didn't declare war, or attempt to get her servants back, she instead just begged to have her nation left alone.
And now we march on their city with several thousand orcs, utterly crush them, get the opportunity to besiege the city, and then, instead, he just sacrifices his entire army and lets himself captured? At no guarantee that he was going to be left alive given that he's seen as a personification of absolute evil?
The city was vulnerable, he could've just defeated them, enslaved the queen, capture the town, and train her in her own castle.
You could argue there's no guarantee he would've won, or that he would've lost a lot of troops. If he had lost in a genuine attempt, he could've followed through with whatever his plan is right now. And as it stands, instead of taking some casualties in a siege, he sacrificed his entire army with no chance to defend themselves, on purpose.
If he just wanted to be taken prisoner, why didn't he just go to the city alone and turn himself in? The queen already knows what he looks like from the conversation they had.
I really hope PT either changes some of the dialogue around to make more sense, scrap the whole "captured" idea altogether (he doesn't have to give up on his animation and assets so far, he can just rewrite the entire dialogue,) or has a somewhat decent logical explanation for this turn of events. I'm not asking for a grand master scheme, just a shred of logic as to why the main character decided that when he wants a door open and has the key to it, he instead swallows the key and then proceeds to ram his head against the door hoping he can break it.