Evening all.
Just a quick one to get a general idea of the opinions of the wider community here.
I've just been scanning around the internet to find a bit more information about DoW2: Retribution, as I've pre-ordered and pre-loaded on Steam and wanted to know what I've just spent £29 on.
I came across the official website, which stated that the characters for the Space Marines faction would include old favourites Sergeant Cyrus and Techmarine Martellus, as well as ex-opponent Captain Diomedes and an entirely new Sergeant character.
Naturally, I was thrilled at the return of Cyrus and Martellus - partially because I'm a massive fan of Steve Blum - because Cyrus was, by a long country mile, my favourite character in Dow2 and DoW2: Chaos Rising. Cyrus, aside from being useful in any given mission type in terms of gameplay, was (in my opinion) the least wooden of the characters the player had to associate with on a regular basis. He was also indescribably badass - I mean, whilst the other characters act all noble and honourable, chanting litanies of prayer as they wade into combat, you can genuinely imagine Cyrus standing in front of a charging carnifex, arms folded, saying "Challenge accepted".
Just wondering if there were any particular sergeants anyone would have preferred a return from instead of Cyrus? Or none whatsoever - to have worked with an entirely new character set?
The one other option of course would have been to bring back ALL the sergeants from DoW2 and Chaos Rising. Whilst it might get a bit old pretty quickly, especially in the face of three other brand new single player campaigns, there may have been some merit to bringing them all back - as this is (according to marketing) the final chapter in the defence of the Aurelian sector, it might have been nice to see the same force who'd fought for it in two previous games see the war through to it's final conclusion. There's also the characterisation aspect to consider - the sergeants all (despite being acted a bit badly in some areas) had a different personality that worked well in the group; Avitus, the grumpy bastard, had a tendency to rile the brash, quick-to-anger Thaddeus, whilst the cynical Cyrus stood in the corner being sarcastic before the cool-headed Tarkus reined them in. Once Davian joined the team, he tended to just lurk around offering advice. In Chaos Rising, he took Tarkus' place as the level-headed character as Tarkus had to have a few chaos-influenced moments.
It did really work as a setpiece and, as I said it might have been nice to have the same set of marines finish off the war they'd seen the start of twelve years previously.
But hey ho - decisions are made for a reason.
So - what's eveyone's opinion?
Relic have got it right?
A different character should have been ressurected?
No characters should have been brought back?
Or they should have used the same squad from the previous games?
Cheers guys!
Just a quick one to get a general idea of the opinions of the wider community here.
I've just been scanning around the internet to find a bit more information about DoW2: Retribution, as I've pre-ordered and pre-loaded on Steam and wanted to know what I've just spent £29 on.
I came across the official website, which stated that the characters for the Space Marines faction would include old favourites Sergeant Cyrus and Techmarine Martellus, as well as ex-opponent Captain Diomedes and an entirely new Sergeant character.
Naturally, I was thrilled at the return of Cyrus and Martellus - partially because I'm a massive fan of Steve Blum - because Cyrus was, by a long country mile, my favourite character in Dow2 and DoW2: Chaos Rising. Cyrus, aside from being useful in any given mission type in terms of gameplay, was (in my opinion) the least wooden of the characters the player had to associate with on a regular basis. He was also indescribably badass - I mean, whilst the other characters act all noble and honourable, chanting litanies of prayer as they wade into combat, you can genuinely imagine Cyrus standing in front of a charging carnifex, arms folded, saying "Challenge accepted".
Just wondering if there were any particular sergeants anyone would have preferred a return from instead of Cyrus? Or none whatsoever - to have worked with an entirely new character set?
The one other option of course would have been to bring back ALL the sergeants from DoW2 and Chaos Rising. Whilst it might get a bit old pretty quickly, especially in the face of three other brand new single player campaigns, there may have been some merit to bringing them all back - as this is (according to marketing) the final chapter in the defence of the Aurelian sector, it might have been nice to see the same force who'd fought for it in two previous games see the war through to it's final conclusion. There's also the characterisation aspect to consider - the sergeants all (despite being acted a bit badly in some areas) had a different personality that worked well in the group; Avitus, the grumpy bastard, had a tendency to rile the brash, quick-to-anger Thaddeus, whilst the cynical Cyrus stood in the corner being sarcastic before the cool-headed Tarkus reined them in. Once Davian joined the team, he tended to just lurk around offering advice. In Chaos Rising, he took Tarkus' place as the level-headed character as Tarkus had to have a few chaos-influenced moments.
It did really work as a setpiece and, as I said it might have been nice to have the same set of marines finish off the war they'd seen the start of twelve years previously.
But hey ho - decisions are made for a reason.
So - what's eveyone's opinion?
Relic have got it right?
A different character should have been ressurected?
No characters should have been brought back?
Or they should have used the same squad from the previous games?
Cheers guys!
