Warhammer 40K Deserves Better!

[Nouw]

When Relic Entertainment was up for auction, I had hoped Nintendo would have bought them and fund a Space Marine 2 a-la Bayonetta style. One can dream n______n

I've given up on waiting for a proper Warhammer 40k game.
It would have to have an 18+ rating and I don't think games workshop would be prepared to gamble on releasing a game with an 18 certificate.

Uh dude, have you heard of the Dawn of War series and Space Marine? They're as proper Warhammer 40,000 games you're gonna get for a long, long time.

 

[Caliostro]

The guys that did EYE Divine Cybermancy are making a Warhammer game, take that as you will.


At least it will probably focused on being faithfull to the series and to what the fans want out of that game (even if somewhat buggy and a mess, they did end up fixing things in EYE in one of their free DLCs)

Well... I actually thought EYE was surprisingly good. Under-funded and somewhat underdeveloped when it came out, after all it was a fairly ambitious project for a relatively small team, but nonetheless showing a ridiculous level of creativity and inventiveness. So I don't know how I feel about this.

Let's put it this way, it can't be worst than some of the trash we've gotten lately so...

 

[Zipa]

GW can't afford to make a game that will outsell their models. If people can buy a game on steam or console for £30-£40 that provides a better experience than the tabletop then nobody will buy three space marine centurions for £42.50.

At the end of the day they are a model company first and foremost. They don't even care that much for the rules they write as evidenced in the tournament scene which has generated into the "2++ star" lists that take advantage of overlapping rules.

I wouldn't mind a decent game that is faithful to the fluff and gives people who are interested in the fluff a chance to view the world without paying dumb amounts for plastic models but I doubt anything groundbreaking will come out. As a 40k player with around as a grand sunk into 2 40k armies, a warhammer fantasy army and a planned £900 on a pre-heresy army I can say that if their was an exceptional 40k game then I would be not spending this money on plastic crack.

Eternal crusade seems promising enough, even if they are trying to get PC gamers to play a shooter with a gamepad.

They already have made a extremely well selling video game and it didn't kill them, DAW II sold over 7 million copies and I don't think it took anything away from the tabletop market.

I just hope 40K games don't go the way of other lisenced sci fi works like Star Trek and Star Wars, a couple of old gems that we remember fondly in a sea of poorly relseased quick cash in shit games.

That is true about DoW II and the DoW series in general. My point is that GW will never go the whole hog when it comes to a video game experience of 40k. it's a tumultuous time for the company. On the one hand their figures are on another level, like the new Imperial Knights. On the other they have this massive disconnect with their own community and its starting to annoy TOs (tournament organizers) as they are being bombarded with new releases double quick and drowning in poorly written rules.

As it is GW will likely never put out into the gaming industry with the intention of super-high quality games while their current placeholder CEO is rocking around. I'd hang on for their management staff to change around at some point in the future and then we might see a 40k game worthy of merit.

That's just wish-listing on my part however.

 

[josemlopes]

The guys that did EYE Divine Cybermancy are making a Warhammer game, take that as you will.


At least it will probably focused on being faithfull to the series and to what the fans want out of that game (even if somewhat buggy and a mess, they did end up fixing things in EYE in one of their free DLCs)

Well... I actually thought EYE was surprisingly good. Under-funded and somewhat underdeveloped when it came out, after all it was a fairly ambitious project for a relatively small team, but nonetheless showing a ridiculous level of creativity and inventiveness. So I don't know how I feel about this.

Let's put it this way, it can't be worst than some of the trash we've gotten lately so...

I liked EYE a lot but damn, its a one of a kind that you will either love it or hate it. I certainly think the devs are a good choice for a Warhammer 40K game.

 

[Smeatza]

Uh dude, have you heard of the Dawn of War series and Space Marine? They're as proper Warhammer 40,000 games you're gonna get for a long, long time.

I own Dawn of War 2 and know of Space Marine but they just didn't cut it for me.
Maybe it's because my experience of the Warhammer 40k universe is exclusively from the novels but the world of 40k in video games never feels like it has the right tone. It's your bog-standard science fiction deal, rather than the gritty, brutal, visceral and bleak feel of the books.
I don't know about the story and feel of Space Marine (I've only played like 5 minutes of it), but the same applies to the combat Space Marine but to a lesser degree. They went in the right direction but the 13 certificate left it neutered.