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The lack of good WARHAMMER 40,000 games is criminal.
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Yep I agree so much Marcel - for me Dow II is peak real time strategy. So freaking tactical and enjoyable.
It is next to doom, my most played game EVER (my play numbers on steam do not even include the time before Steam counted play hours. Let alone the hundred hours I put into the beta.
Not sure why they took the direction they took with DOW III - I think a lot of people who played DOW I for comp stomps really disliked 2.
By the EYE Divine Cybermancy people. Wait for a sale, it gets really cheap these days.
i think it just gets written off as a gears of war clone when it isn't that at all
Another good and not-too-old 40k game that hasn't been mentioned is Armageddon, essentially a reskinned Panzer Corps* with the addition of small titans/war machines.
*a Panzer General spiritual successor, and a truly fantastic game on its own.
*a Panzer General spiritual successor, and a truly fantastic game on its own.
I think I have 90 hours on last stand alone for that game. Love it.
I didn't know there was someone from Focus Home Interactive here on era! I really can't wait for the new Warhammer 40k game. When can we expect news or trailer of the new game? :D
Hopefully, it's an FPS or 3rd person action game like Space Marine. I really enjoyed Space Hulk Deathwing more than Vermintide.
Best thing in DOW2 was when you could get an entire team in terminator armour.
Spent most of the game using cover and proceeding with caution, only suddenly being able to casually stomp right through walls and into a ball of tyranids without a care. Was such a good upgrade feeling
Spent most of the game using cover and proceeding with caution, only suddenly being able to casually stomp right through walls and into a ball of tyranids without a care. Was such a good upgrade feeling
DoW2 is still the best to me, but I think the general quality of small-budget 40k games has been going up in recent years. BG:A2, Gladius and Mechanicus are pretty solid games.
I still think CA will try to find a way to do a TW:40K. They have to have made so much money from TWW, just think what 40K could do?
I still think CA will try to find a way to do a TW:40K. They have to have made so much money from TWW, just think what 40K could do?
DoW Dark Crusade is still my most played 40k game
i still liked DoW2 reduced scale, but i'll put it in second place
i still liked DoW2 reduced scale, but i'll put it in second place
Almost anything by Aaron Dembski-Bowden, who wrote Helsreach, The Night Lords trilogy, and Spears of The Emperor, among others.
His books made Space Marines a lot more interesting to me.
Not having an RPG in this setting or a tactics game is what's criminal. There is so much they can do but relegating it to low budget action games makes me sad
I still don't think DoW3 was that bad and got unfairly piled on by the community because of bunk reasons. It was unfortunately caught in the crossfire of moba-hysteria among RTS fans because it had hero units (which existed before MOBAs in RTS anyway) and in the other direction for being an army based RTS by DoW2 fans which was more of a MOBA.. They really couldn't win.
You upgrade your "Faith" skill too much and the voice just says, "CALL THEM A HERETIC" any time someone talks to you.
My main issue was the campaign, that was the main reason I played DOW2 (and Last Stand of course). DoW2 was practically an action RPG in the campaign.
You nailed it out of the park. 2. feeds back into 1. The AAA budget market isn't a fit for W40k. They tried and it wasn't big enough. So, instead, we have a plethora of budget titles.
Also, Inquisitor Martyr is pretty good since they revamped combat to be quicker.
That's a shame considering it's WAY better than the last two Gears games.
As a fan of both DoW 1 and 2, I was immediately turned off by the progression and monetization in DoW 3 (and then when the game failed, turned off by the lack of a playerbase).
I actually enjoyed the focus on heros/super units (I preferred WC3 over SC or SC2), but the monetization killed it for me (same with Evolve).
What was wrong the monetization? It's been so long I don't even remember how that played out, I just remember people being mad about the hero units and the multiplayer modes.
One of my dream games would be CD Projekt doing a Action RPG of Ciaphas Cain HERO OF THE IMPERIUM.
Now I want this... dammit why did you have to put this in my head!?
Hell I am going to have to reinstall DoW2 now
That's exactly what I'm doing right now XD. Time to replay both main campaigns and go full Corruption for once.
I love the Eisenhorn/Ravenor novels, but they do take Wh40k a long way into hi-tech sci-fi territory (probably because Abnett realized the caveman-tek setting of hardline Wh40k could never actually work without collapsing immediately).
How's Gladius, the 4X game, these days? That's probably the closest I've gotten to picking up a 40K game after Games Workshop opened the floodgates for the license.
But yeah, Dawn of War II was very good.
But yeah, Dawn of War II was very good.
It was a better game than be would think it deserves a second chance
Could totally see the COD1 type game from perspective of an Imperial Guardsmen. Different viewpoints, small focus/epic scale type stuff like Normandy Beach or Russian Advance in those games were so awesome back then
What was the name of that action rpg from last year? Am I crazy or am I thinking of something else. Not chaosbane, but something else.
edit: it was inquisitor. Did that game ever overcome its lukewarm reviews? any big changes?
edit: it was inquisitor. Did that game ever overcome its lukewarm reviews? any big changes?
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Inquisitor?
I don't quite remember what WH games I've actually played; aside from the DOW games, the only other ones were the recent Space Hulk Tactics (which was way too fucking slow), and a little Battlefleet Gothic
Yeah that was it. I remember a big patch dropped but I never looked into it. Gonna check that out. I'm a fan of action rpgs and always thought warhammer would be a great setting for one.
Damn, that is a lot! I shame the emperor with my lowly 120ish hours played :( Assuming it somehow counts the original GfWL playtime as well?
Yes please <3 Listening to the Caves of Ice audio book at the moment, nd I just love Cain (and Jurgen, ofc).
For some reason, I find myself drawn to stories that are less emblematic of their universe. In 40k, it is mostly the Inquisiton and Guard novels, without any Marines, and in the Star Wars EU I always preferred the stories without Jedi :p
Just wanted to chime in with another shoutout to Space Marine. Legit good game that deserved way more attention.
I wish they'd port Dawn of War 2 to iPads.
I think that game could work great with touch screens
I think that game could work great with touch screens
The love and support for DoW2 in this thread fills my heart with glee. If anyone's interested in continuing the war, there's a competitive mod that extends the multiplayer with bug fixes, new units and a new faction (Ordo Malleus). It's a small but active community, including a competitive scene. If the MP was ever your thing.. check it out at https://www.dawnofwar.info/
But yeah.. I'd do dark, chaos worthy things for Relic to go back to either Dawn of War or Space Marine for a sequel. We can pretend DoW3 just never happened. relic plz.
But yeah.. I'd do dark, chaos worthy things for Relic to go back to either Dawn of War or Space Marine for a sequel. We can pretend DoW3 just never happened. relic plz.