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Warhammer 40k: Eternal Crusade
HOLY SHIT.
40K MMOTPS IN 2015.
THERE'S NO INFORMATION.
OTHER THAN IT'S A 3RD PERSON SHOOTER AND IT'S SPACE MARINES/ORKS/ELDAR/CHAOS MARINES.
GOD DAMNIT.
Pete, Wyatt, surely you must share my feels.
HOLY SHIT THE WEBSITE.
HOLY. SHIT. WHY AM I THIS EXCITED FOR NO INFORMATION!?
40K MMOTPS IN 2015.
THERE'S NO INFORMATION.
OTHER THAN IT'S A 3RD PERSON SHOOTER AND IT'S SPACE MARINES/ORKS/ELDAR/CHAOS MARINES.
GOD DAMNIT.
Pete, Wyatt, surely you must share my feels.
HOLY SHIT THE WEBSITE.
HOLY. SHIT. WHY AM I THIS EXCITED FOR NO INFORMATION!?
Comments
SKETCH DISAPPOINT.
STILL YAY WARHAMS.
I have tentative excitement. Every single GW licensed game so far has been crap.
Actually, DoW wasn't half bad. And there was that DS game that was basically an X-Com clone.
Shootin' orks fer teh emperors fulfills my utility function.
Also, I know you personally don't care for Dawn of War, but that second game provides an actually enjoyable co-op RTS-like experience, which is basically something that doesn't exist, plus it's a Relic RTS and they know exactly what they are doing.
And though the Spess Marin game isn't really your speed in terms of gameplay, it's very innovative and has awesome game feel, in the sense that every part of the gameplay really enforces the feeling that you are a fuckoff giant space asshole wearing a tank and swinging a chainsaw. It's just viscerally satisfying on a deep level.
So it's not just the miniatures.
It sort of feels like what AD&D 2nd would have been like had it been written with guns in mind; yes, it's overly complex and terribly unbalanced, but there is so much rich goodness in the rules, like how Fighters get fiefs and armies at 9th level, or rangers are just followed around by random animals, that when you play with them as written it's hard not to love it.
I also really like high-lethality RPGs, and Dark Heresy is second only to Recon in it's willingness to frag the whole party in a random encounter with a low level mook.
I'm all:
SPURRCE MURHURNS.
Granted, all the games except the DoW franchise have been unilaterally terrible. TERRIBLE (haven't played Space Marine, but it looked not-shit). But it's mostly because GW is a terrible company that hates it's customers, but all the customers have a meth-like addiction to it. Show me a newly released, unpainted space marine mini and I still get a halfsie. Pete's the same way. We love almost everything about the game except the expense, the company, and the fact that they cock up the rules for the tabletop so often and throw everything out of balance.
What they have the potential to do here is take two things I love: Massive online first-person shooters in a persistent world in a faction versus faction type environment, and the skin of Warhammer 40k. If they make it F2P and follow Planetside 2's business model of not being pay-to-win, they could have a goddamned gold mine on their hands.
Knowing absolutely nothing about the game other than the basic information about it's existence, my expectations are really tempered by past performance.
EDIT: Incidentally, the F2P as guardsmen would be hilarious, but a bad idea in the long run.
If only GW didn't suck every ball that ever was and ever will be. There's no goddamn reason for any of those models to be that expensive.
I'm actually working on divesting myself of my armies. It's taking some effort to get there mentally, but I honestly just haven't touched them in years. I keep saying I'm going to - but I know deep down that it's probably not going to happen.
40k is an example of an IP with an amazing following and awesome potential, but it's owned and managed by a bunch of either stupid, or malicious corporate sods. If they spent just %30 less time dicking over their fan base and put that time into making some decent new content they would be like %200 more awesome.
Space marine was good times. The single player campaign wasn't all that great but the rock/paper/scissors dynamic of the multiplayer was fun. The guns felt like they had some real weight, and the character customization was flexible enough to let you look like almost any chapter you could want.