Warhammer 40000: Space Marine

I would crap bricks if the game pulled the standard "zomg chaos/eldar is behind everything not teh orks" and after fighting them for a while Gorgutz showed up and just killed the chaos lord/farseer and kept on fighting. The orks never get treated as a serious threat, they need more lovin.

Check one of the previous videos in which the orc combat unit who is as tough as a marine is shown off as a miniboss.

http://venturebeat.com/2011/05/25/how-many-ways-can-thqs-space-marine-game-rip-off-gears-of-war/

...Wow. And he gets paid to write trash like this?

Okay, now I *must* preorder it.

Teh Blahd Raehvens shall fall upon teh enemeh with steel reihn! The Steam bonus seems nice.

But will the Chaos Marines see us hiding in metal BAWKSES?!

SINDRIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!

Hey Jonah, those pre-order bonuses apply to the standard version to, right? If so I'll be grabbing the Best Buy one, I'm too much of a Chaos Marine fan.

edited 27th May '11 7:27:59 AM by Rationalinsanity

Too bad there's no way in hell that my PC is going to be able to play this, otherwise I would get the Blood Magpies pack in a hearbeat.

Gamestop pack for me then. Black Templars are cool, or at least they will be until Matt Ward finishes their new Codex.

Relic has been willing to ignore other writers (see: C.S. Goto and his "novels") in the past. Though the B Ts, with their single minded focus on melee combat; wouldn't be suited for a game. Not enough variety.

Though I'd kill for a Death Watch, squad based RPG/shooter on the PC. Sorta like the roleplaying game but adapted.

I've always thought a gritty squad-based shooter with the Imperial Guard could be really fraggin' awesome. It would likely require you to be some sort of elite one to justify how your gameplay isn't mind-numbing, trench-hugging, mass-bayonet-charging druggery though.

Preorder bonuses apply to all versions, yes. Keep in mind those are just MP skins. However, maybe they appear in-game, too.

Re: Venture Beat article: The author is getting universally slammed, so I wouldn't worry about anyone taking it seriously.

This looks cool. I know nothing about 40K, but MUST get this.

40K is Badass, Darker and Edgier, Rule of Cool as personified as much as possible to still remain with a modicum of a veneer of realism in-universe within a sci-fi setting. But mostly those tropes.

Think of Warhammer 400000 as the logical conclusion of The Chronicles Of Riddick.

Well, that's oversimplifying, but think of the future as oppressively dark, bleak universe - as Ming might say, "Pathetic Earthlings, hurling yourself out into the void, without the slightest idea of who or what is out here. If you had known anything about the true nature of the universe, anything at all, you would’ve hidden from it in terror."

edited 27th May '11 11:03:13 AM by JAF1970

I know noting about The Chronicles Of Riddick either, but I have played a lot of Starcraft, as I have heard that it have a few 40K references.

edited 27th May '11 11:06:41 AM by nuclearneo577

Don't mention starcraft to us. Ever.

Why not?

I'm trying to figure out the most impolite way I can say "Rip-off".

"Taking all that Warhammer did and getting more recognition for it despite not having a single original concept" ?

How's that?

Or just link that Penny Arcade comic.

Coming from a fan of both series, that is a MASSIVE oversimplification of Starcraft. It didn't "rip-off" W40k, it used elements from it to make an entirely differient world. Just because there are space marines, a bug war, and an old alien race does not mean they are ripping warhammer off.

That's a gross oversimplification of what they ripped off.

What exactly did they rip off?

The zerg? This was the tyranids at the time: http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/269155.page Space Marines in SC are ENTIRELY differient from the Space Marines in Warhammer.

The culture of humanity is ENTIRELY differient from Humanity in Warhammer.

Protoss are completley unlike the Eldar, with a much more powerful millitary, a good "dark" sect, and differient weaponry and design.

Zerg rip off Aliens more than anything else.

I honestly don't see what SC rips off from Warhammer other than concepts that have been diluted through pop culture such as Space Marines and a Bug race that you can't even say they were from Warhammer.

edited 27th May '11 12:49:34 PM by YoungMachete

Yeah, Warhammer 40K shares a lot tropes with Pulp Sci-Fi magazines.

warcraft steals shit from every fantasy game/movie/whatever, why shouldn't starcraft steal shit from sci-fi? Who cares.