THE BORE
General => Video Game Bored => Topic started by: Howard Alan Treesong on August 20, 2010, 02:25:42 PM
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Oops. (http://brokentoys.org/2010/08/20/wh40k-you-didnt-really-want-to-be-a-space-marine/)
"It has a lot of the same qualities of WOW in terms of ease of use and how the interface is. I want to say that if you play WOW, you’ll be able to jump into Dark Millennium Online really easy.
But you won’t be able to be a Space Marine right away, because that’s a very unique class, if you know the universe. The road there is a great road, and they are in the game."
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NO YOU STUPID GIT, YOU DO NOT RELEASE A GAME AND CALL IT WARHAMMER 40000 AND NOT LET YOUR PLAYER BE A SPACE MARINE! DO YOU MAKE A MODERN WARFARE GAME AND TELL PEOPLE THEY CAN’T SHOOT A GUN? NO, YOU DO NOT. DO YOU MAKE A STAR WARS GAME AND TELL PEOPLE THEY CAN’T PLAY A JEDI? NO, YOU DO NOT. FOR GOD’S SAKE PEOPLE, LOOK ONE STORY DOWN. STOP WASTING MONEY ON ARTSY-FARTSY DESIGN-IS-LAW BULLSHIT AND LET PEOPLE BE A GODDAMN SPACE MARINE THE SECOND THEY INSTALL THE GAME… NO, LET THEM BE A GODDAMN SPACE MARINE WHILE THEY INSTALL! I WANT TO BE WAVING A GODDAMN CHAINSWORD WHILE FILES ARE COPIED TO MY COMPUTER! BECAUSE THAT IS WHAT WARHAMMER 40K IS, YOU STUPID CLUELESS CORPORATE GIT, NOT A FUCKING SURVEY ON HOW MUCH BETTER YOU CAN CLONE THE WOW UI THAN EVERY OTHER GAME THAT CLONES THE WOW UI. IF YOU DO NOT LET ME JOIN THE ULTRAMARINES WITHIN TWENTY FIVE SECONDS OF INSTALLING YOUR STUPID GAME THAT SAYS, AND I QUOTE, WARHAMMER 40K ON THE BOX, I WILL TURN YOU OVER TO THE ECCLESIARCHY FOR A MINDWIPE. FOR GOD’S SAKE WHY DON’T YOU JUST SAY YOU ARE ONLY LAUNCHING WITH THE IMPERIAL GUARD AND THE KROOT AND EVERYTHING ELSE IS A GODDAMN CASH SHOP ADDON TO BE PATCHED IN LATER I HATE YOU ALL GWWAAAAARRRRRGGHHHHHHH
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...right away. You must EARN the right to shave your head.
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ultra marines are for bitches. It's all about the wolves son.
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isn't this what they did with Jedis in Galaxies?
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isn't this what they did with Jedis in Galaxies?
yeah and that worked out really well for them (no it didn't)
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That's why they have SPACE MARINE (http://honorguard.spacemarine.com/) coming out. :spin
The only Warhammer game I will actually play more than 1 hour of
...maybe
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isn't this what they did with Jedis in Galaxies?
yeah and that worked out really well for them (no it didn't)
"look one story down" - :lol
I always wonder with licensed products if the flaws that show up are the fault of the dev team, the publisher, or the license-holder. With Lucas, I'm willing to put a lot of blame on him. I recall reports from The Phantom Menace of GL saying people should be paying him for the right to work on it, presumably because the first three Star Wars movies are a part of film history and everyone assumed the fourth would be as well. I can see "JEDIS ARE SPECIAL" as a design mandate coming from GL.
It would have been sharper to set up a Jedi Academy game, and let everyone start as low-ranking Jedi (though not Padawans, unless it was a kid-title).
I can see including Eldar and Marines as a prestige class, something to choose after achieving some other milestone, but the wiser idea would be keep it available but gimped somehow.
FTFA:Note to all the people being blind-linked here. The rest of you can ignore this!
Hi. My name’s Scott. Welcome to my blog.
- I was being funny.
- I work in the MMO industry. Most of my blog entries relate to MMO business decisions and the pros/cons thereof.
- I do not actually own a single Warhammer miniature.
- I specifically was parodying a “nerd rage” rant.
- More specifically, I was pointing out that making “spehs mahreen” or whatever other cute slang term you use for that iconic image of Warhammer 40K not something you can immediately play will be about as popular with the non-fanatic community (i.e. NOT YOU) as making a Star Wars MMO where you have to unlock the ability to be a Jedi.
- I actually have a number of friends who work on WH40K at Vigil, all of whom IMed me 5 minutes after this went up to laugh about it. It was a JOKE. I really don’t want to be THE IMMORTAL GOD EMPEROR in an MMO.
- I did, actually, nerf your 47th level Holy Asperger’s Paladin Of Elven Light. U mad?
:rofl
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Lums blog is awesome.