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Played it through. So far it's a 'meh' game. Boxy levels with drab art, everything is brown, there are invisible walls (as I found out with the jump pack), there's no finesse to melee... and the bolter felt really hollow.

And yeah, the Orks don't sound like Orks. I noticed that as I was playing through. There was a point where I said "Oh... that's an Ork speaking? I thought it was my squad mate."

It all feels very stale, and other than the big clunky noises you make as you run around and the satisfying kick of the Stalker there's not much here that I can truly like.

I'll borrow the full game off a friend who buys it.

Geez H, tell us how you really feel.

Its on a forge world, if they made it bright and colorful, that wouldn't really be keeping with the IP would it? I suppose they didn't need to set it on a forgeworld though.

I think the melee has a lot of finesse, as long as you're playing on hard. You really have to be careful when you pull executions, and proper stun timing. Normal and easy you can just lulz through tho.

IMO, going forgeworld was a smart move. It's a lot better then Urban shooter #374.

Well, I wasn't saying military shooter, but look at the tilesets in DoW2.

I mean, they could have potentially set Space Marine in any of those places that they have in DoW2 already. Maybe Space Marine 2, you'll have a ship and get to travel between worlds. I'd love to have a droppod assault and see/hear what it was like from the inside

Besides, we haven't even seen the whole game. Who knows what kind of wacky places they can come up with

Well I know you go outside of the Forge are and into the canyons and stuff of the world from what they've said and some of the concept art.

I recorded myself playing the demo if anyone wants to watch it, I mainly just wanted to test the settings in case I want to make some multiplayer videos in the future.

I need to stop fighting with idiots on the official boards. I think I just need to close that tab and never go back.

You'd think telling them what system you want to play it on is a personal preference would be enough, but no, they keep hounding away at the same bs.

daedalus-templarius wrote:Geez H, tell us how you really feel.

Its on a forge world, if they made it bright and colorful, that wouldn't really be keeping with the IP would it? I suppose they didn't need to set it on a forgeworld though.

I think the melee has a lot of finesse, as long as you're playing on hard. You really have to be careful when you pull executions, and proper stun timing. Normal and easy you can just lulz through tho.

It's STILL more colorful than most FPS games these days.

Melissia wrote:It's STILL more colorful than most FPS games these days.

Well, certainly if you compare it to the glut of military shooters. Titus and his battle bros are pretty colorful to say the least.

The new Gears is actually using some color this time and all the Halos generally has pretty nice saturated colors/environments.

Halo is oversaturated most of the time Not that I mind

MrH wrote:

5:19

"Hey I think I'm gonna go grab a burger. You want some?"

Wonders of AI

Melissia wrote:It's STILL more colorful than most FPS games these days.

That's true, mainly because you play as a guy in bright blue armour. Not many games can claim that.

I have orded the Elite Armour pack Chaos and imperial

H.B.M.C. wrote:

Melissia wrote:It's STILL more colorful than most FPS games these days.

That's true, mainly because you play as a guy in bright blue armour. Not many games can claim that.

Megaman and Bomberman were truly little blue pioneers!

I'm still trying to decide if I want to pre-orer the special edition and be completely broke next month...

illuknisaa wrote:

MrH wrote:

5:19

"Hey I think I'm gonna go grab a burger. You want some?"

Wonders of AI

Ha yeah, sometimes the AI just decides they've had enough for the day.

Take a look at the first video in the Prima Insider series as they take a look at Space Marine and the universe of Warhammer 40,000.

Check out the video here.

There will be more videos in the series which will give more detail about the Ultramarines and Captain Titus.

As much as I would like to pre-order from Amazon sadly I cant. Curse money issues.

When do we get more Prima videos?

how cool would it be if one of the pauldron choices you had was an angry marine one

Anoi wrote:how cool would it be if one of the pauldron choices you had was an angry marine one

I suspect the PC version will eventually get an angry marines mod or texture after release. Console users will probably not get those types of options.

The demo was fun, but I hope there will be more different kinds of enemies. The game kind of reminded me of left 4 dead 2 to be honest lol. Also your team mate's AI SUCKS.

GalacticDefender wrote:The demo was fun, but I hope there will be more different kinds of enemies. The game kind of reminded me of left 4 dead 2 to be honest lol. Also your team mate's AI SUCKS.

How so? Yeah, the survivor AI in L4D 1 and 2 can be best summed up as idiot savants. They're stupid enough to try to heal you when you're at 75+ health but smart enough to one-shot-kill you when you're a special infected 40 feet away hiding in the bushes.

warboss wrote:

GalacticDefender wrote:The demo was fun, but I hope there will be more different kinds of enemies. The game kind of reminded me of left 4 dead 2 to be honest lol. Also your team mate's AI SUCKS.

How so? Yeah, the survivor AI in L4D 1 and 2 can be best summed up as idiot savants. They're stupid enough to try to heal you when you're at 75+ health but smart enough to one-shot-kill you when you're a special infected 40 feet away hiding in the bushes.

No, I meant it reminded me of L4d2 because of the waves of dumb enemies. The l4d AI actually help you. Half the time the space marines would just stand around and fire off one or two shots. I'll probably get this game anyway though, multiplayer looks fun, and the campaign does too.

Finally got around to pre-ordering, I went with THQ direct even though they're more expensive as I want the Power Sword, plus you get your download link at 00:00 so you can download and play a little early.

I really wish the PC version had dedicated servers though as I'm very much a MP gamer.

MrH wrote:Finally got around to pre-ordering, I went with THQ direct even though they're more expensive as I want the Power Sword, plus you get your download link at 00:00 so you can download and play a little early.

I really wish the PC version had dedicated servers though as I'm very much a MP gamer.

So, if the multiplayer is still really good even though it will be P2P, are you still going to complain?

daedalus-templarius wrote:

MrH wrote:Finally got around to pre-ordering, I went with THQ direct even though they're more expensive as I want the Power Sword, plus you get your download link at 00:00 so you can download and play a little early.

I really wish the PC version had dedicated servers though as I'm very much a MP gamer.

So, if the multiplayer is still really good even though it will be P2P, are you still going to complain?

Did you just use the words "good" and "P2P" in the same sentence?

Well, maybe PC p2p is awful, but it sure seems to work fine on the consoles.

If you consider playing with a 200+ ping, host advantage and regular disconnects as "fine" then no wonder you're happy. Personally I prefer to play with 20ms on a dedicated server that's not hosted on some kids ADSL connection while he downloads porn in the background causing lag spikes every 2 minutes.