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It doesnt appeal to me personally so I guess its complete dog gak. They should focus on making good games- making good games is easy and repeatable after all- and they should ask me for personal approval before publishing this garbage. Bla bla bla share price, kirby, desperate, no other fantasy franchise has had mobile games based on it etc.
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Heh, so an inevitably F2P mobile 'strategy' game is your definition of good then is it?
GW have licensed some genuinely good games, in the early days they actually published some as well, the likes of Dark Omen, Chaos Gate, Final Liberation and Dawn of War. These games were well made (for their time) and were generally well received by critics and the gaming public. Currently there are 12 licensed games in development or recently released, all but 4 of them will be on mobiles and the available information strongly suggests that the majority will be little more than shovelware. Hardly a stellar lineup
White Knight all you want but at least do it with a modicum of intelligence.
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RegalPhantom wrote: If your fluff doesn't fit, change your fluff until it does
The prefect example of someone missing the point.
Do not underestimate the Squats. They survived for millenia cut off from the Imperium and assailed on all sides. Their determination and resilience is an example to us all.
-Leman Russ, Meditations on Imperial Command book XVI (AKA the RT era White Dwarf Commpendium).
Its just a shame that they couldn't fight off Andy Chambers.
Warzone Plog
I'm going to get my hands on the license too. I'm going to make a 30k cooking game called "Horus' Isstvan V Drop Pod Diner Dash: Massacre of Flavor". Using the touch pad players will quickly assemble food like Ork burgers and Slaanesh Shakes for loyalist marines as they arrive at the dropsite.
A clash of clans WH40k game could be pretty neat if done well (though I'm sure it'll be pay-to-win like ALL clash of clans-esque games)
A Clash of Clans Space Marine game, however, restricted to just space marines and only space marines fighting space marines, sounds kinda..... er, limited in scope.
H.B.M.C. wrote: Honestly the most promising to be is Regicide. For starters it's hard to feth up chess, and the idea of Battlechess 40K is appealing at the most basic level. But then they can add to it with new game-modes.
One of the guys at my local GW is involved in Regicide's production, and I can honestly say that they are making a massive effort to make the game as good as is humanly possible.
The Armageddon game that Slitherine are working on looks reasonable. Slitherine publish and produce loads of really good strategy games, yes the graphics can be a little dated on most, but the rest of the games are definitely sound.
The poor man really has a stake in the country. The rich man hasn't; he can go away to New Guinea in a yacht. The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all
We love our superheroes because they refuse to give up on us. We can analyze them out of existence, kill them, ban them, mock them, and still they return, patiently reminding us of who we are and what we wish we could be.
"the play's the thing wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king,
No madam, 40,000 is the year that this game is set in. Not how much it costs. Though you may have a point. - GW Fulchester The Gatling Guns have flamethrowers on them because this is 40k - DOW III
H.B.M.C. wrote: Honestly the most promising to be is Regicide. For starters it's hard to feth up chess, and the idea of Battlechess 40K is appealing at the most basic level. But then they can add to it with new game-modes.
I'm surprised you are more excited for Marine chess than Warhammer: Eternal Crusade.
A Town Called Malus wrote: For a company supposedly obsessed with preserving the worth and integrity of their IP, they do seem to like to lay it down and then squat over it when it comes to licensing games
If they wanted to make a game people would buy then they need another Dawn of War and a Warhammer Fantasy Total War.
If you actually knew how little it costs to get a game like this developed versus a game like Dawn of War/Warhammer Fantasy Total War and then coupled with the return of profit, you would not be saying that.
Heh, so an inevitably F2P mobile 'strategy' game is your definition of good then is it?
GW have licensed some genuinely good games, in the early days they actually published some as well, the likes of Dark Omen, Chaos Gate, Final Liberation and Dawn of War. These games were well made (for their time) and were generally well received by critics and the gaming public. Currently there are 12 licensed games in development or recently released, all but 4 of them will be on mobiles and the available information strongly suggests that the majority will be little more than shovelware. Hardly a stellar lineup
White Knight all you want but at least do it with a modicum of intelligence.
Notice that those lists are not comprehensive nor even necessarily correct. And if you're going to start slinging insults, I'd like to point out that just because the games that have been ANNOUNCED are primarily shovelware does not mean that there are not projects in development that are flying under the radar.
Especially given that there are several big video game franchise projects that are COMPLETELY unknown to anyone bar the teams that are working on said projects and the people they choose to talk up said projects with.
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Depends on if Cypher/Matt Ward is on my side or not...
No madam, 40,000 is the year that this game is set in. Not how much it costs. Though you may have a point. - GW Fulchester The Gatling Guns have flamethrowers on them because this is 40k - DOW III
The poor man really has a stake in the country. The rich man hasn't; he can go away to New Guinea in a yacht. The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all
We love our superheroes because they refuse to give up on us. We can analyze them out of existence, kill them, ban them, mock them, and still they return, patiently reminding us of who we are and what we wish we could be.
"the play's the thing wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king,
For a game set during the Horus Heresy, the abundance of super-Gothic-y landscapes is kinda odd. It all screams "Imperium of Man", a thing that didn't really exist in 30k.
Thunderfrog wrote: I'm surprised you are more excited for Marine chess than Warhammer: Eternal Crusade.
Eternally dull Crusade more like it. I've watched footage from that game, nothing inspired me. Plus the game isn't even into Alpha and they already have a fully armed and operational real-money in-game store, where you can buy super-duper expensive bolter skins. No, screw that game.
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H.B.M.C. wrote: ...they already have a fully armed and operational real-money in-game store, where you can buy super-duper expensive bolter skins. No, screw that game.
IMO - any game that has an abundance of IAP just screams DO NOT BUY at me!
I just hate the idea of IAP being set up while a game is in production...
'ummmm what shall we hold back??'
It's why I bailed on Warhammer Quest...
I didn't pick up storm of vengeance as it had units IAP day 1.
Wont pick up the space wolf card game either due to IAP.
Haven't bought the Spulk due to IAP overload... although I can understand IAP extra mission sets...
I will consider the chess game but if they have extra chess pieces for IAP they can feth off too!
already disapointed that they have faction skins lined up as IAP...
"Its a Cheap/Free game! plus 69p for each of the units we locked out plus at least 69p every other day for currency to get past all the go slow hurdles we programmed in..."
Why are all iOS users treated like idiots?
I'd prefer to just pay the full price upfront and get the full game...
/rant
Panic...
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So they are hehehe, Im just reminiscing about all the PC titles they put out. Not really into the mobile games that we've been seeing quite a lot of lately.
We did get 'Space Marine' on the consoles and PC somewhat recently I suppose...feels like that was a fair while ago now though, with many a cheap quick mobile game churned out since.
'Ain't nothing crazy about me but my brain. Right brain? Riight! No not you right brain! Right left brain? Right!... Okay then lets do this!!
Looks well done, shame its on the tired, useless mobile platform, yet again and I am not sure why they chose to use the Horus Heresy, it seems totally irrelevant when you see how the game plays.
I think I will give this one a miss.
BrookM wrote: THQ also greenlit crap such as the N-Gage game, the DS and PSP title. Prolly some other "gems" as well, TotalBiscuit did a great movie on this all.
Squad Command wasn't that bad, a bit fiddly due to the camera, but quite enjoyable.
No madam, 40,000 is the year that this game is set in. Not how much it costs. Though you may have a point. - GW Fulchester 
The Gatling Guns have flamethrowers on them because this is 40k 
Night Lords (40k): 3500pts
Klan Zaw Klan: 4000pts
