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I'll be in my bunk.

Please please please have them revive the old box art and use it again for this game:

I would really like a casino game that features a combination planetary method campaign and/or multi player factor together with resources.

 MajorStoffer wrote:
First thought:

It's about damned time.

Second thought:

For the love of cthulhu, don't be shovelware.

To this day, I'm surprised nothing was done BFG-wise with Relic, given their experience with Homeworld back in the day. Besides, Dawn of War 1 came out when BFG was still a going concern, but hey, better late than never.

I hope.

100% agreed. Of all the possible GW games to be turned into video games, BFG has always been my biggest hope (it's my favorite GW game), and also my biggest fear (way too easy for a video game dev to screw it up). Make it nice and slow paced like Homeworld, and we've got something good. Make it just pew-pew action, and it will suck.

Looks good if those are actual game shots and not pre-rendered pics. I'm hoping there will be an Xbone version though.. my old-person back doesn't let me play PC games as much as I used to :(

 Necros wrote:
Looks good if those are actual game shots and not pre-rendered pics. I'm hoping there will be an Xbone version though.. my old-person back doesn't let me play PC games as much as I used to :(

It's an RTS. Why in God's name would you want to play it in a console?

Because I'm old and sitting at my PC for hours and hours hurts my back

 Necros wrote:
Because I'm old and sitting at my PC for hours and hours hurts my back

Uh, then get an office chair for just a hundred bucks with lumbar support?

All I want is AdMech and Necrons in the game...

... and the game is already broken. Damn that was quick.

I also want a chance to declare Exterminatus!

 zedmeister wrote:

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
Here's hoping that this isn't a freemium game chock full of microtransactions.

I'm with you there, hope this isn't another bit of shovelware to add to the pile. Company is Tindalos Interactive. Never heard of them before.

Here's an upcoming Tindalos game: Etherium
http://store.steampowered.com/app/245370/
Gameplay looks competent and definitely not shovelware.

And another game released in 2012: Stellar Impact.
http://store.steampowered.com/app/207150/
Mixed reviews on steam. 74% Metacritic. Seems decent, if anything.
Very similar in theme to BFG. One of the customer reviews even says "It plays great, reminds me a lot of Warhammer Battlefleet Gothic. " and the negative reviews just hate on it because the game is apparently not getting any attention from the developers. This is very important in a multiplayer-only game.

I have high hopes for this developer and this game.

It's definitely not the shovelware trash we've been getting.

Stellar Impact is a good platform for a game. It had very good 'feel' in what was basically a MOBA with ships. It was multiplayer only and had such a small player base that matchmaking took a very long time and would often pair 'super high ranked players' (with unlocked ships/equipment) against complete noobs with no familiarity of the system so the player base never got off the ground.

I have often wanted that game to be single-player, and it was probably only a decent campaign away from being successful.

Take my money.

I hope its turn based and has no base building.

I have little hope to enjoy it but the mordheim game looks good so far so maybe this one will be pretty cool too.

I literally just was talking about this yesterday with my friends and now its happening! So happy haha.

I just about wet myself.

...but if this turns out to be shovelware, there's gonna be an exterminatus on the devs for sure haha

It's a good thing GW have got the tie in physical product ready to roll on this to rake in the megabucks.

Oh.

If it is pay to win, expect Necrons to be the premium race.

I can't wait to see their Space 'Ulk!

 Wyrmalla wrote:
Can you crash your ship into a planet is the question? =P

No, the question is, can I make my Space Marine battle-barges red and yellow with profanities all along the prow, AND THEN crash it into a planet?


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 Absolutionis wrote:

 zedmeister wrote:

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
Here's hoping that this isn't a freemium game chock full of microtransactions.

I'm with you there, hope this isn't another bit of shovelware to add to the pile. Company is Tindalos Interactive. Never heard of them before.

Here's an upcoming Tindalos game: Etherium
http://store.steampowered.com/app/245370/
Gameplay looks competent and definitely not shovelware.

And another game released in 2012: Stellar Impact.
http://store.steampowered.com/app/207150/
Mixed reviews on steam. 74% Metacritic. Seems decent, if anything.
Very similar in theme to BFG. One of the customer reviews even says "It plays great, reminds me a lot of Warhammer Battlefleet Gothic. " and the negative reviews just hate on it because the game is apparently not getting any attention from the developers. This is very important in a multiplayer-only game.

I have high hopes for this developer and this game.

It's definitely not the shovelware trash we've been getting.

Wow, Etherium actually looks pretty nice.
With Grey Goo and this coming out, 2015 might be the year of the RTS.


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 Finlandiaperkele wrote:
I also want a chance to declare Exterminatus!

That might be a fun tactical ploy.
Blow up a planet to disrupt an enemy fleet

 RiTides wrote:
Whoa! You have my attention.

Edit - Do they really have to have a title of "Armada"? Now that's 3 space games (star wars, firestorm, and now the Battlefleet gothic RTS adaptation) that use it!

The original title - Battlefleet Gothic-A Whole Mess of Space Boats, did not test will with the sample audience.

 Kid_Kyoto wrote:

 RiTides wrote:
Whoa! You have my attention.

Edit - Do they really have to have a title of "Armada"? Now that's 3 space games (star wars, firestorm, and now the Battlefleet gothic RTS adaptation) that use it!

The original title - Battlefleet Gothic-A Whole Mess of Space Boats, did not test will with the sample audience.

Ha!

Looks pretty spiffy so far.

*Cautiously optimistic it won't be shovelware*

 RiTides wrote:
Whoa! You have my attention.

Edit - Do they really have to have a title of "Armada"? Now that's 3 space games (star wars, firestorm, and now the Battlefleet gothic RTS adaptation) that use it!

Don't forget Star Trek: Armada, a spaceship RTS that was an integral part of my childhood.

So will this run on my Atari 2600 or do I have to upgrade to an NES?

Iracundus wrote:
The proportions for the foreground cruiser in the 1st and 2nd picture look "off"". The bridge superstructure seems to big relative to the body of the ship and the windows of the bridge appear too big. The 2nd picture seems to show a stubby cruiser instead of a longer one. Finally the ram part of the foreground cruiser in the 1st picture looks too bulbous.

They announce a computer game for BFG...

and this is what you come back with?!

Feth me...

Gushing praise is not the only valid response to a GW related press release. Criticism is equally valid, especially given the spotty record of games based on GW's IP, and given the choice of an apparent little known company to do this BFG release. If that preliminary artwork fails to get things like the proportions of the iconic Imperial ships right, it is a mark against them because it calls into question how faithful they will be to the underlying source material. I will watch and see, but I am not going to run around screaming like a crazed fanboy just because it is BFG.

I am cautiously exited, loved the game, hope they nail it with this game

I have an Imperial Navy fleet of 63 ships and would love to see them recreated on screen.

This could be great, but I wouldn't personally mark the probability any higher than about 30%, for many of the reasons given above, not least GWs scattergun approach to handing out IP for computer games. It absolutely certainly won't be a 'AAA' Homeworld 40K, nor will it appear on console, but a decent PC BFG simulation of any sort will still get my cash.

/crosses fingers

Yeeeessss! Now I must rationalize the bying a new PC with the funds for the central heating. I will be cold but i will be playing BFG.