Warhammer Dawn of War 3 - DAMNATIO MEMORIAE

[Daedalos]

yea yea ok, balance could be better and mission design is ok. Waht about the overall feel of the game? graphics, style, sound, music, animations, presentation overall? How rate

 

[Maculo]

yea yea ok, balance could be better and mission design is ok. Waht about the overall feel of the game? graphics, style, sound, music, animations, presentation overall? How rate

It is hard to give a general impression without nitpicking the issues. The small skirmishes feel great and the elites reward micro. In contrast, the large battles felt terrible to me. All the explosions, super abilities, and super units can make it a cluster fuck to read. Overall, the battles can end quickly (perhaps too quickly). Although it has the big DoW I armies, those armies can be wiped out by elites or spammy abiliities in a matter of seconds. The game has heroes akin to DoW II, but without the depth and progression many came to enjoy.

To use your categories:

1. Graphics: In terms of detail, the models are decent. The textures can make everything look almost too clean and to the point of looking like plastic.
2. Animations: A mixed bag, as some units look great, but others not so much. An example would be the space marine squads that can look like they are frolicking. In contrast, they nailed the Dreadnought. The Dreadnought is awesome.
   
3. Music: I liked the soundtrack, but it could feature more prominently. In fact, I can barely remember when it played during the missions.
   
4. Feel: A basic RTS that is more responsive than DoW 1 with respect to unit control, but less so than Starcraft 2. I try not to bring up Starcraft 2, but it is hard not to bring up a competitor. Starcraft 2 also had a lot of faults, but DoW III fails to match it in terms of gameplay, graphics, and presentation in my opinion. Legacy of the Void had a better story than DoW III, and that is saying something. Legacy of the Void gave varied mission types, choice of abilities and units, etc, and I could go on. As a result, DoW III looks, feels, and presents as a very thin game, which is made even worse when compared to Starcraft 2.

 

[vonAchdorf]

I think there was something about GW stipulating limitations to modding, with the very odd reasoning that modders adding newly released tabletop models would hurt miniature sales

But WHFB is dead....

Yes, but they decided to keep at least the Old World in a zombie state - there's a new WFRP (in addition to an Age of Sigmar RPG) coming out and CA's series will continue as well.

 

[Andkat]

Then all I can say is that you and your buddy are a bunch of idiots.

We also had to rewrite most of Fantasy Flight's godawful rules system, by the end!

 

[Uncle Skull]

I am wondering with what the fuck did the pay the composer in order for him to make a soundtrack of this length. Did they sacrifice all of their children in his honor? Were all the female members of the team his whores during the full development?

 

[Jaedar]

I am wondering with what the fuck did the pay the composer in order for him to make a soundtrack of this length. Did they sacrifice all of their children in his honor? Were all the female members of the team his whores during the full development?

But is any of it even good or is it just generic crap?

Old Dows had several cool tracks, my favorite: .

Lots of generic stuff too of course.

 

[MadMaxHellfire]

sounds like a remix of the most generic parts of chaos gate's ost.
which is still the best.

 

[LizardWizard]

OG DoW soundtrack is god tier

 

[Uncle Skull]

But is any of it even good or is it just generic crap?

I listened to some of it, its not really what I would call stellar.

LizardWizard

 

[Dr Skeleton]

Yup







Can't find a few but I have the entire soundtrack extracted from the game

 

[Galdred]

I am wondering with what the fuck did the pay the composer in order for him to make a soundtrack of this length. Did they sacrifice all of their children in his honor? Were all the female members of the team his whores during the full development?

It does seem to loop a lot, though.
It is hard to tell whether it is good given the length.
I guess we can safely assume it is unveven :D

 

[Excidium II]

They just sent a -50% discount coupon for DoW III to everyone that owns any DoW game lol talk about desperation.

 

[Cyberarmy]

Lol just got it too, solid desperation right there...

 

[Excidium II]

They have some nerve to come beg the DoW playerbase to save the game.

 

[Galdred]

They have some nerve to come beg the DoW playerbase to save the game.

Didn't they trash most of what made Dow 1 and 2 special (cover, morale, garrisonable buildings, suppression, several armor classes...) ?

 

[Excidium II]

exactly.

 

[Cyberarmy]

Didn't they trash most of what made Dow 1 and 2 special (cover, morale, garrisonable buildings, suppression, several armor classes...) ?

They also trashed the aesthetics and voice overs which were superb in previous games. Dow 1-2 orks shit on DoW 3 orks so hard its not even fun.

 

[Alienman]

Just a friendly reminder on why the game is as it is now:

Spoiler

 

[Alienman]

Humble bundle has a 25% discount right now.

 

[Ranarama]

I just got a 50% off coupon on Steam for DoW3. I usually only get 25% off shovelware titles, so even Valve realises this thing is dead. Especially at that price.

 

[Fedora Master]

Just a friendly reminder on why the game is as it is now:

Spoiler

Nobody in that picture has ever played the tabletop, I guarantee it. Maybe the bearded hobo hipster guy but that's it.

 

[CthuluIsSpy]

Fucking heretics get out of my wargame REEEEEEE

 

[thesheeep]

I just got a 50% off coupon on Steam for DoW3. I usually only get 25% off shovelware titles, so even Valve realises this thing is dead. Especially at that price.

Same here, probably due to owning DoW II ?

 

[CthuluIsSpy]

At half price its still 25 euros, so hell no.

 

[Antigoon]

got one as well. was almost about to buy it at -50% plus regional pricing. then I saw that teams pic. Waiting for 90% now