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New Total War game: Warhammer

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It would be better if they upped the scale of things, yes. Warhammer Fantasy Epic (Warmaster?) instead of Warhammer Fantasy Tabletob Battles.

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Relic has fucked up DOW2. And I never liked W40K much either way.

No, I think CA will do a better job. Relic is fucked anyway if they're gonna be forced under the Ubisoft umbrella, just look what they did to Massive.
 

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There's this old Warhammer game out there called Dark Omen. Is it any good?

Shadow of The Horny Ratgoat has a better campaign and a better selection of units to play with and against. But it also has a fucking awful interface. Quite possibly much, much worse than anything you've ever seen before. Disregarding the interface it's easily the best WFB game there ever was, and a really fucking great RTS with one of the best campaigns in RTS gaming. But really, the interface is like pure agony in digital form.

Dark Omen is pretty much SoTHR with vastly inferior game stuff in it and a vastly superior interface. On and, the story stuff is a not-totally-direct continuation of the first game.

If you can stand SoTHR, you should play them both in order. If you can't, I really don't blame you. But Dark Omen is still worth a playthrough.
 

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I just watched some Dark Omen gameplay videos, and quite frankly, while the core gameplay looks quite compelling, the clunkiness and god-knows-if-this-shit-will-run-on-modern-hardware vibe puts it right now into the "When ITZ comes around and the INTERNETZ is dead, then yeah, then I'm gonna play it" category.
 

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If the IP is handled correctly this has potential, i'm more interested in what parts of the tabletop games rules and systems they try to adapt into the game itself.

Also that Shadow of the horned rat intro gave me the biggest nostalga boner, one of the first PC games i ever played. :D
 
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dow2 is a console RTS. says it all.

A console RTS that was however never released for console. What does that say? I say it explains everything about why THQ is now bancrupt.

You can't really blame them though. Company of Heroes kept them afloat and they tried to model DoW2 along those lines.

Now they've managed to fuck up CoH2 as well, what with the 60 Kwanshekels price and all. As long as they give the 40k license to someone else than Bioware I can be happy.
 

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I just watched some Dark Omen gameplay videos, and quite frankly, while the core gameplay looks quite compelling, the clunkiness and god-knows-if-this-shit-will-run-on-modern-hardware vibe puts it right now into the "When ITZ comes around and the INTERNETZ is dead, then yeah, then I'm gonna play it" category.

Look here. DO is fairly easy to get running on modern machines, the process doesn't take long at all, and while the interface is on the kludgy side, it is reasonably modern and perfectly straightforward. Really, don't be scared off by its age. If you're the least bit into this sort of thing, don't rob yourself of the experience. It really is that good a game.

I can appreciate why SoTHR might give you pause - or why its fucked interface might scar you for life - but DO is pretty simple to get working right, and it doesn't have an interface from the 9th Circle of Hell. Even with the tweaking you have to do to get it running on Win7x64, the whole process will almost certainly be quicker than waiting for Steam to install [recent FPS]. Seriously man... Rocket surgery, this is not ;)
 

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If you're only going to play one, and are only interested in singleplayer, play SotHR. DO is great multiplayer, but the SP campaign is a turd.

I wish I could wind the clock back on GW to 1989.
 

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I hope CA does not try to make this with a fucking PEGI 12 target group in mind. With fluffy Orcs and other comical WarCraft style art imitation.

Warhammer needs to embrace that dark, medieval and rotten (Crows, many crows!) style in order to catch my interest. And maybe a story-driven campaign. Warhammer: Total War won't cut it.
 
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I hope CA does not try to make this with a fucking PEGI 12 target group in mind. With fluffy Orcs and other comical WarCraft style art imitation.

Warhammer needs to embrace that dark, medieval and rotten (Crows, many crows!) style in order to catch my interest. And maybe a story-driven campaign. Warhammer: Total War won't cut it.

:bro:

YES!
 

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I hope CA does not try to make this with a fucking PEGI 12 target group in mind. With fluffy Orcs and other comical WarCraft style art imitation.

Warhammer needs to embrace that dark, medieval and rotten (Crows, many crows!) style in order to catch my interest. And maybe a story-driven campaign. Warhammer: Total War won't cut it.

GW is notorious for making sure nobody fucks up the look of the setting so we're at least guaranteed not to see fluffy orcs.
 

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Great potential for tons of race DLC. :thumbsup: Not that it matters since I'll be baying it after the piece of shit that was Shogun 2.
 

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If that mashed up or mod or whatever screenshot is anything to go by, this will be unfun as hell.

Negative Nelly, is that you?

The screeny is of a mod and has nothing to do with Total Waaagh. Incidentally, the mod is finely distilled MP awesome.
 

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I'll be watching this, hopeful but expecting to be disappointed. Playing Mark of Chaos after loving SotHR and DO was a tragedy.
 

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I'll be watching this, hopeful but expecting to be disappointed. Playing Mark of Chaos after loving SotHR and DO was a tragedy.
My god, mark of chaos is pure shit... the melee combat in that game is fucking awful, you can say whatver you want about dawn of war 2 but at least that game was playable an "fun".
 

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Call of Warhammer is damn awesome. If you've got Medieval II download it now. One of the few actually challenging TW experiences.
 

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