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[90908]

This is a thread about Warhammer games.

There is already a Warhammer 40k thread but I though it might be prudent to have something a little more...focused. I'll keep a list of upcoming games with some relevant articles just to keep discussion going.

TL;DR, post about GW's licensing policies, what comes from those policies and whether or not heresy is present.

[90908]

The List:

Space Hulk: Deathwing
http://www.pcgamesn.com/space-hulk-deathwing/making-it-in-unreal-from-board-game-to-boarding-doomed-ships-in-space-hulk-deathwing

http://www.pcgamesn.com/space-hulk-deathwing/space-hulk-deathwing-transforms-the-tabletop-experience-into-a-savage-first-person-shooter-but-keeps-the-spirit-intact

https://twitter.com/spacehulkfps

Eternal Crusade

https://www.eternalcrusade.com/

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxH-BQF2CRQV6lXTf41xEeg

Sanctus Reach

http://www.pcgamer.com/new-turn-based-warhammer-40k-game-in-the-works/

http://store.steampowered.com/app/502370/

Dawn of War 3

http://metro.co.uk/2016/07/21/warhammer-40000-dawn-of-war-iii-preview-and-interview-grimdark-strikes-back-6020370/

http://www.pcgamesn.com/warhammer-40000-dawn-of-war-iii/dawn-of-war-3-base-building

Inquisitor: Martyr

http://www.selectbutton.com/previews/warhammer-40000-inquisitor-martyr-preview-at-e3-2016/

http://www.pcgamer.com/new-warhammer-40k-inquisitor-martyr-trailer-showcases-blood-and-gore/

[debvon]

did you buy a license to create this thread?

[90908]

Yep. They were giving it away with some candy at a convention.

[Digital Hellhound]

Not upcoming, but allow me to present Eisenhorn: Xenos, the worst waste of potential since the Black Crusades.

GW: 'Let's make an Eisenhorn game!' 'Oh yeah that's a fantastic base for a game, we should-' 'Spare no expense! We'll hire Mark Strong as the voice of Eisenhorn!' 'Wow, that is pretty perfect, but-' 'Okay, now let's give it to an untested mobile studio so they can make it a technologically backwards, painfully awkward mobile game that we'll shoddily port to PC later and hope no-one notices.' 'Um.'

This could've been a dream game. It's more of a nightmare.

...wait, technologically stunted, a failed dream turned nightmare... this game is the Imperium of Man. It all makes sense now.

[90908]

Yeah, I was rather curious about why they would give it to a mobile dev. Seems like it would have been best to give it to Telltale or something...

You know, I've always wanted in IG focused Telltale Warhammer game.

[sambojin]

I can see the radial menu now.

1: BLAM! it.
2: Yell "For the Emperor!", then BLAM! it.
3: Get your guardsmen to gently toast it, then BLAM! them all for heresy.

Actually, a game based around being a Commissar or Arbite would be fun. Sort of like "A Wolf Amongst Us", but with less emotional attachment to characters and more BLAM!ing your problems away.

[Gunner-Chan]

The funny thing is, a telltale warhammer 40k game would actually maybe work the best out of all of their licences because the fact that the story is the same in the end no matter what you pick actually makes sense for once.

[nenjin]

"Let's make a game based solely around the most successful Black Library author and one of his best stories."

"Yeah, spare no expense for Dan Abnett."

"Right. Top notch voice actors. Total faithfulness."

"Absolutely."

"What market are we going after."

"The mobile market, of course. Truly only the expertise of mobile developers and the hardware can really fulfill the obligation we have to make this game good."

"That's super smart. I mean, super smart. Damn you're smart. We're smart. Mobile is obviously the best platform for a visual novel with gorgeous effects and over the shoulder gameplay."

"I hear it's even going to have real-time combat."

"Oh man, that's going to be so great. I can see people really getting engaged with it moving their thumbs and poking the screen."

"You're so right. Hey I got another idea: let's greenlight that chess game. Nothing says 40k like static units moving once a turn and doing canned animations."

"Goddamn it, it's brilliant. And we did all this before 11am? Let's go get lunch."

"Sounds great. We doing grilled babies again?"

"Oh hell yeah."

[90908]

"Hey Bob, do you think that we should perhaps not focus on a target market that'll almost certainly ignore our releases"

"Heh, that's funny George. Foot or head?"

[ZebioLizard2]

Speaking of things that aren't Eisenhorn.. The Inquisitor Martyr game looks to be shaping up into a nice little diablo-like.

[90908]

Speaking of things that aren't Eisenhorn.. The Inquisitor Martyr game looks to be shaping up into a nice little diablo-like.

Yeah, I think that one shows promise. The destruction stuff they've been showing, insubstantial though it is, seems rather impressive and from what I've seen the plan is to have a actually unreasonable amount of things to do.

That and I get to cleanpurgekill.

[Teneb]

"You're so right. Hey I got another idea: let's greenlight that chess game. Nothing says 40k like static units moving once a turn and doing canned animations."

Ironically, the chess game turned out to be quite alright and even innovates in some aspects.

[90908]

"You're so right. Hey I got another idea: let's greenlight that chess game. Nothing says 40k like static units moving once a turn and doing canned animations."

Ironically, the chess game turned out to be quite alright and even innovates in some aspects.

Yeah, that was better then I could have ever hoped for. As someone who loves Chess it was not that disappointing. I just wish there was a mode where the new rules were implemented without chance.

[nenjin]

"You're so right. Hey I got another idea: let's greenlight that chess game. Nothing says 40k like static units moving once a turn and doing canned animations."

Ironically, the chess game turned out to be quite alright and even innovates in some aspects.

Sorry, I'm pretty leery of when popular IPs just start getting paired with other game types outside of what the IP is really about. Like, 40k jewel games, 40k dance games, 40k flappy birds. The chess game isn't just straight chess, yeah, that's hyperbole from me. But it makes me feel like GWS isn't really taking their own IP seriously to the point where they'll say no to something.