That's apparently what they are turning the Dark Millennium game into, if THQ doesn't fold.Jynthor said:
Sim City Meets Warhammer 40K
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In the grim darkness of the far future, there is only war.
*Cuts back on war funding*
YOU CAN'T CUT BACK ON FUNDING! YOU WILL REGRET THIS!
Okay, on topic, this is a cool idea. But that's no surprise, since the Warhammer 40,000 universe is big and detailed yet so open to additions that you can pretty much create a game for absolutely any genre from it. Yes, any genre. Want a sidescrolling fighter? Say that Khorne randonly grabbed a load of 'great warriors' and decided they have to lay the smackdown on each other to gain glory. An aerial combat simulation? Well, there's a pretty wide selection of both atmospheric and space fighters to pick from. Management game? You get this.
*Cuts back on war funding*
YOU CAN'T CUT BACK ON FUNDING! YOU WILL REGRET THIS!
Okay, on topic, this is a cool idea. But that's no surprise, since the Warhammer 40,000 universe is big and detailed yet so open to additions that you can pretty much create a game for absolutely any genre from it. Yes, any genre. Want a sidescrolling fighter? Say that Khorne randonly grabbed a load of 'great warriors' and decided they have to lay the smackdown on each other to gain glory. An aerial combat simulation? Well, there's a pretty wide selection of both atmospheric and space fighters to pick from. Management game? You get this.
Considering how many responses there have been, I may as well elaborate a bit more.
Like someone mentioned earlier, the PC would in all likelyhood be a newly appointed planetary governor. You'd have a range of potential back-stories to choose from (IE: Imperial Guard Commander, Political Exile, Cardinal, Rogue Trader Scion, Machine Cult Magus etc.) in addition to having a say in what your "homeworld" is like (IE: Forgeworld, Shrineworld, Hiveworld, Space Station Orbiting a Deathworld, etc.).
You'd spend your time consolidating your control over your homeworld at first, with your decisions earlier impacting what that will entail and what you stand to gain. As an example off the top of my head, if you decided to claim (or for background purposes, were stuck with) a Deathworld as your starting point- you could spend the early game trying to earn the trust, allegiance and ultimately subservience of the native human population. Once you pulled that off (maybe by building Imperial monuments to impress the loincloth wearing cretins, maybe by sicking Adeptus Arbites cyber hunting dogs on their children) you could offer up the best of the native stock to a Space Marine chapter as recruits in exchange for protection and possibly political leverage at a later date.
Regardless of specific circumstance, you'd start out by maximizing the resources of your homeworld, and branch out from there. Acquire resources, strike up rivalries and alliances with the different imperial factions, and be constantly beset by disaster and invasion at every turn. Ultimately you'd aim to become the Imperial Commander in control of an entire sector of the galaxy, with Rogue Traders & Space Marine chapter masters asking you for favors.
Like someone mentioned earlier, the PC would in all likelyhood be a newly appointed planetary governor. You'd have a range of potential back-stories to choose from (IE: Imperial Guard Commander, Political Exile, Cardinal, Rogue Trader Scion, Machine Cult Magus etc.) in addition to having a say in what your "homeworld" is like (IE: Forgeworld, Shrineworld, Hiveworld, Space Station Orbiting a Deathworld, etc.).
You'd spend your time consolidating your control over your homeworld at first, with your decisions earlier impacting what that will entail and what you stand to gain. As an example off the top of my head, if you decided to claim (or for background purposes, were stuck with) a Deathworld as your starting point- you could spend the early game trying to earn the trust, allegiance and ultimately subservience of the native human population. Once you pulled that off (maybe by building Imperial monuments to impress the loincloth wearing cretins, maybe by sicking Adeptus Arbites cyber hunting dogs on their children) you could offer up the best of the native stock to a Space Marine chapter as recruits in exchange for protection and possibly political leverage at a later date.
Regardless of specific circumstance, you'd start out by maximizing the resources of your homeworld, and branch out from there. Acquire resources, strike up rivalries and alliances with the different imperial factions, and be constantly beset by disaster and invasion at every turn. Ultimately you'd aim to become the Imperial Commander in control of an entire sector of the galaxy, with Rogue Traders & Space Marine chapter masters asking you for favors.
i can imagine that little simcity news reel thing on the bottom with 40k themed news and tips now....Zantos said:
small reactor leak causes mutations across hab block 12, entire block purged "just in case".
in other news, couple believes their child to be the emperor reborn. message sent to terra to confirm. response arrives 3 months ago denying the claim.
ahh warp travel.
War is diplomacy... at the point of a lance.PieBrotherTB said:
Man we need this game. To bad Games Workshop is a giant ravanouse ****. They'd never allow it.
even a racing game! the setup is some speedfreaks want to make their battles a bit more interesting, so they hold races between nob bikers in the middle of them! i imagine it would be a bit like mario kart, but rather than laps, just single large courses. perhaps their could be laps too, i dunno. anyway, the borders for the racetrack are broken vehicles or the warring factions fighting eachother. luckily, they cant really hurt you because nobs on bikes are toughness 5, so 30% or less of the shots that hit would actually cause damage (unless tau are involved, then you are gonna die damn fast)Geo Da Sponge said:
though it would really be less like a Total War game, and more like the Dawn of War Campaign map, since that kinda makes more sense for this setting and type of game.SckizoBoy said:
and remember how uninteresting the battles were in Empire when everything was just a ranged unit, yet still in blocks?
I like creative assembly, but i don't think this is the kind of game they would do well to make. Of course, i didn't think relic could pull of a 3rd person shooter, but they did it anyway, so i might be wrong. It just doesn't seem to fit what the Creative Assembly guys do is all.
this sounds great and while i think it would be completely gimmicky i would love you to not have an interface with bars everywhere but instead all the information you need to make decision is accessed by walking around your palace(because i will need one of those) looking at maps and whenever you decide on a course of action you tell your adviser for that (want to move troops to another plant, tell you general to work something out with the navy) who than proceeds to shout at some random soldier to get this done asap.
i know this is basically just a more complex version of clicking through several menus but i always wanted a game to do the whole "interface is in the game world" right and 40k would be great for this since you would always be able to tell your progress by how fancy your uniform is and how important the people send as liaisons by the various imperial organisations are(how awesome would it be to have a space marine bodyguard as a normal human because you supply them with good recruits)
oh another idea: secret room behind your quarters where you can contact xenos/have shrine to chaos.
i know this is basically just a more complex version of clicking through several menus but i always wanted a game to do the whole "interface is in the game world" right and 40k would be great for this since you would always be able to tell your progress by how fancy your uniform is and how important the people send as liaisons by the various imperial organisations are(how awesome would it be to have a space marine bodyguard as a normal human because you supply them with good recruits)
oh another idea: secret room behind your quarters where you can contact xenos/have shrine to chaos.
I like how the main idea in the empire that when a portion of your army is having low morale, it is time to execute someone.
Anyway, this game idea sounds really interesting. I`d totally play it.
Anyway, this game idea sounds really interesting. I`d totally play it.
Why not? Instead of flooding and earthquakes you get Tyranids and demonic incursions as disasters!Jandau said:
The point I make is that GW is *very* stingy when it comes to licensing it's own properties.Quazimofo said:
You all know the end result of some of this debacle as Starcraft, if the Urban Legends hold any amount of truth.
I too had this dream, I called it sporehammer 40k. Cut out the evolution game, and makes pace travel about navigating warp currents. Purge heretics, explore necron tombworlds, engage in the pyrrhic victories that save a sector from a hive fleet... All in an open ended 4x style sim on a nonlinear lime axis.
See?
This would be a good idea for a game on the WiiU (or any touch screen) but they're too busy trying to shoehorn FPSs and platformers onto them.
I want to play this.
The dev wouldn't even have to be THQ (or whoever does 40k now), a satire of the 40k universe would work just as well.
This would be a good idea for a game on the WiiU (or any touch screen) but they're too busy trying to shoehorn FPSs and platformers onto them.
I want to play this.
The dev wouldn't even have to be THQ (or whoever does 40k now), a satire of the 40k universe would work just as well.
True enough. But it just goes to show GW are extreamly stingy about their licences. As another example, THQ for DoW: Dark Crusade wanted to introduce a new Auxillary Alien type. GW veto'd them, so we got the Vespid.Quazimofo said:
But this I think is starting to get Off Topic.
/tg/ has made up a fun game called chapter master/inquisitor.
Both of them play along the same lines (One meaning you are chapter master of a SM chapter, the other being an inquisitor) and you use your imagination to have fun. http://1d4chan.org/wiki/Chapter_Master_%28game%29
Both of them play along the same lines (One meaning you are chapter master of a SM chapter, the other being an inquisitor) and you use your imagination to have fun. http://1d4chan.org/wiki/Chapter_Master_%28game%29
But with all that being said, a game about bureaucracy would be boring. 40k has to have war--it's int the freaking title. Ergo, like the others, a 40k Total War would be a blast, if there was further expansion into loyalty/heresy, tithes from planets, xenos interaction, that kind of crap. If you do well, your fellows get jealous and will hire privateers against your trade routes, or even go as far to denounce heresy. You can fight back with your personal armies under your house, therefore going into the Total war style of battles, as the Imperial Guard just love lines of infantry (Or it could work out like grand strategies where it just tells you the result of generals).
That being said, you'd need to fill out a lot of paperwork in order to do such. You'd have random inspections from Inquisitors to chance your heresy, or any xenos technology (That provide improvements). You would also need to request attack forms in order to invade a planet (that say, has a lot of materials), but are denied order because of something or another. If you take it nonetheless, you will be punished.
And to make the game seem more tense, (Which can make anyone commit drastic acts) have your main character be alive as an actual character, and, if taken out, you lose.
Orks invading your home world? They'll shoot you down from space, you just can't abandon the planet--fight it out, scrub.
Great job, you've got this large empire, and you're near 150 years old and ailing? You're on bad terms with the Mechanicus for stealing a world they wanted-- I hope you don't really need that surgery
Space Hulk in one of your systems that you want to personally investigate? Your Navigator gets perils of the warp. You find yourself back in the year where you began. Have fun running against an AI version of your younger self.
Eldar offering you tech so they can search a world you own? A fellow lord's spy caught wind of it, and now you have 20 assassins rushing at you. Have fun with that.
You messed with a Space Marine Chapter? Noob gg.
Space combat would be enjoyable, as well as expanded worlds (So you have to build campaigns around each planet you land on, with continents and cities to hold). You'd have to appoint generals, priests, techmagus, governors and the like, each of which can provide bonuses to their respective area. Can also apply for aide from other members of the Imperium (Assassinorum, Astartes, Sororitas, Malleus, et cetera), by building their favor (Aiding them, building monuments to them, forming blood debts) or lending cash moneys.
Just a large scale 40k strategy would be all that I like. It'd be grimdark and full of loss, but, hey, WAR BOSS SKULLKRUSHA HAS DECLARED A WAAAGH! ON YOUR SYSTEM
That being said, you'd need to fill out a lot of paperwork in order to do such. You'd have random inspections from Inquisitors to chance your heresy, or any xenos technology (That provide improvements). You would also need to request attack forms in order to invade a planet (that say, has a lot of materials), but are denied order because of something or another. If you take it nonetheless, you will be punished.
And to make the game seem more tense, (Which can make anyone commit drastic acts) have your main character be alive as an actual character, and, if taken out, you lose.
Orks invading your home world? They'll shoot you down from space, you just can't abandon the planet--fight it out, scrub.
Great job, you've got this large empire, and you're near 150 years old and ailing? You're on bad terms with the Mechanicus for stealing a world they wanted-- I hope you don't really need that surgery
Space Hulk in one of your systems that you want to personally investigate? Your Navigator gets perils of the warp. You find yourself back in the year where you began. Have fun running against an AI version of your younger self.
Eldar offering you tech so they can search a world you own? A fellow lord's spy caught wind of it, and now you have 20 assassins rushing at you. Have fun with that.
You messed with a Space Marine Chapter? Noob gg.
Space combat would be enjoyable, as well as expanded worlds (So you have to build campaigns around each planet you land on, with continents and cities to hold). You'd have to appoint generals, priests, techmagus, governors and the like, each of which can provide bonuses to their respective area. Can also apply for aide from other members of the Imperium (Assassinorum, Astartes, Sororitas, Malleus, et cetera), by building their favor (Aiding them, building monuments to them, forming blood debts) or lending cash moneys.
Just a large scale 40k strategy would be all that I like. It'd be grimdark and full of loss, but, hey, WAR BOSS SKULLKRUSHA HAS DECLARED A WAAAGH! ON YOUR SYSTEM