*RAGE MODE ACTIVATED*Soviet Heavy said:Of course, given that the review is from Official Xbox Magazine, the bias would be apparent.
http://www.oxm.co.uk/33345/reviews/warhammer-40000-space-marine-review/
*RAGE MODE DEACTIVATED*"Respect your Elders, son - or pay the price."
There was another thread discussing a particular "Journalist" who claimed that Space Marine was ripping off Gears of War waaaaaay back before it was released.Soviet Heavy said:Of course, given that the review is from Official Xbox Magazine, the bias would be apparent.
http://www.oxm.co.uk/33345/reviews/warhammer-40000-space-marine-review/
I get that people are allowed to dislike games for their own reasons, but there is a difference between that and making every comparison in your review to an exclusive title for your respective console.
Yeah, I'm bitching, but it is bullshit reviews like this that barely account for anything the game offers in favor of trashing it in comparison to your latest cash cow that is hurting the way games are judged. Space Marine is supposed to be the anti Gears of War, yet that is all OXM can be bothered to talk about.
Refer to the article linked in my above post. Same situation, didn't do his research, and everyone chewed hip up and spat him out in the comments. His edit/response was longer than the article.Sir Shockwave said:*RAGE MODE ACTIVATED*Soviet Heavy said:Of course, given that the review is from Official Xbox Magazine, the bias would be apparent.
http://www.oxm.co.uk/33345/reviews/warhammer-40000-space-marine-review/
Did Not Do The Research. Games Workshop's Space Marines predate Master Chef, the COG's, the Terran Marines and all the other generic Power Armored Chaps you see running around today. In a sense, Games Workshop INVENTED the modern Power Armored Space Marine. If GW's Marines are ripping off anything, I think the Descendants of Robert A. Heinlein would like a word.
Seriously, fuck the fanboys who think GW copycats the above examples. The GW Marines are the only one's to get it right (in that they can use Master Chef, Marcus Fenix and Jim Raynor as a floor mop all at the same time), and predate them by between ten to twenty years. In the words of Angry Joe -
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Seriously?Waaghpowa said:Refer to the article linked in my above post. Same situation, didn't do his research, and everyone chewed hip up and spat him out in the comments. His edit/response was longer than the article.
As mentioned above in my post, Starcraft came out 1998. Hell, Starcraft originally started out as a WH40K game Blizz wanted to make for GW, but they refused (because we know GW have a team of top rate geniuses responsible for every smart decision - like restricting shipping outside of the EU, hiring Matt Ward and Citadel Finecast).darksakul said:Space marines are nothing new, before Gears of War or War hammer 40k, there was Star Craft, and before that Quake and Doom.
Actually, Warhammer 40k is from 1987. Starship Troopers is a novel from 1959, so you could say that Warhammer borrowed from that, but to say that anything after Warhammer is "Ripping it off" is just ignorance.darksakul said:Space marines are nothing new, before Gears of War or War hammer 40k, there was Star Craft, and before that Quake and Doom. Hell some of the old Star Trek books mention "Space" marines.
Space Marines are a part of Science Fiction the way Elves, Orcs, Wizards and Swordsmen are apart of Fantasy. I don't see Wizards of the Coast calming Legend of Zelda Ripped off the Original Dungeons and Dragons.
You seem to think that Blizzard didn't rip off the story/ideas for both Warcraft and Starcraft from GW. A little history lesson, a long time ago the two companies had agreed to work together to create said games... but that didn't work out. (Who broke up with who for what reason is debatable, though Blizzard most certainly ran away with much of the Warhammer lore.)darksakul said:Space marines are nothing new, before Gears of War or War hammer 40k, there was Star Craft, and before that Quake and Doom. Hell some of the old Star Trek books mention "Space" marines.
Space Marines are a part of Science Fiction the way Elves, Orcs, Wizards and Swordsmen are apart of Fantasy. I don't see Wizards of the Coast calming Legend of Zelda Ripped off the Original Dungeons and Dragons.
Warhammer 40k predates StarCraft, Quake and Doom. StarCraft was actually inspired by the WH40K universe.darksakul said:Space marines are nothing new, before Gears of War or War hammer 40k, there was Star Craft, and before that Quake and Doom. Hell some of the old Star Trek books mention "Space" marines.
Space Marines are a part of Science Fiction the way Elves, Orcs, Wizards and Swordsmen are apart of Fantasy. I don't see Wizards of the Coast calming Legend of Zelda Ripped off the Original Dungeons and Dragons.
Chill out.SmashLovesTitanQuest said:U mad bro?
Seriously though, the reviewer gave it a 7/10 and all his points were more than valid. Could you point me to the place where he said, literally, that its a "gears ripoff"? Maybe im missing it. Because all I can find is this:
Which is... Well... PERFECTLY VALID AND COMPLETELY FUCKING RIGHT.At its simplest, Space Marine is a Gears clone with a hair-raising health system which sees you healing by performing execution kills. Given how flagrantly Relic apes the Epic juggernaut elsewhere - weapons are swapped via the same D-pad system - being unable to stick to cover feels unnatural at first, but you soon acclimatise. New cannons and a Fury mode unlock at half-hourly intervals as you progress through corridors and arenas, nabbing Servo Skulls (Warhammer's audio diary of choice) to flesh out the plot's few secrets.
TL;DR: Stop whining, write your own review if you disagree, dont write off a reviewer just because he doesnt like a game you do, or rather, just because he doesnt like it as much.
Fucking hell, he gave it a 7/10 for fucks sake. If you seriously think that Space Marine deserves more than that... Jesus.
That's not what I meant. He was saying that the game "blatantly aped" Epic by using a control scheme that works. If it works, why be upset about it? Every FPS out there today would be "blatantly aping" COD for having a control scheme that works.Dirty Hipsters said:Not at all, controls are one of the MOST important parts of a game. The controls are how to interact with the game, and if the controls limit your interaction by being awkward then that's bad because it limits immersion.Soviet Heavy said:You don't think that the review complaining about a controls setup isn't being even a little petty?SmashLovesTitanQuest said:U mad bro?
Seriously though, the reviewer gave it a 7/10 and all his points were more than valid. Could you point me to the place where he said, literally, that its a "gears ripoff"? Maybe im missing it. Because all I can find is this:
Which is... Well... PERFECTLY VALID AND COMPLETELY FUCKING RIGHT.At its simplest, Space Marine is a Gears clone with a hair-raising health system which sees you healing by performing execution kills. Given how flagrantly Relic apes the Epic juggernaut elsewhere - weapons are swapped via the same D-pad system - being unable to stick to cover feels unnatural at first, but you soon acclimatise. New cannons and a Fury mode unlock at half-hourly intervals as you progress through corridors and arenas, nabbing Servo Skulls (Warhammer's audio diary of choice) to flesh out the plot's few secrets.
TL;DR: Stop whining, write your own review if you disagree, dont write off a reviewer just because he doesnt like a game you do, or rather, just because he doesnt like it as much.
Fucking hell, he gave it a 7/10 for fucks sake. If you seriously think that Space Marine deserves more than that... Jesus.
No, I think the above ripped off older Sci-Fi Novels dating as far back as the 1950's.Venats said:You seem to think that Blizzard didn't rip off the story/ideas for both Warcraft and Starcraft from GW. A little history lesson, a long time ago the two companies had agreed to work together to create said games... but that didn't work out. (Who broke up with who for what reason is debatable, though Blizzard most certainly ran away with much of the Warhammer lore.)darksakul said:Space marines are nothing new, before Gears of War or War hammer 40k, there was Star Craft, and before that Quake and Doom. Hell some of the old Star Trek books mention "Space" marines.
Space Marines are a part of Science Fiction the way Elves, Orcs, Wizards and Swordsmen are apart of Fantasy. I don't see Wizards of the Coast calming Legend of Zelda Ripped off the Original Dungeons and Dragons.
If you ever bother to read the backstory of Warhammer and the stories of Warhammer 40k, you'll notice that Warcraft was originally a clear lore rip from Warhammer, similarly for a lot of the Starcraft story but with some things changed from Eredar to Protoss, and the such.
GW invented, for lack of a better word, the modern Space Marine persona, just as Tolkein invented the modern persona of Elves. Their ideas are taken from past creations, sure, but that doesn't change the fact that what you see in modern days is a direct copy of their work.