Trailers: Warhammer 40k: Space Marine - "Blockbuster" Developer Dairy

[Jenx]

Yeah uuh the whole "This is totally like a movie guys" feel of the thing kinda bothered me. Aside from that, I guess it does feel 40k-ish, though I still can't comprehend this weird obsession of making bolters sound like regular machine guns. Also, it might be just me, but the Space Marines looked and acted a bit too much like....well, marines in space. Which shouldn't be a problem in any other franchise, except 40k Space Marines aren't your regular "yehaw America fuck yeah, let's rock boys!" marine - they're religious warrior monks with fanatical devotion to their God Emperor. They don't "Save a few orks for you".

Edit: Also, while I personally think the Ultramarines are kind of an obvious and rather lame choice here, I think we all know that the best Space Marines for this game - The Angry Marines, aren't canon.

 

[Tarkand]

This 'interview' was just bad. It's an obvious PR stunt and I doubt any of the speaker had much input in what they said - it feels scripted by marketing.

I suppose that it might only be so because I'm a gamer and the whole 'lol hollywood!' thing really got on my nerve... while somebody who is less invested in the 'game are their own media' debate and just want to see shit blow up might actually think that 'wow! it's like a movie... but you play it!!!!' is a good selling point.

Basically, this trailer was targeted at the lowest common denominator and as such, I found it insulting.

That however, doesn't mean the game will be bad. Poor marketing doesn't really have any effect on gameplay.

 

[Butterjaw]

LAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAME
Which is a shame, I really liked Dawn of War II and Chaos Rising (haven't played the first games)

Seriously, it's gonna suck hard. Bland, boring gameplay, environments completely uninteresting (and WH 40k has some interesting ones... being a fuck-ass huge galaxy and all) Of course, using the lamest Spess Mehreen chapter don't help none. (Ultramarines... blegh, so Suetastic... besides, isn't Relic making the game? I thought they managed to canonify the Blud Rehvens)

Just putting this out there so that when it comes out and the 'scapist review goes up and everyone agrees how shitty it is, I can point at this here comment and say "called it!" .

Get off that bandwagon boy, the Ultramarines are not Mary Sues. Calgar is the Mary Sue. The internet has completely blown their poster boy status out of the water for no reason.

They are no more 'suetastic' than any of the other Imperial MAHREENS.

Their scouts supposedly have more combat experience than the chapter masters of other chapters. They beat everyone in any fight. And they do it while being one of the nicest things in the WH40k universe. Sounds like Mary Sue-ing to me all right.

Oh you mean that one scout? Tellion, who has been around for hundreds of years? Yeah he does have more combat experiance than most chapter masters, doesn't mean he is as powerful. The Blood Angels and Space Wolves are much more mary sue-ing than the Ultra's. Especially in the extended fluff, since the Ultra's are being shown as opurtunistic usurpers that were planning to take over the Imperium.

Also the Imperium always wins fights, it the most powerful force in the galaxy. The Ultra's victories are very close in any large conflict they are involved in. The tyrannic wars and the damnos incident for example. They basically lost Damnos and they only won the battle of macragge because they caused a warp explosion in the middle of the hive fleet that cost them an entire segmentum battlefleet.