Unskippable: Space Marine

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Graham_LRR said:
Space Marine

To quote the only piece of Ork dialogue in the game, "Spacemarine!"

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Alfador_VII said:
You missed the best part of the cutscene where Titus shrugs off the wreckage as the title splashes across the screen :(
guys, seriously, this, that would a been a better finisher

also, indeed, that's a 'knife' though 'short sword' would likely be more accurate X3
 

mjc0961

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Damn. Those guys make other oversize power armor look regular size. Holy shit, how do they even move in those things?
 

Enkidu88

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For a brief second I thought Anthony Hopkins was in this game when I saw that old looking sergeant. And then he spoke, and my illusions were shattered.

I think the game might have been a better if they'd gone with the Space Wolves or Dark Angels or something rather than the Bland Marines.
 

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A couple of things. First of all, if humanity no longer understands the technology it uses, then who is building those titan things? Secondly, I didn't think objects the weight and general shape of safes could fly, even if you attached rockets to them. Finally, I don't know who voiced those space marines, but they all make Marcus Fenix sound as if he was voiced by Sir Ian McKellen.
 

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Random berk said:
A couple of things. First of all, if humanity no longer understands the technology it uses, then who is building those titan things? Secondly, I didn't think objects the weight and general shape of safes could fly, even if you attached rockets to them. Finally, I don't know who voiced those space marines, but they all make Marcus Fenix sound as if he was voiced by Sir Ian McKellen.
They know how to build it and in some degree (if it's their job) how it works, but they believe in the machine spirit, meaning that they think each machine has a spirit they need to appease before using. Also, they're restricted to some standard or other (that's a part of the lore I'm not too familiar with) and anything that doesn't conform to that standard is heretical. Hope that kind of clears that up.

I could be wrong about some of the details, but I think the general gist of it is right.
 

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bird of hermes said:
Random berk said:
A couple of things. First of all, if humanity no longer understands the technology it uses, then who is building those titan things? Secondly, I didn't think objects the weight and general shape of safes could fly, even if you attached rockets to them. Finally, I don't know who voiced those space marines, but they all make Marcus Fenix sound as if he was voiced by Sir Ian McKellen.
They know how to build it and in some degree (if it's their job) how it works, but they believe in the machine spirit, meaning that they think each machine has a spirit they need to appease before using. Also, they're restricted to some standard or other (that's a part of the lore I'm not too familiar with) and anything that doesn't conform to that standard is heretical. Hope that kind of clears that up.

I could be wrong about some of the details, but I think the general gist of it is right.
Sort of. Until now I thought that the entire Imperium was only using ancient, gradually degrading tech from a long lost generation, and that when it failed they would all be screwed. It made me wonder why in that case we were supposed to be rooting for them and not the Tau, who seemed like a reasonably advanced and decent, non crazy fundamentalist crowd.
 

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Random berk said:
Well yeah, that's true. But that's only cause they sometimes lose blueprints or Forge Worlds (manufacturing worlds). And there's some stuff like Terminator armor that they don't know how to make, other than small parts. Either that or it's really expensive to make, I can't remember.

You could root for the Tau, by all means. I don't myself, I like the Imperium. But the Tau are all "greater good" and all that, the only problem is that their greater good involves forcing people to follow them if they don't accept. Nobody is really non-crazy in 40k :p
 

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"So THAT'S where the Necromorphs parked the Ishimura."

God, that had me laughing like an idiot.
 

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bird of hermes said:
Random berk said:
Well yeah, that's true. But that's only cause they sometimes lose blueprints or Forge Worlds (manufacturing worlds). And there's some stuff like Terminator armor that they don't know how to make, other than small parts. Either that or it's really expensive to make, I can't remember.

You could root for the Tau, by all means. I don't myself, I like the Imperium. But the Tau are all "greater good" and all that, the only problem is that their greater good involves forcing people to follow them if they don't accept. Nobody is really non-crazy in 40k :p
The Tau force others to follow them because they believe they are working for the Greater Good, as you say. They believe that they and their client species will benefit in the end (or is it that everyone everywhere is supposed to benefit?) They seem to have relatively noble ideas. Their methods might be very flawed, but are they really as bad as the Imperium philosophy of "believe exactly what we believe, or we'll kill you"? Not to mention the fact that they're willing to form relationships with other species, whereas the Imperium just kill anything that isn't human, or at least the very loose definition of human in a universe where that term applies to this thing.
Also, I'd have though that in the bad situation humans were in, they'd want to form alliances with relatively agreeable races like the Tau or the Eldar, when the alternative is dealing with something like the tyranids.
 

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Be fair, MSN is a pretty grim dark future. Wonder what that makes an AIM future, though.
 

MrMajenta

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AIM doesn't have a future

also, i'm impressed with how well this commentary reflects the cannon of the WH40k universe
 

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Random berk said:
The Tau force others to follow them because they believe they are working for the Greater Good, as you say. They believe that they and their client species will benefit in the end (or is it that everyone everywhere is supposed to benefit?) They seem to have relatively noble ideas. Their methods might be very flawed, but are they really as bad as the Imperium philosophy of "believe exactly what we believe, or we'll kill you"? Not to mention the fact that they're willing to form relationships with other species, whereas the Imperium just kill anything that isn't human, or at least the very loose definition of human in a universe where that term applies to this thing.
Also, I'd have though that in the bad situation humans were in, they'd want to form alliances with relatively agreeable races like the Tau or the Eldar, when the alternative is dealing with something like the tyranids.
I'm no specialist on Tau, but as far as I understand it, they are "forced" by a physiological dependency, they are kinda brainwashed by the Ethereals, so they don't have any free will(See Commander Farsight). This would mean, the greater good is only the greater good of the Ethereals. Besides, the didn't develop any warp-engines, they need to rely on their allies.

Also, sometimes the Imperium forms alliances with the Tau or Eldar. But those usually don't last long (and not always because of the humans).

But yeah, every single (major)race in the WH40K universe is at best shady.

OT: Great video, wished for a few more inside jokes, but I guess, they ain't WH40K fans.
 

CrazyGirl17

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Okay... why exactly can't the Space Marines (or those two at least) wear helmets?

Favorite Moments:

The return of "Now that's a knife" and "Orks: The Truckers of the Universe"
 

Graham_LRR

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bor3ds0ul said:
Everything was so.... brown. So brown and bland. And why are monitors so horrible in the future?
The game itself is actually quite refreshingly colourful.
There's lots of brown, but plenty of actual colours too!