Warhammer 40k game idea

[Geo Da Sponge]

I quite liked fire warrior. Not sure how it tried to rip-off republic commando.
Wasn't there already a space marine fps? Didn't you play as a terminator or something?

Firewarrior made no sense whatsoever. A single Tau defeating hundreds of Ultramarines and Chaos Marines? Yeah... RIGHT.

And Space Hulk is not an FPS, it's torture.

Yeah it didn't make much sense that

Spoiler

You were able to take down a chaos titan on your own or that the space marines were so pleasant to you after you killed a dozen of their comrades

But it was still a reasonably good fps and the weapons were fairly fun to use.

It's all explained in the book. In the book, Kais is manipulated by a daemon to give him the insane combat skills he needed to get through to the final encounter alive. Given that the final enemy is a greater daemon of Tzeentch (although in the book, all four varieties appear), it makes sense that everything wazs manipulated to turn out that way. As it's given, the Tau can be given powers by chaos, but can't be tainted or directly manipulated by it, as they have no psychic potential at all.

And the reason the space marines don't care is that the ones you kill are from a different chapter than the Ultramarines who you work with, and the Ultramarines look at them with disdain due to how they use non-codex astartes tactics.

There IS a Tau FPS out, you know this right? It's called Fire Warrior, and it came out for the PS2.

A spoiler-free warning: It bends the cannon over and rapes it. Without lube.

Spoiler: For those of you who don't mind spoilers...

A single Fire Warrior manages to take out a handfull of Dark Angels, Chaos Space Marines, wave upon wave of Imperials, three Demon Princes and a motherfucking Titan. Most never speak of this games' existence because of this.

This goes for you too. Read the damn book. I'd also like to mention that you describe it as if the Tau Fire Warrior beats the titan in one-on-one combat on an open field, as compared to planting explosives all over it's inactive chassis.

If you're going to be like this, you might as well ask: "How does one marine in Doom defeat the legions of hell?" or "How does a small squad of about five SAS guys kill hundreds of enemies in Call of Duty 4?".

Would you prefer the game ran as follows:
You're dropped into combat. You pick off a couple of Imperial Guardsmen from cover. Then a commissar jumps over a nearby wall and sticks a chainsword in your chest. The end.

 

[Scrythe]

/snip

God damn, son, calm down. You need a cigarette? A tic-tac? How about a Jolly Rancher?

My apologies if you're then only person in the thread who knew of the book's existence, let alone read it. Hell, I never realized that they would choose to explain all the holes in a seperate novelization as opposed to... I dunno the fucking game maybe?

But if you want to be a dick to everyone because you're the only guy who graduated from the Warhammer 40,000 School of Obscure References, then more power to ya buddy. I wish you well on your journey of enlightenment.

 

[Geo Da Sponge]

/snip

God damn, son, calm down. You need a cigarette? A tic-tac? How about a Jolly Rancher?

My apologies if you're then only person in the thread who knew of the book's existence, let alone read it. Hell, I never realized that they would choose to explain all the holes in a seperate novelization as opposed to... I dunno the fucking game maybe?

But if you want to be a dick to everyone because you're the only guy who graduated from the Warhammer 40,000 School of Obscure References, then more power to ya buddy. I wish you well on your journey of enlightenment.

I apologise for going loco. I didn't mean to sound angry in my post, but I can see that it might come across like that. I wasn't really expecting anyone else to read the book, and I would say that the way the game skipped most of the important elements of the story for no discernible reason is one of it's biggest weaknesses. I was just hoping that it would make more sense with the explanation and I have a weak spot for Warhammer 40K fluff.

Sweet, I get a journey of enlightenment.

 

[Geo Da Sponge]

/snip

God damn, son, calm down. You need a cigarette? A tic-tac? How about a Jolly Rancher?

My apologies if you're then only person in the thread who knew of the book's existence, let alone read it. Hell, I never realized that they would choose to explain all the holes in a seperate novelization as opposed to... I dunno the fucking game maybe?

But if you want to be a dick to everyone because you're the only guy who graduated from the Warhammer 40,000 School of Obscure References, then more power to ya buddy. I wish you well on your journey of enlightenment.

I apologise for going loco. I didn't mean to sound angry in my post, but I can see that it might come across like that. I wasn't really expecting anyone else to read the book, and I would say that the way the game skipped most of the important elements of the story for no discernible reason is one of it's biggest weaknesses. I was just hoping that it would make more sense with the explanation and I have a weak spot for Warhammer 40K fluff.

Sweet, I get a journey of enlightenment.

 

[Laura.]

A single Tau defeating hundreds of Ultramarines and Chaos Marines? Yeah... RIGHT.

Right, so just like every single Call of Duty, Doom, Red Faction, Castle Wolfenstein, Unreal, Quake and Halo game. Just, in this case it's more believable. (Tau are super duper awesome. I know this for a fact.)

What? Hell no! At least in the CoD series you were one of many soldiers... in Doom you were awesome... in Red Faction you were pissed (really pissed, and you could break through walls)... in Halo you are empowered by the worship of a billion fanboys and... um... I never played Castle Wolfenstein.

And Tau being awesome is relative. No firewarrior could take on 4 Space Marines with boltguns at medium range, no firewarrior could take on a Chaos Dreadnought head on and especially, no firewarrior would he be allowed to live after killing several Ultramarines.
In the grim darkness of the far future the Tau are weak and would die of a single lasgun to the face (just like a human )... or a missile to the legs for that matter (which you could easily survive in the game).

 

[PxDn Ninja]

I would be interested in ANY 40k game if it has Necrons in it.

 

[ZeeClone]

I found one of my old Warhammer models the other day and it got me thinking "a lot of FPS's are unofficially based on Warhammer, why not make a FPS or a 3PS about it?" and i came up with three ideas for that game:

Space Marines

You'd have to capture the desperation of the Imperium as they face near extinction in the story and the sheer power of the space marines in the gameplay in a COD 4 type of game

I think a better angle to seperate the Space Marines from Imp. G. other than the fire power would be to emphasise how epically NOT human they are.

They're massively altered by surgery and training, perhaps kick off as a scout, having only been through one or two surgeries with a mid-game climax of inheriting your armour and bolter, latter improvements being captain, chaplain or librarian and teh awesomeness that comes with any of those three roles.

Grammar fail. CBA fix it. You get where I'm going though.

 

[Laura.]

Tau armor usually stops all imperial handguns,even the "mighty" bolter (...)
And we already covered the fact of Kais being empowered by a warp influence.

Not acording to "Courage and Honor" (in fact, pulse rifles has trouble penetrating space marine armour in the novel... which makes sense, since it's a heat based weapon and marine armour is made of ceramite IIRC).

 

[Aunel]

yeah unique ideas all based off COD4

I was using COD 4 as it is the only FPS tat has good gameplay and makes you feel for the characters

I never really felt anything for the characters in COD4, but this argument is pointless, so I'll stop.