Posted June 01, 2015
ddickinson: I think most of the PC games I have seen for 40K (or Warhammer in general) are terrible. I love the whole lore of 40K, but over the last few years Games Workshop has just been destroying it all and lending its IP to everyone. I saw another 40K RTS game coming up, I don't remember where, but the graphics looked just terrible, worse than the original DOW. It reminded me of an old 90s RTS, where the infantry are the same size as the vehicles. From how the DOW 1 games progressed, and seeing the half-arsed DOW 2 games, I think Relic are just cutting corners and not really putting any effort into it. Why would they, there are enough fanboys still to probably justify all these horrible 40K games.
From what I've seen, the best chance Games Workshop has is with the Warhammer RTS that's being produced by the company that does the Total War series of games. That could end up being great, but at the same time, they've gotten shredded by their fans due to their putting out games that are chock full of bugs at times, so they could screw it all up as well.
It's very clear that in the period of putting the copy-paste shitshow known as Soulstorm together and adapting Company of Heroes into Dawn of War 2 that Relic kinda said screw it to the whole "let's come up with new ideas" thing.
They spend their time making garbage DLC for things like camouflage patterns to nickel and dime customers for in Company of Heroes 2 currently. No confidence in them whatsoever at this point.
There are a few companies still trying to do something decent, but with Games Workshop seemingly not giving a crap about the quality of the items coming out, the really bad ones are doing damage and making customers less inclined to try the new ones by association.
Post edited June 01, 2015 by CarrionCrow