Comments on: Soulstorm Demo

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Wed, 12 Mar 2008 21:02:58 +0000

[...] Soulstorm is out and it looks like Dawn of War 2 may be imminent, I thought it may be fun to transcribe a [...]

By: Kieron Gillen

Kieron Gillen — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 20:28:49 +0000

Two things are stopping me transcribing it:

1) It seems mean to be bullying a peer by doing so, no matter how embarassing it was. That said, I’m not going to *name* him, if only because I don’t know his name.
2) I wonder whether an actual transcription will capture how insane it actually was – he may appear cheerily sane and just asking hard-hitting questions or something.

By: Anthony Damiani

Anthony Damiani — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 20:15:35 +0000

Behold, the true face of episodic gaming: one release and a stand-alone expansion every six months.

By: Acosta

Acosta — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 15:12:25 +0000

Kieron: That would be amusing to hear again, I had that recorded but I erased it. I was SO close of starting to laugh… it was a really comical situation (probably the Relic producer didn’t think the same, but it was admirable how he dealt with it with such a straight face).

By: Kieron Gillen

Kieron Gillen — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 12:33:09 +0000

Acosta: I really do have all THAT conversation on tape. It’s quite the thing to hear.

By: Nallen

Nallen — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 12:24:08 +0000

Which frankly leaves you wondering what it’s good for.

By: WCAYPAHWAT

WCAYPAHWAT — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 04:12:01 +0000

depressing? cynicism? apathy and hatred?

In the 41st millennium, there is only WAR!!!

By: DigitalSignalX

DigitalSignalX — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 03:37:24 +0000

Having your resource refresh rate and thus tech tree climbing capability directly tied to your territory gains makes for better game play in the 40k series. As opposed to “SupCom” and it’s “build-as-much-as-you-can” style of resource gathering, or SC’s “reclaim enemy/unused bases” style.

By: Chemix

Chemix — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 22:35:16 +0000

I honestly feel that these expansions are practically throw aways from the Relic scrap pile. Dawn of War deserves a real sequel, in a new engine, and possibly with a bit of artsy style to boot. The lighting alone makes the DoW series feel rather depressing, and WH40K is already something that requires a lot of work on it’s own to avoid boiling down to a pit of raw cynicism, apathy and pure hatred.

I understand that it’s a harsh universe, but who really wants to live in a constantly harsh and sad environment. There can be humor, even in darkness, and the orks are the best example of this.

By: Sucram

Sucram — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 22:28:37 +0000

Come to daddy. Come to daddy. Come to daddy.

Demo impressions: Aaaaaaaaaaaargh

By: Acosta

Acosta — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 22:14:10 +0000

More than the absence of Sisters, what I really miss from this demo is an advance of the new metamap system. Dark Crusade had a neat idea, but the execution was a bit lacking and the map could be easily abused.

I have played the demo and I like it, the engine has been crearly surpassed by Company of Heroes engine -for keepings things in home- but is still really nice and effective. However, my main problem with this games was it not being fully developed by Relic, but I am more optimistic now -not that I consider IronLore a bad studio by any strench of imagination-.

Furthermore, I am still not really sure about the flying units and how they are going to affect to the game, this is other of my main doubts.

And I can´t resist it, sorry, something that I think Alec and Kieron will get (is part of a funny situation in Relic offices): Starcraft is way better!.

By: Matt

Matt — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 19:55:23 +0000

The dark eldar definitely score points for going into battle on a pleasure barge.