Comments on: Dawn of War II: Tyranids At Play, and IRL Rhino

By: Muzman

Muzman — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 23:18:07 +0000

Worth stressing that it's only in Aliens that the aliens are a rip off the bug aliens. In Alien the alien is just the alien, and not the alien space termites of Aliens.

By: Xyzri

Xyzri — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 22:46:03 +0000

“Starship Troopers was released in 1997. ALIEN was released in 1979″
Completely wrong. Starship Troopers came to existance in 1959.

By: Someone

Someone — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 21:51:26 +0000

@Not-A-Bot

Starship Troopers was released in 1997. ALIEN was released in 1979.

By: vermentto

vermentto — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 14:37:14 +0000

— Just a word for tyranids origins :
Tyranids are inspired from Aliens (for the design , but we can see that GW didn’t just copy , it enhanced a lot )and from the roberts heinlein ’s NOVEL “Starship troopers” (for the concept of hive mind ,and such , but there also , GW worked a lot ).
The zergs , i am sorry for BLIZZARD’s fans , are just a bunch of low quality copies of the tyranids ; just as the marines from starcraft are a mix of aliens colonial marines (the concept) and space marines (the designs ) ; the protoss are a mix of the eldar (concept AND designs) and the classical UFOLOGY (tall and smalls greys ) .Tau appeared much later.
BLIZZARD is certainly one of the best games editor , but they NEVER created any of their designs/concepts except for ONE : diablo , but it is a creation of NORTH BLIZZARD : not the same team, it is a other company that blizzard bought (LOL)
May The Emperor Bless us all And Bring destruction upon His enemies —

By: monkeymonster

monkeymonster — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 08:05:17 +0000

LOL at sucrum – it would be an aliens dropship APC moment. Outside they are taller than the vehicle but inside cam has them coming in without having to watch their heads….

Also CANT WAIT! Finished 40K on the weekend and half way through winter assault – jiminy, weak ass humans are so useless compared to marines – but hellhounds *ding* :D

I feel your pain Mister Yuck, playing WI I often lose vast majority of the lads to take certain points and then have to wait a few mins to move up their replacements – no real attachment but marines, I do sniff a little when I lose an entire squad.

@ Zeitgeist afai can remember it was a combination of units (they should/could have many many more littler units than Orks) but more importantly they couldn’t handle how their base+resources would work given The Ty’s don’t have any sort of commonality with the the other races. Reading about how they will handle their “base” is DOW2 you can see they have made a massive change in that whole system.

By: Zeitgeist

Zeitgeist — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 13:56:38 +0000

Noc : My point was that THQ (or whoever made the decision) released DoW1 and 3 expansions without the Tyranids because apparantly the engine couldnt handle all those creatures, this argument didnt really work when you consider the Orks could pump out tons of units.

I guess i am just slightly annoyed at the sorta smug/proud attitude for including the bare minimum in DoW2, when apart from the Tyranids the game soundsa like it is taking a step in the wrong direction.

By: ultrasound composer

ultrasound composer — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 00:57:57 +0000

Noc – getting tyranids into the game would certainly involve more work than another human-type race. I can see them not wanting to do something awesome if the choice is between awesome and easy and both options will pay the bills.
Avoiding the awesome option isn’t unique to game developers of course – I’m sat here posting on the internet instead of curing AIDS or jetskiing off a waterfall.

By: Noc

Noc — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 23:27:05 +0000

Zeitgeist, are you trying to tell me that THQ was trying to cheat us by going "Har, har, we got them to buy the game and we didn't even have to put 'Nids in?" I honestly don't understand where people come from with positions like this. People! Game Designers want to make awesome games. That's why they're in the business. It's certainly not the iffy job security, ungodly hours, brutal competition, and the prospect of having the baby you worked for a year or two to produce fall flat as a commercial slump when the entire games community greets it with a resounding "Meh!" because it doesn't have enough revolutionary features. I'm not saying there isn't hackwork out there. But I can't see any game designer deliberately not wanting to do something awesome.

By: Zeitgeist

Zeitgeist — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 23:00:21 +0000

I love that THQ is so smug and proud of the fact that Tyranids are among the races in the game, when it is clear that they didnt have a choice.
The excuse for not having them in the first game never really made any sense, and if they had tried to make some extra money by saving the tyranids for a further expansion it wouldnt exactly be a popular move

By: Zyrusticae

Zyrusticae — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 16:40:33 +0000

I don’t think Soulstorm is that bad. It’s actually better-balanced than Dark Crusade, it’s just those particular bugs that you have to watch out for (and for the most part, those won’t affect you unless you’re an Eldar player). The game’s perfectly playable, it was just released a little too early (and given some rather sub-par post-release support). Even given all that, however, the balancing is still pretty well-done.

…Well, minus the Dark Eldar Beam of Insta-Gib, I suppose. That’s one thing that’s needed patching since release…

By: Not-A-Bot

Not-A-Bot — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 12:28:12 +0000

Zerg are a ripoff of Tyranids who are a ripoff of Aliens which themselves are a ripoff of the bugs from Starship Troopers.

By: jigglybean

jigglybean — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 11:15:59 +0000

OMG OMG OMG OMG…pauses…OMG OMG OMG

DoW was incredible and I will sell my soul for this!