Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II Comments by Johnny Minkley
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Jigglybean
20/11/08 @ 11:37
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I cant wait for this. I just hope it isnt dumbed down too much from the original, which I loved
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Some publications have mistakenly said there's no base-building in the game, there's no resource gathering," says Ebbert. "That's not true - it's still in multiplayer." This is the result of one of the most significant design decisions Relic has taken: to treat the single- and multiplayer components largely as separate games
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No Base Building :)
This sounds more like the 40k I used to play than DoW 1 which was a bit odd with all its Base Building. This sounds closer to the original tabletop game. Plus it gives it a strong distinction from Star Craft 2. *edit : Oh there is base building in Multiplayer? Drat! Not sure I like the idea of the campaign being Marines only though :(
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TriggerHippie
20/11/08 @ 12:00
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I don't understand how people are reading the addition of game mechanics from Company of Heroes with a dash of RPG as dumbing down. Really, is base building the hallmark of a complex RTS? :S
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Snidesworth
20/11/08 @ 12:13
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So, we're getting real time Chaos Gate single player and old fashioned, proper RTS multiplayer? Sounds good to me.
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@TriggerHippie
The guy said he thinks things are too complex as they are, hence why it sounds like (we haven't said it HAS been dumbed down), it is getting a dumb down. Also I don't need to be told I am awesome every 5 minutes by a computer game. I am not that insecure!!! I have played non base build rts games before (Soldiers Heroes of WW2 is brillant) so no its not the hall mark but what do you replace it with??? Hopefully something good, we'll see.... |
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While I'm sure the single player will be great (and much better than the original SP before they turned the expansions into Risk games), we have to remember that playing a game where you slowly construct a base and build up a force is appealing to a lot of people (like me), and not a sign of fear because Relic are trying something new.
I think the key question Eurogamer should have asked was whether the multiplayer mode can be played against the AI, as many people don't actually like to play other people all the time (for isntance, I can pause the game and come back to it!!). I found with the original DoW it was the skirmishes against the AI that had me coming back for more, I hope this allows the same. |
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kangarootoo
20/11/08 @ 13:30
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""Alcoholism's a strong word... but we're a rowdy studio," says Dawn of War II's charismatic lead designer Jonny Ebbert, who has just been telling us about how a fifth of them got thrown out of their own Christmas party, and how when they're not being manhandled by bouncers they like to "knock each other out or smash stuff; all kinds of crazy shit". Alright then."
Not a good opening. There is nothing more cringe inducing than hearing slightly nerdish people talk about how "mental" they are, just because they got pissed once and nicked a Batman movie poster out of a bus stop shelter window. "Knock each other out or smash stuff..." "Do you really knock each other out?" "Well, no." "Thought not." |
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I'd rather one good storyline to play than twenty crap ones. Thats what annoyed me about the last expansion, even in the Capital missions there was no storyline to speak of and made playing each race samey and boring.
Also if there's no base building and you have a pre-selected number of units with RPG elements does that make this a Real-Time Tactics game as opposed to a Real-Time Strategy? |
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Tetragammatron
20/11/08 @ 13:48
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How can they dumb down an RTS that never even had the S in the first place?
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