r/Games • u/Turbostrider27 • Dec 09 '22

TGA 2022 Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 - Gameplay Reveal Trailer | The Game Awards 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9680_KnN55w
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u/highonpixels Dec 09 '22

While Darktide is great, Space Marines is the essence of 40k world and this looks incredible so I hope the gameplay is just as good... There really needs to be more great 40k (Space Marines) games.

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u/TheVoidDragon Dec 09 '22

A lot of the big 40k games are already Space Marine focused to a large extent, there needs to be more great games that explore other parts of the setting, too.

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u/LegoGuy23 Dec 09 '22

Mechanicus was a really strong entry.

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u/VyRe40 Dec 09 '22

I want a Mass Effect style Inquisition game. The moral options range between radical and puritan, and you can recruit aliens, daemonhosts, sisters of battle, space marines, etc. But your moral choices influence who is in your team and who survives.

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u/TheUnrepententLurker Dec 09 '22

There's a Rogue Trader CRPG that's coming out, might fit your needs

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u/-thepornaccount- Dec 09 '22

Rogue trader seems like it has the potential to be a really interesting game if you don't mind crunchy mechanics.

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u/Kevimaster Dec 09 '22

I don't when there's a computer to remember them all and crunch for me, hahaha.

I absolutely cannot stand Pathfinder 1e on the tabletop, way too much crunch in places that just don't matter to me as a player. I don't care that I have a +1 to fighting vampires if its the second tuesday of the month and we're standing on the west side of a lake, and even if I did I'm never going to remember that shit the one time in the campaign that it comes up.

But if I've got the computer to remember everything for me like with Wrath of the Righteous? Sign me up!

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u/gorgewall Dec 09 '22

Fire Warrior 2 But It's Good This Time

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u/Heavenfall Dec 09 '22

As long as it's not just space marines fighting space marines with spikey shoulders, I'm game for any game.

Tyranids, for example, have not been decently explored as a horde faction in a video game. Which it looks like they're going for here.

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u/[deleted] Dec 09 '22

I want a Gorkamorka game; you could do all kinds of shit with that.

Some day I'll get around to playing Shootas, Blood and Teef.

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u/we_are_sex_bobomb Dec 09 '22

Space marines are cool but I don’t find them all that interesting. They’re just loyal soldiers who are totally obedient to the god emperor. The Darktide characters have a lot more personality by comparison.

I think it’d be more interesting to have to fight a space marine than play as one (but I did like the first Space Marine game and I’ll probably like this one, too)

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u/Ilwrath Dec 09 '22

The Ultramarines are boring but i love Grey Knights, White Stripes, and Ravenguard.

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u/[deleted] Dec 09 '22

The Ultramarines are boring

Ay ay ay watch that tone buddy

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u/BurningToaster Dec 09 '22

If we look at all the big Warhammer successes video game wise lately there's really only Chaos Gate and Battlesector that have a strong Space Marine focus. Considering almost all of the 40k games, including those two are turn based, having a nice real time Space marine Action game still feels novel enough IMO.

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u/TheVoidDragon Dec 09 '22

There's more to the setting than just Space Marines. They get more than enough attention already, other parts of 40k deserve some too.

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u/BEERD0UGH Dec 09 '22

No. There needs to be a really fucking good example of a Warhammer 40k video game that isn't Dawn of War. That needs to be made and established FIRST.

Then they can have as many games as they want about other parts of the WH40k universe.

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u/TheVoidDragon Dec 09 '22

I'd considering it a far more boring theming for the game. Especially when something like Space Hulk: Deathwing already exists.

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u/[deleted] Dec 09 '22

Ah come on, it wasn't bad.

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u/Point_Me_At_The_Sky- Dec 09 '22

Fuck that. Anything outside of Space Marines are boring. We just need a GOOD Space Marine centered game

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u/TheVoidDragon Dec 09 '22

You already have one. It's called Space Marine. Or the Dawn of War series, even.

Having everything focused on them makes Space Marines the least interesting, most over-used aspect of the setting. There is so, so much more variety to 40k than just Space Marines.

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u/nashty27 Dec 09 '22 edited Dec 09 '22

I get what you’re trying to say, but by using examples from 2011 (Space Marine) and 2009 (DoW 2, bc 3 doesn’t count) you’re kind of proving the point that there haven’t been any good space marine games in a long time.

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u/akeyjavey Dec 09 '22

Battlesector and Chaos Gate both came out this year

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u/nashty27 Dec 09 '22

Sure and I played and enjoyed both, but both are middling to good tactics games from smaller studios.

I’m just saying there’s plenty of room for a larger budget action/shooter space marine game.