As if the story of Revelations (I've just saved Europe from one of the most 🥂evil families to ever seize power💞, time to go lock myself in a library and die), 3, Unity, Syndicate or Origins were much better.....

The most compelling story the 🎶gꦇames have is 4 in my opinion, you can trace the actions of the ancestors to the modern day almost 1:1, obviously the Templars want to find the Observatory to bolster social control over the population and they're using the fictionalised Assassin's Creed games the modern day protagonist is working on as both a source of information and propaganda. Cool tie in.

Best part of Revelations was the cursed Animus bits. At least Shadows cares about the rest of its world where the other weak entries insist upon their weak story to the point of frustration. I found Shadows a lot better if you treat it the same as 2: it's not the story of the Assassins vs Templars - it's the story of Ezio, who becomes𓆏 caught up in a conspiracy and forced to become an Assassin, the same as ꦰNaoe begins her journey as a journey of personal revenge.

(Also, no interesting characters? 🔜Really? Melon and Lemon weren't interesting?)

Disagree꧙, Morrowind was still heavily based in old school dice systems, whereas Oblivion became ꦑas accessible as it did because it blended more of the action/adventure themes in a somewhat watered down way next to Morrowind.

Look at the QOL updates Oblivion has had with the remaster and Skyrim has had in the form 💎of DLC and creations - if Morrowind got that treatment with a similar remaster I'm willing to bet it wouldn't go down anywhere near as well, because what makes Morrowind so excellent imo is how it feels like you're playing an old school tabletop RPG but with the very new (at the time) idea of this big open world with hundreds upon hundreds of unique characters, detailed locations, that general sense of immersion that comes from exploring a 3D world like that next t🐼o the first 2 Elder Scrolls games

That's where I think ☂a lot of major studios have missed a trick where it comes to remasters: it's not about the technical upgrades or the enhanced visuals or new mechanics - it's the soul and effort behind the project

The same is true for their Dark Souls remaster,𒉰 it still feels like you're playing Dark Souls with all the broken nonsense you can pull off, but with the quality of life ꧅and framework updates it needed

That's what DLC is for, the content they wanted to put into the game but couldn't for any number of reasons. Not half baked, half imagined ideas which are somehow already on the drawing board prior to relea👍se. Stories, systems, and mechanics that complement and enhance the original experience - not bring it up to where it should have been in the first place.

The new Doom game seems to buck this trend massively. One review I read for it was equally hesitant about "Doom But More" and 🍒as it turns out, they've managed to add the perfect amount of More and still add things which are totally out of left field - but still feel like Doom.

Hell, there's even a section where the author theorises that some of those concepts prob🌠ably sounded completely crazy in design meetings, but here we are at the pointy end and all anyone can say is "why weren't you doing this sooner?"

Nobody wants to play another Last of US remaster when Naughty Dog could be making another Jak & Daxter - THAT'S where the tiresome parade of🍬 remakes begins to get grating, when it comes at the cost of revisiting old ideas with new eyes.

You didn't really think they'd spill everything did you? Nearly every interview where this has been brought up with CDPR people, they've either said "he's alive and well somewhere" or "he's bound to show up at some point", it'ܫs a pretty safe bet he'll be in the game at some point and they're trying to stay hush.

>actual fans

I'm by no means in favour of a Total War 40k, but you're deluded if y꧑ou think the Warhammer games haven't dwarfed the historical titles, the people vote๊d with their wallets, buddy :)

20 odd year Warhammer veteran here: no it's not.

It𝔉's time for Dawn of War 4 to have a proper crack at grand strategy instead of aꦺ half baked MOBA with some light economic and campaign elements.

The closest it should come to Total War is the economy of Battlefleet Gothic, definitely skirmish and siege battles on a variety of planets, map is e💫ither ruins of the Cadian Sector or further pushing back the Tyranids in Nihilus.

The beauty of the Space Marines' ꦕcombat doctrine is ultimate flexibility. Total War battles are a little too prescriptive to really allow that flavour to come through

Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy came o🍌ut a♚ few months after KOTOR, check yourself.

Also The Force Unl🍎eashed was decent for its day as an alternative to 💙God of War.

Uh oh, someone never finished the Witcher 3. There's a whole ending where Ciri is set up to become the next Witcher we follow aft♚er Geralt, with Geralt explaining that her elder blood is a good replacement for the Trial of the Grasses. Nothing shameful here except a bunch of fake fans getting fake outraged over things they don't even know about.

They can st🧸ick Black Slop: Derivative where the sun doesn't shine and leave it there till it becomes a half decent game worthy of being selected🅘 over any other as the best of the year.

If I wanted to play Dark Souls with monk๊eys, I'd maᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚtch up online.

Welcome to the community! Also, you're spot on. I've been playing since 2006 and supply has never, ever ꧟been this patchy.

Ultimately it's a good thing, it's given GW a chance to revisit a lot of parts of their range that are in need of a little TLC. The long awaited "Year of the Xenos" (Or Hot Gue'la Summer depending who you ask) has come in drips and drabs - you should have seen the state of Eldar 5 years ago, not to mention Necrons and T'au at the end of 7th edition, Triptide and Cr🍒oissant spam everywhere cause of poorly optimised rules and this was when the game moved a lot slower.

As you're getting your army together (play Dark Angels they're the best Space Marines the Emperor even says so and The Lion could totally beat up Guilliman) and maybe even looking into other factions, either as allies or another army, take a look at which armies get the most frequent new releases - not even the largest range becau𝔍s🉐e there's heaps of chapters of Space Marines of course they have a big range - but the most frequent updates. Chances are it'll also be Space Marines for...... no good reason. Woooo, yet another Primaris Captain/Lieutenant with a Tactical Rock and Ultra Super Mega Uber Bolt Rifle, but this time it's the guy from SM2, if you haven't played SM2 cause you spend all your money on Warhammer then tough luck, that'll be 70 dollars.

If you've just c🌱ome from Star Wars, the Horus Heresy fiction strikes t🐠he perfect balance between action and intrigue much in the same way a lot of Legends material does, you might like it.

As a long time player of both 40k and WFH/AOS - I think you've got it back to front. The fact that SM2 is reaching such a wide audience is nice, but the Space Marine games were made to support the tabletop and fiction not vice versa, just as every other game fits nicely into its nic🎉he that doesn't tend to tread on the toes of whatever is going on in-universe. Except SM2.

I agree that some TTG support for some of the third party media would be a nice touch - how long have people been asking for proper Blood Ravens again? But that's my point, if GW made a full range of Blood Ravens, and a modular box featuring Titus and the campaign from SM2, it sets a precedent for creating a supplement for 𝄹every other product with the GW name on it too.

There's no Old World: Total War Warhammer 3 supplement, and there likely nevꦡer will be (I can dream though), the fact that we got Old World back at all is a miracle. On the subject of what we're getting, Pilestedt from the Helldivers team made a really good point the other day in saying "I'd have loved to have these games (HD2 and SM2) growing up, why can't we just enjoy some good games?"

If someone is so gassed up about Warhammer solely from playing SM2 that they decide to pick up the tabletop, they're already far enough down the rabbit hole that in under a year they'll be sculpting their own Titus if they really want to. Couple Black Templar shoulder pads and an especially grumpy looking Hellblaster head with t🐠he metal and Bob's your Brother-Sargeant.

Sadly though, even in the universe where GW decid🌜es to double or triple their design team to put out more models, modules and content themed around 3rd party media, a small but not insignificant group of the player base (a group GW themselves have expressed outward disapproval of) is unbelievably hostile to anyone they feel is entering the game for the "wrong reasons". GW and WarCom know they have a huge cleanup job on their hands before 40k is ready for mainstream audiences.