i am cautiously optimistic, CA has dropped the ball plenty recently (and refuses to fix/update basic shit with their game engine), and 40k games as a whole also tend to be very hit or miss, so i imagine this will either be the greatest 40k game ever made or a massive flop.
only big game i’m really letting myself he excited for is Exodus, been dying for a great high-budget scifi rpg ever since ME trilogy ended
I am personally also cautiously optimistic for Owlcat’s upcoming Dark Heresy game. I enjoyed Rogue Trader, and Owlcat has a history of making one pretty good game and then making a second game which is a world class banger, as evidenced by Pathfinder: Kingmaker vs Wrath of the Righteous. If their pattern holds and they stick close to the source books like they like to do, it’s probably going to be pretty good.
i’m sure Owlcats next game will be great after 3-4 years of bug fixing, and it’ll include some incredibly shitty minigame noone wants to play
(i have a hard time getting exciting for owlcat games anymore, if that wasnt obvious)
To each their own, I guess, I thought WOTR was one of the best cRPGs I’ve ever played. I rank it above BG3 in terms of personal enjoyment.
Rogue Trader certainly didn’t recieve that high of a grade, but the bones are there, and it’s one of the better 40k adaptations I’ve come across. It was clear the writers read their lore first, and they pulled out a couple of twists that even I, a decade-plus 40k nerd, wasn’t expecting.
WotR was fantastic…minus the shitty army management campaign minigame and the godawful stat-bloat “difficulty”.
i distinctly remember one fight with a dragon early on, right after fighting a literal dragon you fight…2 little mandragora, that have more health/higher stats than a dragon. it’s just lazy/sloppy encounter design
I expect it to have Denuvo, so I am planning on skipping it the same way I skip everything infected with anti-consumer, anti-ownership malware.
Even the Emperor, beloved by all, is not worth crossing that line.
I can’t remember a total war title launching with Denuvo, but could just be my spotty memory. Hopefully they don’t go that route, though CA have been a mess over the course of Warhammer 3, as much as I love the game anyway
Hopefully they’ll remove it after launch.
Creative Assembly is owned by Sega, and Sega forces the malware in everything they release and have so far kept it in everything they publish indefinitely.
