Warhammer 40.000 Chess

[MaxPower]

http://www.polygon.com/2014/5/13/571274 ... -mobile-pc

http://warhammer40kchess.com/

Wow, I mean wow, they try to make a buck out of everything nowadays.

Could they just announce DOW 3 from Relic Entertainment already..ggeez.

[Ace of Swords]

I wish devs would stop to cater to Iphone users.

[Jazz-Sandwich]

The only thing I like about this is the name. Regicide. Reminds me of Ciaphas Cain, of the games between the good comissar and the lord general. And something tells me it'll take a good amount of amasec substitute to make this game appear worthwhile.

Disappointing. And bolters don't work that way!

[BaptismByLoli]

Sweet Emperor! Vocaloid's prediction of a Farmville(40k style) may indeed be upon us if this BS keeps up.

IIRC, Creative Assembly has Games Workshop permission to create games using their title right? At the very least let us see a Warhammer Fantasy: Total War (Not of Rome 2 release quality) rather than this nonsense.

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[Orkfaeller]

. Based on this, the game mixes in stunt choreographed and motion captured animation to create "merciless kill and death animations" using military trained fight and stunt choreographers.

Its a freaking chess game !!!

- eh, Ill give it a try.

[Dark Riku]

I'm actually looking forward to this one :p
Didn't play chess in some time now Used to do it in school regularly.
Even came on top in the chess tournament held at our school. ^^

[Indrid]

You only won at chess because you flesh-hooked the King Riku.

dun u lie

[Dark Riku]

I kinda did luck out in that tournament to be honest.
My best friend was better than me and won like 80% of our games against each other.
Good thing the 20% was with me that day

[BaptismByLoli]

You only won at chess because you flesh-hooked the King Riku.

dun u lie

But..but he mains Apo.. I thought he'd be spamming medkits on his downed pieces T-T

P.S. You made my day with that post Indrid. Tyvm. Now all I need is for you to say something more nonsensical than, 'Big Booty White Girl'.

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[Swift]

The Bolters looked a little... non-canon. Also the voice is far too deep and Hollywood blockbuster, it has to very zealous and over exaggerated, with a touch of Boreale on the side.

[MaxPower]

I thought the Bolters looked like Bolters and I really dig the voice. So Space mariny, or something. ^^

[Orkfaeller]

The Bolters fired a bit assault-rifle-y imho, but eh, everything else looks good.

[Dark Riku]

I loved the Space marine animations and the voice too.
Also digging the chess pieces in the battlefield ^^

[ChrisNihilus]

So, all we have is just an intro video.
No pictures, no actual gameplay, no info whatsoever.

It's a bad premise.

[Indrid]

There is one image of a supposed in-game asset:



Looks pretty impressive really.

[Jazz-Sandwich]

So, all we have is just an intro video.
No pictures, no actual gameplay, no info whatsoever.

It's a bad premise.

Have a gander at this link: http://warhammer40kchess.com/press-release/

There actually appears to be quite a bit of thought invested in this. Military-trained fight and stunt choreographers for the sync kills and stuff, a 'new' form of chess suited to the game style on top of classic chess, and a Blood Angels campaign. Upgradeable characters mentioned, too. Also mention of 'several factions'.

I'll be honest, I'm really starting to warm to this game. At least on it's core concepts. How they are implemented is to be seen.

[Lulgrim]

I expect they are making some sort of scenarios for the campaign mode.

The voice seems appropriate, Spess are huge and their voices would be very low.

[Orkfaeller]

And they got Ross Watson writing for them, a gamesworkshop writer / game designer who also did most of the 40k RPG books.

We dont know if its going to be great, but I doubt its going to be another Storm of Vengeance.

[BaptismByLoli]

And they got Ross Watson writing for them, a gamesworkshop writer / game designer who also did most of the 40k RPG books.

We dont know if its going to be great, but I doubt its going to be another *REDACTED*.

Fixed by the Inquisition

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[Ace of Swords]

It's just a chess game it can't be bad, there is no way it can be, like every other clone of chess reskinned for X brand.

The question is, was this necessary?

Do warhammer players fucking care about warhammer chess?

Personally when I want to play chess I play the real one.

[Lulgrim]

When I was young there was Battle Chess and now there will be 40K Chess, fuck yeah it's the only reason I would play chess at all (it's pretty boring)...

[Swift]

When I was young there was Battle Chess and now there will be 40K Chess, fuck yeah it's the only reason I would play chess at all (it's pretty boring)...

Isn't Dawn of War just a hugely glorified way of enjoying chess... in a rather more interesting way?

[Lulgrim]

No it's quite unrelated to chess...

[MaxPower]

Actually you are wrong Lul, if you simplfy the idea behind dawn of war (or any strategy game for that matter) and chess you would get something like: Use your stuff/units defeat your opponents stuff/units.

Verdict:

Pretzels > Chess

[Lulgrim]

That's a bit far-stretched... it basically makes Forza Motorsport a form of chess...

[Jazz-Sandwich]

Well, yes, it's definitely a stretch. Most games you can name, when you boil them down to their core concepts contain the basic premise of 'conflict'. That does not make them a form of chess.

[Swift]

Verdict:

Pretzels > Chess

That is agreed.

But basically the mechanics of these games evolved over years and years from chess to DoW II. Of course it is a long shot to say one is more complex than the other, but inevitably the mechanics of chess have transitioned through hundreds of iterations of games until the basic mechanics of the game were made into something a little more fleshed out. I wasn't seriously suggesting that it is glorified chess, but the roots are there.

[Torpid]

DOW is definitely more deep than chess. The problem is that since it's an RTS and not turn based that makes it practically infinitely more difficult to mathematical derive the optimal way to play, even when you account for practically everything you foe may or may not do and then you have to factor in micro.

[MaxPower]

That's a bit far-stretched... it basically makes Forza Motorsport a form of chess...

Ofc it's a "bit" far-stretched, but yes, ultimately chess is just a game like forza. The lowest common denominator being, they are all games.

[Commissar Vocaloid]

All the chess hates gonna hate. I like chess, but I don't want to buy an overpriced chess game unless the warhammer title brings a little something special to it other than pretty visuals and a big price tag.