Multiplat Warhammer 40k Rogue Trader CRPG (Dec 7). 2023 only gets better!
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Just finished there, what a game. Was a great experience, made even better that I've recently got into 40k.
Had no idea what I was getting into when I started this lol 170 hours according to ps5. I've been off work through illness and still took me like 6 weeks solid just to finish it.
Had no idea what I was getting into when I started this lol 170 hours according to ps5. I've been off work through illness and still took me like 6 weeks solid just to finish it.
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Awesome, and yeah what a great experience, especially if you have a decent nderstanding of the lore, namely the oldest races.
I started with the Horus Heresy. I really like how much material there is for the 31st millennium, and events far prior. I'm on the second last book in the Siege of Terra books, which wraps up the Heresy storyline (did about 50 of the novels). I had avoided most current stories to try and avoid spoilers of the Primarchs that either died ir turned, so most of my knowledge is still before modern 41st millennium times. It was really cool that the endboss here
involves an imprisoned C'tan shard. I had it spoiled that the Necrons were in this, but I didn't know about the C'Tan.
How did you handle the Nomos questline?
How did you handle the Nomos questline?
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Played about 24 hours of the game since Saturday, and... it's very hard to get invested into the story because... 90% of the dialog has no VO.
In the long dialog sections its hard to pay chose attention because very little seems to be relevant, and I have to force myself to pay close attention.
And it seems like it's an admittion by the developers that most of the dialog isn't relevant because they didn't bother to have VO for it... when 10% of the game does.
I'm reminded of this... in Mass Effect 2 when you meet up with Ashley after romancing her in ME1 there's a few subtle things that were different than if you didn't romance her... and after you two part ways she leaves you a message for you to read -
"Shepard,
I'm sorry for what I said back on Horizon. When I lost you two years ago, it tore me up. I prayed for you every day. I read a lot of Tennyson, thinking about you, just like I did when my dad passed. And then you came back, and it was like my prayers were answered. But I'm not who I was then, and neither are you.
I don't know what's true anymore. Part of me can't believe it's really you. I keep going back to that night before Ilos, our night.... I haven't let myself think about those memories for more than a year now.
I wouldn't have expected you to work for Cerberus, but I know why they sent you to Horizon. I saw how many people were lost there, and if anyone can stop the Collectors, you can. I can't go where you're going, but I can wish you luck.
Just stay alive out there... Skipper. I don't know what the future holds, but I can't lose you a second time.
--Ash
Death closes all: but something ere the end,
Some work of noble note, may yet be done,
Not unbecoming men that strove with Gods."
Now compare reading that... to listening to this -
I thought I could get used to the reading, and I have four bookshelves full of novels, but in a video game reading should only be for tutorials and EU material (Glossaries & Encyclopedias).
This reeks of the developers being cheap.
Anyway, I haven't downloaded the new update. Does it actually increase the VO by alot, or just a few new conversations?
In the long dialog sections its hard to pay chose attention because very little seems to be relevant, and I have to force myself to pay close attention.
And it seems like it's an admittion by the developers that most of the dialog isn't relevant because they didn't bother to have VO for it... when 10% of the game does.
I'm reminded of this... in Mass Effect 2 when you meet up with Ashley after romancing her in ME1 there's a few subtle things that were different than if you didn't romance her... and after you two part ways she leaves you a message for you to read -
"Shepard,
I'm sorry for what I said back on Horizon. When I lost you two years ago, it tore me up. I prayed for you every day. I read a lot of Tennyson, thinking about you, just like I did when my dad passed. And then you came back, and it was like my prayers were answered. But I'm not who I was then, and neither are you.
I don't know what's true anymore. Part of me can't believe it's really you. I keep going back to that night before Ilos, our night.... I haven't let myself think about those memories for more than a year now.
I wouldn't have expected you to work for Cerberus, but I know why they sent you to Horizon. I saw how many people were lost there, and if anyone can stop the Collectors, you can. I can't go where you're going, but I can wish you luck.
Just stay alive out there... Skipper. I don't know what the future holds, but I can't lose you a second time.
--Ash
Death closes all: but something ere the end,
Some work of noble note, may yet be done,
Not unbecoming men that strove with Gods."
Now compare reading that... to listening to this -
I thought I could get used to the reading, and I have four bookshelves full of novels, but in a video game reading should only be for tutorials and EU material (Glossaries & Encyclopedias).
This reeks of the developers being cheap.
Anyway, I haven't downloaded the new update. Does it actually increase the VO by alot, or just a few new conversations?
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Lack of voiceover saddens me as well, especially since I like the actors they used.
I like the game more and more the more I play. It is not going to be my only playthrough, this time I am playing mostly Iconoclast with a healthy dose of dogmatic, but I already want to play either heretical or hardcore dogmatic and most of all smoke those Aeldari I've been helping. They are such arrogant pricks.
However I have my doubts as of who would be with me if I go full heretic - seems that Heinrix and Argenta would be out of the question, Yurliet can go screw herself along with the other space elves and I am not a cuck to employ Marazhai. That does not leave a lot of choices.
I wish there were more space battles, I like them.
I like the game more and more the more I play. It is not going to be my only playthrough, this time I am playing mostly Iconoclast with a healthy dose of dogmatic, but I already want to play either heretical or hardcore dogmatic and most of all smoke those Aeldari I've been helping. They are such arrogant pricks.
However I have my doubts as of who would be with me if I go full heretic - seems that Heinrix and Argenta would be out of the question, Yurliet can go screw herself along with the other space elves and I am not a cuck to employ Marazhai. That does not leave a lot of choices.
I wish there were more space battles, I like them.
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It reminds me of how much better Disco Elysium got when they included voice over for everything. Hard to read these texts all especially as they often lack focus.
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I was going to start with Horus heresy but I seen it's like 50 books or something lol, I've started with one called Heroes Of The Space Marines, pretty good so far.
Yeah I thought that was really cool as well, I wasn't expecting anything like the C'tan in the game so was a nice surprise, I knew about that stuff from Luetins lore videos. I merged Nomos with the shard, took a few minutes to decide because I done a mostly dogmatic playthrough and didn't seem in character but wanted to see what happened. What did you do?
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I started with the Horus Heresy, but they say Eisenhorn series is extremely good and I personally highly recommend books about Ciaphas Cain.
