Malf on 21/8/2008 at 15:23
How the fuck did a thread about Dawn of War 2 turn into a thread about transexual kiwis?
Ulukai on 21/8/2008 at 16:04
Retracting request for pics
WingedKagouti on 21/8/2008 at 16:32
Quote Posted by Malf
How the fuck did a thread about Dawn of War 2 turn into a thread about transexual kiwis?
Because Koki is spewing its usual bile.
N'Al on 21/8/2008 at 16:57
Quote Posted by WingedKagouti
Because Koki is spewing its usual bile.
Uhu, no. Koki may be spewing bile, but it was EvaUnit who mentioned transsexual brother-in-law could-have-beens.
Seriously, just because dethtoll knee-jerks at everything Koki says doesn't mean you lot have to too. Koki
does post a lot of retarded shit, no doubt about it, but sometimes - just sometimes - there's actually something worthwhile in there (a bit like dethtoll's posts, then). Koki's case isn't really helped by the fact that his posts are sometimes incomprehensible (which I'm putting down to him being a non-native English speaker), but for fuck's sake, some of you should really try and see through that red mist in front of your eyes whenever he posts something on here.
His 'joke' about WOW gayness may have fallen completely flat, but he was in
no way responsible for discussions about fucking transsexuals.
Having said all that, Koki, it
would help if you started posting less retarded shit every now and again.
And now, back to discussing fucking DoW2!
catbarf on 21/8/2008 at 17:22
I noticed that the devs are really playing up the reptilian nature of Tyranids. A good move to try and distance the Nids from Zerg.
N'Al on 21/8/2008 at 22:43
Quote Posted by catbarf
I noticed that the devs are really playing up the reptilian nature of Tyranids. A good move to try and distance the Nids from Zerg.
This kinda ties in with my stupid questions earlier; I was essentially making the assumption that Relic didn't put Nids in DoW1 because had they done so, they would have just played like a (lesser) version of the Zerg, which would not have done them justice. Now, clearly, Relic feel that they
can do them justice, but imo they really need to manage to distance them gameplay-wise from the Zerg, in that case.
My concern, from watching that video, is that they haven't really done that. Which could lead to people - particularly those who
don't know WH40k - to go "meh, they're just Zerg, and Blizzard did them better". I mean, that's kinda what I did myself.
At any rate, I guess we won't really know any better until there's more footage or the game gets released.
I'm still only half-way through Winter Assault, anyway, so it'll still be some time until I even consider buying DoW2.
Pyrian on 21/8/2008 at 22:54
The hell of it is, Blizzard did an excellent job of making the Zerg play like the table-top WH40K Tyranids. So, most things Relic could do to make the DoW2 'Nids play differently from the Zerg will also distinguish them from the table-top (and/or fiction thereof) Tyranids.
Given that, they should probably play up the termagaunt (think shooty zergling) as the most basic troop instead of the hormagaunt (direct zergling equivalent, albeit more "jumpy") or even rippers or genestealers (also close combat).
catbarf on 21/8/2008 at 23:20
Quote Posted by Pyrian
Given that, they should probably play up the termagaunt (think shooty zergling) as the most basic troop instead of the hormagaunt (direct zergling equivalent, albeit more "jumpy") or even rippers or genestealers (also close combat).
Agreed. The Termagant is the basic troop of the Tyranids- you don't see many games with shooty bugs.
Although there may be cross-influence. When Starcraft was released, Hormagaunts were Fast Attack choices, which meant that they were rapid strike units. For 3rd Ed., they were moved to Troops.
Fafhrd on 22/8/2008 at 01:33
Quote Posted by Koki
Is there anyone out there not housetrained by dethtoll to notice I might not be entirely serious with this? And that this is, perhaps, a poke at all the basement-dwelling color and light experts from Diablo 3 thread? Doubtful.
You know what might've helped? If you'd posted it in the fucking Diablo 3 thread, or any thread where people are bitching about the art style of DoW2 (oh, wait, that thread doesn't exist, because NOBODY WAS BITCHING ABOUT THE ART STYLE) instead of shitting in this one. OR if DoW2's art style actually represented a departure from that of the original, which it DOESN'T.
N'Al on 22/8/2008 at 08:27
Quote Posted by Pyrian
The hell of it is, Blizzard did an excellent job of making the Zerg play like the table-top WH40K Tyranids. So, most things Relic could do to make the DoW2 'Nids play differently from the Zerg will also distinguish them from the table-top (and/or fiction thereof) Tyranids.
Ah, ok, I wasn't aware that this was the case. Guess I'm just not familiar enough with WH40k.
Which again, to me, begs the question why Relic felt they couldn't include a race that played like the Zerg in DoW1. But... I think I'm just going to stop here before I bore everyone to tears with these questions. I'm just going round in circles.
