Wish this was souls like!

[^7ja^1co]

Thoughts?

[potato]

no?

[UnCivilServant]

Why?

[jambo98]

no lol
this is power fantasy game and not everything needs to be soulslike i hate the genre anyway

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Market is already oversaturated with souls games

[decizion]

L take, making this souls like would be heresy. Well deserved jester.

[Narcissistic Cannibal]

Yes, a proper 40k soulslike with dismemberment as in The Surge would be awesome.

[^7ja^1co]

Originally posted by Narcissistic Cannibal:

Yes, a proper 40k soulslike with dismemberment as in The Surge would be awesome.

Maybe a bit better quality that surge, even if its was at least like Remnant from the Ashes. I worry that if they just transpose the same game with upgrade graphics it just won't cut it in 2024 for that price.

[Slin]

oh yes, make it soulslike! or lets make a new fortnite like out of it, or a pay2win mobile game! so many good ideas for your generation of "gamers" ! dont forget the season passes and loot boxes, and a direct connection to tiktok to stream your messy gameplay for other ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥!

...not...

[Veteran]

No! Darksiders 3 already massively flopped by becoming a souls game nonsense. Leave SM2 to be the power fantasy that you should expect out of being an actual Space Marine.

[xxman]

You can probably have a Soul's like game in the 40k unvierse. you just have to find the right place and time to put it in.

[Valvatorez(Cox Cable = awful ISP]

Eww, hell no. Low skill RNG bs doesn't belong in a game about Space Marines.

[Clone303]

♥♥♥♥ no, there's far far far far too many of them and they almost always unfair, unfun and boring and yes I don't like them at all, I was we could get action adventure games back, there almost no of them longer, I want a save point before boss, boss second fight and after, I don't want to die to same ♥♥♥♥ over and over again, it's beyond boring and I'm not going to get good for I want fun, that's what games was made for in the first place if I want to get bored then just to any Time Attack in any game there has it, it's just the worst thing ever made beside Soul Likes games

[Clone303]

Originally posted by Veteran:

No! Darksiders 3 already massively flopped by becoming a souls game nonsense. Leave SM2 to be the power fantasy that you should expect out of being an actual Space Marine.

Yeah, I wish Darksiders 3 would have been like Darksiders 1 or 2 in gameplay for they was fun

[JefferyNothing]

Absolutely not. Souls games are turd.

[zastcat]

Originally posted by Merque:

I think it would improve the current gameplay..

it would "improve the current gameplay" how? we've only seen a fairly limited sample of the current gameplay, we've had our hands on none of it, all that being compared to... even less than nothing, a hypothetical gameplay being imagined for a 40k soulslike that nobody can actually see but the person imagining it

it looks like the only thing that has evolved in comparison to the first one are the graphics.

what we have seen looks like it has some additions over the original's gameplay, that's how evolution works, things get added in the hope that they're advantageous, things that stay are streamlined, and bits are dropped that don't seem to be working

how it *doesn't* work is completely changing gameplay styles so that the only things that tie the game to the highly popular and well loved original (something that has often been held up as being 1 of the few massive successes in 40k games) are some names and the setting, it's a sequel, it's meant to be iterative, people who played the original and hoped for a sequel want a continuation with more of what they liked and some new things added in not something completely different

is there room for a 40k soulslike? sure I guess, I'd honestly be surprised if somebody hasn't already pitched that to gw or even if it wasn't in the works somewhere as an unannounced project, but the space marine games are not that room, a new game series in the setting is

gw should have plenty of evidence why changing genre in the middle of a series is a bad idea from the dawn of war series, dawn of war 1: people loved it and it got 3 expand-alone games to show it and still has a devoted modding community, dawn of war 2: suddenly switched from base building rts to node based real time tactics because somebody at relic made the moronic decision to think basebuilding was dead, still popular but some of the dawn of war players bounced off, dawn of war 3: they changed again to try appealing to a moba/esports audience with base building thrown in to try appealing to nostalgia, it crashed and burned so hard that relic abandoned it completely despite the campaign ending with a big "hey, necrons are coming next"

big changes are a risk, sequels work because the original worked and if you move away from the original too much all you really accomplish is making the people who liked it feel betrayed