Is it just me, or is Titus' face modeled off of Henry Cavill's?

[Aristocles]

If so, I doubt this is a coincidence. :)

[Sothis]

No, it's you.

[Real_]

if anything Henry Cavill tried to look like titus

[Aristocles]

Oh. Never mind.

[Aristocles]

Wait, there was an 11-year gap between games?!

[Aristocles]

Originally posted by w10-20-2000:

Originally posted by Aristocles:

Wait, there was an 11-year gap between games?!

If I remember correctly first one failed and GW is very picky when giving rights, also very dominant and abusive during development. So not many studios ready to deal with that

At least this one seems like it's doing better. Even if I have a LOT of required reading to do to understand half of what is going on. It assumes I have intimate knowledge of Warhammer 40K, and the closest I've seen to this is Starcraft with its marines, firebats, marauders, and the Zerg. And I know, Warhammer 40K came out like a decade earlier than even Starcraft 1.

[L O]

Originally posted by Aristocles:

Wait, there was an 11-year gap between games?!

Yeap, adding to that the original publisher THQ went defunk and the Developers Relic Entertainment were brought up by Sega. around the same time,

As for the post above mine YT 40K lore, lots of channels covering it.

[Sareseras]

Tbf Henry Cavill has been acting in many earlier roles, but the looks between the two of them was more different in their earlier existences (comparing younger Cavill to Space Marine 1 Titus)

[VIGIL]

Originally posted by w10-20-2000:

Originally posted by Aristocles:

Wait, there was an 11-year gap between games?!

If I remember correctly first one failed

By what metric? The first game was very popular at launch, and the MP still had people playing it. I dumped ~800hrs into it. Its still a fantastic game.

[Aristocles]

Originally posted by w10-20-2000:

Originally posted by Aristocles:

At least this one seems like it's doing better. Even if I have a LOT of required reading to do to understand half of what is going on. It assumes I have intimate knowledge of Warhammer 40K, and the closest I've seen to this is Starcraft with its marines, firebats, marauders, and the Zerg. And I know, Warhammer 40K came out like a decade earlier than even Starcraft 1.

It's a lot less information than you think. To understand overall universe you only need to know of Horus heresy and it's result.

The Horus Heresy alone has 64 books, none shorter than 400 pages. It's considerably longer than even Middle Earth's background. And that's just one facet of Warhammer 40K. Yikes.

[VIGIL]

I don’t think SM1 was necessarily tied to THQ’s financial issues. They had a lot of other things going on outside SM1, but it’s plausible they SquareEnix’d themselves by setting unrealistic expectations for investors.

SM1 is still an absolute blast to play. Genuinely one of those games I always go back to almost every year to play again. Wonder if it had a resurgence from SM2’s success? I hope so.

[Realigo Actual]

I don't think he looks the same. I think he looked better in SM1. He looks fine though. I don't think he looks like Cavill.

[Aristocles]

Originally posted by w10-20-2000:

Originally posted by Aristocles:

The Horus Heresy alone has 64 books, none shorter than 400 pages. It's considerably longer than even Middle Earth's background. And that's just one facet of Warhammer 40K. Yikes.

No no no brother, don't even touch books if you want to know what is going on, the contradict themselves sometimes and break lore pretty mercilessly. If you really want to, read first 3. But you are better off reading fandom about Horus heresy or watching lore vid about heresy

I think I'll stick to the YouTube videos for now. I just checked. The emperor is basically a corpse with his soul artificially stuck in him by some machines, requiring a thousand psychic souls to be sacrificed to him a DAY to stay "alive", or at least functioning, the tyranids aren't even as bad as the dark gods of the warp, and as bad as the empire is, it's still probably the least evil faction by far.

And despite the name, Warhammer 40K has nothing to do with Warhammer apart from being made by the same company.

[Aristocles]

Originally posted by w10-20-2000:

Originally posted by Aristocles:

I think I'll stick to the YouTube videos for now. I just checked. The emperor is basically a corpse with his soul artificially stuck in him by some machines, requiring a thousand psychic souls to be sacrificed to him a DAY to stay "alive", or at least functioning, the tyranids aren't even as bad as the dark gods of the warp, and as bad as the empire is, it's still probably the least evil faction by far.

And despite the name, Warhammer 40K has nothing to do with Warhammer apart from being made by the same company.

They are very similar but have some subtle differences like Khorne being noble in fantasy version, versus Khorne being scumbag in 40k

I meant they're not in the same continuity/universe as each other, IIRC.

[Nino_Chaosdrache]

Yeah, I noticed this as well.