Developers making games featuring dwarves are uniting to try and get their own tag on Steam.
17.12.2023 - 17:03 / destructoid.com
I was shuttling up to my Voidship, planning to check out a prison planet uprising, when the sun exploded. The unexpected arrival of Xenos ships and the quick deployment of their star-shattering weapon left my crew in complete disarray. As I met with a round table of companions and ship staff, I was presented with choices.
With the collapsing force of the star and the growing instability brought on by the Warp, evacuations were ill-advised. Still, I could try to save the nearby planet’s population, but allies noted that the Warp had likely corrupted them. Alternatively, a member of the Adeptus Mechanicus asked if I’d consider diverting resources to save a piece of sacred machinery. Others at the meeting demanded we high-tail it out of the system as fast as possible.
I made what I thought was the best decision at the time, opting to save as many people as possible. But soon after arriving in a new system, commanders among my crew alerted me that evidence of the Warp’s stain was present within my ship. Amazed by what had transpired over the last ten minutes, I realized I had only just exited the tutorial-like starting area of Warhammer 40000: Rogue Trader.
There are certainly examples of great Warhammer 40K games, like Dawn of War 2 or Space Marine. But I contend that even these top-shelf offerings stumble when trying to present the universe as a whole. I’ve talked about this before. It was the crux of my argument that Destiny 2 is a better Warhammer 40K game than most legitimately licensed options. In almost every Warhammer 40K game I’ve played, you’re either an eye in the sky commanding vast forces or a specific individual within some lore niche.
Both avenues present their inherent problems. Strategy games lose ambiance and personality among endless menus and a POV quite literally removed from the eye level we humans identify with. The other category, usually action titles, is often too engrossed with a singular conflict. For example, in Space Hulk: Deathwing, you’re exclusively Space Marines fighting through space hulks. In Darktide, you’re exclusively a band of miscreants fighting through a hive city. Even in Space Marine, you’re exclusively one faction of Space Marines doing the same thing over and over again.
Warhammer 40K games, as a whole, lack the breakaway world-building and character development that really sells a setting. For the most part, a lot of the games in the franchise can feel a little one-note. However, thankfully, that’s not the case with Rogue Trader.
Whatever other Warhammer 40K games lack in world-building, Rogue Trader makes up for it in spades. From the soundtrack to the dialogue to the little things like background NPC chatter and optional environment interactions, Rogue
Developers making games featuring dwarves are uniting to try and get their own tag on Steam.
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