Space Hulk: Deathwing

Devrij · 7 Sep 2016 at 22:54

Drollic said:
From the gameplay trailer, it looks like it runs like a pig. Really choppy.

That was from months ago though, and there was no mention of that from E3 or gamescom when they ran their demo.

MissChief · 8 Sep 2016 at 00:03

I was hoping for something a bit sooner to tide me over until TF2.

Schnippzle · 8 Sep 2016 at 07:37

Well that's me pre-ordered.

scooby555t · 8 Sep 2016 at 10:21

pre ordered as well cant complane at £25

Sargatanas2511 · 8 Sep 2016 at 10:31

I will keep an eye on it more, maybe pick it up for me and the missus.

wordy · 8 Sep 2016 at 10:43

Might get it after the reviews are in. Never pre-ordering again after NMS.

MissChief · 8 Sep 2016 at 11:36

Why would anyone pre-order a game like this? They've shown no actual in game gameplay and there have been no reviews or anything.

Kiyoshi · 8 Sep 2016 at 11:43

Why does anybody pre-order anything ever, are they going to run out of digital stock?

Mockingbird · 8 Sep 2016 at 12:32

Kiyoshi said:
Why does anybody pre-order anything ever, are they going to run out of digital stock?

There's a financial discount (likely similar to just shopping around post-release) and a pre-order bonus weapon. That's the only incentive I can see in this case.

Sometimes you can also get an early-access pre-download, so avoid trying to download it on release day.

Effectively "not much".

Trig · 8 Sep 2016 at 12:55

I'm still on the fence, I need to play a demo or something first, not a fan of pre-ordering unknown quantities in this day and age where its becoming more and more acceptable to release unfinished game and then fixing them with DLC and add-ons rather than fixing the actual core..

Kiyoshi · 8 Sep 2016 at 13:23

I can understand if you've played a demo or seen gameplay, and there are 'exclusive' items for pre-ordering which you're interested in. But when there's no demo to play or gameplay to see... each to their own I suppose!

Terminal_Boy · 8 Sep 2016 at 13:29

MissChief said:
Why would anyone pre-order a game like this? They've shown no actual in game gameplay and there have been no reviews or anything.

This. I was burnt by DayZ SA. Never again.

MissChief · 8 Sep 2016 at 15:14

Terminal_Boy said:
This. I was burnt by DayZ SA. Never again.

Funny that, I was burned on the same thing. Apparently it's still very, very broken even now.

fastboy · 8 Sep 2016 at 15:45

used to play the space hulk game on my 3D0 machine back in the day..hope its like game was.

Sleepery · 8 Sep 2016 at 18:16

Shush! How are we going to find out if it's crap or decent on day one if some schmuck doesn't pre-order it?

MissChief · 8 Sep 2016 at 19:34

Sleepery said:
Shush! How are we going to find out if it's crap or decent on day one if some schmuck doesn't pre-order it?

Someone will. And we can always check out some reviews on YT. As it's not an AAA title I'd imagine a key will drop below £20 fairly quickly.

Devrij · 8 Sep 2016 at 19:41

I've preordered it. I was always going to buy it because it's exactly the game I want to play. Even if it's not an amazing game, for me the setting and lore makes up for it for me. However, the gameplay footage was enough to convince me they had gotten it right, and the gamescom reviews all sounded very positive as well.

MissChief · 9 Sep 2016 at 03:48

Sleepery said:
Shush! How are we going to find out if it's crap or decent on day one if some schmuck doesn't pre-order it?

MissChief said:
Someone will. And we can always check out some reviews on YT. As it's not an AAA title I'd imagine a key will drop below £20 fairly quickly.

Devrij said:
I've preordered it. I was always going to buy it because it's exactly the game I want to play. Even if it's not an amazing game, for me the setting and lore makes up for it for me. However, the gameplay footage was enough to convince me they had gotten it right, and the gamescom reviews all sounded very positive as well.

See? Told you so.

Do let us know what you think and if reviews are good I may pick it up, but with TF2 and BF1 if I do buy it I may not have much time to play.

wordy · 9 Sep 2016 at 08:25

Devrij said:
I've preordered it. I was always going to buy it because it's exactly the game I want to play.....However, the gameplay footage was enough to convince me they had gotten it right, and the gamescom reviews all sounded very positive as well.

I said exactly the same for NMS.

Kiyoshi · 9 Sep 2016 at 08:39

It's exactly the type of game on paper that I want to play as well. I've played Space Hulk since edition 1 of the board game, I skipped edition 2, and bought the latest edition 3.5. I played the Amiga version of Space Hulk, Vengeance of the Blood Angels on PS1 and most recently the board game version currently on Steam. I love the lore, I like FPS games, I really enjoy the co-operative element of games like Left 4 Dead.

I still won't pre-order a game blind.