I am slightly familiar with the Dune franchise, I think. Read the 6 original Dune books, think most of the Dune Prequels by his son as well. Watched the David Lynch movie, of course the Danis Villeneuve one too. Watched the two mini-series. Played Dune, Dune II, and this game. Played two of the board games, own one of them. Some day I might even understand the story.
The Sand dunes in Dune and idea for the books, came to Frank Hurbert when he was doing a paper on the Oregon Sand Dunes, which are rare wet sand dunes.
I go through phases like sometimes I have a sci-fi phase other's medieval/historical phase and I was gonna get this game during my last sci-fi phase but my computer died on Xmas. Glad to see you cover this.
You know Ludi, despite the dozens of hours of your videos that I've watched, I've never heard you mention Dune, but as we say here in Italy, "Mi ci sarei giocato le palle che gli piace Dune"
ofc brother, what's not to love about a universe that has a war between machines and humans that leads to ban of machines for 10k years that leads to mega humans able of doing computer level calculations?
I'm sure it's a controversial opinion to many but honestly, I miss the old Dune 2000 game (which was a 3D remake of Dune 2) and its direct sequel Emperor: Battle for Dune... In fact, as a nostalgic fan of these games, I would have been more excited for HD remaster versions of these games or even a sequel to "Battle for Dune" than this 4K RTS game. But the son of Frank Herbert has been clear on this, either follow faithfully his father's work or go to hell (not his words but that's how it feels to me). Otherwise, to those who have been hyped for Spice Wars, I wish it will be as good as you hoped.
The first book in the story is excellent. And I remember back in the day I played Dune 2 to hell, it was so good an addictive. And then later Dune 2000. Edit: No campaign tho :(
I only recently discovered this game, and I agree it is a fantastic strategy game. I love the systems in this game. The devs certainly had a good feel for the Dune universe when designing this. I can't wait for the release of the House Vernius of Ix DLC.
yes and no. lets take Freeman - they super cool (worms, spice collectors etc). i mean other factions not that cool (yea they have a little new mechanics but too little for my taste) @@Ninjaguiden89
I follow you especially because of the gringe accent and the SCHLEMEBOULOUBOU ! Nothing else matter. Sorry if there are mistakes, i'm not so good in english...
@@patrickv1080 it does exist but in a non canon encyclopedia with little info just the origin planet, also Westwood Studios changed the house shield so there is that
I loved the original books, but the books by the son... ehh... gave up very very quickly : D Also i'm not so sure about realism of this universe. Its cool, i like it, but realism, from my molecular biologist perspective, ugh? The game looks dope tho, it seems i will have to use your link YET AGAIN... Stop making me spend my money Ludi, stahp.
I love your EU4/vic3 videos but this one was on a boring side even tho' I'm a big fan of the Dune universe, it does feel like straight up advertising instead of you just playing what you enjoy. Nothing cool about the game was shown in this video, like you built some buildings, pillaged some villages... that's it. Now I wanna read the Dune again though XD
As someone pointed out, the Sardaukar were from a jungle planet while Arakis is the opposite and the Fremen's home. Pit two deadly groups from death worlds against each other, one with home field advantage, and the result should be obvious.
Its an awful game and it looks horrid does not even feel like your playing in the Dune Universe , I love your content and style Ludi but your becoming a bit of a shill.
House Ordos was created by westwood it does not exist in the books. But then again the devs in this game took a lot of liberties with the source material...
