"I claim tarturus in for the Emperor" "Youz can't claims us, wes live ere! 5 undred zillion of us" "Do you have a Flag?" "Weze don need a zoggin flag, this is our planet ya git!" "No flag no planet, you can't have one! that's the rules that... i've just made up. and i'm backing it up with this Gun that was lent from the Adeptus Mechanicus" And that was it.
Very professional and well written, nice start but I'm still getting a biased feel cuss...well...40k. Would love to see more of this, and your beard, little kitten.
That DOW opening intro is still one of the greatest gaming cinematics of all time. No slow build here, we are going straight into the deep end baby. Edit: Got to the part about the quotes andthe chaos line actually gave me chills hearing it again. Epic VA.
That opening cutscene was so mind-blowing in 2006 that I spent the next several months emptying my bank account on Space Marine minis and even got a Space Marine tattoo within the year. I had never seen so much concentrated badassdom before.
I honestly was a bit upset when I realized there was a campaign tutorial, because the basic tutorial made me want to jump in front of a charging imperial knight.
Save for a couple of rts games, this is the only rts game that had mechanics that fit me. Why? REINFORCEABLE UNITS. No more having to create 1 unit that dies in 2 hits anymore, I can do it on the fly.
My friends and I would play 3 human vs 5 insane AI. Dig into choke point. Set up a combined defensive line. Go out for a few hours come back to a front line that is still holding and the persistent bodies so high with a kill count 6,500 - 10,000. Than we just launch our quick base assault squads to directly attack their HQs and finish it. *_Dark Crusade_* was the better single player campaign with persistent bases. So it paid to play with the enemy and lock down the entire map and go over board with Turrets. *_Soul Storm_* was the Multiplayer's dream. With more maps and more, *FACTIONS* Space Marines Sister's of Battle Imperial Guard Tau Empire Aeldari Empire Dark Eldar Chaos Space Marines Orks Necrons
my faveorite quotes are from the Dreadnaught... just the idea of a "dead" space marine still wrecking ass is really cool to me. "Even in death, i still serve"...byotuful!!!
Gears of Warhammer and Thomas the Demon Engine. Damn it Kitten, that got me to laugh! Still, excellent review. Even the first installment of DoW was great for its time and still something to go back and play time to time. For voice acting, special thanks to the Dobson brothers and Scott McNeil. Though yeah, for the Botler, we gotta wait for Dawn of War ll to give us the far more iconic THUMP THUMP THUMP
There’s nothing I love more than absurd descriptions of warhammer 40000 that are not wrong. “It’s about space crusaders killing anything they don’t understand!” Pretty much!
When i first played DOW i has absolutly no fucken idea what Warhammer was. I was stunished as how many times “the Emperor” was mentioned and with such devotion! It is indeed the kickoff for thousends of actual wh40k fans now a days...
I remember when i was a kid and i found this game. We couldn't afford an xbox but we had this old computer with a Logitech ball mouse. And I'd get so bored I'd look through my dads old warhammer 40k stuff and id play with his minitures. And i eventually found dawn of war and it looked so cool i eventually figured out how to download it. It was back when roblox wasn't complete shit but it was on its way. And i loved the campaign. I immediately liked the spacemarines the most. I remember going to elementary and making drawings of this game. And going to this place called camp discovery and i met my friend austin and cy and introduced them into this and they thought it was cool too. And we'd roleplay and force it on some of the other kids pretending to shoot them with cap guns and getting in trouble for having a capgun. And the first camp discovery was just austin. And we'd make factions and us and the other kids would fight with sticks like a fun battle. And our team would worship this shiny rock and the camp counselor bitch threw it in the trash. So i grabbed it and i took it home. And i would play the dawn of war campaign so many times i couldn't beat the last level as a kid. And i eventually discovered skirmish mode. And my favorite map was emporers valley i think. It was a 1v1 map. And that intro was the best god damn intro I'd ever seen. Still gives me goosebumps today. And later i discovered winter assault and i was like why is this so hard and i ended up just playing skirmish mode. And then dark crusade. Probably the most fun of all to play. To me the best story was dawn of war. Those we're good times. That game gives me so much nostalgia. And i had forgotten the game for a few years. And recently i found it again and all the memories came back. Now we have 3 computers and i was able to make lan work by starting it from the folder and not the shortcut. Sadly i could only play as tau and necron because it glitched to where i couldn't download winter assault or dawn of war on the main computer :/ but my sister and dad were able to play all the races. We'd always play on high resource mode so we could always have a big fucking war. The orks were always such a pain in the ass on high resource but it made for very satisfying close games and don't forget chaos. They'd kill us in 12 minutes on high resource on hard. And dawn of war 2 just wasn't the same. It felt so wrong. Instead of 10 spacemarines per squad it was less than half that. No extremely huge battles. God damnit this is warhammer 40k i don't want to use boring tactics i want to make things die. I did finish the campaign. The main character seemed really boring with his lack of dialogue. And they got rid of persistent bodies. I'd much rather have another dawn of war but add tyranids this time. And i just couldn't get with dawn of war 2s soundtrack. I really liked dawn of wars soundtrack. They had the best. Theirs was this one ambient soundtrack they had i really liked. They had it on the mission where your old friend isador betrays you. And it makes me sad to see dawn of war 3. It looks even more wrong. The campaign on 3 is so retarded it makes me mad. Just seeing the humble Gabriel Angelous acting so stupid and arrogant. Just seeing him go from calm and collected hero to dur speace maraine smash! They obviously had no idea what they were doing and probably don't even know what it is. But for now im just going to be happy that dawn of war and all its additions exsist. And just like my first relationship no other game would make me as happy or feel the same way that dawn of war did.
I think I watched it at least five or six times already, this is probably one of the best balanced reviews I've seen when it comes to mixing informativity, subject related humour and more general oriented jokes.
>SOULSTORM BETRAYS DAWN OF WAR but it was the only one where I got to play as the Battle-Sisters And the 'campaign,' while fairly generic, was neat! ... the SoBs did feel really weak at times, though.
If the first two DoW games and their expansions could be seen as analogous to the Emperor's history, then what does that make DoW3? The soul-sucking machine that keeps the Emperor alive in the loosest sense of the word?
7:35 Hold on...where did that image of the Chaos Space Marine come from? In which legion is there a grey and green color scheme? That's definitely not the Alpha Legion colors.
Those strings are playing two very simple chords, you could point out a fairly solid and largely unrelated chunk of all music as influence if that's all it takes.
What's to understand? Tau claim to be working for a "greater good" but enslave their own people through pheromone manipulation and relegate other species to second class citizenry. Eldar are almost exclusively responsible for how fucked up *everything* is yet waste time and their dwindling numbers on a race war against "lesser" beings. Dark Eldar only care about murderfucking. Chaos is self explanatory. Necrons are tied in to the whole Chaos/Eldar thingy and are... Well they're Necrons. Tyranids are eventually going to eat *literally everything and everyone* sooner or later. The only somewhat redeeming race is the Orks and that's only because they are behaving simply how they were DESIGNED to behave by a race that has long excused itself from the scene anyway. But still are as much a threat to any sort of stability as any other faction. That's all Mankind needs to "understand."
@@johnroscoe2406 and the Imperium is a closed-minded, overpopulated shell of itself, exhausted from tens of millennia of worshipping the corpse of an atheist
for all the negativity some 40k fans rightly get, playing skirmish was the first time a stranger took the time to clue me in on a game out of the kindness of their heart, showing me some of the basics of getting a good build planned - it was a bit like a chess lesson but far more entertaining. thank you, unknown DoW player, you own
Starcraft got ideas for Zerg from a combo of Alien movies for looks and Tyranids for lore - and GW actually liked the Zerg look so changed Tyranids to look like Zerg/Xenomorphs more as in the beginning they had a retro 50s B-movie look instead (genestealers are the main remnant of this look which is why they don't "fit" the look of other nids well)
Well done, you presented your points effectively while also incorporating some comedy in so it wouldn't be too dull. While it'd be nice for you to go a little more in depth with the way the game is played, rather than just the factions, this still does very well on its own. What, you were expecting me to say something stupid? Uh, shoes.
+Earndil Slartibartfast Yeah, I don't know why I didn't think to describe, y'know, how it PLAYS as opposed to just listing features. I can't really reparate that for the videos on the Expansions (since they're same game with more mechanics) but I'll keep that in mind for the future. Shoes.
11:04 oh my gosh is that the mission where you find the two imperial guardsmen that held out against chaos and eldar forces on their own for two weeks?
You really talked for 5 minutes about DoW voice acting and never mentioned Boreale? I mean, I assume you're saving that for a future video, but even so
I feel sorry for you ThunderPsyker. There were those of us that played this when it first released and it was our everything for at least a few years. I spent more hours than I can remember crushing foes in the multiplayer. By the time the last expansion came out, "Soul Storm" that gave us flyers, and Sisters of Battle, the game was complete and fun as hell. But of course, the fun ended with the collapse of Game Spy. How you do Online Multiplayers now with out the Game Spy host, I have no idea.
You'll have to get the Steam version: From what I remember, you can put your CD code for DoW 1 and Soulstorm into Steam and it'll redeem it as a full copy. Winter Assault and Dark Crusade will require you contacting Sega support directly, however. (they usually just ask for a photo of your copy, including the key)
I believe that, aside from steam servers, you can use GameRanger to set up multiplayer games, but i would recommend getting some people or a joining a group for such, as it can be frustrating to set up a gameranger game sometimes.
