Space Marines: > Big muscular testosterone men > Has guns, space armour, explosives > Defending the emperor's honour > Erasing xeno, witch, and mutant scum > Doing Crusading activities with your brothers > Cure depression > Doesn't tolerate heresy
Its also peak mediocrity sadly, ever looked at the backgrounds? ugly 2D sprites You cant really immersive yourself in the game either cause many dumb moments take you out of it like when you escort the cool looking Leman Russ tank that doesn't fire. Yup. Wow, such fun. A TANK that isn't doing ANYTHING. Amazing! Now before you normies tell me "but it fires!" Yes, it fires at scripted places and apart from that uses 1 out of its 3 bolters a small bit and then stops, just looking at you and only fires AFTER you kill everything so you can proceed through the level. Amazing Or near the beginning of the game when you help the imperial guard defend and then go inside while the ramp/door closes? Yeah invisible kill field outside, enemies just turn into ragdolls Whole game is a mess if you enjoy singleplayer since it screams multiplayer at you every minute cause the bots are beyond stupid and got 95% dmg resistance while doing absolutely nothing to aid the player. You as the player have to kill meele enemies, snipe all ranged enemies before they snipe you and enemy AI will priorize killing you. Wowie such fun, totally not tedious guys. Then the campaign is only 6H long and the bots in the mode where you level and so on...1/5 of my kills was what the bots did. BLEH, mediocre games get rated well just cause "manly" and cause Warhammer games are rare. What a shame.
I find it hilarious that a game that plays like it got straight out of 7th gen is far more successful than the usual $100.000.000 corporate slop that is designed to bleed you dry.
If we're being real the only thing that has improved largely with games since the xbox 360 era is graphics. A lot of modern games play worse than games from 10 years ago did.
Could someone please explain to me why having a black guy and a asian guy in a video game is bad. They don't even talk about it. They're just not white
The games industry is so bad right now that a sequel with minor but solid gameplay improvements to a decade-old game brings more value to the player than billion-dollar, AAA studio releases.
As long as it works. Good games do not always need to be complex or that big of an improvement. Many fail to get that. People that liked the first game, whats more of the first game, not something completely new. Upgrades are fine.
@@EcardEcardian A ton of AAA companies could have a bunch more irons in the fire if they held that perspective. We could have 20 solid games per year rather than 5 sprawling open worlds, filled to the brim with slop. Integration hell is routinely the hardest part of any software development.
Kind reminds me how IGN refuse to review Lollipop Chainsaw RePop because "lol it is the same game, just read the old review". Which they gave a 5/10. Meanwhile, Dustborn and Concord got 7/10.
Looks like the peak Male FANTASY of “Hey if we were ever attacked by aliens, I would 100% be able to join in and be a super cool space marine badass” is back….and I love it
To be fair. I would hope our leaders would pump us up to fight an alien monster invasion. 🤷🏻♂️ Get a wild bull incel in power armour and let him live the power fantasy out loud. That’s a medal of honour right there
I love how every time I try to find Synths channel since I never get notifications, there are so many hate vids about him with dorks that have like 3k subscribers lol. Keep making people seethe dude, the tides are turning. BUT.. JUST RE RELEASE CONCORD AGAIN, WE WERE ALL BUSY THAT WEEK!
You kids keep saying the tides are turning since 2016 but the younger generations just been getting more and more progressive every year, and corpos been making more and more money pandering via a shallow representation of diversity. It been GG for years mate.
@@HighKnighter All evidence to the contrary. All these woke games are failing. Just curious, do you like video games? If you like supporting woke nonsense you literally are supporting the destruction of the industry. SBI came out and said "to burn the gaming industry to the ground." You're wrong CHUD. Look at Bioware, bethesda, ubisoft, senix, the list goes on.
@@HighKnighter Young White men all over the world seem to be becoming more and more far right every year. They’re also starting to realize that there is no political solution to the problems we have.
The developers are also working on adding some quality of life features post launch (and actually adding them to a roadmap) rather than shitting out a turd and never patching it. So already these developers deserve respect.
@@ryanjoseph4806 Sorry to break it to you, but Warhammer is not for you then cause it's been woke since the 80s when it first came into concept canonically the Primarchs aren't all whites, Ultramarines are gonna have people of every ethnical background cause they gather recruits from 500 planets, their always has been female officers and soldiers in the series. The Emperor most popular story is him burning down a church and calling Christianity a waste of time that held humanity back and the irony of him becoming the god Emperor is that he was an atheist too and wanted to make a world that got rid of discrimination based on sex, race, and sexuality cause humanity as a whole was destined for the stars and future. Which is something he always believed in since the Thunderwarriors and why he even killed them all off afterwards So look man I don't want all you anti-woke dudebros coming into the community and just getting all pissy and sensitive every release so just leave now man
@@adrien5262 Hahahahaahahahaa oh wait you were being serious? Let me laugh even harder BWWAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAHAHAHAHAAAAAAA! Take a bow, son, that was funny.
@@mkultra2456 How do you manage to type like the most stereotypical incel redditor, like this satire right cause thwir is no way you're a grown ass man typing like this. Like unironically the way you ended that reminds me of those like incel form pages
That’s how Space Marine 1 was treated, it didn’t take off with anyone besides Warhammer fans bc it was just Gears + GOW, and there was a bit of a quality dip near the end. It had a cult following bc it was decent and had an they IP liked. That’s not a diss or anything. I get it, I liked all the Cybertron games and that’s just Gears, there’s no unique element of it being a beat ‘em up, too, but it had teh dinobots so I liked them anyways.
@@FlamespeedyAMVI hate the small hats and DEI as much as the next guy but this video was embarrassing. Guy knows nothing about 40k lore and is crying about DEI. Actual moron.
The one negative thing I can say about Space Marine 2 that I know most people will simply brush away, is that it's yet another always-online even for single player game that has come out. People are more and more happy and willing to turn a blind eye to egregious DRM practices if the game provides them enough entertainment in the moment, but if at some point the devs or publisher go under, or for any other reason they stop running servers, the game will be rendered unplayable for the rest of time.
I don’t think I will get Space Marines 2 until it’s goes for $30 or $40. But I’m really having fun with Astro Bot game it reminds me of Spyro, Crash and Mario games which I really like. So hopefully Sony lets the devs make more Astro Bot games in the future.
I haven't been in awe at the cutscenes for years. Now we march out with Cadians, Marines Armor and Dreadnought going Spartan on a ChaosDreadnought, the Banner fortified stand.....very Patriotic.
3:55 maybe it looks comical, but that's something Space Marines are totally capable of - they possess the agility of Jackie Chan and speed of Usain Bolt, while tactical power armour is actually only enhancing those in many ways.
lmao this game managed to be the best, most faithful legacy sequel on the market right now, beating DD2, AC6, and *more* just by being a 7/10, almost 6/10, game like the original was. That’s all it takes to make us happy, but they can’t even do that consistently anymore.
@@reinsmano It’s not completely unfaithful but all the staggering stuff is just lifted from Sekiro, even if previous entries had similar, almost beta versions of those mechanics. There’s also way less parts
@@reinsmano In the older AC games, missions weren't replayable until the end of the game, so credits were a limiting factor in AC design, but more parts were available on the shop at the start instead of being unlocked through story progress. Parts could always be sold back for 100% of their cost (like in AC6), so you had to rely on economical parts in the early game until you could afford an upgrade. It felt very rewarding to earn better parts by keeping repair and ammo expenses to a minimum, and failing missions was quite punishing.
It’s not “woke”, if you read the books there’s are SO many strong female characters and the boys in blue have the most diverse legion out of all of them. It’s literally mentioned in the books. It’s not “propaganda” , it’s genuine lore.
@@thebuddah1253 No, he was implying that the game was trying to make 40k woke. Which also implies that the source material doesn’t contain this kind of content. The source material does. The devs weren’t trying to be woke. He just doesn’t understand the lore.
@@deeloby Naw the devs had to reach the minimum diversity quota. Hence why you've got a black, an asian, a scottsman and an indian lulz. The wokeness is not nearly as cringe as in Darktide but it's there.
I did this on Angel Of Death with a few friends and good god, the enemies are so spongy to gunfire, that the bolters just feel like pieces of shit. The regular sniper rifle needs like 4-5 shots to kill a warrior (I remind you that you only have like 16 shots to begin with), so literally only the hyper-specialised guns are remotely good.
Apparently they are brigading from twitter, SM always touches nerves whenever he uploads so I would just ignore most of these comments, they are helping his channel make money anyway.
@@yvanaluz9994 It’s so funny how you think your LOL-cow Nazi Synthetic Man is “touching nerves”. No. People are just laughing at him, out of sheer contempt!
20:15 Whether or not the ultramarine's original ethnicity shows depends on the chapter, actually. Some of the geneseeds override it completely (like the Blood Angels) while others don't really (Ultrasmurfs).
No gene seed overrides race, they just have their worlds, blood Angels are meant to look like vampires so they all are pale because generally their planets are mostly white.
Blood Angels, Raven Guard, Salamanders, and Night Lords have skin mutations. But as the long war continues weirdo chapters like the Exorcists from Dorns gene seed and their demon possession sometimes makes them look like slaanesh worshipers lol. Hell Night Lords recruit from anyone so a night lord might have Night lord colors but was from a traitor chapter.
@@TheNSJaws The Imperium of Man, as the name implies, was conceived as a united human front, at a time when england was still overwhelmingly white. Lest you forget, 40k is a dystopia. Nobody gives a shit if you're black or white, they care that you die for the emperor and kill aliens.
@@noheartfourteeneightyeightbruh, Imperium of Man consists of about 1 million worlds (planets) with trillions upon trillions of people living there. There will and should be racial diversity, like it or not. Hell, there are even Primarchs (Khan) and their entire space marine legions (White Scars) who are basically asiatic in nature.
@@donnieedwards1079 it's only ok to harass people when it's your team. I get it. If it wasn't for double standards, you wouldn't have any. Good thing for your RU-vid doesn't enforce tos for your side.
The Imperium Of Man, Is literary humanity United under one banner as a whole, So I think anyone with common sense should expect to see A LOT of diversity. And came to find out 40k has always been diverse and I just got into warhammer like a week ago, also the woman general is Caiden not Indian💀
No one is arguing about how there are multi racial provinces in the universe. Did you not watch the video? Cadians in lore and in their visual representation have always been inspired by British/American WW soldiers. We know there is the White Scars and Asian worlds and black words. That was never the point.
@@rxzmuvv3288 yea we kinda don't want blacks in our video games its kinda meant to be an escape from bs propaganda from real life we don't want that shit bombarded everywhere we go. "muh racism" sue me
I noticed the NPCs started brigading in full force. If only they had more varied responses instead of the same copy-pasted one it would be slightly more believable.
@mkultra2456 it's funny as you have been going about fighting for your life down here. I meant it seriously, who are the bots you guys talk about? Like, what makes someone a bot?
In regards to the black space marines it's in line with lore, sort of. Space marines aren't cloned or grown from gene-seed. Gene-seed is actually a collection of organs derived from their primarch, flaws included, that are grafted into an aspirant who may or may not become a space marine. Space marines recruit from hardy worlds and only vanishingly few survive the process because medical technology in 40k is backwards as all hell. So nothing really stops a kid being plucked from their homeworld and being inducted as a space marine regardless of ethnicity. The only problem with this might be that the Ultramarine coreworlds are basically modeled after ancient Rome and so they're of course going to be white. But unless the stated goal was for diversity points, it's alright as far as canon is concerned.
She's clearly designed with a stereotypical Indian phenotype, to deny it is just silly; you could say the same thing for a character that looks mexican, or chinese, or russian etc.
@@jollyfatman1847 Is that so? Damn, I guess whomever designed her didn't use any distinguishable ethnicities as reference for her design, nope. As if fictional characters were made in a vacuum lol.
The woke issue you pointed out is not actually a woke issue. Gene seed isn't exclusive to any race and can be put into anyone the chapter chooses. As far as a chapter is concerned if you live on their recruitment world and can pass the brutal trials you can become an started and join the chapter. Also as far as having female leaders in 40k it's also a precedent from before wokeness was really a thing IIRC. To rise in the ranks in the guard you only need to survive long enough and show unreserved loyalty and zeal to the emperor. Women in real life who participate in extreme ideologies such as the Imperium's tend to become incredibly zealous and radical. So to me it all makes sense. Considering the way things have been through the last decade I can see why someone would see wokeness.
One of the geneseeds alters the Marine's melanin levels to adjust to the environment though. Meaning the African, Celtic, Asian and Aryan Marines should all have the same skin colour.
@@GangsterFrankensteinComputer I just had to look it up: holy moly! xD thats hilarious! I was wondering about the black salamanders but apparently they have malfunctioning organs that make it so that their melanin levels are at a constant 100% So if we would want to be actually lore accurate: Considering most space marines we see are in their armor most of the time, with no exposure to the sun, they would be extremely pale. And when they take off their helmets you should see their head change skincolor in realtime appropriately to the suns exposure xD
First couple of seconds killed me lol. Ill have to wait to olay the story mode until I upgrade my pc so i can thoroughly enjoy the grim dark and not playdough graphics. My acer nitro 7 aint cutting it playing on low graphics. So ive just been grinding out the PVP. Vanguard is a fun as hell class
Don't be afraid to check the used market for PC parts either (especially for graphics cards) if you're on a budget. The prices have come a long way for the last gen gpus, which isn't too big a deal as they're still plenty strong to enjoy the latest games.
Even though it's fun to hear you tear a crap game apart I think a lot of people don't mind if you enjoy the game. It's nice to hear you say positive things about a fun game
It legit just seems like you don't like seeing characters that aren't white. Like 10 seconds in you have a joke about a black spacemarines skin color. This is embarrassing
@@czarnakoza9697 when the edgy jokes all have similar targets are they jokes anymore? How many edgy jokes with white guys as the punchline did he tell? Get off /b/.
@@akuisbestgirl2448 i can name 8 retcons to the holy "lore" you insects keep spouting on about without going to google. There is no "lore", bug person. There is a flexible narrative to help GW sell product. Widening the market base also means dumbing it down. Which is why you're here. Cry about it.
I like how they stayed faithful to first game and expanded upon it. No forced "walking" segments, just you tearing through hordes of enemies while having fun.
Space Marine isn't my cup of soup, no offense, but astro bot is. The game really does remind me of super mario galaxy. Those uhh amazon rain forest birds tend to show up a lot huh?
Yeah I liked the game but I regret getting it full price for sure should have waited for a sale or like steam cards from family for Christmas. Here in Canada it was 90$ not worth it but I got impatient, if you can wait, wait for sure. It's fun but not worth that price tag.
The variety in the race of astartes is kind of explainable cause chapters can recruit from different worlds which can have different races. Also gene seed works kind of like an enhancing process and it s not changing the basics like race, face, overall body built (abbadon was like a huge dude compared to others) too drasticly. But yeah looks lil bit off but you van call small blood for greater good if overall game is good
Honestly the game is pretty overhyped and has a ton of quality of life problems, not really worth investing past the campaign for me, wanted to like the game alot but its just so absolutely mid.
@@donnieedwards1079 like the Chinese are doing now in Africa for your batteries, or how the a bort ion industry sells millions of black a bort ed fet al tissue to the snack food industry? Oh, the outr age. You must be so mad! Oh wait, you're sniping and griping on youtube about someone's opinion you don't like. How tolerant, dive rse, and accepting of you. You're literally a bug person who can't think.
The Space Marine diversity was more offensive than the IG woman. At least that's technically possible; Spacemarines of the same chapter should look like brothers. If you want black space marines, there are chapters which could be black, like the Salamanders, but Ultramarines should look like Greeks or Romans (pre-Mohammed)
@@andryuu_2000 Yes they do. Specifically, the Melanochrome organ controls pigmentation of the skin in response to radiation exposure. A mutation in this organ causes Salamanders to be very dark skinned, and Blood Angels and Ravenguard to be very pale skinned. The Melanochrome of the Ultramarines functions normally, so they can be dark skinned in response to excessive radiation exposure, but this would either be the whole squad, or it would be considered an accident and would be a plot point. Finally, most Space Marine aspirants die in the process of accepting the geneseed. Those who are closer to the Primarch are more likely to succeed, which would lead to a more homogeneous look.
@@malcolm_in_the_middleNo, it doesn't. This is old lore from the book called helsreach we see an imperial fist chapter called the celestial lions mean of all black marines because the world they recruit from has majority black people. And they come from the Imperial fist bloodline. And their Primark rogal dorn was White. Clearly you have no idea what you're talking about. I'm just spreading misinformation cuz you this then you would have never been talking rubbish
@@ironmangx-ro8mt Celestial Lions are noted as an exception when they are introduced - they are true sons of Dorn, despite being dark-skinned. Furthermore, they are a descendant chapter, not the founding chapter, and descendant chapters are known to deviate from their source. Even so, they STILL all look alike, which is exactly my point. Show me a white-skinned Salamander chapter, or a dark-skinned Ravenguard chapter. Hell, even the Carcharodons, essentially space Fijians, are described as pale-skinned. You are just wrong.
You don't know how gene seed works. While some legions/chapters will take on superficial aspects of their primarchs (Salamanders, Night Lords, Emperors Children) Not all of them do. Ultramarines being one of them. They also recruit from 500 planets within the Ultramar system. If any non fleet based chapter were to be diverse, it is the Blueberries. A women being in charge of a guard regiment is well within cannon and she's not a girl boss. She doesn't talk down to Titus or try and assert her authority over him.
I thank god the LGBBQ didnt get their hands on this game too much cause I can see them making these manly men gay just to say gay men can be manly too😂😂😂
Bro, I was getting it anyway but your endorsement of Astro Bot pushed me to get it sooner than I planned and damn it's good fun! I might have to agree with GOTY if nothing excellent comes our
“Not that it matters cuz there’s not that much story” was bro playing a different game? Also cadia is a multi planet system full of a lot of different races. Also black people can become space marines lol if they get noticed at a young age and being special and tough they get snagged up. This dude is trippin.
all of you guys defending a very obvious racist and someone who hates women just because and calls everything woke, AND he is a GROWN adult living with his parents,you guys need a life
just have a look at their countries, and it's obvious why too many of them is a bad thing. However, your programming would have you die for them just to be perceived as not racist.
Man needs help if the color of a characters skin bothers you that much that it take you out of the game you need to take a step back and re think your own values. Especially this game where its 100% not in your face unlike some.
Black Templars sometimes are very wholesome, not Salamanders-levels of wholesome, but they definitely had their heart warming and noble actions. I see them as devoted knights more than just violent zealots.
@@andryuu_2000 No, the Knightly and chivalrous trait gimmicks are closer to Dark Angels (before they're known for secrecy and espionage, that is until Lion comeback to 40th Millennium and starts fixing those stupid secrecy problems in his Legion, at least in the current Warhammer 40K lore)
Dude? Sons of Yakub chapter from the Wakandan sector of imperial space would be a GOLD MINE. Nobody in the twitter mob smart enough to write it up though. They only think it's ok to oppress minorities they think they can defeat. Stunning and brave of them.
The perfectly neat amount of diversity where every squad has one white, one black and one asian member is pretty funny, but thankfully it didn't go beyond that. The Cadian woman was rather grating though, those comms messages were downright distracting.
Synth is no lore expert but he admits that. It's one thing to point out the accurate lore and another to get pissy because of the inaccuracy or, more likely, your political leanings. And while there is indeed diversity in 40K, particularly Ultramar/the Ultramarines, it is one thing to point that out from a lore standpoint and another to be such an unintelligent drone to as to not even acknowledge the modern state of politics and DEI in games. I don't even think Space Marine 2 was leaning particularly toward exploiting DEI, if even doing so at all, but if you don't think gaming nowadays is so saturated in its corporate culture as to make fitting diversity and DEI at least plausibly difficult to separate I don't know what to tell you.
I mean he is talking about Space marines 2 though. I understand many franchises add diversity simply to check boxes but a lot of people are annoyed because Synth is saying this game is doing it too. I just think he shouldn't speak on a topic he hasn't researched, since he clearly stated he thinks W40K is going in a "dangerous direction" with wokeness just cause he saw different raced space marines. I get that it can be hard to distinguish DEI and natural diversity but Synth's brand is complaining about that stuff, it's his job to ensure he can distinguish the two and not claim something is DEI when it's not
@@clint-thenormalguy-rockwell365 Hey boss, was typing a longer, thought-out reply here but the fucking window closed on me and I lost what I'd typed. Thanks for not being a dick in your reply and good devil's advocate response there; I do agree with you hey. SM2 is not really woke at all, I feel confident to say. Bad evidence to use, yeah. But I agree with Synth, as a 40K guy myself, saying Warhammer is falling/fallen to woke. GW's 'Warhammer is for Everyone' statement and the female Custodes retcon make that pretty hard to argue isn't the case, I'd say. So I think he's got the right take on Warhammer, just not on SM2 specifically, I agree. Hope you're having a good day man, you've got a good head on your shoulders dude. The world, and RU-vid comments, need more of that.
