Well, well, well. So I have been going through my old PnP Rogue Trader books just today and what do I see right here? This must have been predestined to happened. Tbh fam I always wished a Rogue Trader cRPG would have been done by Trese Brothers (Star Traders: Frontiers basicaly being a Rogue Trader game), but one cant have everything.
As you can see from the gameplay snippets, the visuals are identical to PF:KM and WotR. So if you like cartoony disney shit then this is right up your alley.
Do I have to post more 40k artwork so you idiots will finally shut up about the setting somehow being gritty and realistic?
I bet you people haven't even primed a mini in your lives.
Dunno man, for me the "true" 40K has been always summed up by the picture below:
Not sure about "gritty and realistic," but it sure is dark (though 40K certainly can move in the realistic direction, the last two books in the Gaunts Ghosts series being basicaly a 40K take on Iraq war complete with suicide bomber cars), unlike the graphics I have seen in the trailer. And if minis are required to make a qualified opinion on this I will have you know I still have 1500 points of IG (according to the third edition second Codex, dont keep up much nowadays), painted and assembled back home.
In any case I dont give a fuck about any of that gay "Pathfinder" shit or whatever these devs did before - now that they do 40K they moved into the major leagues. Hopefuly they will get as much inspiration from the PnP Rogue Trader (btw someone should do Dark Herey first edition cRPG too) as possible and there better be space combat and ship management elements, otherwise this is already a fail. Then again, looking at their website and seeing this
heir adventures begin in the vast Koronus Expanse - a treacherous region of unexplored space at the edge of Humanity’s domain.
makes me a bit more optimistic, at least they apparently read some stuff. Still dont see anything substantial about ship combat and management though - designing and running your ship (the usual stuff with upgrades and such) is a huge part of PnP experience.
"The unofficial fanfic is more representative of 40k than the official trailer"
Cope of the fucking century holy shit.
Nigga you smoking crack or something? Of course a random fanfic is gonna be more representative of Star Wars than whatever shit gets "officially" released nowadays with niggers and stronk wahmin. In a way it is way more true with 40K vidya, roughly 95% of which are garbage.
Actually, two things can be true.
1) Astartes and similar fan-made videos nail the contemporary modern grimdark interpretation of Warhammer 40,000.
2) Rogue Trader and the colorful early edition weirdness associated with it are respected and regarded with nostalgia by serious Warhammer fans.
Nah Rogue Trader era stuff was retarded and contained such briliant examples of "british humor" as scenarios along the lines of "plenetary governor started a new religion that worships pudding, space marines arrive to restore order." Space Marines back then being basicaly a bunch of skin heads. 40K only got big after it got grimmdark - I am sure there are still some people around who like the original approach, but those people are nearly as dangerous to the frenchise as whatever retarded woke corpo faggots that currently run GW. If they had their way, the franchise would be FUBAR.
Anyway, preordering right now coz its 40K. BTW if you have problems with pre orders... I dont know, consider not being a poorfag or something?