Warhammer 40,000: SPACE MARINE 2 by Saber Interactive - Titus takes on the Tyranids

[Caim]

Played this for 30 minutes yesterday. I didn't play part one and for some reason I expected an actual shooter. Instead, I got the usual souls-slop gameplay with slow animations, paper armor and clunky controls. I hate souls-slop, so this isn't for me. It also makes my wonder why an ultramarine dies so quickly and how exactly he does dodge rolls with that super thick armor.

Wtf makes this soulslike? It's a combination of Gears and God of War ffs.

Third person action game where you swing your sword at monsters, and also he sucks at it.

 

[Tavar]

Wtf makes this soulslike? It's a combination of Gears and God of War ffs.

Third person action game where you swing your sword at monsters, and also he sucks at it.

• long winded animations
• no reaction to input during these animations
• focus on dodge / block
• high damage enemies which can kill you very quickly

This is nothing like either God of War or Gears of Wars. God of War is a traditional hack and slash while Gears is actually focussed on shooting and on staying in cover. Both are significanly more reactive to your input and are much more forgiving.

 

[H. P. Lovecraft's Cat]

So yeah he just sucks. Game isn't all that difficult. If I have a major complaint it's that the parry doesn't feel as satisfying as it should. Stellar Blade had an infinitely better parry mechanic. This also feels more button mashy. The shooting feels really fucking good tho, they nailed that.

Shooting = awesome

Melee = pretty meh

Kind of the opposite of Stellar Blade. SB had amazing melee combat but the shooting was shit.

 

[ColonelMace]

God of War is a traditional hack and slash

 

[Tavar]

God of War is a traditional hack and slash

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_of_War_(2005_video_game)

Genre(s)	Action-adventure, hack and slash

 

[ColonelMace]

I just learnt that anglophones refer to certain beat'em up as hack n slashers.
The more you know.

That's still heresy to add the traditional epithet there.

 

[Tavar]

I just learnt that anglophones refer to certain beat'em up as hack n slashers.
The more you know.

That's still heresy to add the traditional epithet there.

In my defense, I meant "traditional" in the sense that it's untainted by souls-slop.

 

[Ryzer]

If i ever get to play this slop it would definitely going to be in germoid

Treue deutschen im herzen, ja.

 

[Valestein]

 

[randir14]

The Steam forum is useless, nothing but "this game needs female/gay Space Marines" bait threads and the autistic retards who fall for it. Can't have any real discussion about the game without it getting buried under the avalanche of that shit.

 

[Fedora Master]

The Steam forum is useless, nothing but "this game needs female/gay Space Marines" bait threads and the autistic retards who fall for it. Can't have any real discussion about the game without it getting buried under the avalanche of that shit.

That's deliberate.

 

[Valestein]

The Steam forum is useless, nothing but "this game needs female/gay Space Marines" bait threads and the autistic retards who fall for it. Can't have any real discussion about the game without it getting buried under the avalanche of that shit.

There was one bait thread in the Concord forum where the OP later outright posted there that it was bait and the tards were still posting seriously in response. These bait threads are like playing a game on very easy/game journo difficulty and with cheat codes enabled.

 

[DJOGamer PT]

long winded animations

not something exclusive of souls inspired hack 'n' slashes

no reaction to input during these animations

you mean "animation cancelling" or "high attack commitement"
has existed since 3D hack 'n' slash games became a thing

focus on dodge / block
high damage enemies which can kill you very quickly

also not exclusive to "souls-likes"
shit, aside from the first point, Ninja Gaiden's combat has all these characteristics and that game's melee combat is as far from Soulslop as you can get

 

[Tavar]

long winded animations

not something exclusive of souls inspired hack 'n' slashes

no reaction to input during these animations

you mean "animation cancelling" or "high attack commitement"
has existed since 3D hack 'n' slash games became a thing

focus on dodge / block
high damage enemies which can kill you very quickly

also not exclusive to "souls-likes"
shit, aside from the first point, Ninja Gaiden's combat has all these characteristics and that game's melee combat is as far from Soulslop as you can get

So what's your point? Do you disagree that Space Marine 2 is souls-slop? If you want to experience the difference between a hack and slash and souls-slop just contrast Darksiders with Darksiders 3.

 

[DJOGamer PT]

Do you disagree that Space Marine 2 is souls-slop?

I believe that's the point I was making, yes

 

[Borelli]

No level ups, no stamina management, no checkpoint system, not a Souls-like in any way. While it's not a God of War clone either, finishing moves and light/heavy attacks makes it closer to God of War than anything else.

 

[mediocrepoet]

At the bare minimum to say something is a soulslike, you need a stamina management system. Without that, it's something else.

 

[ERYFKRAD]

Without that, it's something else.

A soulless-like?

 

[H. P. Lovecraft's Cat]

I like this game more the more I play it. Hell it might even get me into the Warhammer universe. Always knew it was a thing but never gave many fucks about it.

 

[Fedora Master]

No level ups, no stamina management, no checkpoint system, not a Souls-like in any way. While it's not a God of War clone either, finishing moves and light/heavy attacks makes it closer to God of War than anything else.

It's Gears of War without cover.

 

[H. P. Lovecraft's Cat]

No level ups, no stamina management, no checkpoint system, not a Souls-like in any way. While it's not a God of War clone either, finishing moves and light/heavy attacks makes it closer to God of War than anything else.

It's Gears of War without cover.

Which is incline. I always thought the weakest thing about cover shooters was the cover mechanic. Vanquish had a cover mechanic but it was sort of a joke. You rarely needed to use it if you knew what you were doin.

 

[BrotherFrank]

Ain't played the game yet but am assuming this is the plot summary.

 

[FritzedProcess]

No level ups, no stamina management, no checkpoint system, not a Souls-like in any way. While it's not a God of War clone either, finishing moves and light/heavy attacks makes it closer to God of War than anything else.

It's Gears of War without cover.

It's Gears of War, but YOU are the cover.

Anyway, it was a very nice 10 hour campaign. I still have to play the Ops mode, but I'm having a blast with the PvP.

 

[H. P. Lovecraft's Cat]

The fat smelly troons who infest retardera are furious over this game. Thas how you know it's good.

 

[Assisted Living Godzilla]

Games media is speed running their irrelevance this year with trying to take down games people like while sucking off games like Concord.

It seems like most people over on ResetEra are enjoying it, or at least the people in the thread about the game. Someone did drop into the thread to bring up the info about the CEO leaving a positive message on an Asmongold video about the game, but the thread largely just ignored the person. They do have a closed thread of people bitching about the CEO though.

It is funny that there’s people there that are like: Why would someone leave a positive comment on an Asmongold video, don’t they know he’s bad? The video in question has 1.4 million views. It seems to be one of the most viewed videos on YouTube for the game, and the video will likely help sell the game. It is a mystery why someone selling a thing might leave a comment that could maybe help them sell said thing.