Agiel Posted June 24, 2014 Posted June 24, 2014 5 Quote “Political philosophers have often pointed out that in wartime, the citizen, the male citizen at least, loses one of his most basic rights, his right to life; and this has been true ever since the French Revolution and the invention of conscription, now an almost universally accepted principle. But these same philosophers have rarely noted that the citizen in question simultaneously loses another right, one just as basic and perhaps even more vital for his conception of himself as a civilized human being: the right not to kill.” -Jonathan Littell <<Les Bienveillantes>> Quote "The chancellor, the late chancellor, was only partly correct. He was obsolete. But so is the State, the entity he worshipped. Any state, entity, or ideology becomes obsolete when it stockpiles the wrong weapons: when it captures territories, but not minds; when it enslaves millions, but convinces nobody. When it is naked, yet puts on armor and calls it faith, while in the Eyes of God it has no faith at all. Any state, any entity, any ideology that fails to recognize the worth, the dignity, the rights of Man...that state is obsolete." -Rod Serling
Gromnir Posted June 24, 2014 Posted June 24, 2014 warhammer, 40k or otherwise, has always appealed to Gromnir. 40k is not science-fiction as asimov or arthur c. clarke might define it, but the campy excess o' the grimdark setting is fantastic... and embracing excess is only possible in fantasy settings, and in the minds of the insane. sidenote: we watched at youtube. am sometimes having difficulty discerning how the list o' similar videos is propagated. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fptGIgf4l3s got a dozen other warhammer videos, one link to barber's adagio for strings (specific recommended for us) and then the bike thing. HA! Good Fun! "If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence."Justice Louis Brandeis, Concurring, Whitney v. California, 274 U.S. 357 (1927) "Im indifferent to almost any murder as long as it doesn't affect me or mine."--Gfted1 (September 30, 2019)
TrashMan Posted June 24, 2014 Posted June 24, 2014 I got ninjad in posting this vid. I love 40K. It's ..very unique as a setting. And despite it not being anywhere near "hard" science, it's still strangely enough harder than many other settings (for example Marvel and DC) 1 * YOU ARE A WRONGULARITY FROM WHICH NO RIGHT CAN ESCAPE! *Chuck Norris was wrong once - He thought HE made a mistake!
Rostere Posted June 25, 2014 Posted June 25, 2014 And despite it not being anywhere near "hard" science, it's still strangely enough harder than many other settings (for example Marvel and DC) LOL You don't need to try very hard to achieve that. 2 "Well, overkill is my middle name. And my last name. And all of my other names as well!"
Gorth Posted June 25, 2014 Posted June 25, 2014 There are fan videos and there are fan videos. That was one of the better ones As for being a fan... don't even remember what year I started playing WH40K. It was the tail end of the Rogue Trader era (still got ye olde rulebook) and 2nd edition was new. 3rd Edition sort of killed it off as my gaming group at the time dropped it like a hot potato, being way too "dumbed down" to appeal to that particular audience. My humongous Valhallan army has gathered dust ever since Still, I bought the latest rulebook for the new edition. Just to stay in touch. I guess that makes me a fan when doing irrational stuff. Best setting I know. Would dearly love to see what Obsidian could do with the IP in a crpg. 4 “He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice.” - Albert Einstein
Hiro Protagonist Posted June 26, 2014 Posted June 26, 2014 I wish they'd do some animated TV series like the one in the OP. Gritty, true to the source material. I'd like to see how everything started, how everything went to crap (Horus Heresy) and generally everything about 40K. Seems Games Workshop are overly protective of their material? I can understand though, you don't want some hack getting their hands on this. But done right, it would be pretty awesome. 1
Nonek Posted June 26, 2014 Posted June 26, 2014 It really does cry out for a computer roleplaying game in my opinion, one where choice and consequence are prioritised, because with the grimdark and horrific nature of the everyday 40k galaxy, choices would be brutal and unforgiving. In point of fact I could see most players falling to chaos, because they could not maintain the necessary detachment and belief that are required to execute imperial justice. 3 Quite an experience to live in misery isn't it? That's what it is to be married with children.I've seen things you people can't even imagine. Pearly Kings glittering on the Elephant and Castle, Morris Men dancing 'til the last light of midsummer. I watched Druid fires burning in the ruins of Stonehenge, and Yorkshiremen gurning for prizes. All these things will be lost in time, like alopecia on a skinhead. Time for tiffin. Tea for the teapot!
Malcador Posted June 26, 2014 Posted June 26, 2014 Just need to make a Dark Heresy CRPG. Hm, or maybe Rogue Trader, as you're not quite some schmuck like in DH at the start 2 Why has elegance found so little following? Elegance has the disadvantage that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it. - Edsger Wybe Dijkstra
Nonek Posted June 26, 2014 Posted June 26, 2014 Just need to make a Dark Heresy CRPG. Hm, or maybe Rogue Trader, as you're not quite some schmuck like in DH at the start Or simply make the protagonist an Inquisitor, with the party being his Dark Heresy team, it would be quite interesting to examine and use his psychic abilities, the temptations of the Warp, the presence of the Astronomicon and whatnot. 2 Quite an experience to live in misery isn't it? That's what it is to be married with children.I've seen things you people can't even imagine. Pearly Kings glittering on the Elephant and Castle, Morris Men dancing 'til the last light of midsummer. I watched Druid fires burning in the ruins of Stonehenge, and Yorkshiremen gurning for prizes. All these things will be lost in time, like alopecia on a skinhead. Time for tiffin. Tea for the teapot!
Malcador Posted June 26, 2014 Posted June 26, 2014 Yeah that'd work better, PC has to be bit of a boss not some lackey getting told what do. Though that would be funny, to be some sidekick for the entire game Why has elegance found so little following? Elegance has the disadvantage that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it. - Edsger Wybe Dijkstra
aluminiumtrioxid Posted June 26, 2014 Posted June 26, 2014 Just need to make a Dark Heresy CRPG. Hm, or maybe Rogue Trader, as you're not quite some schmuck like in DH at the start Or simply make the protagonist an Inquisitor, with the party being his Dark Heresy team, it would be quite interesting to examine and use his psychic abilities, the temptations of the Warp, the presence of the Astronomicon and whatnot. I prefer vanilla DH. Just my wits, crappy stats (50% chance at my specialty!), and a flashlight lasgun against the forces of Chaos. It's basically Call of Cthulhu in SPEHSS. With even bigger balls of steel. 2 "Lulz is not the highest aspiration of art and mankind, no matter what the Encyclopedia Dramatica says."
Serrano Posted June 26, 2014 Posted June 26, 2014 (edited) Ultramarines turned out pretty well. I don't think it made enough sales to be done again but it did show a lot of potential. I think Warhammer Fantasy also has a good foundation for a movie, especially at the moment coming off the back of the Tolkien films but I guess they've decided to stick with board and computer games. Edited June 26, 2014 by Serrano
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