I don't remember the last time I had this much fun with an online game, no forcing me to treat it like a second job, no content locked behind time limited events and FOMO. Its just such a joy to play and I can pick it up whenever I want. Truly a breath of fresh air, this all is also not even mentioning the quality, attention to detail and its faithfulness to 40K as an IP.
Opening this video with Republic Commando was not on my bingo card. I've replayed that game 'till DEATH. Simple, clean MP and amazing squad and storyline to engage through. Even had horror elements to it!
In my experience with games, most of the times I asked the question "What if?" it was in disappointment after I asked "Can I?". For example, in Skyrim when I first did the College of Winterhold quest and became the arch mage, I asked "Can I do arch mage things? Teach students, send people on certain quests, etc.?" The answer was no, so I then asked, "What if I could?" Space Marine 2 however really did take that question of "Can I X?" and then said "Yes! You can!"
Warhammer games in general do tend to respect the source material. In Rogue Trader, you have the option to go against the grain, and help the downtrodden people. The end result is your ship is flooded with heretics, you wind up fighting daemons, and your entire family line is hunted by the Imperium for sedition. Trying to be the good guy gets you crushed from all sides. Very 40k.
I was originally very sceptical about Space Marine 2 after hearing about gender cultists being involved with the writing. However, after watching PirateSoftware's livestream for about 2 hours of the game, I was sold. I normally do not do this, but I bought the Ultra Edition of the game which is £90! and to this day I do not regret that decision. Me & my brother played the full campaign and all multiplayer operations and loved it. I was fan boying so much as I saw just how much lore accurate detail the devs put in this excellent game. Ffs, they even accurately moulded the stairs within the Command Bridge of your Captain's ship... Seriously, check it out the video about this. The devs when designing the steps, took in to account the dents power armored boots would make on the stairs and how the Astartes walk in to how they designed the stairs, lol. Then we have the amazing combat, set pieces and relatable characters. As a big fan of the Imperial Guard, I do love how they made the Guard proper soldiers of the Emperor's armies instead of the spineless cowards many forms of media keep making them out to be.
This is what I keep telling people. It's not that their involvement is always necessarily a bad thing. Many of em just wanna be left alone and aren't part of that ideological war. But you can easily tell when there's people involved that just happen to live their life a little differently, as opposed to those whose sole purpose and joy in life it is to talk down to and preach to people. Glad that in this case it was the former, and to any and all of em involved in this game, I honestly say: Thanks for being a decent human being, and for making an absolutely stellar game.
Love your commentary man - same as always! You have great insights, you’ve obviously given this a lot of thought and it shows! 👌🏻 The editing skills are brilliant, I also really appreciate how you had a series of clips demonstrating the world and its sounds, as well as commenting on the music! Bravo, sir! Bravo! 👏🏻 ✨
I've not yet played SM2 (been a rough year for my financials), but I've heard great things, and if I wasn't sold before hand, you would have convinced me. 👍
i havent played RDR2 either for that exact same reason... actually i left it almost after the intro.. i was waiting for a new graphics card... now i have it but every game pushes it farther behind also .. hope Matthew Karch sees this :D
I found it interesting you grouped halo infinite with those other titles. I actually really liked that halo campaign, felt like a return to form for me.
Step 1: Make a game you, as a developer want to make. Step 2: Make the game the way you want it to be. Step 3: Respect the source material. Also a big shoutout to Republic Commando. The one game that needs a remaster or remake. That and Jedi Knight. Blood for the Blood Throne! Milk for the Khorne Flakes!
Because the developers wanted to create a fun, immersive and engaging game based on a popular and iconic franchise while staying faithful to the source material which the publishers were like "sure, you do that" and to the surprise of absolutely nobody it succeeded. While we can excessively complain about "DEI" and "Wokeness" for "ruining" gaming the reality is that a lot of the issues plaguing the Triple AAA industry happened long before that around the 8th console generation gaming where we got introduced to greedy monetization policies to squeeze money out of players, poor development cycles and production that resulted in buggy, unpolished game that was excused under pathetic "we can fix it later" excuse, "games as a service" philosophy that took away focus from making great games in favor of turning them into soulless cash cows that harmed creativity and ruined potential they could have had, prioritizing corrupt executives and their bottom line than that of their hard-working men and women who develop games who get treated poorly and arbitrarily fired so CEO's can rake in more cash for themselves and generally speaking the sheer utter contempt they have for consumers who just want to have well-made, enjoyable games yet get called out for "having too much expectations" like what Ubisoft did which feels just plain insulting. If you ask me the game that seriously hurt me the most and ruined my trust in Activision-Blizzard like how Ubisoft did for you is Warcraft 3: Reforged. I absolutely ADORE Warcraft 3 and easily consider it one of my top 10 favorite games of all time and after wondering if we are ever gonna get Warcraft 4 or even a remaster of the third game we got that confirmation in 2018 that made me excited as hell. Yet when it came out it proved to be utterly disastrous with many technical issues, missing features, flat-out lying to the customers about the promises and then erasing the old game that couldn't be played unless one pirates it that was the result of Activision-Blizzard having zero faith in the game being a billion dollar product like Overwatch yet still wanted to make what little money they could and gave the developers hardly much budged to develop the game and outsourced it to a Malaysian team to cut costs at the expense of the game itself. We lost out on what could have been an amazing remaster because corporate greed got in the way and one that perfectly demonstrates that executives don't care about having a great product that sells well and make good money, only if makes extremely large profits that obviously won't be shared with people who worked the most on the games but instead goes directly to those whose entire job is basically being a corporate overlord. Furthermore thanks to World of Warcraft becoming a massive cash cow it has basically crippled any innovation and attempts at making interesting spin-offs to the series that could have been cool like single-player RPG, Total War style turn-based strategy and action style games in different ways which all could have been made to explore the lore and stories of the Warcraft games with one example being Lord of the Clans that is a really interesting story and one i like very much based on a custom campaign for Warcraft 3 that re-tells the story. It's a shame that so much potential for different games with unique experiences. What's most frustrating about all of this is how in recent years legitimate criticism with issues of Triple AAA industry and the praise games have been getting for being really great has been overshadowed by the culture war nonsense waged by people who rages against DEI and "Wokeism" as well as the "Western vs Eastern" devs BS that basically glorifies the latter to absurd degrees and demonizes the former without a single care about actual issues and who thinks getting rid of it all will "save" the gaming industry when all it does is basically allow the mega gaming corps a way to ignore genuine criticism in favor of scapegoating all gamers as being "bigoted" thanks to those toxic people that ends up shredding any serious discussion about things like DEI in any meaningful way. Overall though it's really cool to see Space Marine 2 being made and succeed in creating a great experience and enjoyable fun for Warhammer 40K fans and just fans of gaming in general, especially as the game reminds me a bit of Gears of War 2 that i enjoyed a lot in my youth. Although i do find it really amusing, and irritating, how before release it was derided by the Gamers(TM) for being "woke" because it had a transgender writer or something but then once it came out and became a success suddenly many changed their tune right away just to score points for their political agenda and even then there are those who STILL think it's "woke" because it has different ethnicities and a woman being an authority figure that plays a major role, showing just how stupid the word is and the fact that these people only care about their political agendas than the actual games themselves, coincidentally making them not so different from the "modern audience" they love to bash on. Otherwise great video and i really enjoyed this perspective and kinda semi-review of Space Marine 2 that offers great insight to it's success and talks about failures and problems plaguing the Triple AAA industry that isn't entirely due to DEI.
I think the HoMM series is the classic poster child of immersion enhancing audio design, no matter 2, 3, 4 or 5. I totally agree its commonly neglected nowadays unless its GTA
padda you made me look to the power of manyyyy scene again goddamnit... you should've removed the Gore and Spoilers warning and added the Cringe one 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Personally I agree, but I don't think it quite has enough of a mass appeal that I see as a requirement for GOTY. It certainly got more people interested in 40k, but 40k still is a bit of a niche thing. Both Wukong and FF7R do have it, so I don't think it would've stood much of a chance anyway (all three are absolutely stellar games and any of them would deserve the title tbh). That said I do hope it wins best action game at least, because as good of a package as Wukong is overall, I do think SM2 ever so slightly beats it there.
dude, this is the quality of games back in the 2000s early 2010s. If sm2 came out back then (like it did because 2) it would be considered mid (like it was, because quality was much higher back then)
This is the result you get when developers passionate about gaming get to make a game they WANT to make, with no bullshit restrictions imposed by a publisher that would lead to compromises in game design. It's really simple, really, which is why I don't get why it's so hard for those empty industry suits to understand.
Best thing is i start the game and can just play not like other games where i must restart everytime the game and the whole mainmenu is made for sell skins. The endless war of the 40k is more peacefull than modern gaming
Look I've played red dead 2 twice!! The great thing is each quest is only 5 to 10 minutes long! You just ride to a quest in any order stopping along the way at interesting places! Try and play it like a linear game, in an open world! Took me 90 hours, you wasted that on starfield
Be careful with the 'No DEI' determination. While true so far as it relates to Space Marine 2, the parent company Games Workshop is/has been infected by the scourge. We have seen this with recent lore changes to that effect and a growing hatred of their own fanbase and those fans that oppose DEI/ESG broadly.
@@darklelouchg8505 yeah, I have been keeping an eye out. I believe it is worth praising the things they are doing well now, not just complaining if and when they fail us.
@@stefanradebach2889 Been going on for a long while frankly. From the Sigmarxism crap fest, and the anti-Arch Warhammer saga, to the more recent Custodian lore retcon relating to Female Custodes. There was also a couple of direct chastisement and spurning from GW staff/writers, both related to the prior as well as the female Space Marine BS that arises every couple of years from a certain segment of the fanbase. (you can guess which ones). Not the first time GW has done such, wont be the last. At this point, like him or not, but i think Arch might be correct on gatekeeping being the solution for such. DEI/ESG is a blight frankly.
@@darklelouchg8505 Research about him and from what i have heard and seen the guy sounds like an alt-right person who is friends with white nationalist racists and he himself denies the Imperium being fascist even though Game Workshop developers clearly says and writes that yeah, Imperium is fascist.
@@PaddaPlays Or weren't allowed to, which also works. And it worth checking their actual role. Because there lots of "devs" in twitter, who have much less of a role than they're telling.
I don't remember the last time I had this much fun with an online game, no forcing me to treat it like a second job, no content locked behind time limited events and FOMO. Its just such a joy to play and I can pick it up whenever I want. Truly a breath of fresh air, this all is also not even mentioning the quality, attention to detail and its faithfulness to 40K as an IP.
left 4 dead 2 is such a game. You pick it up and have fun. No levelling or battle pass. Still has a respectable player base after 15 years
And horde mode is just on the horizon, along with everything else in that roadmap.
Hope to see you on the battlefield brother.
Opening this video with Republic Commando was not on my bingo card. I've replayed that game 'till DEATH. Simple, clean MP and amazing squad and storyline to engage through. Even had horror elements to it!
Preach, man! You're one of the few voices of reason in today's gaming commentary.
There he is! Welcome back bruddah!! 👋🏻
In my experience with games, most of the times I asked the question "What if?" it was in disappointment after I asked "Can I?". For example, in Skyrim when I first did the College of Winterhold quest and became the arch mage, I asked "Can I do arch mage things? Teach students, send people on certain quests, etc.?" The answer was no, so I then asked, "What if I could?" Space Marine 2 however really did take that question of "Can I X?" and then said "Yes! You can!"
Warhammer games in general do tend to respect the source material. In Rogue Trader, you have the option to go against the grain, and help the downtrodden people. The end result is your ship is flooded with heretics, you wind up fighting daemons, and your entire family line is hunted by the Imperium for sedition.
Trying to be the good guy gets you crushed from all sides. Very 40k.
Slaneshes minions is a wild one 😂😂😂
With all the negativity with gaming at the moment and trust me it's well deserved its refreshing to see a game nail it and leave fans happy
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I was originally very sceptical about Space Marine 2 after hearing about gender cultists being involved with the writing. However, after watching PirateSoftware's livestream for about 2 hours of the game, I was sold. I normally do not do this, but I bought the Ultra Edition of the game which is £90! and to this day I do not regret that decision.
Me & my brother played the full campaign and all multiplayer operations and loved it. I was fan boying so much as I saw just how much lore accurate detail the devs put in this excellent game. Ffs, they even accurately moulded the stairs within the Command Bridge of your Captain's ship... Seriously, check it out the video about this. The devs when designing the steps, took in to account the dents power armored boots would make on the stairs and how the Astartes walk in to how they designed the stairs, lol. Then we have the amazing combat, set pieces and relatable characters.
As a big fan of the Imperial Guard, I do love how they made the Guard proper soldiers of the Emperor's armies instead of the spineless cowards many forms of media keep making them out to be.
This is what I keep telling people. It's not that their involvement is always necessarily a bad thing. Many of em just wanna be left alone and aren't part of that ideological war.
But you can easily tell when there's people involved that just happen to live their life a little differently, as opposed to those whose sole purpose and joy in life it is to talk down to and preach to people.
Glad that in this case it was the former, and to any and all of em involved in this game, I honestly say: Thanks for being a decent human being, and for making an absolutely stellar game.
Love your commentary man - same as always! You have great insights, you’ve obviously given this a lot of thought and it shows! 👌🏻 The editing skills are brilliant, I also really appreciate how you had a series of clips demonstrating the world and its sounds, as well as commenting on the music! Bravo, sir! Bravo! 👏🏻 ✨
Thank you my friend!
Enjoyed your insight in this one. Good video
I've not yet played SM2 (been a rough year for my financials), but I've heard great things, and if I wasn't sold before hand, you would have convinced me. 👍
the amount of time I've spent OUTSIDE battle, just looking at destroyed buildings, flying swarms, distant fires, the game is a fucking masterclass.
I gotta check this Space Marine out. Avoided it until now, but looks fun
I was wondering when you were going to come out with another video 🤙🤙
SM2 reminds me of good ol' Gears 1-3 days. Simple, action fun. No bullshit.
Hopefully we will get Eldritch Horror 40k action game aside to SM2. That would be sick as hell.
Spider man 2??
And they came in like a wrecking ball 👌🏻👌🏻
i havent played RDR2 either for that exact same reason... actually i left it almost after the intro.. i was waiting for a new graphics card... now i have it but every game pushes it farther behind
also .. hope Matthew Karch sees this :D
I found it interesting you grouped halo infinite with those other titles.
I actually really liked that halo campaign, felt like a return to form for me.
Space marine 2 is a masterpiece.
Great video sir! keep it up.
Step 1: Make a game you, as a developer want to make.
Step 2: Make the game the way you want it to be.
Step 3: Respect the source material.
Also a big shoutout to Republic Commando. The one game that needs a remaster or remake.
That and Jedi Knight.
Blood for the Blood Throne! Milk for the Khorne Flakes!
point 1 and 2 matches with Veilguard
The nerfpocalypse, and being reverted so quickly, is an example of a Dev that cares.
Because the developers wanted to create a fun, immersive and engaging game based on a popular and iconic franchise while staying faithful to the source material which the publishers were like "sure, you do that" and to the surprise of absolutely nobody it succeeded.
While we can excessively complain about "DEI" and "Wokeness" for "ruining" gaming the reality is that a lot of the issues plaguing the Triple AAA industry happened long before that around the 8th console generation gaming where we got introduced to greedy monetization policies to squeeze money out of players, poor development cycles and production that resulted in buggy, unpolished game that was excused under pathetic "we can fix it later" excuse, "games as a service" philosophy that took away focus from making great games in favor of turning them into soulless cash cows that harmed creativity and ruined potential they could have had, prioritizing corrupt executives and their bottom line than that of their hard-working men and women who develop games who get treated poorly and arbitrarily fired so CEO's can rake in more cash for themselves and generally speaking the sheer utter contempt they have for consumers who just want to have well-made, enjoyable games yet get called out for "having too much expectations" like what Ubisoft did which feels just plain insulting.
If you ask me the game that seriously hurt me the most and ruined my trust in Activision-Blizzard like how Ubisoft did for you is Warcraft 3: Reforged. I absolutely ADORE Warcraft 3 and easily consider it one of my top 10 favorite games of all time and after wondering if we are ever gonna get Warcraft 4 or even a remaster of the third game we got that confirmation in 2018 that made me excited as hell. Yet when it came out it proved to be utterly disastrous with many technical issues, missing features, flat-out lying to the customers about the promises and then erasing the old game that couldn't be played unless one pirates it that was the result of Activision-Blizzard having zero faith in the game being a billion dollar product like Overwatch yet still wanted to make what little money they could and gave the developers hardly much budged to develop the game and outsourced it to a Malaysian team to cut costs at the expense of the game itself.
We lost out on what could have been an amazing remaster because corporate greed got in the way and one that perfectly demonstrates that executives don't care about having a great product that sells well and make good money, only if makes extremely large profits that obviously won't be shared with people who worked the most on the games but instead goes directly to those whose entire job is basically being a corporate overlord.
Furthermore thanks to World of Warcraft becoming a massive cash cow it has basically crippled any innovation and attempts at making interesting spin-offs to the series that could have been cool like single-player RPG, Total War style turn-based strategy and action style games in different ways which all could have been made to explore the lore and stories of the Warcraft games with one example being Lord of the Clans that is a really interesting story and one i like very much based on a custom campaign for Warcraft 3 that re-tells the story. It's a shame that so much potential for different games with unique experiences.
What's most frustrating about all of this is how in recent years legitimate criticism with issues of Triple AAA industry and the praise games have been getting for being really great has been overshadowed by the culture war nonsense waged by people who rages against DEI and "Wokeism" as well as the "Western vs Eastern" devs BS that basically glorifies the latter to absurd degrees and demonizes the former without a single care about actual issues and who thinks getting rid of it all will "save" the gaming industry when all it does is basically allow the mega gaming corps a way to ignore genuine criticism in favor of scapegoating all gamers as being "bigoted" thanks to those toxic people that ends up shredding any serious discussion about things like DEI in any meaningful way.
Overall though it's really cool to see Space Marine 2 being made and succeed in creating a great experience and enjoyable fun for Warhammer 40K fans and just fans of gaming in general, especially as the game reminds me a bit of Gears of War 2 that i enjoyed a lot in my youth. Although i do find it really amusing, and irritating, how before release it was derided by the Gamers(TM) for being "woke" because it had a transgender writer or something but then once it came out and became a success suddenly many changed their tune right away just to score points for their political agenda and even then there are those who STILL think it's "woke" because it has different ethnicities and a woman being an authority figure that plays a major role, showing just how stupid the word is and the fact that these people only care about their political agendas than the actual games themselves, coincidentally making them not so different from the "modern audience" they love to bash on.
Otherwise great video and i really enjoyed this perspective and kinda semi-review of Space Marine 2 that offers great insight to it's success and talks about failures and problems plaguing the Triple AAA industry that isn't entirely due to DEI.
Brother I think it’s time you make TH-cam videos. I completely agree with you-well written, bro.
If a western company had made Space Marines 2 it would had been shite
I think the HoMM series is the classic poster child of immersion enhancing audio design, no matter 2, 3, 4 or 5. I totally agree its commonly neglected nowadays unless its GTA
padda you made me look to the power of manyyyy scene again goddamnit... you should've removed the Gore and Spoilers warning and added the Cringe one 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
😭😂😂😂
Here before Asmongold
Really good video and yeah I agree this game was a nice and focused experience that set itself apart from the sea of bloated games out there
Posting at 10pm neh 🤣 FOR THE EMPEROR!
Been grinding for 4 hours trying to get this bad boy uploaded
@@PaddaPlays Totally worth it, video is quality. Me and my fiance are super warhammer fans and love your videos too ❤
@@WolfQueenLydia thank you so much!
Should have been a goty nominee by default.
Personally I agree, but I don't think it quite has enough of a mass appeal that I see as a requirement for GOTY. It certainly got more people interested in 40k, but 40k still is a bit of a niche thing. Both Wukong and FF7R do have it, so I don't think it would've stood much of a chance anyway (all three are absolutely stellar games and any of them would deserve the title tbh).
That said I do hope it wins best action game at least, because as good of a package as Wukong is overall, I do think SM2 ever so slightly beats it there.
dude, this is the quality of games back in the 2000s early 2010s.
If sm2 came out back then (like it did because 2) it would be considered mid (like it was, because quality was much higher back then)
This is the result you get when developers passionate about gaming get to make a game they WANT to make, with no bullshit restrictions imposed by a publisher that would lead to compromises in game design. It's really simple, really, which is why I don't get why it's so hard for those empty industry suits to understand.
Best thing is i start the game and can just play not like other games where i must restart everytime the game and the whole mainmenu is made for sell skins.
The endless war of the 40k is more peacefull than modern gaming
Yo
Bloat is to gaming what filler is to Anime.
Loved it
It's the FOV and camera distance for me. I can't really see myself buying a game where half the screen is some giant Megaman larper
They have mentioned addressing this in an upcoming update.
@@PaddaPlays Glad to hear it
Look I've played red dead 2 twice!! The great thing is each quest is only 5 to 10 minutes long! You just ride to a quest in any order stopping along the way at interesting places! Try and play it like a linear game, in an open world! Took me 90 hours, you wasted that on starfield
I absolutely did waste it 😭
hi papa
Reject DEI, Embrace Brotherhood.
Be careful with the 'No DEI' determination. While true so far as it relates to Space Marine 2, the parent company Games Workshop is/has been infected by the scourge. We have seen this with recent lore changes to that effect and a growing hatred of their own fanbase and those fans that oppose DEI/ESG broadly.
In what ways? Just wondering.
@@darklelouchg8505 yeah, I have been keeping an eye out. I believe it is worth praising the things they are doing well now, not just complaining if and when they fail us.
@@stefanradebach2889 Been going on for a long while frankly. From the Sigmarxism crap fest, and the anti-Arch Warhammer saga, to the more recent Custodian lore retcon relating to Female Custodes. There was also a couple of direct chastisement and spurning from GW staff/writers, both related to the prior as well as the female Space Marine BS that arises every couple of years from a certain segment of the fanbase. (you can guess which ones).
Not the first time GW has done such, wont be the last. At this point, like him or not, but i think Arch might be correct on gatekeeping being the solution for such. DEI/ESG is a blight frankly.
@@PaddaPlays Fair, though I suppose I am more jaded given how long i have been in the internet trenches on this stuff.
@@darklelouchg8505 Research about him and from what i have heard and seen the guy sounds like an alt-right person who is friends with white nationalist racists and he himself denies the Imperium being fascist even though Game Workshop developers clearly says and writes that yeah, Imperium is fascist.
lol
It is not, no tits no buy.
One of the writers is trans. Just wanted to point that out.
And they didn’t push their ideology through the game. Thats a win in my books
@@PaddaPlays Or weren't allowed to, which also works. And it worth checking their actual role. Because there lots of "devs" in twitter, who have much less of a role than they're telling.
They were also fired 3/4 of the way through development.