Posted on: December 3, 2024
Vonnis
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Nope
I've been a fan of the 40k setting since ~2000. It's my favourite sci-fi setting, by all rights I should be hooked on this game. And yet I can't get into it. Owlcat seems to think constant flowery, overly verbose writing is good writing. When there's a noble in his comfortable chambers trying to impress someone, or if it's narrative description, sure, that works. When a naval officer is trying to maintain order in a rapidly escalating situation and slowly, theatrically vomits up a stream of dramatic adjectives, it absolutely does not. All it makes me think of is a bottom tier writer being very impressed with himself because he blew way past the acceptable word count and married a thesaurus, which as one might suspect absolutely destroys immersion. That works hand in hand with the voice acting. Everyone is giving a very slow, theatrical performance. Again, that works for some characters and situations, but for most it does not. I don't blame the VA themselves for this, but whoever directed them completely missed the tone for nearly every character in nearly every scenario. And as a minor pet peeve: every single time the RT's family name is uttered Von Valancius the speaker emphasises the Von part, which is the exact opposite of how to use that word in a name. It also seems the writers mixed up 40k and Dune when describing Navigators. Maybe the lore was changed at some point but in my older black library novels every Navigator is described as a pale, frail human with a third eye. That's the only mutation any of them have in any of the material I've read, whereas in this game if they mutate like a particularly ambitious Chaos champion. These things together just ruin the narrative for me. When it comes to gameplay, well, it's Owlcat. Rather than easing you into a progression system you get a whole bunch of unexplained options at once and have to spend a good hour reading tool tips to get an idea of what you're doing. Personally I'm kind of done with that.
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