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Space Marine creator: Captain Titus would have "gone rogue"


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Sounds weird in summary, but I suppose it makes sense. Space Marines go Renegade somehow, and those reasons are quite typical.

 

A pity we won't see it. I'd have liked to see what they could do with Red Corsairs-style renegades.

Interesting that he would go rogue (and oddly intriguing that in the third game he'd straight up Found another chapter with his mates...). I wonder how long he would last before the =][= caught up with him again (if they actually let him escape out of their scrutiny)? 

It's a pity we'll never see these 2 sequel games, it would be cool to have seen a grizzled Titus- Angelos style, rallying his chapter around him at the end of the game. It'd be even better if an interred dreadnought Sidonus<sp?> was there as well.

celebrating their firing of Leandros from a :cuss airlock after an allied boarding action

 

Worth noting that 'Go rogue' was indeed in quotes. Which could mean anything, from leaving the Ultras and becoming that Inquisitor's personal Astartes to actually whole-hog Chaos worship. If the former, I could see him staying independent of Macragge and being 'rewarded' with his own Chapter of Space Marines who are happy to do the Inquisition's/High Lords' dogwork.

 

And now I have a mental image of Titus as the first Chapter Master of the 'new' Minotaurs, inheriting the heraldry of the long-dead Minotaurs and sometimes telling Calgar where to stuff it.

Sounds more like the creation of the Sons of Medusa, where there was an idealogical schism between a few (clan companies worth?) members and the rest of the chapter.

 

Titus undergoes pennance crusade to prove his purity, barely survives, rallies those loyal to him and mistrustful of the inquisition from UM, Calgar allows secession of that lot from the chapter rather than all out intr chapter war.

 

It sounds like it would have been awesome.

 

A barely surviving Titus screams bionics to be, imagine all the fun that could be had!

Sounded to me like it was less "turning to Chaos" and more "going all crazy-ass vigilante that blatantly ignores all attempts by his superiors to reign him in."

 

My thoughts exactly.

 

Sounds more like the creation of the Sons of Medusa, where there was an idealogical schism between a few (clan companies worth?) members and the rest of the chapter.

 

Titus undergoes pennance crusade to prove his purity, barely survives, rallies those loyal to him and mistrustful of the inquisition from UM, Calgar allows secession of that lot from the chapter rather than all out intr chapter war.

 

Also this.

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Though what happened to the Space Marine license thingy after THQ went down? Is it possible that this might still happen?

 

To me, a story like that would depend heavily on the writing. Write it good, and awesomeness ensues. Write it badly, and it turns out like those Centurions nobody likes to talk about.

After THQ broke up, it seems GW has decided to make broad changes to the way they deal with the 40k IP for video games.  They've become far more loose, many say too loose, as they are allowing any dev, regardless of size or talent, to make a 40k game.  That said, I still believe there is zero chance of this particular story happening as I don't believe the specific team that was working on Space Marine even exists anymore.

After THQ broke up, it seems GW has decided to make broad changes to the way they deal with the 40k IP for video games.  They've become far more loose, many say too loose, as they are allowing any dev, regardless of size or talent, to make a 40k game.  That said, I still believe there is zero chance of this particular story happening as I don't believe the specific team that was working on Space Marine even exists anymore.

 

Well, SEGA bought all THQ rights for 40k games, and as i heard - they also were on talk with Relic regarding acquisition of the studio. Although there is no other information regarding the destiny of the Relic after that.

 

As for GW becoming "loose" on 40k franchise - that is totally wrong. GW was always hard to deal with in matters of giving rights for development within their gaming universes. From what i know, HeroCraft, Relic and maybe 1 or 2 other dev-teams are the only ones who has been given legal rights for 40k games lately. 

I suspect there would have been a vast chasm between what Raphael van Lierop was planning and what GW IP would have been willing to approve. An Ultramarines Captain going rogue and ending up founding his own Chapter sounds like the worst kind of fan-fiction nonsense that would have been shot down in the first pitch meeting.

An Ultramarines Captain going rogue and ending up founding his own Chapter sounds like the worst kind of fan-fiction nonsense that would have been shot down in the first pitch meeting.

Yeah. Considering how precisely Space Marine nailed 40k's settings it seems weird they'd have ideas that ridiculous. Which makes me think he was probably paraphrasing for the people who've played Space Marine but don't know 40k beyond the game. Saying Titus would have founded his own chapter would be more readily understood than explaing about how Renegade Astartes go about rallying their followers together because we already have the 'Chapter' concept explained somewhat.

 

Or else it was the first way to express the concept that came into his head.

An Ultramarines Captain going rogue and ending up founding his own Chapter sounds like the worst kind of fan-fiction nonsense that would have been shot down in the first pitch meeting.

That would be almost as silly as an Ultramarine Captain being sent into the Eye of Terror on a suicide mission to atone for his heresies and simply strolling back to Maccrage and resuming command of his company.

That would be almost as silly as an Ultramarine Captain being sent into the Eye of Terror on a suicide mission to atone for his heresies and simply strolling back to Maccrage and resuming command of his company.

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... Given that perspective, I'll eat my words.

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Ultramarines cannot get good writers. It is their curse.

Sadly.

 

Maybe it's like Firefly getting canceled. I mean, the worst thing that happens to Joss Whedon creations are going past two seasons. Sounds like the "Space Marine" game series ended when it needed to. Before anything really dumb could happen.

Yeah, I'm disappointed by the idea. I was hoping for the second game to be about the deathwatch, considering he was being "recruited" by the =I=. Would have allowed for more varied space marine characters. Perhaps even squad tactics and even multiplayer missions like Exterminatus, except more story driven.

 

A Deathwatch game with the same attention to detail and gameplay that the Space Marine game had would have me very excited! Oh well.

 

Btw, if they could steal the combat system used in Arkham city for the next space marine game... I would only play that game...

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Gotta agree this idea sounds a little weak it just screams out that alot of the team haven't read the background material. I mean yes there are some chapters where a captain might storm off because of a debate/falling out but an Ultramarine? Yes, I know Ventris technically did (on a death oath I know) but compared to the newer fiction aren't those books widely looked down upon. I mean it's like having Templars working with witches or deathwatch working with xenos it just doesn't sit right. Also, I still don't know why they had to make him Captain of the 2nd company I'm not that well versed in Ultramarines lore but hasn't Sicrius (who is awesome) been their captin for a few hundred years? You'd have thought they could have just picked a different company.

 

All that said it was a really good game I'm currently replaying it for the third time I think. Also, you know you're a real space marine fan when you see what happens to Sidonius and think: 'An Astartes could easily survive that.'

the DeathWatch RPG has a class called "Black Shield". Basically they are marines with out a chapter, either because their chapter has been wiped out and they are one of the last surviving members or because the marine in question has been excommunicated from his chapter. In either case a marine with out a chapter was described as "being a rogue". According the background in the books, these Black Shields tend to become permement Death Watch members or in a few rare occasions are utilized by inquisitors for other duties. One of the duties it mentioned was specialized training to strike teams from various chapters. So 'going rogue' is a maddeningly vague statement with no context to explain what they mean.

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