A "What if" Situation... BioWare/CD Projekt Red Meets 40K

[Julgolax]

With mega-disasters like the awful mobile game line and mega-hits like Space Marine, Dawn of War and the fledgling Eternal Crusade we've seen the capability for a 40K title to be successful. In parallel, looking at the success of Dragon Age, Mass Effect and The Witcher, there is obviously immensely fertile ground for an epic 40K experience.

 

What if BioWare or CD Projekt Red were to be tasked with building an entire trio of Inquisitor experiences?

 

Pick between a male or female Inquisitor, of the Daemon Hunter, Witch Hunter or Xenos Hunter which basically sets the stage for the variation of the fall or salvation of a planet being infiltrated by a selection of enemies. For a Daemon Hunter, the story could be centered around a chaos cult which is seeking to bring daemons and chaos marines to the planet, the Alpha Legion perhaps. For a Witch Hunter, an uprising of rebels loyal to an elder trade lord has cropped up on the world and word of bizarre disappearances and corruption have made their way up through the Arbites to the ears of the Inquisition. For a Xenos Hunter, we find the rise of strange rebel activity deep within the bowels of the Hive city and rumors of men and women in the shadows, and multi-limbed monsters stalking the tunnels below the streets.

 

What do you think of the idea and do you think it's possible with aggressive poking and prodding at GW / BioWare?

[Cleanse And Purify]

I wouldn't trust Bioware to make a good 40k game. It would have too much of their terrible "snarky humor" (it is neither snarky, nor is it humor) that they insist on injecting into everything, and I don't think they would do a good job of capturing the feel of the world itself. 

 

CD Projekt Red would do a great job, I think. The Witcher series is a masterpiece of gaming IMO, and they crafted an excellent world throughout that series. They would do an excellent "focused narrative" style RPG, I think.

 

What I would truly want, however, is a Dark Souls/Bloodborne-style ARPG by From Software set in the 40k universe. Bloodborne in particular felt very 40kesque to me, which makes sense since they draw on similar source materials such as the very obvious Lovecraftian influence on both settings. But the feel of the combat, the art direction, the boss fights, and so on: it all feels like it would make for an excellent 40k game.

 

EDIT: In response to your last question: no, I don't think prodding any game company has ever induced them to create a video game that they didn't already plan on making. Game development, particularly with the costs and timeframes involved, simply doesn't work that way.