Dawn of War - Definitive Edition announced

[Wispy]

2 hours ago, Emperor Ming said:

We have no idea what or how to make dow anymore, so best we can do is remasters....

 

 

They have everything they need but the funding... Many of the same people who made Dark Crusade and DoW2 are still working there. 

 

Someone else I think is making in DoW4, GW took the IP elsewhere (like they did with Space Marine) when Sega was disinterested in continuing the franchise (they were going to bet on Creative Assembly's 40k game instead, which I'm sure we've all heard the Valrak rumours of). But then Relic went interdependent, opening this opportunity.

 

Which is why I think this is great way for Relic to back to Dawn of War again. It's a SKU that can finance the studio and they can use to launch as a platform to make more Dawn of War 1 expansions. Come on Relic, make Dawn of War I-Two. And then you can make Dawn of War II-Two. They're very different styles of game, develop them both and give them new life independently.

Edited July 13 by Wispy

[JeffJedi]

There is a new Dawn of War Barns and Noble style game coming out too.

[Evil Eye]

8 hours ago, Inquisitor_Lensoven said:

Slightly improved graphics in order to sell a 20 year old game at 2025 prices.

Honestly even the non-discounted price- $30 for everything- is a steal by today's standards, and the graphics are frankly the least interesting upgrade they've done (and the one that will have taken the least work). Getting the game(s) to work nicely on modern machines, removing bugs AND making it more mod-friendly would have been a lot of effort on their part, and assuming it all works as intended would be a MASSIVE upgrade over the original, which frankly does not run well on a lot of current PCs at all. It seems less like the Oblivion Remake and more like one of Nightdive's excellent remasters, faithful to the original with most of the improvements being behind-the-scenes stuff like compatibility and mod support.

[Trokair]

So Steam is telling me that this is comming out tomorrow. 

[Mogger351]

2 hours ago, Trokair said:

So Steam is telling me that this is comming out tomorrow. 

Yup, 14th.

[brother_b]

Edit: DOW 1.

 

I played mostly DOW 2 so I’ll have to check it out.

 

 

Edited August 13 by brother_b

[mel_danes]

I own an the way up to Soulstorm for DOW 1.

I'll be buying it tomorrow, full price, with joy. 

The work they've done has earned every dollar.

 

I poured a lot of love and hard work into that game through the mod community. To be able to play "Dawn of Steel" and "Inquisition Daemonhunt", in wide screen, after all these years is literally a dream come true.

[Emperor Ming]

Is this jsut a money grab or actually worth it?

[Nephaston]

2 hours ago, Emperor Ming said:

Is this jsut a money grab or actually worth it?

We'll see once reviews kick in, but just on the basis that they've worked with the unification mod team to ensure complete compatibility means that there's at least a lot of goodwill.

[mel_danes]

4 hours ago, Emperor Ming said:

Is this jsut a money grab or actually worth it?

A money grab to me would be just releasing it for wide format screens and modern chips. 

 

+ They've gone into the base code to fix community related issues, improving quality of life play mechanics.

- The graphical improvements will be a wash for new players, they never played they old diffuse only textures. 

+ Having it all in one game is going to be nice, not like 5 DVD's.

 

If you've not played it before, and you like 40k, it's definitely worth it.

 

I'm biased as I worked on half a dozen mods.

[Muck1ng]

The fact you're getting a discount if you already own the earlier versions is good faith enough for me to invest in it. 

[ThaneOfTas]

It's worth it for the jump to 64-bit alone. Improving model geometry, textures and pathfinding, as well as putting it all into one launcher makes this absolutely worth it in my eyes.

[Joe]

It's all good on paper - it just remains to be seen if Relic have actually improved at the end of the day. They've been pretty vile with the Company of Heroes community the last few years.

[darkhorse0607]

They've done a lot of work for CoH since the dismal launch of 3 and the sentiment in that community has been changing

 

Rather than dump it with no future content like they did Dawn of War 3 (now that they've left Sega), they've been putting out content, patches and a pretty big update (1.7) for the first year anniversary which changed the sound, time to kill, video improvements, etc 

 

I still prefer 2, but the community has warmed a bit to them post-Sega since they are actually trying it seems 

[darkhorse0607]

So I've spent a few hours in skirmish playing different factions 

 

This is exactly what they said it was. UI is a bit better, animations/models are a bit smoother (although bare heads are still comically bad), lighting is a bit better but overall it's the exact same game that we've had for 20 years. 

 

For me that's a good thing, and for $18 after the discount for previous owners I think it's worth it, but if you were hoping for sneaky changes here or there, you aren't going to get them. It's just been brought up slightly like they've said in the blog videos

Edited August 14 by darkhorse0607

[Emperor Ming]

I wish they had done more with the graphics

[Mogger351]

10 hours ago, Emperor Ming said:

I wish they had done more with the graphics

Honestly, the minor improvements they made actually hit that level of "how i remember it looking" but without the normal culture shock where you realise you're looking at something without the rose tinted glasses.

 

It hit me right in the nostalgia.

[darkhorse0607]

11 hours ago, Emperor Ming said:

I wish they had done more with the graphics

 

Same but I am giving them a pass on it because they said up front that's what they were doing, and were transparent about the whole thing in advance

 

It's not like the SM1 remaster

[DemonGSides]

Played quite a few games.  It's a pretty great running remaster and cheap enough if you owned the redo they did a year or two ago.

[Emicus]

Loving it! One of all time greatest games that
 

- Runs without crashing
- Doesn't need mods to do basic things like zooming out or using ram.

- has all 4 games/campaigns in one! Swap campaign without firing up a new game.

 

This is the best thing since sliced bread and can only be topped by a successor DoW:2. (Released dow2 and dow3 don't count. They're not the same type of game).

 

TW:40k would also be up for nomination for 'last games I'll ever need' after about 16 patches filling it out.

Edited August 17 by Emicus