I'm a high school teacher.
I don't reward my students for turning in an essay months late and still half finished.
I'm not going to reward CA for it either.
EDIT: Obviously this review was complaining about a lot of issues around the release of Shadows Of Change. CA seem to be making a lot of steps to address these issues, especially their pricing and fixing issues features so kudos to them for that. I'll leave the review as is because it's a positive review anyway but it's also a reminder that they might screw everything up again if they get complacent. All these points still stand for Games Workshop however.
An incredibly accurate representation of the tabletop game. If you want the Games Workshop experience in a video game nothing beats it.
Over-priced? Check.
Riddled with balance issues? Check.
Filled with technical issues and gameplay features that are clunky or don't really work well? Check.
Devs don't really bother trying to fix them and if they do it just breaks other things? Double check.
And if you complain about these things the people in charge just ignore you and keep doing it anyway? Big ole check.
Really, its impressive how committed CA are to emulating the Warhammer experience.
"The right to discuss is a privilege—it is not an entitlement you earn by playing the game" - CA's PR department
Unfortunately I lack the proper Free Speech(TM) DLC to post an accurate review of this game.
战锤3对我的意义来说是陪我熬过了漫长的上海大瘟疫 （2022.3.12 - 2022.6.30）
回合制游戏杀时间 杀着杀着就忘记了没食物的饥饿 居委会私吞物资 靠战锤续命
刁大犬偷走了我的春天 我本应该发春的春天是TM全战
It was a long and dark April, (2022.3.12 - 2022.6.30)
Plague and famine spread throughout Shanghai city
The Total war WH3 stayed with me through the whole period
Our fuking idiot president Winnie pooh thought he is the reincarnation of Sigma, He can purify the Nurgle
April of Shanghai, the Realm of Chaos began to flow, warping all in their path, full of devastated.
This game is fantastic, just needs to work on communication, graphics, map, characters, economy, how the units aim, realistic unit movement, anti aliasing, the ai, diplomacy, rational decision making by ai, the HUD, the tutorial, time to load, synchronization, the launcher, understandability and getting a new developer team.
Did I mention it's very affordable?
CA: "Oh baby please take me back. I promise I won't hurt you again... I've changed, for good this time. I mean it."
Fanbase: "Oh.... ok. Y-You really mean it this time... I-I love you."
I'm a high school teacher.
I don't reward my students for turning in an essay months late and still half finished.
I'm not going to reward CA for it either.
“The right to discuss is a privilege – it is not an entitlement you earn by playing the game."
-Creative Assembly, 2023
Hello, I'm a big fan of the franchise, in particular the Warhammer series. I think they are great games, and you all did a fantastic job translating that fun and interesting setting into a video game.
I have been wondering, though, why are all the humans white or Chinese in the games as of now? I understand that the setting was centered on the Old World. And I don't expect any halfhearted diversification of, say, the Empire or Bretonnia; Obviously, it wouldn't make sense in the setting and probably just **** off the fascists in the GW fanbase.
But I am curious if the lack of racial diversity within human factions is something you've thought of, something which concerns you, or something you plan to change in the future? As a non-white gamer and fantasy lover, I've always been disappointed by how white the most popular fantasy universes are. Be it Warhammer or LoTR, they center white people as the baseline for what "human" means, and often have those white people fight races of inhuman monsters and corrupt men who may or may not be based on racist real world stereotypes (the Easterlings and Haradrim in LoTR; the Skaven, to me, could read as an analog for the Nazi's perceptions of jews infiltrating society with criminal conspiracies).
Of course, I know you all didn't create these worlds, but, given the increasingly global nature of the Warhammer games, I would really like to see more human factions based on African or Middle eastern cultures. Perhaps something like a Wakanda-like nation taking the fight to Chaos.
I recognize it could be hard to make respectfully, seeing as what I know of the original GW lore portrays these cultures in a way that's often a little stereotypical... but given the ridiculousness of the setting I don't think it would be too hard to adjust and expand the canon so that it is respectful, but still over-the-top and fun, like Bretonnia and the Empire.
I know that this is a just a videogame, and not that important in the grand scheme of things. But I think there was a missed opportunity in game 3 to subvert the, in my view quite harmful, trope of ultra-whiteness/eurocentrism in high fantasy, hence I cannot recommend this game.
Edit: Also has Denuvo
Edit2: Also the campaign mechanic is pretty crap
I'm a high school teacher.
I don't reward my students for turning in an essay months late and still half finished.
I'm not going to reward CA for it either.
EDIT: Obviously this review was complaining about a lot of issues around the release of Shadows Of Change. CA seem to be making a lot of steps to address these issues, especially their pricing and fixing issues features so kudos to them for that. I'll leave the review as is because it's a positive review anyway but it's also a reminder that they might screw everything up again if they get complacent. All these points still stand for Games Workshop however.
An incredibly accurate representation of the tabletop game. If you want the Games Workshop experience in a video game nothing beats it.
Over-priced? Check.
Riddled with balance issues? Check.
Filled with technical issues and gameplay features that are clunky or don't really work well? Check.
Devs don't really bother trying to fix them and if they do it just breaks other things? Double check.
And if you complain about these things the people in charge just ignore you and keep doing it anyway? Big ole check.
Really, its impressive how committed CA are to emulating the Warhammer experience.
"The right to discuss is a privilege—it is not an entitlement you earn by playing the game" - CA's PR department
Unfortunately I lack the proper Free Speech(TM) DLC to post an accurate review of this game.
战锤3对我的意义来说是陪我熬过了漫长的上海大瘟疫 （2022.3.12 - 2022.6.30）
回合制游戏杀时间 杀着杀着就忘记了没食物的饥饿 居委会私吞物资 靠战锤续命
刁大犬偷走了我的春天 我本应该发春的春天是TM全战
It was a long and dark April, (2022.3.12 - 2022.6.30)
Plague and famine spread throughout Shanghai city
The Total war WH3 stayed with me through the whole period
Our fuking idiot president Winnie pooh thought he is the reincarnation of Sigma, He can purify the Nurgle
April of Shanghai, the Realm of Chaos began to flow, warping all in their path, full of devastated.
This game is fantastic, just needs to work on communication, graphics, map, characters, economy, how the units aim, realistic unit movement, anti aliasing, the ai, diplomacy, rational decision making by ai, the HUD, the tutorial, time to load, synchronization, the launcher, understandability and getting a new developer team.
Did I mention it's very affordable?
CA: "Oh baby please take me back. I promise I won't hurt you again... I've changed, for good this time. I mean it."
Fanbase: "Oh.... ok. Y-You really mean it this time... I-I love you."
I'm a high school teacher.
I don't reward my students for turning in an essay months late and still half finished.
I'm not going to reward CA for it either.
“The right to discuss is a privilege – it is not an entitlement you earn by playing the game."
-Creative Assembly, 2023
Hello, I'm a big fan of the franchise, in particular the Warhammer series. I think they are great games, and you all did a fantastic job translating that fun and interesting setting into a video game.
I have been wondering, though, why are all the humans white or Chinese in the games as of now? I understand that the setting was centered on the Old World. And I don't expect any halfhearted diversification of, say, the Empire or Bretonnia; Obviously, it wouldn't make sense in the setting and probably just **** off the fascists in the GW fanbase.
But I am curious if the lack of racial diversity within human factions is something you've thought of, something which concerns you, or something you plan to change in the future? As a non-white gamer and fantasy lover, I've always been disappointed by how white the most popular fantasy universes are. Be it Warhammer or LoTR, they center white people as the baseline for what "human" means, and often have those white people fight races of inhuman monsters and corrupt men who may or may not be based on racist real world stereotypes (the Easterlings and Haradrim in LoTR; the Skaven, to me, could read as an analog for the Nazi's perceptions of jews infiltrating society with criminal conspiracies).
Of course, I know you all didn't create these worlds, but, given the increasingly global nature of the Warhammer games, I would really like to see more human factions based on African or Middle eastern cultures. Perhaps something like a Wakanda-like nation taking the fight to Chaos.
I recognize it could be hard to make respectfully, seeing as what I know of the original GW lore portrays these cultures in a way that's often a little stereotypical... but given the ridiculousness of the setting I don't think it would be too hard to adjust and expand the canon so that it is respectful, but still over-the-top and fun, like Bretonnia and the Empire.
I know that this is a just a videogame, and not that important in the grand scheme of things. But I think there was a missed opportunity in game 3 to subvert the, in my view quite harmful, trope of ultra-whiteness/eurocentrism in high fantasy, hence I cannot recommend this game.
Edit: Also has Denuvo
Edit2: Also the campaign mechanic is pretty crap
