Thanks to the guy that recommended revelation space to me, because I wouldn’t have realized just how ‘earth like’ most planets feel like in warhammer games compared to the books. The books share similarities to revelation space, because the authors put shitloads of effort into creating vivid descriptions of the dark coldness that encompasses the vastness of space. Planets in books like rebel winter and fifteen hours actually are described the way a real planet would feel like.
Space marine 2 doesn’t do justice to the legacy the authors of the franchise gave the setting. The planets, ships, and cities all make the game feel more like a fantasy shooter than a sci fi focused on the worlds beyond earth.
>2nd pic is drawn by Alastair Reynolds
>>37030Is it any good? Doubtless it is reactionary shlock but I've got time for a 5 hour campaign and its free after all.
That picture is really not what I visualised reading the first few of the revelation space series. But it makes me instantly think of Marathon. Have you played it by the way? It's really dated but it does capture the feeling you're talking about in a FPS better than anything else I've played. Was a really magical game for me to play. And that makes me think of The Citadel, such a good game. Sorry thats a tangent and a half.
>>37041its one of the big strength of the setting actually, so much diversity and so little centralization anyone can come up with his own personal lore in a dark corner of the galaxy
well, it was what was good about it before gw decided they didnt like having a setting encouraging creativity, and rather have a big story focused on muh spess marines and heroic primarchs completely shitting on the old concept of the decaying empire dying and all its legends fallen
>>37050And yet according to the same lore, there are such things as agriworlds, paradise worlds or even medieval worlds who just forgot about technology.
40k just have an inconsitent writing more or less overlooked because of the setting's size, and I don't think it could have gone another way.