Space Marine 2 is a reminder of what we lost | Asmongold Reacts

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[@LegendaryDrops]

Let's get back to being the target audience. Thanks for watching! The Emperor Protects.

[@SARGEHALO666v2]

When you’re a dude and wanna see or play as other dudes do badass shit. That’s so good. If only devs knew that that’s the key to make money with gamers and not “modern audiences” that don’t buy any games at all.

[@brettmmontague]

Based

[@CountryBoiHLwest]

Watch Luetin09 for in depth lore vids, mf knows everything.

[@Highwynd]

@@LegendaryDrops great videos, dude.

[@voodooozo3755]

WE PROTECT THIS FRANCHISE IN THE NAME OF THE PRIMARCH!

[@olihollis]

Creative Director of the game here. I wrote Space Marine 2 along with Craig Sherman, Randy Begel and Matthew Garcia-Dunn. Hearing everything you have to say about the story and characters resonates so strongly with our actual approach. It's great to hear you calling out the exact things that we intentionally focused on. It was four and a half years of intense work and passion and watching videos like this makes it all worth it.

[@spidertron1]

🥲🥲🥲

[@lukasb4497]

Thank you for your time and energy you invested! This game has been the most fun I’ve had gaming in an extremely long time. Nostalgic almost even though I’m new to the Warhammer universe.

[@muerto8813]

Thank you so much sir!

[@nelsonfox3]

The character writing reminded me of that deep seated desire to pursue honor and valor, to want to sacrifice self for something greater. Incredible job!

[@Eledthur]

Thank you for Space Marine 2. As someone who's played the hell out of the first one, and still do, this was an actual game we all needed. It's pure fun, and that's how it should be. With the way so many studios and devs trying to inject their own views, real life drama and whatnot, It's become bloated with so much garbage that I'd rather play the games that came out back in the 2000s. And this game is reminiscent of those times. I hope we see many more games like this in the future, and get back what we've lost.

[@MatthewKarch]

Hey man. CEO of Saber here. I love your videos. When we signed the deal to make Space Marine 2, all I wanted was a throwback game. We had the chance to work on something which by its nature was "old school". I can't even comprehend many of the current games that we play these days. They are too complex and too much of an investment. We worked on Halo back in the day, and that game could be distilled down to the simplest of shooting loops, but it was entirely addicting. That is what we wanted to recapture. I hope that games like Space Marine 2 and Wukong are the start of a reversion to a time when games were simply about fun and immersion. I spent some time as Chief Operating Officer at Embracer and I saw games there that made me want to cry with their overblown attempts at messaging or imposing morals on gamers. We just want to do some glory kills and get the heart rate up a little. For me that is what games should be about.

[@user-bw7oe7gf9p]

😮😮

[@vonwayne4442]

The gaming hero we all been waiting for, thank you Sir! for your service.

[@BlackGoldRose]

Pin this!

[@Thanaroa]

Doing us all a giant favor man, as a warhammer fan since I was a child seeing a 40k game of this quality is a dream come true. I'm also so happy my dusty Bois (thousand sons) finally got some love.

[@jdavidblais]

❤

[@DanielFilipe.]

The fact that PC Gamer gave this game a 6.0 while Outlaws is a 7.3 says a lot about the current situation we are in...

[@kintingkam6704]

...says a lot about the current situation in journalism. Like movie critics, they lost (or gave up) their credibility and dignity decades ago.

[@bleddingmaster]

just makes ne never want to take pc gamer sersoley at all

[@IRaoulDuke]

Nobody cares what any Western gaming publications say anymore.

[@ricardohoang8452]

Wait until astro bot will win goty this year 😂

[@NikoGoKrazy]

@@ricardohoang8452Over black myth? good luck

[@lilmoris1]

When the Dreadnought said "LEAD ME TO THE SLAUGHTER" I had such an adrenaline rush that I felt I could kill a rhino with just punches, we NEED masculinity back.

[@drdoctor2362]

I gotta check to make sure... a rhino like the animal? Or a rhino like the space marine vehicle?

[@lilmoris1]

@@drdoctor2362 Both.

[@drdoctor2362]

@@lilmoris1 both is good

[@dhoniredfire_wotblitz7090]

I'M MORE HYPE WHEN DREADNOUGHT SAID "BY THE EMPEROR! I CAST YOU DOWN!"

[@mitchconner2021]

SONS OF MUGNUS? IS HE HERE?

[@dragonuv65]

Space Marine 2 feels like the golden age of the Xbox 360 and PS3 era of the early 2000s, and that’s a good thing.

[@voiceoflayz]

Back when Devs played the games they made

[@bronzin1445]

More mid-late 2000s. Early 2000s was the PS2/GameCube era

[@marcioaso]

@@bronzin1445 2006 is early 2000s, just as 1906 is the early 1900s.

[@bigdot2355]

back every game was given actual life and care from the blood sweat tears from the ambitious game devs

[@bronzin1445]

@@marcioaso no

[@cameronscott7304]

My doctor said I needed a testosterone boost so she prescribed me Space Marine II.

[@Rahab198]

My Octopus played it, now I have Kthulu in the swimming pool.

[@Daniel_D-bo]

lol! heck yea man!... im playing lollypop chainsaw repop when I'm not playing space marine 2 and that game delivers also! old-school 💩❤️‍🔥

[@poolee77]

Based

[@andybenitez7412]

@@Daniel_D-bo Dang, that game is like locked on the old gens. Gotta bring a decent port for lollypop

[@raijinmeister]

Hell yeah.

[@mickthick6170]

the most raw part of SM2 was at the end when all bro said was "Get up" he did not sugarcoat it, no goofy pep talk, no break, he just gritted his teeth and got tf up which was kinda metal Instantly overshadowed by the Dreadnoughts but still, that scene went pretty hard

[@HenryDorsettCase]

I think it's actually better than that. He didn't get up simply because he was ordered to. He got up because he still had a duty to uphold, responsibilities, and a greater purpose. A certain kind of person will call that toxic masculinity, but when shit needs to get done, you sometimes have to put your wants and desires to the side to serve something larger than yourself.

[@mickthick6170]

that's what I meant but you def worded it much better

[@SecondQuantisation]

As you say, no pep talk, just "Your duty is not yet done". Chairon leans in to give him a hand up but doesn't say "Together we'll conquer anything" or something similarly peppy, just just silently holds his arm out. They both know shit still needs to get done, there will ALWAYS be shit that needs to get done but they do it. It is the duty they have taken on.

[@cykeok3525]

"Duty" is to the group, as "self-interest" is to the individual. In modern times there are so many morally bankrupt people that only understand the latter, the former means nothing to them.

[@foofoo3344]

Get up, Brother. We got some Xenos to burn. (Cyberpunk 2077 reference)

[@dookieshoe2905]

Younger bros don't know what it was like living in a world where everything was geared towards the 18-35 year old male audience. I think many of them would be shocked at a lot of what was allowed on live TV back then, it was awesome.

[@Legnica148]

So you liked it when women didn't have sufficient media to appreciate? bro....

[@secretname2670]

@@Legnica148 stop projecting your hatred towards women onto other people. Men like having nice things directed at them, this is not about women. Women can have their own media, but men should be allowed to have enjoyable things too. You are acting as if men having enjoyable lives somehow detracts from the life experience of women, such a shallow view of the world.

[@Legnica148]

@secretname2670 you said you preferred when EVERYTHING was geared towards men. If everything is geared to one side, then the other side doesn't have anything. Is basic logic that hard for you? You didn't say you wanted man to have more stuff for them as we had before, so don't pretend you did. 😉😉

[@xthee_0nly_1x11]

@@Legnica148Eh, women had plenty of stuff to watch back then like the Kardashians and the real housewives of blah blah whatever. They had no business playing video games, they were and always will be primarily a male thing. Also ratio😉

[@BigHasdog]

​@@Legnica148pathetic logic. They never said they preferred anything. They referred to the time and said it was awesome.

[@abruptend8993]

Space Marines are not really human, but in the game, they feel more human than the characters the triple A studios have been making for a while.

[@456death654]

They are very human, just modified genetically"after" birth

[@jacksonville9642]

They are human, yes

[@bronzin1445]

@@jacksonville9642Human just genetically modified super soldiers similar to Master Chief and the Spartans in Halo

[@michaelp1630]

@@bronzin1445 These guys are literally Spartans on Crack hahahaha. They dont even need shielding because theyre literally built different

[@BlueKidastic]

Friend who just bought mentioned Titus missing shots in a cutscene while fighting tyranids really adds to the human factor.

[@TastySnackies]

Space Marine II shows us that if you make something with enough passion and care for the PRODUCT - and not the market - will be enough to get people to want to play the game. People want good games, not games that look good to other people.

[@eplanti]

its a mix really, you need advertising to get a community started, and the game can't suck, i personally thought the first space marine was just ok, second one, eh tad cartoonish and british for my taste, but i'm not going to fault anyone for liking it

[@lawjef]

Hot take perhaps but a lot of the reasons ppl love SM2 is because they dont play Call of Duty. The things that my friends love about SM2 I find rather “meh” in comparison to COD. Not to say it isn’t a good game, at all.

[@Giggles4692]

I just hope they don’t do the old trope “black guy dies for the white guy”

[@FunningRast]

@@Giggles4692You say that like it’s a bad thing.

[@samgirard8660]

​@@lawjefreally not the same crowd. Call of Duty was something I liked to play when I was in high school. Now with a job and responsibilities, I just want to relax with friends so PVE is the way. Played COD again recently and it was meh. It's the same game has MW2 but different map and more items

[@Doomin-c2m]

Just thinking about the fact that Saber interactive, the people who made this game, are also now in sole control of the Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic remake

[@dabbingraccoons6416]

Hype

[@jdakiller1017]

Oh shit I had no idea about that, now Im actually REALLY hyped for that remake lol.

[@RictorScale]

please god this would be amazing

[@kristianlaing8926]

That’s a good thing!That will be worth the wait if 40k SM is any indication.Sticking to what a game is & why & what made its predecessor Great is the simple secret. SWJKOTR will hopefully be awesome.Need more Games made by gamers for gamers & for the people by the people for the cause & for the love of games.

[@JohnSmith-h6d]

Just need them to make republic commando now lol

[@dylanvodden1369]

I don't understand how this isn't considered a AAA game, it's better than most AAA games that came out in the last decade.

[@oompalumpus699]

Because the games journalists are prioritizing AAAA games like Skull and Bones 😂

[@sheeplord4976]

Because AAA is a marketing term that means nothing.

[@PugilistCactus]

AAA means published by a major brand lile EA, Activision, Microsoft, Sony, Ubi, etc. It just means its corporate funded. Investment groups are absolutely braindead when it comes to creating things. They're really good at regurgitation and corruption of content however.

[@SuperWeeb9000]

the dev team did their research for this game. the lead story writer talked in one of his interviews about how he went and read a bunch of the black library novels, including the holy grail for ultramarine books, Know No Fear. this kind of dedication isnt something we get often now. the last game i can think of having this kind of quality was ghost of tsushima.

[@carlstanford7607]

Absolutely

[@Toothbrushs]

Black myth, wukong

[@CruXad3r]

Ghost of Tsushima was amazing

[@lukelog925]

Witcher 3, God of War 4/5, Ghost of Tsushima is the most recent

[@hippoace]

Wukong dev team read the original novel journey to the west100 times, they visited and scan real locations

[@donutgamer5553]

A once wise ork said, "WAAAGH!!!!!"

[@secretspy410]

Was the ork brutal yet cunning or cunning yet brutal?

[@sudolinuxfish]

Wise ork?

[@ddraig82]

Most eloquent Ork i've ever heard, i'm with him WAAAAAAAAGH!!!!!

[@kharnifex]

Wazzit Gork or Mork?

[@Supadrumma441]

​@@kharnifexwhy not both?

[@devf.8201]

"Can't write cool characters if youre not cool."

[@CrimsonFIame]

I saw someone on Twitter try to claim games with masculine characters never slowed down and their only examples was 4 games. Doom, God Of War Ragnarok, HellDivers 2 and Space Marine 2. They couldn't name others that existed within the past 15 years. All they could think of was 4 games. Now maybe you can think of one or two more but to say there hasn't been a noticeable decrease? You'd be lying to yourself.

[@GenericProtagonist7]

One game is too many for them, it's not enough that they have more content than you, they want you to have NOTHING. These people want you jobless, homeless, broke, and they even want to destroy the *fictional* media you enjoy on top of ALL OF THAT.

[@reecefalcon7747]

only one of note that hasnt even released since 2018 is probably gears of war. You are right a clear decline

[@mckookie2967]

Punisher in Marvel Rivals

[@GenericProtagonist7]

@@CrimsonFIame That's what they want, they want to make sure you have zero games to play.

[@bronzin1445]

As far as I’m concerned, we desperately need more games like Space Marine 2 and not just for the testosterone riddled gameplay either. Apart from Helldivers 2, it’s probably the closest where a video game actually felt like a video game simply because it focuses on the actual gameplay itself…Y’know, the key factor to what makes playing videos games a fun hobby?

[@DeathMetalThrasher]

The game is hyper masculine, brutally violent, and that's exactly parts of why it's so good. The game is a breath of fresh air. Yes, Doom has the same exact traits, but it's been a lone wolf in this AAA industry. You could argue Elden Ring and Armored Core 6 is the same in a lot of ways, but they're in their own corners

[@Ansalion]

@@DeathMetalThrasher What about Gears of War? God of War? Killing Floor? Rage? The earlier Space Marine games? Wolfenstein? Dead Space? GTA?

[@Fun-Blade]

I played God of War one and all I can remember is Kratos being sad and letting his kid get bratty with him half the time. It's like a post-modern take on masculinity, while Doom and Space Marine 2 are more classic takes on masculinity.

[@Dual_Viper]

​@@Fun-Bladei think he was referring to the older God of war games not the latest 2. those games were a lot of fun and kratos was a savage back then

[@RadMatter_]

Recently dude, we talking recently ​@@Ansalion

[@Nadaters]

I can't remember the last time a game made me feel like this when you see a massive set piece in the story

[@jaygohel2801]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="14">0:14</a> getting the sloppiest head

[@jotairpontes]

Actually lol'd hard.

[@blakegibson9045]

Legendary

[@zillzmcfly709]

Top comment 😂

[@ratlord2826]

I bet he got smegma

[@Vein-Noir]

@@ratlord2826 can only hope

[@cmedtheuniverseofcmed8775]

We now live in an era where you have an actor (Henry Cavill) who stands up for the fans, is loved by the audience, is loyal to the source material, literally watches as the shows he's going to star in, are rewritten, altered, and destroyed from within. How often do you find actors who actually genuinely care about the original content for a show he's about to be in? Because of this, the Amazon W40K series has already been shelved because the audience knows this is a Netflix Witcher or an Amazon RoP. This game is a tribute to content in being loyal to the IP. Meanwhile, tabletop W40K is being altered and rewritten, telling the fans that they're bigots, -phobes, -ists, -iscms, etc if they have a problem with those changes. We will always remember that if you love and respect your audience, you have a much higher chance of profit. Success breeds success. A video game that's as successful as this helps encourage gamers to look past the prior games of W40K. Let us hope it becomes a trend.

[@Pucukax]

My theory is that nowadays many tv shows and games are just extended commercials for big companies where they can pump up their dei score. They don't care if they lose hundreds of millions on these commercials, they make billions on other products.

[@tNuOcCaFrUmS]

everybody seems to forget that darktide came out just two years ago. it is easily in my top 10 best games of all time and an excellent depiction of the wh40k universe. i cant help myself but think that a lot of people here are overdramatizing the industry. a shitton of really good games came out recently as it was always the case since gaming exists. people just tend to focus on all the bad products and forget the good ones.

[@nurgle333]

​@@tNuOcCaFrUmS dark tide was mid though

[@tNuOcCaFrUmS]

@@nurgle333 hard disagree. it had some problems on launch and skill trees, items etc. werent too great, but physics, atmosphere, sound design, enemy design, skill ceiling; all top class. and it has gotten better with every update.

[@Broomer52]

@@tNuOcCaFrUmSI’m not a fan of horde shooters usually. Helldivers is an exception because it just has a flair of personality and lot of others lack. Plenty of Horde Shooters try to be L4D2 and it shows

[@Goblinshaman]

Every developer in this game is non-Western. This says it all.

[@dustygearhead]

I just got the only copy that gamestop had in my town today. So stoked!

[@ratrakksstar4420]

Only if you consider St.Peteresburg as non-Western city.

[@00ABBITT00]

Edgy.

[@w415800]

Sabre Interactive is based in the US, right?

[@mukiex4413]

@@w415800 If you look at the credits, seems very... eastern european

[@perkulant4629]

Getting a machine limb isn’t a disability in 40K it makes you more beast mode. Even if a space marine almost dies and can’t be saved they still can fight entombed in a dreadnaught. So badass.

[@johno1544]

At first I thought those dreadnoughts were just mech suits. Didnt know they are basically life support coffins for marines that took so much damage their bodies couldnt really be fixed. The more I learn about the setting the more badass it becomes

[@raics101]

Oh yeah, as long as there's a will and faith in the Emperor left of you, you can keep fighting. It's pretty much what happened to Fenix in starcraft, blizzard used to be able to write good shit.

[@Nadaters]

the dreadnaughts in the game are so badass. great moments in the story mode and operations mode

[@A_Wild_Dyzzy]

“I will die a thousand deaths before I yield!” Some of the quotes from 40k just ooze the very definition of badass.

[@matasa7463]

Just don't go overboard with the chrome or you'll end up like the Iron Hands... ugh, those lads need to start touching some grass quick, less the severed head of Ferrus Manus comes back to give them the mother of all dressing down.

[@rome229]

"2nd Company! We hold this ground in the name of the Primarch!" PEAK MASCULINITY

[@norwin7893]

Got a chill running through my back just from this comment.

[@TheDBall73]

ROBOUTE GUILLIMAN. The most boring and vanilla of all primarchs….

[@alejandrobgaytan1865]

“And if we die, we die with vengeance on out lips!” *everyone* “VENGEANCE!” absolute cinema

[@jdakiller1017]

​@@TheDBall73womp womp, all primarchs are equally cool in their own ways

[@sedlyholmes3722]

Vengeance in our Lips!!!!

[@xmlgxmadara]

It's funny that Black Myth Wukong and Space Marine 2 came out almost at the same time, both ignore what the video game press thinks is "good"... and they are succeeding, they are fucking fun games.

[@Strykerx31]

I need aet of Space Marine Wukong Now.

[@michaellewandowski7596]

Agree with this take. Sometimes just gotta kick back. Not every damn thing needs to be super serious.... which, is kinda hilarious re: Asmongold's thing here.

[@nickg2691]

It felt so weird to have a cast of good-looking, muscular, masculine, and intelligent men in a video game. I remember at one point thinking to myself, holy shit did he just come up with a good idea?! And the rest of the characters valued his expertise, evaluated what he suggested and decided to act and execute based on their assessment and his?! Is that even allowed?

[@averymicrowave1713]

It is now, we're so back bros

[@Whodisdeya]

Dude I was playing this game and thinking I need to play it again with my bros, this is some male bonding ish if I ever seen it

[@skruber8619]

and surprisingly focus and quiet .I think in a lot of modern games ,characters talk too much in combat

[@MrEzio-i3l]

You rarely see games where they make men like this… they focus too hard on demaskulating men and making them gay

[@evulclown]

Good for the grindr lads like nick to have some eye candy

[@Did_No_Wrong]

Me:"You deserve an honor for this brother." Space Marine:"No need" Me:"You would deny yourself this?" Space Marine:"The only honor I need is the honor of protecting my brother.s"

[@tormdk5879]

Yeah, the COOP banter between the strike teams is peak.

[@arnoldshmitt4969]

yeah i was playing as heavy when i heard this banter

[@mcc_1024]

Fun fact. At the end during the speech on the battle barge, you see the marines assembled. It's actually 1945 points of marines in the tabletop game.

[@theforlanjoker4457]

Neard it up brother love it

[@JohnSmith-h6d]

I wish I got into 40K table top, it sounds so fun

[@modeman15]

Hey, this number looks familiar.

[@p_serdiuk]

Points costs constantly change tho

[@jacobculp9723]

When they are standing there holding the banner defending the gap and calgar shows up is one of the best moments in gaming I have seen.

[@zombotics12]

The thing is, the game is actually fairly diverse, chairon and gadriel are black and asian respectively. There are some strong female characters like major sardukaan and the astropath who sacrifice themselves for the mission. But its perfectly fine since their characters are more than their race/gender.

[@carlosrct]

Well said

[@MN-jw7mm]

Very succinct example of why woke != diversity, and criticism of woke != racism. Hey, that's probably why woke people hate this game.

[@bsinctone]

100% we need more games like this.

[@guardianofthetoasters2323]

You never thought "Ah great, Asian and black guys. Great another dei bs." but rather "Brother stop! You don't understand! The chaos! It consumes you! Trust me damn it!" that is good writing.

[@copyninja8756]

Sardukaan talks too much

[@usernameMOT]

IGN gave it a 7.5 after the controversy of giving everyone a 7, then when they realised everyone was chucking a 90% rating, they bumped it silently to 8.

[@PeriodDrama]

They changed it after? Lol

[@jayv9073]

nah. IGN gave it a 6.7 haha

[@NyangisKhan]

I mean it's 80% on steam and steam ratings are usually the most accurate ones. The game is good but $60 is too much to ask for. Overall the game just felt like a slightly worse Vermintide.

[@RazielTheUnborn]

​​@@jayv9073IGN did update the score to 8/10. It shows the accolade on steam for the game. If you go to IGNs website it sits at 8/10.

[@VerbeekTruther]

IGN doesn’t give 7.5s, it would’ve been a 7 or an 8

[@jordanrose8443]

I'm 38 now (hard to accept even on the best days), and this game reminded me of that period of gaming in the 90s and early 00s where these kinds of game were most definitely the norm. Doom, Quake, Wolfenstein, Duke Nukem, Rise of the Triad, Hexen, Unreal, Turok, and then later you get into those Xbox 360 classics like Gears of War, Halo, Riddick, God of War, etc. To my older millennials, you're not crazy. Don't let people gaslight you into thinking that things really haven't changed -that- much. They have. Western developers used to not give a single shit about pushing agendas or pleasing a particular audience for fear of offending anyone. They were always pushing boundaries, no one talked about diversity for diversity's sake, ever, nothing was shoved down our throats and the only people upset about anything to do with gaming were the boomers and certain politicians who rallied against violence being depicted in games and convincing our parents that it was something terrible for us. This was a time when games were unashamedly...games. Passion projects created by some of the coolest people who have been and ever will be in the business who were like rockstars to us nerds. These were the glory days of the 'wild west' internet when there was somewhat of a barrier to entry and it wasn't so diluted with dumb content made for and by dumb people, when most of the humor was derived from the cynical nerds of Something Awful and Cliffy B. and John Romero were the butt of a large percentage of gamer jokes. The only 'drama' I remember from this era was something to do with Stevie Case posing nude and the god mode code for Hexen stirring controversy because it was '666.' Far simpler times, and arguably better. This is so long ago that Blizzard was, at the time, a company who could do no wrong, and everything they produced was gold. EVERYONE loved them. It's so sad that Space Marine 2 has become the success that it is. Not because it doesn't deserve it, but because it just reminded me, and many others, of what games used to be like before corporate bullshit and social agendas started to infect the gaming landscape. Of what that entire era was like, really. Sad because I've never been more keenly aware of what modern day gaming has become, with few exceptions, and it's shit. Absolute shit. Look at the steaming pile that Star Wars Outlaws is, and then remember this is the same company that did Splinter Cell. I wouldn't even call Space Marine 2 on its own a 9/10 game. I think it is, but a lot of that is largely because I just fucking missed games like this, so much. It's simple, it's fun, it's not trying to do too many things at once, but what it does, it does well.The older you get, it's those games that make you feel like a kid again that stick with you. Space Marine 2, Baldur's Gate 3, Elden Ring, Helldivers 2 to some extent. Doom Eternal. Inching closer to 40 sucks, boys. I genuinely can't believe I'm actually at this point in my life and that it came at me so quick, but at least for the last 50 hours I've already put into Space Marine 2 I was that same excited kid who shot, gibbed and gored his way through the Lovecraftian setting of the original Quake, or the sci-fi invasion of Quake II, all the way to the labs of Half-Life and the depths of hell in Doom. Space Marine 2 is special, and I'm so thankful I got to experience it.

[@mrjohnnyk]

Yup, spot on! 36 and I can totally relate. Feels like I'm always seeing that as well, people trying to gaslight anyone complaining, saying "you got older and can't appreciate game anymore" or "games haven't changed you have" meanwhile I could always go back to older games and have a blast or occasionally find a new game I love like this. You're right, games just used to be made by gamers for gamers, no agenda or activists.

[@kwaddell]

I would play Turok and Halo, God of War, but I also played a lot of Mario and Kirby. And Katamari, Tetris Attack, Final Fantasy, Spyro, Resident Evil, Phoenix Wright, Death Stranding, Bioshock, etc. And now, so many indies, where creative ideas can still flourish at their smaller, more flexible scale. From my perspective, I’m glad there are games for those who want to scratch that missing masculine itch in a big budget title, but meanwhile I’ve been so awash with a glut of variety to my liking, I haven’t noticed it’s absence. Part of this has been disinterest in what the large AAA publishers are pushing as they’ve become more monetization and less game. Literally the only times I am reminded are from SkillUp news coverage and Asmon reacting to a video bemoaning them, lol.

[@unusualbydefault]

37 and 100% relate

[@FlyfishermanMike]

We need more Ludicrous Gibs! in our games!

[@ryanmussell739]

Same. Imagine if they tried a Duke nukem game now ?

[@MarkTatsu]

Deep rock galactic, hell divers and now Space Marine 2. Games that push players to love the lore and work together. They also live on older concepts and ideas like stoicism, brotherhood, honor and loyalty. The simple truth is that everything you thought was cool when you were 12, actually was cool all along.

[@Yeshua_is-Cool]

Lol true

[@TizzmantineUK]

All I need is a space marine 2 "rock and stone" button. Rock and stone and the emotes in helldivers 2 add so much to the random co-op experience

[@JohnSmith-h6d]

I highly recommend you guys try helldivers 1 if you enjoyed 2. Started playing it after 400+ hours in helldivers 2 and I really enjoy it. The atmosphere is a lot more bleak but the artstyle is a cartoonish in a cute way. I like it.

[@JohnSmith-h6d]

I need to try DRG after I play EDF6

[@michaellewandowski7596]

Stoicism, brotherhood, honor... never went out of style. We still have that in the service. Sure. Some stuff has changed a bit, but at the end of the day, we all were part of something bigger than us.

[@bronzin1445]

Space Marine 2 is a perfect example when Video Games back in the day were just simply Video Games for the sake of being a Video Game…if that makes sense. It really does feel like a game from the early Xbox 360 era just released in 2024 and that’s certainly a *GOOD* thing. Hell, as far I’m concerned, we desperately *NEED* games like Space Marine 2 where the end goal is to simply have fun with it. Also, not every game needs to be a 100+ hour epic that overstays its welcome. I played 30 hour games that felt like it was 10 hours too long

[@GathClips]

Yes, yes it does

[@bsw351]

It took me back to that golden age

[@Did_No_Wrong]

I remember when Video games were made to have fun instead of trying to force a political viewpoint.

[@alexkogan9755]

I still routinely go back and play the soundtrack for the first game. It’s so good.

[@sillysiji5257]

Accurate

[@interprosDaz]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="13">0:13</a> When she keeps going.

[@hurricaneharvey9053]

Most of Asmons viewers will neither understand nor relate to this comment, A+

[@godsfailure1725]

Lmao

[@joerichard9358]

Fucking Exactly!! 😂😂

[@isaiahgriffin9166]

😂😭😭😭

[@RedHeatedStepChild]

So far under 100 men have felt that.

[@Riken]

Humor in 40k ranges from "How did you survive?" "Well i was crushed under a church but i just had a bit of a headache" To "Your love did you find her?" "I did."

[@ggallin2187]

"and the crowd cheered as if there were only one" man that ending line hits like a damn truck right in the feelings

[@MechaXCorgi]

The starting line for that book was: "I will die on this world"

[@theforlanjoker4457]

"Stay here your missing your arm " " no I'm not it's over there" name that book

[@GoofysBandit]

​@@theforlanjoker4457 Rynns World. First book I read lol

[@tyranid05]

Nooooo

[@AoElena]

As a female content creator, I advocate highly for this game! Society wants us to get lost and forget what true masculinity really is. I loved this video. Well done! 🎉

[@btf1287]

And the crazy part is that Space Marine 1 and 2 are even TAME. This universe can be unbelievably haunting and dark.

[@Agc2749]

Such as?

[@Steir12]

@@Agc2749 Funky people like dark eldar and night lords do... stuff.

[@secretname2670]

@@Agc2749 google Daemonculaba. I am not even going to warn you, you are on the internet and responsible for your own quality time.

[@alfonsocyrusjoshua9551]

​@@Steir12 to be fair, the main chaos faction presented here are ksons who didnt do warp shaboingery like chaos spawn. Just evaporation by fire

[@Alpha-qz2kc]

@@Agc2749 too few tyranids to begin with, necrons not showing up from their tombs to add to the cluster fuck, no Orks crashin the party, way too little warp shenanigans for a lord of change showingu p Space marine are kinda nerfed, they are faster than shown in game we didn't even see any commissar blowing the heads of soldiers for cowardice or a ripper swarm eating people alive

[@pongtre568]

Space marine 2 is not junk food. It's a homemade diner. Live service games *is* the junk food.

[@brianestrada1993]

Well said.

[@hitagi_tore7358]

hear

[@Rahab198]

It's not junk food, it's homemade Biomass. Mmmmmmm Biomass

[@СкоринДанил]

canned food would be more fitting

[@modeman15]

​@@Rahab198 Oh god, the comment section is infested as Tyranids. I guess it is time to call John Warhammer.

[@sethkarma2072]

"I forgot what it was like to be the target audience" Damn that hit hard, I hadn't even realized I felt that way.

[@marksmanmerc1]

Doom, DMC, helldivers or wukong don't exist? Just because games are more diverse in their target audiences doesn't mean hyper masculine games aren't being made still.

[@sethkarma2072]

@@marksmanmerc1 I don't mean to imply we don't still get fire games or like hyper masculine games. What I'm refering too is there was an era of gaming where we had alot of these co-op games where you could just jump on for an hour or two with some friends and there wasn't so much progression you had to worry about your friend group being properly leveled/geared etc. You could just throw it on, have some fun, talk some shit and it was awesome.

[@marksmanmerc1]

@@sethkarma2072 that's definitely true, ever since split screen died casual coop games don't really exist anymore.

[@jaideepshekhar4621]

@mark What the actual f??? Who plays games? How many are DIE??? Did you forget what happened to Dustborn and Concord??? WE are 90-99% of all players. How many games are made for us again??? 3 in 20 years???

[@marksmanmerc1]

@@jaideepshekhar4621 You know almost everyone plays video games now and you're completely disconnected from reality if either of those games are the norm to you. Unless you want to go back to 2010 where everything was a grey and brown fps the variety in games now is only a good thing. You remind me of the sjws in 2016 complaining about representation in games and wanting everything to cater solely to them. I've had no issues finding non DEI games to play recently.

[@edwardbusa2317]

You know Henry Cavill is playing this right now and saying "this is what I want to do"

[@Pandemos]

When the tyranid swarm is incoming, I'm thinking "oh, that's a cool looking background...oh wait, THEY'RE COMING RIGHT TO ME AND I'M GOING TO KILL ALL OF THEM!" FOR THE EMPORER!

[@Supadrumma441]

FOOOR DE EMPRAAAH

[@Konghammer1]

We shall purge the xenos TOGETHAAAAAA!!

[@joseespinola2620]

What the fuck is a emporer?

[@mariawhite7337]

BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD! oh wait... shit. Heeeey... for the Emporer?

[@OldManMemes]

​@joseespinola2620 that's how kids spell Emperor these days.

[@sowercookie]

As a female gamer (I hate that I have to say that now...) I have such a soft spot for the Space Marines and their pure masculine "Brother!" attitude. Woke shit is robbing us of those experiences because they actually don't care what women or men or anyone but them wants, they're narcissist.

[@reapa120724]

Preach sister

[@ad1t553]

All due respect sister , you might miss your calling as sister of battle 😂❤

[@copper9619]

The game is woke

[@aj.j5833]

Owners of IP GameWorkshop disagrees with you.

[@ad1t553]

@@copper9619 i saw donkey with better eyesight so yeah

[@SixBladesKojiro]

There is one word that encapsulates everything mentioned in this video that games have been missing...BALLS

[@kharnifex]

Geneseeds

[@Kr4v3rd]

I dont know how accurate this is, but it seems that a lot of studios have women in their groups now. Now these women do look like the particular type. The type that are always whining to everyone about everyone else's problems type. So the lack of masculinity maybe be attributed to that.

[@EminemLovesGrapes]

@@Kr4v3rd Look at a picture of Saber. Enough women in the studio. Doesn't have to be about that.

[@SixBladesKojiro]

@@EminemLovesGrapes having balls isnt required to make balls but it does help...or something like that :)

[@mnm8818]

Like the first few Gears of War games...

[@cn9707]

The dreadnought coming through the wall like the Kool aid man asking "WHERE ARE THE TRAITORS" will be something I don't forget. Thank you saber for giving the fans what they wanted and not some pandering non sense. This is what we wanted and needed.

[@xZondor]

Get up Tharius! My leg is gone brother!

[@loki_808]

VENGEANCE!

[@emunuddles]

THARIUS!!!

[@planetkc]

VENGEANCE!!!!!

[@lloydch]

VENGEANCE!

[@Tonger0147]

VENGEANCE!!!

[@ifrit420]

This game was so masculine I had 3 sons via mitosis while playing.

[@tommy1273]

😂😂😂

[@tommy1273]

I get this joke and it’s a good one 🤓🤓🤓

[@deadboynikitich2313]

Only 3? I've got a thousand sons

[@Ks3N]

​@@deadboynikitich2313 Yes, Inquisitor this man over here

[@HelmerHelmerson]

​@@deadboynikitich2313 caught in 40k 📸🤨

[@iloverpgs1052]

Humor in 40k. Pedro cantor: you are lucky you just lost your arm. Random crinson fist captain: Tf is you talking about, i didnt lose it, it is right over there

[@bocholotthethird3159]

Pranking the single mum by carrying her on his back

[@cmontygman]

Alessio Cortez and he wasn't a random captain it was Pedro's closest friend

[@PaladinAzriel]

I just finished Rynns World last week.

[@BigNopes]

I felt the Ciaphus Cain series had a lot of humor. Usually hidden in situational humor, but I guess that was kind of the point behind the character trope.

[@bocholotthethird3159]

@@BigNopes just finished the first omnibus, would kill for a Ciphas cain and a Crimson Fist cross over

[@iamgates7679]

Three things 1) calling any of these characters fanatical is very funny in the context of the universe. 2) this is how you handle inclusion and disability in games. The entire cast is diverse, all kinds of people missing limbs floating on wheelchair things. Toward the end the focus on the missing limb was just a quick recognition like “look what I can do” - it wasn’t in your face. 3) this game fucking rules

[@prettyboyg1278]

The parry in SM2 is actually really good. Cause there are two types of parries. You get the obvious one, that has the blue indicator, but you can also parry regular attacks, that don't have any indicator at all. You are also able to just block attacks, If you missed the parry timing. Once you understand how these different mechanics work, the game gets only better.

[@theforlanjoker4457]

Pve ops on ruthless this is very necessary mechanic to master

[@adarkwind4712]

Yep at first I only parried the obvious but then I wondered if I could parry a swing that wasn't marked. When i figured that out the whole survival mini game opened up for me.

[@Kousaburo]

I never realized melee combat had as much depth as it does. I thought it was all just button bashing but with the power sword you can change stances for different moves.

[@FrostiniusV]

There is nothing like compressing a Tyranid warrior beneath my boot

[@kharnifex]

Hate speech

[@DigitalImmortality]

​@@kharnifex good, hate is a virtue

[@adamrogers9386]

It's helldivers copium.

[@ahoosifoou4211]

@@kharnifex emperor taught us to hate.

[@Klongu_Da_Bongu]

@@kharnifex Tyranids are just doctors and engineers coming from outside the galaxy, biomass migrants 😂

[@IRaoulDuke]

Western devs decides to develop games for the 5% demographic instead of the 95%. Western AAA can't collapse soon enough, and any developers/publishers that go out of business because of it , deserve it.

[@CorvusCorone68]

when i hear the stories about AAA gamedevs whining about games like Elden Ring and Dark Souls and how "they can't figure out how they're so popular when they're obviously poorly made"... they don't hold your hand or smother your screen in notifications, in other words they respect your intelligence, and AAA can't handle that

[@skruber8619]

they can't even do the easiest part like cheap gacha games : make attractive characters

[@MGimson1984]

That’s nice but government and special interests along with blackrock will keep pushing for woke games

[@richardwinstanley8219]

Ubisoft's recent demise is a prime example of a company ignoring its biggest audience, its biggest customer base, and suffering the consequences.

[@legendaryoutcast4440]

AMAZON fucking up with bullshit they are pulling on warhammer, and fucking with Henry Cavil's vision for the cinematic universe of WH40k

[@boulderingbadger6179]

Fuck yeah I fucking agree. Fuck Censorship also!

[@Pixelsoep]

Someone should start a streaming service for toxic masculinity and archaic gender roles. I'd sign up in a heart beat.

[@AliceBowie]

I hope Amazon and GW don't come to an agreement. Amazon Prime is terrible now. Maybe they weren't so bad right at the beginning, but they're even worse than Netflix now. Cavill should go to GW and HBO, and start a 40K series on HBO. It only makes sense to make it inappropriate for any age.

[@StupidAnon-gn8ih]

@@AliceBowie "Amazon Prime is terrible now. Maybe they weren't so bad right at the beginning, but they're even worse than Netflix now. Cavill should go to GW and HBO, and start a 40K series on HBO." . . . 'Man, these Nazis are really starting to screw Germany up. Maybe I should go to the USSR where people are more free.' Are you delusional? HBO? They're _giga-woke_ . They're way worse than either Amazon or Netflix. They went full gay with The Last of Us.

[@Mogolous]

@@StupidAnon-gn8ihThis is satire right? Last of Us was one of the few actual good tv shows based off a game. They went full gay? You mean the single episode (out of 9) of the 2 gay dudes who were also gay in the original game? ☠️☠️☠️

[@Czah5]

People call it a Gears of War clone as if it is a bad thing.

[@robbanks7483]

It kinda is since Gears od War was inspired by warhammer, it's like saying team fortress 2 is overwatch clone

[@OnlyHeretic]

But 40k was way before gears 😂

[@dicedoom7162]

@@OnlyHeretic yes but the gameplay is a different thing.

[@OnlyHeretic]

@@dicedoom7162 gears is duck cover gameplay the original SM was chop and bash to stay in the fight same with SM2 while camera is shoulder is smiler to GOW the Gameplay amd mechanics say other wisw

[@yurithebrave]

There's nothing Gears of War about this game. Not in the story, not in the gameplay, not in the visuals.

[@foraudio916]

It's not that games need a masculine character that has a crazy kill count. I'm just so tired of games having the most unlikable characters, worst story telling. broken gameplay and the obvious agenda pushing that been in games for the past 8 years.

[@adaptivegamer9905]

Nah man, we needed this. Men play video games and consume/buy products related to said subject vastly more than women or 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 yet they’ve pandered to solely them for so long we forgot how playing a peak masculine game felt.

[@skruber8619]

if I have to take one ,I'll take broken gameplay because it's fixable

[@gazvlogs7459]

>Hates parry mechanic >Never tried parrying Dude.

[@BrandonGiordano]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="280">4:40</a> StarCraft was actually heavily inspired by Warhammer. They actually designed it to be a Warhammer game but Games Workshop wouldnt give them the license. Warhammer inspired so many games and media that many dont even realize

[@freddyfrog70]

Stoicism isnt brought around because of masculinity. it is because of the weight of responsibility.

[@anwarnaveedali4412]

Deep bro, deep.

[@mrjohnnyk]

True.

[@theehumanshield]

"Die and be free of pain, or live and fight your sorrow"

[@OMartinez91]

Stoicism comes when you become the pillar of your surroundings, as everything can collapse if you do

[@Fun-Blade]

Masculinity is responsibility. That is the way it has been for all of human history up until the last century or so.

[@bobbyrabii6119]

Calgar jumping from the Thunderhawk is something us old 40k nerds have been waiting for for 30 years

[@magosofmars8410]

I think it was the last stand around the second company banner that got me the most

[@adrian-mn1te]

Kinfa reminded me of the opening cinematic from dow 1 awe

[@Lowflyingmoose]

I been a nid fan since 3rd edition, how do you think I felt to finally see a planetary invasion first hand, we been spoiled recently with all the cinematics and media. Also that planet is fucked btw, unless they do more in a DLC the nids are far from gone and that planet is in serious trouble.

[@magosofmars8410]

@@Lowflyingmoose im hoping we get more in a dlc i think the switch to fighting the thousand sons was disappointing that and no genestealers

[@Lowflyingmoose]

@@magosofmars8410 Yeah thats a good point I would have loved the story to start with you fighting a genestealer cult, then you kill the broodlord and the cult leader says "it's too late, there here" as he dies then the story goes as normal. Also that hive fleet isn't gone, killing 1 hive tyrant is nothing they will have thousands as well as a swarmlord most likely and even a splinter fleet will have hundreds of those ships we kill with the planetary gun, but yes no genestealers and no broodlord was a let down, maybe DLC they can add trygion too. TBH I loved that the thousand sons got some love, it's nice a more minor faction got screen time and it helped add variety to the game.

[@JavoB1992]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1070">17:50</a> feels like ADHD

[@alhassirakhdugani5813]

No, feels like 90mg of adderall

[@dcchoi1234]

Luv me emprah. Simple as.

[@Heyprinny]

'ate the xenos. 'ate the orks. Not racist, just don't like 'em.

[@Supadrumma441]

​@@Heyprinnynot really racism when they hate you right back haha

[@brettmmontague]

​@@Heyprinnyf*** you beat me to it

[@scottyius]

Ubisoft putting operators in wheel chairs instead of giving them prosthetic legs. Even tho they gave one operator a prosthetic arm that can easily punch massive holes in walls lol.

[@TheMetalfreak360]

I haven't checked, but does that mean every map is now wheelchair accessible?

[@theredrisen9520]

How tf are they gonna do a "downed" state for them then?? Are they gonna take her wheels?😂

[@ciege7486]

The operator with the prosthetic arm, also has a robo prosthetic leg....so the wheel chair operator REALLY shouldn't be a thing

[@cuffss7455]

​@@theredrisen9520 bro im dead 😅😅

[@stormierbody8419]

@@TheMetalfreak360the wheelchair operator (afaik) isn’t who you’re playing as but the robots they created as the wheelchair OP isn’t even really on the map. Which made me a bit irked mainly because the GOONS made a joke about a wheelchair OP that would be be the fastest character but couldn’t go up stairs

[@MrLeskulls]

The tyranids were the best villain in this scenario. Gadriel assumed the nids were out to foil their plan. Titus noted that the bugs "just want to kill us". That's them as a villain. They want to kill and eat stuff. That's it. No complex morality. They are a hive mind aimed at devouring everything. A basic, yet great, villain.

[@Lowflyingmoose]

Basic in motives yes. They are anything but basic when it comes to what they are and how they do it. Their lore is vast and covers so much yet also leaves so much shrouded in mystery, that's why they are so good. Sometimes not knowing everything is what makes something interesting, just like Xenomorphs, early flood and forerunners. All were way more interesting before directors decided to try and tell everything about origins and so on.

[@boniakarlo]

The good thing about Tyranids and Orks is how they are opposite to all other factions when you go down to strategies, "diplomacy" and motivation. So they are really good in a game to have variance of fights, since for drammatic purposes you will for sure use at least one treacherous lying manipulatives villain.

[@SabreJ]

The closest thing to a joke in Space Marine is when Gadriel looks at Chairon's arm after he was in so much pain before. His face is "huh" And its maybe 2 seconds

[@tripbolt17]

There's actual lore reasons why Chairon was fine! It has to do with those Necrons you learn about towards the end

[@jaredweiman2987]

Space Marine 2 is not a reminder of what we lost. Space Marine 2 is a reminder of what we stand to lose if we continue to tolerate the current state of gaming.

[@gnerkus]

Solid point! Once people stop playing trash games, game devs would have to stop making trash games.

[@Errouy1]

Because the russians made the game. Atomic was also made by russians, and there were no ugly characters, there were no 30 genders, the mentality of the other is based on traditions. The fact that I am writing this is because the government itself allocates money for the gender agenda

[@Baradiele]

-Your weapon is a jewel of the armory. -...Yes. -Good talk. Best exchange ever in a videogame.

[@vampire847]

Space Marine 2 is a product instead of the consumer being the product.

[@skibidi.G]

I like how consumers are starting to be treated as customers again, here and there, and *not* mindless consumerist drones like big studios want to see us 👍

[@lewisgarland1259]

Deep and true

[@evulclown]

it is the consumer being the product.... they're already dropping skins.

[@ProphetOfDoubt]

The BO6 clip made me hate Activision even more.

[@igoonx15]

As a woman, i loved how masculine this game was, sometimes you just need to play as a ten feet beast of a man and just enjoy it. I saw people complaining about the lack of presentation of women in this and i'm like i'm glad they didn’t push anything, if you want women in this story they already have a whole faction made of women even tho I don’t know everything about WH40k, i can do research before crying and “criticizing”, if anything the lack of women and other stuff is what makes this game special. Just simple idea, hulking men with saw blades and guns killing aliens. I love it!

[@boulderingbadger6179]

Needing to see yourself represented in stuff is a weird narcissism that has popped up with all the DEI crap. If you cant find an item that represents you as a minority.... that's a huge business opportunity.

[@Machiavelli2pc]

Agreed, sister!

[@igoonx15]

@@boulderingbadger6179 yeah and tbh it’s actually insulting not just for women and even the other communities they want to appeal to. Like I don’t mind having lgbt+ characters in media or women, i would love to see them but my problem is that they want to include them without proper reasons, like don’t let it be the main idea of the project be the identity of it. Like women in older games such as Re games which i love so much, women in Re games are so beloved because they just women doing their job. They’re women and need to be helped at times have their strengths and weaknesses, same as men, Lara croft, and many more. They’re women but it’s not their whole identity. Same with LGBT+ characters, I don’t have names in my mind but there are characters i love where they’re gay/les whatever and are loved because that’s not the main point of their characters... i just hate it because it’s genuinely insulting how they want to represent and don’t think of the story or why even they’re putting the characters there. And don’t let me get started with making women as strong as men, as a woman, there’s no way you can make both men and women equals in everything, there are things men can do better than women and stuff women can do better than men. Pushing the idea of being equal on every thing ESPECIALLY in body and strength is just stupid. You can make strong female characters without making her into a weird creature “Abby from TLOU2” i just hate it. Like Amicia from Plague tale is a great example in recent games of an actual good and powerful female characters with her strengths and flaws.

[@igoonx15]

@@boulderingbadger6179 oh my bad for the long talk 😂🙏🏾

[@EminemLovesGrapes]

Game studios don't get that your game can totally not be diverse in isolation but it itself being apart of a bigger diverse gaming lineup. Wukong isn't diverse, it's chinese through and through. But it releasing conributes to gaming becoming more diverse. It doesn't all have to be the same every single game.

[@124thDragoon]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1560">26:00</a> and Halo Infinite was originally supposed to have "couch co-op". Not only did they *promise* to include it after publicly acknowledging that its exclusion from Halo 5 was a bad move, for months after Infinite's release there was a way to actually play local co-op via a "bug". Apparently 343 had included the code to do it, but just hadn't enabled it due to performance concerns on the Series S. But after realizing that some people were taking advantage of this, they patched it out of the game. What a colossal bunch of losers.

[@axiss5840]

Holy shit that's so disgusting.

[@BiriBiri925]

One of Halo's current developers has stated that he doesn't like guns and militaristic aesthetics. Dude makes futuristic FPS and he doesn't like guns. That's all you need to know.

[@124thDragoon]

@@BiriBiri925 meanwhile the original Bungie devs in the late 90s / early 2000s were referencing obscure South African anti-material rifles and Cold War era French tanks.

[@Sirvanic]

I played Halo Infinite and all the time the thought of "this would've been so fun to co-op with my brother" popped up. If Halo Infinite had co-op it would probably have been a cherished gaming memory for me. Now its just some game I played. I actually forgot its existence until this video.

[@XristoferLee]

@@Sirvanic they did ended up adding the co-op back in but it was 2 years after it came out. Hell, it took them a year to do the coop flights and the physics where super wonky on the flight. Mind you this particular flight was only on pc.

[@Paradox-coffee]

Warhammer 40k explained to ppl that don't know it: A: "Who are the good guys in 40K" B: "Yes" A: "What?"

[@hallarious506]

It would be rather a no.

[@anthonystrieff6907]

There are no real good Guys or bad guys, ever faction does bad things and good things.

[@eeemeister5364]

Nah you ask them back "Define Good?"

[@Amoogus]

The good guys are Salamanders. Average Salamander W.

[@anthonylulham3473]

@@Amoogus Dunno they still exterminate women and children of the Tau.

[@Sangth123]

The biggest gripe people had with Space Marine 1 was lack of enemy variety. It's about the same in 2. I'll be honest, the lack of enemy variety doesn't bother me, and kinda hammers home the concept 40k presents of vast endless hordes.

[@FrenchyMcToast]

40k _does have_ comedic relief. They're called Orkz.

[@Hollyclown]

“I didn’t lose my arm. It’s right over there.” - An Ultramarine, whose name escapes me.

[@ICCUWANSIUT]

@@Hollyclown at the end? There's some guy that says that made me crack up Good thing it wasn't a boss fight

[@anshumanbose5132]

​@@Hollyclown That was a Crimson fist. The novel you're referencing is Rynn's World.

[@TheMaxxter]

Let's not forget -is a robot -thinks everyone else is a robot and he is the only one that is still alive -respects all his opponents -beats them all -takes them to do a big breakfast and tell them that he respects them -sends them home unharmed

[@Tyranitardad]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="285">4:45</a> For anyone who didn't know Starcraft was supposed to be a 40k game before GW pulled the license back in the day. That's why they were so similar. The Zerg were literally supposed to be Tyranids. And it has that 40k feel to it

[@AshramAstarciaV2]

So I'm assuming the Protoss were made from fusing scraps of Eldar, Tau, and trace amounts of Space Marine-isms (where appropriate) whilst using Mind Flayer telepathy as a speech catalyst? And the fusion was a great success?

[@PerryColdwell]

The “allergic to stoicism” is freaking spot on man…it seems like writers today make everything too touchy feely and it doesn’t have to be like that. That’s what happens when you get a room full of women to write about a male character.

[@Mlai00]

It's not about touchy-feely. It's about their urge to make a Marvel-type quip or joke during any serious moment. Their characters cannot be serious or immersed in the situation for even 5 seconds.

[@theghostofthomasjenkins9643]

@@Mlai00 which means we have no reason to be serious or immersed in a situation, either.

[@skruber8619]

@@Mlai00 and nonstop talking during combat to keep audience awake

[@PVergiliusMaro]

Famously, the foundational work of western literature opens with "Sing, o Goddeees, of how totally stoic and unbothered Achilles".

[@juliusmarty9842]

"feel like I'd been in a desert for the last few years." that was such a creative way to say that space marine made you moist

[@me8j]

Remember Warhammer 40k Dawn of War RTS... Not the 2 or 3, just the first one.... Yeah.

[@boulderingbadger6179]

I love RTS. Put 60 hours into Red Alert recently. Have not played that game since 2000. They are making a come back. All the remasters for example Age of Empires is so awesome to see all the developers getting to work with old friends.

[@darkgrip90]

bruh , remember dark crusade , the best thing to come out of all the 40 RTS

[@vievictus]

GOAT RTS

[@spawn9129]

​@@darkgrip90I still play it to this day

[@Nomad-he1vm]

​@@darkgrip90soulstorm was also a banger, i still play it's multiplayer with friends few times in a year

[@JayRM714]

I want killzone back. That franchise was so damn good...

[@bogen06]

Omg! Yes. I forgot all about kill zone. Absolutely chad as fuck. Hundreds or maybe a thousand hours sunk. No regrets.

[@FantomEx22]

Killzone 3 was pretty fun. Love the dark tone of the series. Like Warhammer.

[@Rahab198]

Yes that and Resistance fall of man. I miss Nathan Hale and yes I know what happened to him.

[@Deadpoolion]

By the way, the game is made by a Russian studio , Saber Interactive St. Petersburg (Russia), founded in 2001. Saber Interactive is an international company developing and publishing computer games with its main office in Fort Lauderdale, Florida (USA)

[@mrjohnnyk]

Underrated studio. They make some of the best driving games, love Snowrunner.

[@hochmeisterr]

Thats a U.S studio.😊

[@samgirard8660]

​@@hochmeisterrguess you didn't watch the credit?

[@hochmeisterr]

@@samgirard8660 I did, if you dont like the west, then you should move to st.petersburg I hear ukranians are looking for their next protagonist on their FPV videos.

[@pyroball602]

@@hochmeisterr It has branches in several other countries. Coincidentally, a good amount of developers featured in the credits screen are from the Petersburg Branch.

[@3398halofreak]

This game is absolutely a 10/10. played the whole campaign on normal and now am playing it on veteran.

[@mattbaxter688]

Its odd that the appeal of SM2 is the masculine unrelenting violence and being an unstoppable war machine, in a vast over the top grimdark setting. Meanwhile games workshop slowly goes woke as the setting slowly turns into saturday morning cartoon vibes.

[@brettmmontague]

It's not odd at all, been the trend for a while now Welcome to gynocentrism

[@yveshermans1869]

absolutly. I hope this sends a message and they throw the people out responsible for this.

[@adaptivegamer9905]

@@yveshermans1869they won’t. Once they go for it they’ll be to oussy to go back

[@SATH-gd8eh]

They are slowly boiling the frog

[@Richard3rd665]

The fact that you get to shoot chaos cultist humans and they just pop like a balloon stood out to me. I feel like most modern games would never allow you to absolutely f up a bunch of humans way weaker than you. Much less have it be the good thing to do. I can see it now: "Titus didn't kill humans. Killing another will result in desynchronization."

[@bosswerdos]

You don't even NEED to shoot them! You can just run or dodge straight into them and they'll STILL explode like bags of meat sauce! I've been doing that with my friend and it's so fucking funny

[@desertmammoth3159]

@@bosswerdos I didn't notice this until the last level lol when I ran through a group of them to get to a magic termie, I felt so stupid.

[@217adaptiveperspective]

I jet pack boosted through like 5 of them at once

[@Mirkk47]

That's so badass. No soy sauce BS:

[@skruber8619]

Warning, this space marine did not kill

[@sebbeluring9626]

@<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="180">3:00</a> not mentioning Luetin09 is just the biggest fumble

[@Galaxybreaker97]

Facts bro said weshammer

[@John-w6p8u]

10000% they are probably pdf files that asmon defends like he did with doc

[@Hectorshorizon]

No, actually. The best of the best

[@Chron0ClocK]

Not mentioning Luetin09 when talking about 40k lore channels is like not nailing your shit down before the Blood Ravens drop down on your world.

[@EKk8819]

The parry is amazing and simple once you get use to it in SM2. There's a cinematic parry when you see the blue ring, press parry, then there's a regular parry when u just time a normal attack.. There's not really much more to it.. They all have different timing but that's the point, different attacks have different timing.. I see nothing wrong with this at all. I don't get the hate for the parry mechanic I love it and use it all the time, you have to in the more advanced purple and gold missions.

[@joshbernal4864]

I totally agree about these characters are actually complex. Without trying to spoil anything theres kind of the boiling point within the unit,and the way Titus handles it shows a kind of maturity which is rarely seen these days, instead of acting out on solely on emotion or pettiness. I think they did a fantastic job with the characters.

[@ICCUWANSIUT]

I think it was believable but came too quickly.

[@JamesFuston]

"Gadriel was a bit fanatical tho" bro play the first game and meet Leandros

[@Kuyamina]

Damn your comment goes hard, but I agree

[@LITTLEFOOT918]

That statement goes out the fuckin window the moment Chadriel says and I quote "the codex Astartes does not support these actions....but fuck it we ball!"

[@CorvusCorone68]

Leandros ignored the conventional chain of command and rather than reporting Titus to a superior in the Ultramarines, like a Chaplain, he went straight to the Inquisition; i'm pretty sure the Codex Astartes does not support that action

[@sebleonard8273]

​@@CorvusCorone68 ugh I hated Leandros and seeing him again in SM2 as Chaplain, doesn't surprise me, but also repulsed me; I disliked him as a char in SM1 so much

[@Grauer1510]

Chadriel even quoted the chaos phrase "Imurah" while Chairon was all like "Silent brother, the words of the archenemy are dangerous and i'm gonna piss in my suit over that 😢." Funfact: Space Marines really do defecate in their suits and have the waste turned into nutritions and clean water.

[@15DEAN1995]

chairons backstory being from calth and spotting chaos twice was such a great part of the story. this man remembers the betrayal by the word bearers and has a vendetta to settle, im pretty confident he is from just after the heresy. belisarius cawl started collecting people and placing them in stasis almost right after the heresy, under robute guillimans orders to create the primaris marines.

[@dakotawharton]

One of my favorite parts of the entire campaign. Dude would've been a 4ish year old kid when word bears started wrecking everything and summoning Daemons. One cool thing about the primaris is being out of time and having memories when the imperium was at its height.

[@ICCUWANSIUT]

Wasn't the heresy like thousands of years before guile was brought back? Space Marines live like hundreds of years, few live to that extent and if they do I doubt they are at chairons position.

[@15DEAN1995]

@@dakotawharton yeah ive seen videos talking about a member of the un-numbered sons. i think it was a macragge born primaris marine who wouldve been a member of the ultramarines, however he was selected by cawl and became primaris instead and was put into cryosleep. he was eventually forced into another chapter and they know he isnt one of them, his accent is different and he refuses to follow the traditions of the chapter because he sees them as repulsive. its the equivalent of taking a salamander and putting him in the marines malevolent chapter.

[@Nic9458]

Space marines 2 and Helldivers 2 are the only games I’m playing right now

[@ORGILMAAAAA]

The God of War 1-3 vibes were present playing SM2

[@jotairpontes]

100%, really strong God of War vibes, with a sprinkle of Gears of War when it comes to gunplay. Those who gave SM2 6/10 are heretics.

[@mckookie2967]

I love those original GoWs so much more than 2018 & Ragnorak

[@muneshxge]

Yes, the good God of War games

[@jotairpontes]

@@muneshxge God of War 2018 was also really good, different gameplay for sure, but I felt that the story made sense and was really well done, specially Krato's journey of being a father again, being older and wiser, etc.

[@mckookie2967]

@@jotairpontes story was awesome but combat was too similar to slower paced souls games, whereas it lacked that hack n slash identity

[@TruthbeforeTrust]

I’ve been watching the slow disintegration of the entertainment industry for a decade. I’m 38 grew up being a gamer. I’ve seen everything Asmongold has talked about in real time. When he comes out with a video it typically aligns with exactly what I feel and saw. I won’t buy a PS5 Pro, I havnt bought any of the latest Ubisoft games. I walked away from most of gaming because of the over monetization BS. I felt torn away from companies I once beloved like Bathesda. Starfield is sign that Bathesda doesn’t have any creative drive past the creation engine. Cyberpunk 2077 is probably one of the few games in the last few years that has fixed its issues but was awesomely produced. Maybe Star Citizen will be the true next gen game. Destructible environments and such.

[@gloworms]

I’m 35 and I agree

[@mrjohnnyk]

36 same here.

[@davidbe3560]

31 checking in. Big brothers I got to watch

[@pcdeltalink036]

35 here and yeah, it is rare that new games ever catch my attention. Or if they do it's small indie titles, nothing from bigger devs. Older games/emulators are where the main gems are nowadays.

[@brettmmontague]

To be honest Asmon has contributed towards this Him and his audience are part of the problem

[@beauknows1677]

The eavesdropping was some of the most world building stuff. If you listened to the way each person talked to the other based on their role and/or class was perfect. Perfect.

[@dakotawharton]

Loved stopping to listen to the mechanicus complain about space marines using serfs instead of servitors and the random ultra marines talking about other battles and squadmates.

[@beauknows1677]

@@dakotawharton the best for me was the way the mechanicus would speak to the servitors. The dialog for the servitors was well written. One. Two words was all it took because they are really just mindless eternal slaves, pumped up on drugs and enhancements

[@IodizedNaCL]

​@@dakotawharton i still like the part where they wanted recaff coffee 😂

[@Noxu_gs]

SM 2 reminds me of my adolescence when I spent hours playing gears of war 3. I missed that feeling of duty and brotherhood, I love SM 2.

[@carlmarxx]

And it’s not even toxic. It’s brothers standing with brothers. For the emperor

[@ProperXSmoke]

Exactly how I feel about Mortal Kombat 1. A bloody brutal fighting game that lacks any sort of masculinity. I mean they turned badass cyborgs Sektor and Cyrax into fembots.

[@mrjohnnyk]

Yeah it's why it sucks.

[@SARGEHALO666v2]

This is what you do: don’t buy trash games. That’s what we should all do and maybe they’ll change their tune. And if not, fuck ‘em. Plenty of other games to play.

[@raics101]

​@@mrjohnnykIt's just one of the reasons :)

[@prettyboyg1278]

Been saying it. DEI Activist writers and chair holders are plaguing the franchise ever since Mortal Kombat X. Witch each new title, everything from the art style to the character designs, got more and more generic. Atp, it feels more like your typical disneyfied Marvel / DC universe, than the grim and dark MK universe that we all used to love.

[@coltonwhite2518]

MK9 was peak mortal kombat and it's been steady decline since.

[@guradem6133]

The story of SM2 seems to have made a big correction during development. There was at one time a very "activist" head writer assonated with it but she seems to have been side lined. Her writing credit was lower to (Additional writings and material) which seems to be corpo speak for "we hated everything you did but are legally required to give you credit" . I rare victory.

[@w415800]

This game is already more PC than any previous WH40K product, all Asian Marines were confined to a single chapter, and there are no Marines of African descent at all.

[@daytonsaragosa6790]

@@w415800 I barely noticed the different races, I just thought they were Space Marine badasses

[@Machiavelli2pc]

@@w415800 This is wrong. Space Marines can be of any race, regardless of Legion/Chapter, as they’re selected from myriad of worlds, ships, etc. and even within those worlds, there are all races. There can absolutely be White ‘White Scars’ or Black ‘White Scars,’ just as there can be Asian or Black ‘Blood Angels,’ etc. The lore does not inherently contradict this fact. Whereas Female Custodes and all of the other woke nonsense- THAT is woke, and cannot exist without the PC woke cancer getting into the Universe. There are no Female Custodes, Never have been. Different races in different legions/Chapters? That’s not only possible, but statistically objectively true and a thing. But there are NO female custodes, never will be, and never has been. Reject wokeness every single step of the way.

[@auctor9165]

@@w415800 The Celestial Lions are, and they're quite badass.

[@Machiavelli2pc]

@@w415800 This is wrong. Space Marines can be of any race, regardless of Legion/Chapter, as they’re selected from myriad of worlds, ships, etc. There can absolutely be White ‘White Scars’ or Black ‘White Scars’ just as there can be Asian or Black ‘Blood’ Angels. The lore does not inherently contradict this fact, and instead supports it. Whereas Female Custodes and all of the other woke nonsense- THAT is woke, and cannot exist without the PC woke cancer getting into the Universe. There are no Female Custodes, Never have been. Different races in different legions/Chapters? That’s not only possible, but statistically objectively true and a thing. But there are NO female custodes, never will be, and never has been. Reject wokeness every single step of the way.

[@alexmatter6366]

I got on with my buddy for the first time and the first mission I said “it feels like a game from 2012.” Its animation, its skill progression, its cosmetics, the grind of content that isn’t intolerable. It feels like a 2012 game that was dipped in 2023 mechanics. Its awesome.

[@Eeiiaane]

When I beat the game and got to the credits, I was shocked that it was actually developed by Russians no wonder the game is oozing with testosterone and masculinity.

[@CylinderHeadE60]

Same, I saw the first twenty names and I was like “yep that explains it”

[@dakotawharton]

Russia is big on 40k. The website that gives everyone access to the tabletop rules for free is ran out of Russia and they've had good fan made media over the years.

[@KyleTremblayTitularKtrey]

​@@dakotawharton also cheaoest 3d printed proxies 😂

[@MN-jw7mm]

@@KyleTremblayTitularKtrey Good, fuck GW.

[@MrGipnozhab]

lead art designer(if i remember correctly) was a guild leader of 2nd squad of Prets in Ru BDO

[@WillyStinkman8593]

I hope when they say “new enemy” they mean an entirely new faction to fight. I wanna see necrons, orcs etc. this game has sooo much potential and breathing room for success

[@moy9948]

it would say "new enemy faction" if that was the case. It will definitely be a new Tyranid unit, since most of the Multiplayer missions are Tyranid heavy. Most likely a new Extremis unit like the Lictor, Ravener and Zoanthrope. I don't thin it will be a Terminus unit other wise it would say "new boss"

[@Salmon_Toastie]

I do hope we see orcs again, even if it’s only 1-2 operations having some orc boyz run in and get fucked up by some tyranids would be funny af 😂

[@TwoHams]

This game had great comic relief. When Galadrial says "the codex astartes does not support this" and you could see Titus ass titus tf up from ptsd

[@hippoace]

then he did his bro moment, "but i do not mind this"

[@dewmdoomie1730]

I almost thought that guy was going to be another snitch lol

[@Islandkid679]

Gadriel lol Galadriel is from LOTR

[@yurithebrave]

Yeah, that's what I love about 40k - comic relief and meme references 🤡

[@VenturePictures]

I stopped at Gears 3 ... and I feel so at home with SM2! So beautifully done!

[@PrinceJes]

Same