I am big Warhammer fan but how many Games can they release in 1 year without burning people out?

kapone32I am big Warhammer fan but how many Games can they release in 1 year without burning people out?

I think that's what they trying to find out. :D

kapone32I am big Warhammer fan but how many Games can they release in 1 year without burning people out?

Yeah I have not uncovered the mystery that is Games Workshop franchise licensing to developers either yet.

Its mind blowing, a bit like they continuously spray the wall with shit hoping something sticks. And it does, indeed, but damn. The amount of objectively bad Warhammer games is ... I've lost count. And then OTOH every great one is something to remember. Dawn of War, Total War WH... And in between those two extremes there's a huge grey mass of subjectively great Warhammer games, the ones that really only have something worth playing them over others because the setting is just awesome, and the rest is barely functional - or sometimes an actual hidden gem, that nevertheless is hampered by an otherwise mediocre execution. A good example of the last category is Mordheim, City of the Damned. I wasted over 100 hours in it, its awesome. And yet, so broken. Darktide, after Vermintide, is another one of them. Vermintide was pretty great, 2 built on it, and Darktide thought it could thin down the formula, but Vermintide 2 was already extremely limited - the execution was just fantastic. With Darktide, the execution is hit/miss, and what's left is pretty much nothing. The combat still works okay, but its all you've already done except with more shooting, and there's nothing after that.

I honestly don't get why we're not bleeding Warhammer out of our pop culture by now. The world they've built, both fantasy and 40K, is just mind blowingly good, the potential is limitless, and yet... Its also so clear, I mean, the very moment a developer is allowed/wants to tap into the entirety of say Warhammer the fantasy tabletop, they've got a blockbuster going on that apparently is good for no less than three consecutive games doing the exact same thing. (TW Warhammer 1~3). And each of them selling too... plus a stream of 10-15 dollar DLCs mind you. And every time developers take a tiny sliver of the universe, like the endless stream of 40K trashheaps, and try to make a game out of it, its a stale, monotonous, boring POS.

Gladius is another such example I just don't get. They drip feed new factions in but the overall game is just so limited and the price many times too high for what it is. Why oh why... they had a Civilization killer app on their hands. So much missed opportunity its unreal.

I just really want a Tower Defense Warhammer 40k game, Dungeon Defenders / sanctum style

kapone32I am big Warhammer fan but how many Games can they release in 1 year without burning people out?

Well, big ones? No more than couple and this is one of those big ones, even if in niche category.

EasoWell, big ones? No more than couple and this is one of those big ones, even if in niche category.

I understand that this is a Xcom clone but was that not the same genre that Daemonhunters is already in? For me it is a repeat of Dark Tide and Necromunda.

kapone32I understand that this is a Xcom clone but was that not the same genre that Daemonhunters is already in? For me it is a repeat of Dark Tide and Necromunda.

No, because this is an RPG first and foremost. CRPG, to be exact. It just happens to have battles in kinda sorta Xcom style.