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@Sitoxity said:

@sirean_syan: I could be wrong here, but don't most Space Marine Chapters dislike fighting alongside each other anyway? I have to admit, when it happened in-game it was amazingly cool seeing it, but even as a collector, I never really got the impression big campaigns like that happened anymore. Not since the crusades and formation of the chapters anyway.

Could just be the Blood Angels that tend to act that way though. What with the Black Rage and everything.

It definitely still happens, especially in larger campaigns. Quite a few Space Marine Chapters fought alongside each other during the various Armageddon conflicts. There was the Badab Uprising incident as well, where groups of Space Marine Chapters formed into two opposing sides.

Aside from the already stated fact that the Inquisitors were wearing power armor (which will add several inches), keep in mind that the average Space Marine is only around 7'6" in height -- though their size seems to get continually exaggerated more and more in the fiction. Those Inquisitors are likely just fairly tall for a normal human, on top of wearing the armor. Believe me, their height stood out to me, too, but it's relatively easily explained.

NPCs being killed by other NPCs was a problem for me in Oblivion. Since a few NPCs would roam the world, and accidentally get themselves killed, even while I was on the other side of Cyrodiil. The Marksman master trainer, the countess of Leyawiin and pretty much any npc that ventured beyond the city walls after level 20, were certain to meet their doom. I also had the problem with Fallout 3, where the traveling merchants would fall prey to the various dangers of the wastes, preventing me from getting the 3rd Nuka-grenade schematic.   But Radiant story seem to erradicate many of these problems.

I always play the singleplayer first before moving into multiplayer. The only exception is when the singleplayer is actually fairly long, in which case I'll probably get in a handful of multiplayer matches before I've finished it, at least if I know people who also own the game. I love online shooters, for example, but they're always more fun if you're playing with some people you know. I'm not really in a hurry to jump into multiplayer if I know it's just going to be me and a bunch of strangers.
 
I think the only time I've ever jumped straight into multiplayer without making any significant progress in the singleplayer was with Dawn of War: Soulstorm, because... well, let's face it: Soulstorm's campaign is exactly the same as Dark Crusade's, only it's... not good.

I've been sitting around waiting for the Quick Look, too. It was scheduled on the front page right up until it was supposed to be up, and then... nothing. I already know what my impression is from the demo (*horrrk*) but I was curious to see the GB crew at the reigns.

I was in the beta and played for the 30 days that came with the game, and it was ... not really very good. About the only thing I enjoyed at all was space combat, but it wasn't worth a subscription fee for that alone.
 
The game just didn't feel very much like Star Trek to me, and random character cameos (Mackenzie Calhoun!) and other winks and nods to hardcore fans weren't enough to change that. The sector space stuff was very uninspired and didn't do a good job of making me feel like I was piloting a vessel through the vast reaches of space; it just felt like I was plodding along through a 3D map display. And the ground stuff just felt like Champions Online with a sci-fi skin on it and the crazier super powers stripped out -- which is nowhere close to what I want out of a Star Trek MMO. Say what you will about EVE Online, but at least it does a great job of making you feel like you're actually in space, with no disconnect between travel, missions, and combat.
 
Recently, though, I was watching the STO Beta videos on the site, and it got me in the mood to play again, if only for the space combat. Now that it's going F2P, I guess the "space combat isn't worth a monthly fee" problem won't be an issue anymore. I just hope that "Free 2 Play" doesn't translate to "Pay 2 Win" in the cash shop or I'm not likely to have fun with it for long.

I would be all over a new F-Zero game. F-Zero and Extreme-G (the first two anyway) were my futuristic, arcadey racers of choice. I tried to get into Wipeout, I really did, and it's not a bad series, but it just doesn't scratch the itch in the same way.
 
With Nintendo's promise to better support their hardcore gamer fans with the Wii U, maybe we'll finally see the return of F-Zero. Not that we haven't heard that promise before, but I'm feeling optimistic. Metroid skipped a generation when the N64 came out, and then we got the excellent Metroid Prime on the GCN, so there's a precedent for this sort of thing, at least.