Sabot wrote:
I don't think so... cause developers aren't writers, and whatever they come up with, story and lore-wise, it will most likely not be as good as the existing stuff, even if they have some lame excuse for him being there in the forst place.
And as long as it doesn't break any of the "rules" GW has, they will also most likely aprove of whatever the developers come up with..
That's nonsense. Of course they're writers. These games quite literally have teams of writers who handle all the quests and dialog and overarching story stuff. Furthermore, they are of course able to actually talk to Games Workshop and get some ideas on making new characters to populate this section of space. Besides, it's Warhammer fiction. You don't exactly need to be Ernest Hemmingway to create a few characters to serve as figureheads for your setting. Even those idiots at Mythic created their own warboss.
Including a famous warboss is really very silly. It ungraciously pulls that character out from the setting for whatever period the developers choose, and for what? So a handful of people can go "oh, yeah... that's Commissar Yarrick... that's cool" a couple times and then forget about him? It's very lazy and it's actually pretty smarmy a tactic to get brownie points from Warhammer fans, trying to get them excited by shoe-horning in famous characters. And of course it's only the Warhammer fans who're half-asleep that'd appreciate it. Everyone else will find it rather strange that a dozen famous WH40k characters have somehow miraculously found themselves in the same system -- one system in a GALAXY of systems -- for the first time in history.
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