Space Marine (which I reviewed yesterday) left a fairly profound effect on me.
Space Marine is by no means a game changing…game…but the attention to detail is good and I’m looking forward to seeing more in this series and even find myself hoping for downloadable content, which is a first. I really feel the game should be recognised for the work that has gone into it and the careful way in which they have dealt with the source material.
Madmaw – Freebooter Warboss of the Hulk Jumpers. Look! He has a blue tongue!
Since starting to play the game, it’s even encouraged me to dig out some of my old paints and unfinished miniatures from a different lifetime and I have started to do a little more painting. I’m inordinately proud of this one in particular and gain an immense feeling of zen whenever I work on one of these little Orks.
Horribly geeky, but there are far worse things that you could be doing with your time. I seem to remember often feeling a deep shame that I enjoyed painting little miniature soldiers and playing mathematically based wargames with them but that mostly cleared up the more I stepped out of adolescence and I can appreciate that there’s a skill lurking in there somewhere. I’m unlikely to put miniature painting on my CV (although here I am putting it on my blog which is almost the same thing) but it’s fun, relaxing and borderline constructive.
There’s something interesting in the way that computer games are taking more and more inspiration from the tabletop games behind them. I am genuinely interested in seeing if video games are feeding anything back. It’s fair enough that I’ve gone and dug out old paints, but I wonder if anyone will go and investigate Games Workshop after playing Space Marine without any prior knowledge of the hobby?