Emperor: Battle for Dune - The Story So Far

[jmm1233]

Thankyou WestWood

[terdfurgason]

She shouldve ending with "the spice must flow."

[Pierzakowo]

The situation must be really bad if someone's attacking a Guild heighliner...

[MrMatto91]

New guy flying the carry-all?

[Hosea22]

Does this video, or the one called "Emperor: Battle for Dune - Introduction" come up first in the video game?

[dawsonoo7]

who ever controls my ass, controls the farts and who controls the farts, controls the lives of every being in the universe

[isaimon]

1:05 to 1:17 is a part from DUNE 2000 intro :)

[HaloVanguard155]

I wanna be the ugly house! I WANNA BE THAT UGLY ONE!!

[gloglablyn]

"Who would attack a Guild Heighliner?" only a bunch of idiots would.

[aperson22222]

Who is House Ordos? They're not from Dune.

[SantomPh]

@aperson22222 They belong to the game universe and not the books, to give a third faction and a third dimension. They are the 'criminal' end of the spectrum, investing in sneak tactics, Face Dancer assassins and gholas (including one of the late Emperor) and under the table dealing. They are also enemies of the Bene Teilaxu, since they prize technology.

[aperson22222]

@SantomPh A "game universe" existing outside the books, eh? In case TWENTY-EIGHT published works isn't enough for you?

Well, thanks for clearing that up for me, anyway.

[SantomPh]

@aperson22222 That's right, they come from the Westwood Studios game adaptations , probably to give gamers a third faction to choose instead of the classic Harkonnen/Atreides conflict. Possibly also to give Westwood something to hold on to in case of royalty payment orders (they're owned by EA now though).

The factions from the books like the Honored Matres,the Thinking Machines etc are very hard to place because they have motives that affect all the noble Houses.

[toomanyaccounts]

@SantomPh

They also take place way after the Dune series or way before if you mean the thinking machines.

House Ordos was mentioned in the Dune Encyclopedia which was published in 1984.

If you do a google search for dune wiki and then go to it and look up the dune encyclopedia you will get more info.

[Evilmonkey66699]

@SantomPh actually Westwood much like Origin systems were dissolved by EA(who did purchase them) some years ago after they ran the companies into the ground via corporate stupidity. Truly a senseless waste of two great companies who would of had if EA left them to their own devices would of made them millions in the long run as opposed to thousands or hundreds in the short term and complete destruction of the companies and absorption of the copyrights of their games which they never use.

[testwordz]

imo its really shallow to call one side good and the other evil.

its not that easy.

[Dperk94]

lol the good the bad and the ugly

[BinLadenMustDie368]

ROFL!

looks like i was playing a futuristic version of "The Good, The Bad and The Ugly"

SHOTGUN CLINT EASTWOOD!

[fattoler]

loving the captions...

[ishallkillall]

i was 6 years old, had a 17 year old brother played as well..i beat the game before he could and he got on the comp more then i did :3 and btw Harkonnen is FTW!

[ixyoux1]

i too took harkonnen they are awsome :D

btw did you play the sequel as well. emperor battle for dune was a great game. it uses the same engine as the later to come C&C generals did.

[nissanforever]

one of the best games for pc

[AlaricRose]

Interesting alternate timeline. In the books, Shaddam had four daughters. Paul Atreides marries the oldest (Irulan) after wiping out the Harkonnen and becomes the new emperor. Shaddam isn't assassinated, but rather Paul sends him into exile. Tends to happen when the Sardaukar are crushed by the Fremen who believe that Paul is the Messiah.

[chimera1277]

if you've read the other books in the Dune series Paul has been resurrected as a ghola along with his wife Chani

[TehCybernerd]

why is this rated down 3? he IS ressurected, but not until hunters of dune, i believe.

[rhadooxxl]

spoilers man

[tehpevis]

...

Damn it. You just gave away the ending for me (I'm only on page 129 right now).

[AlaricRose]

My bad, lol

[XR11995]

AHHhh. arrakis. IT'S A VAST DESERT!!

[Arthounot]

I have installed the patch and the game will install, except it stays on the EA logo, sometimes the Westwood logo appears after it, but then it hangs. I have no idea what kind of solution i need, anyone, any idea?!

Maybe something to do with service packs for windows i heard.

regards,

Keimpe

[SohaibArif]

I it has to do with windows,try playing it in compatibility mode for windows 98(right click select properties then the compatibility tab then select windows 98)

I couldn't find it here in Pakistan(somehow our dealers don't have games more than two years old unless you count red alert,counter strike and other popular games) so I am not sure if it will work.

[Arthounot]

Thnaks but i tried it already, even in compatibillity mode, i think i treid almost everything

Well, then back to other games i guess...

regards

[LionTroy]

Isn't the spice sort of...the essence of the universe?

[Forlo12345]

Yes, because it is runs everything. Melange is what allows the Guild to fold space, it is what gives the mentats their computing capabilities, it is what gives the Emperor such a long life, it gives the Bene Gesserit women the ability to read people's thoughts. Basically, the spice is to the universe as oil is to our world.

[LionTroy]

Ah thoughts so....

Question...do you have any idea WHY it's so powerful? Or is it just like electricity to humanity?

[Forlo12345]

Scientifically, the spice alters your genetic structure to create new highly powerful proteins that in turn alters your body's capabilities. In the novel, Paul was able to read people's thoughts because the spice mutated him in that way. In the novel, the spice mutated the guild members to manipulate the curvature of space, thus folding space. It isn't electricity to humans because humans can survive without spice, but not without electricity. I hope that was helpful.

[LionTroy]

Indeed it was, thank you!

[horusrage]

The Spice is Necessary for Space Travel and its Navigation (including the commerce that this brings) its also very addictive and expands awareness as well as increases life span of humans. The indication of spice saturation (addiction or simply put too much spice in ones blood stream and system) in a human is mutation/blue in blue eyes (look at the fremen)

[harlequin2262]

In the Dune World, Thinking Machines have been outlawed. So everything's done biologically. Ergo the calculating machines used to interstellar travel are outlawed. So the guild uses the precisence given by the spice to steer the ships. That's about the crux of it. It also extends life. The bene Gesserit need to to awaken their ancestral memories.

It also extends your life-span. Paul read thoughts through seeing the future/time paths, and through his Bene Gesserit training. Mentats do not needit

[sourcemaster]

I thought spice was mainly sought after for space travel instead for drug use?

[smithdanger]

That too...uh...yeah, I forgot about that...

[GJGJ654]

i dont know this game but i read the series and see the movie, this game is supposed to be before Shaddam 4, leto 2 etc ... it's confusing beacause they change the name, but they look like feyd, raban, vladimir, shaddam4, etc ... leto 2

[GMovieSeeker]

Westwood's Dune universe is loosely connected to Herbert's series. There is no Muad'dib and of course, house Ordos doesn't exist in the books.

[WarshipAngelus]

The house of Ordos doesn't exist, true, but the Ordos are in the books and were in the movies, they are the guys loyal to the emperor and have the powers to control time and other such things.

[toomanyaccounts]

@smithdanger

Only because the guild uses massive quantities of it. Bene Gesserit also depend on it for their mental powers, but the rich use it since it can add decades to a human life span. The Emperor lived over a 180 years in the Dune novel due to drinking spice beer every day.

[SantomPh]

@sourcemaster it does lead to addiction, in fact most people in Dune are addicts; only Duncan Idaho is the totally free character.

[toomanyaccounts]

@SantomPh

In the first Dune novel it was mentioned that most middle class people had spice added to their food and that didn't lead to addiction. The blue eyes were a sign of addiction and mostly happened to the navigators and the people living on Arakis due to the air being saturated with spice.

[agent47crows]

And hence they have the weird blue eyes, yea, thanks!

[smithdanger]

Bingo!

[agent47crows]

So, what do they mean by "spice"? Drug addicts... :p

Question : Is this a video game?

[smithdanger]

The Spice is a kind of drug that opens your awareness, lengthens your life, and is so addicting that if you try to break away from it you'll die. That's how you get entire planets hooked. Problem is, that it's only found on one backwater planet. And yeah, this is a video game based off of Frank Herbert's book series which started off with "Dune." More specifically, it's based off of David Lynch's film which was based off of Frank Herbert's "Dune."

[makemap]

@smithdanger If Ordos are machine, why do they need it?