When did it become popular for the hordes?
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the_wiz@feddit.org 2 months ago
$thing is Warhammer 40k
someguy3@lemmy.world 2 months ago
ICastFist@programming.dev 2 months ago
I’d say Space Marine 1 did a significant job in making the franchise more nerd-mainstream. Before it, it was the Dawn of War game and expansions. Slow and steady growth of awareness, I think
latenightnoir@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
The increased accessibility of SM1 most definitely helped. To be very honest, the thing which got me into 40k was the excellent Dawn of War series. Not only was it one of the first fully 3D RTS games, but every one up to and including the two Dawn of War II titles are absolutely brilliant strategy games (with II being closer to Kill Team with reinforcements, granted).
Heck, I still play Dark Crusade regularly, one of the tightest and enjoyable RTS campaign modes I’ve played to date!
the_wiz@feddit.org 2 months ago
When? No idea, but all the sudden it was quiet normal to see Spacemarine and Orc figures appearing on the desks of nerds…
greedytacothief@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Yeah, I always feel a little embarrassed to bring it up. I’m liking that there are more underground games coming out now like turnip28 and trench crusade, but they don’t scratch the same itch in the same way yet.
latenightnoir@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Yep. Popularity hasn’t yet died down, but having a bunch of closed-minded “anti-woke” (i.e. Fascists) people dogpiling onto 40k as though they’re begging to be Servitorised in the service of the Emp’rah is… dismaying, to say the least.
Worst part is, one can’t even have a conversation with such fans, as they instantly shoot down any and all subjects which they deem even marginally related to “woke stuff,” sometimes with disturbing zeal. How such an obvious satirical dystopia can be misinterpreted in such a way is beyond me…
rtxn@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Some people are just really passionate about their tiny yellow plastic toy soldiers all having imaginary penises. The imaginary penises are important to them.
latenightnoir@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
This is why I either went with Chaos (during my adolescence, mostly outgrew them) or Aeldari. I mean, they aren’t that much better from a lore perspective, but at least they give everyone a chance to suffer equally…
kami@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
What about their penises?
CatLikeLemming@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
What I also appreciate about Chaos is that their writers know they’re evil. I swear the people writing loyalist books forget that the Imperium is basically as bad as the rest in its own way.
Mim@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Let me interject with my unasked opinion:
Aa far as I’m concerned the trouble started when we stopped calling it fluff and started calling it lore (and treating it with such reverance) instead.