I’ve really developed a fondness for the characters that people unironically foam at the mouth hate, Erebus, Kor Phaeron, Lucius, Typhus. I love em and their hijinks over the years. Lucius and his “cheat codes on” gimmick is hilarious with how much seethe it generates, plus he’s really funny in the way that Joker was in Batman the Animated Series. Like when he’s in the Eldar arena and he’s telling a fellow marine to hand over his weapon as they’re running, then the guy gets cleaved at the waist by running through some Eldar razor wire. Lucius laughs then gets the weapon.
That's more or less the only good episode of Hammer & Bolter. Plus, we get to see an Judiciar in action for an sideshow.
This sounds awesome. Which is why the modern gayming industry won't make it.
There was passion in that episode, the unique EC designs (poor batboy), the Exorcists getting the spotlight and going out of their way to make a memetically hated character as badass and insidious as possible.
Well GW is too busy handing out the license to whatever euroslop company asks nicely.
Better them then Ubisoft or EA. Seriously, I will take some buggy Eurojank made by drunk Slavs over anything put out by a modern AAA developer
That reminds me I need to switch my external hdd I use to store games on to a ssd
Never mind that we're not sure if Space Marine dicks still exist, the fantasy of having one proportional in size to the size jump you get from Primaris naturally attracts all the dicksuckers.
Lucius is a good boy who dindu nuffin. The hateable characters in 40k are honestly great because they wrap around being horrible right into being hilarious. None of this serious "I'm Honsou the Warpsmith and I made extermal wombs for Marines" or "I'm Fabulous Bile and I'm reverse-engineering Primaris", no, you get Erebus the agent of complete chaos and Typhus the guy who never met a guy he wouldn't fuck over - even his own dad Morty, or entire ships of his very own brothers.
You can like diametrically-opposed characters for entirely different reasons.
Bile used to be fun, HH/pre-trilogy Fabius is great, the type of lunatic to replace your head with a turret cause he simply wants to see what will happen. Now he’s boring because his mad science is no longer mad. I liked his showing in the “War of the Spider” campaign book more than his entire trilogy. He shows up to a fucked situation, makes it so much worse, leaves when shit hits the fan and is the only one to come out ahead. That’s a true son of Fulgrim right there, that’s my guy.
That’s why I like the EC, it’s a legion of peacock frat dudes who go off the rails wayyyyyy before everybody else. Even the WE took longer to become their 40k selves
If there's any traitor primarch I feel bad for, it's Angron. Grew up a slave, Daddy E took him away from his lifelong friends, and has to be blistering enraged just to mitigate the agony of the Butcher's Nails.
Speaking of the pre-Heresy Equerries, Kharn and the Burning Brand of Skalathrax definitely fits. Even better since we now know it's a fall from the cool-headed, honorable Equerry to Angron, the murderblender.
He was a big man who couldn't take other big men cramping his style and making him look normal, so the other big men lined up against him. A Sanguinius, Roboute, or Dorn-led Heresy would have had to try to secure or take out Horus early and watch the opposing team scatter - or so they hope. Watch an unlikely leader pop up, like Khan, just when they think they've won.
Fucked from the moment he took the Nails, totally screwed when the Emperor didn't take any of his Nucerian friends. When that happened, there was absolutely no chance. These things happen, though, when you're on a galaxy-wide road trip to find your disappeared 20 kids while trying to run and grow the Imperium start-up fast enough to be ready for the Chaos Gods' clapback and the Imperial Webway project.
As Eurojanky as Necromunda and the Deathwing shooter were, I'd still take them over anything from a Western AAA. The gameplay wasn't much worse, and I doubt any AAA dev would have the stones to show how grimdark 40k is. In one of the early missions in Deathwing you're on a Black Ship, find a log that mentions they gave all the psykers the Emperor's Peace once it became clear shit was fucked, and then as you make your way out of the ship to go to the next level there's a nice convenient ramp made out of body bags. Heck, the final level of Necromunda is a corpse starch factory, complete with bodies being transported and ground up. One of the most disturbing things I've ever seen, simply because of the sheer inhumanity involved in industrial corpse reprocessing like that.
Turns out that when things are going alright only the fuckups feel like rebelling. The Heresy was all about Horus' ego, and him feeling like dad had done him and his siblings wrong, and so the only brothers that felt like joining were the ones who had in fact been done wrong by Emps.
To be fair, there's an corpse of one their giant centipedes right next to an audio log
