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Bioware's New Game: It's Mass Effect 3.
KharBevNor:
Oh yeah, they got rid of stuff like that.
The connection between the two that they've never even tried getting rid of is the fact that Chaos works in exactly the same way in both settings, with the same Gods, Demons etc. Could a link not be logically inferred from that?
Plus of course in 40K Slaanesh is originally created by the fall of the eldar. Is there a similiar backstory for Fantasy Slaanesh? If the Realm of Chaos and The Warp are in fact the same place could we not argue that the WFB and BB universes (though not necessarily the WFRP universe)* must be contingent with the 40K universe and that they must occur chronologically sometime after the fall of the eldar?
*There are actually thee conceptually different Warhammer Fantasy settings. Blood Bowl takes place in a sort of alternative reality where Blood Bowl has all but supplanted war, Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay (first and second edition) takes place in a darker, less stupid version of the Warhammer setting.
Josefbugman:
I think its more that the Chaos gods in warhammer simply ARE. Theres no background for them.
And I have got to admit, looking over some of the stuff that is written in the normal "warhammer" books I'm pretty sure I could write better stuff than they have. Their characters are cool, the concepts awesome and yet increasingly the writing seems to have been done by a toddler.
KharBevNor:
The standard of writing for Games Workshop has been getting dickier and dickier the more they resolutely aim their products at tweenagers. Black Library used to have fucking Kim Newman writing for them. Now arguably the best writer working for GW is I suppose Abnett? And he's just a very good hack.
Josefbugman:
He's a hack I kind of like, but yeah so much of it is dross. I'd really prefer it if they hired some actually competent people to do the writing.
Alex C:
Yeah, I stopped paying attention to GW for a while and didn't get back into it until about a year before Dawn of War came out. At first the sort of goofy and over the top tone of that computer game hit me as pretty damn entertaining and all-around fun even if it was pretty absurd. Sure, it was silly and the orks in particularly felt more like Gorkamorka than "In the grim etcetera...", but I've never really believed in taking the hobby too seriously anyway, so that was OK too. I mean, I've played Blood Bowl before, for god's sake. Unfortunately, it does seem like in retrospect that game was less of an offshoot and more of a harbinger of where they're taking things. Especially with the orks.
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