You want a taste of Chaos in a video game? Chances are you’re going to be meeting Papa Nurgle sometime soon. Nurgle is very easy to imagine – their minions are throngs of plagued minions, your classic video game zombie, so everything from Darktide to 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Chaos Gate - Daemonhunters throws bloated corpses at theiꩲr players until 🌄you can’t take it any more.

Don’t get me wrong, I love these games (Daemonhunters especially), but there are so many oozing pustules a man can face. Darktide is 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:teasing some non-Chaotic opponents in the near future, but it’s assumed that the Poxwalkers and Plague Ogryns will remain alongside your new foes. There are three other Chaos Gods, but you wouldn’t know it if you were only immersed in the worlds of 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Warhammer through its video game adaptations. Maybe you&rsqu🌜o;d know Khorne, w💃ith all his blood and skull and war and more skulls, but have you ever heard of Tzeentch or Slaanesh?

Slaanesh is avoided for a reason, albeit not a good one. Traditionally, Slaanesh was the God of excess. In the ‘90s, this was depicted entirely as lust, with unbridled boobs shoved in your face with every kit of Daemonettes.🎃 Warhammer video games want to keep that age rating down as much as possible, so they eliminate any Slaaneshi ideas immediately. However, Slaanesh is about much more than sex.

The Prince of Pleasure delights in all things decadent. Although hedonism is a core tenet of their realm, their vices don&rs🍃quo;t prejudice. Pride, indulgence, gluttony, and of course those carnal desires are all welcome under Slaanesh’s umbrella. Just be careful, because that umbrella is probably ma🎉de of a flayed guardsman.

Games Workshop has been branching out with its recent Slaaneshi models. Take the Infernal Enrapturess for example, who plays enchanting melodies on a harp made of the stretched tendons of an unfortunate soul, likely still breathing. Age of Sigmar has introduced Lords of Hubris, Pain, and Gluttony, each embodying their respective sins. There’s a whole world of non-sex🌳ual Slaaneshi options, if you want your flesh-rending daemons to be more kid-friendly.

Tzeentch has no such sexual deviancy. The God of trickery, destiny, and sorcery is fickle and deceitful in equal measure. In many ways, they’re the perfect video game antagonist. Imagine a roguelike where💦 a Tzeentchian sorcerer or Lord of Change is shifting the fabric of reality as you play through each run? That’d be a belter Silver Tower adaptation – Gee Dubs give me a call.

The problem with Tzeentch isn’t so much a worry about ratings, but a question of difficulty. All the twists and turns may be difficult for players to follow, and the trickery and deception may be tricky to code. If every pathway could be a trap, mirror🍌, or other falsehood, the number of available options could get overwhelming for developer and player alike.

However, Age of Sigmar: Realms of Ruin is tackling that problem head on, and we’re going to see the forces of Tzeentch unleashed on the battlefield later this year. I couldn𓆉’t be happier that developer Frontier Developments is pushing the boat out and showing love to some other Chaos deities. I’m not sure I could have taken another Nurgle game.

Realms of Ruin will likely take it easy on the trickery, at least for the multiplayer portion of the game. It will lean heavily into the spellcasting, but maybe its narrative counterpart can offer something more. The Weaver of Destinies may be pulling the strings througꦛhout the entire campaign, tricking our plucky🎀 band of Stormcast Eternals into dead-end fights against opponents of far greater strength.

I noticed the surprisingly high production quality of Realms of Ruin’s single-player mode in my very first demo, with fully voice-acted characters and stunning cutscenes complementing the frantic battles that I expected. The newly revealed promise of Tzeentchian treachery makes me even more exci✤ted to dive in. The game did the impossible of making Stormcast in𒈔teresting, so I can’t wait to see how it weaves the strands of fate into a rich tapestry of duplicitous drama.

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