40K is just an elaborate reference to everything cool in sci-fi in the 80s

>40K is just an elaborate reference to everything cool in sci-fi in the 80s
Then what would its equivalent be for the 90s? Independence Day aliens fighting Matrix rip offs?

what the fuck are you talking about

Go look up 90's batman comics.

That is it. You have edge, gadgets and every magic device had a pseudo science brick of text attached to it.

There is no 90s equivalent.

Key phrase:
>everything cool

>40K is just an elaborate reference to everything cool in sci-fi in the 80s

You mean it's a cheap parody made by lazy writers. It's less an "elaborate reference" and more of just Dune mixed with their weak fantasy universe combined with Starship Troopers.

That's it. That's the entire formula.

Sprinkled with stuff from other Sci-Fi worlds and pop culture franchises

>Obi-Wan Sherlock Clousseau

>Obi-Wan Sherlock Clousseau
>a typical inquisitor

>Independence Day aliens fighting Matrix rip offs

Aliens invade, only to be driven off by our global computing infrastructure acting independently. In the seconds between the aliens opening fire and the human chain of command ordering a counterattack, the internet itself uploads instructions for building nanoassemblers, then hijacks the results to create a robot army.

>Independence Day aliens fighting Matrix rip offs?
That's more or less the plot of Saints Row 4.

...

Cthulhutech

It's even complete shit, just like 40k!

See? A perfect fit.

ID4 Aliens invade but are countered by the T1000s deployed by the Skynet Matrix to defend it's pod-people farms. Meanwhile, the Men in Black lead the human resistance from Zion under the guidance of Agents J Orpheus and Keanu Lee Jones. The MiBs fight both sides using technology provided by off world allies they met using the Star Gate.

Setting was pretty balanced until 3rd edition introduced the the genetically engineered super men from the GATACA colony riding Jurassic Park Dinosaur clones. Even the Raptor Rebellion Codex couldn't clean up that mess.

Nothing. 90s sci-fi sucked.

Shadowrun.

Mage: the Ascension.

Hell, I'd play it.

A lot of the books, specifically guard related stuff has a lot of 90s cheese influence.

That's like, 50s sci fi nigga

The real question is, what's the elaborate reference to everything cool (and edgy) now?
>Fooking Game of Thrones
>Dark Souls/Bloodbourne
>Kingdom Death: Monster
>Darkest Dungeon
>Kill Six Billion Demons

It would be an elaborate political drama based on Indian mythology/Cosmology as well as Cthulu influences.

That actually sounds like it would make for a really cool game.

Are there any miniatures wargames out that feature Indian mythology?

What about game of thrones is "cool" It's normie trash

>What about game of thrones is "cool" It's normie trash

You realize this is what "cool" in pop culture is, yes? Shit the normies like?

The Red Wedding was handled better in the show than in the book, I think. But yeah, I get where you are coming from. Nothing against lesbians, but the whole Game of Dykes they have going on in the show right now is getting on my nerves desu.

>game of thrones

its a 20 year old book m8. and martin admitted he blatantly rewrote stories about the war of the roses.

>Dark Souls/bloodbourne/demon souls
Berserk

>Darkest Dungeon
Dark Souls

>then what would its equivalent be for the 90s?

oWoD

he said cool not crap

Was 40K really an elaborate reference to everything cool in sci-fi in the 80s though?

Show me 40K's references to the following:
>Flash Gordon
>Escape From New York
>Blade Runner
>E.T. The Extraterrestrial
>The Thing
>Rock & Rule
>Videodrome
>The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
>Ghostbusters
>The Last Starfighter
>The Terminator
>Back to the Future
>Brazil
>Enemy Mine
>Weird Science
>The Fly
>Short Circuit
>Robocop
>The Running Man
>Cyborg
>

>Terminator
Are you serious? You have a whole army of terminators in 40k

Yeah you're RIGHT OP I DON'T REMEMBER ANY BATTLETOADS OR JEFF GOLDBLUMS IN 40K!

OP IS A PHONY!!

I don't strictly agree with OP's statement, but there is a LOT of stuff that are references, plagiarized, or coincidental.

Some of your list is pretty fucking obvious though, man.

>Blade Runner
Like... Every Hive ever.
>The Terminator
Necrons.

and the thing is chaos spawns

>Flash Gordon
Ciaphus Cain HERO OF THE IMPERIUM!
>Videodrome
Those creepy bio-fucks in the Adeptus Mechanicus
>The Thing
Gene-stealers (while mostly Xenomorphs) have shades of the Thing when dealing with the whole "is he a person or a genestealer copy?)
>Enemy Mine
COME ON MAN, ANYTIME A SPACE MARINE HAS TO WORK WITH AN ELDAR
>Robocop
Combat Servitors
>The Terminator
Oldcrons

World of Darkness/Unknown Armies

>Ciaphus Cain HERO OF THE IMPERIUM!
>King of the impossible!
>He's for every one of us!
>Stand for every one of us!
>He'll save with a mighty hand every man, every woman every child, with a mighty flash!

Queen must make the soundtrack to the Ciaphus Cain movie we will never be graced with.

Also, Robocop is actually Adeptus Arbites with robo-parts optional.

Dark souls only took a small amount of its concept from Berserk.

Malifaux with the new Sikh master

Yeah, Dragon's Dogma is much more direct on that front. Hell, you can even get Guts' gear for fucks sake.

>Early Shadowrun
>Not 80s
Cyberpunk is a decidedly 80s genre you buffoon

That IS Kill Six Billion Demons.

Dude, I say this wholeheartedly, Fuck you.

It would 100% be oWoD. We're you even alive in the 90s? They were terrible.

Freddy Mercury is dead.

TNG. DS9.

Babylon 5. Stargate.

First season of Farscape.

Dude what?

Communism ended, bootleg Star Wars, bootleg Terminator, bootleg Aliens and bootleg Predator, and... and... and...

MOTHER FUCKING ROLE PLAYING GAMES!

The '90-s were AMAZING, and you are an ass.