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Do you know the game Lichtspeer? 😅
It's basically the game if you like spears!
That game looks cool, but the thrown spear isn't really what I was thinking about. I feel like games do a slightly better job representing that.
It's the spear as a main battle weapon that I think doesn't get represented well in popular culture. For example, Vikings in games usually are depicted with axes, but spear and shield were probably more common.
The same goes for really any medieval or faux-medieval setting. The vast majority of fighters would have had some variation on the pointy stick as their main weapon, because they were so deadly effective.
There's also a commonly repeated argument that spears might be the main weapon in massed battle, but in small groups or one on one combat it would be ineffective, but I've seen plenty of HEMA matches and recreations that show that spear users can beat sword users, often with very little experience with the weapon.