Well, maybe I should clear this up a little bit. I don't really have that much exposure to the 40k universe, directly exposure anyway. Really all I've done for that is play the Kill Team and Space Marine video games. That being said, I have this one borderline insane friend (insane in a good way) who loves to go on and on and on about it, to the point where I like to think that I know a fair amount about the universe, in addition to reading a fair chunk of the lore online.
A thing that I notice a lot about 40k online is that people constantly dismiss 40k as too dark to take seriously, I think we remember that thread from way back when asking how people could find 40k's story remotely appealing, when it's constantly dark, it sucks to be everyone and there is next to no hope of survival so why should you bother? Well, maybe it's my inner masochist talking, the one that likes Dark Souls, but that's half of the fun. Standing on the brink of oblivion, with there being a one in a million chance of you actually being able to salvage the terrible situation that your world is in and fighting on anyway is just something that I like.
But really the main point of this thread isn't simply to hammer in my own opinion on a franchise (mostly) it's to kind of make a point. The wonderful thing about fiction is that it's already detached from reality to a certain point. I've watched the first two seasons of Game of Thrones and read a good chunk of what's going to happen later on in a Song of Ice and Fire and I can't help but notice that world's where just about everything is screwed seemed to be fairly popular. My theory is that people like dark oppressive worlds because it helps build character, for better or for worst, it shows what people do under the stress of the situation, what lengths they'll go to in order to keep living or to fight for what they'll believe in, and I think that deep down inside we all want to see them beat the odds and come out on top even if we know they won't because we all love an underdog.
Not really sure what point I was trying to make here, I just felt the urge to share this.
A thing that I notice a lot about 40k online is that people constantly dismiss 40k as too dark to take seriously, I think we remember that thread from way back when asking how people could find 40k's story remotely appealing, when it's constantly dark, it sucks to be everyone and there is next to no hope of survival so why should you bother? Well, maybe it's my inner masochist talking, the one that likes Dark Souls, but that's half of the fun. Standing on the brink of oblivion, with there being a one in a million chance of you actually being able to salvage the terrible situation that your world is in and fighting on anyway is just something that I like.
But really the main point of this thread isn't simply to hammer in my own opinion on a franchise (mostly) it's to kind of make a point. The wonderful thing about fiction is that it's already detached from reality to a certain point. I've watched the first two seasons of Game of Thrones and read a good chunk of what's going to happen later on in a Song of Ice and Fire and I can't help but notice that world's where just about everything is screwed seemed to be fairly popular. My theory is that people like dark oppressive worlds because it helps build character, for better or for worst, it shows what people do under the stress of the situation, what lengths they'll go to in order to keep living or to fight for what they'll believe in, and I think that deep down inside we all want to see them beat the odds and come out on top even if we know they won't because we all love an underdog.
Not really sure what point I was trying to make here, I just felt the urge to share this.
