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Sanctus@lemmy.world 10 months agoAn open-world game where you are the target of the Imperium’s xenophobia and hatred would probably be pretty hot right now considering world events. But GW would be way too scared to make the Imperium the actual antagonists of a piece of media because space marines are their cash cow.
MudMan@kbin.social 10 months ago
If that entire franchise's fanbase needs a sanity check for a reason, it's for that.
I know they look cool and they're easy to paint because of all the flat surfaces, but come on.
It's fine for your dark fantasy setting to have no good guys. It's EXTREMELY not fine for your dark fantasy theocratic racists to become the good guys and for you to do nothing to stop it from happening.
Sanctus@lemmy.world 10 months ago
There might be underlying problems with our collective psyche. We seem to gravitate towards strong figures clouded in religious myths.
Also, I’m a Wagh kinda guy myself. Nuthen beetz a gud ol’ krumpin’.
MudMan@kbin.social 10 months ago
Honestly, the Orks may be the most intellectually honest faction in that whole mess. They mostly just like to fight and thing everybody else is a dick. And they're right.
But nah, when teenage me came to the idea of haughty, elitist space elves in hoverbikes there was never any other option. But they're not the good guys. Nobody should be the good guys in that. ESPECIALLY not the human factions.
Rokk@feddit.uk 10 months ago
I feel like when I dipped my toes into the lore the Tau seemed the closest to good guys that I could find but I don’t know it well
Sanctus@lemmy.world 10 months ago
That might be where most people have a problem. This may be completely anecdotal, but it seems a majority of people want things to be black and white. They want their villians easily identifiable, they want their heroes as pure as the first oxygen molecule. That may be why a lot of fans seem to choose the Space Marines as the “good guys” in a galaxy where there are none. I’ll never understand it cause its boring, put that yin in my yang and vice versa. I want stained heroes and misguided antagonists. I want a pain in my heart as it tries to decide who to root for.