Is 40k a narrative or setting
a setting is made out of narratives.
>>97829407I can tell this thread is gonna roll heads, pointing out how previous Kirby Era “stagnation” as being no better than capeshit makes people seethe 40k as a timeline did progress albeit extremely slow and status quos for editions were less blatant.The constant marvel complaints always come from guys who had their head canon shattered
If you're gonna go the narrative route as opposed to a static setting, at least commit to it. Characters get killed, factions get destroyed, new factions arrive. Instead we have the worst of both worlds now, and every time there's a named character around you already know it's going to end up with nothing happening, and even less if two named characters are opposed.
>>97829407Orignally a setting made up out of various player driven narratives. Now it's just a corporate narrative.
>>97829594It’s a franchise designed to sell toys and now we have a narrative where nothing happens
>>97829612Did you personally submit your stories to GW
>>97829594I think old 40k stagnation was getting tedious but don’t call me a nu 40k slopper there comes a point when you realize do people truly care about the stories you made? Often many /yourdudes/ posts were either ridiculed or ignored and honestly it’s mostly kinda an imperial fanboy thing maybe orks too but I rarely ever see original tau septs or craftwotlds
>>97829407it's a narrative that goes nowhere or a setting that feels like it's constantly shifting.It always moves, it goes nowhere
>>97829612so the players, not just for WH or 40K, used to influence their games through official tourneys and battle reports. Certain models being produced, rules coming about, faction changes could have a reason from there. 40k has kind of done away with that and now instead of marines doing some nonsense, it's the same named marine or primarch or commissar doing it to the point we're gonna see em team up in a novel series eventually.I'm kinda hoping the rise of 3d printing we'll see something like that again, since even small games can get that going.
>>97829407Post your minis and I will tell you.
>to just be constant justification of toys fightingBut that's precisely what it's meant to for>no better than an actual capeshit status quoDifferent media have different requirements and are held to different standards based on those different requirements. Shocking, I know
>>97829987You truly don’t know how bad modem capeshit is with status quo
>>97829407
>>97829407you missed your general
Whichever one of you annoying faggots keeps spamming unrelated 40k threads on other boards, kill yourself.>>>/co/153072073
>>97829407Setting is the only thing that makes sense for GW to do. They can't really do a narrative, because a narrative might require killing off characters every so often, and that would mean people won't buy the model of that character if they get discontinued or the rules become unavailable in future editions. There's plenty of room for narratives within 40k, but it shouldn't itself be a larger narrative. If there has to be a larger narrative, the best way to do so is to frame everything as conflicting rumors and reports in order to maintain some of the mystery.
