QUOTE(Momo The Cow @ Jun 5 2007, 04:03 AM)
Fallout seems to strike a chord with Russian and Polish gamers. After watching that Polish rap video (http://youtube.com/watch?v=k1aejHhzwsw), I asked myself "What's so appealing about the apocalypse and collapse of society to the East Europeans?"...
Of course, then I wondered, what's so appealing about a post apocalyptic setting to ME? Is there something in it that I find inherently enjoyable? Do I actually desire the wasteland, or do I just want to take a peek at the accident corpse before the paramedics arrive to cover it up?
Well, speaking for myself, I feel there is an inherent "What if?" aspect to people, which is most strongly evident in roleplayers. I mean, that is the general concept of fantasy and scifi, exploring human issues that are completely the same while everything else is different. That sort of constrast brings to light a lot of things that the average person takes for granted.
Before I go on I would just like to say, I hope I don't offend anyone, I've been up for 20 hours and I'm a bit out of it. For me, personally, I like the post-apocalyptic setting because it's tough, and if you are weak (not just physically, but mentally too) you perish. I would say it has to do with evolution, there is not much natural selection going on in most industrial nations, as just about ANYONE can breed and pass on their genes. In a PA environment that is obviously not the case. Sometimes a good example for me, is if humanity were in some sort of long-term competition with an alien race, would you consider that we were winning / making significant progress as a species? Interesting facts like that in the past 2 millenia there were only 4 years that did not have a war somewhere on the planet speak to no.