What would you call the whole aesthetic of games like Kult or SLA Industries? Do you know any other games using it?

What would you call the whole aesthetic of games like Kult or SLA Industries? Do you know any other games using it?

>I wanna label this thing, how do I label it?

>SLA
edgy

Their esthetics can be called as childish heavy metal. But that might be a bit reduntant.

Kult is modern horror. SLA has no more to do with Kult than say Warhammer has to do with D&D (both have swords and orcs and shit).

OP is after this sort of drivel

It's Splatterpunk. This is explicitly stated out in the books. Relevant writers include Clive Barker, Jake Ketchum and Richard Matheson.

I love the style but too many details are lost

What's punk about it?

Don't ask me, that's just what the genre is called.

Splatterpunk. Personally, I’d describe it as “industrial metal”, too.

Mutant Chronicles follows a similar vibe, though it's definitely a lighter shade of grey.

I think it might actually be from the same company that made Kult (disappointingly, the Swedish D&D clone isn't nearly as metal).

How come GW haven't sued the ludefisk out of them yet?

Because while it's similar in that there's pretty much direct parallels between the two — Dark Symmetry and Chaos, The Brotherhood and the Ecclessiarchy, Space Marines and Doomtroopers, etc. — it's all different enough that GW can't claim infringement.

IMO Mutant Chronicles is the better setting because there's actually a spark of hope in it and it's much smaller in scope so the shit that actually happens in-setting matters.

It also has laughably straightforward national expies for the /pol/fags to wank to.

To be fair the Imperium of Man is itself a /pol/ wank fantasy come true at this point.

But does it have a "House Rothschild" being in charge of Bauhaus' banking concerns? (seriously, it's in their sourcebook)

What's it with the Swedish and all this faux metal shit?

Funnily I'm toying with dropping all the Iron Maiden grinning fangs stuff out of SLA and running it more or less like a standard cyberpunk game.

industrial edgy

Why not just play any other cyberpunk game?

SLA is Scottish.

For what purpose? The rules aren't anything special,

This would be Grindcore Album Cover style.

Airbrushed on the Side of a Van Style

What would you say this style is? CS1's cover is a different style to the rest of the books.

masturbatory euroedge

i love it when a softcore cover makes me want the book.

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>Edge, edgy, edge...

Sort of a glass house situation, coming from a board of 40K fans, don't you think?

Sorry to be "that guy" who quotes like 50 posts.

Judging by the looks of this, the aesthetic we're looking at is 90's death metal. As opposed to GW/40k's 80's Power Metal. That aside we're playing with the same "album cover as DNA" concepts

That makes sense as well, there's a definite Rob Zombie aesthetic to it.

>Splatterpunk was a movement within horror fiction in the 1980s, distinguished by its graphic, often gory, depiction of violence, countercultural alignment[1] and "hyperintensive horror with no limits."[2][3][4] The term was coined in 1986 by David J. Schow at the Twelfth World Fantasy Convention in Providence, Rhode Island. Splatterpunk is regarded as a revolt against the "traditional, meekly suggestive horror story".[5] Splatterpunk has been defined as a "literary genre characterised by graphically described scenes of an extremely gory nature."

>Writers known for writing in this genre include Clive Barker,[3][13] Poppy Z. Brite,[3] Jack Ketchum,[3] Joe R. Lansdale,[3] Richard Laymon,[3] Richard Christian Matheson,[3] Robert McCammon,[3] David J. Schow (described as "the father of splatterpunk" by Richard Christian Matheson),[3][4] John Skipp,[3] Craig Spector,[3] Edward Lee, and Michael Boatman.[14] Some commentators also regard Kathe Koja as a splatterpunk writer.[9]

>What would you say this style is

Geof Darrow had hit big at the time and there was bit of a fashion going on of cramming drawn panels full of knick-knacks and pop garbage.
So no special style, or just "imitation Geof Darrow".

Oh man. I remember how the 3rd edition of Kult had a literal rape table. Thing that would've gone by nowadays?

Splatterpunk, with a dash of cyberpunk for SLA Industries.

>biopunk
FTFY, cyberpunk is 15 years out of date by the first book, and 30 years out of date by the latest.

I am asking you. Think for yourself.

It's nice to put quotes around shit and put it in greentext, but if you intend to cite something then you actually need to cite it.

How many layers of irony are you on right now?

It's an extract from Wikipedia. All the square bracketed numbers should have tipped you off.