Tyranicon
A Memory of Eternity
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Can anyone say more about what's off about the art style? I'm not a 40k guy. My impression of 40k is it's sci-fi but with a mash of gothic, theocratic, fascist-imperialist, and body horror themes, and the feel of the universe is much more tragic than comedic.
Owlcat made no deviations from their standard style (cartoonish, nu Blizzard-esque graphics) to match the grimdark of the 40k setting. There's a grittiness that the smooth, pristine style of Owlcat is impossible to convey. The sense that the setting you live in is old, decaying, that you are merely the latest generation of ag-world peasants striving to serve a humanity more vast than you can imagine.
Even a Rogue Trader, one of the most powerful class of individuals in the Imperium, will feel that insignificance.
Ironically old Blizzard (Diablo I + II especially) had that grittiness.
Take a look at the Rouge Trader screenshots and at something like Dark Tide which imo nails that aesthetic.
And now look at the glorious art:
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