What's a game you're “supposed” to like but couldn't get into no matter how hard you tried. : rpg

Mork Borg is trash. It's a shitty pseudo osr "setting" for midwits and nerds who have never actually read an oldschool book to circlejerk about how cool and cultured they are. As i've said before, Mork Borg is the RPG equivalent of an inner city nerd LARPing as a working class country person so they buy a pair of overalls and a carhatt jacket and $400 dollar pair of boots and think that's what being country is like. It's not the product of a bunch of punks and nerds and metalheads making an rpg out of passion and love(as its creators want you to think), it's a corporate product aping a grungy faux metal edgy aesthetic without actually being edgy or metal. Mork Borg is the same as a multi million dollar company selling a battle jacket with pins and punk patches and anarchy painted over the back; it isn't genuine. It's dishonest. It talks about being edgy and dark and gorey and weird yet on another page it rallies against any "sexism" and "rascism" and "transphobia", which actual oldschool punks and nerds gave no shits about. It appeals to bugmen and midwits who think shitty art and design equals a cool obscure punk aesthetic. It appeals to r-slurs who never used the word "zine" before finding the word on wikipedia and suddenly start making their own shitty "zines" for their shitty osr products that they begin shilling on patreon

Mork borg isn't playable, it's a shitty artbook for people to put on their coffee tables to wow their other bugmen friends about how cool and niche they are for owning mork borg

What OSRstrags don't get is that oldschool rpg art and oldschool rpgs in general wasn't designed to look like shit on purpose. It wasn't designed to look amateur, it was the product of amateurs with passion. Mork borg is the opposite of that. It's a clinical, utterly soulless "RPG" that pretends to be something that it isn't. That's why is shit and utterly irredeemable for anybody with an ounce of taste.

I hate Mork Borg because it's Reddit: the RPG. Standard shitty retroclone that imitates oldschool aesthetics. It's the $20 Patek Phillipe imitation, the Chrysler 300 with Bentley badge, Ready Player One wrapped in Ulysses dust cover. A book by fedora for fedoras. It's the quintessential pseud rpg. A pedestrian easily accessible basic clone covered in several coats of faux punk paint and featuring just enough quasi-philosophical meandering to turn away both the ones looking for a fun adventure and those looking for a serious game - it has become the Holy Grail of pseuds. Quite obviously more mentally stimulating than 5E, yet never as much as to take the viewer out of the comfort zone of the usual RPG mechanics and babby's first existential crisis - it's the perfect cultural artifact to attach to for someone desperately longing for the image of "thinking man" or "intellectual", while not actually being interested in challenging their own thoughts or developing authentic taste. It's an rpg for smart-but-lazy dropouts, for young adults who sincerely use the word "normie", for men with "So it goes" tattoos rereading Hitchhiker's Guide for the third time, for community college freshmen that write posts starting with "as an engineer", for "I love Nietzsche! Nihilism, frick yeah!" people, for those that have buried themselves so deep in irony so they can't even be honest with themselves anymore. The sort who will make fun of ham-fisted Black Mirror VR episodes in one thread and expunge upon "deep" connotations of holographic waifu in 8000 character multiposts in another, the sort who get off on reddit gold received for their standard issue incoherent teenage "philosophizing" dreck spiced with 'human condition' and 'Hegelian dialectic', the enlightened-by-their-own-intelligence crowd.