Why is the post-apoc genre so popular?

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i like it but i wouldn't exactly call it popular, stalker/fallout are the only notable franchise to feature the settings and only modded stalker is actually good

If you were poor and grew up in a shitty place filled with crime post-apoc reminds you of your childhood in many ways

Sci-fi in general fulfills that purpose. Post-apocalyptic fiction assumes that it will be for the worse.

for 2500 years it tended to be for the better, continuously
but now, SUDDENLY, things will go to hell
I think people of european culture took Rome downfall too close to heart, it didn't even fall it just moved to Bezantium and even they didn't fall but simply transformed into Ottoman Empire with most it's characteristics intact

So you have sci-fi for the positive and post-apoc for the negative. What's the issue exactly?

>it didn't even fall it just moved to Bezantium and even they didn't fall but simply transformed into Ottoman Empire with most it's characteristics intact

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Ugh sweaty Carthage didn't even fall they just moved elsewhere

you mistake technology for politics
technology didn't change, it got better in some areas=> quality of life
Ottomans didn't even force citizens to drop Christianity
people forget that europe was a shithole by standards of that time before and after romans, dark age is a huge myth

please stop posting, your historical knowledge is embarrassing

Because you can half-ass the textures and models and it fits the theme. The level of effort and quality that you need to put into the game is criminally minimal. Bethesda shat out FO76 in like a year using massively recycled assets from FO4, and it made them obscene amounts of money. I bet the budget on making that game was like 20 million, and they've probably gotten a few hundred million out of that in profit from brain dead retards.

you are free to keep faith in your school knowledge instead of countless revised monographs about those periods

>I bet the budget on making that game was like 20 million
Unlikely. Companies like that have huge amounts of bloat

>Why is the post-apoc genre so popular?
It's basically wish fulfillment for people who hate modern society and want it to all collapse (people who feel this way are more common than you might expect)

Horizon Zero Dawn

Inevitability. Star Wars/Trek failed even being nearly 40-50 years old because honestly...that was never ever going to happen.

Yes, sci fi is a positive force.

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So post apocalypse is just a sub genre. Nothing wrong with that

I'd call post-apocalypse a setting, but definitely not a genre

Poop

Depends. Numbers and all.

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It's compelling often, allows you to tell a story about modern man while stripping him down to his basest level, and it's usually aesthetically interesting. It's also a blank slate, you can use it as window dressing for literally any genre. Also, for some people, it provides an escapist fantasy that is at least halfway plausible.

everyone here is going full philosophy to explain why

i just think it's cool

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When did I ever say I had an issue with it? I'm just elaborating the differences (and similarities) between the two genres. Interestingly, 'apocalyptic literature' traditionally meant prophetic writing of the end times, which for the Jews meant the advent of the Messianic Kingdom, i.e. Heaven on Earth. Optimistic sci-fi settings can thus be viewed as secularised apocalyptic literature.