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Former PlayStation exec says there's a "collapse of creativity" in the industry (www.eurogamer.net)
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[-] undergroundoverground@lemmy.world 23 points 2 months ago

Capitalism kills creativity. Thats why nearly every game is that exact same GTA, third person view game, just put in a new setting.

No one can take a risk and everything has to be as similar to the things that made money before, as possible. Everything has to be aimed at as wide an audience as possible, inevitably pleasing no one.

[-] theneverfox@pawb.social 3 points 2 months ago

Cyberpunk is basically futuristic GTA in a first person view, saints row 4 was basically GTA with superpowers, spiderman is basically GTA as Spider-Man

Even in this one format, there's endless room for creativity and innovation. It's a formula for a fun game...

But where I loved cyberpunk, watchdogs was similar in many ways and I just couldn't get into it

The problem is that they want to shove slop in proven molds and get a winning game. It's still slop

[-] undergroundoverground@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

That's basically what I meant but you fleshed it out more.

Yeah, there probably is more that can be tried and maybe I'm being unkind to the format. Its not the formats fault.

[-] MuffinHeeler@aussie.zone 1 points 2 months ago

I dunno. My kid plays paw patrol games on the switch. I'm fairly sure that's a niche audience

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