As a gamer, I just don’t see my hobby evolving like it was back in the day. Shit’s gotten stagnant. Very few new ideas. Everything is mostly a copy of a copy. A lot of it actually regressed from the late 90s/early 2000s. The only thing getting more advanced are the graphics, and even those advancements have started to stall.
But more and more I am also seeing this happen with TV, movies and even books.
One word: Indie.
I agree with you that AAA games absolutely have stagnated and regressed. But smaller productions are far more frequent today and very creative and innovative. Arguably even more so than back in the day, if you really cherry pick.
Personally, the main thing I feel is really missing from that time is mid-budget, AA games.
I’ve noticed dialogue is getting dumbed down across the board. The vocabulary is shrinking and plot is being explained more extensitvely (using basic vocabulary) so audiences don’t get confused regarding the plot. Basically, making it so the audience doesn’t have to think as much to fill in blanks. And as far as I’m concerned, filling in the blanks a little bit is part of what makes a good movie or book better. It makes it more personal to the viewer/reader.
One example I just experienced this weekend, and I’ll probably be crucified for this because apparently everyone loved this movie, was The Odyssey. Personally, I thought the dialogue was awful. I don’t mind that they went with the American accents, although I always think movies like that are better with British accents. It was the writers behind the dialogue. It just sounded like I was hearing dialogue written by junior high kids. I’m assuming it was a decision made on purpose, maybe to connect more with modern English speakers, but it just sounded bad and kind of ruined the movie for me. I ended up just having kind of a meh opinion of the film largely because of it.
I second this watched the first probably 90min and turned it off, I was bored out of my mind. Idk what people saw in it, the writing acting cinematography were all shit.
As a gamer, I just don’t see my hobby evolving like it was back in the day. Shit’s gotten stagnant. Very few new ideas. Everything is mostly a copy of a copy. A lot of it actually regressed from the late 90s/early 2000s. The only thing getting more advanced are the graphics, and even those advancements have started to stall.
But more and more I am also seeing this happen with TV, movies and even books.
One word: Indie. I agree with you that AAA games absolutely have stagnated and regressed. But smaller productions are far more frequent today and very creative and innovative. Arguably even more so than back in the day, if you really cherry pick. Personally, the main thing I feel is really missing from that time is mid-budget, AA games.
Just a quick note on movies.
I’ve noticed dialogue is getting dumbed down across the board. The vocabulary is shrinking and plot is being explained more extensitvely (using basic vocabulary) so audiences don’t get confused regarding the plot. Basically, making it so the audience doesn’t have to think as much to fill in blanks. And as far as I’m concerned, filling in the blanks a little bit is part of what makes a good movie or book better. It makes it more personal to the viewer/reader.
One example I just experienced this weekend, and I’ll probably be crucified for this because apparently everyone loved this movie, was The Odyssey. Personally, I thought the dialogue was awful. I don’t mind that they went with the American accents, although I always think movies like that are better with British accents. It was the writers behind the dialogue. It just sounded like I was hearing dialogue written by junior high kids. I’m assuming it was a decision made on purpose, maybe to connect more with modern English speakers, but it just sounded bad and kind of ruined the movie for me. I ended up just having kind of a meh opinion of the film largely because of it.
I second this watched the first probably 90min and turned it off, I was bored out of my mind. Idk what people saw in it, the writing acting cinematography were all shit.
As the other guy said, look indie.
There’s so much fun there at the moment. Even double A stuff like Galactic Racer is really damn good this year.
Triple A is a mess rn, gonna take some time to recover and it’ll be different I think.