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- Mar 24, 2019
This is it. This is the real issue with games today.2. The next crowd in is the late 20s to early 30s group of fuckups. These are people who have never experienced much of anything negative in their lives, spent their entire youth being lied to about how such a special snowflake they are and being awarded participation trophies by boomers, etc. What the fuck is someone who at best has spent most of their lives with most of the sum of mankind's knowledge at their fingertips, consuming brainrot, supposed to come up with that's interesting? Their idea of a struggle is trying to score oppression points for made up mental illnesses on tumblr and giving themselves the psychiatric version of Munchausen syndrome in the process. They didn't grow up with a cold war looming over their head, having friends or themselves eating government cheese, pondering the unlikely possibility of a draft, actually done a damned thing for any kind of real civil rights or equality, etc.
Most of the younger, modern Western developers grew up reading fanfiction.net, Tumblr stuff, et cetera. They have no mental basis or drive to create an interesting world.
It's the same reason a lot of the Japanese output is not much better either: their newer developers grew up on a diet of mostly anime and manga. The older creators had to draw from other things, like how Silent Hill drew from Jacob's Ladder.
This, by the way, is why Korean output is going to get fucked eventually too; their devs and artists are basically aping anime at this point with a Korean spin.