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Message: [QUOTE="valosagutas, post: 208775, member: 77791"] Not many people actually care what is creative. They only care about the fun they had. But the word "creative" is a generic compliant people state. For example if you think Harry Potter is creative, I have to tell everything in it is a sum of north-east European legends. I don't even reduce it to magic and how it's, I mean everything. However yes, Harry Potter has characters and their situation that didn't exist in other fictions, but this won't make it creative and Harry Potter wasn't liked because it's creative anyway. When you are a kid you can relate yourself to it and enjoy the life that's similar to you and the life that's so amazing to you. Harry Potter is not like real life as this difference is attractive. What kids care about how same elements in Harry Potter is in many legends? Inspiration is not what people think it's. Inspiration is creating something else from something else. If I look at Mona Lisa and inspired to create a story of a woman who was was frozen in the mirror she looked at and she was invisible to anyone but a person who can love her then this would be inspiration and I'm inspired by this random idea now. But what Hideo Kojima does is taking Mona Lisa and use it without even changing it, he changes the way it's used. So if Hideo Kojima had cared about Mona Lisa enough to add her into his work it would be 100% look-alike character who looks like Mona Lisa and she would be a silent character who mostly smiles. This is not inspiration. When you understand Hideo Kojima in the context of Japan, you can understand Japanese people has ironic sense of creativity. They like same things that looks different. Most anime has a fool character who loves friendship and the extra height they took to do what they want. When animes filled with such characters I cannot call them creative despite their hair looks very crazy than the rest of them in same but different way. In the end when we love a fiction we are like "damn I love it" without caring if it's creative, but then we discuss it people keep phrasing with "creativity". People think inspirations as in taking ideas as is and using differently is something okay to do because they only care about the same thing they like. Artwork doesn't have to be creative. I mean things not being creative is not a bad thing for me. I called "Harry Potter not creative", same as Hideo Kojima but I don't mean ill. It doesn't diminish their value. But I think it's unfair to call these creative and inspirations. Harry Potter is combined collection of how such legends are. Hideo Kojima likes to develop video games with elements he loves in movies he watched. In the end it's not something I think it as "bad" but I cannot even call them inspirations when directly ideas being used without even changing it but the way their usage is rather changed. [/QUOTE]

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