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Message: [QUOTE="Gorse, post: 9783, member: 73"] Very well put, and I agree 100%. I actually do think there are some advantages to this approach, especially in the tight, cramped quarters of a major Asian metropolitan city — they’re the perfect breeding ground for all those grimy, creepy J-adventure games I love so much (see also: Kowloon’s Walled City) — but after a while, you start to notice a sense of… I guess you’d call it “creative homogeny”. Japanese pop culture in particular has always been extremely trend-based, and, while that’s good if you like those trends, if you don’t, you’re fucked. Obviously there are exceptions — I’d assume, I can’t really name any off the top of my head — but if you’re looking for a game (or any kind of media) made by a team with a non-metropolitan mindset geared towards non-metropolitan people, your options are pretty limited. This is infinitely more true if you’re looking for media which hasn’t been made by American or Japanese people because, uh, they rule the world culturally. (And because of globalization and the Internet, their entertainment also now dominates all other cultures.) If you’ll allow me to go off on one for a second, I think this is a big reason why the 2020s, despite turning a half-decade old in a few days, has largely seen a cultural dearth. Theoretically, there’s more opportunity for anyone to make entertainment nowadays, but, really… all the money is still in the big cities (spread exclusively across the USA, China, Korea, and Japan). The majority of the audience is there, too. So everything becomes the same standardized Tolkien-esque fantasy Marvel superhero indie pixel-art Earthbound Metroidvania slop, and that’s what sells across the globe, so it’s what keeps getting made, and the cycle continues. And, coming full circle, that’s kind of why I don’t like changes in translation. I — and I may be a minority, but I do think there are people who agree — don’t [I]want[/I] something otherwise unique to become the same BS again and again, because I don’t like a lot of that BS in the first place. The problem of general creative infertility is something that AI won’t be able to solve, because it is quite literally a machine for regurgitating things other people have already made. So I just want it to translate the friggin’ words. [/QUOTE]

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