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Message: [QUOTE="Spike, post: 680, member: 1"] It might be my boomer side talking, but every time I pick up a modern game, I immediately feel like I’ve already played it. Yes, the story is new, the graphics are slightly different, and the UI is unique… but that’s about it. Each new game feels more like a reskin of an old one, with a new theme, not something built from the ground up. It feels like developers are modifying existing games and tweaking them just enough to make them look different. This is especially noticeable in big studio games—AAA titles, or whatever you want to call them. I know there are a few people out there innovating, and I get that over time, it gets harder to do something completely different. Maybe they’re just trying to save costs? I don’t know. Imagine if, when Super Mario Bros. came out for the NES, every other 2D platformer just copy-pasted the entire physics of the game and used it for their own. So Contra, Castlevania, DuckTales, and Ninja Gaiden would all move exactly like Mario. Sure, that’s okay, I guess. But then you’d already have mastered those games just by playing Mario. You wouldn’t need to learn anything new, and all the games would feel the same. That’s what’s happening now, and I don’t think it’s a good thing. It used to be fine to not be great at a game the first time you played it, but now it feels like you’ve already played it before you even start. [/QUOTE]

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