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Message: [QUOTE="valosagutas, post: 217466, member: 77791"] It's part of "culture", part of console wars and part of how back then lack of video games and an unknown industry made companies "stick to what sold" mentality. [B][I]Culture[/I][/B]: Japanese people have a sense of nostalgia that makes them like games that are very similar to what was liked. They like remakes. They like this "nostalgia". [B][I]The Console Wars[/I][/B]: SEGA made Nintendo cry because "we offer 3D and better graphics, we do what Nintendon't" lolol. It made Nintendo panic so hard they basically spammed "SNES" versions of "NES" games with "better graphics" and "unncesssary 3D" to give the customers the message of "you liked NES? SNES is better so you'll have more fun with SNES" to shift NES games into SNES. It was hard to do when people already enjoyed NES so much you had to give good reason to make them buy SNES and that good reason had to be about nostalgia, the sense of "what's good about NES also exist in SNES" and something that's more than NES. [B][I]Early days of video gaming[/I][/B]: When people liked a game, they wanted similar games. People had no sense of "genre", they thought every platformer is "Super Mario-like" and action sidescrolling games were like "Super Mario with guns" lol. It wasn't long after companies noticed; "when people like X game, just because Y game is very similar to X game they like the X game" but why they liked the X game wasn't just limited to gameplay but it was also about visuals, SFX, even music. It could be the monster type, even an environment. It made people copy-paste spam same games in different skins, which Nintendo still does as a "formula". They use the "nostalgia" of games and to make customers feel it they intentionally put "good old" elements from different games. [/QUOTE]

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