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Originally Posted by Cecily
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What we need more of is new forms of entertainment. We are already drowning in options to distract us from reality. Ever consider what it would like to be an author? Imagine your book versus every other book in the store. Same thing with music. Same thing with video games. Especially once Steam let anyone publish, there's no shortage of video games to play. Or look on itch.io for the library of indie games. Or remember Kongregate with tens of thousands of free flash games? Or every game system ever with stuff you can still play with an emulator.
The soul of everything is already ground down to a flavorless grey paste and it'll get real obvious when AI gets better at whatever art is and instantaneously creates whatever passes for quality entertainment on a whim. Is it still entertaining at that point? I can't decide. One must imagine Homer happy.
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I am genuenlly concerned abou tthis.
1. I think that the internet conditioned the last 25 years to see the value, and importance of making something "broadly appealing"
Meaning, if you make something that the zietguist loves, you make billions in merchandising.
If oyu make something that a sub culture loves, you make a decent profit from that "niche" group.
The problem IMO is that niche groups, have been eradicated and replaced with zeitguiests.
Every streamer plays the same games.
Every gamer plays the same games.
Every indi game, is literally the same game....
Like nobody wants to do anything different anymore.
This clip from Wayne's world completely does not apply to modern creativity anymore. Everyone want's their little graphic novel to be optioned as a movie, and a TV series, and 30 video games.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpkecYVRt_E&t=40s (starts at 40- seconds)
"Led Zeplin didn't make music that everybody likes, they left that up to the Beatles"
I appreciate Monsters & Memories for trying to appeal to a very small sect of EQ style gamers. I hope they lean into it and make it repulsive to modern gamers. But I bet it will be some kind of "easy to play, with hard core roots" like every fucking thing else in the god damn world trying to hit a million users day 1.