You’re just getting old Zack. It happens.
My ne last year at 10 was complaining about the new Pokemon 3DS games, not matching up to his fave incarnations of the game. [now he claims to not care about Pokemon anymore but it still comes up despite his best efforts to be beyond it].
“There’s nothing new in games anymore” he says. He spent a year complaining about Undertale even though he never played it. Gave all sorts of reasons why it’s nothing new and just a ripoff of this or that.
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Ok, let’s skip the age function. Let’s make it a function of how long you’ve been gaming.
The more time and experience you have gaming, the more likely you’ll notice repeating and copying. The less time and experience you have gaming, the less you’ll notice repeating and copying.
Also: Think back. REALLY REALLY think back. Were MOST of the games better, or were there a few standout games that were better?
Most games are crap. Example: Atari 2600 had Raiders of the Lost Ark. Plus, arcade games in the 80s consisted of many copycats.
Sierra games were all similar.
In the early 90s, shareware games, especially the Apogee style, all looked and felt alike. You play one you’ve played ’em all.
Then Castle Wolfenstein 3d, Doom, Quake and all that followed were copying each other.
The pokemon games came out, themselves a ripoff of Magic cards, which was a ripoff of D&D… which led to pokemon copycats and other similar trading card games and video games… which THEMSELVES were based upon kids trading baseball cards, stats and doing fantasy sports.
I’ll give another example: Science. Most science papers are junk. Crap. Fluff. Pointless. Useless. Serves no real purpose. Wrong.
But out of all of the crap, there’s a few outstanding papers that rise up and give something novel.
Anyway, that’s my stance
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