alt Hacker NewsI guess the question is what is "truly creative" for you? Does Half-Life Alyx count? How about the original Half-Life? Pong? Outer Wilds?
To me the likelyhood of a creative game coming from AAA studio is less likely than indie. Basically the same as movies. It can happen, but a truly creative game/movie/story is hard to come by in any sense. Was it the Ilyiad?
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HFguy • today at 1:55 PM
I agree.
The required investment is just a lot larger in AAA. So just from a risk management perspective, people look to reduce the risk level.
Doesn’t really lend itself to creativity unless people involved have a track record.
While the philosophy is always interesting on what an original thought is, in this context most folks use terms like "truly creative" as a proxy for "something folks enjoy that doesn't feel like a copy of something else". Emphasis on _feel_.