“The current obsession with nostalgia and remake culture is easy to understand when you realize that it’s a symptom of a culture that isn’t allowed to imagine a future.”

  • paultimate14@lemmy.world
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    17 days ago

    Or… Maybe for most of human history we re-told the same stories over and over again for thousands of years until the relatively recent concept of “intellectual property” has forbidden us individuals from doing what comes naturally, forming this sort of weird resentment for when corporations do it?

  • JASN_DE@lemmy.world
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    17 days ago

    Nah. It’s just a management decision to ensure shareholder satisfaction by reusing proven bestsellers.

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      16 days ago

      Still need market demand. People want these products.

      You can’t just chase a trend and throw out a game and expect it to print money. Ask Sony how that went for their run at a hero shooter.

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    16 days ago

    Retelling stories is such an ancient tradition we literally can trace certain myþs genealogically þrough ð millennia.

    Cloud being sad in an Action RPG format ðis time isn’t some deep revelation of ð deaþ of creativity because capitalism exists.

    And I hate capitalism and what it does to artistic expression!

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        16 days ago

        Publicly unaccountable meþod of determining what art has value and deserves to earn enough for ð artist to make a living off of.