what happened to innovative gaming

Being innovative would mean taking a risk and possibly failing while going for a cookie cutter game usually results in somewhat of a success with half the effort.

Open world survival is innovative.
Battle royal is innovative.
Early Access is innovative.

Seems like gaming is better than ever (at least for pc gamers). Console gamers seem to be stuck playing games with 2017 graphics and 2007 gameplay.

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>Abe's oddysee
>Innovative

>>376916435
Pic unrelated

>>376916435
Late capitalism killed it.

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>>376917156
SHUT THE FUCK UP he had a funny voice HNN HNN HNN goobye *ffft*

>>376916435
>Posting a mediocre plat former with a mind control gimmick

They're now called "indie games" and everyone hates them.

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>>376917447
>People stopped buying shitty ideas is a narrative of economics

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>>376917243
I hate your generation

Lorne sold out just like everyone else.

>>376916435
New Oddworld game that isn't an unnecesary remake when

>>376917973
>Le wrong generation

>>376916435
I hate to sound like a hipster but that's all in the indie scene
Commercial games nowadays run with budgets in the tens of millions. If you're rich as fuck and it's self funded that's fine, but when you have lenders or a big business behind it that's different; you simply can't afford to increase your risk to such an extent that the potential gains aren't worth it.

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>>376916961
>tfw a mini-game scrapped together for a beta ending event for an MMO ends up creating an entire genre