Why are indie games the only ones with some originality left?

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>>383309973
75% of games are indie now days.

Corporate vidya died in 2008.

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>>383309973
AAAs are made rarely and only with the purpose to get mad dosh, so trying something other than the exact thing that made you rich in the first place may cause big problems.
Indie games are more like hit or miss, where 1 out of 10 may actually succeed at not being complete garbage, so when you're mentioning all of these super original kino indie vidyas you're forgetting about tons of complete trash made by unoriginal independent developers out there.

>>383309973
Hyper Light Drifter was derivative garbage with no substance that was as wide as an ocean but as deep as a puddle, though, just like AAA games.

Honestly indie games are all looking the same nowadays.

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>>383309973
Yeah, real original

>>383311679
DELET THIS!!!!!

The same reason why big budget blockbusters tend to be unoriginal, it's because you need a lot of money to hire a lot of people to make a big budget game and projects with these massive teams tend to not have one clear vision behind them. Because you are getting your paycheck from a publisher and the publisher wants to make a profit you are pressured to follow trends that other profitable games do, and if it doesn't make as much money as your boss wants you risk not being hired again to work on more projects

On the other hand, indie games either never get finished or are very simple pixelshit because most indie devs need to work part time jobs while developing the game and also work in small teams so they can only accomplish so much within a given time frame, sometimes it gets to the point where projects never get finished

The alternative to this is crowdfunding so that independent developers can work full time on a game and potentially hire more people but there are a whole host of other issues associated with crowdfunding like scammers or the project never getting finished

So to answer your question OP it's because life sucks

>Work at AAA studio with tens to hundreds of millions of assets, several layers of useless management, risk averse shareholders
>"Hey guys, I have something no one has seen before! This will revolutionize..."
>Picture guy falling from helicopter

The big companies don't do original unless they have some very rare visionary leadership that isn't afraid to rock the boat. It's not just in video games. Look at the crap being put out by Hollywood, or sci-fi publishing.

"Dune" was shopped around for quite a while before it was taken up, and that was Chilton that published auto repair manuals.

>>383309973
You want a honest option? Because they are easier to make. Any dev with the drive and knowhow can just try and make the game they want. Don't have to go through marketing, don't have to waste all your people on making the game purdier. You just make it. Like the good old PS2 era.

>>383309973
normie catering
>muh perfect formula, what can possibly go wrong ? right?

>>383309973
Ain't that just a scene from Evangelion?

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>>383311679
Totally original