There are plenty of cerebral, story-driven games out there, but nobody plays them - even when they're backed by major companies. We all saw what EA did to OWI.
I do think that we're going through a period where gaming innovation and creativity is critically low, and they're starting to follow the wrong examples from the film industry. Namely, overproducing games that are all cut from the same mold and focus almost exclusively on aesthetic value. People get major boners for "groundbreaking" games like Mass Effect and Skyrim, but if you take a few steps back and squint, you realize that all of these games you spent 60+ dollars on are basically the same.
Then you have games like Limbo, Journey, and the Ico series that more than make up for the drought of creativity in the industry, but they also rake in less than half the revenue that these popcorn games do. I'm grateful for Steam. It's the last bastion for innovative gaming and it's a great stage for small, creative developers to strut their stuff.
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