7 Popular Video Games That Ruined Everything
GTA V unintentionally killed the Rockstar you love.
The current video game industry very much has a problem with scale, focus, hype and release.
Where the 2000s were a near-perfect nexus of ideas, budgets and top-tier game expectations being as one - helping the most popular console of all time, the PS2, showcase hundreds of beloved titles - that approach has all but gone away.
While it's not a problem endemic to gaming (we're seeing runaway corporate influence force endless sequels or remakes in Hollywood too), gaming has absolutely settled into a routine of remaking the past, with very few genuinely new ideas greenlit outside the indie space.
Even ex-Sony boss Shawn Layden has commented on this multiple times, saying that personal favourites like Vib Ribbon or Parappa the Rapper cannot exist in a world where the average title costs millions of dollars, and takes multiple years to turn around.
It's one hell of a spot for the world's most lucrative entertainment industry to be in, and we can look to a select number of trailblazers that have been unnaturally elongated or copycatted, as part of the problem.