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Originally Posted by Locke
I think you essentially just described modern Hollywood in about 5 sentences.
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It's everything.
In a world where creativity should now be thriving, it's being crushed.
It's legitimately difficult to find new, original ideas across the vast majority of mediums.
Books, Comics, Movies, Shows, Games...it's remasters, remakes, reimagining, re, re, re, re.
Probably speaks to a larger issue in society with things just being comfortable, and corporations being so afraid of producing anything that goes against that comfort. Risk aversion undoubtedly sits high on the reason why we're getting hit on all of this. I remember the day of the mid-quality games and movies where smaller studios could make a decent amount of money, and find the next breakout hit - but the risk on the flip side is studios of that size also can't really carry one of those mid-range titles failing...so, "why even try" has seemingly been the approach for a decade+, and it's now left us in this current state of "re-"