/lit/ - Literature

>>20113086
>it is primarily a shallow, market driven
Anything produced for profit is market driven and any medium which is market driven is inherently shallow, since making a product as shallow and inoffensive as possible is the most efficient way to reach the broadest audience. Beyond just video games, the same can be said of any medium, including film and even literature. Exceptions within every medium are produced by those who want to make art rather than a product, and who have a vision rather than being motivated by profit. These people exist in video games, too, although some argue that there may be less innovators, independent thinkers and artists in the field than in others.

Video games mostly suffer from the problem of scale more than anything else. A book, which can be authored alone and self-published, more naturally lends itself towards production for fulfillment rather than the market. Something similar can be said for art and drawing. But when it comes to things like movies, and especially video games, significantly more people and money are involved in producing the end result which seriously restricts innovation and artistic direction for many reasons. While you can get away from this by going "indie," in both film and video games this leaves a very difficult to fill middle-ground. One one hand of the spectrum, you have studios with the budget and perhaps even talent to make something truly remarkable, but the environment stifles creativity and artistic vision in favor of the market. On the other hand you have small independent studios where artists can let their creativity thrive, but who lack the capital and often the talent to see their vision through.

This is never an issue for books, where the only cost is the author's time and most books, no matter how great or ineptly written, are all done by one person.

Personally, I see a lot of potential in video games and I hope that as technology advances, it becomes cheaper, easier, and faster for video games to be made, which will alleviate the issue and give room for more studios to break into that middle-ground of the spectrum.

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