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>>10251395
I never said "Zelda fans should see there are better alternatives". I said that most of them don't see ANY alternatives, and don't even look for them. I stand by this statement.
moreover, as usual, you say, "but nothing simply comes close to Zelda, period". yeah, right. then you know what people who say this do? they go and play Skyward Sword, or nu-Zelda like Phantom Hourglass / Link between worlds / etc., or at most ALTTP randomizer (peak game design). or—they make 62495th thread about how OoT was the GOAT on a Zelda subreddit, sitting in their triforce shirt with a triforce mug. or—they just go jerk off to Midna porn (that's like 90% of the fanbase; and yeah, I know—Zelda SIMPLY has the best waifus, totally). yeah, please tell me how "nothing simply comes close" to these activities, how other games ARE SIMPLY WORSE, really. I'm pretty sure most of "Zelda fans" don't even play the games most of time.
Anyway, "nothing simply comes close" perfectly encapsulates the state of the majority of Zelda fans. You don't even acknowledge any other game like this; you preemptively dismiss any game that is like Zelda if it has no Zelda name on the cover, while a priori concluding that Zelda is just superior by nature and everything else is literal shovelware. You'd rather tell yourself for the Nth time that your favorite franchise Zelda is the GOAT and everything else is trash to stroke your ego, than ever admit that other games may (MAY) be worth playing.
Game is called Zelda? It's good. Game is not called Zelda? It's bad. This is the definition of "bias" and "fanboyism".
You're exactly like Applefags who'd rather die than touch an Android device and will still insist that it's an inferior OS for inferior people, despite two OSes being the same shit for years now. Zelda is "just superior" same way as Apple "just werks". It's just a brand that is your identity. Zelda is a religion, Zeldafags are fanatics. Maybe get a triforce tattoo, faggot.

As costs rise and more complex tech emerges the amateur coder is kicked out of the bedroom to billion pipeline. Multiple companies become a couple of giants with a monopoly. Game design is decided by a comitee of investors instead of little tommy playing around in BASIC with his original characters. And each professional is just a cog in the mechanism. It happened everywhere, really, it's only more obvious in smaller markets that had healthy amateur scenes.

>>9584615
>>9584424
I think in general the culture shifted from "having fun" and "not being serious" to trying to be as pretentious and "sophisticated" and "deep" as possible. This has been a big swing that started from hipsters.
You see this everywhere. In how many capeshit franchises want to go "serious" like Batman, have some "multiverse" or some shit, while still being stories about heroes in spandex. Or how comedy movies have virtually died. Or how comedy itself was replaced by "postironic" humor (because being actually funny is so 2010). Or the general "no fun allowed" paranoid mentality of America past 9/11, and how a joke can get you fired today.
And of course, the marketing. How Apple got big, how it shifted the market from selling a product to selling an idea or a lifestyle (or even an identity). Everyone wants to mimic iPhone commercials, and they make exactly that—incredibly pretentious yet bland ads about some yoghurt / cereal or a piece of plastic. Everything needs to be "organic", "locally grown", "grass fed", etc. I don't even mention the whole wokism in marketing, when some candy bar companies start treating their product as a political statement.
I guess in the end people will realize that these companies look ridiculous trying to be so pretentious about everything.