/vr/ - Retro Games

Is this another thread in which we can post non-retro games as long as it is not from a 6th gen console?

Communities were smaller but diverse, which resulted in a bigger amount of genres of good quality.

As things become popular, you now have to please everybody, reducing to a minimum the most interesting features.

Yes, it's true that indie exists, but only a small bunch of them make quality and innovative games. The rest clones metroid or zelda. They have no power to influence the industry. So we are stuck in a safe space of games that either provides old gameplay with new stories, or games that rehash what others made with a custom skin.

Just compare a crpg of the eighties with one released nowdays. The crpg crowd knew what they wanted and crpgs had a clear direction. There was space for innovations, but also incentive. Indies could make interesting games as they aren't kept back by resources ('make sure your game looks good while everything else suffer) or expectations.