The problem isn’t that they are making high quality clones. The problem is that people crap out shit-tier clones en masse before you can even release, making the good original game basically invisible in store fronts and creating an association of the genre with low effort asset flips in the customers minds.
Personally, I think it is a good thing: 95% of what humanity produces is crappy or forgettable, the stuff that is good is likely to be remembered. The bigger the crap pile, the greater odds of finding gems after the pile has been sifted through.
If a million monkeys can eventually produce the works of Shakesphere, and you can get a trillion monkeys, you will get even more masterworks. Even better, our monkeys understand the goal, their purpose, and become ever more capable over time.
Speaking as a consumer of media with niche tastes, this is an improvement over the old way of doing things. We may get an adventure game based on the Rankin-Bass Hobbit’s aesthetic, an remake of the entire Quest for Glory series, or something we have yet to conceive of.
The problem isn’t that they are making high quality clones. The problem is that people crap out shit-tier clones en masse before you can even release, making the good original game basically invisible in store fronts and creating an association of the genre with low effort asset flips in the customers minds.
We already have a mountain of asset flips anyway.
Personally, I think it is a good thing: 95% of what humanity produces is crappy or forgettable, the stuff that is good is likely to be remembered. The bigger the crap pile, the greater odds of finding gems after the pile has been sifted through.
If a million monkeys can eventually produce the works of Shakesphere, and you can get a trillion monkeys, you will get even more masterworks. Even better, our monkeys understand the goal, their purpose, and become ever more capable over time.
Speaking as a consumer of media with niche tastes, this is an improvement over the old way of doing things. We may get an adventure game based on the Rankin-Bass Hobbit’s aesthetic, an remake of the entire Quest for Glory series, or something we have yet to conceive of.