I can't HNNNGGGG enough reading that first post quote.
Man, effort, pfft, it's so not contemporary.
This is why bullshit like Call of Duty, Jackson Pollock, Kanye-Gaga, whatever your "flavor of hell" is get's praised. Touting
approach as if it's intended and not at all to do with the easiest sell and product, brand.
Strategy games are hard to balance and perfect, likewise play, painting volumes and thinking about material approach, proportion, structure of composition is hard, and designing and perfecting melodies and compelling arrangements in music over the course of years to make a truly lasting song is hard.
Much easier to forgo all that, make a first person shooter complete with "setpiece_shamylantwist_04.map", slap some streaks at a canvas and pin an aftermarket meaning onto it, and auto-arpeggio a whole "
track" in 2 hours to be consumed like crumbs of dogshit falling on an anthill.
These things sell, and disturbingly earn praise, worst of all their crimes.
Old NEVER means bad. It can only mean "limited in execution" IF it was ever even limited by the technology of the time. RTS certainly isn't something that's inherently old or inferior.
The progression for newer, better, interesting ideas has dissipated for the focus of easier, faster, safe, 'needed' ideas.
The future is flawed.
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