>>725437672
>Why have we lost the ability to make games like this ?
Corporatization of gaming(taking the fun out of making games), dilution of talent pool(competent people go work easier jobs for better pay), ideological primacy over "fun" because games have become propaganda just like Hollyweird(this was inevitable due to games eclipsing the main propaganda mechanism of Hollywood), normalization of games as bread&circus way of pacifying large populations(slop), centralization(rat faced coin counters buying everything), greed, shortsightedness(stupidity).
Add to that an overall decay in competence across large swathes of industries due to nepotism and racial/gender discrimination against the people who created this type of games and you have a perfect recipe for mediocrity while competitors are swooping in to buyout everything.(china)