Why aren't there more parody games? I don't want to see indy jank #562 or corpo slop 5000, I want omages to the games I used to play that were popular because they were good.

We've gotten too focused on experimenting, either with new mechanics or graphics, what we need is refinement, and nothing breeds refining better than the mocking cruelty of derisive laughter.

There are too many imitators right now, too many 'new' games that just feel like the same thing we've seen a million times before. Its like how people say, they want something that is "the same, but different." the best way to do that is to make a pastiche, showing whats changed and what hasn't, whats classic and whats cringe.

>>2063195 (OP)
no comments? not even to call me a faggot?

>>2063195 (OP)
DId you mean to post this in /vst/? This seems like a general critique on the industry

>>2063241
i mostly play strategy games. force of habit i guess.

Because every conceptual premise is mined out already. Same reason Starship Troopers doesn't work as a parody anymore.

>>2063255
homeworld 3 is a pretty good parody strategy game

>>2063195 (OP)
"Just make older games, but better"
As though Devs don't already remake, "spiritually succeed", and remaster
Your post is stupid

>>2063281
Idiot.
Do you not know what a 'parody' is?

>>2064011
You are some mad ESL using words incorrectly
Ah yes the "parody strategy game", a long-time source of amazing games

>>2064211
So your saying its never been tried before.

Only outright parody game I can think of that isn't a small indie joke game. Though this game is a joke, but it's not very funny.

>>2063261
this

>>2063259
>Same reason Starship Troopers doesn't work as a parody anymore.
Was it ever one t begin with, outside of the movie series' universe?

>>2064988
>Was it ever a parody, outside of the time it was a parody?