Some sequels need to take a break for a while
I'm not saying that all sequels are shameless money grabs, and there haven't been any good one's ever, but there sure as hell seems to be more stinkers riding the coattails of nostalgia than there needs to be.
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It's because Hollywood doesn't like taking chances. I actually just read an article about this: Hollywood Needs to Prioritize Research and Development or It Will Die.
No courage, no creativity. Studios specifically focus on existing IPs and banking on nostalgia, it's basically their entire M.O. at this point. Remakes of movies, remakes of TV shows, sequels. I think that's one of the reason indie games are so popular, because they're visions created by a passionate person or small group of people, they take risks, they're not designed from the ground up by a committee.
Hollywood is unlikely to change anytime soon: it doesn't learn from its failures, it blames the fans of the IP for having bad taste.
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Thats because statistical analysis companies and their consequences have been a disaster for the human race.
Most businesses, including hollywood and the gaming industry, there is a push to try to understand human beings using numbers, and when something works once, it must do so again right? If that failed, well its not because we try to quantify things with numbers that cannot be quantified, its just somewhere a number is wrong, thats the real problem right?
One of the funniest examples is Walmart in Germany, it failed because of the culture they brought from the US that just isn't compatible with ours. People just didn't wanna go their because of their greeters and smiles, its something that puts us off like you wouldn't believe. Not smiling might make an american think they are not appreciated or something like that, but a german?
It straight up triggers our fight or flight response, the smiles they are forced to give causes a german woman to switch the side of the street and pick up the pace, man will to stare at you trying to figure out if you going to jump on them with a knife the second the back is turned. Walmart was the uncanny valley here.
Yet everything was blamed, few things were tried but always at the wrong place, they saw what works in their biggest markets and hey, numbers on spreadsheet say this, it can't possibly be wrong! It must have been the laws that prevents predatory pricing! Or those workers unions (especially those evil communists at ver.di!), thats to blame for the lack of customers right? It couldn't have been us not understanding those germans (WHAT ARE GERMANS EVEN, I LOOKED AT SPREADSHEET, NUMBER DID NOT QUANTIFY GERMAN) and creeping them at every turn.
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Reading this thread has been bewildering. Watching people form coherent sentences and have an actual human discussion on a DbD board is giving me whiplash compared to the constant coping, screaming and complaining from the insane individuals on DbD twitter. My brain can't comprehend it, this is a DbD fan, but he's talking like an actual human and making sense?
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Off Topic boards on many communities are the most enjoyable because that is where the people who come to do more than just complain and leave in between matches hang out.
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It's a strange situation, controlled as much by the consumer as the creators.
Many people want new, exciting stuff, but at the same time people flock towards remakes, sequels and so on. It's been this way for quite some time.
I suppose bringing sequels back may sometimes reinvigorate the creative muse, and in gaming and movies it may inspire others to find out what worked before and come up with something new.
Personally, from a gaming perspective, I hope the Silent Hill 2 remake inspires people to create unique horror games and learn from how it works so well. From a movie perspective, I feel the relatively newer, topical films such Us, Pearl, Midsommer, M3gan and similar opens fresher avenues, rather than another Friday 13th film which is a quick buck.
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