So what is this new game Demigod?

[Humakty]

Mass consumption destroys creativity ?

Let us hope web developpers/editors will be able to endure,multiply and cover the world with their offspring.

[Illuminated One]

Originally Posted by Humantky

I was maybe excessive, but anyway in most RTS there aren't that many viable strategies with a given faction. Sure there are some variations, from the tank spamming of C&C to the relatively diverse possibilities of an 'age of', but for an optimal gameplay you're most of the time narrowed into a specific strategy, which kills the pleasure when you discover 'iteration X' of the good old genre that'll have to do till developpers decide that shinny graphics aren't doing a great game all on their own.

I agree with you I just don't think that's something tied to RTS.
The problem is imho that simple and uncreative works have the best return ratio.
A good idea might still fail in practice, costs more to develop and can't be marketed as easily. Everyone knows what WW2 or "with Role Playing Elements" means but if you make something creative and succeed it might still be that you'd never get enough attention to make it worthwhile.
Maybe not mass consumption destroys creativity but the excessive competition of today. Damn I get to political now where's me beer?

[JimMorrison]

Originally Posted by Illuminated One

Maybe not mass consumption destroys creativity but the excessive competition of today. Damn I get to political now where's me beer?

But..... the right-wing capitalists all say that market competition spurs creativity. It can't be that they were wrong all along..... could it?

[Agema]

Originally Posted by JimMorrison

But..... the right-wing capitalists all say that market competition spurs creativity. It can't be that they were wrong all along..... could it?

No, they're probably right. It's just that along with every creative genius there are dozens of people who know a quick buck can be made from a close enough copy of the creative genius, and a public that's often happy with the same thing repeated until it goes out of fashion.