Why do developers keep pushing out games with the same futuristic vacation-style island settings? Every game feels like a repeat of glossy tropical worlds that look like postcard getaways instead of original environments. Then there are the characters, always these college drop-out vibes, like they raided some generic stereotype handbook. They don’t feel real or fresh, just like carbon copies of each other.

On top of that, the powers and weapons feel totally recycled. It’s like they pulled them straight from a rainbow colored Happy Meal toy box, bright, flashy, but lacking any real thought or depth. No creativity or risk, just familiar gimmicks we’ve seen a hundred times before.

And yeah sure, if I don’t like it, I can just play something else. But the problem is this keeps happening over and over, like no one is even trying to push the medium forward.