Feel the "Character" of Games Have Gone Down?

[Kriven]

I want to say modern games lack character because a large number of developers are using similar styles and gameplay elements... Yet at the same time, there's a huge number of creative, charismatic IPs if you care to look for them. No More Heroes, Shovel Knight, Shantae is iffy because she's a dated character, but she's only really started to shine in the previous generation. There's just hundreds of games coming out every month... most of them look the same... but that's always been true, and its always going to be true, and it's true of all creative things.

Do I think there is less charisma in the modern gaming environment than there was ten or twenty years ago? Absolutely not. There's just more mid-list material than there used to be.