Why do people want studios to only work on the same things?

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FloatingWaffles said:

Veknoid_Outcast said:
Well, I have to disagree because I think some genres ARE lesser. Not objectively, but in the minds of all players. If the Zelda team decided to make a virtual novel or Insomniac made a flight simulator I would be bummed, because I like action games most.

So while I think the pain over Tropical Freeze, for example, was overdone I appreciate that some fans simply don’t enjoy 2D platformers.

I think it's completely understandable for there to be disappointment if your favorite developer for example ended up working on something that you personally aren't interested in, but acknowledging that for some, maybe what they were doing before didn't catch their interest and now their new thing is. Games being "lesser" will always just come down to personal opinion and taste in what someone prefers, but like you said objectively speaking no genre's are necessarily "lesser" by default. 

The thing with Tropical Freeze is that it wasn't just people who don't enjoy 2D Platformers, the game was basically ridiculed because Retro Studios chose to make another Donkey Kong game instead of milk out another Metroid game of which they would have had no passion in doing so then which is probably why we still don't even see them being the developers of Metroid Prime 4. They wanted to focus on the fact that it wasn't Metroid rather than the game itself which turned out great, and I can already see the same thing happening with some of what i've seen posted around the internet about Sekiro where the game itself will probably be great but will still be criticized for something it was never meant to be.

You mention Insomniac Games and I think that's actually a pretty good example. They went from creating the remake of Ratchet & Clank in 2016 which was fantastic to the also fantastic Spider-Man PS4 game just 2 years later. It's a good example of a studio showing they can switch between different things like that and all of them are still great. Should they never be able to do another Ratchet & Clank game again now after Spider-Man? Will the next R&C game, assuming it happens, also just be met with "Why are they wasting time on this and not Spider-man 2"? Surely some will see another R&C game as "lesser" because of Spider-Man now.

It just feels like people are putting this image on developers that once they hit a certain level they can't go back to anything else because that's all of a sudden "lesser/a waste of time" when it shouldn't be looked at that way because that basically limits creativity and tells developers they can't actually work on what they themselves want to. If my favorite developer decided to work on something else that was completely different I would be excited because it must mean they have a good reason for wanting to try that genre out, such as a good gameplay idea. It's why I personally was so excited and bought Artifact (from Valve) on day one even despite having never played a CCG video game before, because they're one of my favorite developers and I was excited to see what they would do with it.

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