And little prior art to draw inspiration from! The 1980-2000 era was just a raw font of imagination for video games. Since then things have become more iterati

And little prior art to draw inspiration from! The 1980-2000 era was just a raw font of imagination for video games. Since then things have become more iterative and tend to focus on maximizing profits, though thankfully there is a lot of creativity in indie studios/solo devs being empowered by the increasing ease of modern game engines, and even some bigger studios here and there, like FromSoftware.