It is this one. (Gaming)

by Cody Miller , Music of the Spheres - Never Forgot, Friday, May 05, 2017, 14:27 (2760 days ago) @ General Battuta

Expanding production budgets mean a narrower range of fiction and mechanics get explored.

That is just factually incorrect.

What low budget game brought raids and integrated co-op play to FPS like Destiny did?
What low budget game gave us the storytelling and narrative freedom of Until Dawn?
What low budget game did open world as well as MGS V, Horizon Zero Dawn, or Breath of the Wild?
What low budget game is telling a story as rich and believable as Uncharted 4?

Where are these games with small production budgets that do interesting things that last?

If what you say is true, then Kickstarter would be flooded with cool, interesting, low budget games. No publishers, and you answer only to the fans right? And what are we getting from kickstarter? What are former masters of their craft like John Romero and Tim Schafer using it for?

Retro games. Oh…

Large developers and big publishers can take more risks, not fewer. They have the resources to follow up with cool new ideas, but more importantly, they can absorb failures. Just look at the history of games.

Plus, people have heterodox tastes. Let's say I'm a big fan of Brood War and Homeworld. What do I have to be excited about this year?

Uh, the Starcraft HD re-master? :-p