Nier creator Yoko Taro reveals the sad reality of modern AAA game development, “there's less weird people making games”

Nier creator Yoko Taro reveals the sad reality of modern AAA game development, “there’s less weird people making games” - VideoGamer

Nier and Nier Automata creator Yoko Taro laments the loss of weird people making games in the modern games industry.

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TL;DR: NieR mastermind Yoko Taro—famous for his off-the-wall antics and games like Drakengard, NieR and NieR: Automata—says modern AAA studios just aren’t as weird or daring as they used to be. Thirty years in the biz has shown him that big budgets breed risk aversion, so unusual creators get sidelined.

Meanwhile, the strangest, most inventive ideas have migrated to the indie scene (think Undertale, Doki Doki Literature Club, Disco Elysium), where low costs mean high weirdness. Yoko even wonders if his own quirky style is the reason we’re still waiting on a true Automata sequel—AAA publishers might just be too scared to fund all that oddball brilliance.