You'll make a phenomenal game, wear your influences on your sleeve, talk about them extensively in interviews, only for every other fan of your work to relentlessly talk down on the foundation you built its identity on. Sad.
Might be one of the best clips to encapsulate the problems with current game discourse
Too many people don’t give articulate personal thoughts on games and just default to buzzwords like “slop” or “soulless” and call it a day. Folks gotta learn to elaborate