the writer discusses how the games listed as "masterpieces" are all similar and how they don't truly provide any innovation.
Innovation (adding new things) isn't related at all with being a masterpiece (having a top, supreme quality) or not. A game can be a masterpiece with zero innovation, and a super innovative game can (and in most cases are) a complete turd.
Seems to believe that modern video games are way too focused on being acknowledged by hollywood.
This means that the writer has no idea about the insane diversity type of games that are available in the market. And also being great in quality and sales.
The writer goes further into saying that games are following the leader and not bringing their own flair to the game.
Any product of any market look at what people like and what it works to use it as reference. Publishers and developers would be retarded and irresponsible if they would spend hundreds of millions of someone else money without taking into consideration what it works.
Not trying to summarize, so it's best to read yourself. Do you guys think that the word "masterpiece" has become warped in this era. Let me know what you guys think.
Full Article:
https://www.thegamer.com/the-word-masterpiece-has-lost-all-meaning-in-modern-gaming/
I think the writer doesn't know that different people has different tastes or what a masterpiece means.
Also acts as if introducing new stuff would be something good, when new things can be bad things and being a masterpiece means top tier execution, not top tier creativity. Also acts as if big blockbusters needed or should to make big changes when they don't: if games like TLOU, BotW or GoWR get great sales and reviews it's because people love them. Sure, no game is perfect and always can be improved but games like these three are a masterpiece because of their outstanding top quality show that they mastered that, not because they are so innovative and created something new.
As an example, BotW and GoWR don't add anything new: everything they did was already done by other blockbusters before. But they are masterpieces because what they did they did it in a masterful way, at a level of quality that nobody or only a few did before.