There's nothing exceptional about western video games, but their designs have become more inclusive and, to some degree, less sexist and CIS male pandering only. That said, there's basically nothing about 99% of modern video games that interests me because the games that are made just aren't terribly interesting. They're mostly just endless rehashes of the same game with a different coat of paint. The Souls series was the last time I think we've actually seen a new genre emerge in video games, which tells you how little innovation there's actually been. I'd argue that Kind Words also invented a genre, but it's not a genre that, as yet, has taken off.
I do wonder if it's even possible for people to get tired of First-Person Shooters. It's a genre that's failed upwards in such a spectacular fashion.
Maybe more to the point, the mechanical genres that have been invented, are also largely power fantasies, which is why there's so little diversity. A medium squandered on imagining oneself being above others.
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