• Is the Machinima Genre Dying?
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As the years go by I see that most actual Machinima developers have left for greener pastures or forgoe'd it entirely, rather what the term Machinima is the Machinima Channel on youtube and what it puts out, which instead of Machinima they are regularly now using Let's Plays and "Top 10 of _____" and that the quality of Machinima has dropped completely off the map. Thoughts?
Machinima used to mean "movies made in games rather than specialist software" Now it's just "1337 gaming channel wit cod montages"
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I never realized this... But you're right. Never thought 'bout it.
It's quite sad.
You just don't see it that much anymore, the Machinima youtube channel just killed it. That channel used to mean something more than never ending cod frag videos and the shit digitalphear makes.
It seems that those who aren't really to do with machinima (I'm thinking of yogscast here) may not be as popular as machinima "directors", if you so wish to call them that, but their content seems much more creative and like the old school stuff. Yeah the Yogscast may just be an elaborate Let's Play of Minecraft but they add their own twists to the story. I don't actually watch the yogscast, their voices annoy me, but this is just what I've noticed.
I think the fact that fewer games allow custom content contributes to it too. Source games are popular for machinima because of how customizable they are.
I think the term machinima got more widespread, allowing people who dont quite grasp the concept of machinima to give it a try. This results in tons of Cod-montages, Minecraft lets plays and Gmod hurr-durr videos. There are still good machinimas out there, there is just more stuff to dig through in order to find them.
It's dying because Machinima sucks the souls out of the people who it recruits.
Used to love all the stuff digitalph33r put out but it got more and more cringe. Watched an episode about a week ago and I didn't even smile at the video that used to make me laugh so much! Its very sad.
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