Nobody has accused them of brown.
They do, though. It’s always “games” are brown with a wink-wink nudge-nudge that certain games aren’t really games. If they were being fair, they would clarify that they mean that it’s FPS and RPGs they mean.
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RamRabbit@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I would be interested in the graphs, but with Sports and Nintendo games removed. Nobody has accused them of brown.
Did shooters specifically get more brown? Even with this analysis I’m positive they did.
chunes@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Aielman15@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Yeah, the video puts a LOT of data together, but I don’t think that it reads it correctly and the conclusion is skewed. At a certain point, it says “for every brown game, there’s a Just Dance or Super Mario game to balance it off”, which, sure, it’s technically true, but nobody ever accused those games to be brown in the first place.
There certainly was a tendency in using a more prominent brown/green filter in games during that time. The video posits that it may be due to gamers aging (something along the line of “a player playing Kingdom Hearts on PS2 who then grows up and plays Gears of War on X360 may wonder where the colours went”), but I remember a lot of series turning brown that weren’t before: compare Ace Combat 4 to Ace Combat 6, Resident Evil 3 to Resident Evil 5, and even Call of Duty 2 to Modern Warfare 2.
Yosmonkol@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
To your second point you might find some explanations in film studies. The rise of viscerally violent zombie/horror movies of the 2000s has been widely discussed. Its typically attributed to: political instability (911/war on terror); fear of diseases (2002 SARS/1999 west nile virus); natural disasters (Huricane Katrina 2005/climate change); and economic crisis (dotcom bubble 2000/2007 economic recession). Essentially widespread fears and anxieties shape our media and I think (some) video games being darker, grittier, and more violent in that time period reflect this.