Vidya games always seem like they're trying to jump on bandwagons far too late. Doing the whole Marvel-esque thing (which is absolutely true, video game writers in the last few years have visibly tried to ape that style) when in 2024 even normies largely hate it and the Marvel movies are going into the toilet.
It's too late to change direction now.
I don't think they're necessarily trying to ape Marvel movies directly. A lot of these video game writers were adolescents/teens when Joss Whedon was king, so his quip-heavy writing style (which yes, then became part of the Marvel approach, thanks to his involvement) is baked into their brains.
Which is funny, since he got canceled years ago.
The difference is that Whedon, even though I don't particularly like his writing style, has a sharp wit and can actually be rather funny, especially during his peak (Firefly imo).
All these millennial writers are trying to imitate his style with nothing of substance. It's all so horribly bland and unwilling to take risks. These are writers who have nothing to say, no ambitions of their own, too hampered to say anything offensive or interesting.
So what do you have left when it's not art, it's not passion, and it's not even entertaining enough to be called entertainment?
It's just consumerist garbage.
