Where have all the artists gone?

>art reflecting our lack of hope and optimism about the future, along with a destroyed faith in our purpose and supremacy of our way of life.
these ideas aren't new though. war of the worlds was published in 1897 and explores all these themes already. you can find hints of them in other works, even don quixote. your obsession with recent political fads and your inability to look at art in any other way renders you functionally illiterate

>Graffiti on literally every vertical surface within arm's reach
>Militarized police milling around, giant police station in view
>Homeless people in dirty clothes loitering
>Trash strewn about
>People in disheveled clothes, not respectable suits and ties
>Anti-car bollards in background, which became popular post-9/11 when we realized Muslims would ram cars into our citizens, and the concept is now in the zeitgeist
The only appealing part of that image is the over-exposed sunlit areas, because the lighting implies that those areas will be less shit-filled than the dark areas.

Optimistic sci-fi is literally the most progressive scenario you could imagine
It's also stupid and gay, go watch Star Trek

>Graffiti on literally every vertical surface within arm's reach
>Militarized police milling around, giant police station in view
>Homeless people in dirty clothes loitering
>Trash strewn about
>People in disheveled clothes, not respectable suits and ties
>Anti-car bollards in background, which became popular post-9/11 when we realized Muslims would ram cars into our citizens, and the concept is now in the zeitgeist
Sounds like Cyberpunk to me.

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>>All modern video games depicting the future depict a shit-filled world
>There were past pieces of literature that explored what would happen if the world was shit-filled
You can't see the difference between "all" and "some." You're a fucking genius

You realize that cyberpunk is a past vision of the present and not actually futuristic right? This is a retrofuturistic view of modernity

People don't pay for art.

>Cyberpunk
That's my point
Where's the vision of the future being cleaner, healthier, being more in-balance with nature, having fancier-looking clothing, etc?

Maybe don't play a game set in a dystopia, user. Though i share some. pd your views, this thread is utterly ridiculous and you should not expect to find beauty in a place known and expected to be ugly.

People generally don't have optimism about the future anymore as all the 20th century sci-fi dreams never really occured and look pretty foolish in retrospect

Every game about the future is a celebration of ugliness. It's not about this game specifically. It's about a trend and our modern outlook on what the future will bring.
Even subtle cues that are deep in the artists subconscious, like "of course we need anti-car barriers. Terrorists or criminals might drive into crowds." Rather than "in the future terrorism and crime will be so low that we can return to what streets looked like at the advent of the automobile, and this will unlock a whole new layout for cities' designs."

Art imitates life.
It's also pretty based that a hedonistic shithole is acknowledged as a dystopia.

>People generally don't have optimism about the future anymore
That's why it'd be interesting for a new artist to imagine this. Like wondering what society would be like if there was a neo-Christian revivalism and how it would inform social programs and structure, maybe decades after new Crusades. Or something like that

Is it though? I feel like it's fetishzed, not vilified. And it all informs our subconscious understanding of the future, or at least one potential future.
And many visions of the future seem to agree.

>Where's the vision of the future being cleaner, healthier, being more in-balance with nature, having fancier-looking clothing, etc?
sid meier's alpha centauri
no man's sky
mass effect
halo
ftl
all star trek games
stellaris

also lots of games have utopian elements with local dystopia. the doom and dead space worlds are pretty utopian outside of the individual disasters depicted in the games

>neo-Christian revivalism
>maybe decades after new Crusades
Why are all people who pretend to be moral on the Internet cringy poltards? Is it possible for you to have a sense of morality without being a racist, superstitous piece of shit?

You seem extremely triggered by the concept of Christianity. I doubt you'd react that way if I casually mentioned the possibility of a game aiming towards Satanism.

I can't help but feel a bit of contempt for anyone who devotes a significant amount of energy towards making a dystopic world. Like, what's the point of it unless you're just going to use it to push a message? At least Orwell's awful writ has that to its credit.

I can't help but feel that pouring your soul into making a world as beautiful as possible is infinitely nobler than making something that is intentionally, or perhaps worse, unintentionally ugly.

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Christianity is Satanism
If you just mentioned Christianity I'd just think you were stupid
you mentioning crusades is the worst part

The technical definition of "sin" is to "miss the mark" or "to aim away from the mark."
It seems possibly sinful to devote your creative spirit towards an exploration of hell when your purpose isn't to better understand how to reach heaven.

>This game is so fucking ugly.
No, its absolutely not you try hard faggot. Its one of the most impressive looking and sounding game ever made. You faggots are just trying to hard at this point.

Do you have any kind of argument other than confirming that you are indeed only upset that I would dare talk about things?

what would you want then OP?

Argument? You're a moron, I was just expressing my dislike that everyone who pretends to be moral is a cringy poltard larping as a christian
jesus christ would never have approved the crusades
christianity is a false religion, it's satanism