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I think you make a very good point about subversion and derivation. As I said in a different comment, you just can't make a game like Half-Life 1, because it's been done before. Even if you do it just as well again, it just gets looked at differently. It wasn't there first. The subversion and commentary thing also clearly defines why I think Earthbound is probably far better than Undertale (or maybe even Mother 3).
That being said, I think there's still a lot of room to do new things. You can make genuine stuff while doing some things that you wanted to see done that has never been done before. Undertale did some of that, though it's overridden by all the meta commentary that it did. There's a lot more room for play in video games than there is in movies, since a game can portray a lot more things and be a lot longer. Playing Earthbound is similar to playing LISA: The Painful RPG in mechanics, but there's a hell of a lot of difference in the nuances that I think let it stand on its own, even if it has a lot of flaws.
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