User blog comment:Vlad Nykytiuk/My opinion, why mapping is dying/@comment-31670095-20170727221332/@comment-32542975-20170729052712

I kinda agree with Thundar. Modern Mapping is what ruined mapping. Modern Mapping is developed around a story, a storyline, villains, heroes and other stuff. Modern Mapping is full of cliches, the villain cliche, the epicness cliche, the darkness cliche, the Graxum-Never-Dies cliche. And a very cliche storyline, with the biggest cliche: the villain/main character cliche. Those storylines are just boring, because you can predict the end from the very beginning. That's what makes Modern Mapping cliche.

Certainly, other mapping styles are not perfect. A storyline is fine, and even recommended, but a cliche one kills the series by making them too predictable.