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[–] xqvn2 0 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago 

First, no.

Second, for consumers it's a current hip trend being pushed that gives them a facade of extra replayability; for developers, it means they don't have to put as much effort into hand-crafting the actual game experience (level design is hard).

I'm not against procedural generation (I love Dwarf Fortress' worldgen and played a ton of roguelikes before they became every other game on Steam), that's just two obvious answers that came to mind.

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[–] Mr_Teatime 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

I hate most games with procedual generation, because most of them are so lazily designed and have so little actual variation, that you can see the patterns after just a few levels. I honestly can't see an exploration game succeed on procedual generation without most of the work going into the algorithm or the components of the generation.