Alex_Mexico
Member
The other day I was going to post a lengthy post talking about how much us on GAF and many other gaming-centric websites we talk so much about wanting games to innovate because that's what we all want and feel should happen in order to spend our money on them and reward said innovative developers.
I was going to say that for every Okami, Ico and Valkyria Chronicles that sell just good enough there's a slew of Maddens, FIFAs, Assassin's Creeds, Call of Dutys and whatnot that sell millions and millions.About how badass and new was Super Mario Galaxy and yet New Super Mario Bros Wii (a great, but by-the-numbers 2D Mario that did nothing new) sold three times as much as SMG did.
And yet I never got around to do it and I'm happy I never did because I saw this video that tells it better than I could ever dream.
Everytime a message board poster talks about how "mundane" Uncharted is by saying how it does nothing new. That third person cover based shooters with a story are nothing new or how they dont like The Last of Us because it lacks some sort of innovation (if I got a penny for everytime someone dissed those games because of that I'd be rich) instead of seeing them as the sum of its parts for how good they are, just remember this: gamers in general hate innovation. And I refer you guys to this video:
https://youtu.be/Cxhs-GLE29Q
Sure. There's always the odd Minecraft every now and then that breaks the mold and makes billions but they're far from the norm.
Thoughts?
I was going to say that for every Okami, Ico and Valkyria Chronicles that sell just good enough there's a slew of Maddens, FIFAs, Assassin's Creeds, Call of Dutys and whatnot that sell millions and millions.About how badass and new was Super Mario Galaxy and yet New Super Mario Bros Wii (a great, but by-the-numbers 2D Mario that did nothing new) sold three times as much as SMG did.
And yet I never got around to do it and I'm happy I never did because I saw this video that tells it better than I could ever dream.
Everytime a message board poster talks about how "mundane" Uncharted is by saying how it does nothing new. That third person cover based shooters with a story are nothing new or how they dont like The Last of Us because it lacks some sort of innovation (if I got a penny for everytime someone dissed those games because of that I'd be rich) instead of seeing them as the sum of its parts for how good they are, just remember this: gamers in general hate innovation. And I refer you guys to this video:
https://youtu.be/Cxhs-GLE29Q
Sure. There's always the odd Minecraft every now and then that breaks the mold and makes billions but they're far from the norm.
Thoughts?