But what can they do to make the gameplay more innovative without making it completely ridiculous.
They can't keep delaying otherwise their platform will have no killer apps.
Well, this is set in a location with monsters and stuff right? So why not have over the top weapons ala Ratchet and Clank. You can have exploding crossbows that have splash fire damage (hit one eneime, they become a bomb for example), holy cannons that have rockets filled with holly water, machine guns that have homing silver bullets, ect. I am not a game designer, so I don't know if those would work well or not, but just some examples of what I was trying to get across.
As for delaying the game....Sony, while this may sound really sad, doesn't need strong first party anymore like they did with the PS3. They HAVE the third parties, the definitive versions, like how the 360 worked, so while people got little first parties they also got the best non-PC versions of games. With the PS4, we will got indies and AAA games from third parties, so while Sony should have great 1st party games like Infamous, they don't need to have them be nearly as frequent.
I don't know, I just want this game to be great .