Most of today´s games are still un-/surealistic imo and they will always be. I`m currently playing Ninja Town, Lemmings and Lumines. If the industry will ever try to reach realism with the majority of their games, it wil lose most of their fans.
You think games should return to surrealism? I think they never left.
I also think that many people mistake the internet community and gaming media overhype of lots of "realistic" FPSes and action games as a threat to classic pure game concepts. This threat was never there imo. In fact it will always be cheaper to create unrealistic, yet inspired games like World of Goo, Braid, Castle Crashers, N+, Pixeljunk Eden and many many others. But not only most downloadable games are completely un- and surealistic, but also most retail games. Fortunately this won´t change anytime soon, if ever at all.
