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disolitude on 24 February 2009
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largedarryl said:

I read this and have a hard time agreeing with the consumers rejection of new/innovative ideas. Yes, the industry is currently littered with sequals hogging the sales spotlight, but I then realize that Assassin's Creed and the Wii are extremely popular.

I think there is a confusion in the minds of many people, consumers tend to not by:
1: Crap - just because a game has a great idea/concept, delivery will decide on quality
2: Games they don't like - Western society is adverse to specific types of art style, hence why games like NMH, Okami, etc. have limited successes in comparison to similar playstyle games with a more Westernized art style.

A lot of games that are "crap" tend to sell well but I do agree that not all new/innovative ideas do badly. I mean, look at Left 4 Dead.

I think one of the problems right now is that the gaming industry collected a huge number of casual gamers. These people probably wouldn't have ay more fun with Jet Grind Radio than they would with Tony Hawk 21. Perception of what is original and should be rewarded and what is a hack copy paste job is not distingushable to a vast number of gamers.

At this point though, I would be happy if sega were to sacrifice Sonic and say..."look, we have to do 3 crap sonic games a year in order to get funding to release great original games".  I mean, I love Sonic but the industry has become quite savage. Unless you have 10 million advertising dollars and a mountain of hype, your game does not matter these days.