vanatos on 04 December 2009
Stop overanalyzing shit.
Games which focus on fun and are quirky=most people enjoy
Games which focus on being serious (and almost always will have story)=niche, only some people enjoy.
To put it another way, after SNES, games started moving into serious mature mode (More and more blood and gore, focus on adult themes like war etc, focus on realism overt art).
And the industry has been losing the mass market customers ever since
