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Carl on 02 January 2010
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Khuutra said:
Carl2291 said:
Khuutra said:

It really, really doesn't

Can you go ahead and name the highest-ratd games for each platform? I think they're GTAIV, Galaxy, Twilight Princess, Halo 3? ...Maybe Bioshock? I know I'm forgetting some

Did i say it counts the most? No. I said it counts. You cannot really argue that.

But hey, Heres a quote from one of the SMG Reviews - "Innovative level design, original gameplay, the best graphics and soundtrack on Wii to date, and the return to form of the first true superstar of videogames" (TVG)

GTA4 - "But perhaps the biggest innovation is the notion that you can create a game that's as valid a piece of art as any book or movie." (Team Xbox)

Should i carry on finding reviews where reviewers talk about innovation?

I can, though. I'm doing it right now.

One can argue that Mario Galaxy has innovative level design, and to a degree that's true, but it as since been pointed as as still being samey - just Sunshine on globes without FLUDD, etc.

And that isn't actually an innovation on GTAIV's part.

My point is that the majority - the vast majority - of 90+ games on metacritic, for all platforms, are rehashes and sequels. We'll take the PS3 as an example:

*Big list here*

Now let's see here. From this list of 20, we have 12 sequels, some rehashes, recollections.... the only really original, innovative titles on the whole list are LittleBigPlanet and Braid, and one of those is a port and both of them are platformers. You could make an argument for Arkham Asylum though, I suppose.

The 360 and Wii's lists look much the same.

Innovation is nont one of the primary factors in review scores here, and a lack thereof is not what accounts for New Super Mario Bros. Wii's review scores. Easier to say that reviewers just didn't like it as much as the average Wii owner. That's been the case with plenty of games before.

Then we obviously just disagree on it.

I gave examples where reviewers talk about innovation in games. Proving that it can count. I can find multiple other examples too where innovation (Or lack of it) is talked about... While i agree it isn't one of the primary things (Presentation, gameplay, graphics and replayability IMO) it is still there and it does help in reviews.