I watched the Microsoft E3 conference for the first time this year. I have had barely any exposure to PS1/PS2 games and none to HD games before then.
I've got to say every game looked the same. I was actually laughing by the end, I thought it was some sort of parody. Every game was, regardless of genre or story, individual quicktime action setpieces (exploding helicopters, terrorist villages) seperated by cutscenes. There was no real player choice and no distinction between horror or action or RPG except for the colour of the pixels.
I blame Hollywood. All the devs are trying to get their games as close as they can to movies for the prestige; and movies don't have interactivity or story through doing - they have showing, and telling, and explosions.
(If people don't read the first post they'll think this thread is about Wii Sports. Actually Wii Sports doesn't succumb to this as it's hard to master and different from everything else on the market when it launched. The 360 games of E3 are the truly casual games)
