@Banana
Nintendo usually comes out with something very new each generation. Not just a new IP, but quite often a new genre. You mention a game like Uncharted or others that were new... and they are... but they are just new takes on an adventure games or stealth games or whatever. Nintendo makes new genres, like "the platformer" Marios Bros, "kart games" MarioKart or the "3d platformer" Mario 64. Most modern 3D adventures borrow heavily from what Zelda OoT innovated. You get a strategy title like Pikmin that was like nothing else. Wii sports was a completely new experience that, again, made a new genre that we now call "motion gaming". Mario Galaxy is game experience like nothing else that really made me giggle a few times. As a person who has played and enjoyed Nintendo software for 3 decades now, I enjoy playing those games both for what I can count on (quality, established themes), and for the element of surprise that will turn genres on their edge or makes entire new ones.
I think you mistake familiar characters with familiar gameplay, which are very different things. I can't wait for the reveal of the next 3D Mario... will it be like Galaxy... or something totally new as Galaxy was, as Super Mario Bros was, as Mario 64 was? I can do this while at the same time knowing that whatever it will be, it will be good because their quality is unmatched. I would argue that Mario Galaxy is far more fresh than LBP, that LBP is more inspired my Super Mario Bros. than Galaxy is. And I'm not bashing LBP or Sony in anyway. I'm not an exclusive Nintendo gamer, I like all games, including Nintendo software.
I think the one series that has become stale a bit is Zelda. I would like to see something totally fresh with the next one. I really cool, mystical visual style with dramatic fantasy environments. I would like the gameplay mixed up with quicker combat and less z-targeting. I would enjoy if it borrowed elements from a game it clearly inspired, Arkham Asylum. I would really like to see a game that dramatically switched up the status quo like OoT.
As someone who enjoys Nintendo games, I'm looking forward to both the familiar and whatever curve ball they throw us next.
