| Samus Aran said: Just compare Killzone to the Metroid Prime trilogy. Metroid has so many original and creative worlds and enemies. I find Killzone to be very bland in comparison. And Metroid is also a game with a human in the spotlight(though she also has Chozo DNA). Sure, Nintendo might not have a lot of new IPs, but let's take Kirby's Epic Yarn as an example. That game looks amazing and creative. The only reason I didn't buy it was because it looked too easy and I like some challenge in my games. Yeah, it has Kirby as the main character, but in reality it's a brand new IP. Nintendo just slapped Kirby on it because it would probably sell better. That's why Nintendo is often reluctant to create brand new IPs with brand new characters. At least that's my take on it. I honestly don't care if the Yarn series use existing characters, as long as the game is good. If Yarn Yoshi is harder than its predecessor I will probably pick it up eventually. The same goes for Luigi's Mansion. It was a brand new game, but Nintendo just took an existing character to play as. Would the game have been any better if they created a brand new character instead of using Luigi? No, it might even be worse because Luigi is quite a hilarious character in that franchise. It fits him like a glove. And anyway, there's a new IP coming out from Miyamoto, so you'll at least have one thing to look forward to. As long as it isn't like Wii Music that is. :) |
And therein lies the rub, even if they develop a new IP the temptation to slap an existing character in to improve sales is too high for them in almost all cases.
