| Ka-pi96 said: I regularly see people complaining about consoles or games lacking innovation. But why are people so obsessed about things being innovative? Does innovation automatically make things better? No! Forget about whether something is innovative or not. It's a game, is it fun? That's what should matter! What do you think? Do you just enjoy games for what they are, or do you demand innovation constantly? Why? |
Of course not, but a lack of innovation can never make things better... on a technical standpoint stagnation will keep things exactly the same forever whereas for us the gamers, stagnation can only make things slowly worse because humans crave new experience. A game may be brilliant, best game ever material but if you have played 20 games that have similar gameplay before it it will not seem as good.
Obviously I am using extreme examples here as it is impossible for a game to have no innovation at all... and certainly for a time most people are happy playing very similar games but with a new story or new characters, but eventually they get bored. I think I get bored of specific types of game relatively quickly in a way, I suspect it is because I play the individual games themselves to death. (so for example I buy Mario Kart and play it almost exclusively for a few months, then I am not interested in buying another similar game for years, and probably won't even play any racing game for months)
