rocket i think your problem is that you aren't playing the games. You are critiquing them. Ask anybody that has ever become a critic of anything and you'll realize they hate what they do.
food critics find food boring and uninspired
movie critics find movies trite and unoriginal
when you start to look at something from a critics point of view, you take yourself out of the experience in order to look at it from a certain perspective. You do not immerse yourself in the "art" that was designed to be played, and not critiqued for whatever similar game elements it shares with other games.
Play the game next time.
I thought heavenly sword was a phenomenal game. It does some things different from GoW. I'm not saying buy into every clone game. But give stuff a chance before you liken to it other games and claim rip-off.
The real hard part is making a game with the same feel. There are tons of copycat games. Some get the feel right, and things just come together. So try listening to the feel of the game. I'll tell you right now halo3 don't have it and niether does GeOW. Dead Rising could have been perfect had they designed for feel rather than marketing. There is such thing as a feel. It's what makes certain books best sellers, certain tv shows popular,and movies, oscar's.
Like family guy----> american dad. Same exact humor and formula. No feel. sucky show.
try playing like a gamer, and not some snooty elitist.
