When will we see the next "genre/generation defining" game??

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StephanieCurry said:

Innovation is a slippery slope as I largely believe innovation is really just the evolution of the same ideas we have already seen before and I think more credit has to go to the first person who does it right as opposed to just the first person to do it.

I can see where you're coming from, and it's quite a reasonable position to take, but in this particular case I've come to weigh the scales in favor of RE4. But I don't pretend that's some objective truth; in fact, as I said in a post after yours I started on the opposite side of the fence.

Taking a step back to the broader thesis though, I think it's illustrative that no one's really stepped forward for any of the other games listed in the OP. Perhaps that might change with time, but folks would be hard pressed to defend many of those examples. I'm especially looking at Bioshock...