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"Trimble Bracegirdle" <no-spam@never.spam> looked up from reading the
entrails of the porn spammer to utter  "The Augury is good, the signs
say:

><<<<"something has died in gaming that we are not getting back, 
>...I am not even 30 yet. ....Just being old">>>.
>
>Now there's a comfort . I'm twice that age + + +. 
>& struggle to think "Its me = Old.....not the games gone boring"
>But IT IS  the dull unimaginative, energy gone out sequels..sequels .. 
>
>I see a lot of comments on upcoming titles re. waiting for the next Gen.
>Consoles e.g.. 2014.
>So perhaps it will all wake up then.
>But there is a dreadful shortage of new game ideas anywhere. 

Oh I don't think that's true exactly.

There's a dreadful shortage of new game ideas actually being developed
by any major game studio since the bean counters in charge all follow
the sequels = guaranteed profit mantra.
Same thing Hollywood is doing, same reasons, same result, crappy sequels
and "remakes".

The imaginations are out there, the ideas are out there, just no one
seems willing to even consider risking the financing to make them,
instead staying on the rehash/remake treadmill.

The seeming dumbing down of games from all genres to be able to be
played with a console controller isn't helping either - it almost always
"forces" the developers to "streamline" the controls/gameplay.

Some small studio will make one of those new idea games, manage to get
it published somewhere and sell like wildfire if for no reason other
than it's not the same old game in new clothes, then all the big studios
will leap to make 3rd rate clones of it for the next 5 years until the
process repeats.

Xocyll
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