Poll: creativity virus?

[ChromeAlchemist]

No. The only thing that is killing creativity in the mainstream is a market that will swallow up the latest shooter and cutting edge graphical fidelity that forces big companies to spew out the latest shooter because it's a sure thing to turn over profit with the amount of money you sink into games these days, at least a lot more profit than an original game.

However if you look past the mainstream, you will find original ideas, great stories and other underused concepts. But no one plays indie, small budget and point and click games unless Steam has a sale, so everyone assumes creativity is dead.

 

[Mordwyl]

Actually, NOT taking risks in this business spells downfall. If companies do not take necessary risks they'll never evolve and grow. No exception.

Did these people never pay attention to their entrepreneurship classes?

 

[Canadamus Prime]

I blame big corporate executives who sit around in board rooms wearing expensive suits and smoking expensive cigars and wouldn't know fun if it bit 'em in their extremely over-paid asses. Also they only see games in terms of profit margins.

 

[Phoenix Arrow]

Is it me or is creativity dead in video games.
Is their virus that goes around killing new ideas for games.
All the newest games seem to get more and more bland now or are sequels. (Arkham asylum looks cool but that doesn't count and I havent played it yet.)

I wish to find another game like Eternal Darknes

It's all been done.
I sort of get it though. I mean, look at shooters. You used to get different ideas in them. Half-Life for example. But now it seems like you mostly only get military themes going on. I can only assume that the big companies want these gritty games so they can be taken seiously by the outside.
Fighters are getting stupid now. They used to have some kind of narrative to them but now it's just punch them all up please. You used to have Darkstalkers, Fatal Fury, Samurai Shodown and the like but now it's just Street Fighters main series, Tekken and Soul Calibur aka the video game whore. King of Fighters still exists but have any of you seen the latest instalment? It takes the piss. The sprites look stupid and there are barely any characters. Those were the two main selling points of the series, a wide range of characters and fighting styles and it was so pretty. Now it's stupid.

 

[Bulletinmybrain]

There are tons of new, innovative games.

Just wait for a new Valve game to come out, it will blow your socks off in it's epic newness.

There isn't enough boundary pushing in my opinion, they have their own little niche they won't come out of. (Nor can they make games at a good pace)

 

[oppp7]

Why does everyone keep saying this? The whole "late ninties were better" argument is missing the key point that it was only new gameplay because it was the start of 3d. The new games aren't bad. Hell, some of them are better than the old games. But if you're waiting for a new genre (which I get the impression of from most of these topics), then you should wait for a new spatial dimension to be discovered.

 

[TriggerUnhappy]

It's true that there is a lack of creativity, however there is still hope. Case in point: Brutal Legend.

 

[Spaghetti]

It's just like movies - if it keeps making money, then they'll keep churning out rubbish.
That being said, there are still good games out there...even if they are laking in origionality