Column: The Death of Innovation in Game Development

Very well said, personally (CoD4 being the exception) I think all franchises should be culled off after their third game, for the sake of innovation.

Big +1 here :D
I’ll never forget my panicked sprint through the bowels of that cargo tanker in the first mission, while I foolishly cocked my head sideways with the camera as the ship rolled, the whole sequence climaxing in the Rambo-esque leap for the helicopter.
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...or maybe it's hard to be innovative when about everything has been done, and done to death it has. It's a bit foolish to say there was innovation back in the day, because then you had to luxury to be first in some areas with some ideas. You can only preform set actions in so many different ways then it's been done.

I'd be quite interested to hear how to be innovative in say the following:

1) shoorters
2) mmo
3) rts
4) quest/rpg

...I'd bet you will have a hard time doing something that has not been already done.
 
Pr⊕phet said:
...or maybe it's hard to be innovative when about everything has been done, and done to death it has. It's a bit foolish to say there was innovation back in the day, because then you had to luxury to be first in some areas with some ideas. You can only preform set actions in so many different ways then it's been done.

I'd be quite interested to hear how to be innovative in say the following:

1) shoorters
2) mmo
3) rts
4) quest/rpg

...I'd bet you will have a hard time doing something that has not been already done.
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i have to agree here, everyone moans innovation is dead but honestly folks what's the next big innovation?

skiet met n titel and let's discuss this. honestly i can't think of anything new
 
there is no excuse for lack of innovation, just because you can't think of anything doesn't mean its not possible.
if you need evidence look at art over the last 8 thousand years
 
tpex said:
there is no excuse for lack of innovation, just because you can't think of anything doesn't mean its not possible.
if you need evidence look at art over the last 8 thousand years
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Cute, but you have not given me examples of how you would be innovative ;)
 
the only major innovation i can think of currently is cross genre mixups

fps/rpg's ala border lands, action/rpg's ala mass effect, first person platformers like mirror's edge
 
tpex said:
well I'm not a game designer so I don't have to, just because you can't design a space rocket engine does that mean its impossible?
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/cop-out noted.

so because it's a rocket engine, lets make one and you will say I'm not innovative ? lol...

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we can only make 3 types of rockets blue, green and yellow. developer a does blue ZOMG innovation !!! and so it goes till yellow has been made. /innovation over. Still we can mix the colours, but alas rockets has already been made so now we just have zomg innovation and not any more ZOMG innovation !!!.

times goes along and we combine the rockets to get 2x rockets at same time, now we are at like just innovation and not ZOMG innovation !!! or zomg innovation.

point is which you seem to fail to understand is that once it's done it's done and you can only skin the cat in so many ways till it's all been done. thus saying innovation is dead is fail imho.
 
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You are taking my analogy a bit to far, I was simply saying just because you can't do it doesn't mean it can't be done.

Video games are art, art never fails to produce something "new." but the definition of new is relative to the person, some people may think each iteration of CoD is "new" I feel its the same old story and game play with slightly updated graphics, actors and actors. so its not "new." (IMO)
 
These thoughts were sparked by a recent comment by Peter Molyneux, in which he states that modern blockbusters are “essentially the same”. Now whenever Molyneux starts talking you better have a bucket of salt handy, as his ego is larger than most planets and he’s certainly proven himself to be on a first-name basis with hyperbole. I’ll have to set aside the irony of him currently working on a fourth Fable game (of which the previous three weren’t really that distinct), because what he says actually rings true for me this time.
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Molyneux is a big talker and whatever he says is almost guaranteed not be in any game that he is making...but I do admire him. He does a lot of big talking, but he sees the bigger picture of what video games can be. Sadly, he says all of these things and promises this and that, then never follows through with them.
When he mentions that all blockbusters are basically the same, he is 100% correct...except that the last two Fable games were almost the same thing. Think up something new, Peter.

The last traditional FPS to truly feel original was the first Modern Warfare, which is still the most played Call of Duty game in South Africa
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The only one I liked in the series to be honest...

The problem is that all of them just feel the same; nothing is truly original or innovative anymore. Every so often we’re treated to a game like Mirror’s Edge or Borderlands which tried to do something a little different, and every time we are I find myself engrossed. The problem is these games just aren’t coming around often enough.
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Yup. I enjoyed those two thoroughly, especially Mirror's Edge. Very cool idea and certainly a lot of fun. Just found it a bit short.
 
tpex said:
You are taking my analogy a bit to far, I was simply saying just because you can't do it doesn't mean it can't be done.

Video games are art, art never fails to produce something "new." but the definition of new is relative to the person, some people may think each iteration of CoD is "new" I feel its the same old story and game play with slightly updated graphics, actors and actors. so its not "new." (IMO)
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So your cod rocket has been made and the wow was WOW on the first rocket, but only lol now. No I'm not taking it to far:
Pr⊕phet said:
times goes along and we combine the rockets to get 2x rockets at same time, now we are at like just innovation and not ZOMG innovation !!! or zomg innovation.

point is which you seem to fail to understand is that once it's done it's done and you can only skin the cat in so many ways till it's all been done. thus saying innovation is dead is fail imho.
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