Shall we take Risks?

Apparently not. According to this Kotaku link there are people in the industry saying games aren't that creative anymore. Industry veteran and Zoonami CEO Martin Hollis compares films to games saying that films were about two things. Romance and Guns hence the "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang" phrase. Bond films in a nutshell really. Then saying that games were all guns and killing with "Bang bang, Bang bang" Apart from games which aren't meant to have enemies in them (puzzles and sports games) what was the last game that didn't have a certain degree of fighting or doing harm to another? (Yes whacking an animal on the head with a net counts as violence)

Violent scallywag

None really come to mind. I look at my collection and only those you'd expect not to have violence don't. What is it about violence and killing that makes us play loads of games about it? Is it that all gamers are repressed criminals and use games as an outlet? Do we enjoy murdering other people, nazis and ambassadors of other races using all sorts of weaponry? I suppose we do.

I look at prototype and remember that there are no children walking down the sidewalks. Then I remember that Alex Mercer is an over powered psycho who can fling people up in the air like a 10ton truck just by running down the road with a shield out. 

The majority of grunts can't even touch you in this game.

But that isn't the point of this article. We are here to discuss that all games are now similar and don't stray from working formulas. This is one of the reason I hate games about war. Not just any war. The two world wars. They have been done to death and back and that's the reason Wolfenstein has Nazi Zombies. All the characters are generic army guys who shoot army guys wearing different colours with a range of automatic rifles, pistols and shotguns. There may be jeeps or tanks but there'll be many town levels and some field/forest/jungle ones maybe even a few in the snow. If you don't kill all the bad doods, they will chase you throughout the level until one of you dies so you have to kill everyone. How many times have there been war-based games? Too many for me to count. 

I like new games, I like fresh characters. Stereotypes are fine. They provide foundations but don't make everyone look and act the same; Army guys, RPG characters like Cloud, little girls holding massive weapons. At least Max Payne is slightly different, Kaim Argonar from Lost Odyssey and Tingle in Zelda.

No character in the world is as unique as this 35 year old Fairy man.

The article later says that new IPs fail because it's new and it is not what people want in their Testosterone man games. MadWorld, the black and white Running Man-esque Wii game went down and even that wasn't a kiddy game. I still want to play it but I've heard good things. Same with No More Heroes made by the people who made Killer 7 about a schizophrenic serial killer.

No More Heroes. Cel Shaded Assinate em up

People know that they like to shoot and kill. They don't quite know if they like new characters like the one in Scribblenauts. I've seen this receive much hype, especially since you can put a steak on a baby and get it eaten by a lion and I think they have God fighting Satan in it too. Fez is a 2D platformer that then rotates the world 90 degrees a time so you can reach other platforms. It looks great and is only being made by 3 people. Donkey Kong Jungle Beat was an amazing platformer that used the bongos but now it's been ported to the Wii it doesn't use the bongos. That's half the fun taken away.

See, look how fun it is. Accessible to kids without being crap to adults

I feel saddened when I look at the game shelves and I see games that were obviously just knocked out such as the Wii and DS plague of Brain Training, Dog Training, Toilet Training, Train spotting style games. Then the rest on those systems thats all casual or for kids. 

Xbox is plagued by shooting games and RPGs, I don't even look at the Sony shelves.

In years to come I see developers only taking the safe options in FPSs or casual/kids games instead of taking risks and doing something new and different. Like the whole point of games is supposed to be about. I come to games either looking for a Narrative or an awesome experience. Some games are falling by the wayside these days, though stalking Kotaku it's hard not to see what's going to be coming out that has potential. However looking at a release schedule for Europe holds no promise at all. It seems to be one promising title per 5 cheaply made game.

Can't wait for the 18th of September on the Wii. Great day for gaming.

I wanna change that. I want to make games that aren't the same or have been done before. I want new stuff.

Fun fact. Searching World War 2 Game character in google, the first image is a gypsy. Actually only the 5th/6th image onwards are of war.