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Non-Traditional Games On The Rise

Posted by Zonk on from the better-than-regurgitation dept.

The Guardian Gamesblog has up an editorial looking at what the author perceives as a rise in the number of non-traditional games being developed. From the article: "There's Nintendogs, Electroplankton and Wizard of Funk. And there's EA doing a train game and all the Sims community stuff and Spore. And there's Sony larking about with EyeToy. And Bully from Rockstar. And The Movies. Is it just me or is a corner being turned? I mean, there's plenty of dull unimaginative genre regurgitation going on, there always will be. But I can't remember a time when there were so many titles coming up that couldn't comfortably be slotted into established categories."

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  1. Er... by 88NoSoup4U88 · · Score: 3, Informative
    The -real- innovation is at hand of independent developers. It's just that it gets steamrolled over by yet another game-clone-with-slightly-better-graphics : Only for gamestudios to pick up the idea 2/3 years down the road.

    The only developer overtime that still is being innovative 'till this day is Nintendo, imo.

  2. Re:Its just you. by KDR_11k · · Score: 2, Informative

    Katamari damacy was really cool and original

    Katamari Damacy was just a Marble Madness clone with the stick-stuff gimmick added</sarcasm>

    Seriously, it's easy to discount something as a rehash if you abstract it enough. "Magnetic disks are just rehashes of the wheel, they spin". Calling e.g. Spore "Sim Life part 2" means ignoring a whole lot of features, each of which can and will completely change the gameplay experience. Or "movie studio simulators". Do you even remember what they were like back then? Certainly not the economy sim that The Movies is.

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