There is still innovation in video games

Tyranitar24 | August 03, 2008 | News | Misc Gaming Tech/Hardware

Peter Molyneux of Fable fame wrote for EDGE Online recently, admitting it is a lot harder to be innovative because of budgets costs, audiences that need to be reached, and a lot more. Although those things make it harder to innovate, Molyneux also points out that there is stills tons of innovation in video games, with an example being graphics and how much they have improved since a year ago.

It has always been the same, and it will continue to be the same. People also say that there’s no innovation in films and books, and then there’s a flash of writing, a clear blue sky, and you get a Harry Potter.

Here we are in 2008, and I’ll admit that in interactive entertainment, it’s an awful lot harder to be innovative just for innovation’s sake. Today we’ve got budgets to worry about, costs to recoup and audiences to reach. I used to do games where innovation was the core of the game. Populous, the first game I ever did, was one of those games.

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Silver Mirror | August 04, 2008

Graphics innovative? He has no idea what he's talking about, games like LittleBigPlanet, Flower and Spore are innovative for their gameplay and concepts not how you display information on screen
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HawkMan | August 04, 2008

actually the way you dispaly information on screen is innovative in itself. thats like saying the TV isn't innovative.
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Silver Mirror | August 04, 2008

When there are millions of Tv 's doing the exact same thing no it isn't innovative
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HawkMan | August 04, 2008

Just because there are other Tvs out there doing the same thing, doesn't make it any less innovative. Sure, the tech isn't new or anything, it's innovative nontheless. the fact that a signal sent out by a local network and beamed back down into our television to get converted back and displayed on our screen as a series of images and sounds. yeah that isn't innovative at all.(you're a *bleep*, congrats!)
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  Silver Mirror | August 05, 2008
  
  Well Tv's may aren't innovative anymore, what I mean was that it is so mass produced and such a common thing that it isn't innovative anymore. People don't go past a TV and go "Wow isn't that amazing?" They walk past it without a second thought
  
  Innovative to me says new, different and amazing. Saying that graphics and how you display your health are innovative to me is a very poor example, sure their have been some innovations in this area with some very out there graphics (XIII, Madworld) and display information (the health being displayed by how your character breathes for example forgoing the HUD). Sure Spore and the Wii are innovative in a sense but they are also new, if every system had motion controls would people still look back 10 years later and point out the Wii as more innovative than the others when they all had the same features? No they wouldn't
  
  And please don't suggest my logic is stupid or that I'm a *bleep* my view is different to yours that does not make it wrong
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HawkMan | August 04, 2008

a TV is a still an F'n TV no matter how many there are. So I really don't see why you're dragging numbers into it.

I guess the wii isn't innovative because there are a million others like it out there. I guess Spore isn't innovative either since there are a million copies of Spore out there.

See how you stupid your logic is?!
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Zeon I | August 04, 2008

They're saying it like it's a bad thing, IMO.