What happens when there's no NEW

Nowadays it seems like everything is out and discovered. It's getting harder and harder to come up with something new. Everything has already been done, or is just a copy of something else vamped up a little bit. Are we getting closer and closer to not having anything that we can call new? What happens when there is no longer a new? When will games stop coming out that are copies of other games just with a few more features. Racing games, first person shooters, RPG's...they are all the same nowadays, but are hyped up because they have a couple new features that really arent that big of a deal. This goes with everything. When will there no longer be a NEW. When will we discover that there's nothing else to invent? When will everything just be a copy of something else with a few new features?

As long as computing power, display and control methods evolve, video games will evolve too.

I feel your pain. I think oblivion IV, mass effect, bioshock , fight night round 3, call of duty 4, even halflife 2 with it's physics engine , dead space, crysis, gears of war can be classified as something new. Sure they re-use some things from older games but it's a huge improvement , but games from the past have also re-used stuff from other games. Anyhowthose games i just said really rocked my craddle but sadly it's already been some time ago since crysis came out. Metro 2033 seems too push some enveloppe's but it doesn't really impress me.

This is what happens when we get stuck in genres. There are plenty of great games coming out this year. And if you disregard the main stream games (even though some of them were amazing) there were plenty of great indie games that came out this year (2010 and 2011). I recently played Machinarium and that was such a breath of fresh air.

Nowadays it seems like everything is out and discovered. It's getting harder and harder to come up with something new. Everything has already been done, or is just a copy of something else vamped up a little bit. Are we getting closer and closer to not having anything that we can call new? What happens when there is no longer a new? When will games stop coming out that are copies of other games just with a few more features. Racing games, first person shooters, RPG's...they are all the same nowadays, but are hyped up because they have a couple new features that really arent that big of a deal. This goes with everything. When will there no longer be a NEW. When will we discover that there's nothing else to invent? When will everything just be a copy of something else with a few new features?

DeviousPanduh

Isn't there a comercial out there for inventors quoting the trademark office circa 1900? "Everything that will be invented, has been"

lolololol

There will always be new until we bomb ourselves off this planet.

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Nowadays it seems like everything is out and discovered. It's getting harder and harder to come up with something new. Everything has already been done, or is just a copy of something else vamped up a little bit. Are we getting closer and closer to not having anything that we can call new? What happens when there is no longer a new? When will games stop coming out that are copies of other games just with a few more features. Racing games, first person shooters, RPG's...they are all the same nowadays, but are hyped up because they have a couple new features that really arent that big of a deal. This goes with everything. When will there no longer be a NEW. When will we discover that there's nothing else to invent? When will everything just be a copy of something else with a few new features?

GummiRaccoon

Isn't there a comercial out there for inventors quoting the trademark office circa 1900? "Everything that will be invented, has been"

lolololol

There will always be new until we bomb ourselves off this planet.

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[QUOTE="DeviousPanduh"]

Nowadays it seems like everything is out and discovered. It's getting harder and harder to come up with something new. Everything has already been done, or is just a copy of something else vamped up a little bit. Are we getting closer and closer to not having anything that we can call new? What happens when there is no longer a new? When will games stop coming out that are copies of other games just with a few more features. Racing games, first person shooters, RPG's...they are all the same nowadays, but are hyped up because they have a couple new features that really arent that big of a deal. This goes with everything. When will there no longer be a NEW. When will we discover that there's nothing else to invent? When will everything just be a copy of something else with a few new features?

CrookedCrown

Isn't there a comercial out there for inventors quoting the trademark office circa 1900? "Everything that will be invented, has been"

lolololol

There will always be new until we bomb ourselves off this planet.

They invented smart phones in 1900?

Space travel?

The internet

Television

Warp drives

transporters

replicators

holodecks?

[QUOTE="CrookedCrown"][QUOTE="GummiRaccoon"]

Isn't there a comercial out there for inventors quoting the trademark office circa 1900? "Everything that will be invented, has been"

lolololol

There will always be new until we bomb ourselves off this planet.

GummiRaccoon

They invented smart phones in 1900?

Space travel?

The internet

Television

Warp drives

transporters

replicators

holodecks?

You're right but not everyone is as patient as you :)

Nowadays it seems like everything is out and discovered. It's getting harder and harder to come up with something new. Everything has already been done, or is just a copy of something else vamped up a little bit. Are we getting closer and closer to not having anything that we can call new? What happens when there is no longer a new? When will games stop coming out that are copies of other games just with a few more features. Racing games, first person shooters, RPG's...they are all the same nowadays, but are hyped up because they have a couple new features that really arent that big of a deal. This goes with everything. When will there no longer be a NEW. When will we discover that there's nothing else to invent? When will everything just be a copy of something else with a few new features?

DeviousPanduh

This is what happens when we get stuck in genres. There are plenty of great games coming out this year. And if you disregard the main stream games (even though some of them were amazing) there were plenty of great indie games that came out this year (2010 and 2011). I recently played Machinarium and that was such a breath of fresh air.

CrookedCrown

Ya man...I absolutely loved that game. I need to play through it again.

Idk...I'm 21 now and growing up it was like everything that was coming out was brand new and never seen before. Now i'm getting to the point where nothing impresses me. I loved halo 2 and now halo 3 and reach have failed to impress me...gears 2 was an absolute failure in my eyes. Oblivion and Mass Effect were the last 2 games that I absolutely loved. I'm still a fan of Counter Strike Source, and it never seems to get old for me. Call of Duty 4 was in my opinion the best CoD...now it seems like theyre just half assing projects, so they can get them out and make money. Developers know nowadays that kids will ask their parents for video games even if the games are broke or not...kids don't care and parents don't give a crap about video games...they just buy them to make their kids happy. Skyrim is the only game right now that i'm really excited for. But who knows...hopefully a couple games this year will knock our socks off.

There are a couple of games that haven't been done before and is considered fresh in the Video game community. Mirrors Edge for instance was different.Treflis

Mirror's Edge was also boring as hell. Perhaps there was a good reason it hadn't been done yet.

As to the OP, I'm feeling very much like you are. Even blowing a few bucks buying old school games on the Wii hasn't helped much.

I need something fresh, brutal even. A game like Fallen Earth that doesn't blow big donkey balls would be nice. A good FPS MMO with a classless system a la Pre-CU SWG would rock my world.

Bring it on game devs, I'm waiting right here.

Try minecraft, original game or check out Overgrowth http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrZlGXq_MJs&feature=related