I have to agree with the idea that, a sequel that uses the same engine and a lot of the same aspects of the game, is just about milking that cash cow. I wouldn't say it is damaging video games but it is certainly watering down the game market. Mainstream gaming has been around for 15+ years now so the good, new, fresh video game ideas are few and far between. This doesn't mean that these sequels year after year are bad games, they are just more of the same and we gamers can get bored i guess with playing the same Madden football year after year. The bad thing is that the casual gamer will usually buy the next madden no matter if it has one new feature over last year's game. I do believe that sequels need to be full of fresh content and features. Games like Halo ODST who just repackage the same old stuff with some new levels are being lazy and doing nobody any good except their own bank account because they know that people will buy anything that says Halo on it. This is just the state of being a person in today's society: you care about yourself and your bottom line and that's it. Not about making things better than they were before obviously not about developing fresh ideas. Every now and again some developer will acheive this but they are the exception these days and those are the games that the true gamer at heart will buy.
Just for curiosity's sake, how many Xbox 360's have you been through due to reliability issues??? (RROD, Hard Drive tray, Scratched Discs, E74......etc.)
Personally my first one quit, sent it back to microsoft, then that one quit. Bought two off of ebay both of which quit, so i've been through 4...
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