This dude is pretty much right on the money.  I can't tell you how many games over the last few years I've started to play and then never finished.  And why should I want to finish a game that is the same game I played the year before?  Or the year before that?  Most recently it was Resident Evil 4, which is okay, but it reeks of "been there, done that."

Let's face it, fellow gamers, true innovation is rare in the gaming industry.  I touched on this topic almost 2 years ago and nothing has changed since then.  The games are prettier, faster, more realistic, but not new.  Incremental changes and variations on the same old stuff is all we get.  Even the games I mentioned as being original in my earlier article are now tired.  Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas?  Who cares?  I've already played that game twice when it was called Grand Theft Auto III and Vice City.

Gaming as an entertainment medium will never die, but if it continues on this course it certainly ain't gonna grow.