Oh yes the 90s was by far the greatest time for gaming. SNES and PS1 are probably the two greatest systems ever made. And everything in games was so new and fresh. Ideas were coming out left and right. Unique mechanics were always being used. It seemed like back then developers were out to make a game that people remembered forever. And that was completely new for it's time. *Sigh* Hopefully gaming can return to that. That's one of the reasons why I really like the WiiU so far, because it seems like it's going to take gaming back into the style of the 90s with all the new ideas and ways to play.
I'll have to agree, it might not be seen as much in other genres but in the RPG and adventure genres you saw the innovation, and the surprising thing is that this was during a time where graphics were evolving in big steps, now today where everything just looks a bit more pretty, sharp or real, they forget the gameplay mechanics and just go for that little improvement.
Honestly from games today going by the previous times and how games evolved i would be expecting much better AI, some really intricate and interesting gameplay mechanics (i mean look at chrono trigger that had spells that could interact with each other that is rare today, Last Story has it) and good graphics but all we seem to be getting is the good graphics, that's why sometimes i would look at my PS3 and although i have had my time playing it would then turn to my comp and play some old SNES, PS1-2, N64 games.
"B-but it doesn't play blu-rays!"
It'll do fine. Lots of people are pre-ordering the system, so that's a good sign.
The things is even though it doesn't have blu-ray and therefore can't play blu-ray videos and such it has the same capacity and reads even faster than Blu-ray (don't know how they got that one done)
