Quote Originally Posted by grandm View Post
i think the main thing is as consoles have got more powerful, dev's have had the power to create more and more realistic looking games, this is just a fad (i hope) and in time creativity will come. as ppl get bored of FPS's and sales drop. from the chatter i hear ppl are already starting to look for something a bit different
Realism has ALWAYS been a goal of most developers (SE included, notice the cool physics and dull-yet-realistic colors of environments and clothes?) and is, in my opinion, separate from creativity. You can have creativity and realism at the same time; it's just that with the current customer fad being war games, there's no room for creativity.

Look at how hard Battlefield 2142 failed. Look at how poorly some other realistic-yet-creative FPS games are doing, like Section 8. People just want to shoot turrrhrists in their brown muddy war simulator.