Innovation and originality in gameplay are not necessarily technological innovation. If he have both: great, but at a gameplay level such innovation is needed.
None at all, if you enjoy that kind of game. It was a generalization so it's gonna be always unfair. It was more a critic to all annual releases really, i've just mentioned Call of Duty because it's also an fps and it's very well known. COD, Assassin's creed and other annual releases almost...
I agree with that, but i want some degree of innovation and originality. Not necessarily a total shift of HL style, but i don't want an Half-life 2 episode. They were great, but too many time has passed. I need a jump comparable of HL to HL2 or Portal 1 to Portal 2: same basic mechanics, lots of...
I asked myself the same question... Seems like a big waste of time and i can only imagine two reasons to do something like this:
- He have plenty of time.
- He really thought that this wasn't a obvious troll.
Or... maybe he is not a troll! ;)