I'm going to make a point that many of you seem to be missing:
Games evolve.
Games devolve is more like it. Games change my ass: they're becoming more and more alike. The games industry has run out of ideas. This notion that changing a turn-based isometric traditional RPG into a console first person somehow constitutes innovation is boneheaded in the extreme. How the hell is taking a unique experience and making it generic moving game design forward?