Have games become too easy/mindless?

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Another issue is that a lot of games don't realize the potential of a lot of the concepts they create.

For example, take the Checkerboard Chase minigame from Kirby 64: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-iASkwCKYA

This could easily become a very simple high-speed tactical multiplayer game, but the game designers never took this idea further.

Another example is the Crashball series from Crash Bash: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnaWvC-26qM

Some of the variations of this can be quite random and slightly unfair in certain situations, but in general the concept has potential to be a very competitive multiplayer action classic.

Nowadays, people are so used to the kinds of games that they play that they don't really come up with anything new. Original concepts such as these will become more and more rare as video game genres become more and more standardized.