DRIVER, hello!
*smacks Captain Foo with a brick*
That's not what I've heard.
Yes.
IT SOLD.
I'm saying that if you're saying "so and so isn't an original game because it doesn't create a genre", ie "Fallout isn't an original game because it didn't create the RPG genre", then there are NO ORIGINAL GAMES TODAY. My standard of an original game is giving us something we haven't seen before, EVERYTHING in GTA was done before, they just jammed it all together, and that's not innovation to me. It's just derivative of what had been done before.
It doesn't matter that it wasn't marketted to me, that makes no difference. If you think it was innovative you are wrong. If you think it has great replay value you are high. If you think it was a great game, that is opinion and I won't fault you, but how you argue the first two I don't know.