Burnout Babies

I was listening to the entertaining CAGcast, Cheap Ass Gamer's weekly podcast, yesterday where CheapyD mentioned his disappointment in the Burnout Paradise demo. I have heard the exact sentiment in other gaming podcasts, am I missing something?

Burnout 3: Takedown was the game that made me buy an Xbox. I played it a lot. So when Revenge came out, I was well pumped for it. After playing it for a little while, I was left disappointed. It was still cool, but aside from some tweaks, it was fundamentally the same as Takedown.

So now, people want the same thing, again? In a community that lays wreaths of praise on the original and scandalises the propagation of easy sequels, how can you sit back and bitch when somebody tries to invigorate a series with innovation?

-Brother N-