I hope they put a LOT of research and consideration into basically terraforming Earth. The law of unintended consequences could cause more devastation on a shorter scale than global warming could. Just the idea of seeding the ocean with iron could have the unintended consequence of algal blooms that could wreak havoc on marine ecosystems, especially coral reefs. Tread carefully gentlemen.
Mortal Kombat jumps to mind when speaking of franchises driven into the ground. While fighting games were evolving and becoming more complex and nuance the MK series failed to adapt. Now its not even mentioned in the same breath as Virtua Fighter and Tekken. Street Fighter is also guilty of this, although some of the "Vs." games (Marvel vs Capcom in particular) were pretty good.
One many may disagree with is Gran Turismo. Its still selling a lot of copies but the game's physics model hasn't taken a significant step forward since GT2 (and here we are coming up on GT5). Instead Polyphony Digital is obsessed with better graphics and more car models. Which is fine, but most people don't care whether they can drive a 1982 Daihatsu or if they can have 50 Skylines with different paint schemes.
I thought Megaman was a interesting franchise because I feel like it was languishing right around MM3 or 4. When X came out it was just different enough to get me interested again, but then they started the same pattern of rehashes with the X series too. That guy left out Megaman Legends which I thought was fairly innovative and fun. Had they developed that concept better it could have done wonders for the series.
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I hope they put a LOT of research and consideration into basically terraforming Earth. The law of unintended consequences could cause more devastation on a shorter scale than global warming could. Just the idea of seeding the ocean with iron could have the unintended consequence of algal blooms that could wreak havoc on marine ecosystems, especially coral reefs. Tread carefully gentlemen.
Mortal Kombat jumps to mind when speaking of franchises driven into the ground. While fighting games were evolving and becoming more complex and nuance the MK series failed to adapt. Now its not even mentioned in the same breath as Virtua Fighter and Tekken. Street Fighter is also guilty of this, although some of the "Vs." games (Marvel vs Capcom in particular) were pretty good. One many may disagree with is Gran Turismo. Its still selling a lot of copies but the game's physics model hasn't taken a significant step forward since GT2 (and here we are coming up on GT5). Instead Polyphony Digital is obsessed with better graphics and more car models. Which is fine, but most people don't care whether they can drive a 1982 Daihatsu or if they can have 50 Skylines with different paint schemes. I thought Megaman was a interesting franchise because I feel like it was languishing right around MM3 or 4. When X came out it was just different enough to get me interested again, but then they started the same pattern of rehashes with the X series too. That guy left out Megaman Legends which I thought was fairly innovative and fun. Had they developed that concept better it could have done wonders for the series.