While video game remakes can be decent, they are rarely necessary. In the case of games like Doom 3 or Return to Castle Wolfenstein, the originals were so old that a remake didn't seem as warrentless. However, with titles such as the GameCube games Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes or Resident Evil the remakes were pretty good (even great in REmake's case), but aren't as necessary since we just saw them the prior generation. In all fairness, the originals look like complete crap by today's standards (everything from the Playstation / Nintendo64 generation does), whereas the remakes will likely remain respectable enough.
That said, I can't think of a single game that I would like remade. It's difficult to think of movies that deserve a respectful remake. There are several franchises that I would like to see new installations for however. Battletoads, Dinosaurs For Hire, and Rock 'n' Roll Racing all jump to mind.
I personally do not think that I would call what most video games produce as "roleplaying". Many simply give you control over a character's basic actions, not their intentions or personalities. I would consider that as a mere character, not an extension, manifestation, or interpretation of one's own being.
Many films reward your dedication and patience, as a viewer, by showing and exposing you to increasingly brutal or "action filled" sequences. Sadism is sadism, even if only vicariously so. Furthermore, the average novel usually takes at least several days for a reader to complete. And I feel that one is typically drawn into the world of the written word even more so than they would be by mere visual stimuli. You may not have direct physical control over a digital avatar, but you are exposed to the very thought process of the characters. Video games require reflex and twitch actions to kill while reading does, in the very least, require an understanding of not just the words but also the concept described.
I've watched endless horrific violence on film and it doesn't bother me. But in a game it's not some villain doing the dirty deed - it's you. No, it's not. It's still a character that you are watching. Pushing the buttons on a gamepad to perform a kill isn't all that different from turning the page of a book to read about the grizzly murder, or pressing play on the DVD remote.
Maybe we should start regulating laser-tag and paintball? I hear it's pretty interactive...
Whoever thought that giving corporations not only the exact location of your vehicle at any given time, but also complete control over it was a good idea?! I'm going to go ahead and point my finger at the yuppies...
I agree that they SHOULD just release the game, completely uncensored, on the PC. Though they'd never do so for free. Rockstar has tried to make the claim that their games are art, but the simple fact that they'll bowing to censorship to reach the largest audience possible shows that they really just care about the money. Personally however, I couldn't care less about playing their games, they're usually not of the highest quality. That said, I'd hate to see this kind of ratings board bullying hold actually artistic games back sometime in the future.
I've called the police several times because I could hear the music of the tenant in the downstairs apartment! Nothing ever happens. I was hoping for a noise violation, but this seems much sweeter...
Maybe. Though I doubt it. Not only is broadband in American pathetic, but it will likely remain so for quite a while. I'm almost guaranteed to never see broadband at my house, considering the road doesn't even have cable television running along it. Hell, the county only just paved it and ran public water a little less than twenty years ago.
Broadband penetration aside, illegally downloading films poses several practicality problems in and of itself. Not only do you have to worry about poor encoding and weird formats, you also have to put a lot of work into converting and burning those films for DVD playback unless they are already packaged as a disc image. Furthermore, you don't have anywhere near the selection. I don't know about everyone else, but I'm not usually interested in those new releases that can be downloaded. It's simply not an easy affair for someone to host hundreds, let alone a few dozen, high-quality films for others to download. Individual songs are a different story.
Of course, everyone simply signed up at a video rental club and acquired their own backup copy from the one they rented. Ah yes. Exactly why NetFlix continues to get my money!;)
Quake IV was decidedly disappointingly, but in the end was fun enough to play through considering how short it was. The problem with Halo is that it began life as an average (mediocre) video game, console kids just don't know any better when it comes to first person shooters.
Just a symptom of the problem; the government. But that's what happens when a system is run "for the people, by the people". And jurors? A complete joke. These are the same people that are blindly patriotic enough to think that voting makes a difference and that coming to decisions based on their own complete lack of knowledge, education, and general information is a civic duty.
Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer' and 'The Day After Tomorrow' won't play back at all[...] Wow, how awesome is that? I really hope that Sony continues to deliver this level of customer service. Now that they've begun blocking such "films", they need to work out how to make watching the worthwhile ones mandatory.
In an image-based solution. My business requires customer access to literally thousands of individual images. It would be nice to be able to scan them all in and tag them appropriately (multiple tags!) so as to create an easily searchable database.
Of course, by the time it comes out for the PC it will look dated (like Halo 2) and the people with the high-end rigs will be playing something else. It already looks pretty dated to us PC gamers, who will be playing less generic, mediocre titles...
People are more likely to take risks if it doesn't cost as much. So true, I've grown to like a lot of rarely heard of bands by downloading their songs (illegally).
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That said, I can't think of a single game that I would like remade. It's difficult to think of movies that deserve a respectful remake. There are several franchises that I would like to see new installations for however. Battletoads, Dinosaurs For Hire, and Rock 'n' Roll Racing all jump to mind.
We already have too many MMO's diluting the gaming market.
Many films reward your dedication and patience, as a viewer, by showing and exposing you to increasingly brutal or "action filled" sequences. Sadism is sadism, even if only vicariously so. Furthermore, the average novel usually takes at least several days for a reader to complete. And I feel that one is typically drawn into the world of the written word even more so than they would be by mere visual stimuli. You may not have direct physical control over a digital avatar, but you are exposed to the very thought process of the characters. Video games require reflex and twitch actions to kill while reading does, in the very least, require an understanding of not just the words but also the concept described.
Maybe we should start regulating laser-tag and paintball? I hear it's pretty interactive...
Whoever thought that giving corporations not only the exact location of your vehicle at any given time, but also complete control over it was a good idea?! I'm going to go ahead and point my finger at the yuppies...
DooM would be in better line with the church's views.
Actually, I can assure you that I have never paid for any OS. I'm not the type to buy pre-assembled computers either, so you do the math. ;)
I agree that they SHOULD just release the game, completely uncensored, on the PC. Though they'd never do so for free. Rockstar has tried to make the claim that their games are art, but the simple fact that they'll bowing to censorship to reach the largest audience possible shows that they really just care about the money. Personally however, I couldn't care less about playing their games, they're usually not of the highest quality. That said, I'd hate to see this kind of ratings board bullying hold actually artistic games back sometime in the future.
I've called the police several times because I could hear the music of the tenant in the downstairs apartment! Nothing ever happens. I was hoping for a noise violation, but this seems much sweeter...
Broadband penetration aside, illegally downloading films poses several practicality problems in and of itself. Not only do you have to worry about poor encoding and weird formats, you also have to put a lot of work into converting and burning those films for DVD playback unless they are already packaged as a disc image. Furthermore, you don't have anywhere near the selection. I don't know about everyone else, but I'm not usually interested in those new releases that can be downloaded. It's simply not an easy affair for someone to host hundreds, let alone a few dozen, high-quality films for others to download. Individual songs are a different story.
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Quake IV was decidedly disappointingly, but in the end was fun enough to play through considering how short it was. The problem with Halo is that it began life as an average (mediocre) video game, console kids just don't know any better when it comes to first person shooters.
Just a symptom of the problem; the government. But that's what happens when a system is run "for the people, by the people". And jurors? A complete joke. These are the same people that are blindly patriotic enough to think that voting makes a difference and that coming to decisions based on their own complete lack of knowledge, education, and general information is a civic duty.
You've never seen House of the Dead, have you?
I feel sorry for anyone that has to play a FPS like Unreal on a console. It's simply inhuman to think of those clunky gamepad controls!
Voting would have to be an effective means of change for that to work...
In an image-based solution. My business requires customer access to literally thousands of individual images. It would be nice to be able to scan them all in and tag them appropriately (multiple tags!) so as to create an easily searchable database.
Just makes me not want to travel. Fear mongering may be fine for the sheeple, but it's just a huge inconvenience for everyone else.
Funny, I thought Prey was the game that both should have been...
You're that guy that squeals during "scary" scenes and gasps during obvious "twists" at the movie theater, aren't you? I hate you.