Not a big deal. They have Mario Galaxy in mid/late-November and that should keep people pretty happy for a while. Right now the only big title for the start of the new year is Mario Kart Wii, so this new release date will give them some extra momentum for the 1st quarter.
I wasn't being sarcastic at all. That looks wonderful. I'm glad systems have gotten to the point where we can have highly detailed sprites that are from hand drawn art in the game.
Except for the fact that Super Metroid was laid out as occurring after Metroid II: Return of Samus which was a follow up to the original Metroid. I just fired up Super Metroid on the Virtual Console this week and the opening sequence makes this fact very clear. Even if it is an excuse to revisit SR388 in 16-bit glory, Super Metroid is not a remake.
Yeah. That's the other half to the argument. Either games have to keep getting updated or projects like the Virtual Console or DOSBox need to be fully supported by the industry (honestly it's a shame the Virtual Console doesn't have Game Boy or Game Boy Color support). Because honestly, it'll save them a lot more money in the long run to do the later through digital distribution than to remake the same game ever 5 years. Then again, if you add new features you can sometimes get people to buy the same thing more than once (a salesperson's dream!)
Where did I even mention Super Mario 64? I said Starfox 64. How you got Super Mario 64 from that I don't know.
To eliminate any further confusion:
From Wikipedia: "Additionally, it is a reimagined remake the original Star Fox,"*
*Nintendo Power: Why did you make Star Fox 64 a remake of the original Star Fox? (an interview between Nintendo Power and Shigeru Miyamoto exclusive to the Star Fox 64 Player's Guide
Another thing about remakes... I can go into any book store and pick up a copy of Romeo & Juliet. Want a copy of Dune? Go right ahead. The Hobbit? No problem. Can I go into Best Buy and pick up a copy of Xenogears? How about Ogre Battle? Or Earthworm Jim? That's right. You can't. Yet I can easily go to the DVD rack at Best Buy and find a remastered version of Gone with the Wind.
Part of games being taken seriously is going to require the industry being willing to take on some measure of preserving the classics. Digital distribution is a good way to do this (id just put their entire back catalog on steam) as are retropacks of classic games (sierra did this last year with most of the adventure franchises). Remakes are another way of preserving the past.
You improve the sound graphics and slightly tweak the controls and you end up with Super Mario All-Stars.
A sequel is where you add significant features that the core gameplay revolves around. Remakes may add new features or subtly tweak things but by and large the differences between the remake and the original should be fairly minor or not drastic.
To me, remakes are more like a new edition of a book. A lot of the recent remakes can easily be viewed in this way as they have been going through and fixing bugs, clarifying story elements or in some cases expanding the game play a little bit (or making minute adjustments for balance or to keep things interesting). That's something that's not uncommon in revisions of books.
Sequels are usually a continuation of the first or another story in the same "universe". What you're suggesting is that Two Towers is a remake of Fellowship of the Ring.
Seriously. Seeing as how most of the late 2007 offerings have been pushed back to 2008, what the hell are people going to play once they're done with Resistence, Lair, etc?
Also, this is suicidal for them as well. $400 is pretty hefty and honestly if I could get rid of my PS2 for $50 I would to help pay for it, but if that invalidates the majority of library, what's the point?
The article fails to mention how easy it is to game the stats because about a year ago there was a deliberate multi-forum attempt to get Windows Solitaire to the top of the chart. It did manage to beat Counter-strike for #2 in the wee hours of one morning, but never did get anywhere near WoW.
This is pure greed. They wanted to option to charge up to $4.99 an episode with tiered pricing. Why on earth would anyone want to shell out $5 for each episode in a series? That's almost $110 for a season that goes for 22 episodes (roughly the average I think)? Do they think consumers are stupid and don't know that if they wait until summer that they can get the DVD set for ~$60?
I am not sad to see NBC take their greedy hands and go somewhere else to fail miserably. I can't wait to see them return to Apple in a year begging to be let back in. Hope the door hits each of your execs on the way out.
I dunno. I usually spend time reading and posting in forums for games I play. Although I usually log into Kingdom of Loathing on occasion to check up on stuff when I'm bored or having trouble with a problem and need to put it on the back burner to simmer for a few.
Sometimes you just need to take your mind off the task at hand and do something else for a few. It seems to work.
Yup. I do hope that at some point they'll be more flexible in allowing customers to pick and choose exactly what channels they want. I know when I ordered through Comcast they were very ambiguous about what you got with the HD channel selection. Apparently I also needed a "Digital Classic" package added on so I could get things like Discover HD Theatre... Which I never saw mentioned on their website.
Very true. The main reason I haven't dropped cable is because of some shows not being on iTunes, plus I enjoy special features so there's no point in paying for a permanent copy through iTunes and then wanting to get the DVD set at the end for the behind the scenes stuff (I'm a small production junkie). If you're just getting cable for a couple shows though, you're looking at easily $50 a month for the cable service, and with 4 episodes a month you're only talking $8 * x shows for that month. The only benefit of cable is the a la carte at this point and the always there.
If on-demand offerings were significantly better for basic digital cable, cable would win hands down. DVR I think is probably a good compromise between iTunes and cable though.
So why do they bother putting stuff up on iTunes then? Heroes episodes were hitting iTunes with 48 hours of the original air date. It doesn't take a genius to take a look at the cable bill and then look at the Apple TV and decide that possible Apple TV + iTunes might actually satisfy their needs. Especially when you can pull your local news + forecast off the standard airwaves or the internet. Or the radio or the newspaper.
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Not a big deal. They have Mario Galaxy in mid/late-November and that should keep people pretty happy for a while. Right now the only big title for the start of the new year is Mario Kart Wii, so this new release date will give them some extra momentum for the 1st quarter.
Ash was the name for the character in the anime. The default name for the character in the game is whatever color Pokemon cartridge you have.
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I don't know about you but choosing "Red" as my character sure sounds like a winner
I wasn't being sarcastic at all. That looks wonderful. I'm glad systems have gotten to the point where we can have highly detailed sprites that are from hand drawn art in the game.
Except for the fact that Super Metroid was laid out as occurring after Metroid II: Return of Samus which was a follow up to the original Metroid. I just fired up Super Metroid on the Virtual Console this week and the opening sequence makes this fact very clear. Even if it is an excuse to revisit SR388 in 16-bit glory, Super Metroid is not a remake.
Remake: Final Fantasy III -> Final Fantasy III DS
Re-imagined: Doom -> Doom 3
Sequel: Final Fantasy VII -> Final Fantasy VIII
Yeah. That's the other half to the argument. Either games have to keep getting updated or projects like the Virtual Console or DOSBox need to be fully supported by the industry (honestly it's a shame the Virtual Console doesn't have Game Boy or Game Boy Color support). Because honestly, it'll save them a lot more money in the long run to do the later through digital distribution than to remake the same game ever 5 years. Then again, if you add new features you can sometimes get people to buy the same thing more than once (a salesperson's dream!)
Reimagined remake puts it squarely in the same category as Doom 3. If you can find E1M1 in Doom 3 I'd love to hear where it is.
Dear god that almost looks hand drawn O_O
Screw 3D remakes. I'd rather have all my favorite 2D games with high resolution sprites like that. Legend of Mana anyone?
Where did I even mention Super Mario 64? I said Starfox 64 . How you got Super Mario 64 from that I don't know.
To eliminate any further confusion:
From Wikipedia: "Additionally, it is a reimagined remake the original Star Fox,"*
*Nintendo Power: Why did you make Star Fox 64 a remake of the original Star Fox? (an interview between Nintendo Power and Shigeru Miyamoto exclusive to the Star Fox 64 Player's Guide
Yeah they'll probably do what they did when they released Tecmo Bowl on the VC for the NES... just give everyone generic names. Eh.
Apparently there was one made. It's called "Mystic Ark".
Starfox 64 was a re-envisioning of the original Starfox. What's your point? Call it a reboot if you will. Batman Beyond was a reboot of Batman...
Another thing about remakes... I can go into any book store and pick up a copy of Romeo & Juliet. Want a copy of Dune? Go right ahead. The Hobbit? No problem. Can I go into Best Buy and pick up a copy of Xenogears? How about Ogre Battle? Or Earthworm Jim? That's right. You can't. Yet I can easily go to the DVD rack at Best Buy and find a remastered version of Gone with the Wind.
Part of games being taken seriously is going to require the industry being willing to take on some measure of preserving the classics. Digital distribution is a good way to do this (id just put their entire back catalog on steam) as are retropacks of classic games (sierra did this last year with most of the adventure franchises). Remakes are another way of preserving the past.
Your argument is somewhat flawed.
You improve the sound graphics and slightly tweak the controls and you end up with Super Mario All-Stars.
A sequel is where you add significant features that the core gameplay revolves around. Remakes may add new features or subtly tweak things but by and large the differences between the remake and the original should be fairly minor or not drastic.
To me, remakes are more like a new edition of a book. A lot of the recent remakes can easily be viewed in this way as they have been going through and fixing bugs, clarifying story elements or in some cases expanding the game play a little bit (or making minute adjustments for balance or to keep things interesting). That's something that's not uncommon in revisions of books.
Sequels are usually a continuation of the first or another story in the same "universe". What you're suggesting is that Two Towers is a remake of Fellowship of the Ring.
Seriously. Seeing as how most of the late 2007 offerings have been pushed back to 2008, what the hell are people going to play once they're done with Resistence, Lair, etc?
Also, this is suicidal for them as well. $400 is pretty hefty and honestly if I could get rid of my PS2 for $50 I would to help pay for it, but if that invalidates the majority of library, what's the point?
Ummm... Marathon anyone?
Also Halo was slated to be a real time strategy game originally when it was on the Mac. Not a FPS.
Sony, for the love of all that is holy please have your right hand talking to your life hand.
http://blog.wired.com/games/2007/09/kaz-hirai-plays.html
Please please please adopt some consistent marketing and executive speak.
Sad.
The article fails to mention how easy it is to game the stats because about a year ago there was a deliberate multi-forum attempt to get Windows Solitaire to the top of the chart. It did manage to beat Counter-strike for #2 in the wee hours of one morning, but never did get anywhere near WoW.
This is pure greed. They wanted to option to charge up to $4.99 an episode with tiered pricing. Why on earth would anyone want to shell out $5 for each episode in a series? That's almost $110 for a season that goes for 22 episodes (roughly the average I think)? Do they think consumers are stupid and don't know that if they wait until summer that they can get the DVD set for ~$60?
I am not sad to see NBC take their greedy hands and go somewhere else to fail miserably. I can't wait to see them return to Apple in a year begging to be let back in. Hope the door hits each of your execs on the way out.
They had better use "The Touch" by Stan Bush for the first commercials for this. Or heads will roll.
C'mon Steve. You know you want to.
Conversely....
PS1 and PS2 were built on the foundation of Ridge Racer, Metal Gear Solid, Final Fantasy, Gran Tourismo, Grand Theft Auto.... the list goes on.
History seems to repeat itself with the PS3, no?
I dunno. I usually spend time reading and posting in forums for games I play. Although I usually log into Kingdom of Loathing on occasion to check up on stuff when I'm bored or having trouble with a problem and need to put it on the back burner to simmer for a few.
Sometimes you just need to take your mind off the task at hand and do something else for a few. It seems to work.
Yup. I do hope that at some point they'll be more flexible in allowing customers to pick and choose exactly what channels they want. I know when I ordered through Comcast they were very ambiguous about what you got with the HD channel selection. Apparently I also needed a "Digital Classic" package added on so I could get things like Discover HD Theatre... Which I never saw mentioned on their website.
Very true. The main reason I haven't dropped cable is because of some shows not being on iTunes, plus I enjoy special features so there's no point in paying for a permanent copy through iTunes and then wanting to get the DVD set at the end for the behind the scenes stuff (I'm a small production junkie). If you're just getting cable for a couple shows though, you're looking at easily $50 a month for the cable service, and with 4 episodes a month you're only talking $8 * x shows for that month. The only benefit of cable is the a la carte at this point and the always there.
If on-demand offerings were significantly better for basic digital cable, cable would win hands down. DVR I think is probably a good compromise between iTunes and cable though.
So why do they bother putting stuff up on iTunes then? Heroes episodes were hitting iTunes with 48 hours of the original air date. It doesn't take a genius to take a look at the cable bill and then look at the Apple TV and decide that possible Apple TV + iTunes might actually satisfy their needs. Especially when you can pull your local news + forecast off the standard airwaves or the internet. Or the radio or the newspaper.