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From: Paul Schwanz - Enterprise Services <Paul.Schwanz@Sun.COM>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 11:06:46 -0400
Organization: Kanga.Nu
Nathan Yospe wrote:
>SeronisROTv3@aol.com said:
>> Matt Mihaly writes:
>>>> Richard A. Bartle wrote:
>>>> On the other hand, the gameplay doesn't improve relentlessly at
>>>> all. I > wish some publishers would re-release old games using
>>>> modern graphics.
>>> Yeah! Of course, they do re-release popular franchises using
>>> modern graphics and the results are sometimes spectacular (such
>>> as Donkey Kong Country or Mario 64 or either of the two N64 Zelda
>>> games).
>> I dont think that was the meaning Richard had. I personally would
>> like to see the EXACT same game re-released with newer graphics...
>> not just a new version of an old game to carry on the series. For
>> example.. Any of the early Final Fantasy games or Phantasy Star
>> games. If those were re-released on a newer system with decked out
>> graphics it would probably sell. IMHO
[snip]
> Had they added a new series of puzzles with the same gameplay and
> levels of design for the second and third American games, they would
> have had a winner. As it was, nostalgia was much of the drive for
> playing, and the truth is, I knew every whistle's location, and had
> even managed to pass, if with great difficulty, the hardest levels
> of every game as a kid. It just wasn't worth doing again...
That might be more a matter of the replayability of the original game.
I know that if someone would re-release X-COM for windows with updated
graphics and animation, I would definitely like to play through it
again... maybe a few more times.
--Phinehas
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