Rebooted?

The subject of recent classic PC franchise reboots, has been something I have been avoiding for some time now. When I discovered these cherished moments are being dumbed downed into shooters, to appeal to a larger, less cerebral audience, than the audience who initially made these classics, there are mixed feelings that come with that. On the one hand, a popular IP from the days of my youth, will now be appreciated (to some degree), by an entirely new audience. On the other hand . . . well, the games have been dumbed downed, and very likely devoid of most of what made them special in the first place, just to reach this new audience. In my mind, it’s like having sex while wearing a concrete condom – the upside is that you are having sex . . . if you can call taking almost everything that makes sex pleasurable in the first place, having it stripped away, and replaced with a blunt-force object, “having sex.” (more…)

January 4, 2012 | Categories: Entertainment, What's In Your Console? | Tags: 007, 2K Games, 2K Marin, adventure game, Bethesda, BioShock, Bungie, Call of Duty, Chronicles of Riddick, Dark Athena, Day 1 Studios, Dreamcast, Dualshock, Dualshock 2, EA, Elder Scrolls, Electronic Arts, Escape From Butcher Bay, Fallout, Fallout 3, FASA, FASA Interactive, first-person, first-person shooter, FPS, Frozen Synapse, Golden Eye, GoldenEye, GoldenEye 007, Grim Fandango, Halo, Hollywood, Irrational Games, Kinect, Looking Glass, Looking Glass Studio, Magic Carpet, Max Payne, Might & Magic, Mode 7, N64, Nobunaga's Ambition, Perfect Dark, Rare, role-play game, RPG, sex, Shadowrun, Shadowrun (2007), shooter, Starbreeze, Starbreeze AB, Syndicate, Syndicate Wars, System Shock, System Shock 2, third-person, third-person shooter, Wii remote, Wii-mote, X-Com, Xbox, XCOM | 1 Comment