Video game producer Morgan Gray believes the video game industry needs more remakes.
And he's not just saying that so people will buy the Wii version of "Tomb Raider: Anniversary," the decade-later remake of the first Lara Croft adventure, set for release next month.
"Remakes are essential," he told GameFile in an interview at a hotel-suite demo last week in Manhattan, while other reporters swung their hands through the Wii version of "Anniversary."
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We've gone on many adventures with Lara Croft. With another reboot in the making, Wealth of Geeks felt it was a good time to go down the nostalgia rabbit hole and remember the best of those tomb-raiding thrills.
For me, Legend should be alot higher (along with the other two ). Shadow, I enjoyed it, but has too much has fluff, as modern games tend to do. Playing the remastered series, and apart from the controls, is very good.
I really enjoyed the first 2 games, Legend and the first of the reboots and the rest I didn’t get into so I never finished.
Completely subjective list. I really liked Underworld, I preferred Lara's design. That said I loved the horror/uncharted feel of the reboot. I think all the TR games have strengths and weaknesses. None are objectively better in every way.
The 2000s was a great decade for a lot of brilliant video games. Here are the ten best games of the 2000s that you may not have played.
You know usually when someone says "you may have missed" it's games that were lesser known, hidden gems, underrated games. These are all super high profile games that sold extremely well.
What is this list? These are all hugely popular games. I was expecting games like Dark Messiah of Might & Magic, Advent Rising, Arx Fatalis, etc.
I've only played 3 on that list. Part of me feels bad about how little I used all the consoles I've owned as a kid. One bright side is, there's over 30 years of games to experience for the first time.
GTA Underground combines the San Andreas, Liberty City, Vice City, Manhunt I/II, Bullworth, and custom maps into one big map.
Who was that guy recently who said Rockstar dont want to do just meaningless ports?
Cos something like this would be cool if you combine 3, SA and VC maps. Change characters a la GTAV style. Insert some quests in each game to tie in the connection between the three players and have post endgame content of all three games with more missions/heists.
Just a thought.
I've played a few mods like this way back when the only two cities were liberty and vice the fact the old 3d games still have active modding communitys shows that there's still a huge pull to these classics I hope rockstar comes through with proper remakes not just that really bad HD San Andreas and mobile anniversary edition of vc and 3
Manhunt 2 got re-banned after being approved? That's dumb...
I'd like remakes of old super nintendo/genesis games myself. Maybe add HD sprites or something like that.
For every reason for remakes, I can give reasons against them.
I know I have heard many PS3 owners complain about rehashes, and that's what a remake is. I must say I would rather see a new game than a remake of an old one any day.
Most of why we want some games remade is because we remember them as being so fun. Sadly, when we get to replay those old games, they don't always seem as fun anymore, and that can hurt an old game.
However, if the old game really was fun, play it! We don't need remakes because the original already around.
Developers could be spending their time on a great new experiance rather than a remake of a game everyone has already played (you'll never see a remake of an unpopular game).
It quickly turns into milking a franchise. How many people hate Madden because they change a few names and stats and sell it as a new game every year? People don't like milked franchises, and remakes are a good way to show you are milking it and turn people against it.
Remakes are bad for everyone, with very few exceptions.