[MUD-Dev] Innovation restrictions (was: Information sharing)

[Nathan F.Yospe]

SeronisROTv3 at 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

When the Super Nintendo was big, Nintendo released a cart with all
four, counting both Japanese and American, Super Mario Brothers games.
With a graphical facelift to the level of Super Mario World, they were
an exact port, mob for mob, block for block, vegetable for vegetable.
SMB2 was a new game (the Japanese one) but identical to SMB1 in
gameplay (there was an Ammerican SMB2 as well, also included, which
was a totally different, IIRC even in the main character sprites, game
in Japan), and the game as a whole didn't sell.

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...

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Nathan F. Yospe  email: yospe at kanga.nu nyospe at a2i.com nyospe at pacbell.net
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