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

[Paul Schwanz - Enterprise Services]

Nathan Yospe wrote:
>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

[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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