The Pink Panther, The Shaggy Dog, Flicka, The Poseidon Adventure, Last Holiday, When a
Stranger Calls, Honeymooners, Fat Albert, and Miami Vice. The List can go on for days of
bad movie remakes and TV to Movie Remakes. It's painfully obvious that Hollywood's pool
is unbelievably shallow, if not empty with ideas. The last straw where I gave up going to
movies was Transformers. Sure it was cool to see a new generation of kids getting
introduced to Optimus (Greatest leader EVER btw) but that whole "thing" I saw on screen
wasn't Transformers, it was something with people and robots fighting for no good reason.



But that isn't what this stupid post is about obviously, it's more of a topic starter for us
nerds. The new issue of EGM has a big bow out issue of 35 games that are being reinvented
for "next-gen consoles". I've already seen a render of Rick, hero from Splatterhouse and it
got me thinking. With the exception of Ninja Gaiden I really can't think of a game that has
taken a 10+ year break and brought back to where it captured me the same way when I
first played it. Usually it's because though the name is the same, the game isn't. Keep in
mind doesn't include the ever lasting constant favorites that never really went away, like
Mario, Mega Man, Final Fantasy, etc.. Those are usually good games that somehow evolve.
Now there seems resurgence of taking old games like Bionic Commando, which was
already re-imagined WELL, and bring "them" back. Now I loved the game and how the
XBLA version is shaping up to look really cool but those seem to be more based on the old
formula. The new version just looks.. Meh..



My question is WHY? Are Dev costs that out of control? Has the industry run out of heroes to
make up? No more stories to tell? The video game industry is usually busy sucking it's own
dick how it's bigger & better than the movie industry but now it's starting to emulate it more
and more. Madden still sells a million and games like Deathrow are overlooked because of
Marketing dollars. This isn't a bad thing because sometimes it's cool have an on going story
so games like a HALO, which I don't see so much as a sequel but rather a continuation of
an already established story. Now it seems games are now being made to have us chase
the last lingering remnants of our childhood. I can't imagine this being good in the long
term but then again, these are not movies. I am amped about seeing them but I have
really low expectations that these will only resemble the games they are re-inventing in
name and that's about it..