Well Halloween has come and gone and now we all have the pleasure of suffering through another two months of the Christmas season. Ugh. I wouldn't mind it so much if Christmas wasn't so played up and quality holidays like Halloween so played down as it is nowadays. Seriously, we barely got any trick or treaters last night and chances are none of them lived more then a street away from us. When did parents become such pansies?

Anywho, that's a different gripe. Overall, my Halloween was fine. My wife has pneumonia so rather than venturing out to the couple of Halloween parties we were supposed to go to, we stayed home watching scary movies in bed, which was nice. I haven't seen the original Dawn of the Dead for awhile and I enjoyed sitting through it again.



That said, it got my wheels a turning and wondering where the hell Resident Evil 2 and 3 (and Dino Crisis for that matter) are. Capcom reported they'd be on the PSN soon and back in August I actually spoke with a Capcom PR guy who said we would see them within the next three months Web link.

That still gives them a little more time but honestly doesn't Halloweens strike people as a particularly appropriate time to re-release some of gaming's most classic horror titles? Perhaps, it's just me. I was just really hoping for some surprise, last minute announcement. I mean, playing Half Minute Hero all day while watching zombie flicks was fun, but it certainly wasn't as appropriate.



Halloween also brought to mind how much more developers could be doing with zombie games but aren't. There are some quality titles out there I know, and a lot of people are beginning to tire of the undead, but I still think there's some life (pun intended) left in zombies.

For instance, I'd love to see an open world game that takes place during a zombie outbreak. The opening could, for instance take place during the opening day of the outbreak with things gradually growing worse until the full blown nature of the situation became apparent. Then the game could focus on, say, trekking across America to a safe zone or something. I can only dream I suppose.

Maybe someone could at least throw me a bone and make a total conversion for Fallout 3 or something. I'd even buy the PC version just for that.