Please stop destroying classic Atari 2600 franchises with crappy, downloadable remakes that bear little to no resemblance to the games they're supposedly based on. I'm looking at you, Star Raiders and Yar's Revenge.
Sincerely,
Vrock.
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bthylafh wrote:U MAD?
Vrock wrote:Please stop destroying classic Atari 2600 franchises with crappy, downloadable remakes that bear little to no resemblance to the games they're supposedly based on. I'm looking at you, Star Raiders and Yar's Revenge.
Sincerely,
Vrock.
cphite wrote:Have you played the demos?Vrock wrote:Please stop destroying classic Atari 2600 franchises with crappy, downloadable remakes that bear little to no resemblance to the games they're supposedly based on. I'm looking at you, Star Raiders and Yar's Revenge.
Sincerely,
Vrock.
Actually both of those look pretty good...
cphite wrote:Sounds like you're complaining about the graphics of the originals and not the gameplay. My point exactly: these new versions have the opposite problem. If they'd just tweaked/updated the graphics and a couple of gameply elements with these, I'd have been all over them. Star Raiders in particular could have been great as there's some depth there in the space sim category, and we haven't had a good space sim game in a long, long time.I loved the originals too, but come on... Star Raiders was essentially a set of cross hairs over a weakly simulated star field; and Yar's was a bug looking thing trying to get at a triangle. I think it's kind of cool to see these games fleshed out with some actual graphics.
Vrock wrote:cphite wrote:Have you played the demos?Vrock wrote:Please stop destroying classic Atari 2600 franchises with crappy, downloadable remakes that bear little to no resemblance to the games they're supposedly based on. I'm looking at you, Star Raiders and Yar's Revenge.
Sincerely,
Vrock.
Actually both of those look pretty good...cphite wrote:Sounds like you're complaining about the graphics of the originals and not the gameplay. My point exactly: these new versions have the opposite problem. If they'd just tweaked/updated the graphics and a couple of gameply elements with these, I'd have been all over them. Star Raiders in particular could have been great as there's some depth there in the space sim category, and we haven't had a good space sim game in a long, long time.I loved the originals too, but come on... Star Raiders was essentially a set of cross hairs over a weakly simulated star field; and Yar's was a bug looking thing trying to get at a triangle. I think it's kind of cool to see these games fleshed out with some actual graphics.
derFunkenstein wrote:When I was a kid I played Centipede on the 2600 at my aunt and uncle's house. I thought it was about some sort of crazy space lizard invading Earth. Then I got the game for my own 2600 and saw the box art/manual which explained that you were some sort of witch with a magic wand shooting at bugs in your mushroom garden.
The moral of the story here is that some things are better left to the imagination.
5150 wrote:Bring back E.T.!