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What is the gaming world coming to? Is it perhaps losing respect for itself? I don't know, but what I saw today brought a tear to my eye and a pain to my heart.
"Frogger" coming soon to a PS2 and X-Box(tbc) near you, soon. What? Why?
Who is given the right to make decisions like this and by whom?
Perhaps gaming history isn't as important to some people as it is others, but in my opinion there are some things you just don't touch. As gaming becomes more influetial, surely the importance of its history is also increased. All this game does is confuse those who are new to the gaming world and begin to bury the thing its set out to preserve.
Ok, I'll be the first to admit that there are arguments for the "re-hashing" of old titles.
Mario for instance, started out as a simple 2-D platformer, then became a slightly more advanced 2-D platformer with improved graphics, then made the transition to a 3-D platformer with great graphics. That kind of development makes sense.
It's the same with Zelda; it stared out as a simple RPG and developed in an understandable way to the supreme incarnation we saw on the N64 and will continue on to the GameCube. Clearly with Shigeru Miyamoto at the helm, things can be trusted to make sense.
However, "Frogger" started out life as a simple yet addictive game about a frog trying to cross a road. It was great, hop the little frog from the bottom of the screen to the top and avoid the traffic, etc. on the way. It has stood as an amazing landmark back in the depths of gaming history for a long time. I would have expected it to last in our minds in its pure and simple form like all the other greats that even todays youth know; Pong, Space invaders, Asteroids, etc.
But no, they've turned it into an "action-adventure" game. Instead of being an average frog, trying to get to a pond in as straight a line as possible; you now play as "Frogger" the bi-pedal frog with a cheesy smile and a ruck sack.
That kind of transition is just wrong! Frogger wasn't an action adventure game it had nothing in common with this genre. Now the kids are going to attribute the name "Frogger" to a stupid smiley face on a quest for whatever with only a bag as an accomplice.
Its like bringing the "next generation" Tetris title into the flight-sim genre. Surely that would never be allowed! Why? Because that flying has nothing to do with Tetris!
Why on earth they couldn't have given this frog a different name and left "Frogger" to the fame it has already established is beyond me.
Instead of bringing "Frogger" into the new millenium they've butchered a classic!
"Frogger" coming soon to a PS2 and X-Box(tbc) near you, soon. What? Why?
Who is given the right to make decisions like this and by whom?
Perhaps gaming history isn't as important to some people as it is others, but in my opinion there are some things you just don't touch. As gaming becomes more influetial, surely the importance of its history is also increased. All this game does is confuse those who are new to the gaming world and begin to bury the thing its set out to preserve.
Ok, I'll be the first to admit that there are arguments for the "re-hashing" of old titles.
Mario for instance, started out as a simple 2-D platformer, then became a slightly more advanced 2-D platformer with improved graphics, then made the transition to a 3-D platformer with great graphics. That kind of development makes sense.
It's the same with Zelda; it stared out as a simple RPG and developed in an understandable way to the supreme incarnation we saw on the N64 and will continue on to the GameCube. Clearly with Shigeru Miyamoto at the helm, things can be trusted to make sense.
However, "Frogger" started out life as a simple yet addictive game about a frog trying to cross a road. It was great, hop the little frog from the bottom of the screen to the top and avoid the traffic, etc. on the way. It has stood as an amazing landmark back in the depths of gaming history for a long time. I would have expected it to last in our minds in its pure and simple form like all the other greats that even todays youth know; Pong, Space invaders, Asteroids, etc.
But no, they've turned it into an "action-adventure" game. Instead of being an average frog, trying to get to a pond in as straight a line as possible; you now play as "Frogger" the bi-pedal frog with a cheesy smile and a ruck sack.
That kind of transition is just wrong! Frogger wasn't an action adventure game it had nothing in common with this genre. Now the kids are going to attribute the name "Frogger" to a stupid smiley face on a quest for whatever with only a bag as an accomplice.
Its like bringing the "next generation" Tetris title into the flight-sim genre. Surely that would never be allowed! Why? Because that flying has nothing to do with Tetris!
Why on earth they couldn't have given this frog a different name and left "Frogger" to the fame it has already established is beyond me.
Instead of bringing "Frogger" into the new millenium they've butchered a classic!
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Dringo wrote:
> Bomberman perfect example, they ruined it sadly.
?? I thought the new 2D/3D version looked quite good!
> Bomberman perfect example, they ruined it sadly.
?? I thought the new 2D/3D version looked quite good!
You got post.
Some, however, now of Tarrants improtance in Games story, and Games subsequent "aquistion" of the tale.
Some praise Tarrant to this day.
Tarrant, you on hotmail at the moment? I need to email you.
Some praise Tarrant to this day.
Tarrant, you on hotmail at the moment? I need to email you.
Watch as Game majesctically swoops through the air, leaping in a graceful arc to land onto a wagon with the word "BAND" written down each side.
Having played the original Frogger many years ago, I completely agree with Tarrant.
They've pasted a classic name to an irrelevant game.
A 3D version of the original Frogger would've been a great idea.
Making an adventure in this style out of it is just stupid.
They've pasted a classic name to an irrelevant game.
A 3D version of the original Frogger would've been a great idea.
Making an adventure in this style out of it is just stupid.
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