In his latest article for Zero1Gaming, Chris has another round of games that he thinks don't deserve the amount of praise they've received.
GB: "With this feature, we talk about 15 games on the PS3 that should be remade for the PlayStation 5."
Little Big Planet 1 and 2 deserve a mention, IMO.
Good call on Motorstorm, a game released 2 gens ago but still looks and feels so good. Motorstorm 2 and Motorstorm RC were gems as well. They followed up the Motorstorm games with the brilliant Driveclub, which still manages to put modern racing games to shame. Imagine closing down a studio as talented as that ... (!) Incredible.
A little 'arcade-gem' back then was The Last Guy, a top down 'follow the leader' snake-like game where you had to find and lead survivors to safety during an alien invasion, on terrible looking 'Google-earth' maps. Graphics were poor, even back then, but would love that same gameplay with modern maps and graphics.
Street Fighter 4, once it finally had a full roster, was quite good, but it was always an ugly game, sadly. Imagine bringing that back while using the current SF6 engine.
Some good choices here and Resistance: Fall of Man is my most wanted PS3 remaster/remake. Not sure about their claim it was Sony's answer to Gears of War though.
I’d rather have sequels than remakes. Look at Dead Space 1 Remake. Would’ve been cooler if we got a new entry and it failed with sales sealing the fate of a sequel rather than just replay the same game and it fail in sales and we never get a new entry.
Remakes are great for things like PS2 and earlier games to really get a crazy new graphical coat, but I think we should ease up on all these remakes and actually do sequels.
I rather they remaster and port over to PC and current gen all the games permanently stuck on PS360. Those games don't need remakes, they need to be given a chance to live again outside of their confined consoles and then give a few proper sequels. Like Sleeping Dogs, Motor Storm, LA Noir, should get another entry.
Rockstar Games’ shiny new Red Dead Redemption port is now on GTA+, and you can play it while claiming some tasty GTA Online benefits.
Rockstar still strying to make GTA plus work
Should be $6 for the rdr game on sale not 6 bucks for a months playtime
One of my favorite games from PS3 generation. I have the remaster as there was a buy 2 get 1 free deal a while back but the price they are charging for the port is way too high although not surprising at all.
Times are changing, and these games would have never been made in today's climate.
Every single time someone uses this phrase whether it's music, movies, books, comics, video games, etc it's always the same claim.
The ubiquitous "they" won't allow it to be made. And every decade these claims are made the claimant completely ignores all the "offensive" material that is published when the claim is made.
In ten years, you can write a new article about how you can't make games like Helldivers 2, Resident Evil VIII, Mortal Kombat I, Dragon's Dogma 2, Alan Wake 2 etc etc etc any more.
Dead Island: "The early PC version of the zombie game swapped the playable character Purna’s Gender Wars skill with a prototype name, which shouldn’t be mentioned directly. The skill name made fun of both Purna as a character and feminists."
"Feminist Whore" lmao
ill add one more to the list.
drakengard 1.
its ridiculous tho, especially since they'd still be able to find their place in alot of places in the world. except america of course ha. and maybe Australia.
ppl are so sensitive these days. ha. but it is what it is.
They're not offensive.
And we need another Fat Princess. Fantastic little game!
Some people just have no sense of humour if this sort of thing offends them. They need to lighten up and stop taking themselves so seriously.
Super Meat Boy I will agree with, but Little Big Planet and Red Dead!?
Little Big Planet put insane amounts of creativity at your fingertips. It was revolutionary for console gaming to have that much customizability. It was fun, accessible and great for people of all ages.
Red Dead Redemption had a marvelous story, fun gameplay with a large open expanse to explore. It was a really well all around put together game that certainly deserved its praises.
Super Meat Boy was amazing. Frustrating, but very fun at the same time.
The other two I agree with, though. LBP is a great creative design tool, but that doesn't change that the basic controls and physics of the game are poor which is very bad for a platformer. RDR just drags itself out way too much, suffering from the long treks to mission objectives every single time and stiff controls.
The problem with Red Dead is the story for me. Here's how I saw it:
Bad Guys: "We have your family and will hold them hostage until you bring down your old gang."
Marston: "I will rush to save my family... right after I play 1000 hands of poker, 100 games of horse shoes, patrol the ranch of some lady night after night, collect flowers for a lunatic, and help just about every man, woman and child in the territory first before rescuing my family."
Every time the game went back to the main story line it was jarring because the characters were acting as if this mission to take down the gang was urgent and yet I had Marston out bounty hunting for weeks at a time. There was no sense of urgency. It's the problem with stories in an open world game. I had the same problem with AC3 which was trying to tell a narrative but it gets broken when your character can roam the forests for days at a time to hunt.
I fully agree with LBP, I just don't get why this game is such held in high regard.
Note to author:- you should do an article about skyrim, again why skyrim is so revered is just a mystery.
As you can see im obviously a meat boy fan. Although I understand where this guy is coming from, the difficult nature of the game is what it makes it so addictive for me. After finally finishing a level in what looked impossible at first glance it makes you feel awesome when you do it.
It's not for everybody i guess, there are different games which give you different feelings like a good story (metal gear, heavy rain). micro managing on games like the sims which can be comforting to people or grinding on WoW or borderlands which gives people that buzz when getting that ideal equipment. Competitive (cod, halo). Then there's meat boy which gives you accomplishment when achieving something you didnt think were possible.
Im not too good with words so sorry if this sounds like nonsense.