Eurogamer: "The developer of upcoming sci-fi adventure Remember Me has revealed that a number of publishers passed on the game due to its female protagonist."
A Capcom classic, Remember Me, has ironically been forgotten in the 10 years since its release on PC, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.
Sadly, Remember Me is not a forgotten Gem but a case of wasted potential. The best idea the game had was the Mind Remix Segments and the New Paris World setting, neither of which where really exploited or used well. Instead everything comes down to this just being pretty Beat'em Up and nothing more.
It does deserves a re-imagining though. Make it in first person and use something like the current Sherlock Holmes like gamedesign. Use some of that Deus Ex/Hitman mechanics and go all the way with the Memory Remix as the center piece.
Each case takes place in the mind of a victim, either dead, dying, or alive, and each level should be design like a Hitman level. Contained but chock-full of details. Investigating in the real world give you hints and clues as to how you can help or mess up a person's memory. Make this a player's choice. You can add combat but make it tasteful and short IF combat is required. Make the combat fit the narrative and the setting. Like a Boss fight taking place in the Mind of a CEO that's hiding a dark secret. Or a victim injected with some nasty Nano Machines trying to erase her memories so she can't be scanned by the Memory Remix Agent. Stuff like that. Again, make these short, sweet and to the point.
The potential for a classic is there but the original wasn't even close to being it.
I liked the game, couldve been better but you can say that for every game or movie.
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Some may not remember Capcom and Dontnod Entertainment's Remember Me, but GotGame does, making it a part of another Bring it Back retrospective.
I agree. Personally, Remember Me, imo, was quite underrated. The game was linear and beautiful Neo Paris wasn't available to be explored as much as I would've liked, but as a whole, it was enjoyable.
Graphics were excellent, the art style was terrific and Nillin was a tremendous character that was voiced beautifully. It even had a solid story. Combat was attacked, but going back recently, I rather enjoyed it. The pressen system was genius and the basic flow to action worked. Platforming was terrible, but the overall package was one that i loved and I'd rather DontNod make more titles like this then become complacent making knockoff Tell Tale games. They are going down the same road as TT, using old tech and pumping out inferior products consistently. I know they had interest in a sequel and had already written the script. Capcom just doesn't want it, but I do.
Yeah their walking simulators do nothing for me. Funny that Quantic Dream seem to be going in the other direction. I wouldn't be surprised to see some actual gameplay in their next game.
I will always see Remember Me as one of the most underrated games of the PS3/Xbox 360 generation. I had a blast with the game. I would love a sequel.
Because many who buy stock in game publishers really know nothing about the industry or the fans of it.
I remember when Bayonetta came out, I haven't seen half as many articles about issues with female protagonists. Deeper still Fear Effect or PN03......
In my opinion, that kind of mentality is pretty sad, not only for girl gamers, that perfectly have the right to be fairly represented in the gaming community, but also for gaming in general.
Just look at games like Tomb Raider, Silent Hill 3, Primal, Heavenly Sword, Beyond Good & Evil, Portal,... If you give to gamers quality, they wont care if they control a man or a woman.
I just hope one day the industry will get rid of that "woman = sex, sex = sales" concept. Every time I see a main or secondary female character that is used solely for sexual purposes (big boobs, femme fatale, etc...), I feel sad for being considered as a d!ck with a wallet.
Not only women equal men, but they sometimes are a better choice as main characters, because women tend to better express their feelings and emotions. And those emotions are, in my opinion, the key to the maturity of video games.
Strange since Lara Croft is one of the top 5 most iconic videogame characters ever
It was not really about the gender but about the sex/intimate scenes which somehow seem like a tabu in video games when they are only ploygons lmao
Publishers just smell money and I bet they know nothing about games, so its not surprising at all. But this article was just to flame the misoginy talk all over again, but it seems people are smarter than that ^^