Quote: "say for example the old zelda ooc remakes for DS: exactly the same game, with revamped graphics"
No, it's much much more. Sorry, I actually liked that game, so I'll defend it. XD
Read some articles about it.
Same as with Mario 64 DS, which had +3 playable characters, +30 stars, better graphics, a few more gameplay mechanics with the hats and all, a multiplayer mode, at least 3 new levels, a larger hud, and like 20 mini games or something.
The most amazing part was, I hadn't played the original at that point, and would not have been able to tell you which parts had be grafted on. This is Nintendo, when they remake a game in their main franchises, it's anything but a port.
Sorry about that, I actually care about OoT, whereas Halo 4....
Look, the problem with Halo 4 is not just that Bungie is off the team, it's a whole bucket list. First, Halo was an extremely planned out story, with hints droppeed in clues before the first game came out as to how it would end. They "hijacked" websites to give sneak peaks, and even entire audiobooks. They're just as bad as Valve, if not worse in that regard/
Halo is a Trilogy. An epic, very well planned out trilogy. It end alluding to the immediate next game would be Marathon, which is NOT Halo.
So, frankly it sounded like from an interview of the new developers, that they may not even pick up at the next point. It may be another part of Master Chief's story.
Halo 4 is not Halo 4. It's another game in the Halo franchise, supported because the fans do not realize there can be too much of a good thing. The best way to ruin a part of our culture is to beat it until it's dead. And guess what? Microsoft does not care, they see that their stock will go up if they release another numbered game in the biggest game franchise they own. "Fans will love it" they think to themselves.
This is how the world ends, this is how the world ends.
(why is nintedno immune to this so far? Well first they don't number their games, release them every year, and play off familiar characters, not the same story or even gameplay mechanics. Master Chief would be fine if he pushed into ever genre he could, make making more of the exact same that made him popular with bringing a thing to the table... You can't keep pushing that. It breaks. He ate his cake, it's not like he still has it)
Edit: The don't play it if you don't like it scenario does not change the effect it has on our culture. If Japan had a civil war and was taken over by a militaristic state or whatever, telling me to just not live there will not change the fact that it is happening, and that it will affect me, and more importantly the world at large. Just because I live in the northern US and the gulf stream goes down (I think), does not mean I don't care about a massive oil spill down south that's pretty much the worst disaster mankind has inflicted upon the earth all at once. You can't tell me to just not live in Florida or off the gulf of mexico in general. In fact I have family there.
I have friends who like Halo too. Gamers have a right to be outraged when they realize that their culture is being abused and massacred by the corporate end of game companies. Yes, games are made by companies that mostly care more about money than games, but not all of them, and that doesn't mean we should sit there and smile while they shove down **** our mouths, and closing our eyes or watching them do it to our friends while we stand by does not make it better.
Halo 4 is not death of Halo, it's the road to it. I'll cite sources in gaming history if you want, this is a bad move for gamers, unless the death of Halo will bring on a revolution away from the mindless FPS genre (hey, a man can dream
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