[Rant] If it ain't broke... and other fish and chips related stories

...you can rely on a video game company to completely fuck it up. Why is it that games developers seem so insistant on taking great games and ruining them in remakes? Surely some of the people working on the game will have played the original and surely some of them play their remake before it gets released so why on Earth don't they notice that it's not as fun as the first one?

A few cases in point:

Ghost Recon Future Soldier. I've always loved the Ghost Recon games, the slower pace and hyper-realism being far more appealing to me than the running and gunning of most other real-world shooters. Advanced Warfighter marked the beginning of a slide into silly futuristic nonsense with the HUD that outlined all the bad guys in red but with the new game due to be released soon, watching the trailer shows a guy activating a Predator style camo field before executing someone with a knife. What was wrong with a realistic, tactical shooter? Ghost Recon was always about planning your advance, putting your team in the right spot to provide covering fire and sniping some dudes in the head, not turning fucking invisible and sneaking up behind them.

Syndicate. Take one of the greatest tactical combat games of all time and decide that the world needs another FPS game. Or how about you don't?

Xcom. Take one of the greatest tactical combat games of all time and remake it without the involvement of the original creator and while doing so, announce that you want to make it more "Accessible" to modern gamers, thereby guarantee that it's dumbed down to fuck and there'll be tutorial levels. Just tell people to read the fucking manual if they don't know how to play the game, part of the joy of the original Enemy Unknown and Terror from the Deep was being thrown in at the deep end and learning as you went, plus that the games were both hard as fuck.

I'm sure there are numerous other examples you can all name so rant away in here.

How ya doing, buddy?

Originally Posted by Why Am I Allowed to CABLE INSTINCTS

You mention Ghost Recon, but it applies to a lot of Tom Clancy shit. Rainbow Six Vegas?

I was about to disagree with you but then I remembered how fiendishly complicated the planning and moving of your squad was in the first one and how awesome it was when it went well and how poor a substitute it is simply telling your guys to use either the door or the window and kill everyone in the room. I do love Vegas 2 but as a slow-paced shooter, not as a tactical game. The cover system in Vegas 2 is pretty cool though.

There's nowhere I can't reach.