Forum Overview :: Doom III :: Re: I wonder if Jonesy is bitter that endless reheated crap didn't get served

[quote name="Ice Cream Jonsey"][quote name="a generation earlier - WITTGENSTEIN"]Galaga 17 would be pretty fucking amazing though with a Oculus Rift.[/quote] It's not something human beings are capable of. (Well, except the Xenonauts crew.) Putting aside the fact that controllers like the Paperboy handlebars and Major Havok roller will never be replicated for consoles (which is fine, they shouldn't be) it's a rare gift that a developer can look at a successful game and just update the graphics and smooth over UI bumps. There was a Warlords for the 360. It was a disaster. There was a port of Robotron. It was a disaster. A two-player game ends for both players when the first guy dies. Paperboy is ballooned up to, what, 800x600? It's the MAME version, basically. Whoever put that on Gold Live couldn't give it a new graphics engine? And the new versions of these things are also terrible. The 360 Live Xbox Arcade version of BurgerTime has you jumping over things. Jumping! Let's also give Mario a gun. Let's give the Outrun guy a bus ticket. I haven't thought about it for more than two seconds, but I think Xenonauts is the first example of someone actually keeping the best parts of gameplay for a classic while updating the "right" things. (I should mention that the original games we have now by and large blow the shit out of the arcade era.) ICJ[/quote]