Last night I was playing Mega Man 10 for the first time on the PS3 (late, I know 
) and I was having a decent amount of fun, but I got to thinking...
This whole, "retro" fad had it's moment in the sun, but it seems kind of redundant now. In fact, I get kind of annoyed when companies come out with 8/16 bit games trying to capitalize on our nostalgia. Yes, I suppose I'm guilty of keeping the trend going by playing Mega Man, but I got it for free on psplus so whatever.
Anyways, then I started thinking, how incredible would it be if Nintendo's next console was a graphical powerhouse that remade old games with newer graphics and improved story lines... basically take their most popular franchises and give them complete overhauls. I'm not talking God of War collection, updated HD visuals for the PS3, or The Last of Us upgraded for the four...
I'm talking, let's go back to Mega Man 1. Let's take the 7 pixels that make up Mega Man's face, and let's get a fully rendered character. I want to see Rockman's level in front of some photo-realistic mountains, leading to a boss fight with some bad ass robot throwing boulders at you. I want the graphics for these remakes to be worthy of a console coming out in 2018. I want the storylines modernized to appeal to a gaming audience that has matured in the 30 years since that games release. But I want the gameplay mechanics to be exactly the same. So if you switched between Mega Man 1 HD, and Mega Man 1, you could hit the same buttons at the same time, and get the same results.
And I'm serious about the storylines being modernized... make these new games canon. Take Mario for example... maybe Mario 1 could start out with a cutscene of some plumber who just got dumped by his girlfriend. He goes out for a drink with his pal Luigi and they start talking about the old days when they were kids, and how real their imaginations seemed, and how they used to save princesses... IDK, im not a script writer, but you get the idea. Mario 2 is a dream that Mario had, and in Mario 3, Mario decides to abandon his life as a plumber and stage a play of his child hood fantasies. He opens the play to critical praise (http://www.giantbomb.com/super-mari...ros-3-was-a-stage-play-my-mind-is-blo-463610/), and it get's optioned for a movie which become Super Mario World.
Make these games look amazing though.
Legend of Zelda... make it a 3rd person, open world romp ala Skyrim, but with the map of Hyrule we all grew up with.
Metroid
Star Tropics
TMNT
and on and on and on
Take my childhood, make it in full hd, with grownup storylines, but the exact same game play mechanics.
How much is too much to charge for that experience? With leaderboards, trophies, online multiplayer?
I would honestly spend 2 or 3 grand on that system.
) and I was having a decent amount of fun, but I got to thinking...This whole, "retro" fad had it's moment in the sun, but it seems kind of redundant now. In fact, I get kind of annoyed when companies come out with 8/16 bit games trying to capitalize on our nostalgia. Yes, I suppose I'm guilty of keeping the trend going by playing Mega Man, but I got it for free on psplus so whatever.
Anyways, then I started thinking, how incredible would it be if Nintendo's next console was a graphical powerhouse that remade old games with newer graphics and improved story lines... basically take their most popular franchises and give them complete overhauls. I'm not talking God of War collection, updated HD visuals for the PS3, or The Last of Us upgraded for the four...
I'm talking, let's go back to Mega Man 1. Let's take the 7 pixels that make up Mega Man's face, and let's get a fully rendered character. I want to see Rockman's level in front of some photo-realistic mountains, leading to a boss fight with some bad ass robot throwing boulders at you. I want the graphics for these remakes to be worthy of a console coming out in 2018. I want the storylines modernized to appeal to a gaming audience that has matured in the 30 years since that games release. But I want the gameplay mechanics to be exactly the same. So if you switched between Mega Man 1 HD, and Mega Man 1, you could hit the same buttons at the same time, and get the same results.
And I'm serious about the storylines being modernized... make these new games canon. Take Mario for example... maybe Mario 1 could start out with a cutscene of some plumber who just got dumped by his girlfriend. He goes out for a drink with his pal Luigi and they start talking about the old days when they were kids, and how real their imaginations seemed, and how they used to save princesses... IDK, im not a script writer, but you get the idea. Mario 2 is a dream that Mario had, and in Mario 3, Mario decides to abandon his life as a plumber and stage a play of his child hood fantasies. He opens the play to critical praise (http://www.giantbomb.com/super-mari...ros-3-was-a-stage-play-my-mind-is-blo-463610/), and it get's optioned for a movie which become Super Mario World.
Make these games look amazing though.
Legend of Zelda... make it a 3rd person, open world romp ala Skyrim, but with the map of Hyrule we all grew up with.
Metroid
Star Tropics
TMNT
and on and on and on
Take my childhood, make it in full hd, with grownup storylines, but the exact same game play mechanics.
How much is too much to charge for that experience? With leaderboards, trophies, online multiplayer?
I would honestly spend 2 or 3 grand on that system.
