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Re: Very pretty, but.... | |
Posted By: Leviathan <levihoffmeier@gmail.com> | Date: 8/18/11 1:19 p.m. |
In Response To: Re: Very pretty, but.... (Ibeechu) : I don't know. You gotta look at it in the context of 10 years after Halo CE. : We already know where the story goes. It's moot to now try to simulate : that original feeling of tension and uneasiness. In fact, doing that would : be a disservice to what could have been. Since we know what happens, : there's no need to try to pull off the same atmosphere, especially not : when you can push it into a different, new, and (hopefully) interesting : direction. It's like watching a movie the second time. You can look at : things in a new context and, often, it can be an entirely different : experience. I hope I'm not spoiling a 12-year-old movie for anybody, but : take The Sixth Sense, for example. Turns out Bruce Willis was a ghost the : whole time. Imagine if they remade the movie, this time with the : filmmakers knowing that the audience knows that Bruce Willis is a ghost. : You can now design the movie to enhance the things that play off of that : new information. : You could have a scene where Cole's mother is concerned about how she can
: Or, hell, take Halo. The first time around, the Flood was a huge surprise.
: But that's all to do with the story and that sort of thing. Your issue was
: Although, if your complaint is that you simply don't like the visuals or the
: Actually, the Terminal did take advantage of the new context exactly as I was
: o hey its a post by ibeechu i bet its 10 times longer than it had to be You bring up some good points if one was to approach this 'remastering' as intended only for us folks that have played it to death... But one of the big concerns for me, which is what probably makes me want this Anniversary to be uber-perfect, is that this will probably become THE version that newcomers to the Halo universe will play. That's why I think this remastering should still be as faithful to the original as possible, so as to have the same effect on that newcomer as the original did to me. :)
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