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Article #66092Re: Nintendo should make a 9-11 game
From: Daniel Mercier
Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2002 14:36
Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2002 14:36
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Even a Mario-dressed firefighter in Mushroompolis would be of very bad taste at the moment or anytime! Dean, you've just sent a lingering chill in my spine; there must be thousands of unique, unexploited ideas ripe for a visit or too to our dear virtual worlds, but this one is way down the depressing lane. Do players really crave the sight of blood at any price, in order to classify a game as Mature? I'd say, even shooters as innocent as Perfect Dark or Red Faction are utterly puerile, as far as I'm concerned. Actually, you brought a good point by referring indirectly to a topic I've been discussing a lot with 20-40 year-old gamers lately: the big challenge for videogames makers now seems to rely in finding ways to keep adults' ludic interest in bright, smart, positively innovative games instead of in endlessly gloomy corridors of death. In the long run, those "games" really drain the essence of life from your soul, leaving you an empty, bitter husk.Grey and red tones, slimy textures, combined to obnoxious riffle or screaming sounds are nothing but PC teen nerds' wet dreams. Try again! Comments, suggestions, ideas for Nintendo: - - - "Dean Siren" <d...@iu.net> wrote in message news:ua78l3iqf73vfb@corp.supernews.com... > If Nintendo wants to prove that Gamecube is for mature players, they should make > a game that lets players be the New York Fire Department and help people escape > before the World Trade Center collapses. Then it would let the player be other > fire departments, or any sort of rescuer, healer or builder in other crises. The > point of the game would be saving saving lives, and while it would portray > realistic death it would also penalize it. It would be realistically themed, but > it would be easy to pick up, like Wave Race or 1080 Snowboarding. It would be > extremely controversial, but it might get parental approval because it would > promote the "good guys" and not murder like Mortal Kombat or Perfect Dark. This > would be Miyamoto's Shindler's List, proving that he is a mature developer.
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