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On Sat, 19 Feb 2005 11:07:06 +0000, Thomas N McEwan
<captaininsanity@ONAYAMSPAY.uk2.net> wrote:
>On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 21:37:06 GMT
>"Jonah Falcon" <jonahnynla@mindspring.com> wrote:
>
>> Wonder how Uwe Boll screwed up classic adventure game Alone in the Dark?
>>
>> http://www.somethingawful.com/articles.php?a=2649&p=
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>> Jonah Falcon
>>
>>
>
>It's just the usual stupid decision made by bad franchise spinoffs - an
>excellent, mould breaking game has a half-good sequel, which in turn has a
>quarter-good sequel, whic finally, many years later, has a downright awful
>sequel that rips apart all remaining shreds of continuity and the style of
>the original game, keeping little other than the title and one character
>name (now given to a totally different, generic pastry-cutter action hero).
> Naturally it is this last, worst-sequel-of-all that has nothing to do with
>the original franchise that is chosen for the movie adaptation.
>
>I wouldn't mind betting that Boll isn't even aware that the earlier games
>exist, though in part this could be excused by modern sequel-makers'
>insistence of dropping original titling and naming every game as if it were
>a stand-alone, ie calling it "the new nightmare" instead of just "Alone in
>the dark 4", "Thief: deadly shadows" instead of"Thief 3". Apparently this
>practice has been adopted because of the assumption that console-owners are
>too stupid to grapple with the concept that new games for their system had
>sequels on other systems, or something similarly nonsensical. Ah well, at
>least iD software still know how to do it properly.
>
>Tom
Uwe Boll is directing 'Dungeon Siege' next.. based on Gas Powered
Games, game.. i shudder to think what it's going to look like..
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