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[Luchsen]

Originally Posted by sgtboat

Is the Mona Lisa lost, Is Mozarts music lost, Are the dead sea scrolls lost. NO.

Those are things that you know. The lost things are lost things because you don't know them. There probably are paintings better than Mona Lisa, composers better than Mozart and scrolls more important than the Qumran ones, but you don't know them because they are lost. Your deductions is not, erm, ...coherent? (I even can't come up with the German word...)

[Sebatianos]

Heh... I guess you are al forgeting one very simple fact...

The original machines on which the old games are played are not used any more...
It's like with old music or old films...
There aren't any old records in use anymore... I mean, how many of you guys still cranck up the old Victrolla and put on a wax disc in order to listen to a scratchy old tune... But the same song can be bought and listened to digitalised and on a CD.
Same with the old movies... Do you have an old style projector at home to watch a century old film? But you can get everything from Brothers Lumiere on a DVD and watch it on the latest new gadgets you own...

And that's why these old games are moved on new machines and clones are off course made in the process (like many sit-coms using scenes from classic movies - yet they will never push those movies into oblivion).

So don't worry. The only thing that might happen is that the sheer number of fans will drop - but the games will not be forgotten.

Has Murnau's Nosferatu been forgotten after tons of other Dracula/Vamipre movies were made? NO.
But today you'll have to watch it on a DVD with comentaries, recorded sound etc. You can't go to a movie theatre and see it on celluloid and hear a guy playing a church organ live in the background.

[SlowCoder]

The problem with recurring themes is that, while recurring, are going to be new to the younger generations that never experienced the previous games. So, in a sense, the games are new. And, with limited exception, the younger generations will only want to play the newest games that push their hardware to the limits. Otherwise the games are not worth their time. Right?

[Panthro]

The problem I would have with old games being used as a base for new games is this: They change too much!

Comparing "Bioshock" to "System Shock 2" is not comparable to listening to the difference between vinyl and CD, or VHS and DVD, the changes are quite marked, and while some people find this better, it makes me feel like I'm viewing the world in a completely different way to eveyone else, when I find it worse. (not to say that Bioshock was a bad game, just what they added graphically, they removed in complexity.)

And I wouldn't even say SS2 was an "old" game, and it had been simplified from the original to quite an extent.