Okay, yes, this is old, but as far as I can tell it’s not graced UserCreated before, so in case someone hasn’t seen it who’d like to…
I’m always wary of games the hardcore hold up as the second coming, because the hardcore have a tendency to blindly evangelise anything remotely iconic that only gets worse the older the game is. Doubly so for games written by Hideo Kojima, because he’s a bloody awful writer, to put it mildly. Nonetheless, out of all the fan remakes I’ve seen doing the rounds over the past few months, this has to be one of the ones I’d most like to see finished. Snatcher in the Crysis engine, anyone? Yes? Thought so.
Now the bad news, of sorts – it’s another mod (like Butterfly) where the creator’s put it on the backburner while he waits for CryEngine 3 to turn up. Understandable, but still, sniff. On the other hand, modder Ash712 is still working on those things not intimately tied into the engine’s nuts and bolts, such as modelling and animation. So there’s been the odd snippet of progress released all the same. Feast your eyes on these screenshots and video – I’ve never even touched the original game but this is the kind of fantastically distinctive worldbuilding I want to explore anyway.
You can find the ModDB page for Snatcher here.
>Hideo Kojima is a bloody awful writer
Are you on fucking drugs?
Tee hee! I love being contentious.
Although I am actually perfectly serious. Haven’t played Snatcher, I freely admit, but much as I love Metal Gear Solid I think the writing in that series is terrible in nearly every respect. This comments section isn’t the place for it, and probably wouldn’t give me the space anyway but I could go into long, very serious literary arguments about how he breaks pretty much every rule going, and not in a good way.
Phenomenal game designer. Very good director, in a purely visual sense. Entertaining storyteller. So I’d really like to see this mod get finished. But a bloody awful writer.
I can see how you might view his writing as bad if you didn’t understand it, and breaking the rules isn’t necessarily a bad thing. Much of what people take for granted is a product of rule breaking. You need to learn to think outside the box. If we have a society filled with people who just follow the rules and do what they’re told, we’d all have extremely dull lives.
Hideo Kokima’s writing IS bloody awful. The Metal Gear Solid series is pretty cringey and embarrassing to play. Really seems like it was written by a 12 year old.
@Dremth
What the hell did that last post even mean? As far as I can tell it gives absolutely no justification for Hideo Kojima’s lack of talent compared to his success.
Peter Stillman. Enough said.
@DrGonzo
It has become apparent to me that you people are far too simple minded for me to carry on this conversation past this comment.
Who could forget Fatman?
You know what just died? MY SOUL!!!