American McGee's Alice: Madness Returns Brings the Crazy Back to Wonderland
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A sticky note on my filecabinet told me to pre order it. But i cant really be sure WHO put it there.....
loved the movie reference
loved the movie reference
Oh my god! They're really making a new one? I still have the original McGee's Alice. This will be absolutely wicked to add this to that old relic. :3
Think before getting excited. You can pop to the old game and see these same character and thematic designs... I know this is just a trailer, but isn't that as good a reason as any not to be blinded by shiny new things?
I'm been looking forward to this, too... but now I think about it, he's going to have to turn his creative brain inside-out to find actually new, refreshingly dark and interesting set pieces for this game. I'm not hopeful.
I'm been looking forward to this, too... but now I think about it, he's going to have to turn his creative brain inside-out to find actually new, refreshingly dark and interesting set pieces for this game. I'm not hopeful.
I don't know about you people, but I seriously can't wait for what bullshit the media spins to make this like "the most evil game EVER!"
I hope you were a late bloomer into gaming. Otherwise, how are the therapy sessions going?Aeryn Seoung said:
OT: I loved the original, but I'm hesitant to see it rebooted. After all, the original drew a pretty firm line under itself, not leaving a whole lot of room for a remake. A psych patient might relapse, of course, but I didn't get that impression from the ending.
Still, I'm cautiously excited. We're long overdue for something in this vein, and the canceling of the (albeit doomed-to-terribleness) movie based around the game only exacerbated the want.
I just hope that the sequel means that there will be a re-release of the original...
I passed it up when I was younger because I just didn't have the funds to buy every game that I wanted... I now HAVE funds to buy games like this but getting your hands on a copy of this game is very hard at this point.
I passed it up when I was younger because I just didn't have the funds to buy every game that I wanted... I now HAVE funds to buy games like this but getting your hands on a copy of this game is very hard at this point.
1) I get some SERIOUS uncanny valley with that Alice.
2) Despite having loved the tone of the earlier game, that trailer does not fill me with hope. The music is too cheerful (despite the sudden shift at the end) and the colours and models seem not to fit together well. I'm assuming it was intentional, to create a tension between the elements, but when you do that you want something to emerge from the tension. You don't just want something to be alternatingly creepy and cute, you want that special feeling you get when the two work together and against one another to create a wholly unique tone. This looks more like someone just glued together happy things and creepy things and hoped that the result happened to fall together well. That "cute creepy" aesthetic seems to me to be really difficult to nail down and the trailer doesn't really manage to evoke it for me.
3) As others have said: what? We already know how the fire started. He's either going to have to do some serious retconning or come up with a pretty silly story about how other actions "lead up to" the fire in a way that we didn't previously know about. Both options seem pretty likely to diminish the importance of the last game, which leaves a bit of a sour taste in my mouth.
Really, I think this was a beloved game best left alone. Maybe remade, but a sequel seems like a poor idea. I could also definitely see a spiritual sequel maybe dealing with another similar story in a similar way, just not a direct sequel.
2) Despite having loved the tone of the earlier game, that trailer does not fill me with hope. The music is too cheerful (despite the sudden shift at the end) and the colours and models seem not to fit together well. I'm assuming it was intentional, to create a tension between the elements, but when you do that you want something to emerge from the tension. You don't just want something to be alternatingly creepy and cute, you want that special feeling you get when the two work together and against one another to create a wholly unique tone. This looks more like someone just glued together happy things and creepy things and hoped that the result happened to fall together well. That "cute creepy" aesthetic seems to me to be really difficult to nail down and the trailer doesn't really manage to evoke it for me.
3) As others have said: what? We already know how the fire started. He's either going to have to do some serious retconning or come up with a pretty silly story about how other actions "lead up to" the fire in a way that we didn't previously know about. Both options seem pretty likely to diminish the importance of the last game, which leaves a bit of a sour taste in my mouth.
Really, I think this was a beloved game best left alone. Maybe remade, but a sequel seems like a poor idea. I could also definitely see a spiritual sequel maybe dealing with another similar story in a similar way, just not a direct sequel.
