Why Games shouldn't have boob jobs.

I got into the Halo series a little bit late. I got Halo 3 on the cheap for the X-Box and had an excellent time. So I went and bought ODST and really enjoyed that even with all the weird flash back plot. I grabbed the special Edition of Halo: Reach and really got into that. It became my on-line shooter of choice for six months. Having just played Halo: Anniversary Edition, I've come to the conclusion that I don't like H.D. remakes. 

I didn't mind at first, I loved the lush graphics marvelling how far we'd come with every stab of the select button. I started to get into the story and was itching to know how it played out. 

Then an hour or so in, like an ageing Hollywood star with a few wrinkles it started to show it's age. The Ghost couldn't boost which ruined my main tactic of running over grunts when faced with a group of Covenant. The corridors of the Covenant ship were long and windy and it felt like a decade old game no matter how gorgeous it's visuals were. It was was the little things that really showed it up.

Now I think that 343 Industries have shown a remarkable amount of respect towards the franchise and this was obviously a stepping stone to show they can do great work before they make Halo 4. Maybe it would have been a poisoned chalice to mess with a such a revered game and they didn't want to risk the wrath of the Internet forums by changing it. But they could just ironed out the wrinkles maybe done a bit of a directors cut and put in some of the features of the newer games in the series. I would have much preferred that to bumping up the graphics to eleven.

This experience put me off getting The Metal Gear H.D. collection because that is a franchise I love and I don't want to sully my admittedly rose tinted memories of it. 

I do love older games and I think that certain games will always hold up.. We have medium that is more than just looks. I spent an whole day completing every level in Super Mario 3 on the NES a few weeks ago. It's game play still holds up and the graphics although simple are still clean and cartoonish enough to work. I also got a bargain bin copy of Zone Of The Enders on the PS2 and smashed through that in short order.

So I think that games shouldn't have boob jobs. I think we should appreciate the ones we love in all their gorgeous sagging glory.