I find this to be true of so many things from my youth right now. Evidently, cool comes in 20-25 year cycles. I’ve estimated this becaues a few years ago, my favorite bars couldn’t get enough of the cure, girls starting loving bangs, and everyone had a story about the original (insert favorite saturday morning cartoon). It’s a kind of mass nostaliga, I suppose (a rather frustrating one for anyone who doesn’t have a taste for 80’s music).

And as it pertains to remaking old video-games, I wonder, like you, what the catch is? It can’t be the story, right? Because I can’t think of anyone who knows the story to Asteroids, let alone World of Warcraft. I’ve even played the bloody thing and I couldn’t tell you much except that the one group is figting the other group, ala any other fantasy piece.

Here’s what I want to see. Take some 80’s content that’s already been done, and done arguably well. Take someone’s favorite. How about Dark Crystal. People always bring up the movie Dark Crystal, it’s there favorite. The puppetry, characters, imagination, whatever…point is, ‘they don’t make em’ like they used to,’ and all that. I’d like to see someone have the guts to take an obviously good, well known story, and try to make it better. Not just bigger budget, but better.

At least then we know they’re not just going for the “it’s cool because it is.” There would be too many people ready to swat it down if it were.
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Like you, I’m just not seeing how even someone as smart as Raimi is going to be able to pull out anything interesting at all out of WoW’s very shallow mythology. Maybe if the main character is an orc.

“Transformers was big. What else is out there in the way of ’80s nostalgia?”