Keep the buckets of gore and dissection scenes, just fill me with a nameless, implacable dread as I try to survive being locked in with a maniac. For The 7th Guest to be brought back, we just need the three M’s: mood, music, and macabre. Maybe you don’t need to have a house that is a stunningly modeled architectural achievement. Maybe you don’t need to do FMV scenes every five seconds. I feel that this could be done with a lower budget, too. The 7th Guest is the type of haunted house, where something is happening and I don’t quite understand it that I’d be happy to see more of in gaming. There’s something about the proximity to the screen that makes them so much more terrifying than console horror games. Still, The 7th Guest has a lot of name value and nostalgia attached to it, so would it be worth resurrecting the house of old man Stauf? Three Diehard GameFAN staffers take a look. Unfortunately, this was the only real success Trilobite ever had, as the sequel, The 11th Hour didn’t fare so well and their next two games were some of the biggest commercial bombs in the history of the industry. The 7th Guest almost single-handedly converted the PC world over from disc drives to CD-ROM’s, which was no small feat. Seventeen years later it’s almost impossible to accurately describe how big this game was and the effect it had on not just PC gaming, but PC building as well. It sported full motion video graphics, pre-rendered CD backgrounds and adult content, storylines and visuals. Trilobite and Virgin Games when the video game The 7th Guest was finally released to the public. Let the dead rest.įlash back to Devil’s Night, 1993. This is a toxic franchise that you don’t want to see return in any way shape or form. Everything else is new and re-envisioned. In a nutshell, this is taking the brand name from the old series and that’s about it. Perhaps you want a totally different control scheme or to throw away the old continuity. Perhaps it’s time to bring the series into 3-D. Start Over – This is a reimagining of the series from the ground up. Examples include Luigi’s Mansion, Hey You, Pikachu!, Shadow Hearts (From Koudelka), and so on. Spin Off – This is where you take the characters or a specific character is a totally different direction from the established franchise. This might involve putting the game on a handheld system instead of a console, but it keeps the nostalgia and classic feel alive. This means if it used sprites and was in 2-D, that’s how you want the next game to be as well. Sequel – A direct sequel to the franchise. For a little more detailed description see below: Diehard GameFAN staffers will have four options for what they want to have happen to the series and you can see them in the title of this piece. Welcome to this week’s, “Sequel, Spin Off, Start Over or Stay Dead?” Each week we’re going to look at a dormant franchise that was once pretty popular, but for some reason has disappeared into the sands of time.
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