House of the Dead 1 and 2 remakes coming to Switch

[KManX89]

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KManX89 said:

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Yay! And these are full-on remakes, not ports of the original games, probably because Sega lost the source code for the originals, but still great news all the same. 

I've said in the past Switch's joy con controls would be ideal for light gun games making their way onto the Switch, and while an actual light gun would be preferable, this would be a suitable alternative to the traditional light guns which sadly don't work, anymore on modern games.

You figure? 

Anyhoo. I usuallly don't come into threads to be negative, but...

These games were the most shallow of Sega's "shallow series" of arcade ports. Fun in short bursts at best. And disposable flotsom at worst. Sega's utter lack of understanding of what was important in a home port was on full display in the HOTD games. Despite Namco having shown them how to do it properly several years earlier. If any IP deserved Uwe Boll at it's cinematic helm, it was House Of The Dead.

He was also on tap to direct a Fear Effect movie, which thankfully never happened. The same guy who chewed out the original writers of Alone in the Dark for not featuring slimy dog monsters, long gun fights or gratuitous sex scenes got the rights to Fear Effect after the second game came out. Gee, I wonder what gave him that idea? 

But as a fan of both light gun games and (mostly) any and all things zombies, I enjoyed the House of the Dead games and look forward to playing the remakes on Switch with the joy con controls, though I do wish they'd bring back Virtua Cop.