A remake would require not sticking to the email repository and allowing more interaction with survivors. I recall only one or two extremely short cut-scenes in the original of living fellow survivors, and one single-track email conversation with another survivor who is dead when you reach her, but the technology is certainly out there now to allow them to join up with the player.
Interactions with well-scripted, (simulated) living people were perhaps the only thing this game lacked, as you spent almost all of it rummaging around through dead people's email files.
I was fighting for my life against crazed, murderous re-purposed humans when I managed to finally find the elevator. The door closes on a rabid monstrosity who until that moment seemed sure to beat me to a lifeless pulp. Then the monster is gone, techno music stops, and Girl From Ipanema starts playing. Best song in the whole story.
One of my fellow teachers was having a great deal of trouble understanding her own daughter's bizarre behavior: incessantly garrulous at home, but silent at school. The eventual diagnosis of selective mutism appeared bizarre at first for no one in the district (including the trained psychological experts) seemed to have ever heard of it.
Now with a better understanding of her problem the girl can probably be trained to cope with it and get on with her education, but the identification was key.
It is said that since children eventually do "grow" out of the anxiety disorder that it is not really of any concern. Aside from the fact that it clearly interferes with early schooling, I would counter the argument by pointing out that social interaction is an important--perhaps the most important--learned skill, and failure to master it can lead to a vicious circle of social withdrawal, causing a serious handicap in the adult world.
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A remake would require
A remake would require not sticking to the email repository and allowing more interaction with survivors. I recall only one or two extremely short cut-scenes in the original of living fellow survivors, and one single-track email conversation with another survivor who is dead when you reach her, but the technology is certainly out there now to allow them to join up with the player.
Interactions with well-scripted, (simulated) living people were perhaps the only thing this game lacked, as you spent almost all of it rummaging around through dead people's email files.
I was fighting for my life against crazed, murderous re-purposed humans when I managed to finally find the elevator. The door closes on a rabid monstrosity who until that moment seemed sure to beat me to a lifeless pulp. Then the monster is gone, techno music stops, and Girl From Ipanema starts playing. Best song in the whole story.
How appropriate
He appears to be holding a gasoline pump nozzle. Clearly this is a sign if the end times.
An unrecognized problem for school children
One of my fellow teachers was having a great deal of trouble understanding her own daughter's bizarre behavior: incessantly garrulous at home, but silent at school. The eventual diagnosis of selective mutism appeared bizarre at first for no one in the district (including the trained psychological experts) seemed to have ever heard of it.
Now with a better understanding of her problem the girl can probably be trained to cope with it and get on with her education, but the identification was key.
It is said that since children eventually do "grow" out of the anxiety disorder that it is not really of any concern. Aside from the fact that it clearly interferes with early schooling, I would counter the argument by pointing out that social interaction is an important--perhaps the most important--learned skill, and failure to master it can lead to a vicious circle of social withdrawal, causing a serious handicap in the adult world.