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cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/27366526

I know that remakes and remasters are contentious, but let's pretend whatever game in question you're thinking of is handled with the utmost care by your favourite devs and they absolutely nail it.

Mine would be Shadow of Memories (called Shadow of Destiny in North America). It's legitimately one of my favourite games of all time but it kinda flew under the radar and I haven't met many people who know of it let alone played it. Seeing it get modern graphics, maybe some expanded mechanics, would be soooo cool.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 hour ago

Sid Meier's Pirates! There are so few actually good pirate games.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 36 minutes ago

I'm outing me as ancient:

  • M.U.L.E.
  • Load Runner
  • The Castles of Dr. Creep
  • Seven Cities of Gold
  • Paradroid
  • The Sentinel
  • Hanse / Kaiser / Fugger
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago

Elite 2: Frontier.

elite dangerous is very close but it doesn't really capture the seamlessness you get from not having a landing mode or frame shifting. pioneer spaceship sim is a remake in the truest sense of the word, but a remaster would fix the ui issues the original had rather than just rolling with them.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

This might be too many, but what I want to see remade, remastered, or given complete editions (although "complete editions" may not be relevant to the post topic; and some titles may not be considered niche but whatever) are Asura's Wrath, Bloodborne, Bujingai, Bully, Dante's Inferno, Dark Sector, Dead Rising 2 (and Off the Record), The Dishwasher: Dead Samurai, the F.E.A.R. series, From Dust, God Hand, Grand Theft Auto IV, the first two Gungrave games, Just Cause, killer7, L.A. Noire, the Legend of Spyro trilogy, Like a Dragon Kenzan!, Mary Skelter 2, NieR: Automata, NieR: Replicant, Ninja Gaiden Sigma, Ninja Gaiden: Dragon Sword, Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2, Ninja Gaiden 3, No More Heroes 2, Prototype, Red Steel 1 and 2, Rising Zan: The Samurai Gunman, Solatorobo: Red the Hunter, Spec Ops: The Line, the original Splinter Cell (plus Pandora Tomorrow, Chaos Theory, Double Agent, and Conviction), Stranglehold, Tail Concerto, Viewtiful Joe 1 and 2, Watch Dogs 1 and 2, and the original World Ends with You.

Primarily, the goals would be to either restore cut content or integrate separate DLC into the main package, offer enhanced graphics, take advantage of the 16:9 aspect ratio if originally released during the time of 4:3 screens or on handhelds, or fix bugs or address technical limitations that affected their original console or PC releases, alongside numerous quality-of-life improvements like anti-cheat and DRM removal and extensive performance optimizations. Also, we're still waiting for a PC release for Bloodborne.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Worms

But they'd fuck it up again

[–] [email protected] 1 points 48 minutes ago

Second that! Worms was great fun when hanging out with friends.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

Heroes of might and magic 3, but I feel like it might not have the same appeal if it did happen. Happy to be proven wrong, of course 🙂

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

I'm here once again to humbly submit the suggestions of Dungeon Keeper and Black and White. That is all.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

Black and White for sure. I still get nostalgic for that one.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

I was talking to my SO about it recently and we both kinda agreed you'd probably have to update the core gameplay so it would be a little more interesting/engaging but overall B&W was fun. Hell, even Spore redone properly (aka not by fucking EA) I would love too. That one always makes me sad to think about, and we've not really had anything like it since.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

We simply can't leave until we get some wheeeaaat!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago

Any game in that genre combined with local and remote multiplayer would be a hit

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

I feel like I could have some fun with a remake of Descent 1 and 2.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago

Overload exists. While not a remake, it is the spiritual successor with the original development team making it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago

Starsiege: Tribes, or Alien vs Predator (2).

Both had degrees of movement that I absolutely loved (Alien wall climbing in AvP).

I understand that I should probably check out Titanfall 2 for similar reasons.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 hours ago

Deus Ex. When I first played it I was amazed by the graphics and I specifically remember being impressed that your character was reflected in mirrors. I've been replaying it recently and the graphics are obviously very dated, but it also doesn't run smoothly on modern hardware. My PC gets louder and louder as I play it and eventually the game starts to stutter and I have to restart it.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

My wishlist is Final Fantasy Tactics, Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri, and Xenogears. A Xenogears remake likely isn't ever happening so I'd be happy with a remaster, and it's practically an open secret at this point that an FFT project is in development. It getting the Tactics Ogre Reborn treatment would be lovely, but what I really want is an orchestrated soundtrack. Here's hoping it doesn't get cancelled. 🤞

As a genre, 4X is still kicking around, but I'm not even sure if SMAC is beloved enough to get the treatment. Good voice acting would be essential.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 hours ago

I hadn't heard about Tactics in the works. Would be keen on that!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 hours ago

pretend whatever game in question you're thinking of is handled with the utmost care by your favourite devs and they absolutely nail it.

Crash Team Racing. :(

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 hours ago

The entire Ultima series for sure. I think those were the first CRPGs I played. I loved Ultima: Underworld I & II, but I was never able to get Ultima VII: Pagan to run properly on my computer. (And, holy fuck, that was 30 years ago.)

But also The Elder Scrolls: Arena, TES: Daggerfall, TES: Battlespire, TES: Redguard, and TES: Morrowind. The first two TES games would be challenging to make, given that many of the areas were randomly generated, rather than being designed.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Legend of dragoon and legend of dragoon but if I can't have those, legend of dragoon...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 hours ago

Sorry, the best I can offer is Legend of Dragoon.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago

I wouldn't say no to another Echo Night.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

SSX Tricky brought up to PS5 graphics.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 12 hours ago

I was coming here to reply SSX 3 :)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

The Sly Cooper Trilogy +/- Thieves in Time

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 hours ago

Solid pick.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 hours ago

Cyberbowl but add a repair garage and transformers movie level mechanicals, when the football explodes its mayhem.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 13 hours ago

Mercenaries 1 playground of destruction

Just cause graphics could be something nice

[–] [email protected] 8 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

Obligatory Bloodborne mention.

Not sure if it's been done already, but Zelda LttP would be cool. I haven't played Echoes of Wisdom though I like the art style and could see it working well.

Goldeneye + Perfect Dark.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 hours ago

Zelda LttP

That'd be awesome! I'd pirate the shit out of a remake.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

How about a dark gritty reboot of LttP?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

That sounds awesome. I'm imagining it in the style of Dark Souls, but a reskin would be fun.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 12 hours ago

I’m thinking like the dead space remake. Extra gory!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 hours ago

Horace Goes Skiing

[–] [email protected] 6 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

Just give me a proper Xenogears remake with all the cut content from the second disc and I'll die happy.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 hours ago

I'd be happy with a simple remaster with a cleaned-up script. Disc 2 wasn't as bad as I'd remembered on a replay I had earlier this year.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 13 hours ago

The adventures of buckaroo banzai.

That movie suffered from poor execution but it is a cult classic and could possibly reach a new generation if it were done correctly.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 17 hours ago (3 children)

Honestly, looking at how modern game development studios handle remakes, I wouldn't want them anywhere near any of my beloved games. I haven't played a single remake in the last 20 years where I felt like the studio that made it knocked it out of the park.

Also, I strongly believe good games should not be remade, and only remastered/ "deluxe remastered" (where even if the game is remade, its a 1:1 faithful recreation with additional features and gameplay mechanics being optional). Remake the games that weren't great, give them another chance at big success.

  • Sonic 2006
  • the XenoSaga games (don't @ me XS fans, you know the combat and boss design in those games were terrible, 1 had DOMO Carrier, Tiamat, and whatever was going on in Song of Nephilim)
  • Most Konami games in the late 90s - mid 2010s
  • LAPD Future Cop
  • etc
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

I'm playing the resident evil 4 remake right now and it's amazingly good. Age of Empires 2 Definitive Edition also comes to mind.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Mine is Gothic and Soul Reaver - getting both so I'm a happy camper

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 hours ago

Having seen the trailer for Gothic, it looks good. I really hope that it's actually good.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

X3: Terran Conflict.

Yes, we got X3FL in 2021 AND X4, but X4 is a very different game and X3FL is just a heavily scripted X3AP (more or less).

It's a more-than-me years old game with a lot of mods that keep it enjoyable to day – as "enjoyable" as it can be, that janky piece o' junk – but I feel about it the same way I feel about Halo 2: imagine what it could have been, if the devs had the resources they could have today. ~~(if you say "X4" I'm going to fucking flip)~~

[–] [email protected] 2 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

Oh shit. I didn't even know about X3FL.

Gonna have to reinstall X3 now.

I got X4 because hella X3 fans said it was better than X3; but those people are fucking crazy. X4 sucks major by comparison.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago

When I first played FL I thought it came out with all the others *^*

I don't outright dislike X4, but IMO it feels too... streamlined, in a way. You've got less wares, less ships, less sectors, no jumpdrive (yes I see the reasoning, no I still want the jumpdrive), the Xenon lost their aesthetic just to look like Mass Effect reapers, and fuckers stole my magnificently redundant ship classes. Can't have ship in Detroit.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Ima have to say The Neverhood and Skullmonkeys.

Definitely remasters though, no remakes.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

there's always armikrog

[–] [email protected] 1 points 12 hours ago

Toxic crusaders! A sidescroller based on the toxic avenger movie.

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