I’m currently playing Grim Fandango on the PlayStation Vita, and it’s great! Great to replay a game I loved, great to go back and reminisce, drown in nostalgia, etc. What other games deserve the Grim Fandango treatment?
Because for me, Grim Fandango is the perfect example of a game that should have been re-released: a cult classic, difficult to find, difficult to play. A game that people remember fondly but was under-appreciated in its time. Those are the kind of games that are worth remaking.
A couple of others I’d like to see get the same treatment? NiGHTS, Jet Force Gemini, Morrowind, Metroid Prime, System Shock 2, Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis. Those are a few of the games I’d like to see get similar treatment.
How about you? Let us know in the comments below.
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148 responses to “Tell Us Dammit: Games You Want Remade”
MDK
Syndicate
Xwing vs Tie Fighter Series with Rift Support
Starglider
Necromancer (Atari 800 game)
Koronis Rift, with Rift support of course!
Satellite Reign is a spiritual successor to Syndicate if you haven’t heard of it; with the lead designer having worked on Syndicate Wars previously. It’s on Steam Early Access (though it sounds still too buggy to try yet).
Timesplitters…
This this a thousand times this.
oh man, I could write pages on this. but I will keep it small.
Guardian Legend – NES
Star Tropics – NES
Final Lap Twin – TG-16
Blackthorne – SNES
Crystalis – NES
Megaman Soccer – SNES
well I could through in several more TG-16 games in there too, but that will work for now.
I’d say NWN2 and all its expansions, the game was actually really good if you didn’t encounter any game ending bugs, smooth them all out and it would be a nice remake.
I’d love to have Mega Man Legends 1-2 smoothed out and re-released.
Oh and Blast Corps. Although Blast Corps would probably be better as a sequel.
All great choices ,10 Thumbs Up!
I used to think that I’d love to see Bungie go back and modernize Pathways into Darkness as it could be an incredible game if redone right, but after Destiny I’m not sure they’re capable of it. Also doesn’t help that next to no one involved with that game is still working there.
Jason Jones is back at Bungie now. Him and Alex Seropian were the original Bungie programmers. On that note, I’d love to see a HD remake of Marathon. Considering most of the best plot ideas from it were re-used in the Halo series.
Jason was always at Bungie. Bungie would cease to exist without him there, I feel. I also think that his involvement in Destiny is a lot of the reason why the moment-to-moment gameplay is so good.
Halo basically is the HD remake of Marathon in a lot of ways. I’d love to see that get a proper treatment too, but I feel like PiD would benefit a lot more from a modernization. You’d end up with basically a survival horror game. Beef up those conversations with the dead guys, better integrate the time limit and whatnot and you’d have a pretty interesting game. The seed of something excellent is there.
Sword of the Samurai for pc many years ago.
Vagrant Story and Little Big Adventure are the two main games I would like to see remakes of as long as the core game and gameplay was kept. I really don’t want Twinsen turning into a grizzled, buff man running around shooting people while ducking from cover to cover.
Vagrant Story is perfect on the Vita, great options on the for control scheme and graphics too.
That kung fu game from the psx. Not Tai Fu, the one were you travel around China learning other forms of Chinese boxing.
Mashed please please please please
one of my favourite multiplayer games ever. especially on the Wharf level, 4 players, with revenge attacks enabled. absolute carnage. definitely worth getting on steam.
Did you play much of Wrecked on the Xbox 360/ PS3?
I didn’t like it as much as Mashed, but it was still pretty good.
I’d freaking kill for a Mashed remake with the same physics (and maybe a few bonus tracks).
I did buy that and felt it couldn’t compare. You couldn’t drive backwards when you spin out to keep you in the game, that was so important in Mashed
Anything that’s not very playable thanks to age.
So stuff like:
Shin Megami Tensei 1,2 & If… from the SNES
Dragon Quest 1,2&3 from the NES
But also, games that have quite a bit of extra contenet that I never get around to at home would be great ported to the Vita so I can grind away on my daily commute.
Stuff like:
Final Fantasy XII
Digital Devil Saga
And a new hi def port of Outrun 2006 Coast 2 Coast would be nice or even just Outrun 3.
Oh!
Snowboard Kids 1&2
and Mischief Makers
Both classic N64 titles!!
Shadow of the Empire with rejigged modern controls, that game is ACE!
Second FOA!
Trying to think of games I played a ton back in the day that don’t have sequels that essentially serve as remakes or aren’t already underway/done. FOA is probably the main one I care about now that DOTT has been announced and Majoras mask is almost here. Playing Jedi Outcast at the moment and it could use some updating but is it worthy?… not sure.
CONKERS BAD FUR DAY!
GOLDEN EYE 64!
BEETLE ADVENTURE RACING!
AND ANY MARIO PARTY that is pre 8 or 9, where all the characters move around the board together, that is just shit Nintendo, SHIT! give me back individual playboard movement.
They did have individual movement in 8, but we all know MP 4 and 5 are where it’s at!
yeah, it must be 9. i bought it recently not knowing, to play it on my Wii U, was sorely disappointed.
i really enjoyed them all from 1 to 7, i havnt played 8, i might have to go grab it and piss 9 off.
I agree with Goldeneye. I think the remake of Perfect Dark on XBLA was an impeccable example of how more remakes should be done from that era … that it looks and plays EXACTLY like the original in every way (the look and layout is left completely untouched), and that only the resolution is increased with better textures, and that the framerate is a locked 60fps.
I can’t believe that a Goldeneye remake was in the works, and that it wasn’t finished because Nintendo, Microsoft, and Activision couldn’t reach an agreement (or so I read once upon a time). It seems like such a waste of a good opportunity. If they managed to make a Goldeneye remake that was handled the same way that Perfect Dark was, then I would have played the living daylights out of it (Goldeneye still holds some of the best gaming memories of all time for me).
This is what we could’ve had: http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-BC-zV2RX08w/UD-pkOYt87I/AAAAAAAAAzM/aEEMP4_3sSg/s1600/GoldenEye-XBLA-2.png
Crash Bandicoot 1, 2 & 3
FFVII of course.
If Crash worked on Vita, I’d snatch it up in a second!
Super Mario Sunshine! I can actually see it happening, too.
Or even better… a sequel!
Well seeing as Splatoon borrows a lot of Mario Sunshine tech, this is in the realm of possibility.
I’d be happy with Sunshine HD, but a sequel would be amazing!
Trust Nintendo to be borrowing tech from a game 3 generations old!
The funniest part is that the best use of tech in Mario Sunshine involved jetpack movement using the pressurised triggers…. which the WiiU’s overpriced gimmick controller doesn’t have.
It was a pretty cool game though, it’d be great to see a sequel with some really cutting edge water physics and a controller with features from this millennium (ie. not the WiiU).
Gotta agree with Jet Force Gemini
Also a remastered Cradh Bandicoot collection would sell like hot cakes
Would love to play other hard to get Lucasarts games like Full Throttle and the Dig
Why, Interstate 76 of course…
Seriously though, could be very cool if done right and that 70s groove maintained….
Am I showing my age??
I actually thought I was the only one that remembered this game…. It was like a cross between Rock ‘n Roll Racing and GTA.
Actually come to think of it…. Remake Rock ‘n Roll Racing!
Legally pretty gray, but this ‘homage’ has kept me entertained for many, MANY hours. It’s free too 🙂 http://yardteam.org/mr/eng/
Check out BlazeRush as well – it’s currently in a pretty good bundlestars bundle – it’s an isometric tile-track racer like RRR, but controls more like Renegade Ops and has MicroMachines style knockout modes – also doesn’t have all the legal issues of being a blatant ripoff ;p
A blatant rip-off that is just as fun, mind 😛
It’s not like Blizzard were gonna do anything with the game anyways – although, they did release a rom of the game with most of the licensed music removed as a knee-jerk reaction to the whole thing.
BlazeRush looks pretty awesome – will have to check that one out – cheers! 🙂
interstae 76 and Rock n Roll Racing!!! hells yes.
While we’re at it, why not remake Super Offroad. I loved those isometric racers.
Ooh, RC Pro AM and Cobra Triangle.
SUPER OFFROAD – you sir, have won my heart.
Aww shucks.
So this. Would love to play through I76 again.
I still listen to the Interstate ’76 soundtrack regularly.
Majora’s Mask.
But, like… properly. On console.
I don’t understand, really.
Neither.
No, I mean ; what’s wrong with a handheld version?
Personally, I wish all ports & remastered were on handheld. Handheld is where I fuck around & comfort game.
When I get home & play on the big telly, I want that big experience.
What’s wrong with it is the bad taste the OoT remake left in my mouth.
While OoT got a visual upgrade that was nice enough, all I’ve seen on this one looks worse than that. And if they do the same thing again where the sounds are all identical to the 64, then that’s shit.
I love Majora’s Mask, and I was hoping as hard as I could for MMHD, not MM3D. All the dark gloominess and colours of the game being pumped through the Wii U with all its awesome shaders and everything they’ve got going on on there. MM *is* a big experience, and deserves that kind of love and care that could only have come from a console-based remake, not this shitty fart-out of a retextured port.
Personally I wish ports and “remastered” editions didn’t exist 😛 Ok maybe chuck them up on digital services so they remain available instead of being limited to whatever old stock is floating around out there. But if you’re going to remake a game, ACTUALLY remake it.
I couldn’t disagree more, I found the tiny changes to music & sound effects in Star Fox 64 3D offensive (and they forgot to include Lylat as a language).
Perfect Dark Arcade & OoT were the perfect remasters to me.
I was really worried when they said they would remaster the music in FFX but that was done quite well.
Each to their own though 🙂
Yeah there were some minor annoyances there in the music, I can’t remember which but some musical lines in some of the tracks were rebalanced to be quieter than they used to be, so that particular melody didn’t stand out any more. The main thing that bugged me with that was there was no more PAL slowdown, so everything sounded too fast and high-pitched. Oh and some of the small dialogue changes/omissions. But still, I was otherwise really happy with that. It looked fantastic, and was a game that we’d hadn’t seen since the original release (unless it got a VC release? I can’t remember since I never really paid attention). Whereas OoT we already got on the 64, then twice on the GameCube then again on the Wii’s VC. I didn’t need a fourth copy of the same damn game.
I went into OoT with the same feeling, having bought many copies myself.
The only reason I own it is because I received it as a birthday gift, but it turned out I loved it.
I never thought about the speed factor in StarFox, maybe thats why Im so much more shit at it now.
I had real trouble getting the medal for even the first level on 3DS whereas on 64 I was on the way to obtaining them all. Until my god damn cart erased itself for no good reason.
I think the difference here is that although Id be keen on the odd actual remake, I really enjoy remasters for making some hard to get back into playable again.
Im really keen on Majora’s because even though I own a copy on GameCube, I wont be getting it out of storage any time soon to play, whereas plonk in on 3DS and I can play it whenever I want.
Ive got a decent collection of PSX games on my Vita now which covers a lot of my retro gaming needs, I really wish 3DS virtual console did SNES, GBA, & DS.
Sure, I could install an emulator on my craptop right now, but if I had access to it while stuck on the train, I’d be more likely to replay Super Metroid.
@jimu
I blame the circle pad.64 control stick, I can point to a thing and keep it there. Circle pad, I just kinda drift past it then try and go back and overshoot and go back ad infinitum.
I think there’s little to no chance of getting a HD remaster of the 3D Zelda games. Wind Waker was the exception because the cel shading didn’t require much work. They went above and beyond but it was still less work than what Ocarina of Time would require. I mean you’re basically talking about rebuilding every single art asset from scratch. Even the relatively small Majora’s Mask has a ton of empty space that just doesn’t cut it visually anymore.
Oh, I know there’s no chance. Especially now. But I still want it 😛
The thing that stings the most is the whole soundtrack deal. Once you hit the secondary credits, with the orchestrated track… that was just a cock slap to the face, saying “hey look what we could have done but didn’t. Fuck you.”
Depends on the game. I’d rather play a 3D Zelda on the TV but I prefer a lot of the classic styles on handheld. I can’t really stomach JRPGs on the TV, but on the Vita they’re awesome. I feel like something along the lines of Secret of Mana would be way better on a Vita or the 3DS but Resident Evil 2 would be a console deal.
I guess it also depends on the depth they’re going to. I find straight ports play better on handhelds where the age doesn’t show as badly but when they rebuild the game from scratch as a modern game that’s just borrowing the plot and core concepts from the original that’s console territory.
Dunno what it is, but I havent enjoyed a Zelda on console since Wind Waker on Cube.
Throw one on 3DS and *MAGIC* I have a ball.
The two games that I really would like remade and could be remade are Final Fantasy XII and Dragon Quest VIII.
Both need a Vita port in my opinion.
That would be awesome.
DQVIII is actually on iOS at a pricey $18 or so. Still, the amount of content you can get out of it would make it worth it. Only thing turning me right off getting it is the touch screen controls and weird portrait aspect (apparently can’t be played widescreen aspect).
I bought the iOS version but I don’t really like the portrait aspect and the voices are removed from it.
Can’t handle those touch controls
XII is high on my list. Incredibly underrated, imo. I remember a poll from Squenix not too long ago gauging people’s interest in a FFXII HD remake too. Not sure what eventuated, but good to know it’s at least on their mind.
I really hope they remake it too.
In less grumpy responses, I’ve said it a million times before but I’d love to see Metroid 2 get a Zero Mission style remake. That remains for me the gold standard of remakes.
ooh, and here is a throw back to Sega Saturn days:
Guardian Heroes
Virtual On
Virtua Fighter
Power Stone
Add in SEGA Rally Championship to that, and I’d never need another remake again 🙂
Sega Rally has aged terribly and doesn’t hold up well by today’s standards at all.
That game lived and died by its hour or so of brilliant fun, add features and it’s not really nostalgia, just keep what’s there and you’ll be terribly underwhelmed.
By the time you updated all the things that would need to be updated it wouldn’t be Sega Rally at all.
Completely disagree. I’ve been playing SR weekly since it’s release (I’ve still got it for my Saturn), and there’s personality in the courses that just isn’t there today. Every corner is memorable, and all four courses are utterly replayable. The game has kept me occupied for close to 15 years, and I still can’t say I’ve mastered it and gotten everything I’m going to get out of it.
The Daytona USA port on XBLA was stunning, and I still play that often. Sega Rally would be no different. Will have to agree to disagree on this one.
That Daytona port was “stunning” only in the sense that the terrible parallax scrolling (where the image of the horizon jolts around because it’s directly attached to the positioning of the car, which also jolts around) was seizure inducing.
The Dreamcast version was pretty good mind you.
Still, I’m glad that you still enjoy sliding around your 4 tracks in a damage-free, pop-up riddled (seriously you play the Saturn version?) environment, but I think that no matter how pretty you make it most people would be bored with that in half an hour in a post-Burnout/ Colin McRae Dirt world.
I loved Sega Rally (and the sequel) at the time, but having gone back to the formula playing Sega Rally Online Arcade on the 360 in the last 3 years or so I think that for me at least, the formula is past it’s best. The best part of the nostalgia from those games is the music and sound effects. “GAME OVER YEEEEEEAH!”
That scrolling in Daytona never bothered me – I can’t say I’ve even noticed it.
I must have a high tolerance to big pixels and such, because those damage-free, pop-up riddled environments don’t affect the gameplay in the slightest. For me, anyways.
I love the Saturn version – there’s nothing wrong with it. I lost interest in Burnout & DiRT and identikit dude-bro, slick-ass ‘arcade’ racer no. 27. The last rally game worth a damned to me was CMR 2005. Sega Rally is pure arcade, and that’s what I love about it. I don’t actively seek out out realism or ‘extreme’ in a racing title. Different strokes for different folks, I guess. If it’s fun, it’s fun. The lack of variety in, and homogenization of the genre as a whole is something I find really off-putting. Games that are technically great, like the re-done Need For Speed Hot Pursuit/Most Wanted just can’t seem to hold my interest. Everything just feels vanilla now.
I know what your saying, and I’m sure I feel the same about certain games too, but yeah, I’m not most people. Doesn’t mean that those of us without the typical modern tastes shouldn’t be even a little catered to. I know, sales sales blargh.
Regardless, we’re getting Drift Stage, and (hopefully) The 90’s Arcade Racer this year, so here’s to the return of Arcade games with personality. It’ll be nice to play a few racing games that are a labour of love, rather than the product of cold-hard figures, suits and share-holders.
Well, I certainly respect your love for the oldies. Not sure how you can draw such a clear delineation between the Sega of the 90’s and the products of “cold-hard figures, suits and share-holders” though, don’t forget that both those Sega racers had gameplay designed from the ground up to steal a couple of bucks from you every 2 minutes or so! Outside of the F2P market I don’t think you could be MORE evil-corporationy!
The racing market is big enough that it is most certainly “different strokes for different folks” but I think that’s kinda why those Sega games are so redundant now. There’s been a slow, natural evolution of the genre and it means that while they were the benchmark titles at the time, they’re essentially a noteworthy iteration of the games that came before and after them. Sliding around a damage free track protected by indivisible, impenetrable walls is a kind of gameplay that’s been so naturally replaced by dozens of other titles in the genre that it doesn’t need to be brought back. It’s not like either of those games stands out as one-of-a-kind or hasn’t even been replaced by sequels which people have largely ignored.
There’s a reason why 99% of gamers barely even know that Sega Rally 3 ever existed, and why it went straight to Xbox Live as a downloadable title instead of getting a retail release.
You’ll be able to say the same about any game released now. Give anything 10-15 years, and anything will be made redundant in the way that your saying. It doesn’t make any of what went before less interesting and playable. As much as I love Skyrim, Smash Bros, Halo and Tomb Raider, I can still go back and play Robotron 2084, Diablo, Virtua Fighter and whatever else. I don’t feel like I’m missing something that modern iterations have added to whatever genre and improved upon. I’m just digging into the GameCube library at the moment, and a lot of what I’m playing and discovering still blows my socks off.
And I agree with the arcade point, but it was still very different then – there were ways of getting games to play more fair, dip-switch setting and difficulty levels, that were more at the discretion of the arcade owners than the game makers – every oldie has a sweet-spot. A comparison to the free-to-play model is an interesting comparison, but one that is still pretty different. Gaming has branched out so far that it’s inevitable that free-to-play does what it does. In the heyday of the Arcade, every single genre was still pretty much in its infancy and the fundamentals were still being written. Arcade hardware was still way ahead of whatever was available at home, and that successful arcade hardware helped drive advances in graphics tech on home systems. Home versions of Arcade games were still relatively brutal too, if we’re going to play the cheap and difficult card. The vast majority of games were just that back then. Whether at home, or in the arcade, it doesn’t matter. And it’s not like you carried the arcade around with you, able to spend with your credit card/debit wherever you happened to be. Free-to-play has monetized even those basic fundamentals. Free-to-play isn’t the driving force behind anything but getting more money. It doesn’t effect the industry in the same way at all. It tends to stifle creativity, and again, waters everything down.
Anyhoo, names were made in the arcade, and immortalized at home. Obviously, I don’t mean everything, but you know what I’m getting at. If SEGA Rally came out on the Playstation, how different would things have turned out?
On a different note, it’s nice to be able to argue in a civilized manner here on Kotaku, anyways. I love getting into this kind of stuff with someone who knows what they’re on about 😀
Pretty much everything on the PS1 – from A bugs life to Xenogears…. please :3
Metroid prime doesn’t need to be remade, it still looks and plays brilliantly (walking out into phendrana drifts…). It’s even coming to the eshop this week as a part of the 13 buck trilogy. You NEED to buy that if you don’t have the disc already!
My vote goes to eternal darkness. It was brilliant, but a graphical update with proper lighting would really lift the atmosphere. It needs to reach a wider audience.
Also, beyond good and evil.
But on the whole, I’m getting sick of all of these remakes of fairly current games (RE remake… again?!). Unless it’s a cult classic which has aged horribly or is rare as all hell, it probably needs to be left alone.
Beyond Good & Evil has a HD remake on PS3, 360 & PC.
I guess the continued vapourware status of the sequel pushed that out of my mind. I was looking at my gamecube collection and noted the number of commercial flops which were actually amazing games.
Ok, scratch that one. Replace it with f zero gx.
ANY F-Zero game, remake or new, would be accepted at this point. F-Zero GX was released in 2003, bloody 12 years ago! Yet Captain Falcon still manages to maintain a spot in Smash Brothers.
Seriously Nintendo, give the franchise to Retro or something. We NEED an F-Zero game stat!
There were also another two GBA F-Zeros in 2004 (though GP Legend seemed to come out everywhere but here, while Climax was Japan only). So slightly less as long as that.
But yeah, I’m hanging out for a Retro-made F-Zero. Along with a Platinum-made Star Fox.
I’d play the SHIT out of an Eternal Darkness remake. I blitzed through all three colours when I first got it (it was actually the game which sold me on a Gamecube) but haven’t played it since.
That final boss fight (the stakes, oh, the stakes!) has yet to be topped as far as I’m concerned.
Jet Force Gemini. Just got all nostalgic.
Gotta go with Morrowind. Would love to see that properly polished up (hence why I’m excited for Skywind).
Also, in no particular order: Resident Evil 2 and 3, Crash Bandicoot (any), Diablo 1/2, and probably the Medieval games.
Terranigma.
It was an incredible game; an intriguing story where, instead of trying to save the world, you had to rebuild it. The music was beautiful, the characters memorable and the fact you could actually affect human progress throughout the game made it unique. It was never released in the USA, so a lot of people didn’t get the opportunity to play it.
None. Enough of this remasterbation.
Most of the games I think of, I more want a new entry in the series rather than the same one again. Eg Stunt Race FX, Unirally, Space Station Silicon Valley. Others I probably can’t think of.
Nothing I’m foaming for. Wouldn’t mind seeing the remake rights for the original MGS freed from Nintendo’s clutches and given a good polish for the new gen.
I’m currently enjoying seeing PS2 and PS3 games getting a re-release on the PS4. I mostly missed both those generations, so am happy playing catch-up. Looking forward to FFX this year, for example.
So many good Saturn/Dreamcast games I’d love to be remade (and some of them translated).
In order of how much I want them:
Shining Force III as one combined game
Exhumed
Skies of Arcadia
Panzer Dragoon Saga
Seventh Cross Evolution
Grandia
Shenmue
Shadow Man
Power Stone 2
Fighters Megamix
El Dorado Gate
Man, I’d kill for all of those. Exhumed is one of my favourite first-person adventure games of all time. It’s still uber-playable too – I dig it up every year to go through it! 🙂
EDIT: Grandia and it’s sequel are still the best RPG’s I’ve played.
A Shenmue remake would be second only to a full sequel (with some backstory for those of us who can’t remember 15 years ago).
HD remake of the X-wing Alliance. Add an Empire story to go alongside the Azzameen storyline, and a bonus Vong invasion mission with X-wing/Clawcraft vs Coralskipper engagement
Freedom Fighters.
Town Hawks – All of them even the bad ones
Airborne Ranger – from Amiga and C64
Ah THPS, yes. The HD remake was good. But, a remake of all 4 original THPS along with the other ones would be awesome. Same with Matt Hoffman & Dave Mirra’s BMX games they were so much fun.
I’m so going to find copies of these now for my PS2 & pending PS1..
Tenchu
Syphon Filter
Inb4 @Shane and @Decoy …
The Dig!
Biker Mice from Mars!
But seriously though. It isn’t quite a remake, but I still really want to play Lord of the Clans. I mean come on, Blizzard: you aren’t going to make any money off it, the game was nearly done, just release it and rewards us fans that have been waiting nearly 2 decades for it. The indy adventure game scene is booming, there would definitely be a place for WA:LotC with today’s gamers, particularly if they polished it up slightly before release.
I’d also like to see remakes of some of the wackier FPS games. The remake of Rise of the Triad showed that older games could be almost directly ported (including all their stupid mechanics) if you stayed true to the original. So, with that in mind, I’d like to see remakes of Heretic (and Hexen and Hexen 2), Blood, SW: Dark Forces. Redneck Rampage would be absolutely amazing if they kept the same sense of humour.
However, I reckon the game most deserving of a remake/update are Descent. Apparently some of the ex-Devs from Star Citizen are working on a Descent-style game, so here’s hoping!
I actually bought the Hexen collection on Steam last year and had a ball playing through them. That old school fantasy shooter design was awesome. Prefer it over Doom
+1 for the Heretic/Hexen series. I know Hellraid is shaping up to be something of a spiritual successor but Damnit! I wanna fight the Iron Liches, Afrits and Knight Archers again!
As mentioned previously, FFXII for Vita would make happy beyond belief.
Armored Core Last Raven or Silent Line for Vita….
My list is actually pretty small. Most games I’m fairly happy with where they are. I find more often that not the remakes seem to impact on the memories and nostalgia for me – but not in all cases.
Little Big Adventure 1 + 2… Seriously I sunk so many hours into these games as a kid, would love to revisit them
check out magicball.net from time to time – it’s an LBA fansite that’s still going (and was the place to find the Windows compatibility patches and mods before GOG got the games), and puts up news about what Fred and the old team are doing – whilst they have another project they’re working on, they are still getting a mobile version of LBA2 up alongside the first one, and there is periodic mention of him wanting to revisit the games after that with LBA3 or a possible LBA1 remake.
That’s awesome! Thank you for that!
Biker Mice from Mars iof course
Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain
I want superman 64 but as a subscription based mmo where you get to control a citizen in metropolis as superman janks his way through the sky and you have to survive the kryptonite fog
I have to admit, I laughed
I think this is just a ploy to get some fresh ideas for Remember This
Am I the only one who wants less remade games?
Having said that, the original Spyro trilogy in HD would be lovely.
I’d love some lovingly faithful remasters like the Homeworld one. It’s reboots that I’m leery of.
The obligatory Final Fantasy 7!
Conkers Bad Fur Day
Resident Evil 2 & 3
Tenchu 1 & 2 Remastered. I’d buy the hell out of that remaster 🙂
FFXII has been mentioned already, I wouldn’t mind a cleaned up FFIX to go with it either.
Also I’d kill for a console release of FFT: War of the Lions it’s great on PSP
GTA III
Vice City
San Andreas
Liberty City Stories
Vice City Stories
For PS4/XB1. I would really like to see them updated to the HD universe on the engine Rockstar used for GTA V. If I had to choose just one though, it’d be Vice City. Mayebe throw in some new vehicles/weapons & some more music for Vrock and Flash FM.
Jedi Knight Series
Blade of Darkness
Stole a Million
Remade: any/all Rogue Squadron games.
Available via download, even with existing graphics and music:
– Sega Soccer Slam
– Eternal Darkness
– James Pond’s The Aquatic Games
– Snowboard Kids
There are quite a few games are mechanically perfect as they are, just in need a fresh coat of paint, and a few engine tweaks to take advantage of new hardware.I think the perfect examples of this are the ones which are already being done or have been done: Homeworld, HOMM3, Baldur’s Gate, Monkey Island, Myst.
Things I would love to see remastered (probably not rebooted):
TIE Fighter (everyone who prefers x-wing is filthy rebel scum to be ignored – TIE fighter wins the cake for best campaign modes, in that series)
Sim City 2000
System Shock 2
Final Fantasy 7
Planescape: Torment
Mechwarrior 2: Mercenaries (and no, I’m not counting the very mediocre remake done by Microsoft after they picked up the licence)
Wing Commander: Privateer / Freelancer (Look, Elite is great, but I’d love a story in it.)
Syndicate Wars (but hey, maybe Satellite Reign will do the trick)
Terminal Velocity
Jedi Knight 1 & 2
Thief: The Dark Project
Oni
G-Police
Road Rash (yeah, I’m aware of the Early Access thing in the works. Skeptical.)
Dungeon Keeper 1 (Yeah, you heard me, 2.)
Legacy of Kain series
Streets of Rage series
And while yeah, remasters are great and reboots can have a bad rep, we also have XCOM and Elite: Dangerous to show for it. So, y’know. I’d be open to reboots of the list.
I thought of a bunch of SNES games, but frankly those still hold up today. Crono Trigger I can’t actually see being improved in a remaster. The music and graphics are still top-notch.
Your list is my favorite list so far.
I think a reboot of the original System Shock where they take the heart of it and inspiration from the story/ environments and add it elements from its successor and spiritual successors (Deus Ex, Bioshock) would get me super-mega excited too.
System Shock 2 doesn’t really NEED a remake I don’t think, you can mod it so it looks solid and it still plays very well.
Those other games though… like a trip down late DOS/ Win 95 memory lane. Thank you!
Ohh, you want some more nostalgia-blasts my friend? Let’s do this.
MOAR REMAKES SON DEVS NEED TO GET ON THIS:
Star Wars: Republic Commando
Little Big Adventure
Bioforge
Kingdom O’ Magic
Die by the Sword
Advent Rising
Commandos (although I’m leaning toward a reboot – some of those mechanics were technically frustrating)
Dead Space PC (I know it’s recent, but it’s a fucking awful port that should be re-done)
Vagrant Story
The Longest Journey/Dreamfall
Evil Genius
Heretic/Hexen series
Mass Effect (DO IT, BIOWARE. YOU WERE THINKING ABOUT IT, JUST DO IT!)
Alpha Protocol
The Witcher
Splinter Cell series
Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines
Dawn of War: Dark Crusade
Solar Winds
War Wind
MDK
Giants: Citizen Kabuto
Galleons of Glory: The Secret Voyage of Magellan
Abuse
Alter Ego (Male and Female – seriously, gaming needs this right now)
Battletech: The Crescent Hawks Inception/Revenge
Blackthorne
Castles 1 & 2
Chaos Overlords (I would also be pretty OK with a reboot of this)
Crusader: No Remorse/Regret
Dark Reign / Total Annihilation (No, Planetary Annihilation does not count.)
Descent: Freespace 1 & 2
Raptor
Canon Fodder
Desert / Jungle / Urban Strike
Ecstatica (Although, really, I think this is just the DNA that went into the evolution of Dark Souls)
The Incredible Machine
Free Enterprise
Ghost Busters (the Master System version or whichever one had the city map on it)
Gladius (PS2 version)
Gangsters (Omerta made a really good effort, but was deeply flawed.)
Jones in the Fast Lane (this would be such a low-effort job)
Jurassic Park – SNES version
Kingpin: Life of Crime
Lemmings (although I think a recent Team17 game actually well-captures the spirit of it. Flockers or something?)
Manhunt
Netstorm – Islands at War
Neuromancer
One Must Fall 2097
Rise of the Dragon
SimCopter
Wacky Wheels (a better Mario Kart than Mario Kart)
War of the Worlds
…Oh. And Gumboots Australia.
I like a number of your pulls there, but MW 2 is my jams, yo. If I don’t have to hit 10 buttons to start your vehicle up before you can do anything in a game, then I don’t want to know about it. And with no real Robotech game that was any good or available (someone feel free to correct me), I always had to look to MW for all my missiley, contraily goodness. Streak SRM, slags!
If Titanfall taught us anything, it’s that a quality mech game is possible and fun—you just can’t leave out a single player campaign, gripping lore and decent matchmaking. I would fork out for a PC just to play a new/good MW 2 remake (and then I’d have an excuse to get into all the new space combat sims that are coming out).
And I agree with you about XCOM, but now I want every turn-based tactical game to be remade. Jagged Alliance, anyone?
Yeah, MW2 was the pinnacle of the franchise, to me. I must’ve replayed that MW2 cinematic intro with the timber wolf like… a million times. And while Frost Bear legacy was an oustanding expansion, Mercenaries was the best in the series for me. So much additional choice, amazing lore, those diary entries, and those decisions… operating on a shoestring budget just made so much more sense to me than wanky clanner ‘points-scoring’. One of those really early missions where you have to take out just one floor of a building in an urban area? Just… such rich storytelling. Can you imagine what they could do with that, today?
The Microsoft take on the series after FASA took it off Activision was servicable, if disappointing, and Heavy Gear had so many similar nice touches to it, but never really resonated with me. (Although again, dat intro…)
And yeah… Jagged Alliance. See, I left out SO MANY outstanding entries I want remade if I considered that they’ve already been remade. Even if it was a bit shit. Jagged Alliance has been remade so many times, officially and unofficially, and every single one fails to hit the right notes for me.
Turn-based tactical NEEDS more entries. I loved the shit out of Incubation: Time is Running Out, around those days, and have no idea why it was so poorly received. Probably because it got punishingly difficult if you hadn’t performed flawlessly in your earliest missions. I’m probably also one of the very rare few people in the world who thought Fallout’s Brotherhood of Steel was actually pretty cool.
Fallout 1 and/or 2 for Smarphones (…Android)
I’m playing Shadowrun Returns on my Note and it’s good fun. I would absolutely Love the original Fallouts on mobile. I looked into the DOSBOX Turbo option, too much work #shutupandtakemymoney
Parasite Eve 2.
Wouldnt need to go the Resi 4 route, just the same game with today’s graphics would suit me fine 😀 😀
I’d generally prefer they made new games but..
I know I could basically do this with a ton of mods, but I’d like to see a modernised Morrowind. I think the eldar scrolls games work best when small settlements make sense (Morrowind and Skyrim) rather than pass of a town of a hundred people as the capital of the empire (Oblivion) and I like the freedom and complexities of the leveling system and the freedom of the game in general. My recursive alchemist could jump to any point on the map and I’d barely touched the main quest.
Snake, Rattle & Roll – NES
Also reckon it would be cool to see Doom1&2 as well as even Quake remade on the ID Tech6 engine.
Parasite Eve 1 & 2
Dino Crisis 1 & 2
Landstalker
None really. The only thing I appreciate about remakes is the effort that goes into keeping the games playable on modern hardware, but emulators usually achieve this goal anyway. Otherwise I’m not particularly interested in buying the same games over and over again.
First-person Myth, the Fallen Lords, and Soulblighter, and then the Wolf Age.
San Fransisco Rush. I sunk so much time into that game and still go back and play it at least once a year when the 64 comes out.
Toe Jam & Earl.
Star Control.
Wonderboy.
The Last Ninja
The Last Ninja 2
I could see them doing it in a kind of Uncharted crossed with Ninja Gaiden kind of third person action / adventure with a movable camera rather than isometric. Actually Sly Cooper Thieves in Time would be a good template: large ‘open-world’ levels with various missions playing out in each one.
Kotor II with modern graphics and all the cut content. I know there are mods but it would be nice to have a version where you don’t need to fiddle around with it.
Blade Runner.
Would be so keen to go through that again.
Rockstar by Wizard Games
I loved this game, so simple but so fun and addictive.
Age of Empires!
Love to see a remake of the following;
Crusader: No Remorse & No Regret (PC)
Moonstone: Hard days knight (Amiga)
Mad Doctor (C64)
Syndicate (PC)
Of special note:
Day of Defeat Source (PC) …If CS Source can have CS:GO, surely we should expect a new Day of Defeat.
The Original Toe Jam and Earl
Some of the old old C64 games would be great to see remade, someone already mentioned The Last Ninja series (Tenchu was never any kind of successor to those games), Wizard Of Wor is another that has potential. I’d also like to see what could be done now with games like Blue Force or the Police Quest series.
Conkers Bad Fur Day.
That is all.
*Beasts and Bumpkins – a curious little game but it looked like it had potential – never properly worked on my PC as my HW was too fast for the game.
* Tomb Raider 1,2,3 – I hate the console ports as I really dislike the way she moves from 4 onwards. I really loved how you could move her figure around and explore the 3D space say in Tomb Raider 3.
i know a new one is coming out but i would love to play star wars battlefront 2, probably just for the memories
I’d love to see a modern remake of Descent and it’s sequels. It’s 20 years old this year and I’ve never played a 360 degree FPS quite like it since.
No One Lives Forever — I know it’s very Austin Powersy and camp, but I liked the style and the gameplay and the voice acting.
Delta Force: Blackhawk Down — There’s probably something about this game that isn’t very culturally sensitive, but is killing lots of virtual Russians or N-Koreans any more appropriate? And I’m probably remembering the game play too fondly, but the setting kind of made sense for an FPS — the wondrous American super soldier guns down waves of enemies that are poorly equipped and seem to have no sense of self-preservation.
Warhammer 40k Epic: Final Liberation — Just because I felt like including a GW game, and this is obscure enough to raise it over their more popular games from the past. I remember it being kind of fun.
Power Spikes 2 — 1. It’s an indoor volleyball game—how many of those do you see? 2. You can play mens, womens or CYBORGS. 3. It clearly doesn’t play 6-a-side, but it seems like it does. 4. You can experience one of the most satisfying events in volleyball — spiking the ball into an opponents face and watch them crumple like a Daihatsu Charade hitting a tree. What’s not to like?
Battlefield 1942/Vietnam/Desert Combat
KKND
Diablo 1
StarCraft 1
Hyperblade
Any of the original MoH but especially MoH: Rising sun. That was a bad ass game.
Homefront is another game that would benefit from being remade with a bigger budget.
Now while Goldeneye was a classic, and should not be remade, I enjoyed From Russia With Love on the PSP and I’d like to see another James Bond game.
Knights of the old republic… I have been playing alot of dragon Age Inquisition and it really makes me miss my long sessions with those games!