Classic Game remake wish list

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We all know gaming companies have been remaking ports to the new platforms of our classic games often adding nice perks and a bit more polish to the original . FF Tactics for the DS comes to mind , the story line was a lot less confusing on the Ds port. I know they recently came out with a complete overhaul of Teenage mutant Ninja Turtles Turtles in Time which gave the old game a new coat of paint but not much else which I feel is the right approach

I was curious as to which games you guys wished were remade so lets make a list

Top 3

Final Fantasy 7
Blood Omen Legacy of Kain
Toe Jam and Earl

other thoughts
Secret of Mana
Chrono trigger
Legend of Zelda link to the past

yeh im an Rpg whore

Final Fantasy VII is the classic answer to this question, and I'd love that, but in my fantasy world Square-Enix instead works on a whole new Final Fantasy VI. And Parasite Eve, and Threads of Fate. Threads of Fate would actually do well without needing significant changes to the gameplay, since it was already a 3-D action-oriented game.

It would be an interesting experiment to redo the Grand Theft Auto III family in the GTA4 engine, with its cover system and universal GPS in addition to a graphical overhaul.

Syndicate, Carmageddon

I'd kill for Ultima IV, V, VI and VII to be remade. They could keep the core system/mechanics in a new engine and I would be ecstatic! I would take either a Morrowind-esque conversion (i.e. first person) or a Dragon Age-esque conversion.

Also, Star Fleet 2.

And one last favorite: Star Sage One/Two

Syndicate indeed needs remaking. So does Fallout.

Obvious Answers:

X-Com
System Shock
X-Wing

Comedy Options:

Vigilance
Space Bunnies Must Die!
Math Blaster

I'm curious as to why FFVI or Chrono Trigger (or any 16-bit RPG really, including Link to the Past) might need a remake. Where would they benefit from a remake? HD sprite art a la SSF2THDR? Save-anywhere systems? Full-on 3D implementation?

Call me a defensive purist ( ), but I think for sure FFVI and CT are perfect the way they are. They are the apogee of the 16-bit era, doing everything right with the tech, working within and transcending the limitations rather than being trapped by them (see FFVII's crude PS1 3D).

Maybe a higher resolution than ~240 lines would be beneficial, but even at that I wonder: I think the simplified cartoonish emotes of the characters helped ground their grand stories, and prevented them from derailing into po-faced self-serious "epics" (the last FF I played was VI, can you tell?).

That said, if Yosh*taka Amano or Akira Toriyama offered to lead hand-drawn HD remakes, with full orchestral sound, I'd be first in line. Maybe against my better judgment, maybe not.

3D though. Forget that.

HedgeWizard wrote:

I'd kill for Ultima IV, V, VI and VII to be remade. They could keep the core system/mechanics in a new engine and I would be ecstatic! I would take either a Morrowind-esque conversion (i.e. first person) or a Dragon Age-esque conversion.

Second. Also, a functional Ultima IX would be handy.

Dark Forces redone in a modern engine would be sweet.

A lot of classic games that first came to mind for me still hold up really well. My first thought was Fallout - but I just recently replayed it and it held up really well. In fact, all of the Infinity Engine games hold up well provided you apply the widescreen patch to them. Then I thought that I'd love a remake of Alpha Centauri. And while that also holds up pretty well, there are plenty of advances that have been made in Civ IV that I'd like to see along with an upgraded engine.

Finally, the old space sims have really aged. The Wing Commander series and X-Wing/TIE Fighter are pretty unplayable at this point. Even upgrading them to something like the engine used in Freespace 2 (and Freespace Open) would be fantastic.

I've never been a fan of remakes. Partly because one of my big motivations in playing games is an interest in the technology behind them and when I go back to an old game I like to see how it used the platform that was available to it. Every game is a product of its time in a million subtle ways, and taking the script and transplanting it into new code loses some of that interesting context and in 10 years the new one will look just as dated and silly anyway.

Grim Fandango. This disc has been borrowed for months, but the controls are so bad.

Gravey wrote:

I'm curious as to why FFVI or Chrono Trigger (or any 16-bit RPG really, including Link to the Past) might need a remake. Where would they benefit from a remake? HD sprite art a la SSF2THDR? Save-anywhere systems? Full-on 3D implementation?

The main thing I would get out of something like this would be the realization of the original character art. Not so much a factor in CT, since Toriyama's designs really do show through well, but FF6 in a huge way. This wouldn't necessitate 3D, but definitely something that could better show the characters in that Amano style. An example of this is actually Dissidia, where Terra has both her original Amano art costume, and her FF6 green-hair costume, and it looks fantastic.

Ikari Warriors
Pathways Into Darkness (actually I would just be happy if Bungie would port this to the PC)
Age if Empires 2

Wow I have nothing really.

Tigerbill wrote:

Ikari Warriors

A combined Ikari Warriors & Victory Road into one bizarre story would be kind of cool, in theory.

Wasteland or nothing.

LiquidMantis wrote:

Syndicate, Carmageddon

GET OUT OF MY HEAD

Sometimes the obvious answers are the best ones...

System Shock (the first one)
Deus Ex
X-com
X-wing and TIE Fighter
Alpha Centauri

Also, I'd like a remake of the old game War in Middle Earth or just a decent LOTR strategy game (turn based, possibly with real time battles like Total War).

I'd take a new Wasteland over a new Fallout, if that distinction makes sense.

Ultima V actually did get an unofficial remake, and it was awesome. I'd love to see IV remade in the same style.

X-Com is still good, but the maps get a little same-y and the aliens switch between "horrific threats lurking in the dark" and "I can't find the last alien"; but all the spiritual sequels have botched the essence of the original.

Oh! What about a (better) remake of Thief 3? And it's a pity that no one ever made a sequel to Deus Ex. On that note, what the world really needs is Star Control 3.

X-Com, obviously. Nothing else comes close.

Gremlin wrote:

And it's a pity that no one ever made a sequel to Deus Ex.

Bwah?

All the Legacy of Kain (including soul reaver) series would be great to remake. The voice acting doesn't need to be touched, just a graphical update would be cool.

ahrezmendi wrote:
Gremlin wrote:

And it's a pity that no one ever made a sequel to Deus Ex.

Bwah?

Yup. It sure is a shame that no one ever made a sequel.

Eh, FF7 would need static monsters like Chrono Trigger to be very much fun -- endless random encounters just suck. The story in that game was pretty advanced for the time, and I'm sure I'd enjoy playing through that part of it again, but the thought of grinding through all.those.monsters again is terribly off-putting.

And there has been no sequel to Deus Ex. Anyone suggesting otherwise .... well, let's just say that it wouldn't be good for your continued corporeal integrity.

I appear to be one of the few that thought that Thief 3 was excellent, and doesn't need remaking. I've played through it three or four times now, and enjoyed it more every time.

The X-Wing games still play extremely well; I think they'd benefit from a pull-forward with some graphics upgrades. But they absolutely need a joystick. Thumbsticks do not cut it.

A new Master of Magic would be nice.

Malor wrote:

And there has been no sequel to Deus Ex. Anyone suggesting otherwise .... well, let's just say that it wouldn't be good for your continued corporeal integrity.

Are you threatening me?

Malor wrote:

A new Master of Magic would be nice.

Have you tried Age of Wonders: Shadow Magic? Its darn close.

Games that don't need a remake? Thief 2, System Shock 2. Just update the graphics and away you go.

Malor wrote:

I appear to be one of the few that thought that Thief 3 was excellent, and doesn't need remaking. I've played through it three or four times now, and enjoyed it more every time.

Malor, we are the few, the proud, the totally derided on the TTLG forums. But Gremlin could be right: if a T3 remake could just lose the loading zones for seamless levels, then would make it just that much better.

Red Storm Rising & Longbow2

The original Gold Box games using an isometric view (ala Baldur's Gate) would be cool

Syndicate

Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe

Autoduel.

/sigh

Everything in the X-Wing series.

Doom! . . . . . oh, wait.......

Nightmare wrote:

The original Gold Box games using an isometric view (ala Baldur's Gate) would be cool

I could really get into this. I'd like to see more games based on D&D rules, or at least something more in-depth that we have been seeing from Bioware since they droped the license (not that I don't have Dragon Age pre-ordered).

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