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.
Alister McGee’s Alice. Pretty much a horror version of Alice in Wonderland, and it’s a platformer with trippy graphics. I thought it was pretty fun.
Do you hate my country so much you can’t even say the name when it’s in reference to something else entirely?
(This should not be taken seriously. It is a joke.)
My daughter loves this game. Her halloween costume tonight was the Alice from that game & her best friend was classic Alice.
xenogears
One can hope for a properly fleshed out disc 2.
I’m not particularly a fan of either re-makes or full remastered but I’m a big fan or, for example, when Xbox upgraded the resolution and FPS or backwards compatible games.
I would love to see Metal Gear Solid The Twin Snakes again and have a similar service on Switch for GameCube games.
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
Future Cop L.A.P.D
I can get behind this. FC hold up very well and is an amazing game that I think is mostly forgotten by now.
Mine is Gothic and Soul Reaver - getting both so I’m a happy camper
Having seen the trailer for Gothic, it looks good. I really hope that it’s actually good.
Omg shadow of memories! What a pick :) great game that I’ve heard barely anyone talk about :)
It feels like the rules to say an official english translation for Mother 3! Loved playing it (if Nintendo read this I did not play it)
Guiltily I’d also love a WWF Smackdown or Here Comes the Pain remaster, same arcade gameplay, same roster, or updated but just prettier and expanded! :)
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)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.
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.
The rest of the Legacy of Kain games
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.
Zelda LttP
That’d be awesome! I’d pirate the shit out of a remake.
How about a dark gritty reboot of LttP?
That sounds awesome. I’m imagining it in the style of Dark Souls, but a reskin would be fun.
I’m thinking like the dead space remake. Extra gory!
Just give me a proper Xenogears remake with all the cut content from the second disc and I’ll die happy.
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.
SSX Tricky brought up to PS5 graphics.
I was coming here to reply SSX 3 :)
I love you both very much.
I still play SSX3 GameCube version on my Wii.
- MDK and MDK2
- King’s Quest VI
- Leisure Suite Larry 6
- Super Mario RPG (no Paper Mario doesn’t count)
- Mario Paint
Didn’t super Mario rpg get a remake this year already?
Wow looks like it was released last year. Thanks, I had no idea!
It’s very good!
The old GameCube game, Eternal Darkness
I would love to see F.E.A.R. with updated graphics. Preferably just a remaster, but if it was remade in the same spirit as the Dead Space remake was, I’d be down for that too, especially if they brought back Fettel’s voice actor.
Shadow of memories sounds nice.
I can see a good remake of terranigma