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.
None. After the vivisection that was the GTA remaster, stay the fuck away from older games. Please and thank you.
I had the same thought initially, and unfortunately it wasn’t just GTA. However, IMHO Diablo II Resurrected was an amazing exception, and I’m sure there are others. Plus, the OP’s question was probably about an ideal case and they wanted to know what people have been missing from the past.
Realistically, I wouldn’t expect a decent comeback of Guitar Hero 3 for example, but it sucks that it doesn’t really work on Win10/11 anymore, and while Clone Hero exists, it doesn’t have the same “story” mode as GH3 had, with characters, milestones and such. Hell, you can’t even get “booed out”.
Too bad that as you mentioned, even if there was demand, a random big company would just buy the rights, do some lazy upscale and sell it like it was gourmet shit.
Well, a few months ago I would have said Soul Reaver, but we’re finally getting that!
So I guess I’ll say Siphon Filter. I remember having a lot of fun with that back in the day.
I don’t think I ever got anywhere in that game, I just spent the whole weekend rental tazing poor unfortunate bros…
The old GameCube game, Eternal Darkness
No one lives forever 1 & 2.
Omikron The Nomad Soul
Black and white as VR
C&C:Generals
OpenRA is nice though
My old MUD
Aardwolf by chance? That was my jam daily for a couple years.
No but I’m sure i had logged into that one to find it a try. I remember thst name
Mine was called riftsmud
Heckin’ Mega Man Legends 1&2.
idk if it’s considered obscure but I’d love to see the OG Viva Pinata get a remake (Or remaster atleast)
I would love that!
Half-Life. I know there’s been some successful efforts to modernize it, but those only bring it up to Source 2 era.
I would love a fully modern remake. Modern lighting and raytracing could do great things for the detail of a headcrab infected scientist.
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.
I’m here once again to humbly submit the suggestions of Dungeon Keeper and Black and White. That is all.
Black and White for sure. I still get nostalgic for that one.
We simply can’t leave until we get some wheeeaaat!
Idle idle eeee
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.
Sid Meier’s Pirates! There are so few actually good pirate games.
I’ve played through various iterations of that game so many times, and I agree that it needs another modernization!
Pong.
