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1y ago

What games need a remaster?

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The entire Legacy of Kain series. Wish they would have finished the series :(
- keep the original voices though!
  The voice acting in those games were top-notch and I don't want to risk ruining that
  
  Yes! The voice acting in this series was so damn good.
- Great pick, I keep meaning to check them but they sure can look daunting these days
  
  I'm trying to replay the series right now on my Steam Deck. Started with Soule Reaver, but the controls are pretty jarring coming from modern control schemes. Soul Reaver 2 was always my favorite though, the story and setting of that game is a masterpiece
- I really miss nosgoth.
  
  Same buddy. Same. My friends and I would play that all the time.
- I thought Defiance wrapped it up, no? It's been a long time since I played it but all I remember was a convoluted time travel story
  
  No, it wrapped up the story of Raziel (kind of), but it ended with Raziel sacrificing himself to cleanse Kain so he could avoid having to die to heal Nosgoth. There was supposed to be a sequel that would see Kain go on purifying the pillars, but too late for that now.

Oblivion, Fallout 3, and Fallout New Vegas could use a 64-bit version. Even if they change absolutely nothing else about those games, that alone would be a major improvement, as they are very prone to crashing from running out of address space, especially if you have graphics mods installed.
- Not saying that these shouldn't have a more stable official release, but hasn't this been solved by mods for a long while now? At least New Vegas I remember when I last set up mods installing a fix for this, it's actually quite stable now if you install all the recommended fixes.
  
  Also there is a modding team making a remaster of new vegas using the fallout 4 engine. It looks really impressive, they've been working on it for years now.

Eternal darkness for the GameCube could be so good with a proper remaster.
The original Quake but the asthetic needs to be identical and NIN should actually do the soundtrack.
Deus Ex would be great, it was so ahead of its time.

For most of them a proper remake rather than a remaster but I'll take what I can get
Star Wars Jedi Knight 2: Jedi Outcast
Star Wars Galactic Battlegrounds (originally used the same engine as Age of Empires 2 so porting it to the Definitive Edition engine should be doable)
The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion
Final Fantasy VI
Final Fantasy VIII
Assassin's Creed 1
- Played Assassin's Creed 1 recently and it's so clunky. A remaster would need some new controls or something to be viable today, but a remake would be better.

Deus Ex. The original one. It has such great story and gameplay but is dated by today's standards.

Red dead redemption 1
- Honestly read dead redemption holds up so well.
  
  Yeah but i dont want to buy a 10 year old system to play it

Maybe this is moot since they would just do the usual Square Enix “remaster” (read: poorly upscaled and very basic QoL improvements)
I want some love for Chrono Trigger/Chrono Cross. Even if they just made it 2.5 HD similar to Octopath Traveller, Diofield Chronicle, etc

Bully and KOTOR II

Early BioWare stuff. Specifically KOTOR (don't know what's going on with that remake, but doesn't seem to be going anywhere right now), KOTOR II (yes, I know it's Obsidian, but still), and Jade Empire. Probably Dragon Age: Origins as well.
Since they're already doing it, it's probably a useless mention, but Splinter Cell needed it, especially for PC.
Star Wars: The Force Unleashed and the Kyle Katarn Jedi games could probably do with a touch-up as well. But they're "not canon", so that's not happening.
Maybe also the original Deus Ex and/or Thief.
I expect System Shock 2 might get one in a few years, although it isn't as desperately needed as the original was.
- Bioware just announced layoffs.
  God forbid any exec there have literally any brains or sight above 3 months. I'm so goddamn frustrated with the shell corporation formally known as Bioware. Yes, your quarterly revenue is in the toilet, you invest money to make a killer game and make profit when you release. Games take time, stop fucking laying off people and trying to squeeze it for every dollar and just make a good goddamn game.
  They have massive IPs like KOTOR, Mass Effect, and Dragon Age that literally everyone is chomping at the bit for. They could have staff working on all three with a new game coming out every two years with DLCs in between, but they're afraid to invest in it.
  They could have the next RDR2 or Witcher - if they actually invested in it. They could be the name for RPGs again, but they're too afraid about not being able to afford their next BMW.
  
  They could be the name for RPGs again
  Unpopular opinion: They never were. And neither was Bethesda. Black Isle/Obsidian are the true masters of RPGs. There was a period of time when they would take other studios' engines and IPs and produce sequels/spin-offs that vastly surpassed the original in terms of writing and world design. Bioware made Baldur's Gate, Black Isle made Planescape: Torment. Bioware made Neverwinter Nights, Obsidian made NWN2. Bioware made KotOR, Obsidian made KotOR2. Bethesda made Fallout 3, Obsidian made Fallout: New Vegas. If anything, it's Black Isle/Obsidian games that deserve to be remastered.
  
  Ugh, how disappointing. :( As one of the many, many many people waiting for DA: Dreadwolf to maybe, hopefully, someday come out... this is bad news.
  Edit: Maybe it'll be fine! I am just not holding my breath.

Jedi Knight 2 and Medieval 2 Total War for me

very niche but Skies of Arcadia! I miss my pirate RPG with airship battling featuring main characters that may or may not develop a harem at the end.

There are a bunch of old Sega IPs I'd love to see get a modern treatment. Alex Kidd. Space Harrier. Shinobi. Wonder Boy in Monster Land got the proper treatment a few years back with a gorgeous remake and a pseudo-sequel.

Lord of the Rings: Gollum

A modern remake of Populous could be amazing.

Parasite Eve
Prototype 1
Legend of Dragoon
NFL Blitz (just a modern upgrade, keep the arcade feel)
Smash TV
We're actually getting a Star Ocean 2 remaster in November, so I can cross that off the list.
- Love seeing PE and LoD on here, both incredible games. I would also love to see Xenogears get a remaster that actually fleshes out a lot of the stuff left on the cutting room floor. I know we got Xenosaga - another one that would be great to have on modern hardware - and Xenoblade Chronicles but I truly miss that PS1 era of RPGs sticking with the turn-based model while trying to find ways to be unique.

Jet Force Gemini

Final Fantasy 9. It's my favourite in the series, and it's gotten lots of rereleases in its original form. But it would be nice if it got a more polished updated remaster.
Though I would be afraid of how modern Square sensibilities might change the pretty iconic character designs.
- Isn't FF9 being remade with more or less the classic gameplay and look?
  
  oh really?! I hadn't heard but that's great if so! I really hope they do keep the classic look then. :)

Dark Souls 1
I'll give them points for fixing the technical issues. But, IMO, slapping some textures (that breaks the original atmosphere) isn't good enough. It would've been amazing to have Demon Ruins + Lost Izalith fixed.
But to be realistic this was nothing more than a cash grab; minimal effort. Which I can't necessarily blame as that's the whole point of people doing anything. People gotta eat.

Suikoden 3 for sure.

Matrix Path of Neo. I loved that game so much and the last time I tried emulating it was so bad. I was completely hyped at that recent tech demo until I realized that was all it would be.

.hack IMOQ. We got the gu remasters, now that’s all we need.

Final Fantasy Tactics
Vagrant Story
but please don't completely change the visual style! just clean them up for modern resolution screens

Beyond Good and Evil.
Absolute masterpiece. Ubisoft has been squandering the IP for decades.

BLOODBORNE

Morrowind
- I feel like Morrowind was a "perfect storm" situation that can never happen again. A new version would be... less than good, I feel.
  Now Daggerfall, on the other hand. There were many good things about it, but in sum, it was kind of a mess. I would love to see it reimagined with updated gameplay and a tightened up map. I would shrink it down to a Skyrim-like scale, but include a whole second underground map consisting of a massively overcomplicated labyrinth of tunnels and shafts connecting together a bunch of extraneous architecture representing fragments left over from thousands of years and multiple timelines of history. It wouldn't be designed to be navigable. The main quest wouldn't touch on it. It would just be there for maze-fiends like myself to get lost in.
- My heart and soul says YES but the rational part of my brain knows they would just screw it up. Morrowind is a product of a long-gone age of gaming and I can't imagine the suits would let it fly today and it wouldn't be the same without its old charms and quirks.

Im excited for that nvidia ai enhanced rtx thing! now we wont have to wait around for a remaster and can just automagically remaster it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUX3u1iD0jM

C&C: Tiberian Sun and the Firestorm expansion. I wasn't the biggest fan of the original C&C, but picked up the remaster to show my support in the hopes that Tiberian Sun would get the treatment. Unfortunately, that doesn't seem to be happening as far as I've seen.
- Yes, and Red Alert 2 as well (since it runs on the same-ish engine).
  I've been hoping for this since the release of the remastered versions of the original C&C and Red Alert.

No One Lives Forever 1 and 2.
- I’d be happy if those games were even available. The franchise is stuck in legal limbo.

.hack IMOQ (I was coping so hard after GU got a remaster but still nothing)
Dragon age origins
Digimon world 3. There have been two reboots/reimaginings of digimon world 1 (re digitized decode, and next order), but never anything about world 2 and 3.

black and white 2 needs a modern remake.

Old MGS, Max Payne
- I would love Max Payne 1 & 2. I googled it for fun and found this: https://investors.remedygames.com/announcements/remedy-entertainment-enters-agreement-with-rockstar-games-for-new-max-payne-12-project/
  I won't hold my breath, but I'll be happy if it happens.
- Fuck yeah, Metal Gear Solid! I feel like remasters and PC ports are a no brainer. Konami has the engine Kojima did for MGS5, which I assume is what they are using to re-make 3.

Little Big Adventure 2 / Twinsen's Odyssey
Man, I love that game, but it has some things I'd love to see improved by a remaster.

Vagrant Story

Arcanum and Divinity II (Ego Draconis, not original sin 2)

Good old Revolt. It'll be awesome with a remake of the game with the similar feel, realistic driving characteristics and challenging gameplay that's actually fun and difficult to master. I'd love a hyper realistic version of an RC car game just like revolt was back when it launched.

Nokia 3310's snake

I know I’m in a minority but DK64! I loved that game as a kid. Maybe it was because my game library was quite small growing up but I spent hours and hours during summer vacation with the DK Crew

I'd love to see star wars republic commando as well as the Jedi knight series!

Twisted Metal 2 for PC.

I really enjoyed Sim Earth as a kid. Just give me an entire planet operating on a geological scale as a sort of "virtual terrarium", and I'll be happy.

Eternal Darkness
- Chatturga Chatturga Ulyoth pargon pargon

Icewind Dale 2 need a remaster / EE edition. I remember reading somewhere that the source code was lost. Same issue with HOMM3 extensions that why there is no HD edition of the full game and why GOG version is still the best.

Star wars jedi power battles. More people need to know about the second best jedi game with the worst title that ever existed.

Duck Hunt, but make it realistic.
- Whatever happened to gun games on consoles in general? Duck hunt was great when I was a kid, and later we had games like Time Crises. I miss those.
  
  Lightguns don't work on LCD screens, so they were not feasible on most consoles once folks started swapping out their CRTs.
  Wii had a handful of light gun like games (that used the sensor bar of course) with the Wii Zapper, but other than that games of this type have needed more niche peripherals (Kinect, PS camera, now VR) that have made them more niche.

Jak II (and probably the others after it but I haven't gotten to them yet so can't say for sure). Not Precursor Legacy though, it's perfect and nobody can tell me otherwise
Edit: jk I forgot Precursor Legacy didn't have subtitles, it could do with those.
Half Life 1 (and 2 at this point, tbh) Actually fuck it let's just re-do all the Valve Source FPS. TAKE MY MONEY
Roller Coaster Tycoon 1 would be an awesome candidate for an AOE Definitive Edition style remake where the mechanics are virtually unchanged but it's given a 3D graphics overhaul with unfixed zoom levels
Tron 2.0 but it'll never happen because it's a split timeline from Tron Legacy :[
- Wasn't there a major community-made, valve sanctioned half life remake that just came out?
  Edit: it's called Black Mesa
  
  Yeah, Black Mesa. It's very well done.

The Legend of Dragoon for me.
- Always my answer when questions like these come up. I played it before FF7 and I always considered it the better of the two

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