I believe this will mostly affects games which were lacking in technology.
I’d personally LOVE to see The Sims 1 or The Sims 2 re-released with performance and resolution upgrades, and, most importantly, made to be open world. Since they’re older, I believe they could very easily render the entire map like The Sims 3, but with the charm of TS1 or TS2.
I cannot think of other games, since most games I see as adequate, whereas TS1 and TS2 were bound by system performance during their respective times.
Resident Evil Outbreak. They’ve remade so many games and added so much PvP to the series, but Outbreak was an amazing and very fun co-op game that flopped because it used PlayStation 2 internet. I loved the game even offline and think it was way ahead of its time, and a rerelease with today’s much more ubiquitous internet capabilities would be a hit, but they’re obsessed with PvP game modes that I’ve seen very few people enjoy and most people hate. It would also give us more Raccoon City to explore, which I felt like they glossed over too much in the RE2 and 3 remakes.
Flashback on the Amiga, I think it’s a cool story.
Minecraft, lol. Written in Rust instead of Java, extensible, open source.
Like what Minetest and Mineclone currently do. Dont know what languages they use.
Minetest is written in C++, and Mineclone is a minetest game. Minetest games and mods are written in Lua.
I don’t see the need for new open source minecraft-like game if we already got minetest.
Why Rust in particular?
Writing is more like a higher leven language, while its not damn Java. Minecraft hogs so extremely many Resources, Optifine was necessary to make it run on my old Laptop
Because it borrows instead of stealing. Its memory management is more ethical.
Wing Commander series.
Empire Earth! I don’t think it was lacking for its time, but a remaster akin to Age of Empires Definitive Edition would still help a lot.
Star Ocean 2 was one I’ve wanted for a while. Less than a month away
Duke Nukem. Hear me out, Duke Nukem Forever was garbage and was the butt of many jokes. It was considered vaporware until it came out and was dated when it did come out. The humor in the 3D version is juvenile and wouldn’t translate today. Actually, nevermind. I just liked it and thought it was fun but there’s no way it could exist in today’s world.
Oni by Bungie West, now stuck between an IP mess between Bungie, Rockstar and Take-Two. This game was the basis for Halo and GTA’s open world, and greater than Tomb Raider if it never got stuck in that IP mess.
FFFFUUUUUCCCKKKKKKKKKKKK INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
Also, NFS Most Wanted, Carbon and Underground 1/2. No, I do not count that Criterion Games’ horrific MW remake, it was the horror no true NFS diehard will mention. Proper remakes with no DLCs, microtransactions and bullshit RTX3060 tier hardware requirements.
Historical lesson for kids about another unfortunate banger – Rock N’ Roll Racing (SNES) that was made by what you know today as Blizzard, never got a remake, and the only remake that exists is made by a bunch of passionate Russians called Motor Rock. Blizzard actively prevented this game from going on Steam, and is only playable on PC via piracy. The remake is a banger as well.
Albion! Very old game, it was awesome.
RTCW ET
LEGO Island, for sure!
I liked the Lego MMO when it was in beta. I’m sad they killed it.
DK64
The top down grand theft Auto games for game boy were really fun
Sega Saturn had a title called Fighters Megamix that (in my opinion) was the first to bring franchise characters together for a battle royal.
Virtua Fighter, Fighting Vipers, Sonic, Daytona, Virtua Cop and more all rules it out in wrestling rings and it was amazing. Would love a remake.
Oni by Bungie.
