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.
Zelda: A link to the past.
Soul Reaver.
Zelda: ocarina of time, majoro’s mask, and twilight princess
Desperately want a new game set in Termina
Dune II
Stunt Driver from 1990. Played so much of it back in the day.
That was an awesome game. I remember playing it with my friends and if you hit the top 10, we would write our name with ‘the best’.
It also had a level editor. I created one with a lot of jumps.
Good times!
Also Stunt Car Racer hasn’t really seen any equivalent since it was released, and I played it a lot across many years. It even had a networked multiplayer mode (we connected by parallel printer cable). Even watching that video clip now gives me a sense of vertigo and thrill.
To get some sense for what it could be in a remake, try playing the video at 2x speed.
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The Ultima series, especially U4, 5, and 6. To this day they are some of the best stories told in gaming history, but their appeal is limited by the fact that they came out in the DOS era - remake them with Baldur’s Gate 3 levels of production value and some QOL updates but otherwise don’t change a thing and they would contend for the best RPGs of all time.
Pre DOS, btw. I spent way too much time playing Ultima IV on a Commodore 64.
I remember wanting to play one of the Ultima games so badly on an old Win95 PC, but the game wasn’t fully compatible and would play at like 5x speed. I see so many people reminiscing about how great the games were back in the day and it makes me a little sad I couldn’t figure out the issue at the time.
I’d be all for a remake just so I could experience the stories.
Marathon and its sequels.
Though not really (too) old but:
GOTHIC.
But only if it’d be a worthy remake.
Well, they’re doing it so we will see
Indeed. I got my hopes up, even though I most likely shouldn’t. Mayhaps…
Legacy of Kain
Came here to say this. The entire legacy of Kain / SoulReaver series. I have them on steam, but they are unfortunately very dated. I could see them redone in the same style as god of war to make some company a lot of money.
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And include all parts that weren’t in the original games due to release schedule.
A friend and I were talking today that we’d spend full price for a Warhammer 40K: Dawn of War Soulstorm remaster/remake. It was a great game that still has a lot of potential both for gamers and for the company developing it. They could even call it something cool like the Imperium Edition or something!
I’ve also always said that they could approach it in a similar way to how Total War: Warhammer develops DLC for their factions. Quick question for WH:40K fans: if they offered a dlc for your specific Space Marine chapter or Ork Warband or DIRTY HERETIC, would you buy it? I know I would buy a Space Wolves chapter DLC that enabled their unique mechanics and units. It’s an untapped goldmine in my opinion and also caters to people who want to play the game with their own army units.
So frustrating how the series went. Dawn of war with all the expansions and factions installed was fantastic. And the dark crusade campaign with the total war style world battle map, perfect!
I really wish they just made an up to date dow1. Maybe don’t encourage monetizing individual chapters, I like that you could paint your own. I was happy to pay for a whole new race and a new campaign in a DLC package but paying for cosmetics can fuck off.
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Don’t get me wrong; I like TF2, but there are some game mechanics I still miss about the older version.
(Also, I’m not sure TF2 needs a remake anyway – with the cartoon-y stylistic choice, there’s nothing really outdated about it.)
TWISTED METAL!
I feel like car combat just about disappeared as a genre, and I miss it!
Twisted Metal, Vigilante 8, and Carmageddon ALL deserve to be resurrected.
Omg I totally forgot about vigilante 8! Loved the music too haha
I’m surprised they haven’t recently considered there’s a Twisted Metal show that was just released a few months ago.
The show was pretty damn entertaining too! I had low expectations but I ended up really enjoying it haha
Thief and Thief 2
Without the zombies pls.
Agreed. Thief 1 was awesome. When I got to the second level, I noped out of it pretty quickly. Not a fan of the zombie genre and not all games need that sort of spooky atmosphere.
I love zombie games. I just felt like that shit had no place in those games. It was like some executive thought “Oh zombies are in right now put those in the game!”, and the devs had to put them in. I’m not sure if that’s how it really went down but that was how it felt at the time when I was trying to understand how they could fuck up so bad.
Ooh, I would love this!
I’d love to see PC remakes of Final Fantasy games from the PlayStation era. Fix whatever bugs there were and add an option to toggle traditional graphics to modern AAA title graphics and I’m good.
Parasite Eve
