I'd love a remastering of Knights of the Old Republic (preferably 1 and 2 packaged together) with updated graphics, interfaces, and some comfort improvements. Those menus were soooooo bad. Hell just overhaul the whole game engine. That thing was outdated when it released to begin with XD
A remake of Unreal 2k4 would also be epic. I don't need fancy new guns or mechanics. Just take that game and put it in the Unreal 3 engine and I am a happy camper.
LordofHats wrote: A remake of Unreal 2k4 would also be epic. I don't need fancy new guns or mechanics. Just take that game and put it in the Unreal 3 engine and I am a happy camper.
Yes please! Heck, I'd settle for a new UT game that had the Assault gametype back. That's the only thing I ever played in 2k4. Modders did so much amazing stuff with those assault maps...
LordofHats wrote: I'd love a remastering of Knights of the Old Republic (preferably 1 and 2 packaged together) with updated graphics, interfaces, and some comfort improvements. Those menus were soooooo bad. Hell just overhaul the whole game engine.
Yes. Just Yes.
Also, an ending where you actually survive KOTOR II without going dark side would be nice.
Also, an ending where you actually survive KOTOR II without going dark side would be nice.
It be nice if in doing the remake they finished all of the unfinished content for the game. There was a gak tone Obsidian never got done because of the rush to release from Lucas Arts. Much of it was pretty awesome.
dementedwombat wrote: Is it bad that the first thing into my mind was "Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura" remade as a Fallout3/Oblivion style 1st person RPG?
Other than that, Redneck Rampage is just begging for a squeal.
Manchu wrote: How about a decently long Force Unleashed 3 and we call it even?
I dunno. I'm not sure how much more of that insufferably cliche Mary Sue Starkiller I can take.
"Oh yeah, I fought the Emperor and Vader at the same time. With my BLAAACK lighsaber. And I got the babe!"
Plzno.
LordofHats wrote: I'd love a remastering of Knights of the Old Republic
Again, what's really needed here is KotOR 3.
What I'm getting from this thread is the people are ready for new, quality SW games!!!
I'd say this is fair. I loved Kotor and in a weird way, I loved Kotor 2 for the misshapen and incomplete glory that it was.
Give me a complete Kotor 2, and a new Kotor 3. And, if I can add, make the dark/light side choices much more like the choices from the MMO Old Republic, where Dark Side was not AUTOMATICALLY "moustache twirling, puppy kicking, BUAAAHAA" evil. And Light Side was not AUTOMATICALLY "Turbo Liberal".
So people have already beaten me to listing games that I would want to see remade.
Icewind Dale 1/2
Dark Reign
Arcanum
I am afraid that one day an Arcanum sequel gets a kickstarter, I'm afraid at how much money I would put into seeing that happen. Especially if it ended up looking like Wasteland 2 currently does.
I wouldn't mind seeing any of the Age of Empires games (except 3) get remade.
I would want the following to be new and updated versions of the games, keeping the spirt of the game intact but not just remaking the exact same game with better graphics.
Bushido Blade:One of my favourite fighting games ever, one good slash with the sword and it was all over. You could also disable arms or legs of your attackers.
IceWind Dale or Baldurs Gate: but proper updates rather than enhanced editions.
Vagrant story: Fantastic and intresting PS1 RPG
Suikoden: Rpg with more characters to recruit into your party in a single game than most series.
Resident Evil: Series needs a reboot. 4 was fantastic but its gone way down hill since then.
A graphical update of Soul Reaver would be great. Maybe with some minor improvements to contextual actions like ledge-grabs and interacting with puzzle objects, they often felt a little janky. A little bit more drama may be necessary for the boss fights as well.
The controls were years ahead of their time as was the structure, so all the game needs is a lick of paint.
The ooolld Alien Vs Predator games from like '98 and 2000 I think? Of the two, AvP2 had the better online multiplayer. The races all have good strengths and weaknesses and were more-or-less balanced. Not simply rock-paper-scissors in space.
I'd love a decent Predator game. The last AvP wasn't bad, but it didn't really inspire much fun either. But I imagine my hopes for a great Predator game are as pointless as my hopes for a great sequel. I just have to settle for decent XD
dementedwombat wrote: Is it bad that the first thing into my mind was "Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura" remade as a Fallout3/Oblivion style 1st person RPG?
That would be AMMMMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAZING!
'd love a remastering of Knights of the Old Republic (preferably 1 and 2 packaged together) with updated graphics, interfaces, and some comfort improvements. Those menus were soooooo bad. Hell just overhaul the whole game engine. That thing was outdated when it released to begin with XD
So long as they re-instate the cut content from #2.
Theyre not necessarily remakes but I'd die to get a third game in the freespace series.
And sticking with the Star Wars theme going on: Republic Commando...with the clones wars animated series, i cant believe they're yet to put out a sequel
Probably because Republic Commando really wasn't a very good game. I get that the books are the Twilight of Star Wars (I got my swipe in Travis deal with it) but the game was the definition of mediocre.
THat said, it should be remade because it could have been a great game. Add more levels, fix problems with the core mechanics, and give the poor game a soul beyond being a bad copy of Halo in the Star Wars universe.
And sticking with the Star Wars theme going on: Republic Commando...with the clones wars animated series, i cant believe they're yet to put out a sequel
YES. Love that game, still play it quite a bit. The characters were cool, the squad command element was awesome, and it was just generally great. Throw in some characters from Clone Wars (Rex, Echo and Fives, anyone?) and you'd have a game that was beyond epic.
#1 choice is the classic Konami X-Men arcade game that held character ties to the X-Men pilot episode, "Pryde of the X-Men". Give me updated graphics, a light and a heavy attack, a throw button, and the jump and mutant powers can stay the same. And if you take out "welcome to die!", well, you don't deserve to game!!
After that, I'd like to second an updated Dark Forces with the graphics improved. I'm pretty sure gameplay can stay as is.
Blood and Duke Nukem. Both remade by Flying Hog, because they seem to know how to make a proper revised old school game.
Nocturne (the TRI game, not the other one). This time with some sort of data log thingy that explains, in detail, the creatures that you face.
Nocturne and the Bloodrayne games do seem to have an interesting little mythos going on...a pity they never elaborate on it :/
Daggerfall
Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri
Vampire the Masquerade:Bloodlines
XCOM Apocalypse
Populous: the Beginning
Black and White
Jade Empire
Lionheart:Legacy of the Crusader
Lords of Magic
Betrayal at Krondor
Darklands
Magic Carpet
Syndicate
Sim Ant
Enemy Nations
B.C.
Spore
And as far as Arcanum - if they remade it, that would be awesome. If they bastardized it into some sort of Fallout3ish monstrosity... pass. Strong pass.
Then those Eve Online bought them out, and now we have a vaporware MMO. joy.
Its not vapourware though, its just been in development for a long time. CCP are aiming to produce a genuinely different MMO though, which will apparently be much closer to DayZ than WoW, so in all likelyhood the wait will be worth it.
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dementedwombat wrote: Is it bad that the first thing into my mind was "Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura" remade as a Fallout3/Oblivion style 1st person RPG?
Yes, very bad. An Arcanum remake would be welcome given that I can't get the original to work, but only if it has an isometric perspective. Fallout 3 was not the Fallout 3 I was hoping for given that it was essentially Oblivion with guns.
Its not vapourware though, its just been in development for a long time. CCP are aiming to produce a genuinely different MMO though, which will apparently be much closer to DayZ than WoW, so in all likelyhood the wait will be worth it.
That has been constantly hemorrhaging developers at a surprising rate.
That has been constantly hemorrhaging developers at a surprising rate.
I suspect that the reason for the lay offs last year was that whatever prototype that CCP was developing wasn't working and they went back to the design stage. CCP was also focusing quite heavily on EvE and I'm sure that Dust was a finanical disppointment for them as well.
Given that World of Darkness is still in active development by around 50 people I think its a little early to describe it as vapourware.
Basically do you want another run of the mill MMO in the short term or do you want something as distinct as EvE in the long term?
That has been constantly hemorrhaging developers at a surprising rate.
I suspect that the reason for the lay offs last year was that whatever prototype that CCP was developing wasn't working and they went back to the design stage. CCP was also focusing quite heavily on EvE and I'm sure that Dust was a finanical disppointment for them as well.
Given that World of Darkness is still in active development by around 50 people I think its a little early to describe it as vapourware.
Basically do you want another run of the mill MMO in the short term or do you want something as distinct as EvE in the long term?
I hate Eve for note, so that's not exactly a good argument.
I hate the spreadsheet nature of it, the cut-throat aspect of everyone on it, the fact that it's promoted real life terror at times due to its scarily dedicated fanbase...
And that down at the core it's a very boring series.
I mean I would love something interesting, unique and such, but they've been hiding most of the details for a while now and havn't exactly been forthright into their processes or even what they are planning beyond 'This'll be cool, it'll be like X and Y and all Zish.", and those 50 people were before it got reduced by about 15-30 people.
This is pretty much how Dark Millennium was, and that barely got past fancy trailers, currently CCP has spread itself too thin with Eve (Not to mention a few failed things), Dust (Also not exactly well received), and WoD. It's the sign of bad planning beforehand and that CCP really needs to get it's act together. Most of the outlier stuff is dependent upon Eve's successes as well.
I dislike when what is to be a major MMO that has been worked on since 2006 as an open-secret, officially announced in 2010...And yet is still being 'designed'... Once again, poor planning, and while I would love to be my hunter vs the various monsters in the darkness, I just don't feel it's going to end up well enough.
While I hope to raise a candle in the darkness for the MMO...I just don't have much hope.
That has been constantly hemorrhaging developers at a surprising rate.
I suspect that the reason for the lay offs last year was that whatever prototype that CCP was developing wasn't working and they went back to the design stage. CCP was also focusing quite heavily on EvE and I'm sure that Dust was a finanical disppointment for them as well.
Given that World of Darkness is still in active development by around 50 people I think its a little early to describe it as vapourware.
Basically do you want another run of the mill MMO in the short term or do you want something as distinct as EvE in the long term?
I hate Eve for note, so that's not exactly a good argument.
I hate the spreadsheet nature of it, the cut-throat aspect of everyone on it, the fact that it's promoted real life terror at times due to its scarily dedicated fanbase...
And that down at the core it's a very boring series.
I mean I would love something interesting, unique and such, but they've been hiding most of the details for a while now and havn't exactly been forthright into their processes or even what they are planning beyond 'This'll be cool, it'll be like X and Y and all Zish.", and those 50 people were before it got reduced by about 15-30 people.
This is pretty much how Dark Millennium was, and that barely got past fancy trailers, currently CCP has spread itself too thin with Eve (Not to mention a few failed things), Dust (Also not exactly well received), and WoD. It's the sign of bad planning beforehand and that CCP really needs to get it's act together. Most of the outlier stuff is dependent upon Eve's successes as well.
I dislike when what is to be a major MMO that has been worked on since 2006 as an open-secret, officially announced in 2010...And yet is still being 'designed'... Once again, poor planning, and while I would love to be my hunter vs the various monsters in the darkness, I just don't feel it's going to end up well enough.
While I hope to raise a candle in the darkness for the MMO...I just don't have much hope.
I couldn't get into eve myself but it's an interesting and unquie rpg and I am glad it exists, it has a dedicated fan base who also enjoy it.
Dust was a finanical disppointment for them as well.
Probably has something to do with releasing a spin off of a popular PC game but not having a PC version. People tried to explain to CCP that made no sense at all, but they didn't listen. *Shrugs* No one ever said devs were smart.
I'd probably have played it on PC, but I have no interest in playing it on console.
Eve needs to address its radical power imbalance, which is only growing worse as time goes on. people have have been in that game from the beginning are so much stronger, and given the nature of skills/experience, newer players have an exceptionally harder and harder time getting into the game.
Probably has something to do with releasing a spin off of a popular PC game but not having a PC version. People tried to explain to CCP that made no sense at all, but they didn't listen. *Shrugs* No one ever said devs were smart.
I'd probably have played it on PC, but I have no interest in playing it on console.
Eve needs to address its radical power imbalance, which is only growing worse as time goes on. people have have been in that game from the beginning are so much stronger, and given the nature of skills/experience, newer players have an exceptionally harder and harder time getting into the game.
I never understood the logic of Dust's release, CCP are being strangely coy about the platforms that Valkyrie is going to be on as well.
The power imbalance isn't that bad as its a very layered game. After 2 months play time (ish) you can make almost as much isk mining Veld or Scor as someone who has been playing for 5 years as there are only a few applicable skills that apply to high sec mining. The same is also true in PvP as new players can fulfil specific niches with minimal training, admittedly those roles are usually bait or cannon fodder but they are still viable. Obviously someone who has been playing for a long time will have access to much more profitable activities and will be much more proficient at PvP but that is only to be expected. If anything I would say that EvE is less imbalanced than most MMOs in terms of player power, a level 90 in WoW is completely immune to a level 1 player but an Eve player who has been playing for years can be killed by someone who has been playing a month in the right curcumstances.
Oh dear lord, you just unlocked the joyous vaults of my early PC memory......so I would like to see the following game modernized and remade....
WING COMMANDER - I don't care which one, 1, 2, 3, 4, privateer, etc., just MAKE IT HAPPEN.
Master of Orion - seriously, how has this not happened?
Impossible Mission - yes, the old C64 game....if only to get to hear "STAY A WHILE.....STAY FOREVER!" again.
Hacker - Once again, probably not a good game, but I remember it far too well. Couldn't think? Couldn't get much farther than the copy protection.
M.U.L.E. - There may be a reboot. Not sure. Still, simple is good.
TIE Fighter - YES. TOTALLY AGREE. HAS TO HAPPEN. PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD. My old 486 had horrible RAM and NO graphics card and I STILL got an invigorating, thoroughly enjoyable space simulation. GO ON, LUCASARTS!
While I'm talking about Lucasarts.....
GRIM FANDANGO SEQUEL PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT'S HOLY!
What else....umm...Space Quest, King's Quest, Quest for Glory.....JUST BRING BACK SIERRA ADVENTURE FOR THE IPHONE.
Okay, that's about it. For now. Probably re-posting in five hours.
-RD
EDIT - OH, AND ALL OF THE OLD EPYX GAMES SHOULD BE REDONE AS WELL.
Boggy Man wrote: Blood.
One of the finest fps' of all time buried by an impacted monkey turd of a sequel and having the property shuffled from owner to owner.
Yes, totally. As I said before, I think the makers of the Shadow Warrior remake / prequel should have a shot at it; they seem to know what they are doing.
Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic 1 & 2.
Elder Scrolls: Morrowind.
I've tried playing Morrowind but having started on Oblivion and then Skyrim, I just don't find the dated gameplay mechanics and visuals of Morrowind to be enjoyable. But the Lore, story and setting is fantastic and really deserves a remake in New Gen graphics.
I was a huge fan of the pace as well as the potentially ridiculous customisation. It's not every day you see a mech with its cockpit mounted behind its legs and a jetpack strapped to it somewhere. Bonus points if it's got that huge, unwieldy command antenna on it, too.
I'd like to see the original Saint's Row remade, to be released on PC (as well as the modern consoles probably) with a bit of modern graphics, gameplay, and and customization added in.
Palindrome wrote: I have been attempting to get Arcanum to work under windows 7 and failing horribly.
Are you using the GOG version?
Arcanum is also my pick for a game most deserving of a remake. I would love to see it re done Fallout 3 style with a really in depth character creator. I just loved the massive list of traits, some neat some nutty.
My computer when I was younger could never handle running X-WvsT. With how much of a big deal you guys are making it, I'd love to see a remake, if only so I can play it and love it as much as all of you!! Don't shoot me, but I'd like it if they also made an Xbox version of it. *ducks and runs for cover*
Palindrome wrote: I have been attempting to get Arcanum to work under windows 7 and failing horribly.
Are you using the GOG version?
Aye.
Well that was my Idea to buy the GOG version because that is the one I have and it works on my windows 7 laptop. If that isn't working for you, I don't know a good solution.
I've played Fallen Enchantress, which critics and magazines called its spiritual sucessor, and while I enjoyed it, it didn't even came close to the real thing.
Spore. I really enjoyed the game, but the stages just felt less and less put together as the game progressed, A re-make that improved customization (No forced symmetry) and added more to each stage would be great.
And....
Brink. I honestly think Brink was an under-appreciated fps, my friends and I would play it all the flipping time, if the bots were better programmed and the game was just a little more forgiving, it would have been so much better.
Oddworld series
Grim Fandango
The Neverhood
Skullmonkeys
MediEvil series
Anything else along the same surrealist/absurdist/nightmarish lines? It also kinda makes you scratch your head and wonder how the gaming industry has evolved, those were all 'mainstream' games back in the day, nowadays, I dont think theyd even be published.
Oh, oh, and Steel Battalion! Im talking about a real remake/sequel that uses the ridiculous $150 controller setup and everything!
Would also be nice to see a remake of R.A.D (Robot Alchemic Drive).
Second Chromehounds (which is getting a spiritual successor, though I forget the name). That game had a lot of great ideas and none of the money to see them to furition.
NCsoft needs to let the entire player base kick their executives in the balls one at a time, issue a formal apology, and recompense everyone for their dicking over of a great game that was in no financial troubles because they felt like it.
NCsoft needs to let the entire player base kick their executives in the balls one at a time, issue a formal apology, and recompense everyone for their dicking over of a great game that was in no financial troubles because they felt like it.
I second this opinion, best MMO ever. I'd also like to see something chaos gate-ish remade for PC not a phone. I'm a sucker for turn based strategy. I'd also like dungeon keeper back, hopefully battle for the underworld will be in beta soon ( I don't play alpha release games)
NCsoft needs to let the entire player base kick their executives in the balls one at a time, issue a formal apology, and recompense everyone for their dicking over of a great game that was in no financial troubles because they felt like it.
NCsoft needs to let the entire player base kick their executives in the balls one at a time, issue a formal apology, and recompense everyone for their dicking over of a great game that was in no financial troubles because they felt like it.
I'm hoping they get off the ground soon because playing Champions Online is like downgrading from the finest cocaine to street crack.
Yeah, I really liked Champions at launch - the character/power designer was awesome, and a few of the zones were really good; but it just never kept me interested long term. I need the Villain/Hero choice to be there.
I had some really awesome characters -
GARD1AN - A big punchy robot sent forward in time from 1982 to avenge the death of it's creator. Gellar Aerospace Research and Defense series1ANDroid. He often spoke in outdated slang programmed into him to humanize him.
Jericho Jones - the Disassociated Man, a cowboy and gunslinger who won a hand of cards against Lady Luck herself, who cursed him to drift randomly through space and time.
Chocolate Thunder - a group of UC Berkeley students accidentally ended up with a batch of magically tainted LSD during a blaxploitation kung fu movie marathon in 1976 - and their collective unconscious spawned an Avatar of the blaxploitation genre.
Mech commander. If there is a reasonable clone someone please tell me I had so much fun running my mechs in circles around other mechs whilst shooting PPC (?) at them. Getting the enemy mechs to use was always such a triumph. I dunno if I played the game wrong but I always loaded as many PPC (?) on my mechs as possible coupled with as many lasers as possible, as I hated running out of ammo.
Arcanum should get a remake, but I want it the same perspective with turn based combat. I loved my hasted, summoning caster with a sword of air. Have haste up all the time, get into combat cast summon ogre (?) then bash the bejesus out of them as many times as I could with my sword. I never finished the game though, I'll have to go find my disk.
Bullockist wrote: Mech commander. If there is a reasonable clone someone please tell me I had so much fun running my mechs in circles around other mechs whilst shooting PPC (?) at them. Getting the enemy mechs to use was always such a triumph. I dunno if I played the game wrong but I always loaded as many PPC (?) on my mechs as possible coupled with as many lasers as possible, as I hated running out of ammo.
There's an option in the menu, Unlimited Ammo (checkbox). That's how I played.
On a side note. I actually only picked that up last year. I remember I had Creep in a Double Heavy AC Atlas. Blasted a Cyclops with a double head shot. The thing was in perfect condition. So I had a free 90 ton mech to help destroy the huge tanks
Champions of Norrath/Champions: Return to Arms, with current gen graphics and online play would really just be the best. I don't think my fiancee and I would ever leave the house if we could play that online with buddies.
Jet Force Gemini, either sequel or complete overhaul of the original. I really don't know why it hasn't happened yet.
You know what? As long as I'm wishing for a redone Champions... Let's go ahead and say they should probably re-do Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance with more characters/online play as well.
In case you can't tell, I really miss the hack n' slash RPG, I just haven't found anything quite up to the quality of Champions/Dark Alliance. Sacred 2 was a good try, but it's just not quite there.
Warlod's Battlecry. New gfx engine, more skill trees, more factions. would be amazing. My friends and I sank hundreds of hours into that game and we were so unbelievably disappointed when they came out with warlord's battlecry 3. It wasnt even related to the previous game and the GFX actually got worse. I do not think it was related to the original at all.
Second: Ogre Battle 64, rebuilt with new story going outside of the original nation and into the rest of Logres. GFX need to be alot better, remake it for PC, add even more units and special/secret unlockable units and items. Make squads larger too. I would pay 60$ for that if they did it right.
bought them out, and now we have a vaporware MMO. joy.
