What games do you think would be great if they'd get properly remastered and would be a hit if it was done?

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.

snowblind,

Vagrant Story

Not sure if it would become a hit, but I’d buy it.

WatTyler,
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Hijacking your comment to plug my favourite game review channel who made a video on Vagrant Story.

youtu.be/NMNFj02IB24?si=f-5TMbjmNACqE3BR

CycloneWolf,

Vagrant Story was ahead of its time and constrained by the PS1 hardware. If Square Enix had held on for a few years and developed it for the PS2 it would have started its own franchise.

corsicanguppy,

Judging by the lack of mentions for

total annihilation

I worry people just don’t know how awesome this game was. Ya tear your gaze away from StarCraft and realize you never need to look back.

Scary_le_Poo,
@Scary_le_Poo@beehaw.org avatar

Check out Beyond All Reason. beyondallreason.info

Teifion,

May I suggest you look up beyondallreason.info :)

fosforus,

For me, at least 50% of why TA was great was its soundtrack. Jeremy Soule hasn’t topped that one, IMHO, even if the Elder Scrolls series came close.

Teifion,

If you have the TA music files I believe you can add them to the install directory or something and it uses those (I just Dev the server, not sure on the application itself sorry).

MintyAnt,

There was planetary annihilation

dznts,

Gothic I and II

Viket,

Well there is a remake for gothic 1 in the works.

Also these games are just such a great fit for the steam deck. The biggest issue of these games and what prevented a more mainstream success outside of central and eastern Europe imo were their janky controls, due to being PC exclusives with controls basically designed for console controllers.

With the steam deck you get a perfectly mapped Community Layout right out of the box.

WatTyler,
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My answer to this would always have been Metal Gear Solid 3. If Konami mess up the remaster (which I’m just assuming they will), then this will be my answer again.

dmrzl,

Arcanum.

Cheskaz,

Thanks for reminding me about Arcanum! Never could get into it in the past, despite being really interested in the world. But when I first attempted to play it, it would have been the 4th or so game I’d ever really played and the 1st isometric game, so not really a surprise I didn’t stick with it.

Maybe it’s worth another go!

WittyProfileName2,
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I’ve love to see a remake of Dino crisis in the vein of the recent Resident Evil remakes.

jeena,
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Flashback on the Amiga, I think it’s a cool story.

https://jemmy.jeena.net/pictrs/image/4e3a6cbf-5086-4f4c-ad59-d147fc888cf6.jpeg

rahmad,

Not a remake, but there’s a sequel on the way… I’m not super hopeful but maybe I’ll be surprised? Flashback did get a remaster and release on (at least) Switch, but i found the controls unintuitive and dissatisfying. It was a bummer.

jeena,
@jeena@jemmy.jeena.net avatar

Aah that’s good to know, perhaps I can find a playthrough on YouTube.

chiliedogg,

They did a remake on Xbox in 2013.

bufalo1973,
@bufalo1973@lemmy.ml avatar

REminiscence may interest you.

loudWaterEnjoyer,
@loudWaterEnjoyer@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

DK64

Karyoplasma,

My cartridge’s EEPROM died :(

loudWaterEnjoyer,
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That’s a real loss

dirtySourdough,

I didn’t know EEPROM could die on N64 cartridges. Is it replaceable?

Karyoplasma,

Technically yes, but getting a replacement is hard. You need to harvest the EEPROM from another game that uses an identical one.

dirtySourdough,

Oof, yeah that’s rough. Are you aware of any documentation on N64 individual cartridge hardware? I had it in my head that the carts would never die (silly, I know) but if I had one die on me I would want to repair it if possible

Karyoplasma, (edited )

Dunno if there is an archive where you can search which one is used in the cartridge you want to fix. This is a list of games that use the same EEPROM as DK64 specifically:

Banjo-Tooie

Conker’s Bad Fur Day

Cruis’n World

Excitebike 64

Kobe Bryant in NBA Courtside

Mario Party 3

Mario Tennis

Perfect Dark

Ridge Racer 64

Star Wars Episode 1 Racer

Yoshi’s Story

dirtySourdough,

Cool, thanks!

JTheDoc, (edited )

Parasite Eve 2.

But not the horrible attempts they made with the later additions (that hardly followed the canon of the story or style anyway).

adaveinthelife,

E.V.O. Search for Eden

TehPers,

The early entries in the Ratchet & Clank series. I believe they remastered the first three at some point for PS3, but I’d love to see them updated again to today’s definition of HD and released on PC as well. Unfortunately I only played the first four games back on PS2 since I switched to full PC gaming since then, but those games were all a lot of fun. After playing the recent PC port of Rift Apart, it made me realize how much I missed playing the series, and if they remastered and ported the entire series to PC, I’d easily lose an entire paycheck to that.

PassingDuchy,
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Idk about hit, but decent success maybe? Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: The Crystal Bearers wouldn’t be bad with a re-release that fixes the controls (gameplay is mainly a series of mini-games which the timing is off for making attempting completing them a rage inducing task) and the travel map areas redone to have actual purpose instead of “here’s a zany spot with cyclical weather where you can throw stuff around to play with our gravity code”. The story was pretty good/interesting imo as a Final Fantasy version of Cowboy Bebop.

verdigris,

Throwing in a third suggestion for BAR – out of all the TA spiritual successors, BAR is the only one that really gives me the feel of the OG game.

Komatik,

Legend of the Dragoon and Final Fantasy IX

cupcakezealot,
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I want to see FF9 remastered but in the same art style tbh

Imagine Bahamut Vs Alexander but in a FF16/PS5 environment

Komatik,

Oh you will absolutely melt when you see this then www.ffix-memoria.com

These guys are amazing!

cupcakezealot,
@cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Oh wow. I heard of it back in the day but I haven’t seen the video they put out this year. I love it! So much nostalgia!

foggianism,

FF6

Alivrah,

Naughty Dog: How about The Last of Us Part 2?

fosforus, (edited )

(Sid Meier’s) Alpha Centauri.

Please don’t go. The drones need you. They look up to you.

For it to work for me, it would have to be pretty much a 1:1 remake with just improved compatibility and possibly assets. Not sure what would need to happen for it to work for people who never played the original.

Teodomo, (edited )

I’m playing Stellaris right now and one of the things I miss the most about Sid Meier 's games is it being 100% turn-based vs real time with pause (over long sessions it tires my hand a lot for some reason)

bufalo1973,
@bufalo1973@lemmy.ml avatar

I think you’re gonna like this: GLSMAC

fosforus,

Indeed! Thanks for the link!

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