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.

Checho,

GTA San Andreaa

smackjack,

I’d love to see Descent get remastered.

TheYear2525,

Have you tried Overload?

SecretPancake,

It was great. Unfortunately it sold very poorly so the studio abandoned it. But the game is still available and I highly recommend it to any Descent fan.

snowblind,

Yes!

There’s Decent raytraced at least: github.com/BredaUniversityGames/DXX-Raytracer

Pantherina,
@Pantherina@feddit.de avatar

Minecraft, lol. Written in Rust instead of Java, extensible, open source.

Like what Minetest and Mineclone currently do. Dont know what languages they use.

Faresh,

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.

dan,
@dan@upvote.au avatar

Why Rust in particular?

herrvogel,

Because it borrows instead of stealing. Its memory management is more ethical.

Pantherina,
@Pantherina@feddit.de avatar

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

nutomic,
@nutomic@lemmy.ml avatar

No one lives forever. Though the originals are still very much playable, only the graphics are outdated.

Piers,

Sadly that’s unlikely to ever get a remake as noone can agree who owns the rights to do so.

Nefara,

Such great games! Unfortunately they’re stuck in IP hell :(

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axont,

those games are amazing. Monolith was a really good studio before Warner Bros gutted them. Problem with the NOLF games getting a reboot/remake is the rights are split between Fox, Vivendi, and Activision. It’s a complete mess and I doubt it’ll ever happen sadly

slazer2au,

Duke Nukem 1,2 and 3D

Doesntpostmuch,

Who played the duke nukem 1 and 2? I only knew them as shovelwade side scrollers.

homoludens,

In 1995, Flux magazine ranked the game 39th on their Top 100 Video Games writing: “Without a doubt, the best platform game for the pc ever created.” (Wikipedia)

Doesn’t really sound like shovelware.

fartsparkles,

*shareware

steveman_ha,

(raises hand) It was me, I did.

dan,
@dan@upvote.au avatar

Stunts / 4D Sports Driving

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stunts_(video_game)

Update the graphics but keep all the physics the same.

TopRamenBinLaden,

Holy crap you just awakened an ancient memory of me as a little kid, playing this game on an MS-DOS PC of some kind at one of my relatives house. I didn’t know what this game was called until now, I just remember being amazed how much more advanced it was compared to the Sega Genesis games I was playing at the time.

They should most definitely do an update to that. I never played another game like it.

dan,
@dan@upvote.au avatar

I only remembered about it recently! 20 years ago I had a site where I’d upload my favourite replays web.archive.org/web/20051208051957/…/stunts.htm

infamousbelgian,

That track builder was so perfect!

philpo,

You sir/madam, are a true conseigneur of old games. That is a name I didn’t read for a long time and you are absolutely right.

geoma,

www.ultimatestunts.nl

bus_factor,

Definitely needs to still launch you to the stratosphere if you land at the edge of a jump.

_haha_oh_wow_,
@_haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works avatar

Deus Ex

GTA3 + Vice City + San Andreas (properly being the key word)

Morrowind

KOTOR 1 + 2

Battlezone II: Combat Commander

Red Faction series

luthis,

Skywind is making progress !

clayh,

It’s been “coming along nicely” since it was morrowblivion.

Don’t hold your breath.

ArmoredThirteen,

Yeah but there was what, 5-6 years between Oblivion and Skyrim? Skywind has had way more time to bake it’ll be fine, finished release any decade now.

FilthyHookerSpit,

Rip Kotor remake

whoisearth,

Thief and Thief 2

lauha,

Ooh, I would love this!

Sir_Kevin,
@Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Without the zombies pls.

root,

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.

Sir_Kevin,
@Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

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.

Dyskolos,

Though not really (too) old but:

GOTHIC.

But only if it’d be a worthy remake.

dabu,
@dabu@lemmy.world avatar

Well, they’re doing it so we will see

Dyskolos,

Indeed. I got my hopes up, even though I most likely shouldn’t. Mayhaps…

loudWaterEnjoyer,
@loudWaterEnjoyer@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

DK64

Karyoplasma,

My cartridge’s EEPROM died :(

loudWaterEnjoyer,
@loudWaterEnjoyer@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

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!

root,

Wing Commander series.

philpo,

Yeah, but a good one.

megane_kun,

Chrono Trigger, Chrono Cross, and that one fan-made sequel, Chrono Trigger Crimson Echoes.

kingofsnake,

I’d love Cross if they could clean it up a bit. It’s too avant garde for anybody to enjoy outside of true fans, I feel. Like, what’s with the interchangable 50 character roster?

Are they all just divisible by one another in Serge/Robo/Lavos’ bizzare meta fever dream? I still can’t follow what’s going on.

megane_kun,

I must admit that I haven’t really played a whole lot of Chrono Cross. Not even back when it was new. When I tried getting into it via an emulator, I was majorly put off by how pixelated it looked (especially when compared to the PS1 version of Chrono Trigger). The late 90’s JRPG camera angles made traversing maps difficult too.

All that to say, I tried to love Chrono Cross, but sadly, it didn’t age that well. Thus, I wholeheartedly agree with you about it needing an improvement. I didn’t play it enough to say much about your complaint about it, but it sure hell could use a bit of a sprucing up in the graphics department.

On related side note, comparing FF7, FF8 and Chrono Cross, all of which were released within the same handful of years, I can’t help but be amused to say that FF8’s graphics fared the best of all three, though that’s not to say anything about it looking like a work of art. There’s just something about that era’s graphics that didn’t age well. Compare that to the late SNES era graphics (Chrono Trigger, FF5, FF6, to name a few exemplars) which is still pretty much an aesthetic.

skizzles,

Parasite Eve

joelfromaus,
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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.

drekly,

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.

mindbleach,

Deus Ex. It’s beloved and influential. It’s also ugly as hell and kinda jank. Stitch together all the levels that had loading screens. Leave combat awkward, make conversations fancier. Keep the deadpan protagonist as a flat player-insert avatar. Keep tracked music, but give the composer a pile of money and enough tools to allow conditional variations. Human Revolution proved the formula still worked, and Mankind Divided proved it’s still impossible to do a good sequel to that formula.

Midwinter is one of the first true-3D open-world games, and it shows. You’re trying to escape an island and maybe start a revolution on the way out. The title reflects the mildly post-apocalyptic setting, where nuclear winter has upended civilization, and this little snow-covered dictatorship is actually doing okay by some standards. The gameplay would have to borrow from Death Stranding’s focus on traversing terrain. Albeit largely on skis. It’s not a fuck-around simulator like Just Cause, or a shoot-em-up like Far Cry, and it’s not really a survival game in the sense of keeping gauges filled. (You do get to hang-glide - but it’s a great way to die suddenly.) It’s more of a wargame played from ground level. And between that, and being from 1990, the interface is completely terrible.

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