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.

kingofsnake,

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.

TopRamenBinLaden,

Saturn definitely had some good ones. Dreamcast, too. I wonder how a fully updated and fleshed out version of Power Stone would do nowadays.

toastynugs,

This game was amazing

Gmork,
@Gmork@lemmy.ml avatar

Fighters Megamix was the best!!! I would quite literally hand over one of my kidneys for AAA remake.

kingofsnake,

Oh yeah, and I really think it was Sega who started the whole company cast of characters fighting each other thing. Like always, it’s too bad that they never followed a great idea long enough to be the one to make money from it.

Gmork,
@Gmork@lemmy.ml avatar

Well… SNK had released a few installments of King of Fighters by the time Fighters Megamix was released, but other than that, yeah.

Sega definitely beat Smash Brothers and other titles to the punch.

I agree. They should have stuck with their ideas for several installments. Sega has way too many one-off games that are fantastic and deserve sequels.

kingofsnake,

Oh damn, I totally forgot that KoF was a mix-up like that. I wish that I had more access to SNK hardware and fighters back in the day. Those SNES World Heroes ports just didn’t cut it.

kingofsnake,

I’d truly love a VR Sims game. It’d be so ridiculous to walk into somebody’s dinner party and begin turning their kitchen upside down.

That, and they’d be spouting their nonsense sim language while I light a furniture bonfire. Want!!

lauha,

Commander Keen

kemsat,

Perfect Dark. Diddy Kong Racing.

pythonoob,

The second perfect dark just wasn’t the same. Series seems to have died after that sadly.

Squirrel,
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I always forget about Perfect Dark in this kind of list. I played the hell out of that game.

kingofsnake,

Wasn’t there a PD remake on 360 Live arcade?

uralsolo,

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.

guyrocket,
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Pre DOS, btw. I spent way too much time playing Ultima IV on a Commodore 64.

ringwraithfish,

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.

v_krishna,
@v_krishna@lemmy.ml avatar

github.com/Feneric/Minima

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

oofinsprouts,
@oofinsprouts@beehaw.org avatar

F-Zero GX in HD with wide screen support would be amazing. It might even happen since F-Zero 99 seems to be pretty popular.

Sir_Kevin,
@Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Put that shit in VR!

Psythik,

If Nintendo actually made a VR system, it would probably be the first system of theirs since the GameCube that didn’t disappoint me. I miss the days when they actually cared about releasing high-performance consoles with the latest in graphics tech.

Sir_Kevin,
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Even if Nintendo released a VR headset I doubt it would have the latest graphics tech. It would likely be similar to Quest but with it’s own walled garden. I would love to see that competition in the VR space though. Hi-Tech or not, Nintendo always delivers quality games.

kingofsnake,

For what it’s worth, you can play Dolphin in VR. Use the 3D tv setting, it’s already in widescreen thanks to a hack.

The only catch is that you need to play with a controller.

Sir_Kevin,
@Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Yeah there are a lot of games with “VR” ports or mods that allow for a headset while playing. I feel like if they’re not fully immersive, they don’t cut it. Now if the game supports a steering wheel, petals etc that’s different. But in general, I should be able to use standard VR controllers or hand tracking.

kingofsnake,

Would be nice but I don’t think that it’s going to be a reality. That said, FZero on dolphin could be mapped to a wheel and played well in VR, it would just take some tweaking of the thresholds and tolerances.

CrypticCoffee,

Beat me to it with F-Zero. What a game.

Damage,

Original Quake

Deus Ex

Interstate 76

vettnerk,

I76, oh yeah!

mindbleach,

Original Quake

Good news!

bus_factor, (edited )

Haven’t several open source projects already remastered Quake?

jBlight,

TWISTED METAL!

GraniteM,

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.

jBlight,

Omg I totally forgot about vigilante 8! Loved the music too haha

son_named_bort,

I’m surprised they haven’t recently considered there’s a Twisted Metal show that was just released a few months ago.

jBlight,

The show was pretty damn entertaining too! I had low expectations but I ended up really enjoying it haha

thejml,

Stunt Driver from 1990. Played so much of it back in the day.

tias, (edited )

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.

peereboominc,

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!

Critical_Insight,

Age of Empires 2

They actually did a remaster on it, and they did it good.

drekly,

AoE 4 form relic was so close to 2 that it felt like a 3d remake , and plays wonderfully.

kingofsnake,

I still play it with my pals weekly. Amazing game

F4celess,

SSX 3, was a hit then, would be a hit now.

beta_tester,

Best game ever.

It’s a riddle why ALL newer games missed the gameplay of ssx 3.

stinkycheese,

“Why make good game when bad game do trick 🤑” - EA

F4celess,

I’m very tempted to try to create a spiritual remake of SSX as a side project, despite knowing it takes a proper team and a budget to do it.

Num10ck,

start it and post your progress and others could join you

F4celess,

My side project list is already 3-4 pages long. But I’ll post if I do try it, maybe I’ll just make some visual assets and hope someone will build the game around them.

10_0,

Star Wars: Republic Commando

ExcursionInversion,
@ExcursionInversion@lemmy.world avatar

F. E. A. R

slumlordthanatos,

Have you tried Trepang2? It’s very much a spiritual successor to FEAR, and there’s a free demo for it, too.

ExcursionInversion,
@ExcursionInversion@lemmy.world avatar

Loved the demo for that. Was waiting for it to go on sale at some point.

Boforn,

Twisted Metal but the originals from PS1 era.

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