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.

MartinXYZ,

Quarantine from 1994 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quarantine_(video_game)

It's just fun vehicular carnage but I think with modern graphics and maybe an actual story, it could be a success today.

McFarius,

LEGO Island, for sure!

corsicanguppy,

I liked the Lego MMO when it was in beta. I’m sad they killed it.

Rocky60,

Road Rash

Moobythegoldensock,

Which one?

Carobu,

Road Redemption on Steam is this.

TheAnonymouseJoker,
@TheAnonymouseJoker@lemmy.ml avatar

You have not heard of Road Redemption?

Rocky60,

No

TheAnonymouseJoker,
@TheAnonymouseJoker@lemmy.ml avatar

Well, you heard of it now. And it is light on hardware.

Rocky60,

Thank you

L4stMinuteHero,

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    TheAnonymouseJoker,
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    Its hard to succeed the “feeling” of Road Rash and Rock N’ Roll Racing (SNES). Try the latter if you have not, and its modern Russian fanmake Motor Rock.

    Rocky60,

    I downloaded for my iPhone and was bummed to learn that you can’t do wheelies or jump cars. Oh well

    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.

    SuckMyWang,

    Lemmings

    Thavron,
    @Thavron@lemmy.ca avatar

    While not an official remake, I have a feeling you’ll like ![store.steampowered.com/app/…/The_Settlings/](The Settlings.)

    SecretPancake,

    There is at least one with a similar concept called Humanity. A bit too artsy for my taste but good nonetheless.

    cloud,

    Endless sky 3d would be the killer of all these open space games

    dumpster_dove,
    @dumpster_dove@hexbear.net avatar

    Syndicate (1993) has a great concept, but the controls are annoying and some mechanics need balancing.

    dumdum666,

    I miss this game…

    Satellite Reign scratched that itch at least a little bit.

    kux,
    @kux@kbin.social avatar

    Playing the sequel Syndicate Wars with a playstation controller was a frustrating experience. Great game though, would love a remaster of that

    axont,

    There was a reboot attempted by Starbreeze in 2012 but it was a bog-standard FPS that wasn’t up to the quality they normally make. It’s been dead silence since.

    There are some games you might enjoy that are similar to Syndicate. Tokyo 42, Satellite Reign, Brigador, and this cute little free indie game called DataJack.

    LaGG_3,
    @LaGG_3@hexbear.net avatar

    Waypoint/Remap Radio was obsessed with the Syndicate reboot for a few weeks this year, and that’s the only reason I remember it exists lol

    TransplantedSconie,

    Metal Gear Solid. So many hours a buddy and I put into that sucker. I would love to see it have modern graphics.

    JokeDeity,

    I liked Twin Snakes but the voice changes and cutscene changes always made me feel like it was far from the remaster I really wanted.

    OmegaMouse,
    @OmegaMouse@feddit.uk avatar

    Yeah, they changed too much unnecessarily whilst keeping the rest of the game identical. The addition of first person shooting really broke it in some ways because the original game wasn’t designed that way. I think they’d need to redesign it from the ground up to make the more modern mechanics work properly. Something like RE2 Remake.

    smokin_shinobi,

    The teaser for the remake of Snake Eater looks pretty promising.

    squirrel,
    @squirrel@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

    Freelancer

    root,

    Also Wing Commander Privateer

    Scary_le_Poo,
    @Scary_le_Poo@beehaw.org avatar

    I feel like starfield is very similar to privateer if you ignore the main story

    root,

    Very interesting way of looking at Starfield. I like it.

    SirEDCaLot,

    Amen to that. Flying in that game was super fun, especially with the ‘trade lanes’

    Delphia,

    Need for Speed Underground 1 and 2.

    If EA would release them as just full faithful remasters, with no P2W or microtransactions I will break my word that I will never support that piece of shit company again and pay full retail on release day.

    violetraven,
    @violetraven@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

    I had a similar notion about if they would make a NFS:U3. Have you played NFSU1 or 2 with mods yet?

    rustyredox,

    I’d like to see the earlier Hot Pursuit and High Stake releases remastered. I loved those long scenic and rural tracks. I played a lot of NFS3, and then a lot of the 2010 reboot because the graphics where better, but I still miss that retro '90s hypercar aesthetic and soundtrack.

    The 2010 NFS HP reboot helped supplement my nostalgia, but sometimes I’d just want to go back to that grippy arcade style of driving dynamics, but with modern graphical realism. E.g like this vision of NFS3 ported to use the Unreal 5 Engine:

    youtu.be/JunHKINpbp4?si=g4V8aaKQUPgvbRb8

    KinglyWeevil,

    I can’t for the life of me find the earlier hot pursuit ANYWHERE

    rustyredox,

    I really appreciate this patch to run NFS3 on modern Windows or Wine:

    The author has sence redacted the torrent link for the original game files bundled with a previous patch, but anyone can just as easily go back through intent archive to find it:

    TheAnonymouseJoker,
    @TheAnonymouseJoker@lemmy.ml avatar

    Which ones? Go to old-games.ru, and also there is a NFS CorePack Anthology at archive.org. Both will cover all your bases upto Carbon.

    CoderKat,

    Hot pursuit was the one that let you play as or against cops, right? I freaking loved that as a kid. I’m not much for racing games, but that’s the exception.

    rustyredox,

    Yep, it was a lot of fun doing out maneuver and dropping spike strips at just the most opportune and inescapable moment. NFS3 also has split screen where players could even play on different sides locally during the dance race, or complete as both cops to catch the most races.

    WastedJobe,

    Knights of the Old Republic, Battle for Middle Earth

    beta_tester,

    Kotor was the best game I’ve ever played but I got stuck in a puzzle on the floor in front of a wall . I tried playing it years later again but the loading times were horrible on the xbox.

    ngprc, (edited )

    I just played through it on mobile. It works well! Costs like 10 bucks.

    Edit: you will need a Bluetooth controller for your phone though. I would classify the on-screen controls are terrible.

    beta_tester,

    Crazy, I didn’t know that existed. Same loading times as 20 years ago?

    ngprc,

    I don’t know about 20 years ago but it loads pretty fast on my 200€ phone.

    Boforn,

    I played Battle for Middle Earth for so long! Personally, I liked first one better but I don’t think the game would hold up to any strategy games standards nowadays. Once you know a few tactics you are practically undefeated in both of the games.

    Zimmy,

    Speaking of Middle Earth, we need a new Shadow of game

    TehPers,

    Shadow of Mordor took me two attempts to get into it, but I’m glad I went back for the second attempt because the game ended up surprising me with how excellent the storytelling and gameplay was.

    Shadow of War was pretty good as well, but the online stuff was starting to kill it for me and it was clearly designed with microtransactions in mind (even though I believe they removed them?). Still a fun game though, and didn’t feel like a waste of money especially on sale.

    A new entry in the series could be a lot of fun if they held true to what made Shadow of Mordor such a fun game, in my opinion.

    peter,
    @peter@feddit.uk avatar

    Simpsons hit and run

    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.

    Blizzard, (edited )

    TES: Morrowind, Fallout: New Vegas, RDR 1

    EDIT: Guys, OP is talking about proper remaster. I’d actually like a current gen remakes.

    alokir,

    TES: Morrowind

    You mean like OpenMW or a full remake?

    fartsparkles,

    Played OpenMW with a bunch of mods, including TES3MP multiplayer mod and played through the game with a couple of friends. Truly incredible experience!

    grue,

    OpenMW is making a Free Software Morrowind engine and Skywind is remastering Morrowind on the Skyrim engine, but what I want is remastered Morrowind on a Free Software Skyrim engine.

    cwagner,

    We kinda have a FNV remaster. But it requires 3-4 hours of setup minimum, a nexusmods premium account, and luck that nothing breaks…

    restingboredface,

    I can’t upvote FNV enough. I would LOVE a modern version, especially if they could incorporate some of the mods that add new areas and questlines.

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