cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/27366526

I know that remakes and remasters are contentious, but let’s pretend whatever game in question you’re thinking of is handled with the utmost care by your favourite devs and they absolutely nail it.

Mine would be Shadow of Memories (called Shadow of Destiny in North America). It’s legitimately one of my favourite games of all time but it kinda flew under the radar and I haven’t met many people who know of it let alone played it. Seeing it get modern graphics, maybe some expanded mechanics, would be soooo cool.

  • Ashtear@lemm.eeEnglish
    13·
    7 days ago

    My wishlist is Final Fantasy Tactics, Sid Meier’s Alpha Centauri, and Xenogears. A Xenogears remake likely isn’t ever happening so I’d be happy with a remaster, and it’s practically an open secret at this point that an FFT project is in development. It getting the Tactics Ogre Reborn treatment would be lovely, but what I really want is an orchestrated soundtrack. Here’s hoping it doesn’t get cancelled. 🤞

    As a genre, 4X is still kicking around, but I’m not even sure if SMAC is beloved enough to get the treatment. Good voice acting would be essential.

  • Dizzy Devil Ducky@lemm.eeEnglish
    3·
    6 days ago

    Vib-Ribbon.

    It’s one of the coolest concepts I’ve seen for PSx. It’s a rhythm game that loads into the console’s ram, allowing you to swap the disc to one of your CDs and could generate unique levels for your songs.

    While looking it up I did find there was a PS3 port, but I don’t know how good that is or if it has the same custom level feature or not. I’d love a modern version that looks visually similar but allows you to either input a playlist from a service like yt or use your own local files to generate unique levels.

  • B0NK3RS@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    7 days ago

    I’m not particularly a fan of either re-makes or full remastered but I’m a big fan or, for example, when Xbox upgraded the resolution and FPS or backwards compatible games.

    I would love to see Metal Gear Solid The Twin Snakes again and have a similar service on Switch for GameCube games.

  • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    2·
    6 days ago

    I would enjoy a copy of Mechwarrior 4: Vengeance with some spiffed up lighting effects, maybe the mech pack mechs included in the base game, and higher resolution copies of the FMV segments. I have my original copy but I can’t get it to run on Linux. Wonder if there’s a way to wash a CD game through Steam Play. Lutris…doesn’t function as software? It’s one of those magnetic “performance enhancing” bracelets, it doesn’t do anything but it has convinced a LOT of people it does.

    This may be stretching the premise a little bit but I would like to play the game they thought they were making when they made Ride To Hell: Retribution.

  • ButtonMcLemming@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    6 days ago

    This might be too many, but what I want to see remade, remastered, or given complete editions (although “complete editions” may not be relevant to the post topic; and some titles may not be considered niche but whatever) are Asura’s Wrath, Bloodborne, Bujingai, Bully, Dante’s Inferno, Dark Sector, Dead Rising 2 (and Off the Record), The Dishwasher: Dead Samurai, the F.E.A.R. series, From Dust, God Hand, Grand Theft Auto IV, the first two Gungrave games, Just Cause, killer7, L.A. Noire, the Legend of Spyro trilogy, Like a Dragon Kenzan!, Mary Skelter 2, NieR: Automata, NieR: Replicant, Ninja Gaiden Sigma, Ninja Gaiden: Dragon Sword, Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2, Ninja Gaiden 3, No More Heroes 2, Prototype, Red Steel 1 and 2, Rising Zan: The Samurai Gunman, Solatorobo: Red the Hunter, Spec Ops: The Line, the original Splinter Cell (plus Pandora Tomorrow, Chaos Theory, Double Agent, and Conviction), Stranglehold, Tail Concerto, Viewtiful Joe 1 and 2, Watch Dogs 1 and 2, and the original World Ends with You.

    Primarily, the goals would be to either restore cut content or integrate separate DLC into the main package, offer enhanced graphics, take advantage of the 16:9 aspect ratio if originally released during the time of 4:3 screens or on handhelds, or fix bugs or address technical limitations that affected their original console or PC releases, alongside numerous quality-of-life improvements like anti-cheat and DRM removal and extensive performance optimizations. Also, we’re still waiting for a PC release for Bloodborne.

    • faercol@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      2·
      6 days ago

      I do agree with the Splinter Cell series yeah.

      Although I’m confused, why did you include Nier Replicant and Automata? Automata has already a complete version, and Replicant already had a remaster/remake/director’s cut version 3 years ago.

      • ButtonMcLemming@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        6 days ago

        Because I’m concerned that both their current PC versions still remain buggy messes. I’d wait until the devs provide updates on those to address these issues.

        • lemonmelon@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          5 days ago

          I don’t remember any of my playthroughs of either title as a “buggy mess”. Could just be a difference in perception.

  • Moah@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    1·
    6 days ago

    Ultima 7 I guess. I never got into it but I keep hearing his great it was. Final Fantasy VI, because it was my first and therefore the best. Space Crusade because it was just that fun.

      • isthingoneventhis@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        6 days ago

        I was talking to my SO about it recently and we both kinda agreed you’d probably have to update the core gameplay so it would be a little more interesting/engaging but overall B&W was fun. Hell, even Spore redone properly (aka not by fucking EA) I would love too. That one always makes me sad to think about, and we’ve not really had anything like it since.

  • eezeebee@lemmy.caEnglish
    151·
    7 days ago

    Obligatory Bloodborne mention.

    Not sure if it’s been done already, but Zelda LttP would be cool. I haven’t played Echoes of Wisdom though I like the art style and could see it working well.

    Goldeneye + Perfect Dark.

      • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        1·
        6 days ago

        I don’t think Nintendo is capable of doing anything to Link to the Past other than ruin it.

        A lot of the Zelda games that got “remasters” mostly had their resolutions and brightnesses increased, to the point that the Wind Waker remake has problematic amounts of bloom. Makes me think someone important at Nintendo has cataracts. So if you want to “remaster” A Link to the Past, run it through an AI upscaler and turn a desk lamp on your screen.

        The few that have gotten ground-up “remakes” like Link’s Awakening…I kind of liked the art style they chose, it fit the tone of the game pretty well, going with quartets for the music is a stroke of genius, WHY DOESN’T THE FUCKING D-PAD WORK? The original game was designed for use with a D-Pad and either 4- or 8- way motion. I get that modern gamers might instinctively reach for the analog stick, but bind movement controls to the D-pad too, especially if you’re not going to bind anything else to those controls. Nintendo never doesn’t fuck this up. They made an entire console based on a revolutionary new way to fuck up the controls.

        So what you’d get out of a first-party re-release of aLttP is a blank white screen you control entirely with the gyros.

  • bread@feddit.nlEnglish
    12·
    6 days ago

    Sid Meier’s Pirates! There are so few actually good pirate games.

    • lemonmelon@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      5 days ago

      I’ve played through various iterations of that game so many times, and I agree that it needs another modernization!

  • RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    7 days ago

    Honestly, looking at how modern game development studios handle remakes, I wouldn’t want them anywhere near any of my beloved games. I haven’t played a single remake in the last 20 years where I felt like the studio that made it knocked it out of the park.

    Also, I strongly believe good games should not be remade, and only remastered/ “deluxe remastered” (where even if the game is remade, its a 1:1 faithful recreation with additional features and gameplay mechanics being optional). Remake the games that weren’t great, give them another chance at big success.

    • Sonic 2006
    • the XenoSaga games (don’t @ me XS fans, you know the combat and boss design in those games were terrible, 1 had DOMO Carrier, Tiamat, and whatever was going on in Song of Nephilim)
    • Most Konami games in the late 90s - mid 2010s
    • LAPD Future Cop
    • etc
    • uniquethrowagay@feddit.orgEnglish
      1·
      6 days ago

      I’m playing the resident evil 4 remake right now and it’s amazingly good. Age of Empires 2 Definitive Edition also comes to mind.

    • B0NK3RS@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      7 days ago

      Future Cop L.A.P.D

      I can get behind this. FC hold up very well and is an amazing game that I think is mostly forgotten by now.