Games that would be RUINED, if remade today

[SixAngryDwarves]

Diablo 2...Now they make 3...Will it be good? NO!

Oh lordy!
Diablo III is going to be EPIC!
Its Diablo II, with new features and better graphics, what more could you want!?!?


I think that if they remade american mcgee's Alice, that would be absolutsly treacharous and disgusting( not to mention over sadistic)

 

[cikame]

Shenmue, you wouldn't be able to find terribly awesome english voice actors of the same fantastic quality.
"I ain't afraid of him, i can take this geek"

 

[ElegantSwordsman]

The Simpsons or X-Men arcade cabinets, the 4-player and 6-player ones respectively. For the day and age, they were brilliant and ridiculously fun. Alas, the three button beat 'em up's have gone the way of the horse and carriage, so any remake today would introduce all sorts of silly gimmicks that would ruin the fun I had as a kid playing the originals.

 

[Digitalpotato]

Final Fantasy VI.

Part of the reason we were so drawn to it was the design of the 2D graphics...now imagine that in 3D on the DS with graphics a little better than N64-PS1 era graphics. It'd lose all of the charm of Yoshitaka Amano's character designs as well as the darker screen design thanks to the "staticy" look of the DS's 3D technology.

You'd reeeeallly be better off just making a 3D version of Final Fantasy VII with today's technology...and I am not saying Final Fantasy XII's graphics, because then that'd mean everyone's walking around look like they haven't slept in a few days and like their faces are really really dirty or made out of porcelain with painted-on-abs, as detailed as the backgrounds in XII were. They've used Nomura's style in 3D before (Crisis Core, Dirge of the Cerberus) It at least would work better than making VI in 3D. (Sure they could do teh same designers as 9 but the separation is about one console generation and about 6-8 years of technology. Even IX had that "staticy" look)



King's Quest VII, Toonstruck, Beneath a Steel Sky, Curse of Monkey Island, Space Quest VI.

Remaking a game with such nice cartoony 2D graphics already would remove all the artstyle from it. There are indeed times when 3D is not greater than 2D. Movies like Hoodwinked should have taught us that.

 

[-Seraph-]

Final Fantasy VI.

Part of the reason we were so drawn to it was the design of the 2D graphics...now imagine that in 3D on the DS with graphics a little better than N64-PS1 era graphics. It'd lose all of the charm of Yoshitaka Amano's character designs as well as the darker screen design thanks to the "staticy" look of the DS's 3D technology.

I think if they did remake it with a 3d approach, they would have to do the same art style as Dissidia, which I think would work fine for it and still do justice to Amano's original design. The whole photo realistic approach indeed does not always work, it can take a lot of charm out of old games such as 6.

 

[crono738]

chrono trigger, breath of fire and secret of mana

 

[weirdaljedifan2]

Metal Warriors for the Super Nintendo if put into a 3D perspective.

 

[oAmadeuso]

Any classic 2D platformer that has a 3D remake.
Theres nothing wrong with 2D if the art is nice
i call it sonic syndrome....

 

[Tyrant55]

Custer's Revenge.

 

[huntedannoyed]

Mega Man! They messed with the series on Mega Man 7 and 8, and we all know how terrible those games were. Alas, Capcom has brought both a gasp of amazment and a sigh of relief from me with its newer, yet pixely challenged Mega Man 9.
I know that this isn't exactly pertinate towards to topic, but I believe it is relevant as an uncommon counter example.

 

[8bit Hero]

I actually remember MGS: Sons of Liberty being amazing... yet I rebought it recently and found the controls to be clunky and the game to be much much worse than the superb game I had in my memory I think it was mainly the controls that done it... Also the reason I revisited it was as I had just finished MGS:4 whish probably didn't favour Sons of Liberty at all. Maybe some games are just better as nostalgia.

 

[Vlane]

Megaman 2, FF VI and VII, Super Castlevania IV, Vectorman, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles In Time, ActRaiser and Strider

Please don't make a remake of Strider. That game is just too awesome.

 

[Librarian Mike]

Not to be a buzzkill, but I'm of the mind that games, particularly good ones, should not be remade. It's like the decade-long fan movement to have Final Fantasy 7 redone with current generation graphics. I like FF7 and I had a great time playing it, but there is just no appeal there for me to revisit it just because it's prettier. Now that we have the Virtual Console, XBLA, PC emulators, etc. people can find those older games easily and cheaply.

I guess my biggest fear though is that by remaking older games, it will ultimately wreck their legacy. I can sum up this feeling in 3 words: Greedo shooting first.

 

[Digitalpotato]

Mega Man! They messed with the series on Mega Man 7 and 8, and we all know how terrible those games were.

err you know Seven was good, right?

 

[Digitalpotato]

I think if they did remake it with a 3d approach, they would have to do the same art style as Dissidia, which I think would work fine for it and still do justice to Amano's original design. The whole photo realistic approach indeed does not always work, it can take a lot of charm out of old games such as 6.

Probably. Maybe it'd be best to do it on the PSP though...except they'd have to have voice acting and KEfka's laugh wouldn't quite be the same.

 

[-Seraph-]

I always thought Kefka's laugh was much like the jokers, they could hire Mark Hamel to do the laugh lol. Indeed when it comes to voice acting there are risks of shitty voicing, but if only more games allowed you to listen to jap voices with subs, a lot of people would be happy. I kind of hope it's not released on the DS as it's graphical approach would not do it justice, nor would any of the next gen consoles. Oh how I wish it would be remade for PSP at least, but fat chance of that ...stupid DS

 

[Man_In_Gauze]

Mega Man! They messed with the series on Mega Man 7 and 8, and we all know how terrible those games were.

err you know Seven was good, right?

It's all in the opinion, my friend.

 

[Jark212]

E.T. sorry had to come up...

 

[Sixties Spidey]

Tomb Raider. *GASP* OH WAIT

Seriously, the game that would be so ruined if it were remade today would be the old Grand Theft Auto games. I'm sorry, but it wouldn't work on today's consoles. And the charm of those games were its wacky sense of humor. Not too sure about seeing it remade today.

 

[Chickenlittle]

Despite it being only 7 years old, I would say Halo: Combat Evolved would be ruined by a remake.

The simple maps with functional geometry, the challenging gameplay, and the crazy physics made it unique in its prime and still today. New games are trying to make things more realistic, and IMO, it's not improving the gameplay much, if at all, with the exception of a few great shooters out there(i.e. CoD4). Recharging health and clunky vehicle physics, among other things, help drive home the point that some of the older, more "interesting" features games had were better.