Games you want remade with better graphics?

[Vigormortis]

Oh, I know we're getting Battletech. I threw an embarrassing amount of money at Battletech.

Yeah, me too. And I may or may not have giggled like an idiot when my 'swag' package came in the mail last week... <.<

Speaking of, have you seen HBS video demonstration of the pre-pre-pre-alpha build? They put together a sort of "demo" to demonstrate the current gameplay. They're planning to have it playable on the show floor at GenCon.

Kinda wish I'd known in advance. Would've been reason enough to go to the con...

 

[DefunctTheory]

Oh, I know we're getting Battletech. I threw an embarrassing amount of money at Battletech.

Yeah, me too. And I may or may not have giggled like an idiot when my 'swag' package came in the mail last week... <.<

Speaking of, have you seen HBS video demonstration of the pre-pre-pre-alpha build? They put together a sort of "demo" to demonstrate the current gameplay. They're planning to have it playable on the show floor at GenCon.

Kinda wish I'd known in advance. Would've been reason enough to go to the con...

I have seen the super alpha video (Saw it when it was still in early triple digit views, actually). Looks freak'n sweat so far. If this is what pre-alpha looks like, then the final product is going to look awesome. And I'm actually digging the mechanics so far. Seems to be a decent compromise between modern, simplified TBS games and old school pen and paper. I have mixed feelings about how autocannons work (AC20s look like their not going to be as terrifying as they used to be), but I'm willing to wait it out and see how they work with the new system and armor values.

As for the 'swag...' they haven't shipped my tier yet. So... I hate you.

 

[Vigormortis]

I have seen the super alpha video (Saw it when it was still in early triple digit views, actually). Looks freak'n sweat so far. If this is what pre-alpha looks like, then the final product is going to look awesome. And I'm actually digging the mechanics so far. Seems to be a decent compromise between modern, simplified TBS games and old school pen and paper. I have mixed feelings about how autocannons work (AC20s look like their not going to be as terrifying as they used to be), but I'm willing to wait it out and see how they work with the new system and armor values.

I'm sure damages will be tweaked considerably before release. It looks like they may have started by simply taking the damages in the tabletop game and multiplying by 5. That should give them some wiggle room.

And I'm loving the systems and mechanics as well. The Phase system is really cool and I'm especially digging the LOS and FOW systems. They've implemented some deviously clever mechanics into both, notably the Indirect LOS system. Glad they're finding ways to make Light/Scout mechs useful.

So far it looks like a slick blending of the best aspects of the tabletop game and Mechcommander.

As for the 'swag...' they haven't shipped my tier yet. So... I hate you.

Don't be jelly. I almost sprung for the coat, but it just seemed like a little too much. I'm satisfied with the hat, banner, patch, etc. (the banner is really nice)

 

[Fallow]

Holy moly, there is so much good stuff in here that I've forgotten about over the years. I'm glad to see that I'm not the only one revering the great contributions from the golden days.

As to remakes,

Battlezone 2 (already in the works, but it's going to suck)
and
Warlords Battlecry

 

[Ihateregistering1]

Most have probably already been mentioned, but...

Myth and Myth II. Would play updated versions of these games in a heartbeat.

Max Payne: Love this game, but man is it hard to play games now where characters have faces that never move.

Psi-Ops: Please please please please.

KOTORs: Already mentioned about 50 times.

Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction

KKND 1 and 2: As long as it also had improved controls.

 

[TGC]

I'm curious if they could pull off a remake of Anachronox.
For some reason that game hasn't aged too badly. I mean, sure, it looks old, but not bad for its age.
Imagine what it would be if the same effort was put in a current-day engine.

 

[weirdee]

I dunno, those games have aged rather well in the visuals department. I'd go further back for games that would benefit from graphical overhauls like, say, Daggerfall. I mean, nearly every monster, NPC and prop is comprised of 2D sprites, for Azura's sake! Toss in a slew of bug fixes, stability improvements, cut content restorations, full mod support and an improved seed algorithm for random dungeons so they aren't so stupidly large and labyrinthine and I'd have the best Elder Scrolls experience since Morrowind.

Of course, what I'm proposing is probably too ambitious for Daggerfall's creaking game engine, but the fan made Unity port currently under development has serious potential:

Daggerfall would probably improve more from...fixing all of its horrible glitches and being prevented from generating impossibly large story critical dungeons.

I would actually prefer that a bunch of older games were fixed to work properly or be slightly redesigned to be more creative since a lot of them have interesting premises that fall flat in execution.

 

[CyanCat47_v1legacy]

The game of thrones RPG from 2012. it would have been better with a better graphics and interface

 

[Igor-Rowan]

Does anybody remember the N-Gage, that phone-portable hybrid that failed badly? Well, turns out there was an exclusive Elder Scrolls game in there! Elder Scrolls: Shadowkey was too advanced for the Game Boy (Irony) and too small for a console release, but for some reason they never re-released that, that game would put some spice in the 3DS-Vita competition depending on where they would release it.

There is also Eternal Darkness for the GameCube, a franchise that never took off because making a sequel was always troublesome. Quantum Conundrum, also known as diet Portal that could have used some polish in the framerate.

 

[Magmarock]

You might be interested in Prey for the Gods. A game that recently passed it's kickstarter. It's very much inspired by Shadow of the Colossus. As for remakes I'm not a fan of them. Re-releases with higher resolution and framerates, sure but ground up remakes are unnecessary. Especially of good games. They're already good so don't fix what isn't broken. Instead I think it would make more sense to remake games that over stepped they're scope. Such as Daikatana or something.

I'm going to say the same thing as always.

Legacy of Kain. The entire series, please. Keep the gameplay, keep the story, keep the original voice recording, everything - just pretty them up to a uniform modern standard. And you will get all the monies.

Legacy of Kain is the last game that needs a remake

F.E.A.R. The game had amazingly fun physics engine. do a graphics uplift and its great.

Fear is also the last game that needs a remake.

 

[Bawsto]

Deus Ex. I'd also really like it if they reworked the augmentations, because they range from overpowered to redundant.

 

[Wrex Brogan]

Honestly? Dead Space. I know it's a tall order given EA's most likely abandoned the franchise, but it'd still be pretty neat to see a polished-up Dead Space available somewhere. Maybe even make the PC port not handle like ass, even.

All the pokemon games before Black and White - it's been... shit, 12+ years now and we already got a Ruby/Sapphire remake, let's knuckle down and reboot Diamond/Pearl/Platinum as well.

The original Mass Effect. That... that is a game that screams for a re-do, both graphically and mechanically. It's a clunky, unbalanced mess and the graphics shit the bed if you turn around too quickly (alongside copious bugs - get a new batch of 'em every playthrough!), giving it a once over so that the Solider isn't literally immortal, the textures exist on the corporeal plane for more than half a second and so Kaidan stops speaking in Garrus' voice would be pretty nice.

 

[Adeptus Aspartem]

Freelancer, uh Freelancer and Freelancer. No seriously, give me Freelancer please.

Other than that i was hoping the Wii Goldeneye would be just a graphic update, but they majorly screwed up that one. So for consoles please give me a nice looking N64-Goldeneye, pretty please?

And lastly: Blizzard for fuck's sake, by everything that's holy would you kindly remaster Rock 'n Roll Racing already.
Or at least give me an Airblade as a hero in HotS, thank you very much.

 

[DefunctTheory]

Parasite Eve

I think the game holds up surprisingly well. Yet its major flaw is that it looks like ansolute shit on a HD tv.

I would do horrible, terrible, dirty things for a remastered Parasite Eve 'collection.' Seriously.

Just... anything, really.

 

[Kotaro]

Obligatory Final Fantasy VII shout-out. The gameplay has aged really well, but the visuals have not. Why the remake decided to rebuild the entire gameplay system from scratch, I will never know.

Also, the entire Ultima series, up through the VII duology (and Underworld games). Update the sprites to around the level of the Final Fantasy PSP remakes, add some actual sprite animations to I-V (and some more animations to VI), and rebuild the interface to modern levels of intuitiveness and convenience. They're still all fantastic games, but it's really hard to get into the series when the actual play of them is so very dated.

 

[Strazdas]

F.E.A.R. The game had amazingly fun physics engine. Do a graphics uplift and its great.

I agree, also to make it less robotic. The game's animations, or it's models. It just felt very unrealistic. I don't know what it is but I think it's the animations.

Well i think its quite fitting given that the enemies are mind-controlled cloned supersoldiers. They kinda are supposed to be robotic, especially the hardware enhanced ones like heavies.

 

[Strazdas]

F.E.A.R. The game had amazingly fun physics engine. Do a graphics uplift and its great.

I agree, also to make it less robotic. The game's animations, or it's models. It just felt very unrealistic. I don't know what it is but I think it's the animations.

Well i think its quite fitting given that the enemies are mind-controlled cloned supersoldiers. They kinda are supposed to be robotic, especially the hardware enhanced ones like heavies.

But it doesn't fit everyone else, nor does it fit the apparitions. And even then while the replicas can't function without a commander they do seem to have some amount of humanity to them. At the very least they partly have their own independent thought processes and emotions so they're more than just robots.

Fair enough. Im not against the improvement of animations. I just think a lot of it can be explained via ingame role so i didnt find it so jarring as you did.

 

[Xerosch]

Mostly Squaresoft-stuff, Vagrant Story being my top pick closely followed by Chrono Cross, Xenogears and Parasite Eve.

Just to be clear on this: Don't touch gameplay or story, just update the graphics and make the music sound modern (not remixed). But at this point I'd take an HD release of Vagrant Story anytime.

 

[pearcinator]

Maybe KOTOR 1 and 2 only to get my stupid brother to give that danm game a go (he was put of from the graphic, like wth? It's fine but in saying so he only bought FF13 for the graphic alone).

Damn, beaten almost straight away lol. KOTOR is the game I instantly thought of.

Ah well, lets see what else do I desperately want?

A HD Majoras Mask. One like this trailer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyazYYev7Nw[/youtube]
With remastered music from Theophany https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzqAT2qVFRs[/youtube]. The 3DS one was great but this AMAZING game deserves to be given the full HD treatment. The atmosphere is already superb on N64 but imagine it with a dynamic world with environmental effects and such!

 

[Rattja]

Well I'd be thrilled if I could get a upgraded version of Black & White.

Not only just better graphics though, as it would be absolutly perfect for VR support. Just imagine playing God in VR and actually using your hands to fling firballs and rocks everywhere. Toss in a working multiplayer and I'd be all over that!

Come to think of it, I'd like someone to simply re-release the old games somewhere as they seem impossible to find other than a physical copy.