What game deserves a remake?
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Well those haven't really been re-MADE, they are just the same game with jazzed up graphics. PC games have been doing that for the past decade with resolution boosts from new graphics, patches and custom texture-packs.OniaPL said:
Deus Ex seem like a good one to remake as you could argue that too many of the design elements have not aged well, mainly in controls but to lesser extent animation and just general pacing. Actually, just check out some of the mods for Deus Ex, they add up to a remake anyway.
But any game in need of a remake would have to be a console exclusive, something that would never get a PC release, and even Microsoft games belatedly get PC releases often enough. But I hesitate to go with Nintendo as any remake would have to be on the Wii, which I am not to hot about as a platform.
I'm also cautious to want a remake of something like MGS1, even as dated as the PS1 graphics are the overall execution is FAR superior than the Gamecube remake.
I can't really think of anything. There aren't really any PS2/Xbox exclusives that are worth getting a HD-upgrade re-release, that aren't already in the process of beign released. Like MGS3 and Peace Walker are getting a HD re-release (delayed for europe). You've already got HD-version with San Andreas and similar games on PC.
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Oh my god this game could have been great but it was crippled by a general lack of 3d support at the time and countless bugs a few in the main parts of the engine!
Oh my god this game could have been great but it was crippled by a general lack of 3d support at the time and countless bugs a few in the main parts of the engine!
I would prefer game developers trying new things rather than putting make-up on a 20 year old game and expecting it to compete with newer games(the good ones I mean).
Yeah. That's exactly what I mean. I want a graphical update, and nothing more. What made the games great is already there. If I got a System Shock 2 remake, you can be damn sure that despite my love of the game, I wouldn't buy it if I found out they reworked the story or added in bullshit like quick-time events and regenerating health.Wonno said:
The "meat" of the game I'm referring to is the story, gameplay, and voice acting. If any of those three things get modified, I'm out. The problem with your Metal Gear Solid example is that they're all different games. It's not like he kept releasing the same game over and over and over again. If you'd instead used the example of... say... Metal Gear Solid: Twin Snakes, a remake of MGS that came out on GameCube a few years back, that'd be more understandable - and an example of what I wouldn't want. They added to the cutscenes, and in many cases, made them so over-the-top ridiculous that they're even ridiculous by the already-ridiculous MGS standards, when they should have just left the cutscenes alone. And they added in the tranq pistol from Metal Gear Solid 2, which notably the original game wasn't developed with that in mind, so it pretty much completely breaks the game and makes it ludicrously easy.
Adding things most definitely doesn't always make a game better. Especially when you're adding more modern gaming conventions to a video game that wasn't developed with them in mind.
Like several have said before me, Resident Evil 2 and 3.
It'd be even cooler if the two were actually combined into one game, and you had the option of switching between the two stories over the course of the game. And the option to play over the shoulder or switch to fixed cameras, a la RE5's Lost in Nightmares.
It'd be even cooler if the two were actually combined into one game, and you had the option of switching between the two stories over the course of the game. And the option to play over the shoulder or switch to fixed cameras, a la RE5's Lost in Nightmares.
I'd also like to see the first 2 remade as well.endtherapture said:
In HD, fully voice acted, with all the improvements from Oblivion and Skyrim.
Chester Rabbit said:
What if RE2 + 3 were remade as one adventure (Jill, Leon + Claire all in one game storyline) told mostly from an over the shoulder perspective? A few things still need to be cleared up, like how the hell Claire and Leon can just roll into Raccoon city while just 24 hours earlier Jill and others were somehow unable to escape.Manji187 said:
And I'm not talking about this action retcon co-op game. Which looks pants.
Still, don't dismiss the abandonment of fixed-perspective for "mass appeal" as even the most bohemian games have gone full 3D, no one is using fixed perspective any more. The thing was RE-style "3D over 2D background" was used in PS1 era because of the hardware limitations and the artistic desire to have detailed and visually compelling environments.
Remember, the terrifying Silent Hill series has had a free following camera, developers just have to be a bit more creative with camera positioning. Also consider Fatal Frame and Clock Tower series. Gears of war and Uncharted have shown how much you can do moving the camera around to show off things, croping shots and so on. Hell, Condemned showed what an utterly terrifying game you can make even in the first-person perspective! And oh. my. god. Amnesia: Dark Descent! That's a first person game and is too scary to play, really.
Yeah, tension or horror are not inherently limited nor dependant on perspective.
The biggest problem I see is not with the industry trends but with Capcom themselves. They have a serious crisis of leadership, are haemorrhaging talent, unable to acquire and use new talent while seem to just make one terrible decision after another. Resident Evil will always be going nowhere fast as long as it is in Capcom's hands, unless Capcom suddenly turns around its bad practices then I'd give up on the brand. They are out of touch and have lost any sort of vision or panache for their games.
The problem is Resident Evil didn't really invent survival horror (that goes to games like Clock Tower) and even if they popularised the term it is clear that others are better at it, like Silent Hill and more recently thinks like Amnesia.
Resident Evil was always a more action oriented series. I mean, did you destroy the final boss in Silent Hill with a rocket launcher? Or anything like that? It is a fine line to walk, Resident evil is supposed to vacillate between the action and the terror, and I don't think anywhere in Capcom there is the vision to find that again. Resident Evil as just an action game just isn't enough, other people do a better job. The trick was the combination of action and horror.
Yeaaah, except System Shock 2 was far from perfect, not least of which was the dissolving guns that made them simply not worth the inventory space. And all the enemies were so similar, just use the wrench constantly.Tuesday Night Fever said:
It is not like it is required by law that you MUST include Regenerating health and quicktime event.
I get what you are saying, by dogmatically refusing ANY changes you can avoid the horrors of Regenerating health and other modern bullshit crutches, but then you are denying yourself genuine improvements.
Now Ken Levine introduced the gun-dissolving to get players to use the psionic powers (proto-plasmids) more often, but even he admitted that this went to far an unbalanced the game. Another take on this would be a great opportunity to improve the game giving POSITIVE incentive to use psionics, rather than negative punishment for using guns.
The grid inventory could be improved to be like Minecraft, where every item only takes up one space on the grid but and size/weight of items limits how many times items can be stacked. SO you can only stack 4 rockets on one slot but 256 bullet on the same slot.
