Games that would be RUINED, if remade today

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Uszi

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This one should be easy:

We all have those games we spent hours on when we were younger, that immediately bring back waves of sweet nostalgia when played today, but that we are 100% certain would be turned into utter crap if they were remade for the next-generation.

My example: Banjo-Kazooie. That game was awesome, but I'm certain it would not be improved with havoc physics and a cover system.
 

Rooster Cogburn

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Is this a shot at Nuts and Bolts?

That's what is tough about this thread: virtually every successful game I can think of has been thoroughly remade and sequeled.
 

Graustein

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Metroid. Zero Mission's not BAD, but it's not the original Metroid either. Way too bastardised. But they fixed that by having Metroid as an unlockable on the cartridge, so all's good.

Also, Megaman X. Not that it really needs a remake, but if they remake it it's sure to go the way of Metroid/Zero Mission ie. horribly easy
 

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Chrono Trigger. Admittedly, I'm looking forward to it for no reason other than I can't find it anywhere now. I just hope they don't change anything, all I want to see is a port, if they try to change everything I'll be royally pissed and the first to say so.
 

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Bhaalspawn post=9.72739.771635 said:
kanada514 post=9.72739.771581 said:
Super Mario Bros
They already remade Super mario Bros: The NEW Super Mario Bros.
NSMB isn't a remake of SMB, it's just a new installment for DS with heavy influences from past SMB games... I think
 

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Indigo_Dingo post=9.72739.771562 said:
Pokemon Snap. It was the best of the non-main series Pokemon games (for the time, the graphics were good and the gameplay was challenging), but a rail shooter where you don't actually shoot anything? Everyone would hate it today.
I totally agree. I mean, I'd love to play it again, or even a sequal. But it will never be anywhere close as good to the original.
 

Lvl 64 Klutz

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A TRUE remake can hardly ever ruin a game, because the only thing a true remake would do is improve the graphics and tweak a few other things into modern standards. This of course leads to one thing that CAN ruin a game in a true remake... voiceovers. As a kid, playing our favorite games, we let our imaginations give voices to the characters, and hearing a voice completely different from the voice we imagined for that character would completely remove any immersion the game had to offer.

That being said, as Indigo Dingo offered, the change of general tastes can also cause a remake to ruin a game.
 

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None. Or All. See bellow.

Quite honestly every game ever made has the potential to be rebuilt better as no game ever made was perfect. More technology = more potential, saying games would be worst now because we have better technology is perplexingly paradoxical.

However remakes in general are futile and yet another egregious stab at originality. Sequels, however, adapted to today's technology's, could be quite amusing.

A good example would be pokemon snap. As Indigo_Dingo put it, "a rail shooter where you don't shoot anything"... Well rail shooters are old and needless altogether... Why not pump it up with a cry2 engine and instead make it a game about exploration? Find the pokemon you're looking for in a photo-realistic world and take shots of them. You could even toss in day/night cycles or take it 2 steps further and make an in-game calendar, where you could only find certain pokemons during certain seasons at certain times. Now here's a revolutionary concept. Can you honestly say that wouldn't be orgasm inducing to any pokemon fan? No you can't, and if you can you're a liar.

The problem isn't picking up an old game and updating it to today's technologies, the problem is doing it very wrong just in order to capitalize on a starving franchise (see: ...Just about everything Nintendo does lately). A good example this is Prince of Persia. The original was one of the first "timeless classics" for PC, the "Prince of Persia 3D" was a huge hunk of shit and rusty nuts that should be erased from history, but the new ones after, and including, Sands of Time are pretty damn sweet.

So if you mean remake in the straight sense of the word, then yeah, they would all be bad because remakes suck by default, but if you meant "new sequel game adapted to today's technology", then all games could, potentially, be good, if done correctly.
 

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If by "if remade" you mean "if remade to appeal to modern gamers" (Which basically means "It needs to appeal to drooling morons who like shiny colours and big guns... and who can't read more than four words at a time").

Planescape: Torment.

"We've got to streamline it!"
 

tijuanatim

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Boogerman: A Pick and Flick Adventure I don't want to see that in todays graphics..
X-Men: Mutant Apocalypse (SNES)
 

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tijuanatim post=9.72739.771964 said:
Boogerman: A Pick and Flick Adventure I don't want to see that in todays graphics..
THANK YOU! Finally somebody else that remembers this game!
 

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Soxfan1016 post=9.72739.771598 said:
Chrono Trigger. Admittedly, I'm looking forward to it for no reason other than I can't find it anywhere now. I just hope they don't change anything, all I want to see is a port, if they try to change everything I'll be royally pissed and the first to say so.
Then your going to be happy with the DS remake. The ONLY different thing I have heard about it is that they are adding 1 new dungeon. Other than that, it's the exact same art style (just more clear and less pixelated), same story, same everything.

Even though it would be awesome, I still have that fear of an FF 6 and 7 remake going wrong. I LOVE those games and they were great, but it's almost too risky to try and remake them, almost better left untouched as they are.