Poll: Giving Old Games Modern Graphics.

[Crimsane]

Nope. I've never been a graphics-whore, I enjoy games no matter how they look. I'd rather the effort be made on a great sequel or spinoff or whatever than have the same game look better.

 

[Xeros]

I'd love to see the pre-2000 Need for Speed games remade

This too, nothing has come close to NFS 2-3:HP in my opinion.

At the very least, EA could have kept Rom Di Prisco, Matt Ragan, and Saki Kaskas on music duty and saved themselves a lot in licensing fees.

Yes, and Jeff Dyck. Man, they were musical magicians. Not to mention the tracks were a lot more interesting back then. Movie studios, ridiculous mountain tops.. ahh, those were the days.

 

[FlyAwayAutumn]

SHADOW OF THE COLOSSUS, I don't care if anyone else already said that but that is the one and only game I want brought into the modern day graphics.

 

[RanD00M]

Graphics do not matter as long as it's playable.

 

[Cowabungaa]

Arcanum.

I want the whole game to be exactly the same, but everything being shown in full, glorious, modern-day 3D graphics and completely spoken texts, but with the original dialogue. It'll be one helluva project, it's a massive world and has tons and tons of incredibly well-written dialogue. You'd need a ton of highly skilled voice actors to pull it off. But damn it'd be worth it, every. single. frakking. penny.

 

[IrirshTerrorist]

The Twin Snakes is the first one re-made... Buy it and play it now. Its on gamecube.

I don't have a Gamecube. Anyway how did Nintendo gets rights to have it on one of there consoles?

I don't know, But its bloody awesome a total revamp of the first game

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metal_gear_solid_twin_snakes

Sorry its wikipedia but it had alot of information on the game.

When it comes to games/movies/etc that I like I am a bit of a oureist and TwinSnakes sounds like it has to many changes.

"The Twin Snakes features graphical improvements over the original, new cut scenes written and directed by Ryuhei Kitamura, and gameplay functions originally introduced in the sequel Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty. The game also includes a revised translation with re-recorded voice acting using most of the original English voice cast"

That paragraph tells me that they have changed so much that it just won't be the same experience.

Ah, the difference of opinion. I found the Metal Gear solid games to improve with age, granted I haven't played MGS4 but I have been playing the portable editions and Naked snake's games are far superior to Solid Snake's although this is just my opinion.

I enjoyed 'MGSortable Ops' and the expansion on PlayStationPortable. Other than that the newer games fail to live up to MGS in every way.
Like you said, however, that is my opinion and it wouldn't be the first time that I stuck to some purist belief when all those around me were saying I was wrong. I like what I like and that is not going to change.

I wouldn't try to convince you otherwise and I agree that MGS1 was better than MGS2 but I believe MGS3 was the best in the series and where the side series has led on from that point.

Off topic: Have you played the Peace Walker demo? If you have what were your thoughts, I believe it was a step in the right direction for the portable series, and brought back a much loved element of MGS3, although the A.I. was very dodgy.

I heard about it but haven't gotten around to playing it yet.

 

[BlindMessiah94]

It depends on the game.

this. Games like FF4 being remade for the DS is a good idea, because now we get some better spell casting and actual lighting effects. But then there's Bionic Commando.

 

[Zetona]

I'd love to see the pre-2000 Need for Speed games remade

This too, nothing has come close to NFS 2-3:HP in my opinion.

At the very least, EA could have kept Rom Di Prisco, Matt Ragan, and Saki Kaskas on music duty and saved themselves a lot in licensing fees.

Yes, and Jeff Dyck. Man, they were musical magicians. Not to mention the tracks were a lot more interesting back then. Movie studios, ridiculous mountain tops.. ahh, those were the days.

I did like the open world of more recent NFS games because of the police chases. An open world Atlantica whatever would be awesome, especially if you could also travel to a bunch of suitably insane closed circuits.

 

[IrirshTerrorist]

I heard about it but haven't gotten around to playing it yet.

See that you do, its a very good edition to the portable series. If you liked portable ops, you will enjoy this even if it is only a demo.

Cool, well thanks for the heads-up.

 

[Erja_Perttu]

You know, I'm surprised no one has mentioned FFVII yet. Poeple seemed to be rabid about that getting a remake a while back.

I think the only reason a game should be remade is because my friend is allergic to bad graphics. It makes her eyes gunk up and her face swell. Seriously.

 

[jimduckie]

yeah , and would like to see gta san andreas redone and maybe even gta vice city

 

[Canadamus Prime]

The Twin Snakes is the first one re-made... Buy it and play it now. Its on gamecube.

I don't have a Gamecube. Anyway how did Nintendo gets rights to have it on one of there consoles?

They licensed them from Konami. I don't think Konami plays favourites. Besides I recall hearing that the President of Nintendo and the head of Konami are good friends.

 

[Anticitizen_Two]

A friend of mine says that the sign of a good game is if it would still be fun if all textures were removed and replaced by grey blocks. I've always thought that was very accurate, although he's obsessed with Crysis so I don't know why he would say that. Still, what I'm trying to say is that I don't care about graphics in video games at all. If it's a good game, it's a good game.

 

[Xeros]

I'd love to see the pre-2000 Need for Speed games remade

This too, nothing has come close to NFS 2-3:HP in my opinion.

At the very least, EA could have kept Rom Di Prisco, Matt Ragan, and Saki Kaskas on music duty and saved themselves a lot in licensing fees.

Yes, and Jeff Dyck. Man, they were musical magicians. Not to mention the tracks were a lot more interesting back then. Movie studios, ridiculous mountain tops.. ahh, those were the days.

I did like the open world of more recent NFS games because of the police chases. An open world Atlantica whatever would be awesome, especially if you could also travel to a bunch of suitably insane closed circuits.

Atlantica, Aquatica, Empire City, Mystic Peaks... the environments would be so varied, and awesome. Combine that with the musical genius of the aforementioned artists, and the customization of the newer titles, that game would never get boring.

 

[jebus4you]

if pokemon was actually made for a console that would be cool to have more modern graphics with it

 

[IrirshTerrorist]

The Twin Snakes is the first one re-made... Buy it and play it now. Its on gamecube.

I don't have a Gamecube. Anyway how did Nintendo gets rights to have it on one of there consoles?

They licensed them from Konami. I don't think Konami plays favourites. Besides I recall hearing that the President of Nintendo and the head of Konami are good friends.

Huh, well thats cool.
*kneels and prays before a poster of Hideo Kojima*

 

[achilleas.k]

Recently I was talking to another Escapist user (lewism247) we were discussing the 'Metal Gear Solid' series of games. I said The first one on the PlayStation was the best and he said he would like to see it remade with better graphics.

Would you like to see old games brought back with up to date graphics? If so what game would you most like to see this done to?

I personally like playing MGS they way it its and wouldn't change the graphics even if I could.

I actually have the original MGS installed and ready to play because a mate told me I really should. The only thing that puts me off is the graphics so I share your pain.
I've been thinking about this for ages by the way. There are a few games I'd love to see remade with updated graphics.
Deus Ex is probably at the top of my list since it is my all-time favourite game.

There's a bunch of guys remaking Half Life using the source engine www.blackmesasource.com
and before you guys say its been done (Half Life: Source) all that was was the old game churned through the new engine, these guys are remaking it all by hand using HL2 set pieces and all the physics and stuff! Sweet huh

Cool! I had no idea. It's true that HL:S wasn't special. I haven't played it but the screenshots weren't too convincing that it was using the source engine. It's like they added new textures and kept the polygon count.

If star wars republic commando was remade, or if they ever make that sequel that was totally set up at the end and never materialized, I would shit my pants. It would be awesome.

Republic Commando's not THAT old. It's no Crysis but it still looks good... good enough to play. At least the character heads don't look like a cement block like in MGS.

No, no, no, no, a million times, no. What's the point of a simple graphical upgrade? It would be more beneficial to make a new game. At least TRY and be innovative and fresh with your ideas.

Well it could allow new players that are put off by old graphics to experience a great older game. I mean, if the conversion isn't hard and they manage to keep the cost low enough to sell it for something like £10, why not? It certainly hasn't hurt the games they've already done it on (FreeSpace, X-Wing Alliance on the user mod front and Serious Sam HD on the commercial front).

 

[Buizel91]

the original age of empires, and number 2, and star wars galactic battlegrounds, just so i can see the detail alot better in the units =)