Remake an old game with this gen's technology. What do you go for?

[geokes]

Deus Ex... duh
GTA San Andreas
Jedi Academy
Toy Story 1 (I think this was the first proper game I ever played)

 

[someonehairy-ish]

Star Wars: Battlefront. (1 or 2, their both 6th gen old.)

Completely this.

Also though I would go for Oddworld: Strangers wrath so I can actually play it on the 360 but apparently thats happening so thats good.

Yeah its happening. Can't remember when the release date was supposed to be. Also theres whispers of a completely new oddworld game in the works... xD I'd like to see what munch's oddysee would have been like if it hadn't been rushed to be an xbox release title.

 

[L4Y Duke]

Future cop LAPD, anyone remember that game?

I do. And I agree.

 

[rockyoumonkeys]

Shadow of the Colossus is another one. The PS2 kind of crippled that game.

EDIT: I could also stand, if not a remake, at least a remaster of FF12. Don't really even have to touch the graphics so much (though they could use a fresh coat of paint), but the sound is completely fucked in that game.

Haven't you heard of the Ico Collection? It's the European versions of both games on blue-ray! And FF12 needs more than remastering; the director was hospitalized during the making, so Sqeenix completely ruined the story for him. The ground-breaking combat was also deeply flawed.

I'm perfectly happy with the combat, it was one of my favorite things about the game, so I wouldn't want them to touch it. As for the story...short of removing Vaan altogether, there's nothing they could really do to improve it. It was fine. It certainly didn't seem "ruined", it was as good as any other FF story, which are all admittedly pretty bad anyway. But that's what I expect from a FF game, and a great story would feel out of place.

As for the Ico Collection, has it been confirmed for the US, and do we know how much tinkering they're doing with the graphics? Ico doesn't need work because it had a simple art style anyway, but SotC needs a ton of work.

 

[JaffaFrost]

Crash Bandicoot... all of them... what else?

 

[GiantRaven]

Arcanum modelled in the same vein as Fallout 3.

wut? modeled after fallout 3????

first of if any after new vegas but better something like gears of war graphics combined with arcanum style


For me it's legend of mana
Loved that game to death

Fallout 3, New Vegas - For all intents and purposes they have the same general ideas, aesthetics and approaches to their respective game worlds. I just stated Fallout 3 because it's the more instantly recognisable name out of the two having been out for a lot longer and being the direct sequel to an old isometric RPG.

Apart from the general style (first/third person RPG set in a huge open world) though, it would be very very bad idea to continue along the other parts of Fallout 3's experience; such as bad dialogue, stupid story, uninteresting characters, etc. Fortunately a remake of Arcanum would already have the opposite of all that. =P

Oh, and yeah, New Vegas is far better than Fallout 3.

 

[Jack Denman]

Resident evil 2 would be a cool remake if they did it right: RE4 Gameplay More Horror Less Bullets ad fire power more zombies meaning.... USE THE KNIFE YOU FOOLS!!! Or maybe even a 1st person style

 

[___________________]

Oh yeah those. But who said I wanted a remake of 2 and 3 in the crappy 4 engine?

Ever since I saw the first few minutes of Halo: Combat Evolved faithfully re-rendered in HD at the end of Reach, I've wanted to see a current-gen remake of Halo: CE.

Yeah, I know it's unnecessary, and yeah, I know it won't do anything new, but who cares? That game rules.

I heard a rumor that Microsoft is remaking it. Sorry if it's not true, though.

Shadow of the Colossus is another one. The PS2 kind of crippled that game.

EDIT: I could also stand, if not a remake, at least a remaster of FF12. Don't really even have to touch the graphics so much (though they could use a fresh coat of paint), but the sound is completely fucked in that game.

Haven't you heard of the Ico Collection? It's the European versions of both games on blue-ray! And FF12 needs more than remastering; the director was hospitalized during the making, so Sqeenix completely ruined the story for him. The ground-breaking combat was also deeply flawed.

All Metal Gear games...Resident Evil 1, 2 and 3.

What, never heard of Resident Evil Remake for the Gamecube? There's a Wii port of it, too, just like Resident Evil 0. The best part is, Capcom said that they'll remake RE 2&3 with the RE4 engine if Umbrella Chronicles does well. (It has!)

Medievil and Resident Evil 3

Oh and Crash Bandicoot 1,2 and 3 (With naughty dogs current technology, they would look epic!)

I just wanted to make sure you also heard about the REmakes. For that matter, MGS was also remade for the Gamecube, ever heard of "Twin Snakes"?

The problem is that Gamecube isn't this gen's material. Also, I despise Resident Evil 4 and 5 and their crappy action game style so the remakes of 2 and 3 are gonna be trash for me. Thanks for the bad news -__-

 

[Percei]

Personally, I'd love to see Capcom's Breath of Fire 3 on the PS3, with 3D graphics and such. Perhaps some actual voice acting, and maybe more variety in the monsters.

Another one would be Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask updated with TP graphics, and on one disc. It would be wonderful.

 

[GamingAwesome1]

I can't be arsed to think this through properly, so I'll just say the name of a classic game I've been enjoying recently.

Sweet Home, enhanced graphics and music could really bring a lot to this survival horror gem.

 

[Lem0nade Inlay]

Hm, maybe MDK?

Actually I think Deus Ex would be very good. Imagine exactly the same screnarios/gameplay/storyline, but with the graphics of the new one. That would be an awesome game.

MDK was an awful game and why would you want to remake deus ex? I suppose you think it would be a good idea to "re-make" the ceiling of the sistine chapel as a laser light show?
Seriously the graphics and game mechanics of the new deus ex make me want to vomit, could they have made it more console-tastic?

An awful game? MDK was fantastic! I mean if you were looking for anything mildy realistic you were going to be dissapointed, but man I had so much fun playing that bizarre game. I mean, who doesn't love telling bones to fly out and do a bombing run from his giant shoe-plane? Heh, but I can understand why some people didn't enjoy it.

Well I don't think you can compare the graphics of Deus Ex to the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. I mean that's a great work of art, and the graphics of Deus Ex (by today's standards, they were pretty great back then) aren't all that good. I wouldn't want to change the game mechanics at all, all I'm saying is that if they used updated textures, models etc. To "re-make" is with modern graphics, using Human Revolutions was just an example, because IMO that game looks like one of the best looking games I've ever seen.

 

[Mr S]

Red Alert 2. It'd be awesome to have those graphics improved.

 

[Continuity]

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An awful game? MDK was fantastic! I mean if you were looking for anything mildy realistic you were going to be dissapointed, but man I had so much fun playing that bizarre game. I mean, who doesn't love telling bones to fly out and do a bombing run from his giant shoe-plane? Heh, but I can understand why some people didn't enjoy it.

Well I don't think you can compare the graphics of Deus Ex to the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. I mean that's a great work of art, and the graphics of Deus Ex (by today's standards, they were pretty great back then) aren't all that good. I wouldn't want to change the game mechanics at all, all I'm saying is that if they used updated textures, models etc. To "re-make" is with modern graphics, using Human Revolutions was just an example, because IMO that game looks like one of the best looking games I've ever seen.

Ok MDK wasn't that bad but it was certainly a weird action game which wasn't really what I was expecting from it. And no, I'm not comparing the graphics of deus ex to the art of the sistine chapel, probably a bad metaphor, I was just trying to say that I don't think you can really remake a classic without losing something intangible along the way.
A reskin wouldn't be so bad I guess if it was done really really well, but certainly not to look like the new game... All that glitters is not gold I'm afraid.

 

[SovietX]

Medievil and Resident Evil 3

Oh and Crash Bandicoot 1,2 and 3 (With naughty dogs current technology, they would look epic!)

I just wanted to make sure you also heard about the REmakes.

Yeah I have REmake, but they never remade Resident Evil 3. All they did was port it to Gamecube.
I just want a classic resi for my PS3. Australian Playstation Store doesnt get Resident Evil 1 in the Psone Classic section

 

[AndyMcNoob]

Dark Seed it feaked me out back then but with today graphics it would be imense!

 

[omicron1]

I want to see them introduce (software or hardware via DX11) tesselation to World of Warcraft, along with full parallax mapping for existing textures, some form of automatic texture sharpening, and various extra shaders for things like fur and reflective ice. This would keep the game looking relevant for the lifetime of its coming expansions - something it's going to need as time goes on, given the hypothetical 3+ years of expansions remaining.

Other than that? Age of Empires 1, done right.

 

[Wayneguard]

Jet Force Gemini needs a reboot/remake. Also, I always thought an open world, wrpg (or at least with rpg elements) reboot of ghosts n goblins would be epic.

 

[ChupathingyX]

Arcanum modelled in the same vein as Fallout 3.

wut? modeled after fallout 3????

first of if any after new vegas but better something like gears of war graphics combined with arcanum style


For me it's legend of mana
Loved that game to death

Fallout 3, New Vegas - For all intents and purposes they have the same general ideas, aesthetics and approaches to their respective game worlds. I just stated Fallout 3 because it's the more instantly recognisable name out of the two having been out for a lot longer and being the direct sequel to an old isometric RPG.

Apart from the general style (first/third person RPG set in a huge open world) though, it would be very very bad idea to continue along the other parts of Fallout 3's experience; such as bad dialogue, stupid story, uninteresting characters, etc. Fortunately a remake of Arcanum would already have the opposite of all that. =P

Oh, and yeah, New Vegas is far better than Fallout 3.

Actually no, Fallout 3 is not a direct sequel to Fallout 2. Fallout: New vegas was a direct sequel to Fallout 2 because it actually continued the story of the West Coats and the NCR. It also makes references to events, people and things from Fallout 2.