Two quick questions

[Riverwolf]

I would reboot the Phantasy Star series.

...shoulda thought of that myself. ^_^

I ASSUME you mean a reboot of the classic games, and not the PSO games?

(To be fair, there was kind of a graphical/gameplay update of the first two games for the PS2 in Japan ~10 years ago... problem being they never came out in America and never remade the fourth game like they'd planned.)

 

[Godhead]

I'd wanna see KOTOR get a proper reboot, that or get the Dark Forces series a reboot.

While we're at it can we have the Dark Forces series get that HD re-release? (That or give it to the original Dungeon Siege or something.)

 

[Headsprouter]

Timesplitters for the HD remakes.

As for the reboot...hmmm. None of the franchises I love have gone severely downhill, so that's hard to answer. Maybe Crash Bandicoot for sentimental reasons. I'd want the characters the way Naughtydog had made them, and...just good games. Make it open world platforming if you need to.

Also...possibly more Dark Chronicle.

 

[Vrach]

HD remake - Morrowind. So much Morrowind. And no, mods don't cut it, I want to see a real HD remake.
Reboot - Jedi Knight series. Gimme a proper lightsaber game already, if it could've been done (and modded to the level of awesome) in 2003, why the hell don't we have them now?

 

[verdant monkai]

I'd probably reboot the Final Fantasy

Why bother? its not really a series its more of a brand. You could make any random fantasy JRPG Final Fantasy 15 and no one would be any the wiser. I hate it when people whine over "what happened to my FF" they are all very different games made by different teams. The only thing they share is the fantastical settings and the fact that Yoshitaka Amano does some of the cover artwork.
Just play any of the many other fantasy JRPG's if you are feeling sad, Bravley Default being a good example.

I'd reboot Onimusha there aren't enough Japanese Samurai horror games.

And I'd take an HD remake of the final fight games. Those things are fucking rare.

 

[ThreeName]

Same answer to both question.

Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines. An obvious, obvious choice for a remake, plus the setting is so fucking awesome I'd love to see more.

Captcha: What if?
What if indeed, captcha, what if indeed.

 

[Autumnflame]

Vampire bloodlines the masquerade

and half life 2 episode 3

 

[Candidus]

Reboot: Warcraft needs a reboot the most, in order to retcon out a decade of MMO garbage. Not that I trust Blizzard to make a decent RTS anymore. Still, if we make-believe that they're up to the job, Warcraft is my choice.

HD Remake: Nah, I can't do it. There are too many, I can't pick one.

Princess Maker II.. Bishoujo Wrestler Retsuden: Blizzard Yuki Rannyuu.. Suikoden II.. Space Hulk: Vengeance of the Blood Angels.. Carnage Heart.. Phantom Crash.. Kingdom Under Fire: Heroes.. Final Fantasy VII, VIII and IX.. Crusader: No Remorse and Crusader: No Regret.. Azure Dreams.. Ring of Red.. The Bouncer.. Supreme Commander Forged Alliance.. Darkstalkers.. The Legend of Dragoon..

Call me greedy, but I want them all.

Fuck, looking at that list of brilliant-but-deceased/forgotten games is actually painful...

 

[josemlopes]

HD Remake? Timesplitters series for sure (following Rewind every day)

Reboot? Timesplitters could still get one and be perfectly fine since the third one already completed the story. Now it would only need to be the same awesome multiplayer and either a new story similar to the third one (comical and focused in telling an actual story) or something like the story in the second game (basicly just random missions in random ages, the story just connects the levels).

But still, for a reboot I think maybe something like Crackdown, the game is great but I think that it had a lot more potential, even though the objectives are incredibly open ended (on how you aproach them) you only have one way of going in and that is guns blazing. I would have liked to see a reboot still letting you go guns blazing if you wanted but at least have some RPG mechanics that let you also be something other then a guy with super-strenght. I would like to also be a stealthy character in a game like that, or have a jetpack that would let me take it to the skies.

I really like the way the game is just about killing these 20 something important dudes on a big map in any order or way you want, I would only have liked to see more ways then the ones that already are.

 

[Ieyke]

Ooooh yea.

HD REMAKES:
Suikoden II
Azure Dreams
Castlevania:Symphony Of The Night

SEQUELS:
A new Darkstalkers

REBOOTS:
Onimusha

REDOS(total overhaul of graphics, engine, interface, and controls):
Demon's Crest
Xenogears

Is Onimusha really supposed to be a horror game? I know it's feudal Japan Resident Evil, but it's not remotely scary.
Well...maybe I'm just a bad judge of scary. Nothing is scary.
But yea, Onimusha always just struck me as...."anime weird", like Ninja Scroll.

 

[Savagezion]

Reboot: Arcanum

Arcanum doesn't need a reboot. It needs an HD Remake and a modern sequel in a format akin to Skyrim/Fallout (except with good gameplay).

Naw, I love some Arcanum but the original is dated and HD remakes of infinity engine style crpgs just don't make sense to me - they don't look much better. They only play better by a small margin to me. (Arcanum plays just fine with the patches)

Skyrim/Fallout style I think would kill it and make me dislike it as it goes against the core of the game for me. Bethesda is shit at dichotomy mechanics like Arcanum employed. Magic vs. Tech , good vs. evil, reputation vs reward, Bethesda says "vs.?" why not have all six? I think Bethesda would ruin it and I would be bitter if they made it like Skyrim. I also think Skyrim is the best TES title.

I would prefer something closer to DA:O where they can actually tell a story.

 

[Elfgore]

I'd reboot Brutal Legends with at least two sequels. I'm a huge fan of the premise of the games and I feel they could really nail the execution on their second go.

I'd remake Jade Empire into HD. In my top three Bioware games easily. One of the first that you actually control combat and all the party members are awesome.

 

[Elvis Starburst]

Reboot... Um... Hmmm...
HD remake, ugh, tough call. Jet Force Gemini gets my vote for now. Fave game on the N64 by far~

 

[the_great_cessation]

I'd love to see Jet Force Gemini again. I'm going to choose it for the reboot option though as I feel this would give it the chance to fix some of the game's most notable flaws.

As for HD remake, I'm going to say Grim Fandango. I've never played the game but I've always wanted to. I think an HD re-release would be a perfect way for me to experience it for the first time.

 

[Quazimofo]

If they could just scratch ME2 (and by consequence 3) and redo them to actually feel like sequels to the first game, that would be great.

As far as HD remakes, KoTOR. The game still looks fine, IMO, but it'd breath new life into it.

I'd also like it if they could give ME 1 another go and make it a good bit less tedious. A lot of the "side quests" were functionally identical and while I can appreciate the thought behind letting you land on planets to explore with the mako, the copy-pasted environments got really REALLY boring well before the galaxy was explored. Maybe more of the hybrid system like in ME2 (or was it 3? It's been a while since I played any of them) where you just did a quick scan of the planet (with that handy arrow on the scanner) for particularly noteworthy things like mineral deposits or crashed probes with turian insignias or old matriarch writings or whatever and only actually landing when there's a quest to be done would be good. Just as long as there was still a big open area to explore with the mako because the thing handled like a super ball with jets and it was GREAT.


An HD remake of KoTOR 2 would be excellent as well, so long as they would actually finish it this time.

I'd kill for a reboot of Metal Arms: Glitch in the system. Or really just a continuation of the series. It's almost criminal that they never got to make the planned sequels to it.

 

[norashepard]

HD Remake? Deus Ex 1, or System Shock 2, or Morrowind, or basically any game like that.
Reboot? Basically every single old style RPG (Arcanum, Baldur's Gate, etc) especially if they reboot in the same way Fallout did.

 

[Wintermute_v1legacy]

Don't know which game I'd like to see a reboot of, but I'd love to play an HD version of Blackthorne.

 

[CrimsonBlaze]

I'd actually want a reboot of the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise, not counting the Sonic Boom one that has yet to be released.

To be clear, I'm not discrediting Sonic Boom before it's even released; I just want the Sonic franchise to receive the Rayman Origins treatment: be away from the spotlight for a few years, be brought back by a development team that are passionate about the IP, create a brand new title/series that respects the source material while providing the dev's personal touch, and hopefully, become a memorable and respected game.

I would want all the PS1 era Final Fantasy games to get HD releases. I actually like a lot of the characters and plots from those titles, yet the poor graphics are too much of a distraction for me to actually play them.

Seriously, who the hell wouldn't buy these HD titles?

 

[Ieyke]

Reboot: Arcanum

Arcanum doesn't need a reboot. It needs an HD Remake and a modern sequel in a format akin to Skyrim/Fallout (except with good gameplay).

Naw, I love some Arcanum but the original is dated and HD remakes of infinity engine style crpgs just don't make sense to me - they don't look much better. They only play better by a small margin to me. (Arcanum plays just fine with the patches)

Skyrim/Fallout style I think would kill it and make me dislike it as it goes against the core of the game for me. Bethesda is shit at dichotomy mechanics like Arcanum employed. Magic vs. Tech , good vs. evil, reputation vs reward, Bethesda says "vs.?" why not have all six? I think Bethesda would ruin it and I would be bitter if they made it like Skyrim. I also think Skyrim is the best TES title.

As I said, akin to Skyrim/Fallout, except with good gameplay. I'm not saying BETHESDA should be the ones to do it, just that it needs to be done in that general format.

The Skyrim/Fallout format would be perfect....if the gameplay and animations didn't suck ass.
I feel like Bethesda could do WAAAAY better having impactful gameplay if they'd quit slightly updating and renaming their god damned 18 year-old game engine and claiming it's a whole new engine.

Dishonored, for example, in passing has generally the same gameplay setup for the core mechanics, but it has WAAAAAAY better gameplay. That's probably because Arkane didn't use Bethesda's shitty game engine from 1997, and used Unreal Engine 3 instead. Either that, or maybe Bethesda is actually just shit at everything except lore and making things look pretty (until it moves, then it looks horrible because they apparently animate like it's still 2001).

You're right about Bethesda fucking up the "vs" stuff in all their games, but I don't think that means a competent developer would have a hard time properly implementing all the "vs" systems into a Fallout Scrolls format game and creating EXACTLY the gametype Arcanum needs to be.

Not to harp on about it, but the Fallout Scrolls games are as bad as their game engine itself. Essentially the same exact game as Morrowind over and over with a new story and a new coat of paint each time, and that just pisses me off when I think about it because everyone lets them get away with it...and praises them.

I don't want Bethesda anywhere NEAR Arcanum until they get their shit together with gameplay, animation, and the "vs" thing.

 

[Savagezion]

Dishonored, for example, in passing has generally the same gameplay setup for the core mechanics, but it has WAAAAAAY better gameplay. That's probably because Arkane didn't use Bethesda's shitty game engine from 1997, and used Unreal Engine 3 instead. Either that, or maybe Bethesda is actually just shit at everything except lore and making things look pretty (until it moves, then it looks horrible because they apparently animate like it's still 2001).

Lol, yeah they do. I don't like knocking em too bad because they updated it well with Skyrim. I am not really familiar with Dishonored design as I chose to skip it. It makes me curious to check it out. Something about that game bugs me though and I can't put my finger on it. It's irrational clearly, but it's there. It may have to do with the pre-order stuff or something.

Not to harp on about it, but the Fallout Scrolls games are as bad as their game engine itself. Essentially the same exact game as Morrowind over and over with a new story and a new coat of paint each time, and that just pisses me off when I think about it because everyone lets them get away with it...and praises them.

Harp away. I agree with you there. We may be envisioning similar systems. I liked the idea of Morrowind but the text boxes pushed me away often. Still does. For Oblivion, it was the main quest plot devices that drove me away. Skyrim I can't ***** about. I can nag, but I keep going back to it for another 100 hours again and again. They all get repetitive and broken the longer you play a character. Past level 20, you'll feel it. The thing I will credit Bethesda with is awesome world maps.

I agree the engine is probably the problem, but people really like to pick up baskets and pots for some reason. I like decorating houses with it, but I don't need it in caves. Shops is cool for a thieving system. I dunno, yeah, I agree. They should fix it.