In the era of remakes and remasters, what niche game would you like to see receive the treatment?

Submitted ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works⁩ to ⁨games@lemmy.world⁩

cross-posted from: sh.itjust.works/post/27366526

I know that remakes and remasters are contentious, but let’s pretend whatever game in question you’re thinking of is handled with the utmost care by your favourite devs and they absolutely nail it.

Mine would be Shadow of Memories (called Shadow of Destiny in North America). It’s legitimately one of my favourite games of all time but it kinda flew under the radar and I haven’t met many people who know of it let alone played it. Seeing it get modern graphics, maybe some expanded mechanics, would be soooo cool.

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isthingoneventhis@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I’m here once again to humbly submit the suggestions of Dungeon Keeper and Black and White. That is all.

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- TheLoneMinon@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Black and White for sure. I still get nostalgic for that one.
  
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  - Pizza_Rat@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    We simply can’t leave until we get some wheeeaaat!
    
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  - isthingoneventhis@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    I was talking to my SO about it recently and we both kinda agreed you’d probably have to update the core gameplay so it would be a little more interesting/engaging but overall B&W was fun. Hell, even Spore redone properly (aka not by fucking EA) I would love too. That one always makes me sad to think about, and we’ve not really had anything like it since.
    
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eezeebee@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Obligatory Bloodborne mention.

Not sure if it’s been done already, but Zelda LttP would be cool. I haven’t played Echoes of Wisdom though I like the art style and could see it working well.

Goldeneye + Perfect Dark.

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- CrayonRosary@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  
  Zelda LttP
  
  That’d be awesome! I’d pirate the shit out of a remake.
  
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  - captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    I don’t think Nintendo is capable of doing anything to Link to the Past other than ruin it.
    
    A lot of the Zelda games that got “remasters” mostly had their resolutions and brightnesses increased, to the point that the Wind Waker remake has problematic amounts of bloom. Makes me think someone important at Nintendo has cataracts. So if you want to “remaster” A Link to the Past, run it through an AI upscaler and turn a desk lamp on your screen.
    
    The few that have gotten ground-up “remakes” like Link’s Awakening…I kind of liked the art style they chose, it fit the tone of the game pretty well, going with quartets for the music is a stroke of genius, WHY DOESN’T THE FUCKING D-PAD WORK? The original game was designed for use with a D-Pad and either 4- or 8- way motion. I get that modern gamers might instinctively reach for the analog stick, but bind movement controls to the D-pad too, especially if you’re not going to bind anything else to those controls. Nintendo never doesn’t fuck this up. They made an entire console based on a revolutionary new way to fuck up the controls.
    
    So what you’d get out of a first-party re-release of aLttP is a blank white screen you control entirely with the gyros.
    
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- almar_quigley@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  How about a dark gritty reboot of LttP?
  
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  - eezeebee@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    That sounds awesome. I’m imagining it in the style of Dark Souls, but a reskin would be fun.
    
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Meltrax@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
SSX Tricky brought up to PS5 graphics.

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- Suck_on_my_Presence@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  I was coming here to reply SSX 3 :)
  
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  - specialseaweed@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    I love you both very much.
    
    I still play SSX3 GameCube version on my Wii.
    
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- Lemming6969@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Amped was better
  
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Ashtear@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
My wishlist is Final Fantasy Tactics, Sid Meier’s Alpha Centauri, and Xenogears. A Xenogears remake likely isn’t ever happening so I’d be happy with a remaster, and it’s practically an open secret at this point that an FFT project is in development. It getting the Tactics Ogre Reborn treatment would be lovely, but what I really want is an orchestrated soundtrack. Here’s hoping it doesn’t get cancelled. 🤞

As a genre, 4X is still kicking around, but I’m not even sure if SMAC is beloved enough to get the treatment. Good voice acting would be essential.

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- iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  I hadn’t heard about Tactics in the works. Would be keen on that!
  
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- Moah@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Xenogears! Yes! I guess I’ll have to be happy with Xenoblade
  
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bread@feddit.nl ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Sid Meier’s Pirates! There are so few actually good pirate games.

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- lemonmelon@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  I’ve played through various iterations of that game so many times, and I agree that it needs another modernization!
  
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swemoney@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
The old GameCube game, Eternal Darkness

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Gamerman153@lemmynsfw.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Legend of dragoon and legend of dragoon but if I can’t have those, legend of dragoon…

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- otp@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  That’s a great pick.
  
  The game feels like it gradually got worse as the game progressed, but that was typical for JRPGs back then. Still had plenty of great moments, though!
  
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- iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Sorry, the best I can offer is Legend of Dragoon.
  
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Aielman15@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Just give me a proper Xenogears remake with all the cut content from the second disc and I’ll die happy.

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- Ashtear@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  I’d be happy with a simple remaster with a cleaned-up script. Disc 2 wasn’t as bad as I’d remembered on a replay I had earlier this year.
  
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- Pingudiem@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Absolutely
  
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illi@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Mine is Gothic and Soul Reaver - getting both so I’m a happy camper

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- HelixDab2@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Having seen the trailer for Gothic, it looks good. I really hope that it’s actually good.
  
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RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Honestly, looking at how modern game development studios handle remakes, I wouldn’t want them anywhere near any of my beloved games. I haven’t played a single remake in the last 20 years where I felt like the studio that made it knocked it out of the park.

Also, I strongly believe good games should not be remade, and only remastered/ “deluxe remastered” (where even if the game is remade, its a 1:1 faithful recreation with additional features and gameplay mechanics being optional). Remake the games that weren’t great, give them another chance at big success.

Sonic 2006

the XenoSaga games (don’t @ me XS fans, you know the combat and boss design in those games were terrible, 1 had DOMO Carrier, Tiamat, and whatever was going on in Song of Nephilim)

Most Konami games in the late 90s - mid 2010s

LAPD Future Cop

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- B0NK3RS@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  
  Future Cop L.A.P.D
  
  I can get behind this. FC hold up very well and is an amazing game that I think is mostly forgotten by now.
  
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  - 4shtonButcher@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    I LOVED that game as a kid. One of the few games where I enjoyed both vs and coop campaign stuff
    
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- uniquethrowagay@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  I’m playing the resident evil 4 remake right now and it’s amazingly good. Age of Empires 2 Definitive Edition also comes to mind.
  
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edgemaster72@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Gauntlet: Dark Legacy

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- lepinkainen@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Any game in that genre combined with local and remote multiplayer would be a hit
  
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sevan@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Deus Ex. When I first played it I was amazed by the graphics and I specifically remember being impressed that your character was reflected in mirrors. I’ve been replaying it recently and the graphics are obviously very dated, but it also doesn’t run smoothly on modern hardware. My PC gets louder and louder as I play it and eventually the game starts to stutter and I have to restart it.

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brygphilomena@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Black and white as VR

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baronvonj@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
The rest of the Legacy of Kain games

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AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

pretend whatever game in question you’re thinking of is handled with the utmost care by your favourite devs and they absolutely nail it.

Crash Team Racing. :(

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TwoBeeSan@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Mercenaries 1 playground of destruction

Just cause graphics could be something nice

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ChronosTriggerWarning@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
None. After the vivisection that was the GTA remaster, stay the fuck away from older games. Please and thank you.

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- Dicska@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  I had the same thought initially, and unfortunately it wasn’t just GTA. However, IMHO Diablo II Resurrected was an amazing exception, and I’m sure there are others. Plus, the OP’s question was probably about an ideal case and they wanted to know what people have been missing from the past.
  
  Realistically, I wouldn’t expect a decent comeback of Guitar Hero 3 for example, but it sucks that it doesn’t really work on Win10/11 anymore, and while Clone Hero exists, it doesn’t have the same “story” mode as GH3 had, with characters, milestones and such. Hell, you can’t even get “booed out”.
  
  Too bad that as you mentioned, even if there was demand, a random big company would just buy the rights, do some lazy upscale and sell it like it was gourmet shit.
  
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squirrelwithnut@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Well, a few months ago I would have said Soul Reaver, but we’re finally getting that!

So I guess I’ll say Siphon Filter. I remember having a lot of fun with that back in the day.

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- ZeffSyde@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  I don’t think I ever got anywhere in that game, I just spent the whole weekend rental tazing poor unfortunate bros…
  
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SirEDCaLot@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Half-Life. I know there’s been some successful efforts to modernize it, but those only bring it up to Source 2 era.

I would love a fully modern remake. Modern lighting and raytracing could do great things for the detail of a headcrab infected scientist.

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Jarix@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
My old MUD

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- ZeffSyde@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Aardwolf by chance? That was my jam daily for a couple years.
  
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  - Jarix@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    No but I’m sure i had logged into that one to find it a try. I remember thst name
    
    Mine was called riftsmud
    
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recently_Coco@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I’d love to see Chrono Trigger get the 2D-3D octopath-style remake that a few old SNES games have gotten.

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bpt11@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I’d love to see Ocarina of Time and Majoras Mask get a full remade release, bundled together into one game ideally. Sure we got the 3ds remakes but I wanna see it back on home consoles, like tp and ww HD.

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- Glytch@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  There is a GitHub project working on a recompilation of both of these for PC. They’ve got Majora’s Mask working and are working on OoT. Looks beautiful, runs buttery smooth, and has custom controls with a free camera.
  
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  - bpt11@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    That’s crazy, I had no idea. I’m definitely gonna have to check that out. Thanks for letting me know
    
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otp@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Right now, I’d really like the Gex games. Underrated 2D platformer, and a pair of goofy early 3D collectathons!

Hopefully the remake of the trilogy is still in production. I’ve got it on my wishlist from Limited Run Games, lol

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Hugh_Jeggs@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Worms

But they’d fuck it up again

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- Treczoks@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Second that! Worms was great fun when hanging out with friends.
  
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HelixDab2@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
The entire Ultima series for sure. I think those were the first CRPGs I played. I loved Ultima: Underworld I & II, but I was never able to get Ultima VII: Pagan to run properly on my computer. (And, holy fuck, that was 30 years ago.)

But also The Elder Scrolls: Arena, TES: Daggerfall, TES: Battlespire, TES: Redguard, and TES: Morrowind. The first two TES games would be challenging to make, given that many of the areas were randomly generated, rather than being designed.

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AlphaOmega@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Tribes

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- SirEDCaLot@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Absolutely. Game had a great mix of large-scale, good pace of a fight, and social element.
  
  VGW
  
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simple@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I really wouldn’t mind a remake of Left 4 Dead 2 with better netcode and more official maps.

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Sonotsugipaa@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
X3: Terran Conflict.

Yes, we got X3FL in 2021 AND X4, but X4 is a very different game and X3FL is just a heavily scripted X3AP (more or less).

It’s a more-than-me years old game with a lot of mods that keep it enjoyable to day – as “enjoyable” as it can be, that janky piece o’ junk – but I feel about it the same way I feel about Halo 2: imagine what it could have been, if the devs had the resources they could have today. ~~(if you say “X4” I’m going to fucking flip)~~

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- Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Oh shit. I didn’t even know about X3FL.
  
  Gonna have to reinstall X3 now.
  
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  - Sonotsugipaa@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    When I first played FL I thought it came out with all the others *^*
    
    I don’t outright dislike X4, but IMO it feels too… streamlined, in a way. You’ve got less wares, less ships, less sectors, no jumpdrive (yes I see the reasoning, no I still want the jumpdrive), the Xenon lost their aesthetic just to look like Mass Effect reapers, and fuckers stole my magnificently redundant ship classes. Can’t have ship in Detroit.
    
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B0NK3RS@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I’m not particularly a fan of either re-makes or full remastered but I’m a big fan or, for example, when Xbox upgraded the resolution and FPS or backwards compatible games.

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Alchalide@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
No one lives forever 1 & 2.

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