Knights of the Old Republic, Battle for Middle Earth
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I played Battle for Middle Earth for so long! Personally, I liked first one better but I don't think the game would hold up to any strategy games standards nowadays. Once you know a few tactics you are practically undefeated in both of the games.
Black & White
It's a shame this game & it's sequel have been unavailable for purchase for so damn long.
Thank god for abandonware websites
Simpsons hit and run
TES: Morrowind, Fallout: New Vegas, RDR 1
EDIT: Guys, OP is talking about proper remaster. I'd actually like a current gen remakes.
Need for Speed Underground 1 and 2.
If EA would release them as just full faithful remasters, with no P2W or microtransactions I will break my word that I will never support that piece of shit company again and pay full retail on release day.
SPORE and Black and White 2!! We need to bring back God games
Any of Peter Molyneux games would make good remake targets, but you would want to remake the game he hyped, not the game he delivered. I would love to see a development team, with all the new game libraries and faster hardware try to deliver on some of his unfulfilled promises.
Can you imagine spore as a modern day title? It'd either be a "free" to play MMORPG full of micro-transactions or it'd have each stage be a different dlc (that of course you can get a season pass for!) and all but the most basic cosmetics be dlc
And let's not forget always online with no offline play
A game remade only because it's old will age again. A game remade because it missed its potential the first time is a big improvement.
Sonic the Hedgehog (2006).
Metal Gear Solid. So many hours a buddy and I put into that sucker. I would love to see it have modern graphics.
Syndicate (1993) has a great concept, but the controls are annoying and some mechanics need balancing.
Morrowind. Rpg that doesn't hold your hand through quest, well written plot and sidequests and a superb fantastic setting that is not all medieval Europe. Ashland, siltstriders, giant mushroom mage tower that can only be accessed by super jump or flying. And thosefucking annoying cliff 'bird thing.
GTA San Andreaa
No one lives forever. Though the originals are still very much playable, only the graphics are outdated.
Stunts / 4D Sports Driving
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stunts_(video_game)
Update the graphics but keep all the physics the same.
Though not really (too) old but:
GOTHIC.
But only if it'd be a worthy remake.
Minecraft, lol. Written in Rust instead of Java, extensible, open source.
Like what Minetest and Mineclone currently do. Dont know what languages they use.
Parasite Eve
Deus Ex
GTA3 + Vice City + San Andreas (properly being the key word)
Morrowind
KOTOR 1 + 2
Battlezone II: Combat Commander
Red Faction series
Deus Ex. It's beloved and influential. It's also ugly as hell and kinda jank. Stitch together all the levels that had loading screens. Leave combat awkward, make conversations fancier. Keep the deadpan protagonist as a flat player-insert avatar. Keep tracked music, but give the composer a pile of money and enough tools to allow conditional variations. Human Revolution proved the formula still worked, and Mankind Divided proved it's still impossible to do a good sequel to that formula.
Midwinter is one of the first true-3D open-world games, and it shows. You're trying to escape an island and maybe start a revolution on the way out. The title reflects the mildly post-apocalyptic setting, where nuclear winter has upended civilization, and this little snow-covered dictatorship is actually doing okay by some standards. The gameplay would have to borrow from Death Stranding's focus on traversing terrain. Albeit largely on skis. It's not a fuck-around simulator like Just Cause, or a shoot-em-up like Far Cry, and it's not really a survival game in the sense of keeping gauges filled. (You do get to hang-glide - but it's a great way to die suddenly.) It's more of a wargame played from ground level. And between that, and being from 1990, the interface is completely terrible.
A friend and I were talking today that weβd spend full price for a Warhammer 40K: Dawn of War Soulstorm remaster/remake. It was a great game that still has a lot of potential both for gamers and for the company developing it. They could even call it something cool like the Imperium Edition or something!
Iβve also always said that they could approach it in a similar way to how Total War: Warhammer develops DLC for their factions. Quick question for WH:40K fans: if they offered a dlc for your specific Space Marine chapter or Ork Warband or DIRTY HERETIC, would you buy it? I know I would buy a Space Wolves chapter DLC that enabled their unique mechanics and units. Itβs an untapped goldmine in my opinion and also caters to people who want to play the game with their own army units.
The Ultima series, especially U4, 5, and 6. To this day they are some of the best stories told in gaming history, but their appeal is limited by the fact that they came out in the DOS era - remake them with Baldur's Gate 3 levels of production value and some QOL updates but otherwise don't change a thing and they would contend for the best RPGs of all time.
Commander Keen
I'd truly love a VR Sims game. It'd be so ridiculous to walk into somebody's dinner party and begin turning their kitchen upside down.
That, and they'd be spouting their nonsense sim language while I light a furniture bonfire. Want!!
Sega Saturn had a title called Fighters Megamix that (in my opinion) was the first to bring franchise characters together for a battle royal.
Virtua Fighter, Fighting Vipers, Sonic, Daytona, Virtua Cop and more all rules it out in wrestling rings and it was amazing. Would love a remake.
Judging by the lack of mentions for
total annihilation
I worry people just don't know how awesome this game was. Ya tear your gaze away from StarCraft and realize you never need to look back.
Chrono Trigger, Chrono Cross, and that one fan-made sequel, Chrono Trigger Crimson Echoes.
F-Zero GX in HD with wide screen support would be amazing. It might even happen since F-Zero 99 seems to be pretty popular.
Twisted Metal but the originals from PS1 era.