Games That Should Be Remade

Thanks to an anonymous reader for pointing to Gamespot's new article on videogames that should be remade. This third article in an ongoing series starts with the statement that "..we feel like there are plenty of titles from the annals of gaming history that deserve another shot at the spotlight, and that's exactly why we assembled this list." It goes on to pinpoint titles such as The Bard's Tale (rumored to have a remake in development already), Bullfrog's classic Syndicate, APB, and even the original X-Com as being worthy of an update.

Comments

X-Com/UFO: Enemy Unknown

[paulcammish]

For anyone who liked this, you'll probably like Laser Squad Nemesis, which is (to all intents and purposes) a remake of the classic by the original developers, but designed for Play-By-Email, rather than against AI.

Check out the screenshots - nicely updated and runs well on practically any spec PC - handily enough, they even offer a free trial.

I should mention, it can be dangerously addictive. Maybe not PlanetSide-grade addictive, but getting there.

Final Fantasy Origins

[cyan]

Two games that *have* been remade recently are Final Fantasy I and II, released here as 'Final Fantasy Origins.' I actually just finished playing both remakes myself, and they are *fantastic*. I think if there's a stellar example of how a remake should be done, everyone should look at FFO, as it takes all the good features of both games, and keeps them exactly the same. Furthermore, they even changed some of the 'annoying' things of both games. Such as the inability to auto-target if an enemy dies -- previously if you tried to target an enemy and then it died, you'd 'miss.' Of course, they put in an option to retain this behavior if that's what you'd like.

The remake brings both games up to approximately Final Fantasy VI standards, although the music far exceeds those standards. For me, the music is an important part of any game, and I was really impressed with how FFI and FFII's music was remixed. For those completionists out there, such as myself, FFO has some extra features that lets you keep track of how many enemies you've killed, what items you've picked up from the dungeons, and allows you to bring these stats along with you once you complete the game and start anew.

I was actually impressed that they released it for the PS1 as opposed for the PS2, because now it can be played on both systems (and, *cough*on some emulators too*cough*), and there's no reason graphically to have made it a PS2 exclusive. If you're a die-hard Final Fantasy fan like myself, this is definitely a 'must-have', it's great. It's even better for those of us who have a hard time tolerating the old NES graphics and analog music ;)

And I agree with some of those posts above: M.U.L.E. *must* be remade eventually, it continues to be one of the best games ever. I still play it over and over on my various C64 emulators. It's great fun having three other friends over to play M.U.L.E. as silly as that sounds, the game is still great and has tons of life left in it :)

Re:Nostalgia

[hackwrench]

They have made a remake of Blaster Master, Blaster Master: Blasting Again, and there was a Blaster Master 2 for the Sega Genesis

Re:M.U.L.E.

[eht]

there is a clone (supposedly very bad) called Space HoRSE

Holistic Robotic Slave Engineer = HoRSE is even worse than M.U.L.E. = Multi Use Labor Element

sorry, no OSS projects that I know, and I've been looking, I had a friend working on making a Java clone but he got bored and went on to other stuff (I'm no programmer)