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Which Game Series Would You Reboot?
Franchise reboots are all the rage these days in Hollywood, and the trend is starting to creep into the games industry as well. The Guardian's games blog is running a story discussing a few examples and pondering likely candidates for future reboots. Quoting:
"If anything, the concept of the reboot makes more sense in the videogame sector than it does in movies. For a start, games are complex entities, with each new iteration in a familiar series adding many, many hours of fresh narrative content. Entering, say, the Zelda, Resident Evil, Half-Life, Dragon Quest or Metal Gear worlds at this stage must be massively intimidating — even if the developers go to great lengths to make each entry work as a singular, self-contained entity within the canon. Also, videogames are going through a paradigm shift in terms of popular appeal at the moment. The faithful audience of young males has been joined by new demographics brought in by the Wii, PC casual games, and now the iPhone. Many of these people may be vaguely aware of long-running game brands, but won't have a clue about the key characters, sign post events and basic gameplay mechanisms."
So, which series (or individual title) would you like to see rebooted?
I was pretty impressed with the sounds and sights of the XBox reboot but the game play and replay value just were not there. They need to get back on the horse for the latest Guitar Hero/Rock Band fad and reboot that game for the Wii or PS3.
I dare say I would welcome Guitar Hero: Funkatron Tour although it's possible the syncopation of funk would turn off players. Funk funk funk. E.
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I would mix up all the letters.
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Spiro's been rebooting with every new iteration from the original game and on. How else could you explain that he keeps forgetting how to breathe fire?
I'm not sure if it really counts as a reboot since there's only been one console version so far, but i'd really like to see Kid Icarus! Rumors about it keep popping up from time to time along with vague statements by Nintendo, so hopefully it will actually get done at some point!
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All the crappy games listed should be eaten by a grue.
A humorous game series about a deep space janitor solving mysteries. There is no better plot.
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I would love to see a remake of any of the descent series remade. I still have each of them and from time to time have to play them even though they are getting old.
I trust Microsoft as far as I could comfortably spit a dead rat
I feel as if they've been digging themselves into a hole over the last few games.
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This game NEEDS to be remade -- the story, characters, and gameplay mechanics are just about the best ever, but are trapped in an awful game engine with atrocious AI. Even with the major flaws, I still play through it about once a year. I would LOVE to see it remade with a modern engine, with all the rough edges smoothed out (and without the dumbed down, console-friendly interface of the PoS sequel!), and the story line and environments fleshed out a little bit further. That would be beyond an epic win.
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I would reboot Final Fantasy and make many of the characters less cheesy. I would also make the subject matter a bit darker and the interactions more free form. I think it would also be nice to have a non-turn-based combat option.
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X-Com! Star Control! Especially given that the most recent sequels were horrible.
I'd love an updated, story-driven space opera.
The original Wing Commander games were great. For some reason the gaming industry has moved away from space fighter simulators. Which is disappointing, that was an early genre that was a lot of fun.
I particularly have fond memories of Wing Commander Armada, which combined in strategy elements. You had to explore planets, mine resources and build factories and ships, and you had to do it carefully. When your fleet met the enemies, it switched to the traditional fighter simulator. Even then though, you had a fleet of ships with goals, and you could switch control between them.
I'd love to see Wing Commander, or some other space fighter, done with today's technology.
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Anyone remember that game? It was awesome.
The original UFO Defence AKA Alien Unknown is still the best game in the genre TO THIS DAY. The franchise has only gone down hill from there, and nobody has been able to replicate a modern version of the original, although several have tried.
The greatest arcade sports game in history, this game is begging to be remade for xbox live, the simplistic game mechanics yet deep skill still holds up to this day.
Grim Fandango. Just for the thought of being able to roam around in a full 3d environment with Manny would be awesome. Not that was a game that had style.
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This is obvious. Every 3d Sonic has sucked starting with Sonic Adventure (which sucked just a little) and has gone downhill since. Dump all the stupid characters and give it a 2d perspective again. Sonic Rush comes close, it would be nice to see a game of that quality hit a major console.
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but i would rather just shut down final fantasy, dragon quest, sonic, and mega man.
Stop raping the classics and move forward with some fresh ideas.
The old isometric rpgs were just great.
Zork. Or maybe Q-Bert
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Syndicate ...and if I was being blasphemous, The last ninja
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Sega had some great games in the 90s that I'd love to see done again:
- Crazy Taxi (how about a multiplayer version, everyone competing for fares?)
- Jet Set Radio (that funky Tokyo-esque rollerblading game with its awesome soundtrack never gets old)
- Shenmue (hell, forget the reboot, I just want to see the damn storyline finished!)
- Sonic (on second thought, no, forget Sonic)
Dual solo campaigns (rebels and empire) and massive multiplayer dogfights, complete with capital ships. Hell yeah.
This game still has significant community associated with it (even after 11 years) and had a great storyline with large room for expansion. The source code is still available and being actively maintained and ported to newer operating systems.
I'd pay to play a new version of Blaster Master. Preferably from Retro Studios, the same people that did the Metroid Prime series.
Come on lucasarts - let's reboot the xwing series - xwing, tie fighter, etc..
make it have the same controls like before, joystick support, keep the simulation aspects, don't dumb it downor make it all consolitis.. I want to be able to manage my weapons shields and engines..
that would be awesome
A remake of contra would be epic to say the least.
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The iPhone app is fun. Keep it simple, controlling with the WiiMote... my daughter could end up being the next Carmen Ibanez.
Also, any game that is first-person flying through an asteroid field, so long as the display doesn't "tell me the odds."
Guess what, the number 1 candidate I'd have named is getting a reboot. Mechwarrior. My head tells me that disappointment is still the likely outcome, but my hearts looks at the material they've put out so far and jumps for joy.
Other good candidates?
Wing Commander - it was the series that defined "cutting edge" gaming for a generation. I'd love to see this done properly on modern technology - including the heavy story emphasis and cheesy cutscenes.
Eye of the Beholder - this would need to be done properly. RPGs these days tend towards big open worlds, which can be great. But I'd love to see a decent, non-Diablo-style RPG which takes a classic, claustrophobic dungeon setting (running on a decent, modern engine) and places the emphasis firmly on survival and puzzle solving, rather than making friends and becoming the Grand Trademaster Caravanlord of Little Wizzlington.
Star Control - Pretend the third game never happened, just give us either a decent sequel or a franchise reboot in the style of the second game.
And finally (and this is what gets me flamed)... Half-Life. I didn't like Half-Life 2. I've replayed it a couple of times trying to "get" it and I still don't like it. The changes with the game-world of the first game are too jarring and badly explained. The idea of the mute protagonist just Does Not Work in the context of a more open-world game like Half-Life 2. It certainly doesn't work when you try to make said protagonist out to be some kind of a Messiah figure. Pretend HL2 never happened and go back to the feel of the original.
Old Acclaim IP was purchased by the tard that runs Throwback Entertainment. They aren't doing anything with it unfortunately.
We need a true shadowrun game. Nothing at all like the multiplayer shooter MS released. A true old school cyberpunk game. On a completely unrelated note, MDK could use revisiting.
Baldur's Gate. /thread
My favorite part about any sports game has always been fouling the crap out of the other team. I know, I know...it's wrong. However, an entire game built off that idealogy was truly epic.
an epic story with todays graphic would be great
Pong!
ShadowMan! The New Orleans / Voodoo theme is fantastic! I'd make ShadowMan more human-looking, like in the first game, and I'd make Deadside more visually interesting. And I would not make the challenges impossibly difficult or have a ridiculously hard control scheme, as in the awful ShadowMan 2. Basically, if the people who did HalfLife 2 were to do the same thing for ShadowMan, it would be frickin awesome!
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Flight / Space Sims: Wing Commander, Strike Commander, Privateer 2: The Darkening
Strategy / Tactics: X-Com, Fantasy General
RPGs done right: Planescape Torment
Excellent games which would benefit from a retelling using updated engines.
What I'd really like to see, is a "re-boot" -- or updated port, of a whole generation of games onto mobile devices
Baldur's Gate (As in the PC versions, not the X-Box stuff...) -- BG2 still rules as the best RPG ever made.
Wing Commander -- Why are there no good space flight / space operas anymore anyway?
M.U.L.E. -- for those who know...
X-COM -- This game could be done on an iPhone oh so well...
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God knows it's been ages, and the whole ball and paddle thing... I don't know, I just feel they could be doing so much more.
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This series needs a reboot. The original was a groundbreaking and massively fun RTS that gave us a glimpse of what the genre held for the future. Then Relic released a series of increasingly lackluster expansions, and finally the atrocity of Dawn of War 2.
Using 3d in platforming games is just silly and makes for poor or horrible camera work, plus generally shoddy controls.
Until we get true 3d displays, making series of 3d games that is all about accuracy of jumping projected on a 2d screen is just stupid.
I seriously have no idea how Mario64 got to be so revered as a great game with all its horrible camera and control issues. I blame people's reaction to the (at the time) impressive graphics and that I think Nintendo paid for good reviews and everything else that followed was some sort of mass hysteria.
NO ONE will agree with this, though, because of this mass hysteria over Mario64 and all the 3d platformers that came after it based on the same flawed gameplay. So this is getting posted AC.
Both are these series are long over due for new entries with updated tech driving them. A reboot would be good. In the case of the Star Wars titles new entires that include the ships from the Prequel Trilogy would allow for adding fresh content. Perhaps even serving to provide a story arc. Fresh new Pilot in the days of the republic to grizzled Vet in the days the rebellion.
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OK, I know this would be the best selling game in the history of games... but I've been pining for an updated Sim Earth lately. There is so much going on with climate science I think it would be really interesting.
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For those of you wondering why green laser pointers exist, here is the short answer: take an infrared diode laser, use it to power another laser that is deep into the infrared. Use an optical nonlinear crystal to double the frequency and half the wavelength of that laser. You get 530nm light and profit from a complicated little device. The overall efficiency of this process, however, is something like 6 percent.
That should make most people immediately wonder why the brightest handheld laser pointers you can get currently are green. (ok some of the blue ones are pretty good too but green rules here generally)
The reason is the human eye is MUCH more sensitive to green than it is to red, especially the red that's approaching infrared that most handheld pointers use.
So for 1/4 of the power you can 10x the visual impact.
Long ago I bought a special red laser pointer, it was red but it was shifted much farther away from IR than any of the common pointers of the day. At the time it was the only one you could see in daylight on say a wall. From what I've seen of modern laser pointers like the little keychain ones, they must all be using the higher freq (lower wavelength) now. Memory's really fuzzy at this point but iirc the common "dim" pointers ran at 550-560nm, and mine runs 535. Not a LOT of difference, and still looks like the same red, but runs 4x the visibility at 1/2 the power.
I believe green is the most sensitive color for most herbivores?
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Hasn't Zelda been rebooted every two or three games? It's the same basic story retold from the beginning each time. A few of the games are sequels to a previous game, but for the most part Zelda's been restarted at least five times now.
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Ultima and Wing Commander in particular.
There hasn't been a good single player fantasy RPG game released in quite a while.
And I grew up on Wing Commander. From pixelated sprites to 3-D models. Nothing like nursing your ship through that last waypoint with one working mass driver hoping you don't meet any more nasties. Space sims seem to have dropped of the edge of the planet in recent years (EVE Online excepted). It would be nice to see one again so I can blow the dust off of my joystick.
Despite a growing interest in piecing one together by it's fanbase; Zelda has no definitive timeline.
Nearly each iteration of the series is a reboot.
Zelda 2 was a sequel to Zelda 1. Majora's Mask was a sequel to Ocarina of Time. And I suspect that the DS games I haven't played are related (Oracle series, Minish Cap series?)
The rest are independent of each other. Hell, the intro to Wind Waker basically spells that out.
We're talking about a series of like 12 or 13 games, where only 3 or 4 are direct sequels, and none of the series has 3 in the same series.
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This was a truly awesome game back in the C64 days and nothing since has come close in style or design. You purchased and trained your own monster for an arena combat circuit. The more you won, the more you could mutate your monster to give it new abilities.
Or even better, networked X-Wing vs. Tie Fighter
Id reboot one of the very first computer games ever, Pong
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Freelancer was a putrid attempt to update Elite. Sword of Fargoal was ported, but it would be cool to have it rebooted...
Probably the best game EA ever made. It was really quite sad that they didn't know what to do with it once it was done. It needed better marketing, more support, and a few bug fixes, but it had a fantastic community and game-play that they haven't matched since. You could really tell that they had no clue how to support an MMO. ( and I'm not sure that's changed)
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I know it's not a game, but I'd reboot it. Just wanted to put it out there.
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I'd reboot the Ultima series -- There were some core elements of the middle "trilogy" (IV, V, VI) that really shined and went deep into storyline and extended the mythology of the series, but the first three were too generic. Restarting the series with some of the more shining elements could work.
Go back to the original classics, thats what I say!
Tetris!
Manic Miner.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
I mean, who doesn't want be a worm in a supersuit again?
BURGER TIME.
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Under a Killing Moon, The Pandora Directive, etc.
I still religiously play Commander Keen every year or so. Even today, bouncing mushroom, slugs, and kid heroes in football helmets don't get old. I would love to see a remake, as long as it stays true to the original series.
I think Square-Enix needs to collaborate with Nintendo to make another Super Mario RPG. Few RPGs have the level of actual -fun- that Super Mario RPG had. Paper Mario and Mario and Luigi are pathetic imitations when it comes to Super Mario RPG. And above all the game seemed "fresh", having a lot of the same Nintendo characters but added a lot of new ones with impressive depth. Mix that with graphics that still look great today and it is a game just dying to be re-made as a DS or Wii game.
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I know some of you remember it and how much fun it was. A couple of movies consisting of ENTIRELY of chase scenes and a 3d graphical version.
I would not want to reboot ANY series. Let's get something new and original, instead of churning out the same things. Every game has had their time and people have their personal connections to them. Let them be memories of good times and leave it at that.
Let me reiterate, let's have people make some new and interesting games. The sequels, prequels, and remakes are usually unnecessary (although I concede some games in concept were very good but implementation was bad, and could use a 'remake', but in the form of something new as well), and attempt to squeeze more plot and ideas out of a concept due to a lack of originality in the designers.
In no particular order:
Syndicate
Murder
Leisure Suit Larry
Privateer
Loom
Rise of the Dragon
Ascendacy
Police Quest
Rick Dangerous
Gods
Wolfenstein
Duke Nukem 3D (...)
Wing Commander
Agony
Elite
Apache Longbow (Janes Simulations)
Novastorm
Pagan
Reboot of Zork!
Lots of games could use a re-boot:
Alone in the Dark - the sequels, not to mention the remake, were just terrible, but the game created a genre!
The Gabriel Knight Mysteries - OK, it's true - I'm an adventure game junkie from way back! I love me some good characterizations and an actual plotline!
X-Com series - Still on most magazine's "Top 10 games of all time" list, for a reason!
Tropico - Though I hear this one IS actually getting a redo
System Shock - A classic haunted house in outer space
Phantasmagoria - a bit stilted and strange, but redone could be a classic. Of course, I like characterizations and plotlines (as noted above)
The Microprose Turn Based Strategy Games have always been high on my list of wanting another game. Maybe not so much a redo as just get either series started again.
GalCiv is a good game but somehow it just doesnt have the feel of MOO1 or 2. I played MOO1 for hours on end, and the sequel though not as hard as the original was also a very fun game. MOO3 was rushed and it shows.
I'd love to see a new Phantasmagoria game!!!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantasmagoria_(video_game)
It used to be good for both casual and nerdy gamers... until their nauseating 3D.
2D > 3D. Anybody knows of a 1D game ?
The Cloud - because you don't care if your apps and data are up in the air.
The first Soul Reaver (particularly) and the second Legacy of Kain were two of the best games for that console that I played. I really liked the fighting system of Defiance, if they could combine that gameplay with the challenge level and difficult puzzles of Soul Reaver 1 while maintaining the fantastic storyline, they'd be able to revive a great franchise.
Give me a remake of Red Baron, and to get my WW2 fix in as well, Aces of the Pacific/Over Europe, and I'd be a happy man. (Throw in another vote for TIE Fighter and/or Wing Commander as well).
Just seems nobody even tries to make a good flight sim game any more.
I just finished buying all the original Lucasarts adventure games that were released on steam (Dig, Monkey Island, Indiana Jones) as well as the new Monkey Island game (+episodes). My fiancee had me pick up the Wallace and Gromit games.
What I'm saying is, I'm still an adventure game junkie, and, if I have anything to say about it, any kids I have will be too. We need more of them.
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Someone already got Wing commander but Origin had some GREAT franchises before EA just let them all die on the vine. Privateer had a succesful reboot with microsoft's freelancer, but even that franchise is outdated now.
Ultima (before it went all mmorpg on us) was great and I'd like to see some off-line adventures return. It's STILL fun to boot up the old icon based 1-2-3-&4 occassionally.
And this was never a franchise but Archon and M.U.L.E. are two definate old school games that deserve to be introduced to a new generation!
-Might & Magic
Could be really good First-person-Diablo HacknSlay with some humor borrowed by NetHack.
-Ultima Series
Could be a good competitor to Bethesdas Elder Scrolls series.
-Alone in the Dark (the first true 3D-survival-horror-game)
The parts 4 and 5 played in completely unlogical settings as sequels to part 1 to 3.
-Lucas Arts Space Combat Sims ...), could bring the entire genre back on stage.
One of my personal all time classics of the entire history of games, TIE Fighter, which is part of long series of space combat sims made by Lucas Arts (X-Wing + Mission Disks, TIE-Fighter with Mission Disk an various game engine versions, X-Wing-Alliance, XW vs. TF
Lego motherfucking Rock Raiders.
I'm sick of this movie tie-in shit with Lucas or whoever.
I want an original theme and an original game.
I want some guys to go on a planet and raid some rock.
If the OpenGL consortium didn't blow it'd help too.
I loved that game; you could actually complete it, transfer your characters to the next game (albiet with some alterations). I loved the world. Of course, like it and Ultima, you could just slap their concepts as a skin on any old World of Warcraft / Everquest engine.
Remake this game. Now.
Absolutely Zork. The whole Zork Universe would be not only great for a stand alone game, it would make a great comedy fantasy MMORPG.
Q-Bert would wind up coming out of PopCap if it was released today.
Space Invaders!
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Imagine the strategic fleet-action gameplay of the first one combined with the story-driven greatness of the second one with modern technology? It could be the winning-est winner that ever won- straight from the state of Winnesota!
Loved those two games: Crusader, No Remorse and Crusader No Regret.
seriously, let's bring back Metal Slug... can't tell you how much of my life I lost to those games. Proof that fun is more about gameplay than it was about graphics
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Nuff said
to my Commodore 128 and a game series called Alternate Reality. There were 2 installments; The City and the Dungeon. Playing this, even now, (yes the 128 and 1541 still work) is very entertaining. This first person dungeon crawler would, imo, be the perfect candidate.
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For being more than a decade old, it has more innovative gameplay than any other RTS I have ever tried. I still bust out the disk from time to time, despite the archaic graphics. Playing with a good joystick and throttle is a blast. The problem is, most people couldn't handle having to mentally manage both a full scale RTS as well as first person controls of vehicles. The game is still extremely difficult for me, despite having played on an off since its release. In fact, the game featured two races so difficult that a second version was published removing them from all missions. These videos give an excellent overview of the basics of gameplay. If you happen to run across a copy of the game on ebay or in a bargain bin, pick it up, you won't be dissapointed.
As an added bonus, the story line and plot presented before the game make the dire circumstances of the Battlestar Galactica miniseries seem downright cheerful.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgAnpPxu1z4 - Trailer.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtKCUlcy0fU - Training video 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AqHigVdMxY - Training video 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xU0GyO61xoI - Training video 3
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Planescape Torment, of course.
I am not a "gamer" these days, but Tempest would be great.
Jesus Christ.
Zork.You know, like, the interactive fiction? When people used their FUCKING BRAINS to play computer games instead of this carpal-tunnel inducing twitch-fest that has made all our kids fat.
Well, or maybe Team Fortress 2
I'd like to see Lode Runner on a 3D isometric grid (like Diablo) with some fresh graphics.
Spy Hunter would be a lot fun with Crazy Taxi or Gran Turismo-style graphics and physics.
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Though X-Com, or the UFO series, has been remade recently, and remade very well in my opinion, I would like to see newer, more advanced games. And if to remake anything, I say remake one of the ultimate classics: Star Control. I'd also say to remake some of my personal all-time favorites with 'Urban Chaos', 'Privateer' (and remake completely not just redo the graphics), 'Death Rally' definitely, 'Master of Orion/Magic', 'Oni', 'Recoil', 'Star Flight', 'System Shock', 'Dark Reign', 'One Must Fall' (A proper remake this time) and hey, why not the Super Solver Adventures too?
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I'd love to see Bungie turn out some new Marathon games.
I thoroughly enjoyed those games... Great storyline, interesting characters, innovative (for the time) gameplay... I think they could do some fun stuff with modern hardware.
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" The faithful audience of young males has been joined by new demographics brought in by the Wii, PC casual games, and now the iPhone. Many of these people may be vaguely aware of long-running game brands, but won't have a clue about the key characters, sign post events and basic gameplay mechanisms."
Great, but would the new demographics want to play these games anyway? Probably not. And by rebooting these established series, all you're going to do is fuck over the faithful audience by screwing with their series.
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Sounds elitist maybe, but they probably are only concerned with games like bejewled on those platforms or the sims or something like wii fit.
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2006/9/7/new-from-squareenix/
Autoplay? Please don't. Atleast beating a game used to be an accomplishment.
I don't think I'd reboot any game series - there would probably be some uncomfortable modifications for political correctness or widening the audience, eg. Duke Nukem without strippers, or no terrorists in Tom Clancy games, etc.
However, I would like to get the hours of my life back from Devil May Cry 2 - the characters don't make any sense relative to the other games.
Alpha Centauri!
I LOVE Raiden 2 in the arcade. Fantastic vertical shooter, upgradeable weapons, cool stuff. I think a 'reboot' version would be quite nice.
... before our childhood memories are destroyed by graphically impressive, but lifeless sequels. There's plenty of not-so-ancient games around that deserve a sequel or two.
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I would so love to see a remake of the Alternate Reality series. There was The City, and The Dungeon. The makers at Datasoft planned a couple more chapters, but never completed the game. It was the best (only?) first person RPG for the old 8-bit computers. With technology today, this title could really be done justice. Anyone else remember this series? Link to AR Wiki
Ah! The existential angst of whether the ball will return, the skill of sending it back with just an expert flick of the wrist...
"Little does he know, but there is no 'I' in 'Idiot'!"
Hands down, Ultima.
Richard Garriot may not have set out to build a work that shaped Secular Humanism into a religion and then explore that dynamic but in Ultima, the hero journeys from obscure champion to a messianic prophet of Lord British's secular religion. Culminating in Ultima 7, the black gate we see the dynamic play out between the Fellowship vs. Lord British and the Avatar.
You start out with Mondain and Minax with their sites outside of Britannia, then Exodus activates and begins it's development. Blackthorne, the gargoyles, and the great transition and rise of the Avatar. The the house of cards begins to fall apart, the rise of the Fellowship, the coming of the Guardian, and the fall of the Avatar (depending on how you look at that last piece of crap)
Oh give me 3 weeks and I'll give you 12 scripts for a reboot. Knock knock, Garriot & EA I'll do it, give me the go ahead!
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Ultima 9, remade with the ultima lore up to serpent isle. maybe even redo ultima 8. Or forget it. But ultima 9 was definitively a piss at all ultima fan. Redo it. Reboot it. Whatever.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beneath_a_steel_sky would make an awesome movie.
The industry has unfortunately gone away from single-player RPG games to date. Origin's Ultima series is second to none, but another one they put out is fully deserving of a remake: Autoduel. Great concept and execution of the original, but even so, the game has huge potential in a reboot.
Anyone else remember this game? Came out same time as Descent, but I found it to be quite more enjoyable.
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What was that game ... it was a lot of fun and I used to play it on my my PC and drink bottle after bottle of Skittlebrau. I wish I could remember it.
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OMG!!! Ponies!!!
Sounds Totally Awesome! I'd go for that. Now, Goblin and Unicorn. Fight to the death!
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Leisure Suit Larry. It was never adapted to a console, (that I am aware of)...but to those of you who know what I'm talking about, you know you want it.....
I recently tried to install an old discworld noir that I had from ages ago but hadn't completed. It wouldn't work, I can't make it work and now I want to play it more than anything in the world. Damn the company that made it going bust. Remake it. Please won't someone remake it.
Elite was fab, even if the early ones had wireframe graphics; there was a nice backstory, lots of grinding, choices about combat versus commercial ways to make money. Man, I wasted a lot of time on those games.
I'm surprised no one has mentioned this before. It was a nice cerebral game, though some could say Bioshock was kind of similar. Also I agree with Shadowrun and Firefly(the show) being rebooted.
Police Quest & Kings Quest --- Heck let's start bringing back all the old Sierra games!!
+1 For Wing Commander
The Metroid series has completely gone off the rails since the days of the Snes. They have to abandon this FPS fetish they have, put some clothes back on Samus and get her back into some proper side scrolling planet exploring.
And that was the last Terry Fox run I ever participated in.
not that it was really a series, but put in a better map, better hunting, different hazards, more types of supplies, open-ended route selection like gps navigation or something, roving bands of indians to deal with, much much more!!
i still have the old version on a flash drive with an old mac emulator and play it every now and then, so much fun hunting, i always max out the number of bullets i can take with me!
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System Shock was too far ahead of it's time. The interface was inventive, but not in a good way. The creatures were scary, but had no AI to speak of. The graphics were cutting edge...in the 90's. And they game play has inspired the industry in so many ways, what would happen if the industry returned that inspiration?
Probably one of the most complete post-apocalyptic racing games ever (a highly saturated category, no doubt). Given its original platform, I think it could get a real boost from modern physics and graphics engines.
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I would love to see a remake of EA's Mail order Monsters. My friends I spent hours, weeks, months playing it. Ok Ok, I break down, we spent years playing. Actually I still do. It still holds my interest.
'nuff said
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How on earth did I miss playing this game? Maybe because I never had an Xbox?
I don't want reboots, but I would like to see re-releases. Just as every few years the movie studios dust-off Casablanca or Gone with the Wind and put them out for sale, I wish videogame producers would do the same.
I would love to replay Resident Evil 1, but upgrade the 320x240 graphics to 1920x1080. Ditto Final Fantasy 7. Nintendo did this a few years ago when they re-released Zelda Ocarina of Time with hi-res graphics, and I loved it.
Same game; same "feel"; just better imagery.
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Total Annihilation needs a reboot desperately. And I don't mean any of that Supreme Commander BS, I mean Total Annihilation, the way it was meant to be, with the original IP. Honestly, just update the graphics and physics of the old game to take advantage of new hardware, take the time to make an actual story, and it'll outsell any *siege Gas Powered has made.
The progression through the campaign is extremely non-linear. There are about 40 missions, spread out on a map of Europe. Your first mission is in far West Europe, and each mission you complete opens up bordering missions (sort of like a Risk map). Realistically, the game can be complete having only played through around 15 missions if you do them in the right order. The problem is you won't have picked up enough technology to make the final mission anything but shear mind bending torture.
This really helps once the missions start to get difficult. If you get stumped up in the Northern countries, go try and take Northern Africa. You may pick up new technology upgrades in the process that will help you go back and tackle more difficult missions.
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I got a kind of beta version of UFO Defense on my WM5 machine. It's kinda buggy but still a time guzzler like always. And if you liked the original X-Coms and want more I'd seriously recommend getting a copy of the new UFO series: http://www.mobygames.com/game-group/ufo-series The first one is completely awesome, the second a bit of a downer but the third is also wicked cool. And I'm not talking just mechanics, I'm talking storyline, narrative connections, drama, action, whatever...
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Take GTA, stick it in the south west, turn the clock back 30 years, and glue the radio to funk.
Then add cannons.... lots and lots of cannons.
I'd love to see all of the south west render before my eyes, filled with auto villains. Then, network with my auto vigilante friends to take them all out...in style!
The originals - Pool of Radiance, Curse of the Azure Bonds, Secret of the Silver Blades, Pools of Darkness. Wrap them in one long game. Tie them together a little more neatly. Remove the reliance on journals. (Although I will admit the translation wheel and journal were awesome in the day, now they only serve as a distraction -- dig through the box, find the manual, read the entry - and that's only if I've managed to forget what the entry was, which isn't likely.)
Remaking the games and giving PoR and CotAB the Fix command in camp would be nice. Updating the graphics would be nice. But the game play - what I refer to as fantasy based squad level combat, not role playing - could be hugely improved. You could add role playing elements by expanding the options in the games for solving the puzzles. Make the players think more in quite a few of the situations they found themselves in.
Though, SotSB could probably be left out to die. I don't have many fond memories of it. And this probably doesn't qualify as a reboot so much as a remake. And WotC, or whoever holds the AD&D license now, would insist on using 4e rules which would change the flavor of the game entirely...
Dungeon Keeper would be a fantastic game to see re-imagined. Eye of the Beholder. I'd enjoy seeing what some of the darker personalities of the world could do with the Warcraft lore, given the chance. Space simulations need to come back -- picked up FreeSpace and FreeSpace 2 at Good Old Games (http://www.gog.com) and loved 'em; they're made even better with the FreeSpace Source Code Project created by the source code release by Volition. (Hm, have they already been rebooted, or just remade? There are several new campaigns...)
Wing Commander would be awesome to see revived. Ultima would be a fantastic series to see reimagined, especially the first three (which I never liked all that much due to the space portions). RIP Origin. :|
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Go for Interstate 76
go here for a trailer: http://pc.ign.com/articles/100/1002275p1.html
Montezuma's Revenege.The game not the butt problem.
I was excited to see Half-Life Escape from City 17, but I have a feeling the one and only teaser will be the last of the series. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1UPMEmCqZo
Freespace and Freespace 2 were the best space combat sims around. I still fire them up every once in a while. FSOpen (which makes it work with DirectX hardware and modern Windows versions) keeps it easy to return to.
What Ubisoft did to Rainbow Six and Ghost Recon after they bought the Tom Clancy franchises is a travesty. They're in desparate need of a reboot back to their realistic, tactical roots. Recent games in both series have turned into poor imitations of action movies. The latest R6 game even had a climactic boss battle where you, on foot, have to take down an attack helicopter while dodging left and right on a tennis court to avoid its missiles.
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The Bard's Tale series was excellent and I'd love to see it remade. The riddles, puzzles, and mazes made it challenging over and above just fighting monsters. I also liked Neuromancer on the Commodore and thought it was a pretty good adaptation from the novel at the time. I think it could be remade to be much better in this day and age though.
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I'm surprised that no one's tried to remake AutoDuel / CarWars.
When Mechwarrior 3 came out as a 3D simulator, I was hoping that Autoduel would get a similar treatment, as a driving simulator with guns. (or you might be able to pull off something more like Grand Theft Auto, too)
It'd be a great sandbox game -- you could run courier tasks, compete in the dueling circuit, try to hijack other couriers, be a vigilante, etc.
... and unlike today's games where you just save every 5 min and reload when you do something stupid, they had a built in "save" system -- you had to pay to have a clone made (or refreshed with memories), and when you died, you went back down to that skill level, and lost whatever car you had been driving.
Build it, and they will come^Hplain.
I would love to see a modern-engined Carmageddon reboot. Sure, the 3rd one(TDR) was horrible, focusing on the missions. The reason for that is that even the developers realized there wasn't much to this game. The enemy cars often got damaged and just randomly veered around. There was no sense of urgency except to kill peds to keep your timer from running out. Ergo, missions were put in(some I could not solve even with cheats).
It was just fun to drive around & do stunts, mixed in with car combat & running peds down. Veered into sandbox-style games. It was a zen game. Let's see this redone with a modern game engine, perhaps with destructible environments and such.
Probably nobody else is going to agree with me, but I had to mix it up a bit.
Definitely Privateer, but Dune I. was also great
Has anyone given thought to remaking Duke Nukem?
Duke Nukem is in serious need of a Reboot! Don't you agree? I even know the perfect studio to take care of it...
How has this thread has gone this far without a modded up mention of Chrono Trigger?? Fans have been demanding a new addition for years. Fans even tried to take things into their own hands.
Pong... with cutscenes.
*bloop* Unlocked achievement! Your paddle has reached level 50.
The plot line - though highly coherent as it was - is a bit dated. After all, I'm pretty sure the office supply wars between the staples and the lines and dots has been resolved.
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River City Ransom or Power Stone. River City Ransom had that crappy Game Boy Advance release that was actually inferior to the NES release (no 2 player) and Power Stone had a shovelware release on PSP. But Power Stone 2 is made for 4 player consoles and the crazy action would work well, especially on Wii. I think Smash Bros. players would enjoy Power Stone 2.
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I'd pay for a "reboot" of the SSI "Gold Box" games. Likewise for "Eye of the Beholder".
I would pay big money for a port of the original Deus Ex to a modern console. Likewise for an updating of the System Shock series.
Fallout 3 has been successful on consoles; I'd pay for Fallout 1 and 2 somewhat updated and ported to a console.
With the whole renewed interest in crazy DaVinci Code type stuff, a reboot of the whole "Gabriel Knight" series might actually do decently, if handled right.
I want a new Road Rash game !!!! I played them all from the Genesis to the Playstation and loved them all !!! (I wouldnt mind picking up a copy of the Playstation one to play on my PS3...)
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Speaks for itself... it had brilliant game play, a very twisty-turny plot with magic and undead galore, mixing medieval with technology with magic - the story could go pretty much wherever the story-teller wanted it to.
I'd love BaK to be redone for a console.
I would want to get a remake of the Monkey Island concept where they scrap the cartoonish style and make it more like "The Pirates of the Caribbean" which is just the way they were in Monkey 1 and 2.
I loved the first one.
I am coming to this discussion a bit late. But XCOM and XCOM:TFTD were awesome. I loves me some good turn-based strategy.
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Duke Nukem! 3D
How about giving us the next installment, it's taken like FOREVER!!!!
Ok - it was cheesy... lucas arts killed all the sequels... and the game was linear and short... SO WHAT? It was still a FUN GAME!
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The guy who programmed this is a frickin' genius. To this day, Alternate Reality is more lifelike in many ways than just about any FRPG out there. And on an Atari 800!
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This is definitely my most nostalgic series ever (first network game ever played was heretic across a modem), and a more modern version would be amazing. Although, I'd want to see real innovation, not just some thrown together piece of junk. Not that anyone wants that either...
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Classic games. They both need a good upgrade!
I would redo the Call of Duty series and replace the Nazis with mimes.
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I would like to see more from the "Breath of Fire" series. relying more on the first 2 than three-five. i miss the over head view story driven RPG.
Mule
Rogue
Elite
Sundog
Dungeon Master
Populous 1
Oids
and probably a DOS title
Master of Orion 2
Ahem. But seriously, who wouldn't love Space Quest revisited? I think they should also turn the series into a movie franchise with Bruce Campbell as he hero.
Sam & Max Mechwarrior Freespace Starfox (the space shooter one, not the platform) Megaman I don't play games anymore these days except the odd NES emulator or flash game. Any of these faithful to the original gameplay would get me interested again.
Go back to the basics, the first game was amazing. I'm not quite sure what happen after.
Great music, nice action, but the difficulty was set too high, especially in that any collision with enemies hurt you (even touching the bad guy's hat with your toe).
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Quest for Glory reboot would be really cool
Duke Nukem...
"Action without philosophy is a lethal weapon; philosophy without action is worthless."
without a doubt; in my opinion that's one of best games ever. I wonder why there weren't any more games like that, probably too complex for true 3D?
TIE Fighter, hands down.
You could manage your party in some unique way, you could drop one your follows in some city so they can work, and than later in the game (because time advanced), make them rejoin your party and have the money they've made! Scandalous!
I'm seeing a lot of interesting 1-shot comments here now.
I'm thinking that a prime candidate for a reboot has to meet certain criteria.
* There has to be some lore. If the game is pure play style without a story, then it's not really a reboot. If you changed the play style, you change the genre, and that's the most defining characteristic of a game. (Would you reboot Guitar Hero as a band sim?)
* The franchise is a series. (You can't reboot Hellgate: London, for example; it's either a sequel (if you liked the story) or a remake (you didn't).)
* The first of the series was considered great. If it wasn't, you either build on it (a bad reboot), or redo it (a remake).
* At some point, the rest of the series was considered less than great. At some point, the sequels just added too much. It became feature-ridden, self-inconsistent, or silly.
That last point is the crux. It's like you made this great base camp in the jungle, and it had several great-looking treks you could take, and you took one, but it turned out to suck, so now you have to go back to base camp and try a different route.
Good candidates I'm noticing include Deus-Ex, Doom, Duke Nukem, Everquest, Half-Life (rebootable, even though I personally love the current line), King's Quest, Leisure Suit Larry, Space Quest, Star Control, Tomb Raider, Ultima, and Zork.
Lately democracy seems to be based on the skybox, the Happy Meal box, the X-box, and the idiot box.
Descent
Freelancer
Mechwarrior
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... because you don't *really* need to know it. In fact, I get the impression you might be less confused if you don't. I've played much of the way through RE4 (before my friend took his Wii back home and I had to stop) and all the way through RE5 several times. The plot presented by RE5 is only confusing in that it's a bit bonkers but really you don't need to follow the details in order to enjoy the main message of the plot, which is "Shoot zombies and evil dudes with shiny teeth".
My general impression of Resident Evil games is that they engineer the plot by pulling out "The Bumper Book of Cliches" and then attempting to cram as many as possible into a short space of time; paradoxically, however, they do this so well that the resulting game is *awesome* instead of awful. My gaming partner and I play a faux drinking game where we shout "chug!" and pretend to knock back a shot every time a game does something cliched, features cliched dialogue, etc. We're shouting chug pretty much all the time when we play RE5.
After a while you find you start saying cliched things yourself as the experience percolates in. My friend cried out "They're attacking us from long range!" and I responded, without thinking about it, "Then lets make it *close range*!", running in with my shotgun. *chug*. Seriously, if the anti-gaming lobby knew it made everything you say come out as a cliche I don't know if they would be hysterically alarmed or hysterically amused.
Can't believe I haven't seen this mentioned, but I'd love to see a reboot of Castlevania. No 3D, keep it 2D but high-rez, large explorable worlds, lots of weapons and by the gods WHIPS. You have to admit, the Belmont legacy has gotten completely convoluted and retconned a few times. Just jettison it and create a new story with Simon(or Richter or whoever). And yes totally agree with Syndicate and Kid Icarus. Even if either or both are just a remake with updated graphics.
Most of the games that have been mentioned are or were gems. Maybe of their time, but they were really good. They don't need a reboot. They need a makeover. The formula was right and the game in a new dress would rock again.
I think what we should be looking for is games that had a great idea but went off in the wrong direction. Where the original idea was novel, stunning, the foundation of a truely great game, but the game itself was lacking in some way. Or games where the first installment was awesome but they botched it with the sequels.
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I thought this was a cool series of games back in the day. It was a fun mix of puzzle/adventure/rpg elements. I'd want the core element of solving puzzles to advance the story to remain the same, and that your character build gives you different tools to do so, rogue vs warrior vs mage. This would be a perfect series to reboot ala xbla, wii ware, psn and steam (as was done with the Monkey Island update).
I'd also love to see a prettied up version of X-Wing/Tie fighter games emerge. I wore out two thrustmaster joysticks (that name sounds way more perverse to me today) on those games. I loved the mission layouts, the snippets of Star Wars (OT) story, and they existed before the Prequels destroyed my love of that movie series. I could see this being perfect as episodic content, releasing a series of missions at a time. I haven't played flight-sims/space combat games in forever so I don't know the ideal control mechanics. After Freespace 2 I ditched the joysticks, but I think Freelancer had a decent mouse control scheme.
That game was awesome before it went 3D
Body Harvest was my favorite game on the N64. I wish there was more. :(
Easy, this game would be great with a graphics update. Don't change the music.
I had hours of enjoyment out of Syndicate in my teens and early 20's. The concept was far fetched those days, but seems much more plausible given the current political and economic theater.
Rather than go into detail in this post, I'll refer you to the Wikipedia entry for Syndicate
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Descent always seems so boring and unimpressive compared with Forsaken.
At the time it was graphically amazing and very very fast...Multiplayer Forsaken was amazing due to the weapon selection (and camera's on mines, etc)
I remember thinking at the time that Forsaken looked like it had been made in a different decade to decent. You truly felt dizzy spinning 360's dogfighting with what ever it was that was attacking you...
(btw I am referring to Forsaken on PC - You needed 3D acceleration to properly experience it (otherwise it looked like decent) and a joypad with strafe buttons was essential.
Betrayal at Krondor/Return to Krondor, the old floppy disk D&D games like Eye of the Beholder and so on, Journeyman Project, Oregon Trail (this could be an epic game), Messiah, Black & White, Final Fantasy TOTAL AND COMPLETE REBOOT FROM THE BEGINNING, Baldur's Gate series, and many more. If I had the money and resources (and time), I'd love to create a game so massive, open, dynamic, and interactive that just the written dialogue for on-screen captions would take a full DVD. I'm talking Crysis meets GTA (all of them) meets Freelancer meets Red Faction meets Star Wars KOTOR meets Fallout (all of them) meets The Sims meets Warcraft meets Fable. A single player game that makes World of Warcraft, EVE, Everquest et al look like a short javascript game. A seemless world. I mean that literally. A fully fleshed out WORLD to play through. Full conitinents, oceans, cities, roads, everything. All populated with like a billion inhabitants. Neverending supply of random quests, and a main quest that would take like 2000 hours of play to complete. It'd have functional politics, functional economy, you could buy houses, cars, bikes, furniture, etc. It would literally be the most ambitious MMO incorporating every gameplay mechanic and feature of the best games, but it would be single player. It would have online capabilities, like other inhabitants would be other players, and you could do some MMO stuff like race, rob a bank together, be partners in a business venture, own a store to sell stuff to other players and what not, but the core gameplay would be single player. Unfortunately, I've envisioned that this game would be so huge and complex, it would require its own multi-terabyte hard drive to run from (and to be packaged on) and would cost upwards of 300 million or more to make properly. By the time it went to market it would cost like $300.00 to buy it, and thus would not sell well enough to be worth it (at this time). I can always dream, though.
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I had gotten ahold of "Car Tycoon" some time ago and it had some play limiting bugs in it. I would love to see someone make that over with updated graphics and solid code. I would enjoy hours of running a major car company. Maybe then I could go save GM's ass.
A fantastic idea that disappeared with the Sega Dreamcast. Your imagination is the limit.
Those were the best RPG's out there, and they really should be brought up for modern computing. BGII had a huge explorable world with more to do than needed. I'd love to see all 3 series updated.
We spent hours playing this game on the C64. You would build the track, set parameters like weather and even gravity. Build your car and arm it with various weapons and then race. I used to build big deep valleys and then arm my car with oil guns. My opponent would get stuck in the oil in the valley and I could go all the way around and hit him from behind with missles.
I absolutely loved the Quest for Glory series when I was young. I would love to see it redone with modern technology.
Try X-Wing Alliance, a sequel to XvT.
It featured support for 3D accelerators and internet multiplayer and you can fly the Millennium Falcon. Fans have even added new models so it doesn't look too terrible on a modern machine -- especially since space is so sparsely populated anyway.
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The Duke Nukem series as the Duke Nukem Forever development has clearly crashed.
Those who can, do. Those who cannot, sue.
There. And get the guys who wrote it back. And combine all three stories with more stuff, and make it 3D, with the same creepy music.
I don't know why I didn't think of it sooner -- the XCom series would be perfect for a reboot.
The turn-based tactical aspect with action points... you know, that had a lot in common with the original Fallout game mechanics... maybe a Fallout 3 style "VATS" system would be a way to bring it up to date. Who has the rights to this today, and how do we get those rights into the hands of Bethesda?
The most awesome game ever!
who doesn't love a hero on a pogo stick?
A modern top-down Grand Theft Auto would be nice. I remember playing GTA2 long after GTA3 was released. It's available for free now at http://www.rockstargames.com/classics/?id=3. And a decent quake would be nice too. :) That Quake Live thing is the worst thing that has "Quake" on it. It sucks at pretty much everything.
because Monkey Island is being done : )
http://www.telltalegames.com/monkeyisland
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loom_(video_game)
I loved the voice acting and storyline, but the gameplay was pretty weak throughout the series. Just when they finally started to get it right, the series lost all of its momentum.
Sadly, this awesome RTS/God-sim was quickly forgotten after it's publisher went out of business...
The original is apparently free for download however! :)
Despite its many flaws, bugs and shortcomings, Arcanum holds enough goodness that I still play it from time to time. I'd be happy to see it retooled.
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Back in the 80's my parents bought me the game for my 8086 5mhz 512k CGA computer. It was a neat game. The mechanics of it were very much like scumm. The music was catchy (written by DEVO) even on PC speaker. It wasn't until years later that I read the book. After reading it, I definitely wanted an updated version of the game.
Philip Price's awesome series, Alternate Reality: The City, from 1987.
The developers put an unbelievable amount of effort and layered detail into the game engine, and so many "technical firsts" innovating features.
10 years before Doom it had a very similar FPS rendering/viewpoint engine, excellent storyline, awesome music with lyrics, display-list interrupts on the Atari to gain access to 256 colors in higher graphics modes. Even today's Oblivion/Fallout character/RPG engine uses many similar character rules first found in AR. Like many of today's massive games, it attempted to provide "loadless levels" (albeit much more primitively) where it swapped out distant objects, and kept local ones memory resident, so you could go in and out of rooms and (usually) not re-load the scene.
I also loved X-Com and Archon. These both have some brilliant AI, and Archon in particular still sees some time on the 8-bit emulator.
Terra Nova: Strike Force Centauri
that game was so brilliant and so deeply flawed, it should be given a real chance to shine.
Looking Glass will nerver stop ruling.
If anything, every major Final Fantasy release is different than each other. Characters (good or bad), settings, events are rarely continued or reused. The combat system as well as other parts are often redone each release. Final Fantasy more or less "reboots" each major release.
I do know what you are getting at though but the problem isn't the characters, settings, events, and what not since designers are free to restart each installment and have taken advantage of that. The problem is those designers are still the same. Square-Enix should instead work on bringing up new talent so they can use the freedom allowed in FF.
Laser Squad and X-COM: UFO Defense (aka UFO: Enemy Unknown).
Baldur's Gate series for RPG. Still cool and is what I'm introducing my daughter (8 yrs) to, for computer RPG. I've been explaining how it's based off of paper D&D and she's getting interested in trying that out. The cool looking dice help.
SMAC/X (Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri) for strategy game. I still play this one several times a year. Would be cool if could network each player's world and allow cross play. Just need a few drop ships, maybe a dinosaur killer and you're set.
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Maniac Mansion:Day of the Tentacle
And I think we could all use some more Zorks
And I defiantly think more Mechwarriors
and magic would be high on my list.
Planescape: Torment 2 would be probably my top choice. Putting together something within the NWN engine, but allowing a lot more customization so everyone can create their own areas and link them together through complex portals... Fallout 3 would be nice... :D
Deux Ex is an obvious choice.
"Reality continues to ruin my life" - Calvin and Hobbes
Either a reboot or just a sequel. I'd love to see the kind of gameplay and characters that were in Torment in a modern game. We've got enough MMORPGs, and the current RPGs are just not as fun as Planescape. I have a hard time identifying what it was that made the game so fun, but someone needs to figure that out and replicate it.
Impossible Mission Zork Dropzone/Datastorm Uridium(II) Gauntlet Baldur's Gate. If someone wants to do Zork as a graphical thing we might need a few generations of Moore more before trying.
Duke Nukem
First both sucked up by big companies. And then left to die.
Second one, dunno.
But all really *really* great games.
Any sufficiently advanced intelligence is indistinguishable from stupidity.
I always liked the fact that instead of searching for a keycard you could just blow up a door. Taking over robots or using RC robots to blow stuff up was a ton of fun as well.
The music was pretty good to, is the Fatman still around?
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Robot Odyssey - 'Nuff said. A game like this that requires logical thought would thrive in today's world of ripoffs and remakes.
I thought the old Microprose Pirates! game could use a reboot. Missed it the first time around on Apple, caught it during the PC remake in the 90's. Lo and behold, it was remake a few years back. Very faithful to the original. The version for Xbox is even more streamlined and playable. It just goes to show you really can modernize the old classics.
I'd love to see an improved X-Com. There's a Steam version of the old one available so you know it'll work on modern hardware without hiccups. I don't know if the turn-based nature would survive a modernization, though. I don't think it would test well with the focus groups or may just be ruled out from the outset by the suits. It really wouldn't be quite the same game without that, less strategic.
Syndicate would probably benefit handsomely from an update. It was already real-time from the start. The only question would be if they could 3D the environments without making it a waste. RTS games that embraced full 3D could end up being unplayable if you zoomed in to the ground-level fights they liked showing in the trailers. But if they did do 3D Syndicate, they'd also have to introduce destructable environments. It always bugged me that we could get such giant booms with the time bombs and gauss guns and the buildings would remain intact.
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This Mahdi took Shaddam's Throne
I haven't played a good Tank sim since Team Yankee and Pacific Islands. Those were the first computer games I've ever bought and I have yet to play a Tank sim that can top them. Since they are nearly 20 years old, that's pretty sad.
But please do not mess with the gameplay! Just port the original to a new platform without changing the rules. And don't add any confusing graphics, the game is not about great graphics but about gameplay.
(Yes, I am aware of FreeCiv, but that one does change the rules!)
Someone who successfully rebooted a series just wasted talent at it instead of launching a new one.
The Wise adapts himself to the world. The Fool adapts the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the Fool.
I would reboot Sid Meier's Pirates, but make it a true MMO like World Of Warcraft. Use the map data from google or something.....
And they can bring it up to date as Minesweeper:Modern Tactics and have chances of friendly fire!
Admittedly, the Discovery mod come pretty dang close, but if they aren't going to open-source it, we might as well go for a sequel at least.
I would love to see a remake of Clouds/Darkside of Xeen. MM4 and MM5 were two of the best RPG's ever made.
And no, Halo is not Marathon.
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You'd sell millions of copies on the free press alone. Otherwise, one of my favourite series was the Quest For Glory series - RPG + adventure-style puzzles was so awesome, and games since have tended to focus on one aspect in favour of the other.
Ayjay on Fedang
Man, I loved this NES adventure game: http://www.gamespite.net/toastywiki/index.php/Games/Shadowgate
"The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as long as we live." - M.J. A
Bard's Tale: Yes it was rebooted on the XBox a few years ago (sort of), but they killed that game. The game that was in development by a fan group looked like it was going to kick so much butt (Devil's Whiskey), but then EA started sending cease and desist letters so they had to change it. I remember that it was going to be called"The Bard's Legacy."
I have to grab a copy of Devil's Whiskey.
CAPS LOCK: ITS LIKE THE CRUISE CONTROL FOR AWESOME
Since Wing Commander and X-Fighter has already been mentioned...
There's a nice MMO called 'Vendetta Online' (see http://www.vendetta-online.com/). If you ever wanted to play a Wing Commander style game, you should give it a try.
This is one begging for a PopCap or XBLA remake... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boulder_Dash
"The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as long as we live." - M.J. A
Crusader (both of 'em), Strife, and Interstate '76 are some of my favorite old games - I still keep an old Pentium 160 MHz Win 98 Box with a Voodoo 1 and SoundBlaster 16 card just so I can play them.
Crusader was a fantastic 3/4 view shooter with some of the best weapons, levels, and cut-scene movies I have ever played. You could roll to the left and right and under desks and stuff to avoid or return fire - Awesome! Plus the story line was really good and interesting. The game even came with a little newspaper for the year it was done and realistic brouchures and a manual like you were actually defecting to join the rebels.
Strife was an interesting take on the FPS RPG using the doom engine and it had a really cool story. It would be great to see it redone with more story and better graphics. With the success of Fallout 3 (though I found it a little weak compared to the older Fallout games...), this idea could really go places.
And who doesn't love the funkadelic soundtrack from Interstate '76?! Another great game with excellent storyline, and lots of playability - imagine having 32 player deathmatches in '70s muscle cars with 50 cal machine guns and stinger missile launchers mounted on the roof. Plus you could always go for the headshot through the windshield using your pistol.
Great games...
Well, my top 5 are as follow: Arcanum: 3d open world (ok, the original game WAS open world) ala Oblivion and Fallout 3. MMO followup. The time is clearly right for a new, GOOD, steampunk game. X-Com: Full 3d, turn based remake of the original. Keep the base building, keep the aircraft control and KEEP THE DESTRUCTIBILITY. Needs random map generation. I'd also love to see Rainbow Six: Vegas and a Full Spectrum Warrior like spinoffs too. Hell, even interceptor was a good idea, it just should have been the interceptors from the original game, and integrated into the game. Red Baron: Ok, no real reason to save the franchise, but a modern WWI flight sim would be incredible. Elite: Reboot, remake and combine the three games. Keep the realistic physics. Add an MMO sequel as EVE done right. SimCity: Ok,d oesn't really make sense, but the series has had real directional problems since 3000, and been going downhill noticably since 4. The game that shall go unmentioned killed the franchise in it's current form. City Life and XL just aren't cutting it. A serious attempt at a city simulator is needed; hell with modern tech it could zoom out to a national level. OTOH maybe I should do it myself, being a planning major. But, seriously, Max Payne: Well, alright, finish the trilogy first, but then we need the first game updated. Ideally I'd like to see a finished trilogy packaged together, all using the same engine and comparable resources. Notice one consistent theme here? THEY ARE ALL PC ORIENTED BIG BUDGET TITLES!!!!!!!!!!!!
Myst?
Yes, it was great, but it could be a lot better with more modern game engines.
I void warranties.
Jesus Christ, people like you are the reason I hardly ever read slashdot anymore.
You really think you're witty or something by spelling it "M$"?
Scorched Earth
My list: :) ). For PvP balance they could do the Aliens a bit like the zombies in Left4Dead - you have many much weaker cannonfodder aliens, and then the humans can control a few special ones (or just be a sneakier normal alien ;) ).
:).
:). Doesn't have to redone in first person perspective. Leave it top down, or something similar.
:).
Aliens vs Predator
- AVP2 was OK, but some parts seemed a bit like a rush job. Should also allow Predators to climb most stuff as well (just slower than Aliens), and have them leave their claw marks on the walls/trees when climbing (so the marines and others at least have some clue
Archon - a less deterministic version of Chess
Autoduel - car wars
Omega - the game where you write _programs_ to control tanks.
And how about a decent mecha game with updated tech? OK I heard the japanese arcades have a Gundam game, so something like that would be good. There also was a game called Virtual On - I never got a chance to play that either
Now downloading Continuum (used to be SubSpace) again.
Need for Speed started as a serious game, the best at time of 3DO, Saturn and PS1. In fact, I liked the first Underground game too. I think EA can put efforts on two separated series, but the main point here is: spend more time increasing the overall quality. We have at least one NFS game for year, all crap. I think one game each 2 or 3 year, but a real solid blockbuster racing game, will increase the overall sales.
Keep the improved visual style of DK2, but the two different voices for announcer and narrator from DK1. Also, allow creatures to gain levels as they win battles.
Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver was one of my favorite games from the PSX / Dreamcast era. Great (for the time) graphics, decent voice acting, and a compelling storyline were enough to hook me back then, and if the series could be reimagined with updated graphics and a darker "feel" (perhaps coming close to the vibe of the God of War series) for modern consoles, I'd be pretty happy.
Duke Nukem.... Forever and Never!
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Add more, more, more character customizations, powers, meshes and skins. In short, make it a City Of Heroes single player. Also, include the mod tools with the retail version, not an optional download.
Wizardry?!
Crusaders of the Dark Savant was an awesome game.
Wizardry 8 was ok, given the rug got pulled out from under the game midway through the dev.
Free-to-play Pokemon MMORPG. You know you'd play that. Don't lie.
Seriously, this game was epic. The game concept of discovering a new world and exploring the entire continent, meeting natives, gathering resources. All with simple graphics. A reboot could bring a much richer combat system and even include multiplayer cooperative/competitive modes.
Loved the original games on the Apple II. Ultima X was a bit of a CF, but what can you do.
River City Ransom!! Please revive this game! Best ever!
Secret of Monkey island would have been my first choice... But they are already doing that.
So I would say Journeyman Project! I would LOVE to see another game!
Wings, Rocket ranger and 'It came from the desert' were outstanding Amiga games from the 80's. The graphics were about the best there was at the time, The Music in all the games was excellent and all 3 games (except Wings) combined strategy elements with (fun) action sequences.
.... (there was no save)
I played Rocket ranger for about 10 years and never once was able to finish it
Toejam and Earl, not the horrible platformer versions. A remake of the original fully updated with huge maps and new crazy items/enemys and net based multiplayer would KICK ASS. Oh but leave the tunes alone, that game still to this day has one of the best soundtracks going.
Well, Bart, your uncle Arthur used to have a saying: "Shoot 'em all and let God sort 'em out."
Please, for the love of God, bring us back REAL Wing Commander. III and IV, not Prophecy-like. Please? =(
If you were offended by anything I said... No, I'm not sorry. Please lighten up.
The NES game was ridiculously hard, but it was fun. I wouldn't mind revisiting that series if it were well done. Then we could all call GameStop and ask if they have it in stock.
Dragon Quest games do not follow after each other any more than Final Fantasy games do. In almost all cases, neither do Zelda games. Each game in these series is already a reboot.
Syndicate may be a good one. Quest For Glory Scorched Earth... wait. I think it's been made and called "worms" ;-)
You know, the Sierra MechWarrior clone (or the original game that MechWarrior cloned - I don't remember which came first), that eventually spawned EarthSiege II, Cyberstorm, Cyberstorm II, and StarSiege?
Those games would be incredible with some updated graphics and gameplay. Maybe I'm out of the loop on PC games these days, but it seems like everything is either a reiteration of Oblivion, Half-Life, or Warcraft. It seems like the "piloting" games have fallen by the wayside; the last time I saw a mechanic like that was in Battlefield 1942 - and then it was part of an FPS.
Maybe I'm looking in the wrong places.
Speaking of piloting games - let's reboot X-Wing!
Seriously, the first two (Myst and Riven) were absolutely brilliant, and are still two of my favorite games of all time. The third was passable, but the fourth and fifth pretty much fell flat.
Mostly, I think it's because the characters got detailed well beyond the level they were developed for, resulting in stories and motivations that were flimsy or didn't make sense half of the time. Combined with a general decline in the quality of the puzzles, poor level design in the later ones, and the atrocious move to realtime graphics in the final one, this killed the games.
I'd like to see them rebooted with a return to the formula that made them a success in the first place: a return drop-dead gorgeous prerendered graphics, hard puzzles, intriguing levels, and a good sense of mystery. Ditch the overdone storyline and the attempts to add more interactivity to world, most of which just came off as hokey anyways.
One of the classic games of my childhood, teams of robotic baseball players face off against eachother. When there's a close call at the bases, they battle to the death! Throughout the season, you earn cash based on your wins and losses, and can upgrade the weapons/defenses of your team. As awesome as it was back in the 90's, it was basically baseball + 2D fighter. We've come a long way in both, and I'd love to see a reboot! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base_Wars
Mech is coming back - http://battletech.catalystgamelabs.com/ but like many others, I would like to see the good Star Wars games return, Jedi Knight, X-wing, Tie-Fighter, etc...
Sonic the Hedgehog needs to be taken out of the diabolical hands of Sonic Team and handed to people who'll stop trying to tack crappy new ideas onto it. Likewise for Nights into Dreams, whose sequel was deeply tantalizing.
And Psychonauts desperately needs a sequel.
Oh, and someone should remake the Dune RTS series.
I want to see Commander Keen done in 3D. Pogo stick, floating platforms, and giant yellow slugs are mandatory.
Cut that out, or I will ship you to Norilsk in a box.
Game companies, you have my word that if you made another Tachyon or FreeSpace game, I would never ever pirate it.
Altered Beast... I loved that game!
Seems to be a lot of adventure game love here. I found out recently that a reboot of the Tex Murphy series is in the works: http://www.unofficialtexmurphy.com/messageboard/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=2275
Why don't we just reboot the games companies, like EA and Activision? (but leave Blizzard alone, they are fine just as they are)
Ultima. The giant unified maps and quest completion style game would fit nicely into today's GTA or WoW type systems, and could capitalize greatly on the increase in modern graphics.
Common Sense isn't as Common as people think...
No One Lives Forever (NOLF) 1 and 2 were the games that first made my wife (I know, I know, insert standart /. joke about the unlikliness of a 'wife' existing) enjoy PC gaming. Every now and then we'll still yell "AAABBBIIIGAAAAAIIIILLLLL" at each other and smile. Good campy humor combined with good stories in a FPS that works for both men and women? NOLF 3? Yes please!
Strategy games are still going strong, Relic has reacquired the rights to the Homeworld franchise, that alone should be enough to get a reboot.
Throw in the fact that space combat is still an impressive sight, just look at Battlestar Galactica.
I'd definitely buy a sequel, or even a remake from the experience I've had with the previous games alone.
Wizardry, Might and Magic, Bard's Tale
It was the killer app for the Atari 800, and I still play it every now and then. I'd love to see it taken into the 21st Century.
"The only legitimate use of a computer is to play games." - Eugene Jarvis
Dam your viscous comment!
I'm not sure if these could even be rebooted, but how about games such as Heroes quest(Quest for glory, as it was later renamed), police, and space quest. The strikingly bizarre humor and more-than-standard crazy plots were fantastic, so much so that I still have all the installments of Heroes quest and space quest running on my current pc. *sighs* But alas, I fear the days were games were based on gameplay instead of the "uh, shiny!" method are all but forgot. As much as I'd like to see these games renwed I'm not sure that anyone would really be able to capture the essence of what the games are.
Valve Games:
HL2 was a great game on par if not better than HL1
DOD Source needs rebooted back to DOD 1.3
CS Source needs rebooted back to CS 1.6
TF2 was worthwhile, screw TFC
L4D2 should be an update or expansion to L4D not a new game
Portal... 2 words... Make Another
Not a reboot, but an original game I would like to see, based on the bible. Not like those lame preachy bible games of the past, but simply based on some of the epic stories and prophecies in the bible. Can you imagine some of the imagery from the book of revelation brought to life, with say, a soundtrack by Slayer? A level where you are Daniel in the Lion's den. How about parting the red sea with your Wiimote? Or David fighting Goliath. Or Jonah dealing with his whale problem? I think it could be awesome, I would buy it if it was done well.
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I know that there have been commercial and open-source attempts already to reboot M.U.L.E., but they sucked. This time, someone with talent should give it a go — just make sure that there is an option to play the unfettered, unupdated, blocky-ass graphical original.
And, after all, the original developer rebooted his gender, so why not the game?
"I guess the moral of the story is, don't paint your airship with rocket fuel." -- Addison Bain
The old Sega Genesis version would be awesome if it was reboot with next-gen scale and detail. Imagine GTA 4 size maps and rocket skates...
Wing Commander
Ultima: The Second Age Of Darkness: Tales of Sosaria: The Lord British Years: Friends of The Stranger: Iolo's Quest: Fetch Me A Toothpick.
And thanks to digital distribution they don't have to fit it on the front of a box.
X-wing and Tie Fighter have been listed
Full Throttle
But most of all, the game that they (the bean counters) said wouldn't work, because no one would pay a monthly fee to to play games online:
Quest For Glory (aka HeroQuest)
I would reboot the game
Retalliator
A flightsim with for that time great gameplay and graphics (even on a 80386 processor)
SPACE WAR!
Except I would have real stuff like the Russians and The US had to play with like nukes. So, I would turn it into a massive multi player strategy action adventure drama comedy science fiction game or just MMPSAADCSFG for short. Whaddya think? Could I patent it?
It goes by the name "Mother" in Japan, and I believe there were three of them all told, not counting the never-released NES version (you can find the rom if you look hard enough.) The Japanese kept all the Mother sequels for themselves, though. I think we should pressure them through the UN. "Oh, is North Korea getting too nukey for ya? Release the Mother sequels, then we'll talk."
not the stupid reboot that was not based on the original game, but a reboot of the Classic Bard's Tale series for newer systems.
Bard's Tale on the IBM PC using EGA graphics and PC Speaker was not as good as the Amiga or Atari ST versions. It was meant to be played on a system with good graphics and good sound.
Since there are legal issues about it, you cannot call it Bard's Tale but you can call it something else and use the same type of RPG gaming system. I would base it on the D20 or D&D 3.0 and up rules and spice it up with new classes like Ninja class and Cleric class, that players can upgrade to if they meet the minimum requirements.
Maybe upgrade the dungeon system to a better 3D engine, upgrade the graphics to modern system with better special effects. Make it so old Bard's Tale, Wizardy, and other system characters can be converted to the new system so that people playing the old game on emulators can just copy the character files out of the emulator onto the new version.
Heck you could call it Adventurer's Tale or Bard Quest or something, and just develop a dungeon system with spells and combat and not violate any IP laws. Just create new mazes and spells and stuff and us die hard Bard's Tale and Wizardy players would buy it and play it.
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Need I say anything more? Nothing more awesome than a true 3D RTS. Screw this top down shit. Ill attack you from above, and below and from another strange angle too. Then form an aggressive sphere around your mothership. Boom
Im a troll because I disagree with you.
The parent posting gets it: REBOOT, not MODERNIZE.
I think the Masters of Orion series could use a reboot. Personally, I think the last MOO was heading in the right direction, but wasn't quite ready and lost a lot of their fan base from previous releases and was then orphaned.
(Perhaps this isn't truly a reboot, either. The main problems were: 1) Very different play that lost a lot of the fan base, 2) Lots-o-bugs, and 3) they had a good idea about having you manage strategies and let the AI handle tactics, but it was buggy and obscure enough that people ended up micromanaging and fighting the AI.)
Ok, I know it's not a series, but it's awesome.
And I'll second the call for a new Mechwarrior. The closest thing we've had recently was Chromehounds on the 360.
i'm sure text adventure people will consider this blasphemy, but i would like to see a new graphical version of zork. if that is too much, then a faithful revamp of commander keen; or at least a virtual console version of the original.
lose != loose
The Crusader games by Origin (Crusader: No Remorse; Crusader: No Regret) were great fun back in the olden days. I'd love to see a reboot of this series. I think a third person or first person shooter would work, though a third person view would be more consistent with the original games and allow for the same sorts of movement commands that made them so cool.
Wasteland- Fallout was good but Wasteland was truly something. Space Rogue Moebius Temple of Apshai Star Control 1 and 2 Master of Orion 1-2- Not that abomination MOO3 Spaceflight Master of Magic- Nothing has come close to this game for me Alpha Centari Battle Chess- This needs a reboot every few years Crusader: No Remorse and No regret Syndicate Xcom Dungeonkeeper Wizardry HORDE
would also be the killer app for "augmented" reality!
'It Came From the Desert' and 'The Beast' need to come back. Amiga games were epic.
Slartibartfast:"Is that your robot?"
Marvin:"No, I'm mine."
YES! Dungeon Keeper was AWESOME - I just replayed the second one for the 20th time the other week. Love it love it love it. My heart broke a little the day that Bullfrog said they would shift to consoles only and ditch DK3. Bring it back!!!
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It was a version of the old text-graphics "Star Trek" game, on steroids ... and with any Star Trek trademark violations removed.
That's what I'd reboot. In fact, I'd probably:
1) combine it with the old Taipan game, so you can focus on economics or combat -- this might make it a 4-games-in-1 reboot: StarFleet/Star Trek, Taipan, and Sundog (which was sort of like Taipan in space, with graphics)
2) graphical front end, possibly 3D (the Sega "Star Trek" motion picture arcade game sort of did that, with wireframe vector graphics, but if you really pay attention, it's very similar to the text game's overall play), but maybe not 3D ... maybe a lighter web/ajax oriented game, instead of of high end textured/rendered 3D graphics
3) both solo play, and MMO play in a persistent universe
4) Ability to pick among multiple political/economic factions, and multiple ship types
5) Whether web/ajax, or 3D, it would have to support multiple platforms -- at least Ubuntu and Mac OS X.
A high end 3D graphics version might turn out to be like Eve-Online, though (I haven't played it, but that's the impression that I get -- Eve is Taipan in space, with 3D graphics). For various reasons, I sort of lean toward graphics, but maybe something lower-tech than Eve or typical MMORPG type graphics and interfaces.
Definitely the Ultima series. They were classics, and did things that still aren't the norm for RPGs today.
Leather Goddesses of Phobos, Bureaucracy, Then Wing Commander and of course Duke Nukem
I present to you: Burger Space.
You beat me to it. That is an excellent Burger Time clone.
Bring back Sirius Punk!
Mmm... and Beyond Good and Evil too. I keep the PS2 around in case I ever want to play that or the Sly Cooper games through again.
I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?
http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/566/Outer+Ridge.html
(Well, there are many but..)
Metroid, without a doubt. It's gone from being an atmospheric space adventure that places you alone in an unfamiliar environment, with a focus on exploration and survival in the face of a hostile local ecosystem, to yet another exposition-heavy FPS.
I've seen Space Quest mentioned here, but no King's Quest. That series rocked, and I'd love to replay it in a 3d RPG format.
I would love to see those redone for modern hardware and add in some multiplayer
I say they should reboot the final fantasy series. They are up to what, FF 14 now? Go back and do the early parts of the storyline with the cinematic gameplay we have today and you have a winner on your hands.
Star Control!#@ Seriously. Damn you Accolade for not letting this series live, and damn you Star Control 3 for sheer crapfactor.
It's about time we got another Duke Nuke game, right? How about one using the latest CryEngine?
Forever!
MoM was like Civilization ... only with a magical/fantasy emphasis instead of Civilization's technology emphasis. It also had 2 worlds ... the day world, and a sort of "underworld" that you could get to through magic gates.
I'd update it, give it solo, multi-player (LAN, or closed list of players), and online modes (open to anyone on the internet, probably housed in a game company's servers)
and in the online mode, instead having the "underworld", the gates would lead to other online game groups where the overall power levels were comparable (so that the game could, in theory, keep building along, as long as there are other game worlds at a similar level of advancement ... and that latter qualification (comparable/similar-level-of-advancement) would keep things relatively playable so that small empires aren't clashing with empires that span 12 worlds).
If a player conquers a world, then they could save and exit the game, which just means that all gates to that world (or group of worlds) close until the player resumes.
Dragon Quest (always been about a new story, characters design and .. quests. There is no relations in between DQ games.
This is a stolen sig.
NOLF can easily be ported into a casual gaming system but can also be hardcore. ;)
It can also definitely be marketed both to younger and older gamers, if you know what I mean
It was going to be an awesome game. Great team, really bright group, some innovative gameplay... that we wound up seeing in other games about two years later.
Oh well. Most of the people I know from that group have gone on to bigger and better things since. That's the games industry.
I would love to see a really good RPG made again. Not the click-n-twitch Diablo "RPG" or the faux-RPG of Fable II, but a dyed in the wool real RPG. Ultima or even Baldur's Gate. Something that you could get immersed in for hundreds of hours like the originals. True sandbox-style game where you are able to roam the landscape unfettered.
Yep, M.U.L.E.
I need more people to play with.
_____ There seems no plan because it is all plan. -- C.S. Lewis
If no one has mentioned Mother/Earthbound yet ... you are hearing it now.
There can never be too much fascicle adventures of neighborhood children being assaulted by lamps and lunchboxes.
Tell Mario's story from the beginning. The games were released as "have the most fun with current technology and great music" and plots / characters that were visually fun, but what an opportunity. Mario is an earth human, but the latest games have him so far removed from that. Dude was a zoo keeper who's girlfriend was abducted by a gorilla. Then he was a plumber dealing with some odd creatures in a basement / sewer along side his brother. Then the acid trips and the mushrooms began. However they tell it, if they retell the story starting on Earth, with a guy and his brother it could be really enjoyable to old fans and new. Imagine a game using something like the Super Paper Mario engine, but beginning with a phone call to a plumber...
That or Captain Comic. :-)
3D Lemmings where they walk (and run) in any direction after hitting a wall. No more just erecting a wall because some will just walk around it. You would have to funnel them to the stairs or zip line. Have a way to zoom in and zoom out. That way you can zoom in when they fall off a cliff.
Westwood Studios died some years ago but I loved their Blade Runner game, it was way ahead of it's time. I'd like to see the graphics updated to realtime 3D.
Same with Star Trek the Next Generation: A Final Unity. Great game and story, horrible video cut scenes, really clunky UI.
I bet these two games would come out great using Valve's Source engine.
"Is that real poncho or a Sears poncho?" ~~FZ
Mega Man, Jumping Flash, Star Fox, Gargoyle's Quest, Sonic, Streets of Rage, Road Rash, Turrican, Space Quest, Maniac Mansion, Wonder Boy, Strider, Goemon, Blaster Master, Zone of the Enders, Bonk, and Battletoads. I'd really be interested to see a new take on these series.
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I was introduced to Netrek on Solaris machines in college before I did any serious programming or even knew what the heck the internet was. I haven't played for years, but there are still a few servers running out there far from the game's prime in the mid-90s. Interestingly, it died a death that I've seen repeated in many on-line forums. The veterans show impatient arrogance and annoyance to the new players and drive them away. Then, the community slowly rots from the bottom up as only the old-timers hang around until they eventually fade out as well.
I swear to God...I swear to God! That is NOT how you treat your human!
I'm inserting my comment here as it's the first comment to mention the word 'another' without reference to the actual game. 'Another World' by Dephine Software was a cult classic and is now available on PC, google or youtube it. It's got a mature story with incredible possibilities to come to life in a much more interesting way using modern GPU's and game engines etc. My 2 cents
Some of the old Infocom games.
I would also like to see my all time favorite game "V for Victory". I really miss turn based war games.
-- A computer without Windoze is like a choclate cake without mustard
Tie FIghter
This was my second most favorite game. I love Starfleet command I and II, I never played III
-- A computer without Windoze is like a choclate cake without mustard
The Journeyman Project. Enough said.
I remember losing many an hour on my Commodore 64 to this and would love to see similar games come back.
Master of Magic! Actually, I just want the original released under the GPL.
Road Rash!!!
If you liked the Gold Box games, you might want to buy NWN ($9.99 at NewEgg) & give these a shot.
Eye of the Beholder
Pool of Radiance
There is a war going on for your mind.
Never gonna happen, too much "think of the children" now.
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call it death race / death race 2000 and make it like Cruis'n USA + hitting people for points like the movie.
Brilliant game that never took off because of problems that are solvable now.
space quest, system shock, syndicate, bloodnet, wing commander, duke nukem, sin and others I can't remember right now.
They're using their grammar skills there.
A MechCommander reboot/remake?
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government. -edward abbey
Commander Keen, or Dig Dug, or Twisted Metal, or Load Runner, or Battle Chess, or Kabuki: Quantum Fighter, or how about Green Barets (this old PC-cassette game that was UBER for the time). Double Dragon, Super Mario (hello, 2-D awesomeness). How about another side-scrolling Castlevania like SOTN?! PITFALL! Super Dodgeball!
There are SO many classic games that either have crap remakes/sequals, or just have gone under the tide of the gaming world. There are more gamers now than ever, and at 27, I can still recall playing SO many games that most of these new gamers (noobs, *snicker*) don't know anything about. It's kinda sad to think that crap games like Gears of War and Halo are now staples of the gaming industry when there are so many better games out there.
Maybe I'm too old school, but I'm surprised no one seems to have mentioned this game as a superb candidate for reboot. This is one of the first MMP games, and later modifications made an already fun, dynamic gameplay experience even better. If the reboot retained the excellent taunts and playability of the original title (unlike its subsequent releases), while incorporating contemporary graphic detail, I can't imagine it wouldn't be a successful title. The gameplay of Tribes remains some of the most fun I've ever had playing a video game-- I miss those days!
Remember the Myst series, and the spin-off Uru series? The franchise is almost surely dead at this point, and in the time leading up to it's death Cyan Worlds was working against a tight budget of time and money. This resulted in some official works violating canon and general confusion and drop in quality. Nonetheless, I think the world and concepts they developed still have enormous potential. It would be nice to see another game from them that better explains the world (which would make it more approachable by new players), perhaps starting at the discovery of the cleft by the DRF and going through the restoration (the DRF/DRC and the Restoration were covered in the spinoff Uru series), with integrated history lessons going over the fall of D'ni and the events that followed that (which was the focus of the Myst series).
I might be stupid, but that's a risk we're going to have to take.
I don't know how much of a "reboot" is needed, but PS:T was always a favorite. Definitely keep the voice acting.
Not the best games - but Race Drivin' and Hard Drivin' (the sit-down driving sims that used a lot of blocky polygons) would benefit quite a bit from an upgrade.
There are a huge number of yeast infections in this county. Probably because we're downriver from the bread factory.
It was a very interesting title in that it had elements of an RTS, resource collection, diplomacy, strategy and tactics, but it also had this nice castle building engine similar in feel to building your house in The Sims. It also gave you a history lesson about the real factions involved in the game and the castles around Europe. It even had video clips of reenacted battles diplomatic envoys, etc etc. A very complete game.
I would love to see it updated with modern graphics.
I know, it's not a series. Phenominal cut-throat economic warfare, arcade style joystick controls, no violence. An awesome, unique, classic game that would be awesome with a contemporary graphics update and online play capability added.
Master of Orion: MOO 1 & 2 were great but 3 was horrible. There are clones out there but they are about as fun as compiling a kernel.
Turrican: The Amiga version of Turrican II was one of the better games made for the system. A 3D version was being created but was abandoned by Factor 5. We don't need another FPS version but I would love to see Turrican II remade or extended using the look of a game like Trine.
X-Wing / Tie Fighter: Space flight combat is great and there are still games being made, even MMOs like Jumpgate Evolution yet I would love to see X-Wing rendered with modern graphics and not using a MIDI sound track. Network play would be a welcome addition too. Co-op or VS where your goal is to protect a frigate while the opposition has to destroy it.
Spiff up the graphics, add online play. Everything else is already perfect.
"You stayed home this weekend and polished your marble. Spent: $27"
I've got both NWN and NWN2 and all expansion packs, and I love those. Thanks for the links to those adventures though; I've shied away from the custom content because a lot of it is questionable quality.
My reality check bounced.
I would like to see Twisted Metal rebooted!
Descent was only the best LAN game ever created. It was the first thing I had ever played that was truly 3D. Is it bad that playing descent is one of my most competitive activities?
With all it's cheesy goodness and road warrior like killing. Was a great game that got a terrible follow-on. I remember the cutscenes with the terrible polygon style characters (although I think it was an artistic choice to do it that way).
I can't wait to load up my big old muscle car with some 50 cal. machine guns and take out some road trash!!!!
Seriously, LOK is my favourite gameseries ever, blood omen 1 and soul reaver 1 being the best two games in it (blood omen 2 was just flat, soul reaver 2 had camera issues and defiance was too action centered)
Neo Contra was a good remix, but I wouldn't mind an FPS version of the original NES Contra story.
What rhymes with awesome? Shaq-fu
And make it a true 3d sandbox game! That, and Military Madness for the old TurboGrafx 16.
just an analog boy living in a digital age.
Duh! Dungeon Keeper! Some really good times there and still fun.
+1 Dungeon Keeper.
Battlezone is one of my all time favorite games
Perhaps even as an MMO
The Myth series of RTS games. I can provide pages of ideas for Myth 4 upon request.
I'd like an Outpost 2 reboot. I can't think of any games since, that had the same level of micromanagement and colony building that Outpost 2 did.
Fighting natural disasters is fun - worrying about making sure your stuff doesn't get hit by meteors... micromanaging repair bots after a big earthquake... relocating your entire base because a damn volcano erupted and swallowed it... dealing with huge vortex clouds ripping up all your stuff.
Fun!
Oh sure, there was combat too - but disasters were a big part of it, unlike most games.
Sadly Lucas arts has decided that creating games on platforms where a level lasts 5 minuets and "puzzles" are the ability to press a combination of buttons at the right time is far less expensive to produce than creating an actual story, plot, dialogue and thought like they used to put into their PC games
I liked this game a lot. One of the first real 3d games.
M.U.L.E.
Most revolutionary game ever...needs to be rebooted.
halflife is in the process of being remade on the HL2 engine http://blackmesasource.com/ I dont quite know wheres its at in the making today but the trailer does bring back the memories
Broderbund had a cool football game where you drew up the plays in x's and o's and saved your playbook. You assigned AI to your plays based on situations on the field, then gave your team to other people on disk. They'd take the disk home and play against your team's AI playbook, or you could sit together and call the plays as a coach. It was very cool.
Could be rebooted more in the vein of an RPG a la Heroes of Might and Magic. Would probably solve the interface issues as well.
"In the absence of the ability to establish the attribute of truth they tried to establish the noble attributes."
Magic Carpet was insanely fun. - one of the first 3d games. Could be redone with state of the art graph and internet play. Would be awesome.
I also miss something like Archon for 1 on 1.
I loved playing 'Elite II: Frontier'; cruising around in a Cobra Mk 2, with the Stardreamer on and Sting's "Dream of the Blue Turtles" playing in the background...
Currently, the Vega Strike project looks like the best open source Elite-style universe. I've gotten it to run on an Ubuntu system, but very much unlike Elite, it exceeded the graphics capabilities of the computer I was using at the time, so I can't comment on gameplay.
http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/
Haven't been looking for games lately, though. I played NetHack for 15 yrs or so, and felt no need for other games; but that's been replaced now by Dungeon Crawl.
http://www.chaosforge.org/crawl/index.php?title=CrawlWiki
Yes give us more commander Keen.
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Questron, Legacy of the Ancients, and a true to it's predecessors Bard's Tale
How about dev houses. Black Ilse is number one on my list. Maybe then Fallout can get a real reboot.
I would love to see a reboot of Out of This World
I think that Birth of the Federation would be a good game to reboot. Start it from the actual birth of the Federation not just the time around TNG/DS9
Those two along with Darkness over Daggerford & The HeX Coda are actually much better than the original campaigns. The only thing they really miss polish-wise are the voice acting.
The Pool of Radiance remake for NWN 2 isn't half bad either.
There is a war going on for your mind.
Followed by Spaceward Ho!, Escape Velocity, and finally, Sid Meier's F19 Stealth Fighter. Sid did a surprisingly decent remake of Pirates! for XBox, so that takes that one off the list. I remember playing that one originally on a C64.
This series so needs to be rebooted, STW followed by MTW but then they lost the plot.
I want to see more games like "The 7th Guest" and "The 11th hour". Now those were games that stayed in my head (in a good way) long after I played them.
- James
With the 1.1.3 patch included just a new sexy engine.
I would love to see Journeyman Project get a reboot. I still load up my three Buried in Time CDs from time to time with an emulator. Never got to play the others in the series, but I gathered they were pretty good too. Great story, really interesting puzzles, and it was probably one of the best mystery-type games I've ever played.
-mrxak
Onions Will Kill You
I'd like to see the world of Privateer and Wing Commander: Prophecy made into an MMO. Earth and Beyond was a start, but I think if you added the features that made Privateer so much fun, you could have a successful franchise.
Emperor of the Fading Suns. One of the greatest turn-based games in history, one of the most fun.
A game that, in 320x240 resolution, still manages to impress you with its graphics and artistic style. a game that came with a complete soundtrack, and could be played in a cd player without any additional effort (take that, copy protection!) A game that can't be installed from the disk anymore because the installer insists on installing directx 3 before the actual game.
Best of all, a game that's currently abandonware, and free to anyone who wants it online. So technically, I could create the revamp myself, provided I had enough free time.
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I've always thought a remake of Rise of the Triad would be fantastic.
For great justice, someone to setup us a game new!! Main console screen turn on, play for 3-D hours!! Take off every online players, for all their base are belong to us!! What happen!! You know what you doing!! With new zero wing, you have no chance of survive make your time!!
Impossible Mission and SPACE TAXI!
But make it a 3d non-platformer, make use of techniques in Mirrors Edge and you could keep the basic path/maps found in the original games. My 60 year old Dad would love it, GnG was his favourite game, he doesn't play it anymore because he says it's "too easy"
M. U. L. E.
Before you design for reuse, make sure to design it for use.
I find I get all the "old school" fun I can handle buying $10 used games. :)
I do not fail; I succeed at finding out what does not work.
Get off my lawn.
I have three game series I'd like to see renewed.
The least I consider is another iteration of Rise of Legends/Nations. I loved how they took a RTS to a new level and made it a world of fun on top of it. I was a huge fan of both the games.
My second favorite series of all time is Mechwarrior. However this is currently getting a rework in a official form and an unofficial one. The unofficial one, Mechwarrior: Living Legends looks a heck of a lot more promising then the official version to (it's almost in beta as well!). http://www.mechlivinglegends.net/
However, the game that shaped my views on the gaming industry and my expectations for the future of gaming the most would be the one that had a crappy last iteration and hasn't been seen for years. That would be the Tribes series, which I haven't seen mentioned here once. It is extremely sad that one of the most influential and far ahead of it's time series died out when Sierra handed over rights to the franchise to a third rate developer at the time, which basically made a unreal tournament style mod called Tribes: Vengeance.
Tribes1/2 had vehicles, it had infantry, it had aircraft, it had deployables, it had dynamic armor changing, it had command over views for players to look, see, and diagnose situations on the battlefield from a live feed. The Command Circuit even had a camera feed from live players at any given time. You could control turrets, issue orders to players who could then accept/deny/reassign themselves based on their current conditions. It had a ridiculously robust voice bind system of a lot of helpful as well as fun voice messages. It had in game chat which was unheard of at the time and is barely starting to catch on now. The battles were ridiculously massive and expansive. It had ridiculous net code that played extremely well on 56k modems with 64 people and up to 128. It was extraordinarily moddable as well as having ridiculously good security against hacking. You could literally join mods with changed content without having to download anything new unless they changed models. It also had a extremely unique movement system called skiing, along with freeflight with a jetpack, neither of which I have seen in another game to date (I personally have to say being able to fly add an entirely new level to a game). The game play was extremely immersive, not to mention it had good eye candy at the time (graphics/sound).
The game was ridiculously far ahead of it's time and we're barely starting to see what was in it in modern games. The game mechanics were ridiculously inventive and just plain ingenious. Anyone who ever played that game for any length of time loved it and will speak very fondly and longingly about it. It was an experience that shaped my, and alot of other people's, lives as far as gaming and expectations for them goes. It raised a bar so high that I've merely been settling for whats less crappy since.
The game company at the time that was in charge of things was called Dynamix. A lot of the developers from there went and made their own company, Garagegames, and started selling a very powerful, but not so well known engine called the Torque Shader Engine (which I would even say is above the levels of the UT3 engine).
Secret of Mana 1& 2. Definitely. With proper orchestral scores, faithful to the original themes.
Jagged Alliance/2 and any Julian Gallop game: UFO enemy unknown, Laser Squad, Lords of Chaos.
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This is not a reboot request as it is more a plee. I would love them to release the stargate game. i was lucky enough to beta test the game and it was amazing.
How about old school PC games such as the Might and Magic series or the old SSI games like Eye of the Beholder. I would like to see a reboot of Earth and Beyond or Thief.
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Why do Japanese franchises turn into fangirl shrines for everyone's favorite character? There was high art in the pixelated versions, too small to be pretty, so the images got along with strong story and some very funny wit.
Now that we've got a lot of Deviant Art goddesses who can do better than that, the production values lean heavily toward dreamy-eyed fantasy (or hell-eyed fantasy, depending who rubs your nub), and the players get shafted on brutally convoluted battle schemes and impossibly difficult endgame dungeons. The games are prettier by the minute, and absolutely incoherent.
Maybe it would be better to create a ensemble cast of named AI's who can play any role (hypersprites?), seal the doors, and let writers create the next few iterations?
``Tension, apprehension & dissension have begun!'' - Duffy Wyg&, in Alfred Bester's _The Demolished Man_
Castle of the Winds. Whut.
Deus Ex
The game is still as good as ever because the story is not anchored to its graphics. After seeing how beautiful the human models are in both the Source engine and whatever engine they are using for Mass Effect, I think updating the graphics side, remastering the voice tracks and music and adding any and all side-missions and storyline Warren Spector wanted to put in originally but couldn't, would make it an instant hit. I'd hire Greg Bear and Grant Morrison as story consultants if the original story were to be expanded. Especially on fleshing out a full version of "Jacob's Shadow", the fictional book you can read excerpts from during the game.
Dawn of War
I still play this RTS in skirmish mode. It's just so damn fun. But it's really showing it's age. More polygons, better textures, more balance...heck...it needs a whole new engine. I would happily buy it again. Especially if it came with a powerful army painter and an option to host points-based games over the internet. A sort of weird hybrid of traditional table-top rules and RTS, including having persistent online army profiles that can gain XP from online play, earning phat loot (read: Wargear), unlockable classes (Exarchs, named characters from canon) and fame.
Oh and none of this bollocks with being tied to Steam or Windows Live.
Arcanum
Again, except for some badly needed balance issues so that the majority of character stereotypes are equally effective (as opposed to becoming a mage, specializing in Force, vaporize everything = easy mode), the great story can carry it through a major graphics upgrade. I would love to see Tarrant in the Source engine, right down to Madame Lil's (*nudge, nudge* *wink, wink*). And that amazing string quartet soundtrack remastered. In fact, I'd love to bring back the old Troika crew and give all their work an upgrade.
For all games from here on out: As much support as technically possible for the mod community. Bethesda make money hand over fist from people who want to mod Fallout and Oblivion, who might never have been interested in the original games when first published.
Robocop - there never was a good FPS made.
Terminator - Terminator Skynet's a bit old.
X-Wing/TIE Fighter
The Lucasfilm point-n-click adventures.
Rainbow Six - put some stealth and espionage missions back in.
I think it was GTA III that they started to have arcade games in. Though it might have been Vice City, but they have arcade games that you can play in the game.
Microsoft, Apple, Google, Amazon what's the difference? All steal money from devs and control with walled gardens.
Upgrade the graphics and high quality video. Mmmm, Flint.... sorry, I'm back now.
Microsoft, Apple, Google, Amazon what's the difference? All steal money from devs and control with walled gardens.
Keep the level design, voice acting, gameplay mechanics and the wit and humour and serve it up with some toasty DirectX 10 visuals and some high poy models and we have ourselves a winnah!
As for Half-Life, the first installment is getting a makeover, albeit as a free mod.
In the works since around the release of HL2, they expect to finalize it this year.
Check them out here. Join the forums, or just have a look at all the newly modeled weps and beasties.
Personally, it's been the longest wait for the most-anticipated re-imagining of a classic.
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they made a psp version for japan, but I would love to see a newer version of it with improved programming functions- for those that don't know it was an arena based mech battle game where you flowchart programmed the unit and just watched it fight- no live interaction
...Lemmings!
Stupidity is its own reward.
System Shock 2, Starsiege Tribes (the most elegant multiplayer game I have ever played), all the Pokemon games on the Game Boy series.
Overlord is a recent game that is somewhat similar to Dungeon Keeper. A sequel should be released this year.
Since the original article raised a poll-like question, I think this is allowed:
Me too.
"Want some rye? 'Course you do!" - Return to Zork
chrono trigger
courage mateship sacrifice endurance
Tell basically the same story again and again, just replace almost everything in between. Works for them and for me :)
Um, not even close, Overlord is like playing Pikmin with some slightly darker mood.
I recently stumbled upon a game called Dwarf Fortress which has some similarities to Dungeon Keeper. It lacks the easy interaction that DK had, and only has primitive tile based graphics available, but at least it's _something_ I'd still rather see Dungeon Keeper return though, or have Dwarf Fortress modernized to the point of being a suitable replacement.
Fear is the mind killer.
Not the cheesy fps it was turned into a few years ago, but turn based with state-of-the art isometric map views could be fun.
A friend of mine, whose english wasn't and still isn't very good at the time, knows every possible form of and variant of "to hack at someone", thanks to the Bard's Tale series. Anyone remember the 400 Beserkers killed 100 times for exp? "Herb casts a spell and a herb appears!"? "The girls in the bar are not impressed"? ;-) Oh joy!
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SSI Gold Box games.
If only the engine got a graphical facelift, the gameplay would keep me entertained for weeks.
Not sure what happened to quality turn based gaming - instead of all this realtime twitch gaming. Then again, I'm also the kind of person who enjoyed Warlords immensely until they ruined that by going realtime too.
Sierra's Guest for Glory series.
Rayman. It was awesome in its 2D glory, but the games have become really weird over the years in order to look "cool". Actually, going back to their roots and improving them could be a better idea.
I am not devoid of humor.
Duke Nukem.
I'm trying to remember the name of the game that I used to play... I believe it was a DOS based game, but it was where you piloted this little land-based car thing around cities, and it had a "Mature" mode and an "Edited" mode.
The edited mode used words like "Kroxx'roxx" and such to simulate bad language, but I still can't remember what game that was.
Also, there was a DOS game I used to play where you created factories where you created lots of robots to fight in cities. The cities were destructible, and you could play against another player, or the computer. That's fairly vague, but I loved that game so much!
God but I loved that game.
Syndicate and Populous were two of my favorites.
I'd also like to see Bilestoad redone - I got a kick out of the gladiator theme. It'd be really fun as a multi-player networked free-for-all.
Since I can't tell them apart, I treat all ACs as the same person.
Those games rocked back in the day.
Many good suggestions here: X-Com, Mechwarrior, System Shock (1 or 2). Not seen: Space Empires (4 or 5). However, if I had to pick one that was greatly touted (and then disappointed) - I would give a reboot to MOO3 (Master of Orion 3). (begin whine) C'mon - where were the 3-D battles we were promised? Not just 2 1/2 D perspective on 2 D battles (panning camera above the battlefield). I want the real thing! Wah! (end whine) Okay, for that matter, SE5 also failed to deliver there, but MOO3 had more flaws - which I will not enumerate unless there is some genuine interest.
RE Dungeon Keeper-- check out Dwarf Fortress.
http://mayday.w.staszic.waw.pl/df.php
I found my long lost DK2 CD and I just finished a MOM game (thanks to dosbox.) Good games that took a lot of thought.
Registered for the article's original site just to answer the question at the end. I'm an old school gamer. Hands down, no questions asked, if any series EVER needed a reboot, there's only one to pick. The old "Might and Magic" role-playing series. Responsible for the more popular "Heroes of might and magic", this series, especially around games 6 and 7, included some of the most killer spells, weapons, and a HUGE world, especially for the time. From thief classes and assasins to Caveliers and Arch-druids, Liches, whether your party was half goblin warriors, or all dwarven villians, the game was nonstop fun. I kept going back to become a spy, cleanse a cursed temple, kidnap the princess, or help the necromancers destroy the kreegan devils. Imagine an action RPG that you can pause into a turn-based RPG, swappable from a 1person to a 3rd person view, change it up so you have full control, perhaps something like KOTOR did... its a spectacular game series that was ahead of it's own graphics programmers. If any genre needs new life, its the Might and Magic RPG games. God how I'd pay to see MM6 and MM7 reborn.
M.U.L.E. on xbox live would R.U.L.E.
Blood has enormous potential to be a wickedly dark game if taken seriously enough.
cyberpunk...
but with wizards, and elves, and shamans...
I Would love to see a reboot of these games they were great on Sega Saturn I cant imagine what they would be like on something new with better graphics.
Although reruns are frightening. The original tend to be more favorite. Doom 3 didn't end up like 1 or 2. They would possibly make a lousy EOB4 without the atmosphere of the first two. EOB2 is my favorite. EOB3 sucked.
The "H-Word" has died for me.