This is for the games that you wish were remade. By which I don’t mean that you want a sequel, but you want the original game to be remade from scratch. Whether it be because you want better graphics, a different graphical style, you wished that the game had been bigger in scope or you think that all it needed was some gameplay tweaks to be a truly great game.
This if for games that may have been enjoyable, but playing them now makes you think that they could have been awesome if the development team had just waited a few years and taken advantage of this generation’s technology. (A concept that’s admittedly flawed since we’ll always be looking back at games and wishing that they’d had the current quality of graphics and technical proficiency, but bear with me). For me, I’ll put forward Psychonauts. I think we can all agree that it was a good game, but every time I play it I can’t help but think how amazing those crazy little characters would look if they were in current gen graphics, running across an HD TV, or even if the game was cell shaded, now that cell shading has reached the level of quality that was promised all those years ago.
It’s not just the appearance, I can’t help but imagine how cool running around those camp grounds would have been if the world had been bigger, and completely seamless without those loading screens dividing every area. Even Mario 64 felt more cohesive, so it’s a shame that Psychonauts didn’t match that standard.
And lastly, and I might be going a bit too far here, but if the game had had the, dare I say it, “verticality” of a game like Assassin’s Creed, and had made more use of that grind mechanic like in a jet set radio game, it would have been awesome.
Now given Psychonaut’s poor commercial success it’s highly unlikely that they’ll release a sequel let alone a remake, but at least I can dream….What’s your “Game I wish they’d remake”?
Zombies ate my neighboors with on-line co-op play. One more thing while i'm at it, it's not a remake but a design choice i wish would of been made to Twilight Princess. I like exploring the overworld in all the Zelda games but after playing Shadow of the Colossus the overworld feels so small and cramped in Twilight Princess. i love the vastness in SoC, riding around on my horse and taking 5 mintues to reach the place i spotted from atop a hill seeminly miles away. The overwolrd dissapointed me in Zelda but i still enjoyed the game
Arcanum for the PC. I have a love-hate relationship with this game. I love the setting, the character building, and role-playing freedom. At the same time, the bugs and some bad combat mechanics were frustrating. In addition, I'd love to see the game receive a graphics overhaul. In some ways it looked worse than Fallout and was released how many years later.
"Ooohh, Pokemon MMO FTW... ern wait, that'd be a Wii title. So nah. They'd mess it up fer sure an make you buy 6000 pokemon accessories to play it :P
Erm, I'd love a 3D ver of Chrono Trigger. Maybe a less clunky version of Omikron! Clive Barker's Undying for the new Gen?
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That's the problem with all of Nintendo's franchises, they'll never be fully realized because they'll never be running on anything other than Nintendo's own hardware, and since they've found that pitching to casual gamers with cheaper products is financially successful, games like Pokemon, Metroid and Zelda will never look as good as they could. And Nintendo's friend code system sucks the fun out of any type of online game.
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