good choices! Deus EX dosn't need remastering, it needs a real sequal :D
May I add warzone 2100? not many people have played it but I think it's the best RPG ever for multiplayer when it works properly. there is an open source version but it hasn't been updated in a long time as the source code is a knarly POS thats badley documented. I plan on fixing some of the bugs sometime and cleaning it up abit but it's going to take me along time to get knowlagable enough. Thats how much I love this game :D
Doom 2 co op multiplayer is very very fun... can't get past the level where you have to kill satan though?
For me, first an foremost. Wing Commander 2. Best in the series IMO. After that, the classic Lucasarts adventure games (Sam N Max, Day of the Tentacle, Indiana Jones, etc).
A fairly good article, but I, too, am surprised by some of the omissions.
4 pages and nobody has mentioned any of the King's Quest series. Frankly, that surprises me. Those games had such immersive puzzles and storylines. Plus, each one was significantly different than the previous, but every bit as good.
Such an important series in the history of adventure games, and not even a mention?
Originally Posted by supermonkey 4 pages and nobody has mentioned any of the King's Quest series. Frankly, that surprises me. Those games had such immersive puzzles and storylines. Plus, each one was significantly different than the previous, but every bit as good.
Such an important series in the history of adventure games, and not even a mention?
-monkey
IMO, the kings quest and quest for glory games are still eminently playable and don't need remaking.
Well, good to see one of the best PPG's in the list. But I think you guys missed one VERY important: Ultima Underworld: The Stygian Abyss. It was the very first FPS/RPG ever released. It came about 4~5 months BEFORE castle wolfenstein 3d (the precursor of DOOM)!
Still on the RPG part, I think they left one aside wich, im my opinion, is the best storyline ever for an RPG: Planescape Torment. You convice your girlfriend to kill herself to help you in the afterlife... Very wicked.
But I agree with the list as a whole.
A good news is that Bethesda is making FALLOUT 3. Let's pray with all of our faith that they doesn't release it to look like "The elder scrolls: oblivion" (wich by the way is heavily influenced by Ultima Underworld).
FO 3 needs to be isometric or like Neverwinter Nights.
There is a Descent-like game with modern graphics in the making, and the name is 'Core Decision'. Find their website here.
There's not much there as of the time I am writing this, but that is because they switched to a new web site. I guess it will be updated soon. A couple of trustworthy people (from www.descentbb.net) have had tours through the game, some levels and the editor and have said the game is in a very advanced state of development, looks absolutely stunning, and also that the tools (i.e. game/level editor) are absolutely amazing and easy to use.
The makers of the game or going for a look and feel (game balance) similar to Descent 1/2, not Descent 3, which is a very good thing (tm). :)
Definitely agree with Deus Ex, the game is legendary and suffered a premature death due to the poor (read appallingly atrocious) sequel. I would also like to see MechCommander, Mech Warrior, Albion, X-COM Interceptor and FreeSpace 2 revamped.
On a different note, I would love it if developers released the source code and other resources for abandoned franchises/games (possible under the GPL?).
Originally Posted by JazzXP For me, first an foremost. Wing Commander 2. Best in the series IMO. After that, the classic Lucasarts adventure games (Sam N Max, Day of the Tentacle, Indiana Jones, etc).
Seconded for all of those ( how could I have forgotten Wing Commander?)
The Star Control series. More to the point, Star Control 2. I played it on someone's 3DO about a bajillion years ago, and just recently I found the port "The Ur-Quan Masters." My god, what a fun game. I know you may think it was boring, but it was such fun tedium, and the replay value was fairly infinite. Yes, there were major plot points, but a lot of it was not necessarily needed to complete the game. 1 was weird, not sure I liked it, and 3 was just fugly. I think if you took the plot, universe style, and basic game mechanics, and dropped it into an Eve style engine, you'd have one hell of a game. Remember the Melnorme? Or the Yehat? The Slylandro probes? Imagine hyperspace in 3D, being able to modify how your ship looked in 3D. It had great physics, both in real-space and in battle. There was momentum, gravity swings around planets, missile gravity, such cool stuff. If they stuck that into a 3D engine, I'd cry with joy. I can't imagine what it would look like, save amazing.
Originally Posted by NoahFuLing The Star Control series. More to the point, Star Control 2. I played it on someone's 3DO about a bajillion years ago, and just recently I found the port "The Ur-Quan Masters." My god, what a fun game. I know you may think it was boring, but it was such fun tedium, and the replay value was fairly infinite. Yes, there were major plot points, but a lot of it was not necessarily needed to complete the game. 1 was weird, not sure I liked it, and 3 was just fugly. I think if you took the plot, universe style, and basic game mechanics, and dropped it into an Eve style engine, you'd have one hell of a game. Remember the Melnorme? Or the Yehat? The Slylandro probes? Imagine hyperspace in 3D, being able to modify how your ship looked in 3D. It had great physics, both in real-space and in battle. There was momentum, gravity swings around planets, missile gravity, such cool stuff. If they stuck that into a 3D engine, I'd cry with joy. I can't imagine what it would look like, save amazing.
"I was just saying to <..> I had itchy pods today.. and here you are!"
Yes I've only played The Ur-Quan masters because I was lead to believe it was the best of the series, and yes it rocks :).
And also warzone 2100! yeah ace game :) painfull to try and play as it is now, but back in the day that was the daddy :).
I've thought for years that X-Com/UFO deserved a real update - and did NOT deserve the rest of the franchise, which mostly sucked mightly.
I'd like to go even further back for my 'game that really needs a graphical buff', though: Seven Cities of Gold, a Commodore 64 game of exploration & looting natives for gold. Minimal colonization/settlement crap, it was a game of pure exploration, mapping & such - I played it for hours and days in grade school!
Because if not, Flashback for Sega Genesis is another game I'd certainly love to have remade.
Btw, I second Phantasmagoria. Scared the bajeezus out of me as a teenager. And it had boobs which is always a plus. And a great "hints" system that made it absurdly easy if you wanted, but avoided leaving the player stuck for a long time (in a time where gamefaqs.com didn't exist, that was pretty cool).
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Same with "mission impossible" and I'm sure someone could do a good job with the old arcade game "Twin Dragons".
Wouldn't mind seeing a Dr Who game come out one day.
my 2 cents
May I add warzone 2100? not many people have played it but I think it's the best RPG ever for multiplayer when it works properly. there is an open source version but it hasn't been updated in a long time as the source code is a knarly POS thats badley documented. I plan on fixing some of the bugs sometime and cleaning it up abit but it's going to take me along time to get knowlagable enough. Thats how much I love this game :D
Doom 2 co op multiplayer is very very fun... can't get past the level where you have to kill satan though?
4 pages and nobody has mentioned any of the King's Quest series. Frankly, that surprises me. Those games had such immersive puzzles and storylines. Plus, each one was significantly different than the previous, but every bit as good.
Such an important series in the history of adventure games, and not even a mention?
-monkey
Total Annihilation.
Syndicate.
Toobin.... j/k
Has everyone forgotten how GREAT this game is??
IMO, the kings quest and quest for glory games are still eminently playable and don't need remaking.
Still on the RPG part, I think they left one aside wich, im my opinion, is the best storyline ever for an RPG: Planescape Torment. You convice your girlfriend to kill herself to help you in the afterlife... Very wicked.
But I agree with the list as a whole.
A good news is that Bethesda is making FALLOUT 3. Let's pray with all of our faith that they doesn't release it to look like "The elder scrolls: oblivion" (wich by the way is heavily influenced by Ultima Underworld).
FO 3 needs to be isometric or like Neverwinter Nights.
There's not much there as of the time I am writing this, but that is because they switched to a new web site. I guess it will be updated soon. A couple of trustworthy people (from www.descentbb.net) have had tours through the game, some levels and the editor and have said the game is in a very advanced state of development, looks absolutely stunning, and also that the tools (i.e. game/level editor) are absolutely amazing and easy to use.
The makers of the game or going for a look and feel (game balance) similar to Descent 1/2, not Descent 3, which is a very good thing (tm). :)
On a different note, I would love it if developers released the source code and other resources for abandoned franchises/games (possible under the GPL?).
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Doesn't anybody remember Crusader: No Remorse, and Crusader: No Regret. Those two games were extremely good.
Nah....just kidding.
"I was just saying to <..> I had itchy pods today.. and here you are!"
Yes I've only played The Ur-Quan masters because I was lead to believe it was the best of the series, and yes it rocks :).
And also warzone 2100! yeah ace game :) painfull to try and play as it is now, but back in the day that was the daddy :).
you mean...maybe like this....
http://mods.moddb.com/gallery/image/47875/
The King's Quest series is pretty old, and the graphics are very dated.
-monkey
I'd like to go even further back for my 'game that really needs a graphical buff', though: Seven Cities of Gold, a Commodore 64 game of exploration & looting natives for gold. Minimal colonization/settlement crap, it was a game of pure exploration, mapping & such - I played it for hours and days in grade school!
Because if not, Flashback for Sega Genesis is another game I'd certainly love to have remade.
Btw, I second Phantasmagoria. Scared the bajeezus out of me as a teenager. And it had boobs which is always a plus. And a great "hints" system that made it absurdly easy if you wanted, but avoided leaving the player stuck for a long time (in a time where gamefaqs.com didn't exist, that was pretty cool).