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Narvi 23rd January 2007, 10:33

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Originally Posted by Emon
I think C&C was left off the list because of C&C 3.

It's not like C&C needs an update, anyway. The sequels were actually better than the original.

Besides C&C didn't exactly have the best gameplay. I have the First Decade (where it's optimized for XP) and I really don't think it's that good anymore. Little conveniences put in the sequels have made it unpalatable.

Mister_Tad 23rd January 2007, 10:34

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Originally Posted by supermonkey
I thought that was the point of the article. Games that are still very playable or have iconic status), but could use a makeover.

The King's Quest series is pretty old, and the graphics are very dated.

-monkey

So which is it, very playable or dated?

I played syndicate yesterday for the first time in around 12 years and I must say, I enjoyed it just as much now as I did then. So much emphasis is put on pretty graphics that I think people forget why they play games

kenco_uk 23rd January 2007, 10:39

There was a kind of update done to Flashback on the PS, called Fade To Black. It was more or less a sequel done in 3d.

JADS 23rd January 2007, 12:49

No has mentioned Carmageddon yet! The original game was utterly brilliant, but it had two fairly poor sequels. The graphics were and still are awful, but you could pretty much make it like the original FMV suggested it would look :)

Carmageddon Remastered...

kosch 23rd January 2007, 13:13

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Originally Posted by Epoch
I fail to see the Crusader series mentioned anywhere in the list or this thread.

Doesn't anybody remember Crusader: No Remorse, and Crusader: No Regret. Those two games were extremely good.

Theres still work being done on Crusader, they even found one of the old devs, dug out some old mulitplayer code and are working on it as we speak!

http://cyberionsystems.com/echosector/forum/index.php

Nexxo 23rd January 2007, 13:13

Mission Impossible, Carrier Command, Mercenary (1 and 2), Damocles.

For the surreal amongst us: Franky Goes To Hollywood (Google it. It was surprisingly good).

whisperwolf 23rd January 2007, 13:55

Chucky Egg and all of the Dizzy series

Retrograde 23rd January 2007, 15:27

I'd like to see Doom2 redone in the same style that the Doom 3 Classic team used.

http://cdoom.d3files.com/

While they only did episode 1, it was amazing to play. In fact, i've never even played Doom 3, just installed it to play Doom 1 over again. I believe Carmack once said that they didn't think people would want to play the exact same game only prettier, he was dead wrong and this group of fans proved it.

K 23rd January 2007, 15:54

Impossible Mission needs a DS port! That'd be swell.

Flashback on SNES and Megadrive is still hugely playable. I only played it a few months ago. The controls and animation are really sophisticated.

Of course, Delphine's Amiga selling precursor, Another World, has a rather nice XP remake featuring support for high resolutions.

http://www.anotherworld.fr/anotherworld_uk/

galimim 23rd January 2007, 16:33

I would like to see Half-Life with source engine. And Doom would be nice as well. There is also Unreal that is worth of remastering. :D

Spaceraver 23rd January 2007, 18:10

Carmageddon, that game was awesome due to the nature and level of violence..
And there was a game for Amiga 500, a RPG like HOMAM where you toured a world, only thing i remember from it was the intro scene sadly, starts off by telling you why and how you have become what you are..

K 23rd January 2007, 18:38

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Originally Posted by galimim
I would like to see Half-Life with source engine.

You mean like Half-Life Source?

Firehed 23rd January 2007, 18:55

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Originally Posted by Mighty Yoshimi
They should have put Final Fantasy in, and wild arms i think!

An FF remake always sounds tasty to me, but it also scares the hell out of me. I don't think anything scares me quite as much as someone screwing up Final Fantasy in a remake.

I wouldn't mind seeing a D2 remake (or D3!), but it would be worse for me than FFXII+Wii combined. That game ate my very existence for the best part of three years.

specofdust 23rd January 2007, 19:31

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Originally Posted by K
You mean like Half-Life Source?

No, since that didn't actually do anything other than update explosions, water, and physics. Black Mesa: Source, is a far better stab at what he wants.

Anyway, for myself I'd say you can forget them all if I could just have Deus Ex with 2007 graphics. Carrier Command was a good mention though, the game that taught 4 year old specofdust how to be the commander of an entire navy.

jarek91 23rd January 2007, 19:45

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Originally Posted by Iago
Are we limiting ourselves to PC games only?

Because if not, Flashback for Sega Genesis is another game I'd certainly love to have remade.

And then I'd have to toss my vote in for Parasite Eve. Which is, in my opinion, the greatest game to ever grace us from Squaresoft.

K 23rd January 2007, 20:37

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Originally Posted by specofdust
No, since that didn't actually do anything other than update explosions, water, and physics. Black Mesa: Source, is a far better stab at what he wants.

Well, it was nice of you to answer for him.

Henry 23rd January 2007, 21:20

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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'm glad someone said Star Control, IMO it is the BEST gane ever made, hands down, no competition... One other series I would love remastered is Wing Command 1 and 2... loves those games. And lastly, Strike Commander. I remember having to delete almost everything on my 120meg HD and try to get 630+K of conventional memory free to play this... DEVICEHIGH baby... heh.

yellowbomb 23rd January 2007, 21:21

My (want) list:
Amulets and Armor
Monkey island 1-2
Quest for glory series
Goblins
Space Quest series
Diablo 2
Blake stone
Maniac Mansion

Simply graphics and make them run on new systems...

(I left out Doom, Heritic, Blood, Dune, Descent, and the other(s) that have already been mentioned...)

supermonkey 24th January 2007, 00:06

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Originally Posted by Mister_Tad
So which is it, very playable or dated?

I played syndicate yesterday for the first time in around 12 years and I must say, I enjoyed it just as much now as I did then. So much emphasis is put on pretty graphics that I think people forget why they play games

Both. The game itself is playable, and loads of fun, but it looks very dated.

I guess I just misunderstood the article, because I thought that was the point: putting a fresh coat of paint on an old game.

-monkey

lepre 24th January 2007, 00:58

C&C renegade, with a _real_ netcode.

scatman839 24th January 2007, 10:58

I thought I would pop in just to say, Deus Ex is being remastered, to a certain extent, there's a project on the go to remodel and retexture most of deus ex, so far it's only around 50% and progressing slowly, but the apha release shows promising results.

http://www.offtopicproductions.com/hdtp/

Tulatin 24th January 2007, 11:19

On a side note: Sam n Max are back in action with the Sam and Max Episodes. EP 3 is out on the 8th, and then there's another 3 grand months to season 1. It's got the charm and comedy of the classic, but unfortunately, it's got an odd bent.

If you've ever seen the clerks animated shows (not the awful live action one), it's essentially to the same degree. You add on some odd characters (in this case Sybil, Bosco and a trio of failed child star twins the "Soda Poppers") in order to carry the plotlines along. In itself, you end up with a good 2 hours of contained entertainment for <$10.

Toka 24th January 2007, 11:56

You forgot to ask for an update for Goldeneye.

Wait who am I kidding, its the only reason I own a n64 - leave it alone its fine!

DougEdey 24th January 2007, 12:05

Goldeneye has been updated, as mentioned earlier in the thread.

Saivert 24th January 2007, 15:13

I would want to see a remastered Turrican 2 (my first sidescrolling platform-shooter which got me hooked on gaming on the Amiga) and other Amiga games like North and South, Steelball, SWIV, etc..

Heck I would want the Amiga itself to be "remastered" (they have tried many times, adding PowerPC hardware and other stuff, but it never became a commercial success).

I still own an Amiga 500+. But I got no software/games for it. Too bad. Someone care to send me some?

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