Pick a game for a current gen remake.

Josey Wales · 21-03-2011 10:36pm #1

I have a feeling this thread may have come up recently but I searched and didn't find anything.

So what game would you like to see get a current generation make-over? For me I'd go for Rock'n'Roll Racing by Blizzard on the SNES. I remember renting this game several times years ago. I've always been fond of car combat games like Mario Kart or Blur and this was one of the first that I really enjoyed.

It also looked great for the time and had excellent sound. I loved the commentator and then of course there was the soundtrack with songs from Black Sabbath, Steppenwolf and Deep Purple among others.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sPrZW2wXP4

I've only just found out while writing this that there was a sequel on the Playstation. [Goes to youtube to see what it was like.]

Stercus Accidit · 21-03-2011 10:39pm

Body Harvest

The sand box time traveling puzzle game shooter with motor bikes, cars, tanks, planes, hovercrafts, boats flying aliens the size of buildings, huge boss fights etc.

It would be amazing on a current gen machine.

Josey Wales · 21-03-2011 10:45pm

Stercus Accidit wrote: »

Body Harvest

The sand box time traveling puzzle game shooter with motor bikes, cars, tanks, planes, hovercrafts, boats flying aliens the size of buildings, huge boss fights etc.

It would be amazing on a current gen machine.

Sounds like they threw everything they could into that game.

Stercus Accidit · 21-03-2011 10:46pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyJaaYoWPPw

jill_valentine · 21-03-2011 10:48pm

Flashback! A thousand times Flashback.

partyatmygaff · 21-03-2011 10:48pm

The original Metal Gear 1 and 2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlbjV5uE2mA

Adyx · 21-03-2011 10:54pm

System Shock/System Shock 2. SS2 without the rubbish Body of the Many levels please, or at least make it feel less like a rush job tacked on at the end.

ShadowHearth · 21-03-2011 11:19pm

I remember rock and roll racing. I finished that game like 100 times. It was epic.

As for new remake... Metal twister. Good news is they are making it allready, so far it looks mad as ever!

padr81 · 22-03-2011 12:03am

jill_valentine wrote: »

Flashback! A thousand times Flashback.

I'll have a bit of this. Absolutely loved that game. Stunning for its time.

irish_stevo815 · 22-03-2011 12:23am

Road Rash - who doesnt love knocking people off their motorbikes with chains and baseball bats

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JimhxCE0hhA

o1s1n · 22-03-2011 12:41am

Dactyl Nightmare. We need modern VR!

Retr0gamer · 22-03-2011 12:47am

**** Body Harvest. Rare should stop wasting there time with that Perfect Dark remake and should have made us a Blast Corp Remake!

Cots1 · 22-03-2011 12:57am

I like a Metal Gear 1 & 2 remake played a bit of them on my super edition of mgs3

Retr0gamer · 22-03-2011 1:21am

Metal Gear Solid is bascally a remake of Metal Gear 2.

Funky · 22-03-2011 1:24am

Syndicate, game was so good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QxYku4VVZk

pixelburp · 22-03-2011 1:39am

Funky wrote: »

Syndicate, game was so good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QxYku4VVZk

The grapevine suggests that Syndicate is getting a new version / sequel / reboot. It's all rumour for now, but the suggestions is that it may just happen.

My choice would be FF7 - with the franchise now a bit of a lame duck, it would be a good time to push some money into a remastered version of #7, rather than produce yet another shoddy CGI snorefest ala #13.

Professey Chin · 22-03-2011 1:41am

ShadowHearth wrote: »

As for new remake... Metal twister. Good news is they are making it allready, so far it looks mad as ever!

You mean Twisted Metal right?

Sisko · 22-03-2011 4:53am

Funky wrote: »

Syndicate, game was so good

I couldnt ****ing agree more, every time this topic comes, I always think of those games. The setting is brilliant.

The big question is though, if it saw a re-make would you want it to be a top down isometric game again? Or a futuristic GTA style setting? I always picture a GTA style thing, only in terms of the level and perspective now mind you. The city with futuristic cars and hover cars and so on would just look brilliant , dark cyber punk atmosphere with tall eeire buildings. You control cyborgs as usual and more then one possibly , rather then the whole 'main character' thing. just like the old game, and upgrade their cyber parts etc.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iODa7x669Y

pixelburp wrote: »

The grapevine suggests that Syndicate is getting a new version / sequel / reboot. It's all rumour for now, but the suggestions is that it may just happen.

Been hearing this for years but only very weak rumours. Really hope it happens soon.

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Ultimate Chin wrote: »

You mean Twisted Metal right?

Loved Twisted metal 2 all those years ago, think a modern one with online multiplayer etc with be fantastic and looking at this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ije8tRJwJeg

can't wait.

Zero-Cool · 22-03-2011 9:47am

Vice City or Final Fantasy 7

nuff said

Wossack · 22-03-2011 9:59am

Carrier command
Mechwarrior
Syndicate
Battlezone

Are initially what pops to mind

humanji · 22-03-2011 10:26am

Wossack wrote: »

Carrier command
Mechwarrior
Syndicate
Battlezone

Are initially what pops to mind

I think there's a new Carrier Command in the works.

I'd love to see Midwinter 2 remade. It was a great (reasonably-)free roam FPS RPG with huge maps and lots of ways of completing your missions. It was, for a long time, the only game I played that felt like you were a proper spy, using all sorts of gadgets, vehicles, not knowing who you can trust, setting up assassinations, stealing secret documents, usurping local militias. It had it all.

I still have it on floppy disk, but modern computers don't have floppy drives

Mr Freeze · 22-03-2011 11:21am

+ 1 for Syndicate. Hope the rumors of a remake are true.

Mine, would be:
Thief: The Dark Project
Outcast

Thief could be getting a remake/reboot, Thi4f was announced, but no details at all on a release date or any what they are gonna do with it. Change the title anyways to Thief 4, since when did 4 look like an e.

penev10 · 22-03-2011 11:50am

Syndicate would make for a great 3D sandbox shooter type thing.

I'd go for:

Resident Evil 2 - something akin to the Gamecube remake of the original i.e. with gameplay rerfinements and new areas not just improved graphics.

Vagrant Story - Such stylish graphics but could do with a HD makeover

Hidden & Dangerous - proper tactical stuff none of that COD nonsense

corcaigh07 · 22-03-2011 12:38pm

first of all, this needs to be made:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1Q5xuF1kuo

also would love Micro Machines on XBLA, not even remade, just port Micro Machines 2!

and sega need to bring back some of their own games, streets of rage comes to mind, maybe do a Street Fighter 4 on it and have 3d backgrounds for a 2d playing game.

humanji · 22-03-2011 12:40pm

penev10 wrote: »

Hidden & Dangerous - proper tactical stuff none of that COD nonsense

Oh, a good Hidden & Dangerous remake would be fantastic. There's not enough tactical games like that these days.

In a similar vein, Rainbow Six deserves a good remake. I thought the Vegas games were fairly terrible. I loved plotting out your strategy at the start of the game and seeing it fall into place.