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Remastered/modded classic/great games

  • 17-12-2019 6:49pm
    #1
    HeartOfTheCity
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    After mucking about with the ‘Enhanced Edition’ fan mods, and the HD mods for the abandonware Silent Hill 2 and Simpsons : Hit and Run (highly recommend it) respectively, does anyone have any suggestions for similar older games that have been reworked?


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  • #2
    ShadowHearth
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    Age of empires 2 and Warcraft 3 reforged. Two classic Giants that are officially updated.

    Never was a big fan of Age of empires, but Warcraft 3 stole a lot of time from me when I was young. Even had a proper legal version of it ( in eastern Europe that's big back in the day ), which costed half on monthly wages. Was well worth it.


  • #3
    Skerries
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    The Elder Scrolls games have had endless full mods made for them including reworking the older games with the newer games graphics such as SkyWind or Morroblivion

    Black Mesa was free before they commercialised it and is half of the original Half Life game updated and extended, I think the Xen part is out or coming soon

    Vampire: The Masquerade has had people continually working on it to finish areas that were never completed and fix all the bugs

    Similar to KOTOR 2 where they have restored uncompleted areas

    have a look at this list for games that have had complete overhauls

    https://www.techradar.com/news/10-best-free-total-conversion-mods-for-pc

    The Dark mod is supposed to be very good
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  • #4
    ElNino
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    Gog has just re-released the classic 1997 adventure game Blade Runner which was loosely based on the film. I loved this game when it first came out.


  • #5
    Skerries
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    still raging I sold my original copy because someone gave me a DVD version that came in just a case and not boxed
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  • #6
    ancapailldorcha
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 39,606 CMod ✭✭✭✭ancapailldorcha


    HeartOfTheCity wrote: »
    After mucking about with the ‘Enhanced Edition’ fan mods, and the HD mods for the abandonware Silent Hill 2 and Simpsons : Hit and Run (highly recommend it) respectively, does anyone have any suggestions for similar older games that have been reworked?

    Can you even legally get the games you mentioned any more? I wish they were on Steam.

    The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the LORD your God.

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  • #7
    pixelburp
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 36,711 CMod ✭✭✭✭pixelburp


    I've also heard high praise for the Dark Mod, effectively a new Thief game but the names changed to avoid legal hassle. IIRC it has been going for years now but they're still releasing updates & new missions (there's no campaign as such, levels are community made)

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


    And for fans of Deus Ex, there's a free overhaul mod that you can download via Steam; I've played around with it a little and definitely gives the now-creaking game a bit of a spit-polish.

    https://store.steampowered.com/app/397550/Deus_Ex_Revision/

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKFNnSN38Dc


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