What classic (or not so classic) game would you remake?

I'm sure this topic has been covered here several times - but not in my recent memory heh - so I'll pose the question: If you could choose any one game to be remade with modern graphics/physics etc technology what would they be?

It would be a hard choice but for pc I would do Baldur's Gate 1

If I could get a remake on a console game it'd have to be Final Fantasy VII. Ya I know, I'm not a big fan of consoles ether, but I did love FFVII.

Mechwarrior

Bf1942

Freespace

Star Ocean

I'd love to see a remake of BG-games and Fallouts. Planescape could be a seriously magnificent game with modern graphics and good voice-acting. Just think about those environments... Man, that would be awesome.

I'd love to see a Kotor remake down the line, the graphics are a bit dated by now, the non-existing mod support from the devs really hurts it. Just look what modders can do to Morrowind, some screenshots look way better than Oblivion.

I'm currently waiting for the "remake" of Deus Ex. I'd love to see a remake of the System Shock games, especially the first. But that will never happen, I guess. Same with Thief games, I can't get Thief up and running on my rig, grrr...

I agree on FFVII.

I would like to see System Shock 2 remade in Source. But no changes at all to anything. All the same sound files should be used, and the modern textures should be changed as little as possible, and only when necessary.

I'd like to see Doom remade in a modern engine, too. Games like Painkiller prove how well it could work if done properly.

The real question is why people DON'T re-release this stuff for the latest windows?! - surely it's money for old rope for the games companies - they've already got the games sitting there, and from this board and others i've looked at, a lot of people would love to see SS and Blade Runner released for modern PCs instead of taking hours to fiddle with various settings and even then getting problemsjfsebastianII

I guess they don't want our money...?

anyone remember "Outcast"? now that game i would like to see a remake of!

I don't want a Planescape remake, the game is fine the way it is and the 2nd graphics suit it. And it already has great voice work, you can't add that much more of it because that would mean changing too many lines, especially those from a narrative point of view. Neither do I want a Fallout remake or for that matter any remake of the Infinity Engine games as they all look and work fine. In fact I would simply not trust the remake of any of those games since they are not necessary guranteed hits in today's market in their current form. I am not sure what I would do if the PS:T remake had an Oblivion style dialogue mini game.

The only game that I want a remake of are the old 3d ones, like Deus Ex, where the early 3d graphics have not aged well or a remade/remastered edition of games that were obviously not finished or rushed, like VthM;B.

Planescape: Torment

If Torment was remade with full voice acting (even for the The Nameless One like in Mass Effect) and 3D graphics with very cinematic cutscenes (like Mass Effect or Metal Gear Solid) and with 3rd person view (like KOTOR or NwN2) it would be the best RPG ever

ALot of good games has come up sofar, I would like to throw "Crusader: No Remorse", and "Crusader: No Regret" into the mix... I used to love those two games

Whoever mentioned the 2d graphics suiting Planescape made a good point. I'm not sure why I find the isometric graphics endearing in games like Planescape and Baldur's Gate 1 & 2, but they just really work and I think the game would just end up looking like Neverwinter Nights if they changed it.

To answer the original question, I would say Ultima Online has so much potential. There are so many good ideas in that game!

Something that blended the gameplay options of "Old School" Ultima Online, as far as skill complexity and the sheer number of stuff you could do (fighting sea monsters, the depth of crafting, stealing, player killing/looting, housing, house robbing, poisoning, that skill where you could examine corpses to find out who pk'd a person, the abilty to interact with basically every item in the gameworld), and had the graphics of, say, Oblivion would be amazing!!

A few games that could do with a facelift would include...

Unreal - the original SP game would look great if they revamped the environments and characters, and improved some of the gameplay in some of the areas. But strangely enough, I wouldn't remake it in the latest Unreal engine, but instead utilise the Crysis engine, which renders some breathtaking environments on a large scale.

Jedi Knight: Dark Forces 2 - looks very dated now, but it still has such great level design and variety of gameplay, along with a compelling story of vengeance, that it could stand a remake. The Source engine would be a good starting point, due to the excellent character animation capabilities and the fact that Force Pull and Push are pretty much already built in (that's basically what the gravity gun does).

Eye Of The Beholder 1 & 2, Ultima Underworld 1 & 2, Betrayal At Krondor, etc., could all be revamped in a modern engine, while leaving the storylines intact.

X-COM: UFO Defense

That game requires a worthy sequel.

Magic Carpet 2

Dungeon Keeper

Battlefield

System Shock 2

Sacrifice

Alien versus predator 2

Battlefield 1942

System Shock 2

Half life (better graphics)

Mechwarrior

Bf1942

normally i'd say something like sam and max, but tell tale has done an awesome job on that so i can be happy forever

Other games i would like to see sequels for, or continuations rather then flat out remakes

grim fandango

deus ex - although there are rumours of a third game

freespace

THE game that should be remade: tie fighter

Outlaws! Still is best western shooter.

And Worms, none of that 3d crap the 2d worms is the best.

I'd love to see a remake of the System Shock games, especially the first.

artur79

I totally agree. Can you imagine all those awesome-looking enemies in the first game in modern 3D graphics, maybe with a little modernizing and tweaking of the designs?

http://www.daxxus.org/wingnut/sshock/enemies.htm

I mean, just... wow.

Not really a remake: A proper matrix game with Neo.

lol, Invisible War maybe?

I wouldn't like to see Deus Ex remade. I think the graphics are fine, it's the gameplay and the story that count.

I would, however, like to see games like System Shock 2 and Darklands rereleased, that way they run better and are easier to find.

BF 1942 - no question

Id also like in a few years to see like a remake of CoD1 multiplayer with the stats and ranks of CoD4

anyone remember "Outcast"? now that game i would like to see a remake of!

Foreward66

Let's see...in addition to those already mentioned:

• Populous: The Beginning
• Syndicate (or the darker Syndicate Wars...I actually liked the atmosphere of SW more)
• BattleTech: Crescent Hawks' Revenge
• Autoduel
• Ultima I-VII
• Wing Commander Privateer
• Privateer 2 (John Hurt, Christopher Walken, and Clive Owen made that game 100% pure awesome)
• Mechwarrior 2
• Jane's AH-64D Longbow
• SimIsle
• Lemmings 2: The Tribes
• Earthsiege
• Starsieg: Tribes
• Heavy Gear 2
• Ultima Underworld 2:Labyrinth of Worlds
• Master of Magic