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Postby Lord Tothe » Tue Aug 17, 2010 1:34 am

The new graphics on games like Marathon 2: Durandal, Perfect Dark, and Monkey Island on Xbox Live, and the release of StarCraft II have made me start thinking about old favorites in gaming. What older computer games, especially from the 90's or earlier, would you like to see remade or see a sequel?

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Descent and its sequels: Updated graphics. Everything else was perfect. Would be great if downloadable via Steam, Xbox Arcade, PlayStation Store, etc.
Lords of the Realm II: Sequel. More economic options, and the castle creation from the original LOTR with the battle mechanics and general controls from LOTR2.
Sid Meier's Colonization: Remake. 8-bit doesn't cut it anymore. Fun turn-based strategy game.
Top Gear 2: Updated graphics. This was a fun SNES racer I used to play, and would make an excellent addition to the Playstation Store, Xbox Arcade, and Nintendo Wii shop channel.
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Postby Conserative Morality » Tue Aug 17, 2010 1:47 am

Sword Of Aragon remake would be nice.

A couple of the older sim games. Simulation just isn't as popular nowadays, now is a great time for a revival! :p

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Postby Kuyog » Tue Aug 17, 2010 1:51 am

Lord Tothe wrote:The new graphics on games like Marathon 2: Durandal, Perfect Dark, and Monkey Island on Xbox Live, and the release of StarCraft II have made me start thinking about old favorites in gaming. What older computer games, especially from the 90's or earlier, would you like to see remade or see a sequel?

My partial list:

Descent and its sequels: Updated graphics. Everything else was perfect. Would be great if downloadable via Steam, Xbox Arcade, PlayStation Store, etc.
Lords of the Realm II: Sequel. More economic options, and the castle creation from the original LOTR with the battle mechanics and general controls from LOTR2.
Sid Meier's Colonization: Remake. 8-bit doesn't cut it anymore. Fun turn-based strategy game.
Top Gear 2: Updated graphics. This was a fun SNES racer I used to play, and would make an excellent addition to the Playstation Store, Xbox Arcade, and Nintendo Wii shop channel.


Colonization has already been remade http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilization_IV:_Colonization.
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Postby Conserative Morality » Tue Aug 17, 2010 1:52 am

Kuyog wrote:Colonization has already been remade http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilization_IV:_Colonization.

Or FreeCol
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Postby Lord Tothe » Tue Aug 17, 2010 1:53 am

Conserative Morality wrote:A couple of the older sim games. Simulation just isn't as popular nowadays, now is a great time for a revival! :p

SimTower FTW?
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Kuyog wrote:Colonization has already been remade http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilization_IV:_Colonization.

Or FreeCol

Damn you and your time-traveling shenanigans to upbraid me. :P I was referring to a simple graphical upgrade fr the original game. I know there's a remake of Sid Meier's Pirates out there as well.

It also looks like there's a new XCOM title, but it's not a squad tactical strategy game.
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Postby Blademasters765 » Tue Aug 17, 2010 1:55 am

Conserative Morality wrote:
Kuyog wrote:Colonization has already been remade http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilization_IV:_Colonization.

Or FreeCol

I think I might just try that
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Postby Svenskis » Tue Aug 17, 2010 1:55 am

Age of Empires I.

Still my favourite in the AoE-Universe, and still filled with bugs, ai-cheating and... strange stuff.
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Postby Conserative Morality » Tue Aug 17, 2010 1:56 am

Lord Tothe wrote:SimTower FTW?

I was thinking more along the lines of 'Alter Ego', 'Robinson's Requiem', 'SimAnt', 'SimEarth' (I suffer not the name 'Spore' to be mentioned in my presence), etc.
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Postby Vonners » Tue Aug 17, 2010 2:01 am

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Postby South Lorenya » Tue Aug 17, 2010 3:25 am

I spend a LOT of time playing old games; it's refreshing to not be dealign with Easier Than Easy games where the execs go "Screw the plot, we have graphics!"

Now if you'll excuse me, Romance of the Three Kingdoms II (SNES, Koei, 1991) calls.
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Postby Yootopia » Tue Aug 17, 2010 4:11 am

Would love to see a remake of Transarctica, which I fondly remember from my youth. Also, it's barely that old, but a new Freespace would be great.
Conserative Morality wrote:Simulation just isn't as popular nowadays.

Err dunno about that really. Got sims of all kinds around.
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Postby Horsefish » Tue Aug 17, 2010 4:14 am

Pokemon blue/red/green/yellow released on xbox live.

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Postby Blouman Empire » Tue Aug 17, 2010 4:20 am

Lord Tothe wrote:
Conserative Morality wrote:A couple of the older sim games. Simulation just isn't as popular nowadays, now is a great time for a revival! :p

SimTower FTW?


SimTower is pretty old anyway.

Unless they remade it and if so when and where do I get a copy?
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Postby Tokos » Tue Aug 17, 2010 4:36 am

Svenskis wrote:Age of Empires I.

Still my favourite in the AoE-Universe, and still filled with bugs, ai-cheating and... strange stuff.


A remake would be great - modern games technology applied to the bronze age. I can't play my (mac) version anymore because it has a weird save bug.

A remake of the Marathon series would be good but everyone would piss and moan about it being a rip-off of Halo, when the opposite's true.
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Postby Greal » Tue Aug 17, 2010 4:38 am

A remake of Master of Orion (1993) with new graphics would be epic.
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Postby Techno-Soviet » Tue Aug 17, 2010 4:41 am

Steel Beasts

Too bad the game is still being developed, and the company wouldn't dare let anyone like Valve put it up for sale on Steam or DirectDownload.

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Postby Yootopia » Tue Aug 17, 2010 4:41 am

Greal wrote:A remake of Master of Orion (1993) with new graphics would be epic.

You ever play Sins of a Solar Empire? Was at least vaguely like that.
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Postby Sol-Kar » Tue Aug 17, 2010 4:42 am

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Postby Greal » Tue Aug 17, 2010 4:43 am

Yootopia wrote:
Greal wrote:A remake of Master of Orion (1993) with new graphics would be epic.

You ever play Sins of a Solar Empire? Was at least vaguely like that.



Vaguely doesn't cut it for me.
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Postby DaWoad » Tue Aug 17, 2010 4:51 am

diablo 2 (i know the thirds in the works)
allied generals
AOE2 (or AOE 1)
alpha centurai
Counter Strike Source
Final Fantasy 7
a pokemon MMO would be fun
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Postby Sophisticism » Tue Aug 17, 2010 4:59 am

Zeus - Master of Olympus was (and still is) great.
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Postby Yootopia » Tue Aug 17, 2010 5:20 am

Sophisticism wrote:Zeus - Master of Olympus was (and still is) great.

Pharaoh was better.
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Postby Bei Song » Tue Aug 17, 2010 5:24 am

Age of Empires 2. I still play that.
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Postby Karsol » Tue Aug 17, 2010 5:30 am

Yootopia wrote:
Sophisticism wrote:Zeus - Master of Olympus was (and still is) great.

Pharaoh was better.

Agrees.
Though Rome was good, it wasn't as good, even with the cool Vids.

I would also like to see Revenant with today's graphics.
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Postby SD_Film Artists » Tue Aug 17, 2010 5:32 am

Dungeon Keeper 2. The closest thing to that in the last 5 years has been Evil Genius, which would've been great if it had a skirmish mode.
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