# Game Remakes? **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [October 5, 2009, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-remakes/512617 "2009-10-05T01:08:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Peanut\_Gallery](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/838e76/32.png) [@Peanut\_Gallery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peanut_Gallery)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2009, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-remakes/512617/21 "2009-10-10T00:36:16Z")
> [@Darth\_Sensitive](#): > > I want Goldeneye. Your wish is my [command](http://www.goldeneyesource.net/). ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2009, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-remakes/512617/22 "2009-10-10T01:21:49Z")
> [@Peanut\_Gallery](#): > > Your wish is my [command](http://www.goldeneyesource.net/). Is that… single- and multi-player, or just multiplayer? The Wiki and homepage don’t seem to address the question. _quivers_ ---
**Author:** ![Jragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Jragon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jragon)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2009, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-remakes/512617/23 "2009-10-10T02:15:22Z")
I’m still waiting on my [Half-life](http://blackmesasource.com/) remake. _tap tap tap_ Edit: It’s theoretically coming out this year, I’m guessing Nov 19, HL1’s release anniversary (birthday?). ---
**Author:** ![Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/regallag_the_axe/32/445_2.png) [@Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Regallag_The_Axe)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2009, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-remakes/512617/24 "2009-10-10T03:04:40Z")
I want to say Chrono Trigger, but I’m hesitant, as I fear that they’d screw it my favorite game somehow. Keep all the characters (especially Magus, the best video game boss ever) as they are. Keep the combat system. Keep the combat 2-D, just pretty it up. The rest can be 3-D, but it doesn’t have to be. Keep the story the same, with all the different possible paths it can take, but change the details (an example of details: which bush you go into to get the free tent, which rock the monster jumps out from, which cave you go into to get to the next area, etc.). And \*definitely \*keep the music for the battle against Magus. ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2009, 11:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-remakes/512617/25 "2009-10-11T11:34:29Z")
> [@](#): > > I want to say Chrono Trigger Did you get the remake for the PS1? They kept the gameplay the same, but they added some new movies, which I thought were great. The title was Final Fantasy Chronicles, and it included FFIV. If you have a PSX or PS2, you need to get this compilation. Really and truly. And yeah, the music for the battle against Magus is fantastic. I prefer it to One Winged Angel. ---
**Author:** ![Omniscient](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omniscient/32/3290_2.png) [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2009, 11:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-remakes/512617/26 "2009-10-11T11:53:29Z")
Myst It’s the perfect game for a remake. You wouldn’t hardly need to change anything besides using modern graphics engines and increasing the scale of the world to the current level of sandbox games. You could even use many of the same puzzles and just tweak them in concert with a whole new slate of puzzles. ---
**Author:** ![Red\_Skeezix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/aca169/32.png) [@Red\_Skeezix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Red_Skeezix)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2009, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-remakes/512617/27 "2009-10-11T12:59:48Z")
Crusader No Remorse Tie Fighter +1 I always want to say FF7 but, I think the temptation to fuck it up a lot would be too great. ---
**Author:** ![HPL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@HPL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HPL)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2009, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-remakes/512617/28 "2009-10-11T14:21:08Z")
> [@Red\_Skeezix](#): > > Crusader No Remorse > > Tie Fighter +1 > > I always want to say FF7 but, I think the temptation to fuck it up a lot would be too great. I’d agree on FF7, but there are so many spinoffs of FF7 I don’t want to encourage them to make more. ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2009, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-remakes/512617/29 "2009-10-11T14:53:57Z")
> [@Omniscient](#): > > Myst Myst has been remade with fancier graphics twice, first as **Myst: Masterpiece Edition** and then as **realMyst**. I don’t think any of the puzzles were changed, but everything got a lot prettier. ---
**Author:** ![Omniscient](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omniscient/32/3290_2.png) [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2009, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-remakes/512617/30 "2009-10-11T19:48:26Z")
> [@Justin\_Bailey](#): > > Myst has been remade with fancier graphics twice, first as **Myst: Masterpiece Edition** and then as **realMyst**. I don’t think any of the puzzles were changed, but everything got a lot prettier. Those are still a decade old and the game wasn’t updated or expanded. A truly modern game, not just a remastered original with freshened graphics, would be golden. The old version seems like it could be a hit on the DS in the mold of Professor Laytons. ---
**Author:** ![Red\_Barchetta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/da6949/32.png) [@Red\_Barchetta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Red_Barchetta)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2009, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-remakes/512617/31 "2009-10-11T20:05:50Z")
> [@Omniscient](#): > > Those are still a decade old and the game wasn’t updated or expanded. A truly modern game, not just a remastered original with freshened graphics, would be golden. > > The old version seems like it could be a hit on the DS in the mold of Professor Laytons. It has been ported to the DS, apparently with less-than-stellar results though: > **[Myst Review - IGN](https://www.ign.com/articles/2008/05/16/myst-review-2)** > > How many releases of Myst do we actually need? Apparently over a dozen since it keeps appearing on nearly every video game system. It never changes, it's still freaking Myst, a game that was barely fun back in 1994. At its best it's a poorly aged,... ---
**Author:** ![Omniscient](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omniscient/32/3290_2.png) [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2009, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-remakes/512617/32 "2009-10-11T20:44:25Z")
> [@Red\_Barchetta](#): > > It has been ported to the DS, apparently with less-than-stellar results though: > [http://ds.ign.com/articles/874/874807p1.html](http://ds.ign.com/articles/874/874807p1.html) Whatdya know… Guess as a non-DS owner I shouldn’t be surprised this was new to me, but I suppose I can see the point of the reviewers criticisms regarding the sound and screen size issues. It only convinces me more that a new PC version built to exploit the latest and greatest of photo-realistic 3D environments with surround sound could be great. ---
**Author:** ![Reply](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/reply/32/15952_2.png) [@Reply](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reply)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2009, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-remakes/512617/33 "2009-10-13T20:12:42Z")
X-Wing vs TIE Fighter. Baldur’s Gate with 3.5e rules. In the Temple of Elemental Evil engine. > [@Jragon](#): > > I’m still waiting on my [Half-life](http://blackmesasource.com/) remake. _tap tap tap_ How is this different from Half-Life: Source? ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2009, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-remakes/512617/34 "2009-10-13T20:41:31Z")
I was just thiking about this! I want them to remake Final fantasy 6 (the Kefka one). They fixed up some of the cut scenes and made it shinier but the game itself is the same. I want it revamped! Same story, same characters, just a modern game. And Chrono Trigger, why not? ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2009, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-remakes/512617/35 "2009-10-13T21:20:48Z")
Lode Runner (with a make-your-own-level editor, too) ---
**Author:** ![Airk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9de053/32.png) [@Airk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airk)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2009, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-remakes/512617/36 "2009-10-13T21:23:24Z")
What exactly would you consider to be a revamped game though? I see a lot of people asking for this (usually referring to an RPG) and then saying something like “Just update the graphics” and yet now **Anaamika** is here saying “the shinier version they just released isn’t revamped enough” So… what would you change? Systems? Graphics? Music? When do we go beyond what **Regallag\_The\_Axe** wants from Chrono Trigger (which seems like barely any changes beyond a new coat of paint). So I guess what I’m saying is: “What game would you want remade?” is a boring question. “What would you change in a remake of your favorite game?” is much more interesting. ---
**Author:** ![Airk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9de053/32.png) [@Airk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airk)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2009, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-remakes/512617/37 "2009-10-13T21:24:31Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > Lode Runner (with a make-your-own-level editor, too) [You mean like this?](http://www.xbox.com/en-US/games/l/loderunnerxboxlivearcade/) ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2009, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-remakes/512617/38 "2009-10-13T21:30:10Z")
Any of the X-Wing and TIE Fighter games. Also: one of my favorite arcade games from the 80s – Cyberball. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2009, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-remakes/512617/39 "2009-10-13T21:40:05Z")
One more vote for Master of Magic, but using the M2:TW engine. Just add the dark realm and the magic tree and you’re all set. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2009, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-remakes/512617/40 "2009-10-13T21:45:18Z")
> [@Airk](#): > > [You mean like this?](http://www.xbox.com/en-US/games/l/loderunnerxboxlivearcade/) Yeah but I need it on Mac or Wii. I’m not giving Microsoft any more money if I can help it. I’m certainly not buying an xbox. Thanks, tho. It is good to know that other people liked the game. Another game that came out for xbox only that I used to love is Turok. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-remakes/512617.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-remakes/512617.md?page=3)