I too, vote Lemmings. I would love to play it somewhere other than my PC.
I’m also in favor of an Alice in Wonderland revamp, less like American McGees and more like Windham Classics version for the Commodore 64 Something completely true to the book, with wonderful puzzles to solve and just enough sinistry to keep you on your toes throughout.
God, I’d love for them to create more of these style games, where it’s all about the little touches and allusions and the power of your brain rather than how fast you can kill things.*
*No offense against hack-and-slash games. I’m currently in heaven with God of War. I’m just saying, it’d be nice if there were some variety.
Check out the new Sim City. I don’t recall precisely what it’s called, but the Maxis folks subcontracted to another developer. It might be more of what you’re looking for.
The Maxis folk are slaving away at Spore. Faster, serfs, faster!!!
X-Wing and TIE Fighter had suprisingly good AI, too, for both allies and enemies. How is it that the AI in a game that old can blow today’s AI out of the water by that much?
I remember a Gamespot interview with Peter Molyneux last year where he said that, aside from the licensing complications, he would like to revisit the Syndicate universe sometime, and it would probably be fairly popular. It might still happen!
How exactly would you reimagine Duke Nukem in a way other than FPS?
As for me, I was very fond of the old infocom text adventures like Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy and visual games like Loom and Zak McKraken, as well as the later CGId Starship Titanic. I’d love to see HHGTTG (and the other text games) (and hey the rest of the increasingly inaccurately named trilogy) done again as a Starship Titanic or Myst style game. I’ve heard great things about Grim Fandango and would love to see a port to Mac.
I had a certain fondness for Lemmings and Space Taxi as well but other than just more levels I’m not sure they could be improved. Torture the Smurfs might be fun with an amped up graphics engine lol. Actually, just seeing any of the cartoons from my youth as video games could be fun (smurfs, gummi bears, transformers, robotech, seven cities of gold, etc)…
Well… I don’t know about that. I loved TIE Fighter to death, but one of my clearest memories is having to repeatedly pound the “ignore target” command to keep my allies from destroying the Emperor’s shuttle. I swear it was like:
“Ignoring Target”
“Ignoring Target”
“Ignoring Target”
“Breaking off attack”
“Ignoring Target”
“Ignoring Target”
“Ignoring Target”
“Breaking off attack”
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Well… I don’t know about that. I loved TIE Fighter to death, but one of my clearest memories is having to repeatedly pound the “ignore target” command to keep my allies from destroying the Emperor’s shuttle. I swear it was like:
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That was intentionally put in there! To… err… simulate the difficulty of getting your subordinates to… err… follow orders!
Yeah, that’s it. Quit your blasphemy: slandering Tie Fighter. I broke at least two joysticks playing that game. I’ve tried tons of games since, from XWvTF to jedi Starfighter for the PSII… nothing has compared.
cckerberos, I honestly can’t say that ever happened to me. I blew up the emperor’s shuttle myself to see what would happen once, but I never had trouble with my wingmen attacking it (I’m assuming you’re talking about the Defender of the Empire expansion missions for TIE Fighter). Maybe your game had a bug of some sort? Neither my Windows 3.1 version, nor my Windows 95 remake version had that happen.
Knights of the Round. I must have chugged $50 worth of quarters into that arcade game. Now i have it for PS2 on Capcom Classics Vol2. But i would cry happy tears to have it remade.
