Old video games remade

[PeteRoy]

In the entertainment industry we see a lot of remade movies and music covers of old songs, but we never see an old video game being remade, I have a few games that I love which are old and I think would be a lot of fun playing them again but in a new version using the most recent technologies available and I believe if done right they would sell again.


I have come up with a few games I personally would like to see remade, these are old quest/advanture games I played that have good story and beautiful scenary which would look amazing using modern technology, the games are:



Phantasmagoria, Sanitarium and Atlantis The Lost Tale, I will exaime what I think can be done with each game.

Click here to read the full post I made in my blog

[polopolo]

Well, I really doubt if we should do that.

To be honest, I think it's too early to do that.

if a movie of game will get 50/100 yeards old, and the generations who played it are dead, then I think it's worth re-making.

Not earlier then that. If you would re-make your good old Nintendo games to cool Unreal/Source engine based game. Then I think it would fail. Simply because people were grown up with these games.

Take for example Half-Life: Source or Black Mesa mod with Half-Life 1. The new version might be better, but would that mean that the game would replace the game you grown up with?

[ran_out]

I'd have to disagree about the lack of game remakes, I can think of a quite a few good game remakes that have come out recently. Xbla has quite a few HD remakes of old console and arcade games, the monkey island remake was released a short while ago, some of the old final fantasy games have been remade for th DS, the Super Mario Advance games on the gameboy advance

[polopolo]

Originally Posted by ran_out

I'd have to disagree about the lack of game remakes, I can think of a quite a few good game remakes that have come out recently. Xbla has quite a few HD remakes of old console and arcade games, the monkey island remake was released a short while ago, some of the old final fantasy games have been remade for th DS, the Super Mario Advance games on the gameboy advance

Yeah... in that way you are right.

I was more thinking about Super Mario Bros levels making into Super Mario Galaxy engine remakes. But... re-makes like re-releasing it with cleaned up graphics will be succesfull.

[ernest.]

Tomb Raider Anniversary is a remake of the original

[CannibalBob]

Originally Posted by polopolo

Well, I really doubt if we should do that.

To be honest, I think it's too early to do that.

if a movie of game will get 50/100 yeards old, and the generations who played it are dead, then I think it's worth re-making.

Not earlier then that. If you would re-make your good old Nintendo games to cool Unreal/Source engine based game. Then I think it would fail. Simply because people were grown up with these games.

Take for example Half-Life: Source or Black Mesa mod with Half-Life 1. The new version might be better, but would that mean that the game would replace the game you grown up with?

No, the OP is right. Video game technology has advanced a LOT over the years. The movie industry was the same but has taken a lot longer to advance. IMO old titles could really benefit from newer technologies, mainly, the internet.

Back in the 80's and early 90's, the internet wasn't used all that much in older games. Things as simple as multiplayer weren't in many games. If they were, it was using primitive IPX or serial cable, which typically required LAN connections or special software. This meant playing a game with a friend over the net is difficult, at best.

Some "recent" technologies in gaming (relative to those old games) include achievements, stats, leaderboards, online multiplayer (including MMO), and obviously graphics and controls/UI.

Personally I would absolutely LOVE to see some older PC platformers, including Duke Nukum (sic), Keen series and Jazz Jackrabbit with new technologies including "2.5D" (3D game from a 2D perspective) graphics, achievements, leaderboards for each level (including weekly and lifetime for time and points), online coop AND deathmatch multiplayer (with appropriate in-game lobbies to meet people), cross-platform play (it IS a side-scroller afterall) and finally, a level editor with in-game level sharing and ranking. If anyone has played LittleBigPlanet, you'd get a great idea what I'd like - imagine LBP but with actually fun gameplay where you get to shoot stuff, scoop up powerups etc!! It'd be amazing!

[marie pavie]

Originally Posted by PeteRoy

In the entertainment industry we see a lot of remade movies and music covers of old songs, but we never see an old video game being remade...

Often my first thought is why does anybody think these remakes will be any fun? Say game X was great fun & had mushrooms falling from the sky. So now some shmo says 'I know, we'll have mushrooms falling from the sky it'll be great!' Ah, no. Doesn't quite work that way. Sure some are good, bring something new & valuable to the table but most are just Milquetoast. It's like the entertainment industry has been stuck in Mama's basement too long, & just rehashing other peoples work.

[Nuttmegger]

To be honest, the video games industry is stagnant enough already without rehashing old titles. Whilst it's a cool idea, I would much prefer efforts directed to something new- no actually new. Something with high production values, but yet isn't classifyable into a currently existing 3 letter acronym (RPG,RTS,FPS). Anybody here thinking it's better to put the pressure forward, than backward?

[Jinoru]

yet if you put any game into a Genre that isn't definable like that, it prolly won't be a "game." Of course the pressure should be put forward but you have to remember your roots or you will never get originality.

This sums up my feelings about what game's should be like:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZi8CceG2JI

[iBMe]

You do see it, there's quite a few, Monkey Island and Resident evil jump to mind.