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In the era of remakes and remasters, what niche game would you like to see receive the treatment? (sh.itjust.works)
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I know that remakes and remasters are contentious, but let's pretend whatever game in question you're thinking of is handled with the utmost care by your favourite devs and they absolutely nail it.

Mine would be Shadow of Memories (called Shadow of Destiny in North America). It's legitimately one of my favourite games of all time but it kinda flew under the radar and I haven't met many people who know of it let alone played it. Seeing it get modern graphics, maybe some expanded mechanics, would be soooo cool.

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[–] ampersandrew 9 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

The games that actually need it are the ones stuck on old consoles with no forward compatibility, particularly PC. Just looking at the games still on my shelf, that don't belong to Nintendo, and are not locked in some kind of licensing hell:

  • every Burnout before Paradise
  • MechAssault 1 and 2
  • Mega Man: Network Transmission
  • Metal Arms: Glitch in the System
  • Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes and MGS4 (there's some hope here, maybe???)
  • every old Ratchet & Clank game
  • legacy Soul Calibur/Soul Edge games, with rollback netcode
  • legacy SSX games
  • Super Monkey Ball 1 and 2
  • Uncharted 1-3
  • the Viewtiful Joe series

And I don't have it on my shelf, but would it kill someone to remaster the old TimeSplitters games?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I love SSX 3 and just about a month ago replayed it on my steam deck. Would love a remake of that. I was probably in the minority but I mostly liked the SSX reboot, minus all the online connectivity.

[–] ampersandrew 4 points 2 weeks ago

I think the lack of split-screen killed interest for a lot of us. It did for me.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Ooh, SSX, that's a game I haven't thought about in a while. I had a lot of fun playing SSX tricky and the reboot

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Super Monkey Ball 1 and 2 got a remaster a few years back.

[–] ampersandrew 2 points 2 weeks ago

Friends of mine reported that the game did not control the same, so I guess I was looking for those games ported properly.