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What games do you think would be great if they'd get properly remastered and would be a hit if it was done? (lemmy.ml)
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I believe this will mostly affects games which were lacking in technology.

I'd personally LOVE to see The Sims 1 or The Sims 2 re-released with performance and resolution upgrades, and, most importantly, made to be open world. Since they're older, I believe they could very easily render the entire map like The Sims 3, but with the charm of TS1 or TS2.

I cannot think of other games, since most games I see as adequate, whereas TS1 and TS2 were bound by system performance during their respective times.

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[โ€“] rustyredox 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I'd like to see the earlier Hot Pursuit and High Stake releases remastered. I loved those long scenic and rural tracks. I played a lot of NFS3, and then a lot of the 2010 reboot because the graphics where better, but I still miss that retro '90s hypercar aesthetic and soundtrack.

The 2010 NFS HP reboot helped supplement my nostalgia, but sometimes I'd just want to go back to that grippy arcade style of driving dynamics, but with modern graphical realism. E.g like this vision of NFS3 ported to use the Unreal 5 Engine:

https://youtu.be/JunHKINpbp4?si=g4V8aaKQUPgvbRb8

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hot pursuit was the one that let you play as or against cops, right? I freaking loved that as a kid. I'm not much for racing games, but that's the exception.

[โ€“] rustyredox 2 points 1 year ago

Yep, it was a lot of fun doing out maneuver and dropping spike strips at just the most opportune and inescapable moment. NFS3 also has split screen where players could even play on different sides locally during the dance race, or complete as both cops to catch the most races.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I can't for the life of me find the earlier hot pursuit ANYWHERE

[โ€“] rustyredox 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I really appreciate this patch to run NFS3 on modern Windows or Wine:

The author has sence redacted the torrent link for the original game files bundled with a previous patch, but anyone can just as easily go back through intent archive to find it: