What straight up remaster (not remake) would you like to see next?

[StinkyPinky]

Games I would love to see tided up with modern textures/sharper sprites etc

Ultima Underworld games
Might and Magic 6 and 7 (loved the gameplay, but the graphics are beyond bad. They aren't great even for the era)
No One Lives Forever
Ultima 4 to 7. (Ultima 7 still look ok actually)
Unreal Tournament (the newer games just can't capture the magic)
Deus Ex
Planescape Torment (still looks decent, but could do with a brush up)

 

[JoJoman88]

if it's just a straight HD remake without changing the game, I'd go for the Xwing series.

Oh so would like this. There's a web site that has the old X-wing/TIE fighter games working on modern computers. Hell, i almost shelled out a few bucks to get a Missle Boat to blow $hip up. LOL

 

[Sho'Nuff]

X-Wing/Tie Fighter
Severance Blade of Darkness
Jedi Knight

 

[Harrod]

1942

 

[IllogicalGlory]

KotOR
Diablo 2
Warcraft 3
Jedi Knight

 

[Craig234]

Gabriel Knight II: The Beast Within would be one, Diablo II another.

 

[XavierMace]

Warlords Battlecry 3, Star Trek Armada II.

 

[Rakewell]

Fallouts 1 & 2?

 

[DaveSimmons]

Besides half the titles in the poll,

Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines

The music, art design and level design are all great as-is so no "re-imaging" is needed.

The beta Source 1.0 engine has aged badly, so a HD version on Source 2.0 / Unreal / Unity would be a nice step forward. Add in the fixes-only version of Wesp's patch, and support his massive changes version as an option.

 

[Zenoth]

As mentioned before, a remaster of X-Wing / TIE Fighter, and/or Jedi Knight / Outcast, would be great. I would also like a remaster of Morrowind on a modern engine, such as CryEngine 3, or even Unreal Engine 4. Also, a remaster of KOTOR, and the original Mass Effect (which hasn't aged as well as it could have, compared to ME2 and ME3 obviously, since ME1 was built with a much younger version of UE3). I would also like to see a remaster turned-3D (from 2D) of Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds (imagining it with the battle scales like the ones found in Supreme Commander).

Now, that's a lot of Star Wars stuff. Well, here then, one obscure, forgotten title that I would absolutely love to see being remastered: Shadow Man. And oh man I'm so glad I played that when it was new, one of the best, most epic horror/action-adventure game at the time that I had ever played, and still admire it to this day. The way I would imagine a Shadow Man remaster would be in the veins of the remake of Tomb Raider (with less QTEs, but a comparable type of game-play overall, would generally still be linear, story-driven, but much more open for exploration and puzzle-solving).

 

[BSim500]

In theory, quite a few (done purely as a HD texture makeover with identical gameplay):-

Frontier: Elite 2
Giants: Citizens Kabuto
Gothic 1-2 (minus all the bugs and unfinished sections!)
Lemmings 2
Medal of Honor: Allied Assault
Morrowind (redone on the Skyrim engine, maybe some of the worst pre-Oblivion annoyances removed)
No One Lives Forever 1 & 2
Operation Flashpoint: Cold War Crisis (the original, before it got ARMA'd)
Syberia 1 & 2
System Shock 1 & 2
The Longest Journey

In practice, none, as I know full well many will fail to resist the temptation to turn them into reboots and will end up changing the gameplay on many of them "for the casual audience", "optimized for controllers" / "built on engines optimized for lowest common denominator cross platform consoles / tablets", etc. So far the best "remasters" I've seen come from amateur modders who keep it "true to form", not from studio's who are now staffed with very different personnel than those who originally wrote them 12-20 years ago, with a different primary target market (consoles first) vs the Golden Era of PC exclusives:-

Doom / Heretic / Hexen at 4K (Doomsday Engine):-
http://www.gaming-zone.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/doom1-ultimate-004.png

Thief 1&2 in HD :-
http://media.moddb.com/images/mods/1/20/19999/thief_2013-10-07_19-55-45-65.jpg
http://www.moddb.com/mods/thief-gold-hd-texture-mod/
http://www.moddb.com/mods/thief-2-hd-texture-mod

Deus Ex Revision:-
http://www.dx-revision.com

Diablo 2 in widescreen:-
http://wallpaper.pickywallpapers.com/1920x1080/diablo-2-rogue-camp-act-1.jpg

etc. The only ones I would totally redo would be original System Shock (simply because it's so old it lacks mouse-look), and maybe some of the "problem era" DirectDraw / DirectX 5-7 games that are both too new to run under DosBox and yet old enough to suffer from renderer problems / glitches on modern GFX cards / drivers that often struggle with anything under DX7-8. Many games listed are actually entirely playable with a patch / tweak or two, even in widescreen.

I was going to add some ScummVM games (Sam & Max Hit The Road, Day Of The Tentacle, etc), but they actually have that certain LucasArts charm as they are, and don't look too bad with HQ3x upscaling. What worked for Leisure Suit Larry Reloaded, may not work for all such games if they change the art style / voices too much. Grim Fandango needed an update far more than older 2D titles due to the horrendous effort it took to get the GrimE engine running on modern PC's vs the far simpler SCUMMVM 2D titles.

tl:dr - Would love to see better texture / renderer / higher mesh remasters of many games, but after the walking train wreck of Thief 4, have been left with a sour taste regarding "overly helpful" devs who love to steer gameplay in all the wrong directions whilst trying to force every game to be everything to everyone and nerfed to fit a controller.

 

[turn_pike]

Would love a HD Master of Magic but that seems far fetched.

Ultima Underworld 2 and System Shock 2 would be great.

Yet what I really would love to see is a remake of Morrowind.
It just has that certain alien qualities in it that has been inimitable so far.

X-Wing was meh. I had fond memories of TIE-Fighter.
But if I were to remove the rose tinted glass, I think it is safe to say that the likes of Freespace 2 has far surpassed it. As for Freespace series, I'd rather see a sequel than a remake but barring a successful Kickstarter, aint gonna happen.

Vampire Bloodlines in HD, no bugs and without that annoyingly long sewer level ?
I'd jizz in my pants.

 

[VulgarDisplay]

The poll is broken because every choice is not Xwing/Tie Fighter.

Although I wouldn't turn down a Jedi Knight remake.

The thing that still blows my mind to this day is that Jedi Knight/Dark Forces did EVERYTHING right for a star wars FPS/Jedi Simulator, and The Force Unleashed did nothing to recapture the magic of those games.

I mean they had the perfect blueprint and they just ignored it completely.

 

[DefDC]

The old school D&D "Pool of Radiance" received a very meh remake around 2000. All the gold box games could use a proper resurfacing. I was hoping they'd be remade with the "Temple of Elemental Evil" engine. (I still have hopes someone will make more modules with this.)

Alternate Reality from the 8-bits would be fantastic, and they are some fan made remakes. An update of AR with all of it's modules, is on my magic wish list.

 

[Craig234]

Ultima Underworld 2 ... would be great.

You know about the kickstarter?

 

[Craig234]

Warlords Battlecry 3...

I only played it a little but remember really liking it, and bought it again on digital download.

 

[Lorne]

POR and TOEE remastered with the NWN engine would be cool.

Spellforce 1.
Unreal 1.
Mars Saga.
Pharaoh/Cleopatra.

A cool off the wall thought (But would be a whole rewrite of course) would be Neuromancer in ether the NWN or ShadowRun-R engines

 

[pontifex]

Soldier of Fortune 2

 

[maniacalpha1-1]

wow:

http://www.gamesradar.com/modern-warfare-2-remaster-petition-reaches-90000-signatures/

Those guys get pretty close to a remake more than once a year (the CoD series itself plus BF3 and beyond). BF2 needs a petition.

 

[JoJoman88]

Would love a HD Master of Magic but that seems far fetched.

Ultima Underworld 2 and System Shock 2 would be great.

Yet what I really would love to see is a remake of Morrowind.
It just has that certain alien qualities in it that has been inimitable so far.

X-Wing was meh. I had fond memories of TIE-Fighter.
But if I were to remove the rose tinted glass, I think it is safe to say that the likes of Freespace 2 has far surpassed it. As for Freespace series, I'd rather see a sequel than a remake but barring a successful Kickstarter, aint gonna happen.

Vampire Bloodlines in HD, no bugs and without that annoyingly long sewer level ?
I'd jizz in my pants.

Oh my Freespace 2, i forgot about that one. I loved the the whole X-wing/Tie fighter stuff but man was Freespace 2 the peak of space combat sims. It was better in almost every way. Love to have it done to todays graphics but same story. A sequel would be fine too.

 

[ImpulsE69]

Ultima 7 would be nice. I just can't play it as it is, even with Exult. I don't see it happening though.\

System Shock 2 is actually sort of being done already, but I'm not sure if it is the whole game.

Here is (unrelated to above) a portion redone in Cryengine 3 that is drool worthy. This is just something someone did and is not part of a remake.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEQReLZJXJQ

 

[XavierMace]

I only played it a little but remember really liking it, and bought it again on digital download.

I played the crap out of it. It's biggest problem was the crappy publisher didn't give the game the time/money it needed. After the source code was released to the mod community, the Unofficial patches fix a LOT of problems with the game.

Unfortunately it's engine didn't age well. No higher resolution or widescreen options and it just doesn't like 7/8 in general. I'd play it in a heartbeat if I could run it at 1080p native. Many good LAN party memories with that game.

 

[QueBert]

i76

 

[AMD64Blondie]

Have a HD re-master(and PC port) of Midtown Madness 3.

(It was only released on the original Xbox-the one with the 733 MHz Pentium 3.)

Midtown Madness 1 and 2 were PC only.

I know that Midtown Madness 3 is from 2003,but I still want a proper HD-textured PC port of it.

 

[you2]

This ! Tie Fighter and freespace were awesome space programs. Only problem is that quality joysticks are hard to find these days. I have an old ms one that I liked but alas it requires a gameport that no longer seems to exist.

X-Wing/Tie Fighter... Would love to see it redone with modern 3D models, textures, and AI.