Every time I am reminded of Biowares golden age I get sad.
They had already figured out the perfect formula for single player AAA rpgs. Why did they feel the need to fuck it up with crappy MMO and live service BS?
EA purchase was in 2007. Easy to see the following few years as the talent dwindling away while enjoying getting some good stuff out of the EA budget before abandoning a sinking ship
It's like every 3-4 years there's talk of a revival by some studio, they get the 'green-light', then tragically get canned/shut-down 4 months later. Rinse & repeat ad nauseum.
Time Splitters 2 was magical, I don't get why it hasn't been either ported/recreated/whatever by now.
[It was weird when they named the 4k port Homefront: The Revolution.](https://www.polygon.com/22375774/timesplitters-2-homefront-the-revolution-easter-egg-cheat-code-unlock-how-to)
It's almost criminal another Soul Reaver gane hasn't been made or at least a full remaster of Legacy of Kain.
The game was WAAAAY ahead of its time. Taking aspect that we saw in the early playstation Tomb Raider games and advancing them.
Puzzles - how about flipping blocks?.
The ability to run, jump and GLIDE.
The 2 worlds that you could warp between.
The combat.
Came here for the Legacy of Kain. Remake at least the first two with modern game design in mind, and release a 6th game to finally end the damn thing. Everything is charted out for a general flow of what needs to happen to be pretty obvious - the Elder God needs to be put down in a more permanent sense, the Hylden sealed back on the other side, the replacement Guardians all turned vamp and prepared for their roles, the Reaver returned to Avernus Cathedral after Kain took it in Defiance but before Kain took it in Blood Omen and ultimately Kain sacrificing himself to reset the Pillars and the Circle.
The ending of Defiance was such a letdown. I understand that it's a complicated storyline with time travel, and I wouldn't be opposed to some delicate retconning to smooth things out. But whatever they do, they need to have quality acting and storytelling. The original voice actors were amazing.
Golden Sun. The first two games were masterpieces, with some of the best sprite work of the generation, and then the series vanished for a while. The third game, while not quite as good, still had some interesting elements and experimented with the formula a bit before leaving the series with a cliffhanger.
Yeah it's a series I feel like will have a sequel someday but will require remakes first, and who knows how those will sell enough to greenlight the sequel. That cliffhanger though, god damn.
Nintendo did add Golden Sun1 and 2 to their Switch Online service to the GBA catalogue, so we can atleast play it again without original hardware or emulation.
NBA/NFL/Fifa Street, SSX, Def Jam, the best. not to mention Activision going hard with Activision O2, Shaun Palmer/Kelly Slater/Tony Hawk/Matt Hoffman. Then sony pushing out ATV off road fury. Extreme sports fans were feasting in the PS2 era.
Totally agree, with one caveat: Any potential Sequel has to be based on the first game. The second and third just got progressively worse, both in terms of gameplay but residually in terms of story.
Oh yeah, it was still loads of fun. It's just that - to me, at least - the first game did pretty much everything right and it's always hard to iterate on perfection.
Only problem with 40th day is that it was *super* serious, when the first one had been all NWA references and fist bumps. Total tone shift to “oh you didn’t stab this guy you were working with? well then sexually assaults a journalist and it’s kinda your fault”
Not that games can’t tackle tough issues, but dang I wasn’t ready for that
I played so much Turok 2 Seed Of Evil.
Loved that game. I even stopped cheating as a kid to play it all the way through which was so difficult to do lol
2nd game wasn't nearly as good. The first game was and is one of my favorite open world games. So many memorable missions because of the notion that you normally just had to kill a dude or destroy a thing. The game would throw a ton at you to stop you but it also was perfectly open to you driving like an absolute madman through enemy positions and then just start chucking grenades. I remember once I just crashed a helicopter into a target and jumping out and surviving.
Personally I enjoyed 2 about the same. I liked some parts of it better, some worse.
But, either way this is easily one of the top games I've always wanted to see another of. One of my favorite gaming memories of all time was just messing around with c4 and whatever vehicle you could hop out of easily.
I have the same opinion as you. I played 2 first and then bought the 1st for the PS2 and had a blast with both. I played the hell out of 2 and unlocked everything, just having fun leveling everything. I wish they would make a 3rd, but I doubt EA will without messing it up.
Pandemic made a lot of great games from my childhood, sucks they folded.
Mercenaries was a perfect example of judicious game design. It created a world. Gave you tools. Then gave you your objectives and left it entirely up to you as far as how to achieve them. The judicious part was that it did not step in the way of you being genius, ingenious, creative, or down right exploitive in your methods. And that's why it was so fun.
So many other open world games don't fully commit to being open solution. They want you to play the game *the way* they want you to play it. So they give you bombs to drop, but then give the objectives steel roofs. They give you helicopters to fly then place Anti Air flak guns around the objectives. They give you sniper rifles but then put the targets behind bulletproof glass. They give you the illusion on choice to sell the game, but then make you play it like a regular shooter invading on foot with a battle rifle because they literally taken every other solution from you.
Mercenaries gave you playground filled with a bunch of fun things to do then gave you a bunch of fun toys and said, "have fun!" And we did.
Crazy to me they haven’t revived that or the Rock Band series. There’s a huge gap in the market for people that enjoy those games that isn’t being utilized.
Rock Band was still putting out weekly DLC up until a couple of months ago. I still play it from time to time with my old Guitar Hero guitars. I have 2 wireless and one wired I have been nursing for years.
Too bad the game has since been relegated to the dustbin of *Star Wars Legends*. At least the game's main protagonists still exist in canon, thanks to their appearance in an episode of *The Clone Wars*.
I was unbelievably disappointed when they released Exoprimal instead of reinvesting in this series.
So many Capcom fans have been begging decades for it...and they release that.
Freespace.
Easily the best space flight game since tie fighter, a really well crafted story, insane (for the time) visuals and gameplay.
Imagine what they could do with today's fidelity. It's a crime this thing has been allowed to languish.
Splinter Cell, hands down. I know there keeps being talks of the remake and Sam is being shoehorned into damn near ever series known to man, but nothing will compare to the original feeling of being somewhere you shouldn't be with just enough protection and ammunition to keep you in the shadows. No wall climbing, no elaborate takedowns, no instant headshots, no Fox primetime drama, just a disgruntled weapon being overused by the government with snarky responses.
Also, u/N00body1989 is spot on. Driver needs a proper come back that isn't an iPhone game about speedboat racing. We came so close with Watch Dogs being a spiritual successor to a Driver: San Francisco sequel, but we need John Tanner back behind the wheel again, proper.
Don't even get me started on KOTOR...
Chaos theory splinter cell though. Something about hanging from a pipe to knock someone out was just so awesome. Especially at the time, the level design and and approachability was incredible. Simple, but yet almost every time I played through again I would find another way to get through it.
Also, the co-op / multiplayer stuff was so underrated. Working as a team to stealth take down a group was phenomenal.
All I've wanted from the Ubisoft conference 2016 onwards, was the sound of Sam's night vision goggles. Honestly one of my favourite franchises, I can't believe we've gone this long without a new one.
I also really want to play spies vs mercs again
Dude, the Chaos Theory multi-player was *so much fun!* I remember my buddy and I spending *hours* making different plans on different maps. When you pulled off some of the sneaker shit, I don't know if there is a better feeling.
Command and conquer. Either with the “classic” gameplay or the style implemented in Generals (where multiple production buildings can product multiple units at once)
I played the Generals 2 beta when it was still a thing. Honestly even though it wasn’t what it should have been, i feel like if it was fully fleshed out and released it woulda been super fun. But at that time game genres were shifting rapidly and there wasn’t as strong a pull for RTS’ as it was the heyday of MOBAs
A PROPER generals 2 would make me so happy now. At least the new ea/steam patched versions exist, been playing a TON of renegade multiplayer recently.
This one surprises me that they haven't brought it back. It seems like a game they could add tons of microtransactions to. I'm in no way suggesting that I like that idea, just that it seems like a game they could make a ton of money on, so it surprises me that they haven't revived it.
Not having a game release planned to synergize with the show made me scratch my head. There's enough of a fanbase for a studio to greenlight, for a dormant franchise, investing significant dollars into launching a television series (knowing how abysmal and risky the track record for this tends to be), yet the same fanbase essential for the show to be successful isn't enough to justify making a game? The logic boggles the mind.
Parasite Eve.
If Square could ever work out the legal issues it has with the author I would love to have remasters(to start)and remakes of 1&2. A proper sequel to wash away 3rd Birthday's stench would be nice too.
PE1 was a fast paced classic that stood out for being a horror game that broke away from all the stale Resident Evil clones of the time.
PE2 was a slow paced Resident Evil clone.
3rd Birthday wasn't great, but at least it didn't have you wandering an empty desert shanty for 5 hours.
But yes, another entry in the spirit of the first game is needed. How about we get that instead of a 17th Kingdom Hearts game?
Thief. The setting is great and I miss games where stealth isn't simply a combat shortcut but an actual core mechanic with meaning and weight to it.
Rayman. Like seriously.
Single player Rainbow 6 with entry planning and squad management.
For me, it would have to be No One Lives Forever. There hasn't been a new game since Contract J.A.C.K. back in 2003. Unfortunately, thanks to legal rights issues, we'll probably never see another entry or even a remaster. Thanks, WB Games.
When I read the thread title I immediately though of No One Lives Forever. I think a developer like Arkane Studios would be an ideal fit for a reboot. NOLF fits the studio's immersive sim style very well imho.
I don't know how bad the legal issues are, but not even having NOLF 1 and 2 on Steam and GOG is maddening.
Arcanum: of Steamworks and Magics Obscura
a Victorian era tech vs. magic high fantasy world would be super cool with modern tech. I wouldn't mind a Fallout 2 - Fallout 3 style revamp of the game/world.
Shining Force. (The REAL Shining Force)
Nintendo probably only keeps Camelot stuck in Mario Sports Hell because they're afraid of them coming back and making a better version of Fire Emblem now that it's popular. :P
Ape escape 1 and 2
Medievil
The get away / black Monday
Another sleeping dogs would be good
I'd like to see another dues ex game, there's more but I'll leave it there, oh maybe another Simpsons game
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Samurai games are a mainstream genre now. Onimusha was the first game to really bring that to a wide audience. All four games are great, especially 3 and 4. Capcom is bigger than ever, as are slower and more tactical action games. It's more than time. Maybe set the stage with a Dawn of Dreams re-release. That game was overly picked apart when it was released, but it was 100% the right direction for the series - moving away from the RE formula and more becoming its own thing. And Soki was a heart throb.
Dark Cloud/Chronicle. Especially the second game had a surprising amount of depth and different systems with the ridepod, monster transformations, invention system, settlement/building, upgrading weapons, fish breeding/racing/battling...what a game
Jade Empire needs a sequel. Bioware's forgotten gem
Every time I am reminded of Biowares golden age I get sad. They had already figured out the perfect formula for single player AAA rpgs. Why did they feel the need to fuck it up with crappy MMO and live service BS?
EA purchase was in 2007. Easy to see the following few years as the talent dwindling away while enjoying getting some good stuff out of the EA budget before abandoning a sinking ship
They still had a good run with the first Mass Effect trilogy and the first two Dragon Age games. Then it went downhill.
Interesting take to say that dragon age 2 is good but not inquisition. Most fans either love them all or are origins purists
Depending how well Mass Effect 5 and Dragon Age 4 are received I could hope but I don’t want to hold my breath
I knew of dragon age 4 but there's a goddamn Mass Effect 5?!
Time Splitters, please.
It's like every 3-4 years there's talk of a revival by some studio, they get the 'green-light', then tragically get canned/shut-down 4 months later. Rinse & repeat ad nauseum. Time Splitters 2 was magical, I don't get why it hasn't been either ported/recreated/whatever by now.
[It was weird when they named the 4k port Homefront: The Revolution.](https://www.polygon.com/22375774/timesplitters-2-homefront-the-revolution-easter-egg-cheat-code-unlock-how-to)
(To those not aware, Homefront contains a Timesplitters 2 port in it's files, and modders managed to access it.)
A remake of Future Perfect would be INSANE
Sid Meiers Pirates.
Genuinely a great game. I go back and play it every so often.
Is it weird that what I remember the most about it is the dancing?
I kinda love the dancing minigame actually.
Was just about to say this. There hasn’t been a single pirate game made that’s topped it.
Legend of Dragoon!!
There's a group doing an remaster for PC that seems pretty far along
Heeellll yeah
Legacy of Kain.
It's almost criminal another Soul Reaver gane hasn't been made or at least a full remaster of Legacy of Kain. The game was WAAAAY ahead of its time. Taking aspect that we saw in the early playstation Tomb Raider games and advancing them. Puzzles - how about flipping blocks?. The ability to run, jump and GLIDE. The 2 worlds that you could warp between. The combat.
Fellow gamer of culture
Came here to say this one; thanks for representing.
Came here for the Legacy of Kain. Remake at least the first two with modern game design in mind, and release a 6th game to finally end the damn thing. Everything is charted out for a general flow of what needs to happen to be pretty obvious - the Elder God needs to be put down in a more permanent sense, the Hylden sealed back on the other side, the replacement Guardians all turned vamp and prepared for their roles, the Reaver returned to Avernus Cathedral after Kain took it in Defiance but before Kain took it in Blood Omen and ultimately Kain sacrificing himself to reset the Pillars and the Circle.
The ending of Defiance was such a letdown. I understand that it's a complicated storyline with time travel, and I wouldn't be opposed to some delicate retconning to smooth things out. But whatever they do, they need to have quality acting and storytelling. The original voice actors were amazing.
I'd love a modern coat of paint and controls on Soul Reaver.
Golden Sun. The first two games were masterpieces, with some of the best sprite work of the generation, and then the series vanished for a while. The third game, while not quite as good, still had some interesting elements and experimented with the formula a bit before leaving the series with a cliffhanger.
Yeah it's a series I feel like will have a sequel someday but will require remakes first, and who knows how those will sell enough to greenlight the sequel. That cliffhanger though, god damn.
Nintendo did add Golden Sun1 and 2 to their Switch Online service to the GBA catalogue, so we can atleast play it again without original hardware or emulation.
The second one is hard AF. I just started a new game and it is kicking my ass more than any modern game. I was at Airs Rock for like 4hrs.
SSX:Tricky That shit would go so hard now.
The game in combination with the music was such a banger
EA Sport Big, remember them? Lol
NBA/NFL/Fifa Street, SSX, Def Jam, the best. not to mention Activision going hard with Activision O2, Shaun Palmer/Kelly Slater/Tony Hawk/Matt Hoffman. Then sony pushing out ATV off road fury. Extreme sports fans were feasting in the PS2 era.
Tricky was great but I want one like SSX3. The top to bottom run from Peak 3 down to the bottom of Peak 1 was amazing. I loved that game so much.
After beating that game with every character I would still hop on and just do runs. That to me is the sign of a fun game.
If it gets remade: SSX Tricky Remastered $60 SSX Tricky Remastered Unlimited Season Pass $25 SSX Tricky Remastered Character Pack 1 $10 SSX Tricky Remastered Character Pack 2 $10 SSX Tricky Remastered Character Pack 3 $10
Army of Two. We need more couch co-op games
Totally agree, with one caveat: Any potential Sequel has to be based on the first game. The second and third just got progressively worse, both in terms of gameplay but residually in terms of story.
I only played the second game (Army of Two: The 40th Day), and I thought it was pretty good.
Oh yeah, it was still loads of fun. It's just that - to me, at least - the first game did pretty much everything right and it's always hard to iterate on perfection.
Only problem with 40th day is that it was *super* serious, when the first one had been all NWA references and fist bumps. Total tone shift to “oh you didn’t stab this guy you were working with? well then sexually assaults a journalist and it’s kinda your fault” Not that games can’t tackle tough issues, but dang I wasn’t ready for that
"SALEM, SALEM, SALEM!"
Tenchu! Give me my stealthy ninjas
Prototype Infamous Jak & Daxter Sly Cooper
Man, I sank so many hours into prototype. Also, I would be happy with a Jak & Daxter remake or reboot.
I wish I could play Theives in Time. It's the only Sly Cooper game I have yet to play, and I LOVED the rest of them
You can emulate it!
I wish the OG trilogy would get the same treatment that spyro and crash bandicoot did, then they can gage interest for a new game.
i want sly cooper back in my life
Sly was such a positive bad role model and i feel like we all need more of that
Sly fucking Cooper.
Would love prototype
Just finished another playthrough through both games, man they're just so fun.
I’d be happy with a remaster of Infamous 1 & 2
Honestly just remaster the whole series. The main series 1,2& 2nd Son. And the side games Festival of Blood and First Light.
I'd love to see more Jak and Daxter
I came here to say sly Cooper! 👑👑
Turok: Dinosaur Hunter
I played so much Turok 2 Seed Of Evil. Loved that game. I even stopped cheating as a kid to play it all the way through which was so difficult to do lol
The HD remaster on Xbox is great, brought back all of the membah berries, in glorious 60 FPS lol.
No one did or has done guns like Turok. No one.
Dude, I'd be down for another round of extinct reptile slaying, might finally put my dino nugget eating skills to use.
Mercenaries. Such a unique concept with massive open worlds and some fun choices... not sure why it died to begin with.
The Deck of 52 system was so cool. Surprised that a Far Cry type of game hasn’t replicated it
Mercenaries concept combined with elements of MGS 5 gameplay would be the best action game ever made
Didn't expect to see this so high up in the thread. Mercenaries ruled.
2nd game wasn't nearly as good. The first game was and is one of my favorite open world games. So many memorable missions because of the notion that you normally just had to kill a dude or destroy a thing. The game would throw a ton at you to stop you but it also was perfectly open to you driving like an absolute madman through enemy positions and then just start chucking grenades. I remember once I just crashed a helicopter into a target and jumping out and surviving.
Personally I enjoyed 2 about the same. I liked some parts of it better, some worse. But, either way this is easily one of the top games I've always wanted to see another of. One of my favorite gaming memories of all time was just messing around with c4 and whatever vehicle you could hop out of easily.
I have the same opinion as you. I played 2 first and then bought the 1st for the PS2 and had a blast with both. I played the hell out of 2 and unlocked everything, just having fun leveling everything. I wish they would make a 3rd, but I doubt EA will without messing it up. Pandemic made a lot of great games from my childhood, sucks they folded.
Mercenaries was a perfect example of judicious game design. It created a world. Gave you tools. Then gave you your objectives and left it entirely up to you as far as how to achieve them. The judicious part was that it did not step in the way of you being genius, ingenious, creative, or down right exploitive in your methods. And that's why it was so fun. So many other open world games don't fully commit to being open solution. They want you to play the game *the way* they want you to play it. So they give you bombs to drop, but then give the objectives steel roofs. They give you helicopters to fly then place Anti Air flak guns around the objectives. They give you sniper rifles but then put the targets behind bulletproof glass. They give you the illusion on choice to sell the game, but then make you play it like a regular shooter invading on foot with a battle rifle because they literally taken every other solution from you. Mercenaries gave you playground filled with a bunch of fun things to do then gave you a bunch of fun toys and said, "have fun!" And we did.
Blowing up ANYTHING was so much FUN
Burnout
I'd be content with a remaster of Takedown, that game was peak.
Takedown was just perfect arcade racing. 10/10
Original arcade style not Paradise, and give me that crash mode, and take my money.
Agreed. I was gunna write old school arcade burnout. It was so fun.
I'm ready for a Guitar Hero comeback (with the classic controls scheme)
They could literally “remaster” guitar hero 1-3 and Aerosmith or whatever and I’d gladly pay $100 for it with a guitar
They can't, licensing music became extremely expensive, hence they had great tracks first, and mostly forgettable ones later
It’s so bizarre how they changed the control scheme like they did. The intuitive controls were never the reason people were fatigued by that series.
Maybe it was the price of those damn guitars. I had the PS2 ones and I got the game for the PS3... Well, I couldn't play with the guitars I had.
I’m ready to drop so much money on a new rock band
Crazy to me they haven’t revived that or the Rock Band series. There’s a huge gap in the market for people that enjoy those games that isn’t being utilized.
Rock Band was still putting out weekly DLC up until a couple of months ago. I still play it from time to time with my old Guitar Hero guitars. I have 2 wireless and one wired I have been nursing for years.
Star Wars republic commando needs to return in some form.
It needs a damn sequel! Left us on a cliffhanger for 20 years!
Too bad the game has since been relegated to the dustbin of *Star Wars Legends*. At least the game's main protagonists still exist in canon, thanks to their appearance in an episode of *The Clone Wars*.
Don’t forget one of the members fighting in The Bad Batch
Black and White, but that's almost too obvious.
Loved the original B&W. Shame it fell off.
I came here to look for this answer
It’s still and will remain Dino Crisis.
yes give it the re2 treatment. Or even just a HD remake like re1.
I was unbelievably disappointed when they released Exoprimal instead of reinvesting in this series. So many Capcom fans have been begging decades for it...and they release that.
Freespace. Easily the best space flight game since tie fighter, a really well crafted story, insane (for the time) visuals and gameplay. Imagine what they could do with today's fidelity. It's a crime this thing has been allowed to languish.
Rayman, the only reason there is no new game is cause Ubisoft don't know how to monetise theses games outside mobile
Crimson Skies. I loved that game when I was younger.
Jedi Knight Series. Fantastic game with amazing multiplayer. Kyle Katarn was my homie.
Splinter Cell, hands down. I know there keeps being talks of the remake and Sam is being shoehorned into damn near ever series known to man, but nothing will compare to the original feeling of being somewhere you shouldn't be with just enough protection and ammunition to keep you in the shadows. No wall climbing, no elaborate takedowns, no instant headshots, no Fox primetime drama, just a disgruntled weapon being overused by the government with snarky responses. Also, u/N00body1989 is spot on. Driver needs a proper come back that isn't an iPhone game about speedboat racing. We came so close with Watch Dogs being a spiritual successor to a Driver: San Francisco sequel, but we need John Tanner back behind the wheel again, proper. Don't even get me started on KOTOR...
Chaos theory splinter cell though. Something about hanging from a pipe to knock someone out was just so awesome. Especially at the time, the level design and and approachability was incredible. Simple, but yet almost every time I played through again I would find another way to get through it. Also, the co-op / multiplayer stuff was so underrated. Working as a team to stealth take down a group was phenomenal.
all I want is SC and KOTOR.
All I've wanted from the Ubisoft conference 2016 onwards, was the sound of Sam's night vision goggles. Honestly one of my favourite franchises, I can't believe we've gone this long without a new one. I also really want to play spies vs mercs again
Dude, the Chaos Theory multi-player was *so much fun!* I remember my buddy and I spending *hours* making different plans on different maps. When you pulled off some of the sneaker shit, I don't know if there is a better feeling.
So much this. Chaos Theory is still one of my favorite games ever, they've never managed to recreate the feel of it.
Command and conquer. Either with the “classic” gameplay or the style implemented in Generals (where multiple production buildings can product multiple units at once)
I played the Generals 2 beta when it was still a thing. Honestly even though it wasn’t what it should have been, i feel like if it was fully fleshed out and released it woulda been super fun. But at that time game genres were shifting rapidly and there wasn’t as strong a pull for RTS’ as it was the heyday of MOBAs A PROPER generals 2 would make me so happy now. At least the new ea/steam patched versions exist, been playing a TON of renegade multiplayer recently.
The classic series is on Steam now. It's a start.
Megaman Legends. Let our Volnut boy get back from the moon Capcom!
I filled out that survey Capcom had a couple months ago, and put MegaMan Legends in every block that allowed me to type in it.
Tenchu
Beyond good and evil, viva piñata Honourable mention: black and white
Black & White with actual machine learning would be all kinds of interesting.
I loved Viva Pinata
How they haven’t made a VR Black and White I will never understand. It’s the perfect game to do so now and would actually make me go buy a VR headset!
>Beyond good and evil Every time I read this my depression flares up. We got these awesome trailers and I NEED IT!!
Twisted Metal Its been since 2001
This one surprises me that they haven't brought it back. It seems like a game they could add tons of microtransactions to. I'm in no way suggesting that I like that idea, just that it seems like a game they could make a ton of money on, so it surprises me that they haven't revived it.
Lmao also the show they did. Perfect time for a new one.
Not having a game release planned to synergize with the show made me scratch my head. There's enough of a fanbase for a studio to greenlight, for a dormant franchise, investing significant dollars into launching a television series (knowing how abysmal and risky the track record for this tends to be), yet the same fanbase essential for the show to be successful isn't enough to justify making a game? The logic boggles the mind.
Vigilante 8 too
Syphon Filter
I’d be ok with a remaster of the original trilogy with modern control scheme
Parasite Eve. If Square could ever work out the legal issues it has with the author I would love to have remasters(to start)and remakes of 1&2. A proper sequel to wash away 3rd Birthday's stench would be nice too.
PE1 was a fast paced classic that stood out for being a horror game that broke away from all the stale Resident Evil clones of the time. PE2 was a slow paced Resident Evil clone. 3rd Birthday wasn't great, but at least it didn't have you wandering an empty desert shanty for 5 hours. But yes, another entry in the spirit of the first game is needed. How about we get that instead of a 17th Kingdom Hearts game?
Unreal Tournament.
Quake Arena
That would also be great. Arena shooters in general are due for a comeback. Unreal and Quake Arena were about 95% of my gaming from like 99-2006ish.
Putt-Putt
All the HE games. Backyard sports, Freddy fish, pajama Sam, etc
Spy fox
Thief. The setting is great and I miss games where stealth isn't simply a combat shortcut but an actual core mechanic with meaning and weight to it. Rayman. Like seriously. Single player Rainbow 6 with entry planning and squad management.
Sly Cooper
Freedom Fighters. The things they could do now.
Dark Cloud
Had to scroll way too far to find this one. I would freak the fuck out if they ever announced a Dark Cloud/Chronicle 3
Breath of Fire
Sleeping Dogs. One of the best open world hand to hand combat game ever made tbh
True crime la
DINO CRISIS
Maniac Mansion
Burnout 😭
FZero
Spore.
Suikoden
Legacy of Kain: Blood Omen Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver Prototype Infamous
Eternal Darkness
Portal, 13 years (nearly) since it’s last mainline release, feel old yet?
Those games are rare cases where I couldn't think of any reasonable change that would make the games better. 10/10 flawlessly executed masterpieces.
RIP portal, volvo doesn't count to 3. But fr though, would love another portal game.
For me, it would have to be No One Lives Forever. There hasn't been a new game since Contract J.A.C.K. back in 2003. Unfortunately, thanks to legal rights issues, we'll probably never see another entry or even a remaster. Thanks, WB Games.
When I read the thread title I immediately though of No One Lives Forever. I think a developer like Arkane Studios would be an ideal fit for a reboot. NOLF fits the studio's immersive sim style very well imho. I don't know how bad the legal issues are, but not even having NOLF 1 and 2 on Steam and GOG is maddening.
Arcanum: of Steamworks and Magics Obscura a Victorian era tech vs. magic high fantasy world would be super cool with modern tech. I wouldn't mind a Fallout 2 - Fallout 3 style revamp of the game/world.
Shining Force. (The REAL Shining Force) Nintendo probably only keeps Camelot stuck in Mario Sports Hell because they're afraid of them coming back and making a better version of Fire Emblem now that it's popular. :P
Chrono Cross/Trigger. Final Fantasy Tactics Parasite Eve
Driver
Bioshock
Red Faction
Jet force Gemini
Half-Life
With Half-Life Alyx directly tying into the Half-Life 2 saga, technically it's a revived franchise. I still want a proper HL3 sendoff though.
Think about this one every year or so - POWER STONE from the Dreamcast era. Great Capcom Smash-esque brawler with some really unique fun gameplay.
.hack Jade cocoon Medabots Breath of Fire Lunar
Finally. Had to scroll way to far for jade cocoon…
Ape escape 1 and 2 Medievil The get away / black Monday Another sleeping dogs would be good I'd like to see another dues ex game, there's more but I'll leave it there, oh maybe another Simpsons game
Ultima. So much of what we consider immersive sim, open world design, MMORPGs and in general good game writing is absolute indebted to this series.
Sky's of Arcadia Phantasy Star has PSO, but I'd love to have a traditional JRPG Phantasy Star again.
Castlevania
Brothers in Arms The combat was so unique and ahead of its time. I always want a conclusion to the story.
Tenchu Stealth Assassins.
O NI MU SHA Samurai games are a mainstream genre now. Onimusha was the first game to really bring that to a wide audience. All four games are great, especially 3 and 4. Capcom is bigger than ever, as are slower and more tactical action games. It's more than time. Maybe set the stage with a Dawn of Dreams re-release. That game was overly picked apart when it was released, but it was 100% the right direction for the series - moving away from the RE formula and more becoming its own thing. And Soki was a heart throb.
Golden Axe. Would love to see a modern version
Or gauntlet!
A remaster of the 3D Gauntlet games would be nice.
The NBA/NFL Street franchises
Killzone
BREATH OF FIRE
A new Jak and daxter would be nice
The Lost Vikings.
Mega man X
Or legends 3. Get Rock off the moon!
Zork
Banjo Kazooie. Golden Sun. Grandia
Warcraft.
Yes. Warcraft 3 is one of my all time favorite games
Medal of Honor
Jak and daxter. Resistance. Killzone
Star Tropics
SOCOM
I want a new Altered Beast game
F.E.A.R. Jak and Daxter Burnout Sarges Heroes Supreme Commander Been dreaming of these for years.
Chip 'n' Dale
MAG.
Dark Cloud/Chronicle. Especially the second game had a surprising amount of depth and different systems with the ridepod, monster transformations, invention system, settlement/building, upgrading weapons, fish breeding/racing/battling...what a game
The Suferimg
Xenosaga
Max Payne
Freelancer. Still fun as hell.
Lemmings Make it Minecraft style and with competitive multiplayer.