Remake game that nailed it

[Tristin]

More often than not, remakes are trashy. They try to regurgitate their game out of greed, and often it shows. The game turns out worse than its original.

What game nailed their remake?

[Apteryx]

Does Doom 2016 count? It's like a reboot and remake of Doom 1993. it has the same general plot with doomguy clearing mars bases with the same arsenal (aside from the assault rifle and railgun) but it also continues the story where it left off in Doom 64

[potato]

Originally posted by Apteryx:

Does Doom 2016 count?

not really, it's both a reboot and a sequel and not a remaster or remake

[Uncle Sam]

Originally posted by Goldias:

Probably RE series. Not many remakes can do it like that.

Also Persona 3 reload. Heard they're going to make 4 as well.

Never played the Persona games, do you recommend any of those in particular?

[Martlet]

Originally posted by Uncle Sam:

Originally posted by Goldias:

Probably RE series. Not many remakes can do it like that.

Also Persona 3 reload. Heard they're going to make 4 as well.

Never played the Persona games, do you recommend any of those in particular?

Persona 5 Royal. And Persona 3 Reload.

[Ulfrinn]

Originally posted by O𝔭𝔥𝔢𝔩𝔦/\:

Originally posted by Ulfrinn:

The sad part is, they could actually remaster the originals too. The REBirth patch is just a single DLL and with it, the early games run flawlessly on modern hardware and with controller support. All backgrounds are just 2D textures that could be replaced with higher resolution textures and the games would look phenomenal. As of yet, the originals aren't on any store fronts at all in any form.

Really, one single DLL?
Yeah, Capcom is wasting so much potential here and I think they should just hire someone who specialises in these kinds of remasters.
For example, I recently got round to playing the Shadow Man remaster from Nightdive Studios and can only recommend it to any fan of this exceptional game, because it turned out truly glorious.
The funniest thing about it was that in my memory the game has always looked like the remaster, so I decided to dig out my Dreamcast version from 1999 for comparison. Oh my... lol

Yeah, that's about all it takes to patch something for modern hardware. There are also wrappers that translate old game APIs to modern DirectX, Vulkan, or OpenGL too. Most don't require much. On the issue of controller support, most games of that era had it, but it was some archaic form of DirectInput that isn't really compatible with modern hardware, but Xidi is a translation layer, a DLL, that when added to a game will get you full modern controller support too.

Nightdive does good work, basically patches of the original game to play on modern hardware. They're not remakes, but really good remasters. I played through their Turok 1 and 2 releases and now that they just put out Turok 3 I need to get that one too.

[❤ Sly Succubus ❤]

I will say that Quake 2 Remastered is rather damn good, granted if you got Quake 2, you also can enable remaster mod, the graphics got boosted hard and theres a hidden room in the existing hidden room of developers for the remaster developers, plus they fixed a ton of old bugs from the default version.

[gugnihr]

Castle of illusion remake is fantastic (at least on PC, on PS3 it has very bad problems of framerate but on PC thankfully works perfectly and it is a great game)

Another one that I liked a lot is Crash Bandicoot 1, on PS1 it looks way too ugly even back then it was ugly but with the new graphics it is a lot more enjoyable and it is a lot easier to understand how good it is as a game. In fact in my opinion it is even better than 2 and 3 have ever been in this modern version.

[Uncle Sam]

Originally posted by Marcy (She/Her):

Originally posted by Uncle Sam:

Never played the Persona games, do you recommend any of those in particular?

Persona 5 Royal. And Persona 3 Reload.

Thanks for the recommendation! Will check those games

[Ulfrinn]

Originally posted by gugnihr:

Castle of illusion remake is fantastic (at least on PC, on PS3 it has very bad problems of framerate but on PC thankfully works perfectly and it is a great game)

Another one that I liked a lot is Crash Bandicoot 1, on PS1 it looks way too ugly even back then it was ugly but with the new graphics it is a lot more enjoyable and it is a lot easier to understand how good it is as a game. In fact in my opinion it is even better than 2 and 3 have ever been in this modern version.

PS1 Crash 1 had a weird quirk to it where you could only save after bonus stages which was weird. So the remake isn't completely faithful, but it made changes where changes were needed.

You also reminded me of the remake of Ducktales. I played it on NES and thought it was meh. The remake had levels that were the same, moves were still the same for the most part, but the boss fights were much more complex and interesting. Plus they got all the original voice actors from the 80's/90's cartoon to fully voice act it.

[O𝔭𝔥𝔢𝔩𝔦/\]

Originally posted by Ulfrinn:

Originally posted by O𝔭𝔥𝔢𝔩𝔦/\:

Really, one single DLL?
Yeah, Capcom is wasting so much potential here and I think they should just hire someone who specialises in these kinds of remasters.
For example, I recently got round to playing the Shadow Man remaster from Nightdive Studios and can only recommend it to any fan of this exceptional game, because it turned out truly glorious.
The funniest thing about it was that in my memory the game has always looked like the remaster, so I decided to dig out my Dreamcast version from 1999 for comparison. Oh my... lol

Yeah, that's about all it takes to patch something for modern hardware. There are also wrappers that translate old game APIs to modern DirectX, Vulkan, or OpenGL too. Most don't require much. On the issue of controller support, most games of that era had it, but it was some archaic form of DirectInput that isn't really compatible with modern hardware, but Xidi is a translation layer, a DLL, that when added to a game will get you full modern controller support too.

Nightdive does good work, basically patches of the original game to play on modern hardware. They're not remakes, but really good remasters. I played through their Turok 1 and 2 releases and now that they just put out Turok 3 I need to get that one too.

Interesting information, thanks.
I think the potential is indeed enormous, not only because it makes many of the classics more accessible to a much wider audience, but also because you can actually acquire them legally in this way without having to pay the sometimes absurdly inflated prices for the original versions.

Oh, I really liked the remaster of Turok 2; the Cerebral Bore in action never looked better.
Shadow of Oblivion unfortunately doesn't come close to its predecessors in my opinion, but it's definitely not as terrible as some people make it out to be.
However, releasing the game at almost the same time and in direct competition to Perfect Dark was perhaps not the smartest move on Acclaim's part.
And speaking of Perfect Dark, the 2010 release is also pretty good; the game really benefits massively from the faster frame rate and all the higher resolution textures.

[PawgaliciouS QueeN]

The vast majority of them are good, but then there are the dead spaces of the world, yuck.

[Duck Twacy]

Originally posted by Tristin:

More often than not, remakes are trashy. They try to regurgitate their game out of greed, and often it shows. The game turns out worse than its original.

What game nailed their remake?

I liked Jedi Outcast. It wasn't a remake of Jedi Knight Dark Forces 2, but it was a good successor.

The original Fallout games were said to be unofficial sequels to Wasteland, an old DOS floppy game that got an upgrade recently in the last several years.

Counter Strike Global Opposition was a decent follow up to CS Source ... too bad all versions of CS got hacked to death.

There's others, but I can't remember them all. .... Oh, Lode Runner.

[Senator Armstrong]

I don't buy remakes.

The best remasters are of the Crash and Spyro trilogies.

[Duck Twacy]

Originally posted by Tristin:

More often than not, remakes are trashy. They try to regurgitate their game out of greed, and often it shows. The game turns out worse than its original.

What game nailed their remake?

Recently Atari did a 50th Anniversary software release of their old classic 2600 games. The problem is that those old games were the best that could be done at the time. And remaking them with improved 3D graphics .... I think it's more mis than hit.

Kids like us wanted to play something like the modern tank games, not the very pixelated Atari COMBAT, no matter how much of a kick it was when we first played it.