What games do you wish to be remastered?

wizzball - try it here, it's superb: http://retrospec.sgn.net/game-links.php?link=wizball

Mordor 2 - you can buy it here, but it only runs on old computers
https://www.decklinsdemise.com/mordor2.htm

seiken densetsu 3 and jagged alliance 2.


and well, xcom tftd... but i think the new xcom series are also quite good, maybe they will do an underwater arc.

Demon's Souls.

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jackof8lades wrote:

star control 2

yes

YESSS

so much fun. Although the low graphics was almost part of the fun. Crappy ships and bizarre aliens are more plausibly so if they're pixelated

Dark cloud 2.

And i want a dark cloud 3 please.

No games need to be remastered unless you have to do crazy things to get it to run on new windows systems.

If you cant play an old classix because of "dated" graphics or "dated" interface, you don't deserve to play it.

Like half the games mentioned run just fine off steam or gog on modern systems

Nox
Commandos
Gothic 1&2
Ja2
Fallout 1/2

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grepman wrote:

Like half the games mentioned run just fine off steam or gog on modern systems

Nox
Commandos
Gothic 1&2
Ja2
Fallout 1/2

As you obviously never played any of them when they came out you don't really understand the problem: These games where made for crt monitors. Readability without hacks, controls etc are screwed even if these things technically run. I do like my 30" monitor and i won't get some small 18" to play older games which don't support at least 1440p. I also don't like emulators, and yes DosBox is one. The timing gets screwed regularly. Also something you should know if you played older games on modern systems.

and deserving to play it.... ahhh i love little elitist brats. how cute!

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tsunamikun wrote:

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grepman wrote:

Like half the games mentioned run just fine off steam or gog on modern systems

Nox
Commandos
Gothic 1&2
Ja2
Fallout 1/2

As you obviously never played any of them when they came out you don't really understand the problem: These games where made for crt monitors. Readability without hacks, controls etc are screwed even if these things technically run. I do like my 30" monitor and i won't get some small 18" to play older games which don't support at least 1440p. I also don't like emulators, and yes DosBox is one. The timing gets screwed regularly. Also something you should know if you played older games on modern systems.

and deserving to play it.... ahhh i love little elitist brats. how cute!

I've played all of the games I listed around the time they came out.

And I've played most of them in the last two years. I replay Fallouts every half a year at least. Ja2 is a cult classic and so is Commandos series.

They play just fine on modern day monitors, in scaling resolution. I have a 1440p 27 inch and they play great. As long as you turn down the resolution and use scaling (via dosbox or whatever) so your 'crt' pixels map correctly, you're golden

An if you rraeeeaaly want support for higher resolutions on widescreens, there are some mods around for some of these. However, they will make the experience inauthentic in that your view will be artificially wide, possibly revealing shit on screen that dev never intended to. That's why I don't fuck with this method.

There is no need to remaster a Mona Lisa. Or Beatles. Unless of course you want to squash dynamic range with heavy compression like CD remasters in 2000s are.

Do less assumptions in your post next time.

I'm not quite sure how you arrived to conclusion that I didn't play those game back then and I don't play them now, but if they're stemming from the fact you don't like dosbox, it's hilarious.


By the way, all games I listed run without dosbox on Gog. If a game was released on windows, it does not need dosbox. All games I listed were released in 97 or later, meaning they have windows versions.

ja 2 still needs needs the fanpatches and even then i gltiches regulary, Additionally: sorry i don't only talk about you list. there are others. GoG doesn't do anything different then using either the windows compatibility modes(for games at win98+, sometimes the use a spcialised exe launcher) or run a dosbox. And dosbox has a problem, as it depends on you acutal cpu how the frametime and frames themselves are rendered. which get extremely annoying on AMD systems as you need the recalibrate the things for every other game. intel is more stable, but well just more, not completely.

And thats exactly wahat i mean with remastered. push up the resolutions(not only the shown field, but the actual resolutions of used sprites)and add widescreen support(which only breaks shooters from a balancing standpoint), as well as patch the games so they don't need an emulator. not that much to do right? unfortunately most of the companies and studios don't exist anymore... bit this was a thread about wishing.

If you don't care about little problems fine, I do, as i would with music when the timing doesn't work quite right, or when are strange spots in a picture. Or when, like XCOM2 GoG edition, it kills your savegame when a base attack happens... wooo

on a sidenode: SD3 will actual get a PC release... hopefully you can switch to the old graphics as squares superdeformed style is annoying. But even then it's nice to see the game released in west after 22 years.