un-retired

What dormant and dead franchises deserve a fresh look?

Off the top of my head, Quest For Glory seems like it could still be good. Commander Keen perhaps (cute platformers never go out of style after all). I was going to say Shining Force but it looks like they've been putting those out quite regularly - who knew?

I never felt any real compulsion to play the second two X-Com games and didn't hear anything good about them, but the first one at least was a near-perfect game that I suspect could do well with a facelift and a few gameplay tweaks...

Maybe it's just me, but I'd love to play a fancy update of Ice Climber or Kid Icarus.

I miss Might and Magic, though I suspect I am alone here. I loved its magic system, in which by the last third of the game I could cast incredibly powerful spells in combat without having to worry about using up all my magic points, or spending hours "practicing" a la Elder Scrolls. Plus no concern for a cogent plot. But maybe there are other RPGs that have what I'm looking for?

I could see Kid Icarus - I never liked the original game at all, but it looked cool in Nintendo Power and maybe with tighter controls and more of an inventory/experience system it could be something - the basic idea seems reasonable and I don't know too many fully-developed vertical platformers like that.

DAY OFTHE TENTACLE

Mystical Ninja (3D)
Rocket: Robot on Wheels

That makes me think of BLAST CORPS, which I think was only the one game ...but clearly it deserved a sequel! Smashing stuff to pieces in a model railroad version of reality seems like a no-brainer hit to me.

I'm thinking that Ice Climber would be built on the Mirror's Edge engine, with a shitload of weather effects and some hardy mountain weapons (ice picks, shotgun, grapple weapons...) to battle all sorts of angry wildlife and evil poachers.

doctor casino, there was a czech or something ripoff/remake of X-COM with new graphics this year or last year. it looked terrible. i have actually been playing X-COM APOCALYPSE (i.e., the third one) a fair bit of late: it's unfairly maligned, if it is maligned. it has very stoopid AI options for your units you need to deactivate all the time, and the design is all very let's say quaint, but the real-time combat engine actually succeeds pretty well in having the same feel as the original, & the macro-game is as well-structured, maybe better: the mid-to-endgame suffers less from the need to do eight million of the same attacking-an-alien-battleship mission. that said i stopped playing it when i got the copy of rebelstar i ordered off amazon marketplace; i've been nerding out on the gollop brothers lately obv.

also i dunno that there's been a full new shining force game since SF3 for the saturn, but the proliferation in other JRPG strategy things has probably made the series a little redundant

also the answer to the thread question is 'bushido blade'

SOLAR JETMAN

+ thomp otm

I'm thinking that Ice Climber would be built on the Mirror's Edge engine, with a shitload of weather effects and some hardy mountain weapons (ice picks, shotgun, grapple weapons...) to battle all sorts of angry wildlife and evil poachers.

F this!! Ice Climber needs to be built on the wii fit engine, and the only weapon is an axe. wtf GTA Yukon

oh man wtf Crystal Quest DID came back!!!!

Micro Machines

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/dc/Arcticfox_box.jpg

^^^ the driving a tank around in a featureless field of snow with nothing to do game

ugh, we had that. No nostalgia whatsoever as far as I'm concerned.

Tombot OTM, though the description reminds me a lot of the way I characterized Goldeneye on the "greatest games ever" poll results thread, which didn't go over well at all...

For pete's sake, give a sequel to Marble Madness! I don't want better graphics, I don't want better sound. In fact, I would prefer the old style. I just want 1000 more levels.

(There was a Marble Madness 2, released in a limited run to arcades, but it was cut off and it never made it to consoles)

now Marble Madness, THAT could get done up like Mirror's Edge.
that would at least make it a little bit less Super Monkey Ball

SPACE ARK!!!!!

NB I have no idea why I have such incredibly fond memories of space ark. you didn't really do anything in that game either except look at the scenery, shoot things, go look at other scenery, shoot other things. But so much scenery and so many things to shoot!

star controooooooool

shenmue

^^^ RONG.

i would love another klonoa game. also all the SFII talk makes me wish they'd done another waku waku game. a proper darkstalkers game could be fun as well. but what i want the most is another lunar game. and not some rerelease for the DS a proper new game.

shenmue is stealth coming back already, in the guise of yakuza 3 so ner

lol japanese adventure game =! shenmue, sorry. yakuza 3 will only be a true shenmue game if it's painfully boring and bankrupts sega.

if we're just talking about lost games that we'd love to see sequels to, I'll say again: Master of Magic. Civ + spells = badass.

Yeah, a new MoM would be dope - incorporate all the advances in turn-based combat since then, further possibilities for customization of spells/heroes etc...could be really great.

ariane

Micro Machines

― Peter "One Dart" Manley (The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics), Saturday, November 29, 2008 12:39 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

^^^^^^THIS

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oni_(video_game)

doh http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oni_(video_game)

ONI WILL NOT BE DEFEATED

I want to see a proper sequel to Shadow of the Colossus.

crackdown

PLEASE

after seeing the new advert, can i just re-vent my vote for Sonic

as in nominate again

love love love Master of Magic

like it's a 15 year old game but I'd rather play it than just about anything else. LIke, I wonder why I buy anything new at all when there so many great old games. Constant revolutionizing of production: fuck that.

Yeah, I guess it doesn't even need as much tweaking as I suggest upthread. I'd be happy with it just running consistently without weird glitches and crashes. I think I bought my copy for like $6 from a Best Buy cheapie bin in the late 90s, what a steal. (Better: that like $20 package where you could get the COMPLETE Ultima VII - both games, with their add-ons. Unbelievable.)

In DosBox on my Mac it's run wonderfully. Maybe you should try downloading the patched version online? I've read that the initial version was pretty buggy but I think I didn't get this until the patched version was released (in 1995). I remember worrying about whether it would run in Windows 95, and having to tweak the app's settings to get it to work right. (You have to do the same in DosBox now, kicking up the # of cycles the window is permitted to emulated, o/w it runs very slowly).

But I have Fang! And Warrax! And they're leveling! I'm holding off on winning this game just to get Fang up to the point where he can crush a great wyrm in a single hit.

This is my stock answer for this kind of thread on every video game board/thread, and I may have already mentioned it on ILX before but it's RIGHT dammit so I'm going to do it again.

Rocket Jockey.

Does no one else remember this? Retro-50s PC "sports" game with guys strapped to rocket engines that you could barely steer and had to turn by firing grappling cables at poles and releasing them? It was GLORIOUS, with racing, soccer, and best of all "war" where you were just tossed into a ring filled with mines and poles to string cables from to try and clothesline your oppenents off their rockets. It had a soundtrack by Dick Dale! I am firmly convinced that an HD remake of this on XBLA/PSN/Steam/whatever would be the the best possible thing that could ever happen.

Um, on every video game board. Whatever. No sleep, can't write.

Still: ROCKETS. SURF MUSIC. YOU KNOW IT MAKES SENSE.

reviving just to say that El Tomboto's remark about Arctic Fox upthread has me in stitches tonight, for some reason.

Deadly Towers

The Zombies Ate My Neighbors

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/8e/Rock_Star_Ate_My_Hamster_cover.jpg

BLASTER MASTER

Code Masters can eat a hamster IMO

xp forks, there's a wiiware reboot : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSbslfm3aoE

Shiiiiit, I'd like to play that. Blaster Master is a great candidate for a reboot because the basic concept is AWESOME but the actual game lets it down by being too fucking hard in this old-school way where I only saw like three levels of it, and not for lack of trying.

same here, i liked it a lot but could never get very far. for those that did - did it kind of have a metrovania feel where you would gradually unlock new abilities and areas of the map, or was it more linear?

neat; cosine on the metroidvania vibe
wish i could bring myself to play the wii but my eyes have adjusted to HD to the point where I can't play standard def anymore
/first world gamer problems