It’s been a good week on the remaster front. Shadow of the Colossus is shaping up great. The closed beta for Age of Empires 1 just kicked off, and we’re not far away from Bayonetta hitting the Switch. But there are plenty of deserving games out there that still haven’t gotten a fresh coat of paint.
For this week’s Big Question, I’d like to know: what old games would you like to see get a remaster?
I’ve got an image of One Must Fall: 2097, as it’s still one of the best fighting games ever to grace the PC. It runs pretty well using DOSBox, so it doesn’t need a remaster per se. But imagine all the things you could do with that game in 2018.
Something else that could definitely use a visual overhaul is Slipstream 5000. It’s a favourite of mine, even though I’m happy to acknowledge that it’s actually pretty ordinary as far as arcade racers go. It’s basically a bunch of aircraft flying around race tracks set in real-world locations, like the Amazon.
It was released in the early ’90s, so the pixels are the size of dinner plates. And while the GOG version works just well, it’d be nice to see something done in a more modern engine, with more interesting power-ups (and perhaps with a better career mode too).
But what about yourselves? What games would you like to see get a remaster?
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