Revival or Remake?

[Izzy]

So, we've been around gaming for about all our lives and most of us have played them in its original state. Now my question to you is the following: Would you prefer a revival of an old series or a remake? I'll be fair and say state your three all-time favorites, and of course, why. I'll kick it off.

I'd like to see a revival of oddly enough, the Tecmo series of sports games like Tecmo Baseball, Tecmo Bowl and Tecmo Basketball. My reason is the following: if you remember back in the late 80 into early to mid 90s, Tecmo floored so many consoles with their sports games and it held its own against EA Sports. I would think that KT would want to try something more with the older IPs from Tecmo besides Ninja Ryukenden (aka Gaiden) and Monster Rancher. I'm aware that Trapt is under that umbrella too but I feel that 2K needs some level of rivalry and I would want to think KT would at least try and see if it goes.

I'd love to see Wai Wai World make a comeback cause Konami had some wacky titles back in the day and so very few remember such titles like Ganbare! Goemon, Twinbee and Moai-Kun just to name a few, and hell why we're at it, throw in some Hudson Soft characters too since they're under that rainbow. It's like wasted potential that could fired out to a new generation of younger gamers and we could share that kind of history to them.

Last for me would be a full-blown remake of all the known Data East games, if not all then some of them and make like an action pack of sorts. Some more memorable than others but I wouldn't mind seeing some kind of madness coming back from games like that.

I leave the floor to you, folks. Have at it, people!

 

[bjork]

I probably would've said Tokyo Xtreme Racer until about two weeks ago, but it's back now. So I guess one I'd like to see the most is a new Panzer Dragoon game. Ideally it'd be some kind of followup to Saga, but I think I'd be just as happy with a remake of that game for modern systems. Other than that, not sure.

 

[Egg (McMuffin) Man]

It really depends. Sometimes remakes are good, sometimes revivals are good, and sometimes they're both awful. I don't particularly care which is done, but what I do care about is how much love, attention to detail, and budget is put into these things as well as the amount of respect for the original product/developers/vision.

I can think of some remakes or revivals that I absolutely love, but there's also some that make a bunch of changes and turn it into something entirely different. Sometimes different can be good, for example right now I'm playing the Final Fantasy 7 remake and I like it quite a lot, but sometimes things become different to the point of being insulting to fans of the original and that's never fun.

And in some cases the remakes are just low quality slop fests like the Secret of Mana remake from a while back (and the Seiken Densetsu 3 remake, whatever that's called in English). In cases like that I would prefer to just see the original get a port instead.

Recently Square does those HD2D remakes. Maybe I'm just not the target audience but I really don't understand those. The SFC version of Live a Live looks a lot better than the remake, and the same could be said for Dragon Quest 3. Who asked for these and who's buying them?

 

[Izzy]

I probably would've said Tokyo Xtreme Racer until about two weeks ago, but it's back now. So I guess one I'd like to see the most is a new Panzer Dragoon game. Ideally it'd be some kind of followup to Saga, but I think I'd be just as happy with a remake of that game for modern systems. Other than that, not sure.

I'm noticing that with Sega these days, it's like they want to bring some of their older series back but they're keeping radio silent on that. ..The days when there was a scare of a new Shining game coming had some of us LPers on high alert.

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It really depends. Sometimes remakes are good, sometimes revivals are good, and sometimes they're both awful. I don't particularly care which is done, but what I do care about is how much love, attention to detail, and budget is put into these things as well as the amount of respect for the original product/developers/vision.

I can think of some remakes or revivals that I absolutely love, but there's also some that make a bunch of changes and turn it into something entirely different. Sometimes different can be good, for example right now I'm playing the Final Fantasy 7 remake and I like it quite a lot, but sometimes things become different to the point of being insulting to fans of the original and that's never fun.

And in some cases the remakes are just low quality slop fests like the Secret of Mana remake from a while back (and the Seiken Densetsu 3 remake, whatever that's called in English). In cases like that I would prefer to just see the original get a port instead.

Recently Square does those HD2D remakes. Maybe I'm just not the target audience but I really don't understand those. The SFC version of Live a Live looks a lot better than the remake, and the same could be said for Dragon Quest 3. Who asked for these and who's buying them?

I know a few that should make a comeback but I would either be in shock on what they did to it or amazed in how they pulled it off. Treasure Hunter G and Rudra no Hihou come to mind.

 

[Ikagura]

I always fear about reboots screwing up a franchise.

 

[Sir Auriel of Lionel]

Revival or a remaster to new hardware with no changes other than specs and quality of life? Just want clarification.

But if it's a remaster I would like Xenogears to get remastered but a remake with the original vision would also be good. Breath of Fire I would be happy with remasters and hope a new audience could inspire a new title. Suikoden I&II would have also been on this list if they hadn't finally released a date for the remaster on steam.

I'm not anti-remake as I think some games could be remade to fit new tastes or to fix storylines that don't role with audiences today or didn't release in the intended vision due to restraints like time, money or translation. But some titles are still solid today you don't have to upgrade to glossy 3d models to make it digestible for a "mainstream" audience, if the game is good people will find it, even more so on sale. And makes game preservation for older titles much more attainable. And personally if they whine about graphics or pixels they can shove it, it's an art form.

 

[Pandaprewmaster325]

The thing with remakes is they change many stuff and add many stuff , now remasters can do that too problem is sometimes the fan base approaches the thing in a purist mindset which in my opinion always makes matters worse.

Its a matter of assessing the situation ask the question "what does this game need?" "What improvements can we do with it?" Nowadays it looks like all gamers do is complain whether the game gives them what they want or not its only this site that I finally found a place to discuss games not always in a negative light but a positive one too.

Personally I would like to see a remake of final fantasy 2 and 6 and maybe 5 my gripe with final fantasy games is they lack voice acting especially the 2d titles also 3d allows for more expressions and an overall better cinematic experience ask yourself the question "does trying to stick to the original version any good?" For example trying to just slap final fantasy 2 story as it is today won't work so that part needs to be changed and improved.

In terms of series revival just like remakes it depends....one series that I know off got revived is sudden strike with sudden strike 4 however the devs took the name sudden strike and created an entirely different game.

 

[destinyduelist]

Remake
Unless the original writers are working on the revival, the answer for me will always be remake. Just don't bother fixing something that's not broken

 

[Cu-Neo]

I would say both are good, because in some cases a remake of something can help to determine if there's still interested in a franchise to invest and revive.

 

[lil_thang]

neither

upscalers and shaders in emulators

 

[Dyne]

Revival or a remaster to new hardware with no changes other than specs and quality of life? Just want clarification.

But if it's a remaster I would like Xenogears to get remastered but a remake with the original vision would also be good. Breath of Fire I would be happy with remasters and hope a new audience could inspire a new title. Suikoden I&II would have also been on this list if they hadn't finally released a date for the remaster on steam.

I'm not anti-remake as I think some games could be remade to fit new tastes or to fix storylines that don't role with audiences today or didn't release in the intended vision due to restraints like time, money or translation. But some titles are still solid today you don't have to upgrade to glossy 3d models to make it digestible for a "mainstream" audience, if the game is good people will find it, even more so on sale. And makes game preservation for older titles much more attainable. And personally if they whine about graphics or pixels they can shove it, it's an art form.

I would pay a lot for a proper remake of Xenogears, but SquareEnix would have to collab with Monolithsoft and they'd need to "fix/finish disc 2" if you know what I mean.

 

[DragonMals]

Would you prefer a revival of an old series or a remake?

After seeing multiple games be mistreated differently when ther were remade to modern platforms what with changing some elements of the game to fit with tbe current audience of gaming, graphical changes to games that didn't need it (some are good, some are outright worse than the original), and the changes and additions that are or aren't useless that can either be modeed into the original game, i would rather stick to a revival than a remake.

 

[DanVzare]

I remember wanting a revival of TimeSplitters.
Until I saw what they had planned for it, shortly after said planned revival was cancelled.
Then I realized I didn't want a revival of TimeSplitters, I wanted a game LIKE TimeSplitters.

So now I just kind of want a remaster. But I'd probably be happier with a spiritual successor, or even a straight-up ripoff. It's not gonna happen though.

 

[Jeanfranc]

I can think of some remakes or revivals that I absolutely love, but there's also some that make a bunch of changes and turn it into something entirely different. Sometimes different can be good, for example right now I'm playing the Final Fantasy 7 remake and I like it quite a lot, but sometimes things become different to the point of being insulting to fans of the original and that's never fun.

FF7 remake not being faithful makes it a bit less creatively bankrupt but the real problem is that it's not a very good game: It's all the problems of big budget AAAs combined with those of modern jrpgs

And in some cases the remakes are just low quality slop fests like the Secret of Mana remake from a while back (and the Seiken Densetsu 3 remake, whatever that's called in English). In cases like that I would prefer to just see the original get a port instead.

Indeed that was really bad and huge disappointment. It was one the rare cases of an actual bad game getting a remake, too bad they didn't fix any of the issues and actually managed to make it worse (same could be said for Persona 3, Reload and Portable both)

Also I see no point in ports if it's just an emulated super nintendo rom, you can get way better emulation on your pc for free.

Recently Square does those HD2D remakes. Maybe I'm just not the target audience but I really don't understand those. The SFC version of Live a Live looks a lot better than the remake, and the same could be said for Dragon Quest 3. Who asked for these and who's buying them?

Indeed those look really bad with all the depth of field, bloom and blur. Dragon Quest III is no stranger to remakes as they remade it 3 times (SFC, GBC, Mobile), the Super famicom version looks way better than the HD2D port but I actually prefer the original NES version graphics-wise, same goes for the DQ1 and 2

 

[PaleFolklore]

neither

upscalers and shaders in emulators

I second this. While I'm not entirely against remakes, remasters, revivals or anything of the sort, I still feel game companies should actually take the financial risk for once, and invest in new IP's. The gaming industry has always been known to involve huge risks from an investment standpoint. Why should it be different now?

 

[Egg (McMuffin) Man]

it's not a very good game

Indeed that was really bad and huge disappointment. It was one the rare cases of an actual bad game getting a remake

You're making me sad bro

 

[cruelcumber]

Revival 100% of the time. I'm not anti-remake by any means, but they should be more of a bonus thing, not what defines a series in the current day. A revival gives me what I actual want from a long dead series, new games with new ideas. Sure, it could be bad, but so could a remake, and we can't have the potential for something unique and good without the potential for something bad.

 

[Ikagura]

I second this. While I'm not entirely against remakes, remasters, revivals or anything of the sort, I still feel game companies should actually take the financial risk for once, and invest in new IP's. The gaming industry has always been known to involve huge risks from an investment standpoint. Why should it be different now?

As long as the new IP is good and unique instead of a rehash of the same standard narrative TPS AAA that sadly Sony is making a lot of.

Nintendo are rehashing their older well established IPs but are also evolving the formula (especially with Zelda) and fans are asking for a new Starfox or F-zero. Reminder that Arms and Nintendo Labo are new IP that didn't meet expectation.

I want revivals that are not "let's apply an older IP to a new game we're making to have more sales" like they're doing with Perfect Dark and Turok Origin...

 

[Izzy]

The thing with remakes is they change many stuff and add many stuff , now remasters can do that too problem is sometimes the fan base approaches the thing in a purist mindset which in my opinion always makes matters worse.

Its a matter of assessing the situation ask the question "what does this game need?" "What improvements can we do with it?" Nowadays it looks like all gamers do is complain whether the game gives them what they want or not its only this site that I finally found a place to discuss games not always in a negative light but a positive one too.

Personally I would like to see a remake of final fantasy 2 and 6 and maybe 5 my gripe with final fantasy games is they lack voice acting especially the 2d titles also 3d allows for more expressions and an overall better cinematic experience ask yourself the question "does trying to stick to the original version any good?" For example trying to just slap final fantasy 2 story as it is today won't work so that part needs to be changed and improved.

In terms of series revival just like remakes it depends....one series that I know off got revived is sudden strike with sudden strike 4 however the devs took the name sudden strike and created an entirely different game.

I'm thinking back to Lunar: The Silver Star and what they did that changed the whole game; they gave Alex a voice and his original voice actor provided it. They gave everyone lines that fleshed the story out better than the original. I think my only gripe (albeit, minor) was they had the whole OST from the first game a bit more tuned up but it was never used in the game. It almost became like how FFVII was milked to death with a retelling of the story, some lost episode, an after story and a series Zero, but all it did was...retell the first game three times, dangle a promise that a third game but never got it.
And now...they're remastering the whole series. Again.

 

[King Koopa's iconKing Koopa]

I want a remake or spiritual successor to the original Legend of Legaia. The battle system is so unique and I love the post apocalyptic plot. The game would also look gorgeous with modern graphics.