General / Off-Topic Then and now Remakes

Mobius

Mobius
looking back at our younger years we all have fond memory's of games that we all lost many hours playing.

seeing a few older posts about old games that need a remake I thought I would give a list including links to these remakes of old classics.

I have missed out many but I would think these are the classics.

starting with Elite > Elite Dangerous
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Syndicate Wars > Satellite Reign
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Skool Daze > Bully
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UFO: Enemy Unkown > Xenonaughts
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Carrier Command > Carrier Command
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Saboteur > Mark of the Ninja
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Cannon fodder > Tiny Troopers
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Mobius

Mobius
psykokow said:
I refute Skool Daze - Bully..

Bully = School GTA :p


Also X-Com - X-Com :D
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ok Bully is almost a GTA but buy todays standard its the closest your going to get to the game skool daze.

Xcom, sure there is a official remake, but Xenonoughts is a remake of the original UFO Enemy unknown,
 

PacalB

PacalB
There needs to be a real 21st century remake of ...

Koronis Rift
Original
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Retro remake

Vids:
Original: http://youtu.be/qVsV9X7S4Sc
Retro remake: n/a

Rescue on Fractalus
Original: Retro remake:
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Vids:
Original: http://youtu.be/I0oaOiYg2cA
Retro remake: http://youtu.be/9ER62YvtRPI

Give me these two on a modern PC with all bells and whistles, add updated stories and I'm happy as pie. Better still add Oculus Rift support !!! Um? What about Rescue on Fractalus style of game as a possible mission storyline for planetary play when landing on planets becomes a reality? Actually, hell ... why not just do modified versions of both concepts to planetary play in an E: D form? :cool:

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Associat0r

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Elite: Dangerous is not a remake of classic Elite

Elite: Dangerous is not a remake of classic Elite, but a sequel to Frontier: First Encounters.
 

Alien

Alien
Mobius said:
UFO: Enemy Unkown > Xenonaughts
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This has been remade a few times.
There were the sequels >>> Terror From The Deep and Apocolypse
There was a remake >>> UFO Aftermath and UFO Aftershock (may be others in that series)
There has also been a fan made remake UFO AI
And the new remake X-COM

and the original UFO : Enemy Unknown was itself a remake of Laser Squad
 

jan

jan
I bought the newest X-com and apart from the grafix it was way to easy it toke me only 2 days to finish it, was hoping for more gameplay than that.......:(, and i was not even trying finish it fast.
 

The Space Pirate

The Space Pirate
jan said:
I bought the newest X-com and apart from the grafix it was way to easy it toke me only 2 days to finish it, was hoping for more gameplay than that.......:(, and i was not even trying finish it fast.
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Which difficulty did you play it on? Normal is too easy; Classic should be 'Normal' and 'Impossible' should be 'Classic'. Don't even think about playing on 'Easy'...

Just seen a Steam update that says there's a remake of 'Space Hulk' on the way. Can't believe I've somehow missed that until now... :eek:
 
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bitrogue

bitrogue
Cosmo Bozo said:
Nope, satellite reign is from the lead designer of syndicate wars, not syndicate.
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Susimetsa said:
Oh, pulled my pledge... I had misunderstood it...
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Not true. The lead developer for Five Lives Studios, Mike Diskett, was the lead developer for both Syndicate and its sequel, Syndicate Wars when he worked for Bullfrog.

And to be even more succinct, Mike and his team don't own the copyright to the Syndicate series, so they can't actually do a remake or a sequel. But they really really want to make another one in the same vein, so that is why Satellite Reign is essentially termed a 'spiritual successor', something entirely new but done in the same cyberpunk style as Syndicate which is esentially what the fans always wanted.
 
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synchromesh

synchromesh
PacalB said:
There needs to be a real 21st century remake of ...

Koronis Rift
Original
images
Retro remake

Vids:
Original: http://youtu.be/qVsV9X7S4Sc
Retro remake: n/a

Rescue on Fractalus
Original: Retro remake:
tn_ss_3.jpg


Vids:
Original: http://youtu.be/I0oaOiYg2cA
Retro remake: http://youtu.be/9ER62YvtRPI

Give me these two on a modern PC with all bells and whistles, add updated stories and I'm happy as pie. Better still add Oculus Rift support !!! Um? What about Rescue on Fractalus style of game as a possible mission storyline for planetary play when landing on planets becomes a reality? Actually, hell ... why not just do modified versions of both concepts to planetary play in an E: D form? :cool:

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Have to agree both Fractalus and Koronis Rift could be made into incredible games today....
The story line especially in Koronis Rift ...

Searching the lost legendary eerie planet...leaving your rover and looting hulks not knowing what's inside...each one.....Could be made to be a real atmospheric jumpy game :)
 

Mobius

Mobius
withnail said:
Never knew about Mark of the Ninja. Will give it a go.

Has anyone played it? What's it like?
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its a brilliant steath em up that has you sneaking past guards, steath killing, and hiding in the shadows. you can pick it up for a few quid and its a good lenth game,.
 

Ashley Barley

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Mobius said:
its a brilliant steath em up that has you sneaking past guards, steath killing, and hiding in the shadows. you can pick it up for a few quid and its a good lenth game,.
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I agree, Mark of the Ninja is an extremely enjoyable game and is short enough that it doesn't out-stay its welcome.

Mobius said:
picked it up on steam over the weekend, havnt had a chance to play it,
what do you think of it?
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I've got it on my wishlist at the moment. Cant be buying games so soon after the Steam sales! ;)

The general verdict seems to be that what is there at launch is okay, but that the value should really kick in once the community-created content begins coming out.
 
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