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Games I Want Remastered (Part 1) Hey folks!

So for my first blog post I thought I’d take it upon myself to think of what video games I would like to see remastered for next gen consoles, your Xbox One’s and all. After all, it is indeed the year of the remaster with the likes of the Crash NSane Trilogy being an absolute banger in the charts, even if it is harder than the original. Most of us who remember Crash Bandicoot are almost functioning adults now, not little kids, we can cope with hard games... I think *cough* Dark Souls *cough*. I use this as an example though. If rumours are to be true it will be arriving on the Xbox One, extending its popularity (and sales) and breaking the exclusive nature of it on the PS4 in the process. If true I hope it goes to the Switch too, can you imagine playing Crash on a crappy train journey?!?

As this is (probably) the most popular remaster since they have been introduced back in the days on the PS3 with remasters like the original Splinter Cell, Prince of Persia, Jak & Daxter and my personal favourite, the Ratchet & Clank games (so freakin good!). So could this game be the one to open the floodgates for many other treasured classics we love and behold to be remastered like Spyro? I’m going to share with you some of my personal choices of games I would love to get the remastered treatment!

1.     Syphon Filter

I only would really like to include the PS One games, not the one for the PS2 (The Omega Strain I think). I really did enjoy that one because all the different guns, but it’s a skid mark in comparison to the original three (2 especially). Also the developers are too busy working on Days Gone so no chance of this remaster happening.

Anyway, I digress. I first played Syphon Filter on a demo and buy god was it amazing! For me it was the first third person shooter (mainly third person) I played that was mechanically what I thought shooter games should be like at the time. The games had incredible level designs from navigating sewers and subway routes, to having showdowns on helipads, sneaking through Russian mansions and my favourite, climbing around bridge supports in Colorado disarming bombs.

I mean for a series of games that came out between 1999 and 2001, I’d say that’s pretty f****** amazing design. Also I forgot to mention... You could taser someone so much that they would set on fire. Nuff said.

2.     Ape Escape

So, this game I played on demo disk that came with the original PS One, and since then I have not come across a game with the same premise. Probably for good reason too, I mean, who would make a game solely on catching apes with massive siren lights on their heads using a range of nets, let alone a dozen!

Where the premise is absolute batsh** (catch ape armies so they don’t take over the world, oh no) the platforming was incredible and it was also very pretty. Like, Mario 64 pretty, or Ocarina of Time if we’re splitting hairs.

Anyway, this game is platforming gold and very unique. There have been many games too so you could make a massive remastered bundle. However, I could probably guestimate that I am in the 0.25% of gamers who would actually like to have this remastered so, not happening.

3.     Medievil

So it’s 2001 and my dad is playing this game in front of his 6 year old son (me) and this game scares the crap out of me! I’m a wimp at best nowadays so I can only speak of fear back then seeing this being played. I think it was all the skulls and the eerie (yet, amazingly scored) music.

I should probably say some good things instead of just saying it scared me…

Here goes, the level design was great, the bosses were great (hard), the controls were pish, the weapons were awesome and the writing was that of pure comedy. If anything it was like a 1998 release of a Dark Souls game, if you try really hard to draw similarities. Who wouldn’t want any of that remastered, and there’s 2 games so bonus.

4.     Baulders Gate: Dark Alliance 1

I am not old enough to remember what Baulders Gate was like before Dark Alliance, however, just by looking screenshots, I don’t think I would enjoy it that much (sorry old Baulders Gate).

This game was the first taste I got at a fantasy role-playing game without being a pure role-playing game, ye follow? It was presented in a 3D perspective using a rotatable top-down view, accommodating up to three (or four? Can’t remember) players on the screen at once and almost seemed like a video game version of dungeons and dragons, a lot more fast paced though. Playing this with friends was the ultimate way to go, allowing you to choose your different character class, even though no one chose the mage, c’mon guys!

I want this again, with better graphics and greater content. Monolith, just drop the middle earth games and get on this plz? Cheers.

So that is all I have to say for today. I’ll write the second half of the list, does this count as a cliff hanger for readers? Probably not.

Thanks for reading and I hoped you enjoyed it. If you have any favourites you’d like remastered, please tell me!