Games you'd love an update on.

[The Curmudgeon]

With the 00's being the official Decade of No New Ideas, with TV shows, movies and games all being updated and remade, let's all shrug our shoulders, admit defeat and jump on the bandwagon. After all, surely EVERY remake doesn't need to suck?

With my love-fest for SFIV continuing, it got me thinking of older games or franchises that you would love to see get the 2009/10 treatment, with old, much loved iconic characters being given a new lease of life, hopefully updating the graphics but maintaining the gameplay. Like Street Fighter IV. Have I told you how much.. oh, right.

I would like to see new versions of games like Castlevania and Ghosts and Goblins hitting the new consoles. I think Castlevania, done right, could be damn near terrifying. And Ghost and Goblins could be all kinds of fun (I just hope it wouldn't be as rock solid as the original.. how fucking impossible was that game?!)

Other than that, an update of Starwing/Fox on the Wii could be all kinds of impressive, and would really benefit from the Wii controls (flipping the ship over etc). They'd have to keep the squelchy "voice" effects though.

Others?

[trashcanman]

All updates on Castlevania have been awful. But they aren't giving up so we'll see what happens. The actually remade SNES classic Final Fantasy 4 (released in America as FF2, and my all-time favorite video game EVER) with ever detail intact and much, much more on the DS and it was like a dream come true. If only it had been a full-on next-gen job. That would have been the ultimate. But the team behind the remake loved the game so much that they've actually made a direct sequel. Right now it's only coming as a download on the Wii, but I'm hoping a DS port wil be forthcoming because I bought the DS just to play the remake and I'm not going to fucking buy another system just to play the sequel I've been dreaming about since I was 15.

Most of the good franchises are updated constantly, so it's hard to come up with one. There was this awesome goddamn Japanese ninja/samurai RPG on the SNES that is insanely obscure. It was called "Inindo: Way of the Ninja" and it was WAY ahead of it's time. A new version would be amazing. And would it fucking kill Sqaure Enix to give us a current-gen Final Fantasy tactics game? Jesus. The PS1 game is still in my top 5 games of all time, but every sequel has been on a handheld and not as good as the original.