GREATREDSPIRIT'S PROFILE

author=Red_Nova
I'd rather see terrible/mediocre games get the remake. Better to remake a game that didn't realize its full potential than mess with something that was already good. Remaking a game that failed the test of time will allow devs to fix problems during the initial development and possibly give it a new audience.

So yeah, I'd like to see failures get a second chance. Therefore, my list is:

1: Sonic 06

I'd love to see God Hand get a HD Port/Remake. Make it widescreen, clean up the models, keep the animations, and use it as an excuse to clean up some of the game issues and expand on the content. It's a hard game to get into partly because the difficulty curve is fucked up: Go back to stage one and shuffle stuff around, replace fights, and do something to better ease the player into the game and teach them how to play besides throwing two demons at them and a mob boss.


I like the concept of Romancing SaGa 2: An intergenerational war of an empire vs the big bad immortal seven heroes. Build up your heroes, recruit heroes/classes, and find and beat the Heroes! The game itself didn't really use it much besides window dressing and a drive to punish players for usual SaGa stuff (powering up poorly or fleeing). Barely anything changes from generation to generation, the game wouldn't even be different if each generation change was "your current party retired, put together a new one at the adventurer's guild!" kind of narrative. It was only a B-budget SNES game with all the limitations so some of it is excusable but I'd still like to see a good RPG from the idea of what RS2 tried.


I'd also love to see the Age of Enlightenment Ultima games redone. Open world games are back in, right? And those were the original big expansive worlds games. Fix the horrible tedious shit like inventory management in U6, expand on the virtue stuff besides "rob spell reagents from a blind woman, make up for it by giving a beggar 100 coins one at a time". Concepts and implementations that I liked but haven't aged well basically.

I'm A+++ at improving office morale! Here's a clip of my skills in action:

Ruthless Mahjong Nomads

The very first game I emulated was KanjiHack's translation of RPG Maker 2 for the SNES and then expanding to a few others. I remember having to hit one of the numbers (8?) to toggle some emulator setting to make certain games display correctly like the editor menus in RM2. Also the very long time emulators didn't correctly emulate the SNES SPU because the SNES' version had a bug in it so when emulator authors implemented the spec you got the WAAAAAAA WAGHOOOOOOOO AAAAAAAAAA sounds instead of stuff like wind in FF6 and CT.

Old version looks awkward with her arm fully extended, new one looks perfectly fine to me.