I am still surprised they never did a Banjo Kazooie remaster. It feels like that would print money.
I have no idea why they don't remaster their games (except for Burnout Paradise). Normally EA loves easy money and their legacy catalogue is pretty big. They could even use these games to bolster EA Access or sell them to Gamepass/PSNow/PS + etc.
I want Quintet, Ivalice and Ogre collections or rereleases like nothing else. Dream scenarios:
Collection of Gaia (Actraiser, Soul Blazer, Illusion of Gaia, Terranigma): M2 made emulated collection
Final Fantasy Tactics: The War of the Lions: digital port of PSP/mobile version
Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together: digital port of PSP remake
Vagrant Story Remastered: digital remaster of PS1 original
I'd also like to see Treasure bring all their last gen XBLA stuff to current consoles/PC (Radiant Silvergun HD, Guardian Heroes HD, Bangai-O HD Missile Fury). Do a kickstarter if they have to.
And speaking of Kickstarters, I really want to see Mistwalker go the Platinum route and do campaigns for modern releases of The Last Story, Blue Dragon and Lost Odyssey. Maybe partner with Marvelous to make them happen (and resurrect Cry On in the process).
The fact that Konami is just sitting on the Fox Engine after blowing so much money on developing it, without remastering prior MGS games, while MGS 4 is stuck on the PS3 is beyond baffling.
Port the 1-4 collection on modern platforms and PC and rake in the cash. Seems like a bloody no-brainer.
BC isn't a replacement for a proper remaster. The games look and run awful.Both Banjo games are playable in HD on Xbox One/X (through backward compatibility) already.
The Mass Effect games are already Backward compatible with XB1/X. They don't even have to be re-released in order to go into Gamepass. PSnow? That service is still currently streaming ps3 games afaik, so no need to re-release again just to add those existing ps 3 versions to that either. As for EA Access, the service has had the ME trilogy playable on it for years.
The Mass Effect series is also already playable on PC.
Just about all of this can also be said for the Dead Space series.
Sounds like the obligatory adult film adaption.
Valve is understandable, b/c Steam (and PC in general) is their bread & butter, and all their games are still perfectly playable on PC.No option for valve games? Portal 2, Half Life, Left 4 dead. Not a single remasted game form Valve this generation.
Valve and EA games are the main gap in the current gen line up, and its a damn shame considering Mass Effect 2 and Portal 2 were 2 of the best games of last gen.
What goes around comes around. Publishers love to sell us the same game repeatedly, and with enough HD / 4K shellac on there, we're happy to oblige them.
Which games were the most glaring omissions for remasters or rereleases of remasters this gen?
I will edit this post to include a poll - candidates will include:
Mass Effect Trilogy
Dead Space Trilogy
Killzone Trilogy
Resistance Trilogy
Super Mario 3D World
Twilight Princess & Wind Waker HD
Pikmin 3
I feel like even the original graphics still hold up really well too. Which makes it confusing why it hasn't happened yet, there's not too much improving that really needs doing visually and with the ten year anniversary passing it would've been the perfect time :(It's not quite a remaster, but XIII looks astonishing on the X1X. Like, jaw-dropping.
Valve is understandable, b/c Steam (and PC in general) is their bread & butter, and all their games are still perfectly playable on PC.
EA is just... yeah. It's EA.
Valve isn't a traditional company. There's not a team of profit-driven managers in charge of everything that would make an executive decision to commission an outsourcing of a remaster.Not understandable because the majority of remasters this gen were outsourced. Its stupidity on both fronts. Literal free money just left out.
It'll almost surely happen. 2020 is looking slim for the Switch. I could see Nintendo trotting out another Mario remaster/enhanced port to fill the calendar.And the Mario Galaxy games not getting a port makes ZERO sense.