RPGs which should be remade

[Mercen-X]

24 RPGs in need of Remakes (why 24? It just popped into my head.)


Breath of Fire (which one? I don't know. Pick one.)
Vagrant Story
Xenogears
Xenosaga
Shadow Madness
Shadow Hearts
Legend of Dragoon
Legend of Legaia
Parasite Eve
Chrono Trigger
Chrono Cross
Fable
Final Fantasy Type-0
Final Fantasy Tactics (why? Don't ask. You won't like the answer.)
Valkyrie Profile
Mother/Earthbound
Dark Cloud/Dark Cloud 2 (yeah, I know they're not supposed to be related)
The Bouncer (what the hell's that? It's a beat'em up RPG.)
Ehrgeiz (isn't that a fighting game? But it's got an RPG dungeon-crawler built in.)
Zelda (but that's an adventure game, not an RPG. I know. I want it remade as an RPG.)
Cosmic Star Heroine (never heard of it. Yeah, well it exists.)
Phantasy Star (is that the same thing? Of course it's not.)
Suikoden III

Is that 24? If not, just count Dark Cloud or Mother as two separate entries. I don't care.

[Depression Moon]

The first Final Fantasy could use a remake like VII. As being the first it has the most room for improvement and they could give it an actual story this time.

I'd like a remake of Threads of Fate, but I know that's never going to happen. I should really cast out all thehope I have for that game and a sequel by now.

Cosmic Star Heroine came out like 2 or 3 years ago. it doesn't need a remake.

[tidus79]

I'd like a remake of Valkyrie Profile...great game! ^^

[JJ Strife]

I frankly just want an HD port of Dragon Quest 8. There is no definitive version of that game. You can't get it HD anywhere, except maybe on a phone, where it's terribly ported.
And the 3DS version has loadsa cool additions.

I just want the 3DS version, but with the PS2 graphics, upscaled in HD.

[Rez09]

I'd like a remake of Valkyrie Profile...great game! ^^

I don't think I even need a remake of this -- just an HD remaster would be incredible! :D

[WarZidane]

Ar Tonelico 2 just so it's on something besides PS2 (with a sloppy localization job that introduced a game-breaking bug, at that)
Lost Odyssey so it's not lost and forgotten on the Xbox 360
White Knight Chronicles 1+2 because those games actually had promise, the execution just wasn't great.
Wild Arms 5 because it's the best one and maybe it'd reinvigorate the series
Legend of Dragoon because Legend of Dragoon

In some cases, remaster works just as well, I suppose.

[Mercen-X]

Final Fantasy almost has been remade given the release of Mobius. The main character is Wol and a lot of the story seems to be there. It's kind of hard for me to tell because I lost interest due to its one major flaw: it's a freaking MOBILE GAME. I try. I really do try to get into these. But it's impossible. It's simply impossible.

What about Another Eden? The spiritual successor to Chrono Trigger released as a mobile gacha game. Nope, I've come to hate that too. After 3 months of grinding (because I can't maintain interest longer than an hour) to finally beat the "goblin king" (or whatever the hell he's called, I don't care anymore), I realized the thing just doesn't hold my interest. Even when they "try" to make some of your gacha characters interesting by tossing in some sidequests that almost flesh out their backstory. Even when they do their miniscule but still ultimately meaningless crossovers with games like Persona. I just don't care.

Epic 7 had some promise in its story and characters as well. But simply by virtue of being a mobile gacha game, what potential it once might've had is quickly destroyed.

No. This isn't a rant. These are three more titles that need true console remakes. Regardless of whether their original developers are willing to make such a thing happen.

[Karifean]

I'd be so down for a Trials of Mana styled Chrono Trigger remake.

[cheesesteak]

24 RPGs in need of Remakes (why 24? It just popped into my head.)

Cosmic Star Heroine (never heard of it. Yeah, well it exists.)


Then why include it? Especially since it's just 3 years old. :monster:

[maybee]

Breath of Fire and Lunar games would be cool.

[Wolf Kanno]

For me, the big one would be Xenogears. It's unfinished so a remake would feel justified and lord knows the gameplay hasn't aged as well as I would have hoped. I would just require Monolith Soft and Sorya Saga to be attached to the game still.

I'm not really sure what else except maybe FFV and VI to get proper 3D remakes. Not expecting VIIR level of course, but I feel a Trials of Mana levels remake would be nice. Also, Shin Megami Tensei 1, 2, and if... just so Atlus would have an excuse to release them in the West. Wild Arms 2 would also be nice.

[Mercen-X]

Guardian's Crusade was pretty good, but many aspects were more annoying than charming.

[Vermachtnis]

I was talking about an Ar Tonelico 1 and 2 collection/remake the other day.

[Fynn]

Honestly? I don’t want any more remakes. Just more RPGs.

[Mercen-X]

anything that's not a remake is essentially inevitably a spiritual successor: similar characters, similar plot, similar gameplay, similar worlds, etc.

Whether it's a remake or an SS, there are no "new" RPGs. I know. I've personally been working on a "new" RPG for the past 15 years.

Don't want remakes? Why fix what ain't broken, right? Only problem being that even the most beautiful landmark in the world occasionally needs a touch up. Sadly, sometimes a "remaster" just doesn't have enough bang for one's buck.

But again, "new" stuff ain't always great and I more often don't pick up titles I'm not already familiar with. I was interested in OT until I learned it was Switch only. There are so many options in RPG-land but I just don't really care for many of them.

I'm still holding out for a Remake/Sequel to SNK's Crystalis. First RPG I ever played and I still enjoy it now. It just needs better graphics.

[Vyk]

I feel like a lot of Japanese developers have lost what made their games special in the first place, and remakes helps them re-tread those paths and maybe re-learn what they've forgotten. So as long as they actually try, then I'm fine with re-makes, and would much prefer a lazy port of a game I actually like but can't easily play anymore, like say Final Fantasy VIII, rather than some phoned in schlock like Lost Sphere or Oninaki

Counter to that though, I do not trust anyone to do justice to Xenogears. Even the original team, I feel like the magic has probably dissipated by now. Considering Xenoblade Chronicles is the closest they've come to making anything as good, and they immediately lost the magic again right after

I doubt they would remake Final Fantasy Type-0 since they remastered it, and I doubt it even sold that well afterward

I would dig a remaster or port of Shadow Hearts or Legend of Legaia, or Dragoon

Speaking of which, anyone get caught up in the shenanigans that GameSpot and Polygon did months ago, lying that Blue Point was doing a Legend of Dragoon remake like they did with Shadow of the Colossus, and then when Blue Point denied it, saying they were busy with other things, suddenly they all started pushing a petition to get them to start making it when it was never on their plate to begin with? Stupid game journalism...

Edit: In my rant, I forgot to mention that I think Shining Force should get some grade-A treatment. But I'm also pretty sure nobody could be trusted to do it justice. Which is sad since it seems like it'd be easy to do. Fire Emblem with a world map. But they tried once and failed already with an atrocious GBA port

[qwertysaur]

Legend of Dragoon is the first that comes to mind, but I think a remaster would be better than a remake. The addition system was fun and it really pushed the hardware of the time, and I would love to see it keep it's style, just update it and balance out the characters more.

Secret of Mana could use a full remake though. It's pretty well known that a good 40% of the game was cut, so seeing a project to expand the game to include those parts of the game.

[Mercen-X]

Cosmic Star Heroine (never heard of it. Yeah, well it exists.)


Then why include it? Especially since it's just 3 years old. :monster:

I just saw this. The "never heard of it" part is supposed to be an external reader. That's the intended pattern.

Read thus:
A: Breath of Fire
B: Which one?
A: I don't know. Pick one.

A: FFT
B: Why?
A: Don't ask. You won't like the answer.

A: The Bouncer
B: What the hell's that?
A: It's a beat'em up RPG

A: Cosmic Star Heroine
B: Never heard of it.
A: Yeah, well, it exists.

And just to be clear, I don't enter these forums under the general assumption that everyone here is instantly familiar with every RPG in existence which is why I instead assume there are some obscure titles some may not know of.

[Spuuky]

I think the question is why you think a 3 year old game that almost no one played (although I did play and finish it) would need a remake.

[Mercen-X]

The truth is that I misread the wiki. I was interested in playing the game but didn't see it is already on PS4. So I guess my real thing was not for a remake but a port... which now I see is unnecessary. :roll2

[Raistlin]

I'm generally not a fan of remakes as a concept, but I kinda agree with Suikoden III. It was a strong game overall, but it was just so damn clunky in the dev team's first transition to 3D; the game's major defects are all technical. A more polished version would be pretty nice.

[Christmas]

breath of fire 3 plz.

[CimminyCricket]

Chrono trigger so I can finally play it, Radiata Stories because I loved it, and for sure the first Unreal.

[qwertysaur]

Chrono trigger so I can finally play it, Radiata Stories because I loved it, and for sure the first Unreal.
Chrono trigger is half off on steam night now, so if you have a windows machine go get it! :bigsmile:

[Christmas]

I remembered I played Chrono Trigger using a SNES emulator. Those were the days. :bigsmile:

[CimminyCricket]

Gonna go get Chrono Trigger for steam

[CimminyCricket]

Chrono trigger so I can finally play it, Radiata Stories because I loved it, and for sure the first Unreal.
Chrono trigger is half off on steam night now, so if you have a windows machine go get it! :bigsmile:
I have it as part of the FF VI (maybe IV) bundle for the PlayStation but I want to get it remade or ported to switch. I might pick it up for DS.

Oops I didn't think the other post went through

[Vyk]

Aren't the Steam games weird iOS ports? Or did they actually try harder when they did Chrono Trigger?

[Kikiara]

Xenogears is the one that immediately comes to mind, because as much as I love it, it's horribly unfinished, and disc two had the potential to be so much more than it was. But I'd really want Monolith Soft and Tetsuya Takahashi to be involved if Square-Enix decided to extend the franchise, be that through a remake, a reboot, or a sequel.

I'd also personally love to see a remake of the first Grandia. I feel like it's underappreciated outside of Japan, and while I can sort of understand why (arriving two years later than the original Saturn version with a spotty localisation and horrible English voice acting probably didn't help its chances), for me, it's one of the most memorable RPGs of that era. The cast of characters is endearing and sweet, I love the game's mixture of world cultures, its adventurous spirit, and its sense of genuine scale, and while the story does nothing original, I think it's one of the absolute best takes on the traditional JRPG story formula, with loads of really memorable moments (the scenes surrounding Justin's decision to leave Parm, in particular, are genuinely touching and really well written in my opinion). I feel like with updated graphics (maybe something in the vein of one of the modern Tales games), better dungeon designs, and a revamped battle system drawing on some of the innovations made in the game's sequels, it could do quite well.


I remembered I played Chrono Trigger using a SNES emulator. Those were the days. :bigsmile:

I remember playing it on an old version of ZSNES that didn't emulate the console's sound chip correctly. In particular, the wind sound was bizarre and kind of creepy (it sounded like the one in this recording of the FFVI intro: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynjERjWIOmY&t=1m55s). I had no point of reference for how the game was actually supposed to sound, so it kind of blew my mind when I played a legit version years later and realised that the wind was really supposed to sound like wind. :lol:

You had to disable certain background layers in areas that were covered by fog in order to progress, too, due to problems the emulator had with displaying transparencies. It all feels kind of fuzzy and nostalgic to me now, but in hindsight, it's sort of wild what I was willing to put up with as a kid to play Square games that were never released here.

[Aulayna]

Skies of Arcadia

[Fynn]

Aren't the Steam games weird iOS ports? Or did they actually try harder when they did Chrono Trigger?

They did actually fix CT

[Vyk]

Skies of Arcadia

I could get down with this one

[Christmas]

Legend of Legaia!!