Thinking of something and I’m curious what YOU think! If you could remake a retro PC videogame, what would it be and how would you envision the remake?
Honestly I just want to have more stable ports. A lot of the charm is lost with these games slathering them in modern tech.
The sole exception I can think of is Shogo: Mobile Armor Division, partly because the game is blatantly unfinished, and partly because the anime style they wanted to go with wasn’t handled great then. I think all you’d really need to do is flesh out the bare script, keeping the character illustrations and basic beats intact, but filling out details that got lost in the Blood 2 shuffle. Gameplay, just tone down the crit system by making it dependent on specific body parts, maybe have limb dismemberment or damage since this is a mech heavy game, and flesh out the weapons to be more varied and useful. Also enemies do less damage (they just shred you).
Of course, some sort of cel-shading graphical style or the like. The game is begging for it. Heck, with the limited graphics they had at the time, they still made time to make an anime opening.
That is not a joke.
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