With the video game industry and the competition between publishers growing drastically every year, more and more games are hitting shelves with huge rival titles lined up next to them. Due to this, a lot of great games slip under the radar...
GB: "With this feature, we talk about 15 games on the PS3 that should be remade for the PlayStation 5."
The head of Nightdive Studios has posted that The Darkness is on their list of games they want to do, so hopefully something comes from that
Little Big Planet 1 and 2 deserve a mention, IMO.
Good call on Motorstorm, a game released 2 gens ago but still looks and feels so good. Motorstorm 2 and Motorstorm RC were gems as well. They followed up the Motorstorm games with the brilliant Driveclub, which still manages to put modern racing games to shame. Imagine closing down a studio as talented as that ... (!) Incredible.
A little 'arcade-gem' back then was The Last Guy, a top down 'follow the leader' snake-like game where you had to find and lead survivors to safety during an alien invasion, on terrible looking 'Google-earth' maps. Graphics were poor, even back then, but would love that same gameplay with modern maps and graphics.
Street Fighter 4, once it finally had a full roster, was quite good, but it was always an ugly game, sadly. Imagine bringing that back while using the current SF6 engine.
Good suggestions, I'd be in for
LittleBigPlanet
LittleBigPlanet 2
Motorstorm: Pacific Rift
Motorstorm: RC
God damn I love motorstorm so much
At the time I had a low-mid range sony 40” tv, The latency to the controller was waaaay too high, would to play a modern version
In saying that later I got a 3d lg tv and playing the 3d motorstorm in my bedroom with the environment crumbling around the track, was something special, specially compared to what others were playing at the time, will always remember that
Some good choices here and Resistance: Fall of Man is my most wanted PS3 remaster/remake. Not sure about their claim it was Sony's answer to Gears of War though.
I’d rather have sequels than remakes. Look at Dead Space 1 Remake. Would’ve been cooler if we got a new entry and it failed with sales sealing the fate of a sequel rather than just replay the same game and it fail in sales and we never get a new entry.
Remakes are great for things like PS2 and earlier games to really get a crazy new graphical coat, but I think we should ease up on all these remakes and actually do sequels.
Yeah for sure, sequels would be ideal. But in the current market environment where many big publishers are risk-averse, I'd rather get a remaster or remake that a developer can do on a budget that will be approved, rather than nothing for an IP.
I rather they remaster and port over to PC and current gen all the games permanently stuck on PS360. Those games don't need remakes, they need to be given a chance to live again outside of their confined consoles and then give a few proper sequels. Like Sleeping Dogs, Motor Storm, LA Noir, should get another entry.
Yeah I'd be fine with remasters of PS3 games too, they don't have to be remakes.
Sonic the Hedgehog has a long and turbulent history in videogames, but which are the best games featuring the blue bur?
Generations over Mania? Please… Generations doesnt have any new ideas in the levels/bosses.
Also a top 7 of Sonic games shouldn’t have any 3D crap and contain at least one of the 8-bit titles.
Sonic CD getting snubbed is weird. Number 1 is definitely interchangable between Sonic 2 and Sonic 3 & Knuckles.
Nothing wrong with putting Generations over Mania. Generations had a lot more to it. Mania was just a bit too short, despite how amazing it was. They're both top-tier Sonic games though.
I don't think mania was to short given 1,2,3, knuckles were between 1 and 3 hours long.
Mania was 5 hours roughly
However i say the originals feel more repayable because they are so short
The 8 bit games were pretty bad overall do you mean the 16 bit ones
Nope. Sonic 1 & 2 on the master system were great. Dont confuse these with the game gear versions either.
Top 7 for me
7 cd
6 mania
5 Frontiers
4 sonic 3
3 sonic 1
2 sonic and knuckles
1 sonic 2
Sometimes I feel like the Sonic Advanced games just didn’t exist with how much it’s always forgotten 😭
Even as a Sonic fan, I didn't really care for those games, and getting the Chaos Emeralds were freakin' horrible. Even with an emulator and save states, I didn't have the desire to try. I also didn't like most of the levels or bosses either. Unfortunately, DiMPs aren't good at making Sonic games.
The divide between both iterations of Sonic is now reaching spin-off territory, and the way Sega is handling it is both a blessing and a curse.
It didn't 'flop' at all because according to Ubisoft they made a profit on it I believe.
However, it wasn't the timing of the release, but the fact that Ubisoft got greedy and released it as a full-priced retail game in a market where most people don't think 2D platformers are worth 50-60 bucks anymore.
I'm 100% certain that if they had just released it on XBLA and PSN for 15 bucks, it would have sold at least 10 times as much as it did on release, as well as selling a lot longer and better in the years after release, due to it being one of the very best digital downloads ever.
I don't know why others didn't pick up Enslaved btw, but I read everywhere that the gameplay wasn't very challenging and thus too easy and quickly too bland. Kinda the same problem the gorgeous Prince of Persia had.
Rayman origins is one of the best 2d platform games since the 16-bit age and one that truly shines in HD.
Lords of Shadows is an excellent GOW clone that even surpasses GOW3 in many ways.
I would throw Vanquish in there too, best third person shooter in history, and that's a fact.
I don't think anyone overlooked or under appreciated sonic generations. It was a really good game, and hopefully a sign of more good things to come from the sonic team.
I bought Enslaved, played 2 minutes of it and have not returned to it yet. An opening too reminscent of Uncharted 2 except with no weight to the character - and fighting lots of robots. It borders on looking prettyish but only in a slightly sub-par way. It feels like it's going to be too much like on-rails Heavenly Sword all over again.
It looks like a refreshingly different kind of game on the shelves but there's a reason that it hasn't sold too well.
Maybe it's got a good story in there for all I know but the movement seems too bitty and everything too sci-fi to have drawn me in.
As for Rayman Origins, this must be the least overlooked 'overlooked' game. Lots of articles go on about it as if it is any better than Earthworm Jim. The 16 bit age had waves of games like this - with a bit more substance to their themes too. So they want you to pay £40 for a HD version of the type of game that you could get for about £5 now. Go mad for the silky visuals if you want but I'd rather spend £9.99 on Limbo- and did.
I liked the Sonic Generations demo. For just over £10 I think I might get this at some point even though there don't seem to be many levels.
I enjoyed playing Enslaved but I don't think I'll ever go back to it.
One of those buy-complete-trade in games for me.
It's definitely worth playing once though, I think.