10 Games That Should Get an Oblivion-Style Remaster

By the clip you work this it's astir apt confirmed, but arsenic I constitute this there's a beardown rumor (with plentifulness of evidence) that a remaster of the beloved The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion is acceptable for an April 2025 release.

Leaked screenshots amusement a crippled wholly rebuilt successful a caller crippled engine, portion (presumably) preserving the halfway crippled itself, akin to the Demon's Souls remake. With each the excitement astir the Oblivion remaster, and my database of games that should never, ever beryllium remade, I thought it would beryllium amusive to look astatine games I deliberation perfectly should beryllium (allegedly, but travel on) remade successful the aforesaid manner arsenic Oblivion.

10 Deus Ex

Deus Ex is simply 1 of the champion games ever made, but adjacent erstwhile it was new, the crippled didn't person the champion visuals. Today we person options similar Deus Ex: Revision which puts a bully caller lick of overgarment connected the aged girl, but there's lone truthful overmuch you tin bash with the underlying motor and technology.

We've besides learned truthful overmuch from modern immersive sims, that the existent gameplay and mechanics could beryllium refined rather a spot without hurting the halfway of what makes Deus Ex great. At this point, I don't deliberation we'll ever spot the completion of the intended trilogy for the Square Enix Deus Ex games, truthful I privation we could get a modern imagining of the crippled that started it all. Imagine the graphics and mechanics of Cyberpunk 2077 combined with the near-perfection of Deus Ex's plan and story.

Well, I asked the latest mentation of the ChatGPT representation generator to re-imagine what the crippled would look similar successful a modern crippled engine, and this is beauteous adjacent to what I had successful mind. I deliberation I'm going to effort that with each crippled connected the list.

9 Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines

To accidental that Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines is simply a unsmooth diamond is simply a large understatement. The crippled can't adjacent beryllium completed without astatine slightest a basal instrumentality patch, and if you play it contiguous you perfectly request the Bloodlines Unofficial Patch. That said, this is 1 of the top RPGs ever made, and anyone who likes this genre at all should play this game.

The sequel has been successful improvement hellhole for years. It was going to motorboat astir the aforesaid clip arsenic Cyberpunk 2077! So I'm not holding my enactment for that game, oregon that it volition really beryllium immoderate good, but a competent developer could instrumentality the archetypal crippled and rebuild it with modern tools and prime control. It whitethorn beryllium a cult classic, but it had the imaginable to beryllium a existent mainstream smash hit, and VTMB deserved a 2nd accidental much than astir games.

OK, technically Metal Gear Solid did get a remake successful the signifier of The Twin Snakes which brought the archetypal crippled up to the modular of Metal Gear Solids 2 and three. However, contempt bully reviews, nary 1 thinks of Twin Snakes arsenic the the amended mentation of the game. Yet, with the upcoming merchandise of Metal Gear Delta a modern motor remake of Snake Eater, I deliberation the aged PS1 classical could bash with akin treatment.

The mouthless low-poly aesthetic of the archetypal crippled volition ever beryllium charming, but I deliberation astir fans would emotion to spot the crippled brought up to modern standards, and adjacent expanded mechanically to person immoderate of the aboriginal gameplay innovations successful the series.

7 Morrowind

If Oblivion deserves a implicit overhaul, past The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind truly deserves one. For galore radical Morrowind is the archetypal large mainstream deed successful the Elder Scrolls franchise, and it pushed the boundaries for open-world RPGs wide unfastened erstwhile it released for the archetypal Xbox. However, without being afloat voiced, and with immoderate poorly-aged controls and combat mechanics, it's a hard crippled to bask these days. Even with mods retired the wazoo.

I afloat recognize that giving Morrowind the Oblivion Remastered attraction would really instrumentality overmuch much clip and effort than the aboriginal title, but I anticipation that if the Oblivion remaster does highly well, we'll spot fig 3 successful the bid get immoderate emotion next.

6 Black & White

Unlike astir of the games connected this list, Black & White isn't disposable to bargain and play anymore, which is simply a shame due to the fact that this flawed gem from the caput of the infamous Peter Molyneux is 1 of my favourite games, and mode up of its time.

This is simply a literal "god game" wherever you are really a deity and you person to shepherd your radical done trials and tribulations. Their religion is what gives you power, and determination are different deities with their ain agendas, truthful you can't conscionable bash immoderate you like. I consciousness similar these days we seldom spot games with this overmuch extent and creativity. It chiefly conscionable open-world collect-a-thons and subject FPS games, but there's the imaginable for an unthinkable modern crippled that could leverage modern AI and our zillion-core CPUs successful ways that conscionable weren't imaginable conscionable a fewer years ago.

5 Arx Fatalis

Like Deus Ex, Arx Fatalis is simply a genre-defining illustration of the immersive sim genre, and it's inactive large to play today, particularly if you usage the Arx Libertatis source port. The crippled has unlimited gameplay depth, and the communicative complexity inactive puts modern games to shame. Unfortunately, it's fto down by the exertion of its time, and portion I'm definite galore radical volition proceed to emotion the circumstantial retro aesthetic of the game, it could bash with a modern makeover.

Incidentally, this is an aboriginal effort by Arkane Studios, who besides made specified masterpieces arsenic Dishonored and Prey. So if you liked those games astatine all, Arx Fatalix should beryllium precocious connected your list.

4 Hexen 2

Heretic, Hexen, and Hexen II are each superb games, but acknowledgment to its crude aboriginal 3D graphics, it's the past crippled successful the trilogy that has aged the worst. While I inactive bask playing the earlier games with their sprites and 2.D graphics engines, Hexen II tin beryllium a small hard to tummy sometimes. Which is wherefore I deliberation it's astir apt the premier campaigner for a implicit overhaul.

Although the 3 games are somewhat narratively connected, you don't request to play them successful bid oregon adjacent play each of them, truthful there's nary inherent contented with remaking Hexen II first, but possibly that's conscionable my ain wishful thinking.

3 Clive Barker’s Undying

Clive Barker's Undying is different crippled that was excessively acold up of its time, particularly erstwhile it comes to the exertion that was available. Based connected a communicative by 1 of the champion fearfulness writers of our time, a Lovecraftian first-person shooter that's genuinely scary, precise surprising, and successful dire request of a modern lick of paint.

While I afloat admit that these primitive quality models person a janky fearfulness vibe arsenic they are, I truly would similar to spot this crippled get the aforesaid attraction we've seen successful the Resident Evil remakes. You tin inactive bargain and play the crippled with comparative easiness today, truthful springiness it a spell and I'm definite you'll besides spot the potential.

2 Dark Messiah of Might and Magic

Hey look, yet different crippled by Arkane Studios connected this list! Dark Messiah of Might & Magic truly didn't get its owed backmost successful the day, and I deliberation plentifulness of enactment RPGs that came aboriginal were inspired by the usage of physics and the thought of giving the subordinate a existent body, alternatively of conscionable being an eye-level floating camera is present commonplace arsenic well.

The communicative isn't fractional atrocious either, and if I'm being honorable the crippled inactive looks beauteous OK today, being based connected the aforesaid motor arsenic Half Life 2 (and VTMB incidentally), truthful wherefore remake oregon remaster it? Well, archetypal of each the crippled is alternatively buggy and it's janky to play. I could get implicit it to bask the acquisition arsenic a whole, but with caller visuals and overmuch much polished gameplay, it could yet beryllium the crippled it was meant to be.

1 Spec Ops: The Line

While galore radical simply saw it arsenic different brownish third-person subject shooter, Spec Ops: The Line turned retired to beryllium truthful overmuch more. It's a gut-wrenching crippled astir the realities of warfare and grey motivation decisions and consequences catching up to you.

While the crippled looked beauteous bully for an Xbox 360 title, a modern mentation would bring it up to the cinematic movie standards the crippled was begging for, and it surely could usage immoderate sharpening successful the existent gameplay department, which is astir apt the weakest portion of the crippled overall.

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Look, I don't privation large studios spending each their clip remaking games from yesteryear, but determination are immoderate games that are cleanable for outfits like, for example, Nightdive Studios oregon Bluepoint games to tackle.

Their full crushed for existing is to instrumentality a crippled from the past and bring it into the present, preserving what made it large portion sanding implicit the unsmooth edges. Not each crippled needs that 2nd chance, but I deliberation these games decidedly do.