The Greatest Remakes
 

What do you guys think are the greatest remakes ever made? Any console/portable, any year, any game. Take your pick.

I go with Resident Evil (GameCube) and Super Mario All-Stars.

Metroid: Zero Mission, of course.

I also like The Twin Snakes, even though it gets a lot of crap for some reason.

The Resident Evil remake was unreal. The graphics are amazing.

Definitely Metroid Zero Mission. Every other remake I've played was total trash but Zero Mission was epic.

I hated all Metroid 3-D adventures. They're so hard to play and I hate 3-D Gaming unless it's a fighting or racing Genre.

My favorite is SMB Allstars.

Does Kirby's Adventure for NES count?

That's not a remake. It's a sequel to the Kirby in Dream Land, I believe, for the Gameboy. So no, it does not count.

Those weren't remakes though. They were their own stories/missions.

Zero Mission for me.

Super Mario Brothers (for the GBA Classic Series)
LoZelda: A Link to the Past
Super Mario 3
Sonic the Hedgehog for GBA

Reasons because they haven't been touched and just updated to the newer systems.

Those aren't really remakes, just barely updated ports.

I forgot one: Pokemon FireRed/LeafGreen were also great remakes.

That was a port, and from what I saw, it was TERRIBLE. They ruined the engine, and it ran at half the speed of the original.

Yeah, Sonic on GBA is really really bad. I had it in my DS for ages because I was too lazy to change it and everytime I'd play it I'd instantly regret it.

Tomb Raider Anniversary is a great remake. I also like Star Fox 64, but that probably doesn't count as a remake game.

REmake was all I ever wanted in an RE game with next gen graphics. They did a great job.

I also loved Twin Snakes but sadly it didn't so anything for me because I had beaten it a million times as a kid. I still saw it for how great it was. It really is a great game and I'm glad a newer generation got to experience it as well.

Ditto on the Twin Snakes thing. A damn shame it was a Gamecube exclusive, really.

That Prince of Persia remake for the XBLA is pretty sweet.

Isn't that cuz Genisis had some sort of high speed processor or something? I remember they kept making stupid advertisements about it.

lol.........just lol.


The Genesis ran at about 7.6 Mhz. Though it was faster than the other consoles of its era, there was no special hardware acceleration, and no special processor. That was all bullsh*t advertising.

The Game Boy Advance runs at 16.8 Mhz with lots of hardware acceleration.


The reason the GBA port of Sonic is horrible is because Sega lost the source code (original programming) to the game years ago, and commissioned some cheap outside studio to rebuild the game from scratch. They did a poor job on a limited budget, and made a game that runs half the speed of the original, on a machine way over twice as powerful. There are tons of other flaws in the port too, but I don't feel like listing everything.

Yeah, that was one of the worst remakes ever. I was ready to except the horribly butchered music but how they made the gravity weird was just retarded.

MK:SC doesn't count as a remake. It was a 2D sequel that just happened to have the old tracks thrown in as unlockables in a game they didn't belong in. Still doesn't qualify as a remake though.

The game couldn't touch the original Super Mario Kart. That much is for certain.

Seems like SOMEONE had an ulterior motive for making this thread!

Nah, it's cool. And I like that you put the Prince of Persia classic there. ;)

Give the man a cookie. ;)

Conker has to be one of the best remakes of all time. It should have been higher!