Top Fifteen Games I'd Like To See

A lot of this is going to amount to "game companies selling us things we already have"... It is what it is. I don't even resent them for doing that, because it keeps the old greats alive. Besides that, nostalgia's a bigger selling point now than most of the new things being put out there. Aside from generational games like Elden Ring, modern gaming just doesn't have the magic for a lot of folks that retro gaming does. Regardless, here's my list of remakes, remasters, and occasional new things that I'd like to see happen.

15. Metroid Prime 4...on Switch 2 - Not totally sure Metroid Prime 4 even exists yet. If so, looks like it'll be on Switch 1. At this point, it's been so long, just put it on Switch 2. Nobody would get upset. Most of the fans are probably upgrading anyway, given that modern games require something stronger than a phone from 2015. So I'd like to see this get an enhanced Switch 2 release. Alongside the Switch 1 release, instead of it, whichever. Just not way later or not at all.

14. Lufia: Ruins Chasers - Yeah, this isn't happening. The ship loooong since sailed on it. This was the original Lufia III concept, a Playstation 1 game in the same style as the first two games in the series, following up on Arek the Absolute (the Big Bad you never fight in the first two). Much like the cancelled Lennus III, the first two games built up to this one, and it probably would have been great. Unfortunately, it was canned, we got two portable sequels instead that dropped Arek entirely, and that was that. Also the two portable sequels were mediocre and awful, respectively. It's just such a waste.

13. Elden Ring 2: Land of Reeds - The Asian-themed distant land alluded to quite a bit in Elden Ring could be a setting for an entirely new game. And while I doubt we'll actually ever get a full sequel, it would be cool if we did. The Land of Reeds could add a Japanese aesthetic to the architecture and environments, almost combining Elden Ring's art direction with Sekiro. That said, part of me also wants to "leave the memories alone" as it were and not turn this game into a franchise. And as I write this, with the Nightreign spinoff on the way, it might already be a franchise. I don't know. That seems like more of a multiplayer DLC that they turned into a standalone project, though.

12. SaGa Frontier 2 Remastered - This has been said to be in the works for a while now, but never got any sort of official announcement. For me it would be nice to finally play this to cap off the SaGa series (no interest in anything post-2000 in that series) when I cover the rest of the early ones on here. If it doesn't get a remaster I'm just not going to bother. Too much trouble to play a PS1 disc on PS3 and use third party software to screenshot it, when I could just be playing a Switch game with one button screenshots. At this point I'm a tad annoyed at the lack of any sort of announcement or even confirmation that this exists. Just give me a release date so I can get back to finishing my SaGa posts and time it out to include this. Hopefully the actual game is fun, too.

11. King of Fighters Collection - These games are all over the place as it is. On a bunch of systems (some that you can't even really emulate), across 3 decades. Some of the early Neo Geo installments can be found on modern consoles for download, but only some of them. Best bet these days is to emulate the arcade versions of all of them, and even that's a pain in the ass to get going. It's a series that should be way easier to revisit than it is, especially since it's still getting new installments. I'd like to see a collection that includes everything except the latest one, KOFI-14. Hell throw in KOF 15 too if they're not losing too much money doing that. Mostly, just rescue the first dozen from the dustbin of history.

10. FFVII Rebirth Rocket Town DLC - Seriously, what happened to Rocket Town? It's totally missing from the main game, and very weird by its absence. Since Cid is never playable, a DLC to introduce him as a playable character and cover this missing chapter would make a lot of sense (and be similar to the DLC Yuffie got after the first installment). It'd also give them a chance to maybe make Cid a bit more like...well, Cid, since the happy Cid in Rebirth is essentially unrecognizable compared to the gruff angry guy in the original.

9. Demon Souls' 6th Archstone (Northern Limit) - This is never happening, as all of the drawing boards for this were made in the late 2000's. It's a shame because they had the perfect opportunity to try and reconstruct this with the full remake on PS5. One of the six worlds was cut entirely due to being unfinished, and the snowy scenes from it in the game's intro are as much as we ever see of it in the game. At least all of the unused assets supposedly got repurposed in ice levels of later From games, mainly Frozen Eleum Loyce in Dark Souls II. However, it would still be amazing to finally get the 6th world as envisioned, and it would totally overhaul Demon Souls by giving players another world on the stage select to bounce between during progression.

(Note: Yeah, I know the game is called Demon's Souls, but I call it Demon Souls for simplicity, as do most people I talk to about it. Real glass, cry me a river, etc)

8. Bloodborne Remade... by Bluepoint - Speaking of the Demon Souls remake, it seems like a no-brainer for them to do the same thing with the other Sony exclusive From game. At this point I think we'd all just take a 60 FPS patch. Anything. One of the best games of the 2010's has been largely forgotten by its creators, it seems like. Maybe the plan is to have this be a PS6 launch game, so they aren't going to touch any of it in the meantime? That's probably the best-case scenario at this juncture. And it's what I'd like to see, a full Bluepoint remake for the PS6 launch lineup. I think this has a substantial possibility of happening, given the radio silence over the game.

7. An Elder Scrolls VI that is actually good - The five existing main-series Elder Scrolls games might be antiquated in the modern day, but each one is a solid gold time capsule that brings you back to their era of PC gaming and pushes the limits of what games could be at that time. Skyrim was so influential that it basically redefined the gaming landscape to make open world RPGs much more of a thing than they'd ever been before. And now...14 years and counting later, ESVI is on the horizon.

However, given how iffy that development studio has been over the past decade, with things like Fallout 4 ending up being disappointments, I'd say the chances of ESVI being as incredible as its predecessors aren't good. Especially considering the above screenshot of Hammerfell is basically all we've had for like 4 years now. Personally, I thought by now we'd be up to ES8. The odds of us getting the last four provinces - Valenwood, Elsweyr, Sommerset Isles, or Black Marsh - in their own games all seem minimal now. Much less anything with Akavir. The creators seem to have thrown a lot of these ideas into the MMO and just kinda left them at that.

Doubt I'll ever get to explore the Morocco-like desert land of Elsweyr as a cat-person in an expansive single-player game covering the province. I should probably be thankful we're getting Hammerfell, at least, but I just hope it's good.

6. Dragon Quest XII - Speaking of things that we've only had one picture to go off of for years. Much like ES6, it's been in development so long without any ingame footage being put out there that it's starting to feel like something might be wrong. I'm not worried about this one being good or not, though. Looking forward to the first screenshots, a trailer, any of the above. Supposedly it's going to be a more "adult" DQ game, which will be interesting to see. I hope it goes the route of Final Fantasy XII, which was itself a more adult game in that series, that took some risks with the formula (without deviating from it too much).

5. Armored Core Collection...with modernized controls - These games are turning into one of the holy grails of gaming over the last several decades because they're so rare and expensive. Interest in them is at an all-time high due to Fromsoft's popularity and them being essentially "lost games" from the back catalog. Just making them available would be good enough, but if they up the resolution or framerate a bit and add in dual analog stick support for movement/aiming, even the early ones would play like ten times better than they do now. It would make for an incredible collection. There's precedent for this, as the recent The Thing remaster added dual stick camera support in addition to sharpening up the visuals, and it improves on the original exponentially.

4. FFXIII Trilogy Remastered - These games, especially the first, seem to have gained a new popularity in the public zeitgeist over the last couple of years. I only played this trilogy through once, and platinumed all three so I never had a reason to revisit them. I liked all three (mainly the second) and thought this series had a unique "crystal-like" vibe that permeated the visuals and music. I've also seen enough criticism over the years to want to check them out a second time with a more discerning eye and see if they hold up. They're now the only main-series FFs that aren't playable on current-gen Playstation hardware, and thus need a remastering more than any others.

3. Dragon Quest X Offline, translated - Having this gap in the Dragon Quest lineup is unfortunate, and it's hard to believe they've never addressed it. Especially with the space of time between DQXI and DQXII. Would have been the perfect time to put this out in the US. At this point I'm mostly hoping for fan translators to put out a ROM patch since emulating it is probably gonna end up being a requirement. Just doesn't make sense that they've left this game out in the cold. I don't even know how good it actually is, but it's a single-player DQ so I'm all about it. At least, the latest version of it is 1P. The online version is probably never getting any attention in the west, which is okay by me.

I wish these companies would stop giving main-series numbers to online variants, and just call them "online" instead. This could have been Dragon Quest Online, while FF11 and FF14 could have been FF Online 1 and 2. Makes more sense, yeah? Regardless, give us DQX 1P so I can complete the series. And if not, let's hope the fan translation is soon and complete.

2. FFVII Revival/Reunion/Resurrection - Whatever Part 3 ends up being called, I can't wait, and it's #1 on my list of things I'd like to see. While Part 1 was very hit-or-miss and had plenty of issues with its presentation, Part 2 was great (well, for the most part) and modernized the original PS1 game in an amazing way. The third should have airship travel and an expanded Wutai, along with what was discs 2 and 3 of the PS1 original.

In the meantime, I'm hoping for that Rocket Town DLC and a Dirge of Cerberus remake with updated/better controls, the way the Crisis Core remake greatly improved that game. Cid and Vincent are the two characters that will be debuting as playable in Part 3, so following this game plan would make total sense and keep with the pattern they've followed up to now. All of that said, as of right now it seems that nothing is planned outside of Part 3, so we'll see what happens.

1. Playstation 6 with some serious backward compatibility / built-in upscaling - Not a game per se, but it's still my most-wanted thing at this juncture. Specifically, PS6 being able to run PS2 games while also upscaling them to look good on modern TVs. While it'd raise the system's price a bit, it would allow PS6 to launch with a whole library of games ready to be revisited. Games from their best-selling system ever, no less.

I still have a bunch of PS2 games I'd love to do something with, and would have a ball with a backwards-compatible PS6. Would also be nice to only need two systems (PS3 and PS6) to be able to play all of the PS generations. Maybe PS7 can work on rolling PS1 and 3 in and be fully backwards compatible? Either way, PS2 is a bit of a "lost generation" as things stand now and it doesn't need to be. Give us PS2 compatibility with upscaling and modernization and the PS6 will be off and running.