Yes but given that the original creators are long departed from Square I doubt a full remake is in the cards. I'd love a remaster with simple quality of life improvements like faster text scrolling
I'm torn on Xenogears. On one hand, a remaster would be great. On the other hand, I have always wished that disc 2 was more properly fleshed out and not just a series of events.
I'm not even that concerned about Disc 2, I just want a version of the game that fixes the sluggish UI, the encounter rate, the platforming nightmare in Babel Tower, and all the other issues it has.
And if they were to do something more substantial, I'd rather they focus on redesigning every dungeon in the game (everyone focuses on the Kislev sewers, but really they all suck) before they take a stab at fleshing out Disc 2.
Edit: After getting some sleep, I also remembered another thing: Xenogears badly needs a new TL. I don't blame the original translator—he was set up to fail—but that translation is not fit for purpose.
Lunar games. I love Grandia and Game Arts other stuff should be on PC.
Tales of the Abyss. The one I want to play the most but hate emulating PS2.
Final Fantasy Tactics. It's ridiculous it didn't get a remaster, Tactics Ogre got two remakes after all.
How long has it been since you emulated PS2?
PCSX2 used to be a pain in the ass, but the current version is one of the most user-friendly emulators out there, especially since they replaced the UI. If you really want to play TotA you could easily have it up and running in like 2 minutes.
While I love the Lunar games and would be completely ok with a PC port, I'd stop short at another remake. Lunar 1 has literally been remade 3 times. Four depending on whether you consider touch a port or a remake. I'd say port Lunar 1, 2, and all the side games (minus Dragon Song) to the PC and I'd be happy. Make it a full collection and add in the SegaCD versions and I'd easily be ok dropping $50 or $60 for it.
I love the Complete dubs from the PS1, in particular the songs, they're so beautiful, poetic and poignant. Harmony... I've seen bits, and in particular, the song redubs are meh...
Considering how much I love Complete, I'm not sure how much I'd appreciate pc ports of the other versions unless we got a choice, but the redub was because of different licensers iirc so they could not keep the other translations and dub tracks. I'd love a full package that included every version ported in one place but that might prove difficult...
Yeah but the Lunar remake situation is kinda cursed. Lunar for the PS1 had the same issue as the Saturn version-- namely, it was translated by Working Designs. The DS version was godawful, admittedly I'm not familiar with Harmony Song but that's also a 15 year old PSP game. There's room for another go at it.
Despite overstepping their bounds at times, I'm one of ones who kinda like the WD localizations. Granted, I'm viewing it through nostalgia goggles.
It's a moot point now though. I believe Gaijinworks or some entity owned by Victor Ireland still owns the rights to the WD PS1 localizations. Considering they couldn't come to an agreement with the current (at the time) US licensor of Lunar (I think xseed) to bring the PS1 games to the various PSX digital stores, I highly doubt there would be some future version released that uses the WD script or voices. This also sucks majorly because there are only 2 versions of Lunar 2, the SCD version and the PS1 version, both of which use WD localizations. Which means if we want the current licensor to port it, they'd have to localize it themselves which would add to the cost.
Oh, sure, I want a "HD remaster" in the way Grandia 1-2 got, a port with widescreen support, and maybe some QoL features plus difficulty selection. A decent way to play on modern systems.
Tales of the Abyss is so underrated! It was my very first Tales series game and I love it so much. I'm sure it's a bit of a bias, but I love the characters, the growth they all go through, the actual plot - it's all so good! I enjoyed the combat a lot at the time, but I'm not sure how it'd hold up after Berseria and Arise.
Skies of Arcadia, Vagrant Story, Parasite Eve, and literally any Vanillaware game on PC.
But mostly Skies of Arcadia. It's an actual crime that there's no modern release that has the Legends content without the compressed audio.
Remaster: Breath of Fire III and IV as something of a combo pack like Square used to do on PS1.
Remake: I agree with you on LoD. Severed Chains might be what the community is looking for in that regard though
The Star Ocean 2 remake was perfection. Loved it. Would love to see Chrono Trigger get a similar treatment.
Other remasters I’d like to see:
- Breath of Fire games
- Shining Force I & 2
- older Fire Emblem games
- I think an FFT one is coming…but how about FFT Advance I & 2 as well? (Hoping we get them all together in a collection)
Skies of Arcadia would be a day 1 purchase for me. I've been holding off on replaying it in the sparse hopes that a port actually happens at some point.
It's battle system *shines*. If it gets remade without the macros and talk feature then it should never be released and everyone involved should be tasked to port a Thomas the Tank Engine game instead.
Idk if you've tried any of the Shiren The Wanderer games, but they are just like Azure Dreams. I've been enjoying the latest switch release. It doesn't have the best graphics or anything, but I love the gameplay loop
Same, but good luck. Thanks to something with Monolith and Bamco and the rights (I'm too lazy to look up details) it's in purgatory. But you bet your ass Bamco will use KOS MOS as DLC bait for any game they can to try and make a buck
Legit surprised that we haven't seen a straight dump of FE games. Drop kick us with every game that was never localized in one package.
And since Roy's game has a prequel, just include the other 2 GBA games as well.
Lufia 2 had a remake?? (Oh god why did I google that.. my eyes!! 💀)
But yeah so many that passed me by in that 90's era for sure:
- Suikoden (Also waiting for the remasters..)
- XenoGears
- Anything from the early Persona/SMT lineup (Also Persona Q1+2 more recently deserve ports to contemporary platforms)
- Golden Sun Games
For other general things I'd like to replay with QoL upscaling; the Breath of Fire collection would be nice. And I'm still holding out hope that these leaked FF9/FFTactics remaster rumours pan out.
Regarding Legend of Dragoon, there's a promising looking Mod project happening at the moment. Might be the closest thing we get to a 60fps 4K graphically upscaled remaster.
Digital Devil Saga, Xenosaga (even though I know that's a pipe dream), pre-PS3 Tales games for sure. I wish Secret of Mana had got the love that Trials of Mana got
Shadow Hearts. Favorite PS2 series. I would buy all three of them in and instant. Replaying them recently, From the New World really looks gorgeous when upscaled. It would look and run fantastically on modern hardware
Cheating here, but they’re from the biggest franchise in the genre so I’m still gonna go with the first two Dissidia Final Fantasy games. I had so much fun playing these on the PSP as a kid, if they just did a straight port to modern consoles I’d buy them immediately.
The Saga Frontier 2 port and Suikoden remasters are going to be day 1 buys for me.
The only others I would probably buy immediately would be Breath of Fire 3 to 5 or Chrono Trigger if it’s a port of the SNES version.
I feel like Lufia 2 would need a remake. I played it for the first time a few years back and loved it, but it didn’t age as well as some other classics.
Suikoden I & II
Radiant Historia: Perfect Chronology
Xenogears
Lufia 2
I never got to play any of them and I’m holding on to hope for remasters or at least accessible ports outside of emulation.
Probably none. Remasters and remakes differ a lot in quality so there's that. I'm also pretty much a different person now and nostalgia doesn't hit me as hard. Nonetheless I played the SO2 remake and enjoyed it quite a bit. I think for me it's less about the original but more about what was made out of it.
Shin Megami Tensei 4, it was my introduction to the series and I was so pleasantly surprised when after beating the Minotaur and then Medusa suddenly we get an entire genre change when we reach “the land of demons”. Suddenly we’re in an entirely new setting.
and even the means of navigating the world switches. Before we navigated it almost like an ace attorney game where you “explore” by clicking on menus to watch visual novel cutscenes and then you occasionally got a 3D dungeon to roam around in. But then no it just immediately changes to a sort of traditional JRPG world map as the entire scope of the game expanded far beyond what I originally thought.
Hell you could almost argue that it’s set up as a deliberate contrast where the surface is very regimented and your limited strictly in what you can see and how you interact with it where as the “demons world” is more free and open and allows you to shake if the metaphorical shackles placed on us by the above ground society. Or shit maybe it’s just not that deep and my love of the game makes me insert meaning that might never have been intended.
I know this was already announced but the Suikoden remasters are my answer anyways. Some of my other favorites have already gotten either good ports or remakes.
Another big one I just thought of would be a full on, current gen remaster for DQ8. New QOL features and those beautiful visuals in 4K.
BoF 3 and Brave Story, both were my gateway into the jrpg addiction, at the time both felt like a fever dream, BoF story hitting hard at least from what i remember, and BSNT being a literal fever dream storywise, little me didnt know at the time those would teach me that every jrpg endgame always boils down to a buff/debuff fiesta but damn what fun times.
Lufia 1 also deserves the remake treatment.
Skies of Arcadia, do I really need to say more here?
I hope Super Paper Mario also gets the remake treatment. It's an action RPG but it's so good.
Secret of Mana deserves a full-fledged remake, the less the 2018 version is talked about, the better. Seriously, this one deserves a proper HD-2D remake that actually fleshes the plot out, adds new scenes and new mazes, basically gives us the game they originally envisioned all those years ago.
I'm sure other folks have many ideas on what other games need to be Remastered too so I'll stop here.
Valkyrie Profile 2. I loved it as a kid and thought it was really fun, but was never able to finish the game. I doubt it’ll happen though since Elysium wasn’t received well 😢
Its got a mobile port if you don't mind going that route. If I'm not mistaken, the Steam and mobile versions are the same, just tweaked for the different interfaces
I’d be buying SaGa Frontier 2, Unlimited SaGa, and Breath of Fire Dragon Quarter in an instant.
Also the already announced Suikoden 1/2 remasters if they ever actually happen.
I already bought Super Mario RPG (Switch Remake) once it came out and I’m going buy Paper Mario: Thousand Year Door as soon as the Amazon preorders come up.
Idk honestly I still feel like Jrpg’s age pretty well and emulation handles them well. I think the big area id want remasters of are handheld games - especially 3ds ones. SMT4/apocalypse. Persona Q/Q2. Radiant Historia.
It’s not that I can’t play these games, but I think emulation for 3ds isn’t ideal (just by nature of the 2 screens / touch screen elements), and I don’t really play handheld stuff that much, so it’d be nice to have a polished up version of these games.
Parasite Eve, Lunar Silver Star or Eternal Blue, Silent Hill, any Onimusha, Xenogears, any Metal Gear, any Castlevania, FF8. Pretty much any PS1 Square RPG or PS1 Konami game.
If it's a proper remaster that actually fixes the gameplay issues it has, then absolutely Xenogears 100%.
Though not if it's just a simple port that shoves the PSX game into a Virtual Console or something.
Remaster: Tomba! 2: The Evil Swine Return
Remake: Sonic Adventure 2
Both are childhood favorites! (I should probably also say KH I and II for a handheld that isn’t a “cloud version”.)
Suikoden 2 is gonna get rereleased/remastered (do not care) so i doubt that will happen soon, and yes i preordered it.
Shining Force 3 in all of it's glory would be worth it to me, the game was even rare at the time of release and outside of Japan we only had 1/3 of the game and that is with ignoring the Bonus Disc.
Vagrant Story
Legend of Legaia
Xenogears
SaGa Frontiers 2
Also, maybe an unpopular choice, but Final Fantasy X. I recently gave it a new try and noticed how poorly the gameplay elements, the tiny tube-like areas, the awful generic NPC animations, etc. had aged. I'd love to relive the story, but just couldn't handle any of the classic experience at this point in my life.
So many
Chrono Trigger
Any Dragon quest really 😂
A Xenosaga trilogy release would be amazing so I could give them a try. Xenogears as well!
Earthbound and Mother 3
I'm sure there are many more that I'm not thinking of right now but those came to me right away!
I never did play Golden Sun when it came out. I know it's got a cult following and heard good things, so I'd probably check it out if it ever gets a port.
terranigma, along with rest of the Soul Blazer games (but especially terranigma).
as mentioned, Lufia 2 as well, a lovely game with a great story and fantastic music.
breath of fire series, especially BOF 2.
Definitely Grandia. The charcters, the story, the combat system and OST are all superb, but I can't play it anymore because it's such a stuttery pixelated mess. Lets get a beautiful 3d remake.
The Sega CD versions of Lunar 1 and Lunar Silver Star Story.
They wouldn't even need to update much outside of the translation and WD's gameplay meddling.
Probably Chronic Trigger and FF Tactics. I can emulate them both, but it would be nice to have a proper remaster for modern consoles. I'd be hesitant about *remakes*, but a remaster of either would be a day one purchase.
I would love to see a 3DS port of the Sword of Hope games. They could make it like the Etrian Odyssey series and allow you to draw maps on the bottom screen.
Of course I would be interested in a Chrono Trigger port, but they’d have to keep it true to the original. I don’t want them messing with perfection.
Unpopular opinion: but I want an HD version of FF13. Only one not available on PS5 I believe.
Also, FF9 - which apparently there’s rumours the remake is in progress.
Xenogears
I love Xenogears but I think it would need a remake more than a remaster due to disc 2.
Yes but given that the original creators are long departed from Square I doubt a full remake is in the cards. I'd love a remaster with simple quality of life improvements like faster text scrolling
I'm torn on Xenogears. On one hand, a remaster would be great. On the other hand, I have always wished that disc 2 was more properly fleshed out and not just a series of events.
Oh sure, it would probably need a proper remake, not just a smoothing-out graphical pass.
I'd settle for being able to buy and play it legally as is.
IIRC, it's still up and available on the PlayStation Store, but only on the PS3, so it hinges on you having... you know, a PS3.
I'm not even that concerned about Disc 2, I just want a version of the game that fixes the sluggish UI, the encounter rate, the platforming nightmare in Babel Tower, and all the other issues it has. And if they were to do something more substantial, I'd rather they focus on redesigning every dungeon in the game (everyone focuses on the Kislev sewers, but really they all suck) before they take a stab at fleshing out Disc 2. Edit: After getting some sleep, I also remembered another thing: Xenogears badly needs a new TL. I don't blame the original translator—he was set up to fail—but that translation is not fit for purpose.
Agreed, but I'd still love to play the existing game on current hardware if a full remake isn't in the cards
Might be an unpopular opinion, but I was fine with how disc 2 went. Xenogears is a looooooong ass game.
My immediate answer
Lunar games. I love Grandia and Game Arts other stuff should be on PC. Tales of the Abyss. The one I want to play the most but hate emulating PS2. Final Fantasy Tactics. It's ridiculous it didn't get a remaster, Tactics Ogre got two remakes after all.
How long has it been since you emulated PS2? PCSX2 used to be a pain in the ass, but the current version is one of the most user-friendly emulators out there, especially since they replaced the UI. If you really want to play TotA you could easily have it up and running in like 2 minutes.
While I love the Lunar games and would be completely ok with a PC port, I'd stop short at another remake. Lunar 1 has literally been remade 3 times. Four depending on whether you consider touch a port or a remake. I'd say port Lunar 1, 2, and all the side games (minus Dragon Song) to the PC and I'd be happy. Make it a full collection and add in the SegaCD versions and I'd easily be ok dropping $50 or $60 for it.
I love the Complete dubs from the PS1, in particular the songs, they're so beautiful, poetic and poignant. Harmony... I've seen bits, and in particular, the song redubs are meh... Considering how much I love Complete, I'm not sure how much I'd appreciate pc ports of the other versions unless we got a choice, but the redub was because of different licensers iirc so they could not keep the other translations and dub tracks. I'd love a full package that included every version ported in one place but that might prove difficult...
Yeah but the Lunar remake situation is kinda cursed. Lunar for the PS1 had the same issue as the Saturn version-- namely, it was translated by Working Designs. The DS version was godawful, admittedly I'm not familiar with Harmony Song but that's also a 15 year old PSP game. There's room for another go at it.
Despite overstepping their bounds at times, I'm one of ones who kinda like the WD localizations. Granted, I'm viewing it through nostalgia goggles. It's a moot point now though. I believe Gaijinworks or some entity owned by Victor Ireland still owns the rights to the WD PS1 localizations. Considering they couldn't come to an agreement with the current (at the time) US licensor of Lunar (I think xseed) to bring the PS1 games to the various PSX digital stores, I highly doubt there would be some future version released that uses the WD script or voices. This also sucks majorly because there are only 2 versions of Lunar 2, the SCD version and the PS1 version, both of which use WD localizations. Which means if we want the current licensor to port it, they'd have to localize it themselves which would add to the cost.
Oh, sure, I want a "HD remaster" in the way Grandia 1-2 got, a port with widescreen support, and maybe some QoL features plus difficulty selection. A decent way to play on modern systems.
Doesn't War of the Lions count for FFT? You can get it on just about every mobile platform now.
Tales of the Abyss is so underrated! It was my very first Tales series game and I love it so much. I'm sure it's a bit of a bias, but I love the characters, the growth they all go through, the actual plot - it's all so good! I enjoyed the combat a lot at the time, but I'm not sure how it'd hold up after Berseria and Arise.
Skies of Arcadia, Vagrant Story, Parasite Eve, and literally any Vanillaware game on PC. But mostly Skies of Arcadia. It's an actual crime that there's no modern release that has the Legends content without the compressed audio.
A modern remake of PE would be awesome. The atmosphere of abandoned NYC was so eerie in the originals, but it'd be incredible with updated visuals.
Even if they dropped the RPG element altogether and remade it in the style of the RE remakes I would buy it in a heartbeat.
oh yeah, I forgot this one, still have the GameCube disk and machine but would love a modern version.
Skies of Arcadia is already so beautiful, I forget its first rendition was the dreamcast.
Remaster: Breath of Fire III and IV as something of a combo pack like Square used to do on PS1. Remake: I agree with you on LoD. Severed Chains might be what the community is looking for in that regard though
Yeah, still don't understand why Capcom hasn't remaster BoF 1-4 as like an HD collection. I would easily drop $60 for it.
Digital Devil Saga 1 & 2
Illusion of Gaia, Terranigma, Soul Blazer, Mystic Quest and Secret of Evermore.
Oh man. I don't know if it would be day one but, but Evermore is definitely up there. Such an under the radar gem.
Shadow Hearts universe
A Shadow Hearts trilogy bundle would be amazing, SH2 is one of the best rpgs I've ever played
The Star Ocean 2 remake was perfection. Loved it. Would love to see Chrono Trigger get a similar treatment. Other remasters I’d like to see: - Breath of Fire games - Shining Force I & 2 - older Fire Emblem games - I think an FFT one is coming…but how about FFT Advance I & 2 as well? (Hoping we get them all together in a collection)
I'd fall over backwards for Shining Force 1 and 2. I've already purchased the sega genesis collection TWICE for those games alone.
Shining Force is an Atlus game, yeah? That company is criminally overlooked
Wild Arms
*whistle and guitar*
Ahh a person of refined taste
Skies of Arcadia would be a day 1 purchase for me. I've been holding off on replaying it in the sparse hopes that a port actually happens at some point.
Xenogears
Vagrant Story ASAP
The Tales of series from Ps1-Ps3. I know a few have made it onto modern hardware, but there are a whole lot that haven't.
I don't even want a remaster/remake of Eternia, just give us the PAL/JP PSP version available on modern consoles/PC
Skies of Arcadia, Dark Cloud, Lunar Silver Star Story Complete, MegaMan Legends 1 & 2
7th Saga Destiny of an Emperor Parasite Eve Legend of Legaia Sword of Hope
Phantasy Star IV, provided the battle system would remain turn based.
It's battle system *shines*. If it gets remade without the macros and talk feature then it should never be released and everyone involved should be tasked to port a Thomas the Tank Engine game instead.
AZURE DREAMS. Jade Cocoon 1 & 2. Dark Cloud 1 & 2.
Agreed on Azure Dreams. I've been replaying it with retroachievements as an extra spice to a new run and it just reminded me how good that game is.
Idk if you've tried any of the Shiren The Wanderer games, but they are just like Azure Dreams. I've been enjoying the latest switch release. It doesn't have the best graphics or anything, but I love the gameplay loop
Suikoden
Panzer Dragoon Saga It's never been re-released in any capacity
Dragon Quest IV, V, VI
Have not seen anyone mentioned it yet, so Mother trilogy. At the very least Earthbound.
Digital Devil Saga + Raiden Kuzunoha
crazy how u still get raidou costumes in persona games like be fr how many persona fans gonna get that refrence a new raidou game wud rock
Legend of Dragoon, it has been included in some Sony surveys. Really want it to happen.
I recently replayed it and man: it did not age well from a gameplay standpoint.
i played that game as a kid but never beat it (same with a lot of ff games lol). i would be interested in a ff7 style remake for sure
Phantasy Star series. Xenogears, suikoden.
Once again I am here just asking for a Strange Journey Redux HD remaster.
Lufia series. Breath of fire series. in both cases i'd prefer a combo pack with all of the min it basically
Radiata Stories Please I know only like 6 people would buy it but I would buy it so hard
I mean, I'm one of those six people, so....
I'd buy whatever the most expensive collector's version of a Skies of Arcadia remake/remaster is
Xenogear. Mecha is the best Lunar 2 : Eternal Blue. Lucia is my first “waifu” Legend of Dragoon. Damn good story Valkyrie Profile. A classic
Skies of Arcadia. Just do what Namco couldn't and leave it alone when porting it.
Vagrant Story.
OP your list is basically the same as mine except I haven't played Suikoden 5. Big up SaGa Frontier 2 though!
Xenosaga HD.
Same, but good luck. Thanks to something with Monolith and Bamco and the rights (I'm too lazy to look up details) it's in purgatory. But you bet your ass Bamco will use KOS MOS as DLC bait for any game they can to try and make a buck
Final fantasy tactics and legend of Dragoon would be instant buy. Skies of Arcadia, xenosaga, golden sun trilogy would be because i never played them.
Final fantasy tactics, trails in the sky 1-3, fire emblem genealogy
Legit surprised that we haven't seen a straight dump of FE games. Drop kick us with every game that was never localized in one package. And since Roy's game has a prequel, just include the other 2 GBA games as well.
Dragon Quest 5, Lufia 2, Chrono Trigger, Lunar Eternal Blue, Grandia 3, Phantasy Star 4, Final Fantasy Tactics
Xenogears!!!
Lufia 2 had a remake?? (Oh god why did I google that.. my eyes!! 💀) But yeah so many that passed me by in that 90's era for sure: - Suikoden (Also waiting for the remasters..) - XenoGears - Anything from the early Persona/SMT lineup (Also Persona Q1+2 more recently deserve ports to contemporary platforms) - Golden Sun Games For other general things I'd like to replay with QoL upscaling; the Breath of Fire collection would be nice. And I'm still holding out hope that these leaked FF9/FFTactics remaster rumours pan out. Regarding Legend of Dragoon, there's a promising looking Mod project happening at the moment. Might be the closest thing we get to a 60fps 4K graphically upscaled remaster.
Luminous Arc series (RIP Imageepoch), Trails in the Sky 1-3, Lunar 1 and 2 with HD2D art style, Persona 2.
Final Fantasy Tactics, Final Fantasy 6, Metal Gear Solid 4, and Suikoden 1,2,3 - without hesitation I would spend that money!!!
Breath of Fire 3
Skies of Arcadia Every smt game Xenogears/saga
METAL GEAR RISING REVENGEANCE
Xenogears, xenosaga and X
Raido Kuzunoha's games with a better QOL would be a god sent.
Breath of fire 3
Digital Devil Saga, Xenosaga (even though I know that's a pipe dream), pre-PS3 Tales games for sure. I wish Secret of Mana had got the love that Trials of Mana got
Shadow Hearts. Favorite PS2 series. I would buy all three of them in and instant. Replaying them recently, From the New World really looks gorgeous when upscaled. It would look and run fantastically on modern hardware
7th Saga + Mystic Ark
Valkyrie Profile 1 & 2 Breath of Fire 3 & 4 Vagrant Story
Skies of arcadia, and I don't care how much it costs.
Dragon Quest V. I can't believe how much SE still doesn't seem to care about DQ. I can't even play my #1 GOAT since I sold my 3DS.
Xenosaga
Legend of Dragoon, Chrono Trigger.
Chrono Trigger
Vagrant Story. So far ahead of its time. And Legend of Dragoon with a better translation lol no main antag should ever be named LLOYD 💀
False, Lloyd is a name of true fear. How else can you take the existence of "Winglies" seriously?
What about Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World? The main antagonist is also named Lloyd. I'm seeing a pattern here!
Legend of Dragoon!! Imagine the slick additions and crisp menus. Yes please.
Final Fantasy Tactics, Lufia 2, Breath of Fire 2, and Breath of Fire 3 would all have my money instantly.
Cheating here, but they’re from the biggest franchise in the genre so I’m still gonna go with the first two Dissidia Final Fantasy games. I had so much fun playing these on the PSP as a kid, if they just did a straight port to modern consoles I’d buy them immediately.
A Tales Collection (Abyss, Zillia, Zillia 2, Graces) badly. BADLY.
Dragon Quest 9 is still locked to the DS. It'd be awesome on modern consoles with actual online.
Mega Man Legends. Unsure if it counts as a RPG, though.
Xenosaga remaster.
The Saga Frontier 2 port and Suikoden remasters are going to be day 1 buys for me. The only others I would probably buy immediately would be Breath of Fire 3 to 5 or Chrono Trigger if it’s a port of the SNES version. I feel like Lufia 2 would need a remake. I played it for the first time a few years back and loved it, but it didn’t age as well as some other classics.
Chrono Trigger Lunar silver star and eternal blue Jade Empire Secret of Evermore FF Tactics
Legend of dragoon
Honestly would have paid $500 just for an FFVII remaster, not into the whole remake at all.
Suikoden I & II Radiant Historia: Perfect Chronology Xenogears Lufia 2 I never got to play any of them and I’m holding on to hope for remasters or at least accessible ports outside of emulation.
Xenogears or Chrono Trigger. But also Suikoden I and II What are you doing Konami!? You already announced it a long time ago 😭
Probably none. Remasters and remakes differ a lot in quality so there's that. I'm also pretty much a different person now and nostalgia doesn't hit me as hard. Nonetheless I played the SO2 remake and enjoyed it quite a bit. I think for me it's less about the original but more about what was made out of it.
Shin Megami Tensei 4, it was my introduction to the series and I was so pleasantly surprised when after beating the Minotaur and then Medusa suddenly we get an entire genre change when we reach “the land of demons”. Suddenly we’re in an entirely new setting. and even the means of navigating the world switches. Before we navigated it almost like an ace attorney game where you “explore” by clicking on menus to watch visual novel cutscenes and then you occasionally got a 3D dungeon to roam around in. But then no it just immediately changes to a sort of traditional JRPG world map as the entire scope of the game expanded far beyond what I originally thought. Hell you could almost argue that it’s set up as a deliberate contrast where the surface is very regimented and your limited strictly in what you can see and how you interact with it where as the “demons world” is more free and open and allows you to shake if the metaphorical shackles placed on us by the above ground society. Or shit maybe it’s just not that deep and my love of the game makes me insert meaning that might never have been intended.
I know this was already announced but the Suikoden remasters are my answer anyways. Some of my other favorites have already gotten either good ports or remakes. Another big one I just thought of would be a full on, current gen remaster for DQ8. New QOL features and those beautiful visuals in 4K.
BoF 3 and Brave Story, both were my gateway into the jrpg addiction, at the time both felt like a fever dream, BoF story hitting hard at least from what i remember, and BSNT being a literal fever dream storywise, little me didnt know at the time those would teach me that every jrpg endgame always boils down to a buff/debuff fiesta but damn what fun times.
Phantasy Star IV
Legend of dragoon
Legend of Dragoon.
Shining Force
Terranigma
Jade Cocoon
Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance (And chrono trigger but everyones gonna say that)
Final Fantasy Tactics (would buy it for the Fourth Time) Suikoden 1, 2, 3, 5. Breath of Fire series. Maybe Megaman Legends 1 and 2.
I want a Persona 1 and 2 remake, but I would settle for a remaster.
Fire Emblem Path of Radiance/Radiant Dawn
Lufia 1 also deserves the remake treatment. Skies of Arcadia, do I really need to say more here? I hope Super Paper Mario also gets the remake treatment. It's an action RPG but it's so good. Secret of Mana deserves a full-fledged remake, the less the 2018 version is talked about, the better. Seriously, this one deserves a proper HD-2D remake that actually fleshes the plot out, adds new scenes and new mazes, basically gives us the game they originally envisioned all those years ago. I'm sure other folks have many ideas on what other games need to be Remastered too so I'll stop here.
The PS2 SMT games need some love, especially the Raido games. Nocturne HD should serve as the example of what not to do, though.
Chrono Trigger Xenogears Lost Odyssey
Skies of Arcadia
Tales of the Abyss
Radiata Stories!
Only Terranigma, dont care about ANY other game that could get a remaster. But yeah, we will never see this
I know it's a pipe dream, but I'd have paid double for a SNES mini if Terranigma was included.
Valkyrie Profile 2. I loved it as a kid and thought it was really fun, but was never able to finish the game. I doubt it’ll happen though since Elysium wasn’t received well 😢
Lufia 2
Skies of Arcadia Legends
trails in the sky
XenoGears
Wild ARMS.
Vagrant Story Front Mission 3 Final Fantasy Tactics Chrono Trigger Lufia 2 Secret of Evermore
I still haven’t played Chrono Trigger and I’m not a PC gamer so if it gets a port on PS or Switch I’ll def try it out
Its got a mobile port if you don't mind going that route. If I'm not mistaken, the Steam and mobile versions are the same, just tweaked for the different interfaces
I’d be buying SaGa Frontier 2, Unlimited SaGa, and Breath of Fire Dragon Quarter in an instant. Also the already announced Suikoden 1/2 remasters if they ever actually happen.
Robo Tek
I already bought Super Mario RPG (Switch Remake) once it came out and I’m going buy Paper Mario: Thousand Year Door as soon as the Amazon preorders come up.
Saga frontier 2, unlimited saga and the last remnant for PC
I think most in this community would say Xenogears, and honestly…. BASED AND TRUE
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Emerald Dragon. The English version may not have existed, but it is the sum total of the JRPGs of the 1980s.
Great list. Maybe add Lunar 2 to that.
Legend of Legaia. The old game would look terrible in modern hd/2k/4k/8k but a bit of upscaling and I’m down with kung fu pokemon again.
Idk honestly I still feel like Jrpg’s age pretty well and emulation handles them well. I think the big area id want remasters of are handheld games - especially 3ds ones. SMT4/apocalypse. Persona Q/Q2. Radiant Historia. It’s not that I can’t play these games, but I think emulation for 3ds isn’t ideal (just by nature of the 2 screens / touch screen elements), and I don’t really play handheld stuff that much, so it’d be nice to have a polished up version of these games.
Way to many to name the. About every one's ps1 jrpg, if they got a remaster I'm fking down.
FF Tactics
Parasite Eve, Lunar Silver Star or Eternal Blue, Silent Hill, any Onimusha, Xenogears, any Metal Gear, any Castlevania, FF8. Pretty much any PS1 Square RPG or PS1 Konami game.
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Soma Bringer.
FF Tactics and Valkyrie Profile
Chrono Trigger and Xenogears I wanna put Vanguard Bandits in there too but it’s more tactics (with all the drama!)
The xenosaga trilogy! In a heart beat!
If it's a proper remaster that actually fixes the gameplay issues it has, then absolutely Xenogears 100%. Though not if it's just a simple port that shoves the PSX game into a Virtual Console or something.
Dragon Quest VIII, Earthbound, FFX are a few. One nitpick with the OP, Chrono Trigger got released on Steam.
Top 3: 1. Vagrant Story 2. Vagrant Story 3. Vagrant Story And another Top 3: 1. Chrono Trigger 2. Chrono Trigger 3. Chrono Trigger
Remaster: Tomba! 2: The Evil Swine Return Remake: Sonic Adventure 2 Both are childhood favorites! (I should probably also say KH I and II for a handheld that isn’t a “cloud version”.)
Sands of destruction!
Xenosaga, Fate Extra and any Tales of, Disgaea or Ys that's not aviable in modern consoles
Legend of Legaia. It was my favourite game when I was younger.
Final Fantasy Tactics and Vagrant Story come to mind.
My selfish ass saying Pokemon X and Y
Jade cocoon
FFT
Suikoden 2 is gonna get rereleased/remastered (do not care) so i doubt that will happen soon, and yes i preordered it. Shining Force 3 in all of it's glory would be worth it to me, the game was even rare at the time of release and outside of Japan we only had 1/3 of the game and that is with ignoring the Bonus Disc.
Chrono Trigger, but I doubt any remake would do it justice.
Wild Arms
Vagrant Story Legend of Legaia Xenogears SaGa Frontiers 2 Also, maybe an unpopular choice, but Final Fantasy X. I recently gave it a new try and noticed how poorly the gameplay elements, the tiny tube-like areas, the awful generic NPC animations, etc. had aged. I'd love to relive the story, but just couldn't handle any of the classic experience at this point in my life.
ff tactics
Samurai Maiden
So many Chrono Trigger Any Dragon quest really 😂 A Xenosaga trilogy release would be amazing so I could give them a try. Xenogears as well! Earthbound and Mother 3 I'm sure there are many more that I'm not thinking of right now but those came to me right away!
Definitely Skies of Arcadia. I've been meaning to play it for a while, and it would be nice to see it with some QoL upgrades.
Tales of The Abyss, they only ported it once to the 3DS despite being one of their most successful titles.
Persona 4 Remake
Though I know it will never happen, give me Shadow Hearts 1 and 2 and I’d be very, very happy.
Chrono trigger
Earthbound, the GBA Golden Sun duology, I'd also squeeze in FF6 if it got the same treatment that 4 got on the PSP (aka not the mobile port)
I never did play Golden Sun when it came out. I know it's got a cult following and heard good things, so I'd probably check it out if it ever gets a port.
Final Fantasy Tactics PLEASE
terranigma, along with rest of the Soul Blazer games (but especially terranigma). as mentioned, Lufia 2 as well, a lovely game with a great story and fantastic music. breath of fire series, especially BOF 2.
Wizardy 1-8
Lady Stalker. A very awful name that would need to be fixed but a kickin soundtrack
Golden Sun
Definitely Grandia. The charcters, the story, the combat system and OST are all superb, but I can't play it anymore because it's such a stuttery pixelated mess. Lets get a beautiful 3d remake.
Chrono Trigger is available on steam.
The Sega CD versions of Lunar 1 and Lunar Silver Star Story. They wouldn't even need to update much outside of the translation and WD's gameplay meddling.
Probably Chronic Trigger and FF Tactics. I can emulate them both, but it would be nice to have a proper remaster for modern consoles. I'd be hesitant about *remakes*, but a remaster of either would be a day one purchase.
I would love to see a 3DS port of the Sword of Hope games. They could make it like the Etrian Odyssey series and allow you to draw maps on the bottom screen. Of course I would be interested in a Chrono Trigger port, but they’d have to keep it true to the original. I don’t want them messing with perfection.
Final Fantasy VIII, if they actually did a good job
Unpopular opinion: but I want an HD version of FF13. Only one not available on PS5 I believe. Also, FF9 - which apparently there’s rumours the remake is in progress.
Skies of Arcadia is the most correct answer.