/v/ - Video Games

Spy Fiction, mentioned in the spy games thread. It was the first game Swery directed (he did work on The Last Blade prior).

Basically it is a MGS knockoff with a large focus on high-tech disguises. As in, you take photos of any NPC and you can assume their appearance. Story wise it's a definite love letter to espionage movies with a tone that's best described as goofily serious. There's also a files system with autistic pop-culture based lore, shit like coming up with a spy TV show with agents that have fish-based codenames. Forrest Kaizen also makes his first appearance as a crooked scientist you have to seduce if you play as the girl.

Oh yeah, and there is a shameless reenactment of that Mission Impossible scene.

However, you know swery, and can imagine how rough the game he made before Deadly Premonition can be. Too rough to be widely talked about even as swery's first game. It's not completely shit by any means, and it's worth emulating, but there is no question it could become a nice, corny cult classic with better gameplay and polish.

>Devs forced to wrap it up and ship it while only partway into development because the publisher went bankrupt and wanted to squeeze some last few shekels out

>Buggy as hell

>Assloads of cut content

>Gameplay can easily be cheesed due to the bind/rebind trick and power bar swapping, eliminating any need for strategy, and making the orders system near-useless

>Gold Plasm (the upgrade currency) is in ridiculously small supply

>Many types of powers are heavily outclassed by other powers, despite similar power level

>Art style deviated heavily from concept art style

Ghost Master would heavily, heavily benefit from a remake with the bugs fixed, cut content restored, and gameplay made more restrictive so you actually need to use the orders system instead of just being able to cheese everything.

Because it did things no other shooter did, but suffered from broken AI, unforgiving difficulty, money being not that useful, and well…some of its advantages, like the open world aspect, could be now fleshed out more.

A lot of the game's flaws can be attributed to a guest dev team. Give it some better modeling and animations, a combat system that didn't feel two steps back from the direction the series had been moving at the time (keep throws and counters though), on field encounters that Tales was then starting to dabble in for console entries starting with Symphonia, bring back the four player couch co-op console Tales had offered before and since, and have the character quests actually properly voiced in the western release this time. The rest could be more or less left as is (even the decidedly weird character designs, as they're rather iconic within the series), especially the music. I wouldn't even want it to be given the obligatory remake musical arrangement treatment (or at least allow the player a choice in which to use), because the OST was always Legendia's highest point.

Probably the only main series Tales left at this point that could be said to out and out benefit from a full remake. Even Eternia holds up better than it does without having been given one.

Skies of Arcadia deserves a remake/remaster in my opinion. There is everything in this game : big world to dicover, hunting pirates, find crew members, treasure hunting, great and impressive story… With better graphics, morality choices or things like that it would be amazing

>999 remake

>implying they woldn't fuck it with the shitty 3D art style they used in the third game

I still can't gather the courage to play under such graphic abomination.

>>16365533

>name a game

>posts a shitty VN for retards

On top of that there already was a remake, it was called Ever 17.

>>16365925

I'd rather they make a sequel, but another remake might be okay. Adding new swashbuckler choices would be very easy to do wrong, though.

>>16365952

Hey, it gave me a chuckle.

>>16365952

The artstyle is hardly the worst thing about it.