DESCENT 3'ish. I love the genre. Only thing I didn't like about D3 was you're in a ship that can traverse the solar system, but play in maps where you can't exceed about 15mph. I still play through D3 from time to time, ~1/year

What I'd like to see on a new Descent-genre game:
bigger maps, cooler weapons, faster boost, and robotic apendages that reach out and pick up power-ups and install them onto/into your ship, the ability to shut down enemy robots via EMP and reprogram them, or steal their parts. You could eventually release a hord of robots to scour a map, scouting and attacking or infiltrating and relaying telemetry back you you before you actually get too deep. Said apendages would also perform repairs on the ship. Among bigger map ideas could include open space battles while going from mission to mission. An epic-writing thingy would be cool here too if the story line could go alot of different ways, molal decisions and the like.

Oh God, X-Com. . . how much of that game did I play? Too damn much. I remember the worst thing ever was a night terror mission and the first thing you see is a Snakeman. . . rating be damned, I'm sorry, but you civilians are dead already, you just don't know it yet and it's better if you die nice and clean now rather than become a blood-sucking Chryssalid Zombie later. *salutes and opens fire on innocent civilians*. Although as bad as X-Com 1 was that way, X-Com 2 was even worse (I remember huddling my poor soldiers together with their Gauss Rifles as the Lobster Men attacked, hoping that I could down the damn crabs before they killed all my guys. . . and then the glory of achieving Vibroblade technology and outfitting my fastest guys with them and laughing manically as I cut those arthopodic horrors, yelling, "I'm gonna eat you guys with some lemon and drawn butter, mwahahahahahahaha!!!"

Good times.

I heard that rumour 3 years ago! I live in hope. My top 3:
1. Master of magic
2. M.U.D.S (Mean Ugly Dirty Sport)
3. Wings

PCG had a preview this month having been able to play the game. Apparently, all the worry is for nothing (it seems all Bethesda have really done with the overall theme is add in a little bit more 'Mad Max' for the East coast). The only problem they highlighted was the VATS combat system, which may or may not work.

Oh, and for those shouting about it, Speedball 2 is being remade - www.speedball2.com

Back OT, I don't think any genre has died enough to be 'remade'. They've just advanced and adapted, for example the side scrolling beat em ups are todays GTA or Dark Messiah. Shoot Em Ups - look at HL2 or any other FPS.
In fact, that's probably the real question. In the twenty - odd years I've been gaming, the power of the home computer has advanced over 100 fold. We have new ways of implementing and interacting with the machines, the internet and a hundred things we never had back then. Yet there's only been perhaps two or three new genres of gaming developed in all that time. It's somewhat dissapointing really, games are still created around the same core concepts and mechanics as they were twenty years ago for the most part, they might have new bells and whistles or flashy 3D graphics, but there's no real change in the basic ideas behind them.

Majesty. Someone seriously needs to make a new Majesty.

Yes, you can get SR2 through Stardock now. That's how I got it.

Awesome game.

Yep thats the one. I loved the old Amiga days. It used to take about 10mins to load up a new map for civilisation!

oh I forgot I was a big fan of the Lucasarts adventure games such as monkey island. I know that genre is dead but it is rare nowadays to see a game with such detailed content. The only one I could think of is Deus ex. Its a shame that not many games have followed that path as I believe the orignal Deus ex expertly combined a detailed story in a colourful environement. Deus Ex 2 was dissppointing as it didn't have the same depth. It kinda lost its edge as it was launched on consoles as well.

I can think of a few PC games that were exceptional but their sequels did not live up to them as they were launched on consoles as well, deus ex 2, rainbow 6, thief to name a few. Hope the trend doesn't continue and quality is put before cheap short term profits, but I won't hold my breath.

Good ol Monkey Island....I love that game, to bad it doesn't run on my PC anymore.

yeah thief 2 was better than thief though thief 3 didn't live up to its potential

I agree SMAC took some giant steps forward in turn based strategy games that I don't thin newer games have emulated which is a shame. Though galciv2 is a great modern game, I think SMAC is still stonger in a lot of areas, even though its almost a decade old.

Two words: TWISTED METAL!!!!

I've always been a fan of these games, and would love to see a new ame from the folks at Incognito Entertainment.

(Also, I'm debating weather or not to change my screenname to a TM car.)