8 Most Wanted Video Game Remakes (That Would RUIN The Original)
Not every great game needs a remake. Just leave it alone.
The modern discourse surrounding video game remakes sure is fascinating. To some, there are far too many of them being made, in turn wasting precious developer time rehashing things from the past.
But to others, they represent an opportunity to make a dated classic better and more accessible to a wider gamut of players - especially those who weren't even alive when the original game came out.
Whatever your stance on remakes as a whole, there's a clear appetite to see many of the best games of all time remade for modern systems, with the expectation that they would deliver an experience tantamount to or even surpassing what came before.
But when it gets down to it, there's just no denying that some video game remakes - even those requested by a large quarter of the fanbase - would ultimately risk ruining the original.
These doggedly asked-for remakes would almost certainly strip away much of what came to define the original game's personality, and because remakes have a tendency to become the "definitive" version of the game moving forward, they'd also risk wiping the original version from history for all but the most committed collectors...
8. Deus Ex
Let's kick things off with one of the most beloved video games to ever grace this glorious green Earth - dystopian immersive sim Deus Ex.
Its legacy simply cannot be understated - from its cyberpunk visuals to its ambitious narrative and highly customisable gameplay, Deus Ex represents the zenith of where cutting-edge, boundary-pushing PC gaming was at the turn of the millennium.
Freedom and atmosphere leaks from every single one of the game's pores, and while a large number of fans consider a Deus Ex remake their dream game, it should absolutely, positively stay in the year 2000.
There's just no way that a remake would capture the same spark - there's a specialness to the game's combination of ingredients, even including its flat graphics and janky gameplay elements, which could never be replicated in a new take.
Simply, a remake would surely strip much of Deus Ex's uniqueness away, and so why not let it persist as the unabashedly quirky masterpiece that it unassailably is?
One small silver lining of 2016's Mankind Divided flopping is that it makes the prospect of a Deus Ex remake slim at best.