Nightdive Studios has been responsible for some outstanding first-person shooter revivals in recent years and unsurprisingly more are on the way.
Studio CEO, Stephen Kick, recently responded to a viral tweet focused on first-person shooters of the '90s - noting how the studio has already remastered four of the games in the graphic (below) and teasing how there are "a few more on the way".
Stephen Kick: "We've remastered 4 of these...with a few more on the way..."
The games on this list that Nightdive has remastered so far include Quake, Powerslave Exhumed, DOOM 64, and Blood: Fresh Supply. Keep in mind, that some titles on this list have also been re-released by other teams already, while some other games featured are rumoured to be getting remasters...
What classic first-person shooters from around the '90s would you like to see remastered? Fire off a comment down below.
[source twitter.com, via mynintendonews.com]
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Please let one of them be Hexen...
i would take almost all of them (except of quake 3, that only makes sense on pc)
Shadow Warrior with weapon AND item wheel, please.
Im hoping for more Turok and Quake. And those mentioned in the above comments.
@nothingface023 Good lord, yes. Hexen is such an awesome, underrated game that is a blast to play with other people.
Hexen and rise of the triad.
ALIEN TRILOGY!!!
@Gitface I agree 100%!!
Duke Nukem 3D with the expansion packs
I'd love to play quake arena again.
I'd love to see Half-Life on the Switch. It's one of my all-time favorite game franchises, and while I prefer Black Mesa over the original, it's still a fantastic game and one I'd absolutely buy again if it ever gets a port. Dark Forces and more Quake games would be welcome as well!
@blackknight77 Correct me if I am wrong, but didn’t the Duke Nukem 3D: 20th Anniversary World Tour have the expansions?
@ReaperMelia ya half-life would be pretty cool to have.
Personally I want G007, but it probably won’t happen.
They are showing Goldeneye, but if that remaster is in the works then I don’t think it’ll be these guys who do it.
Speaking of, it is August (well in New Zealand), so 25 days until Goldeneye’s 25th anniversary and in my opinion 25 days until we find out if the remake exists officially or was always a rumour.
Even if on hold because of the war, I don’t think if the game does exist they can ignore the date
Half life wouldn't be too bad since HL3 never happened for whatever odd reason.
@nothingface023 @Knightrider1 pretty cool post and your reasoning makes sense. Hexen was awesome I remember at first playing it and my jaw dropped.
Quake II is an easy pick, but I would love to see SW: Dark Forces and Half Life.
@MarcusIsCool It is a great teaser post with so many great games to choose from
@Knightrider1 ya it’s great to have the icons from all the 90s games. That way you can look and see which ones you haven’t played from back in the day.
I spent way more time on Unreal Tournament than Quake III Arena as I found the weapons more interesting. Never played much with mutators since everyone and their mothers did zero G and nothing else. But everyone with piston hammers only was a trip.
Easily Dark Forces or Alien trilogy for me. Though the former already at least has its own fan project known as The Force Engine, which is already promising. Rise of the Triad was meant to already be getting a release but thats gone silent.
Why would I care if they take 8 years for 1?
I imagine classic Wolfenstein would have to be one of the next in line considering the older Dooms and the first Quake are already on modern platforms. Hexen as well.
If they can get the license, Alien trilogy would be really nice.
Goldeneye is my top answer but my more realistic hope is Unreal Tournament.
Really, Turok Evolution not in their thoughts?? Would pay a hefty sum for that to be remastered.
I want System Shock 2 remastered.
Unreal Tournament or Unreal Gold would be like a dream come true.
@Wilforce they plan to do System Shock 2 after they finish System Shock 1 remastered. At least, they promised me that when I pre-ordered it....
Hopefully Hexen, Heretic and Rise of the Triad.🤞
Half life and half-life 2 on switch please.
@stuntz0rZ
Would indeed be cool to see Unreal on a Nintendo system, after it failed to appear on N64.
I hope the ones are the way turn out better than Blade Runner…
Blood is almost certainly one of them. Nightdive did a port for PC called Blood: Fresh Supply. I imagine it will come to consoles soon.
I know this one was for PC, but if they ported Blood: Fresh Supply to home consoles, im getting it day 1.
@KryptoniteKrunch : Wolfenstein 3D would be a waste of time as it hasn’t aged well at all. It was a glorified proof of concept that was quite a showpiece for its time, but it had since been completely overshadowed by the infinitely superior DOOM, which remains every bit as fun today as it was back in 1993, with its influence still permeating in modern FPS games.
Wolfenstein 3D had repetitive maze-like levels, no map feature, only a tiny handful of enemies spread out across 60 maps (more if you include Spear of Destiny, which recycles all of the common enemies), and most enemies attacked via hitscan, which leads to many cheap (frustrating) deaths.
But if other 90s FPS games are to be given a new lease on life, we would most likely see the likes of Heretic, Hexen, Quake II, Rise of the Triad, Shadow Warrior etc.
With that said, I would still jump at Wolfenstein 3D if it were to ever come to Switch, but I don’t think it would resonate well with most players today, and I’m certainly not one to gloss over its abundance of shortcomings.
I hope they could somehow work with Atari to get Blood on Switch.
@Gitface Hexen needs to happen, ASAP!
@Scposteel Dude, your icon looks AMAZING on the site's dark mode. I know we are arch enemies, but I'm wiling to leave that in the game LOL
Kidding of course, but wow! Did you touch up the sprite at all? It looks stunning
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@BloodNinja nope, no touch ups at all.
Quake 2 and Unreal Tournament 99 or 2004.
I'd love to see Blood: Fresh Supply ported to Switch. And remasters of Hexen (as part of a Hexen/Heretic bundle with their respective sequels, perhaps?) and Quake II, both of which would hopefully include the N64 versions as the Quake remaster did
just give me quake arena and unreal, nothing more!!!
right now im playing quake 1 on switch... SUCH AN AMAZING GAME!!!!
Playing the DLCs on hard level... my god.. I'm struggling.. LOL
After their masterful remaster of Quake I would love them to do Quake 2 first, and then give their PC remaster of Blood a port to Switch
A lot of people here asking for Hexen, guess I should give that a look
@ballistic90 But they won't release System Shock 1 on Switch. So we will probably not get System Shock 2 either.
I don’t know if it’s good and I know it was originally on Mac but I’d like to play bungies game before halo that sci-fi shooter. Marathon I think it’s called
@Pigeon
But there is Quake Live, i am not sure if they really want to bring up a Multiplayer only Game that has a ongoing Title.
Would also be really nice to port Turok 3, but this one never had a PC-Port, compared to Turok 1 and 2, so it could be much more Work.
You need the Customers that play Single Player.
Quake 2 makes much more Sense, it is old enough and has Singleplayer.
They can even include Quake 2 from the N64, as it has completly different Maps.
@Baler It was called Marathon, and it was very good. I would definitely buy a remaster of that.
@NeonPizza Hard agree with you, there! Bring it on, I’m ready!!
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@Scposteel Beautiful!
Hopefully, one of them is Turok 3 to complete the N64 trilogy.
My wishlist:
@Captain_Toad Rise of the Triad is already past due on the Switch. It was announced for it back in 2020 and game play footage was even shown on the Switch
@Knightrider1 There's a remaster for XBLA, which ultimately got canned due to licensing issues. Dusted off the good ol' 360 once it was leaked (about a year ago AFAIR). Awesome game.
Hopefully they will add auto-turn to the motion controls.
Can we please get their excellent Forsaken remaster on the Switch already? Heretic and Hexen would also be welcome.
Quake 2 with the N64 level pack included, please!
Dark Forces, Quake II and Half-Life!
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