Forever Entertainment Hints At New Remake Announcement In 2023

They must be working on a Sonic Heroes Remake for the Nintendo Switch Pro

Panzer Dragoon Remake on the Switch it is so good game İ have beat it many times. İ want still to play it again, again.

I am hoping for a remake of Panzer Dragoon Zwei and Saga.
Yes, the source code is lost. But they're doing straight-up remakes, not ports of the original Saturn versions.
The only way those games can get rereleases now is either to fully remake them or emulate them. And SEGA Saturn emulation is still spotty to this day.

Also, I hope they would also remake the canon Front Mission games that didn't get English localisations. Those being Front Mission 5, Front Mission Alternative, Front Mission 2089: Border of Madness, and Front Mission: Online.

I think it's Panzer Dragoon Zwei as they said before they wanted to remake it.

It could be a remake of a Nintendo game going by this news from a couple of years ago.

https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2021/06/nintendo_to_give_forever_entertainment_significant_financial_support_in_new_publishing_deal

Haven't they said Panzer Dragoon Zwei and House of the Dead 2 are two that they are wanting to remake? My guess is that it'll be one of those.

The Panzer Dragoon remake was super underwhelming. I don’t know why these guys keep getting licenses to (potentially) beloved franchises.

@PessitheMystic Panzer Dragoon was pretty bad at launch, but after various updates and patches, it's actually quite enjoyable now.

I dont trust these guys after the abomination that was the House.of the Dead Remake

Here comes another poorly optimized remake that should take months of patches to function properly. What a waste.

I hope to god it is Panzer Dragoon Zwie Remake, that's my absolute favourite game in the series. I've been wanting a Remake of Zwie after the highly underated first Remake.
Man, I'd give my left test... er, arm for that game to come out.

Panzer Dragoon Zwei, and we all know it! Even emailed the devs a couple of months ago and they confirmed that this game is in active development. I can hardly wait!

@rushiosan
Hey negative Nancy. Their first remake was patched to near perfection. Be glad that small devs like Forever Entertainment are willing to take on projects like these.

Ah yes, Panzer Dragoon, the game always on sale for $2.50, I see it often.

@theModestMouse
No appreciation.... Not your type of game? Fine! Don't like the looks, okay. But I dare you to spend that measly $2.50 and check out if your are right about your presumption, or not.

@Vriess I agree that it's good when developers improve their games but rushiosan has a point.

If people spend money on a game, they want to play it straight away. It never feels as good, going back months later to replay the game as it was meant to be in the first place.

The metacritic score for Panzer Dragoon is around 60% and I'm sure this score would be much higher if it had been released as it is now.

I know sometimes developers need the money immediately but surely releasing games in a more reviewable state would earn them more sales in the long run.

Personally, I felt a bit cheated paying £25 on release for something clearly not finished only to realise if I had waited for the patches, I could have also picked it up on sale for only £5.

If only Dotemu could give us an Astal remake, that'll be nice. Astal like Gex and Tomba definitely needs a return.

@PeteW
I see your point and you are right. The patches were needed to make the first Panzer Dragoon more playable. I also paid full price. From any bigger studio/publisher I wouldn't have accepted the state in which this game was released. But I'm a huge Panzer Dragoon fan....

Here's to hoping that Forever Entertainment have learned from their mistakes.

@Vriess Yeah definitely and even without sales, it's worth £25 in its current state.

It's better that they do what they do rather than not release games at all.

@PeteW
For sure! I love it when new devs give homage to old IP's by remaking them. It requires a lot of them though. But I can't commend them enough for it!

Nope.
With the brand "Forever Entertainment", I never look forward for anything. It's always a reliable mark for mediocre to low quality.

All of Forever’s remakes just seem kinda meh and soulless at best. Hoping they get over that hump, but it’s hard to keep hope alive after House of the Dead

I hope it is something not related to Sonic. He already has Sonic Forces DLC and Sonic Superstars for this year.

Panzer Dragoon Remake was such a disappointment, even after all the QoL patches that didn't really do much to alleviate the problems. Fundamental problems like the game still feeling soulless and loading times taking actual days. Bought it on day one out of good faith and not knowing the dev before that. If they remake Zwei, it would have to be on a deep discount around 75% for me to consider.

I paid 2,50 € for Panzer Dragoon Remake and still felt ripped off ^^

Hopefully this new remake is the Panzer Dragoon Zewi remake they were confirmed to be making a long while ago. The original Panzer Dragoon Remake they did back years ago was kinda decent but I hope that they make the effort to drastically improve upon the original remake to give Zewi the treatment it deserves

@Vriess It took them about a year to fix the game, and it's only worth it at a ~50% discount all things considered. What's the point?

Honestly, the Panzer Dragoon remake wasn't all that great in my opinion. They just made the graphics look better and didn't really change anything else. The opening video was kind of sloppy - did you see that desert animal sliding instead of running? And the translation for other language were pretty half-assed, like they just used Google Translate or something. They could have at least added some cool extra stuff, like a soundtrack player, photo gallery from the original game or even the original CG cutscenes.

Surely it’s time for us to see something from their deal with Nintendo in 2021.
I thought we’d have seen some remakes of classic Nintendo IP by now.

https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2021/06/nintendo_to_give_forever_entertainment_significant_financial_support_in_new_publishing_deal#:~:text=Forever%20Entertainment%20SA%20has%20announced,%22several%22%20games%20on%20Switch.

@rushiosan
I understand you. But I was a teenager when this game came out. And I finished it at least 50 times. This game and it's sequel have a huge significance for me. Well worth it's full price and the wait for it to get patched.

@Serpenterror An Astal remake would be amazing. An Astal remake by DotEmu would be incredible! 🙌

Saga. Please be Saga.

@Vriess Same here, I grew up with those games. I still own a copy of Orta and its Panzer Dragoon (Saturn original) port, and I gotta say nothing beats a proper HD remaster. The remake has some neat bells 'n whistles but it's not very faithful, both gameplay-wise and visually, so again, for me it was a pointless effort since it took so damn long to have a playable, bug-free product that remains inferior to the original. This "release now, fix later" approach is unacceptable.

@fox_mattcloud I'm more partial to getting a Panzer Dragoon Saga remake... Here is hoping it gets out of Saturn (a notoriously difficult system to make an emulator for) prison some day.

To be brutally honest, I haven't really liked their remakes. Panzer Dragoon fared better after patches but House of the Dead was disastrous.

@PessitheMystic Same reason Rockstar/Take Two hired Grove Street Games to port the GTA Trilogy: it’s cheaper

I've never played Panzer Dragoon, although I've seen plenty of longplays for "House of the Dead".

I thought both Panzer Dragoon and House of the Dead remakes were OK. I actually hope they’ve made plenty of money off of their recent remakes so they can invest more into their future games and shake off that “budget brand” feel that they’ve been maintaining, though maybe they’ll just keep that up if it’s working out for them which would be a shame given the pedigree of the licenses they keep working with.

HotD2 would be ok by me .... unless someone wants to rerelease the greatest lightgun game of all time: Ghoul Panic

Is this Avatar?

@HenryKibble It commonly goes on sale for next to nothing. It is one of the most over-rated games that exists imo.

I think the Panzer remake sucks big time. I don't need another one at all.

The original publishers must really dislike their franchises if they license it to Forever.

@Liam_Doolan All the smart-marks know it's Zwei.

https://forever-entertainment.com/panzer-dragoon-remake-i-panzer-dragoon-ii-zwei-remake,161,en

Please spare us. Panzer Dragoon was passable but House of the Dead was straight up BAD.

As the weirdo kid I was that was raised on a healthy diet of horror movies I adored the first house of the dead and it was the reason I owned a Sega Saturn and the predator light gun from Logic3 😉

The first house of the dead is a very special game to me and I was very happy with what forever entertainment did and it was everything I wanted from a remake. Aside from poor controls which is not the fault of the developers and is down to the hardware I'd say they deserve a pat on the back for getting it to work as good as it did but of course you can never beat a good old fashioned light gun.

To those saying it was bad I have to ask, what is it you wanted? The remake is a shot for shot remake of the original with more gore and a fresh coat of paint, albeit without the luxury of a proper light gun. If you think the remake is bad I have to wonder if you ever played the 96 original or liked it to begin with.

Am I the only one hoping for Burning Rangers? As far as Saturn exclusives go, that was one of the big ones for me. Especially if they can tighten up the controls and maybe even add the planned co-op functionality.