Board Thread:Sega Discussion/@comment-679780-20170414123213

Hello! Mystic Monkey from SNN here come to visit.

Gotta question for anyone still active around here. What dated Sega franchises would you like to see rebooted and how can you imagine them in modern gaming?

House of the Dead
I would like to see The House of the Dead rebooted into a FPS game for PC or home consoles. I can imagine it like Outlast but with Half-Life like gameplay. Instead of an automated path and encounters, you're free to explore Curien Mansion. The game could still be set in December 1998 and be about rescuing the kidnapped Sophie and stopping Roy Curien, but with the whole mansion to explore you can find tie-ins and collectibles such as Curiens files on how DBR provide funding and Formula X for Curien to work with.

I've always thought HotD was a waste of good potential for a horror genre zombie game that could of rivaled Resident Evil franchise. But alas Sega chose to keep it an arcade game. And you can't really get immerse in the environment of the game given all the jump scares are scheduled and being played in arcades during business hours just removes all the fear factor from it entirely. If Sega wanted to, they could make this into a really terrifying series.

Fighting Vipers
Inspired by the YouTube movie Kung Fury I would also like to see Fighting Vipers rebooted. It can play like Virtua Fighter but players can purchase and change the armour of the fighters (Kinda like what upcoming Injustice 2 will be doing). A story in mind can be about a street fighting tournament hoasted by Big Mahler as a front to pedle his manufactured drug "venom", a cocktail made with steroids and snake venom and injected into the bloodstream with twin-needle syringe, leaving a snakebite like mark. Fighters like Jane, Raxel, Mahler and maybe Tokio are reliant on venom while the other fighters who are clean are fighting for their own interest. Perhaps FV2 or new fighters could be introduce who aim to get venom off the streets.

Players can select to have a VCR filter for the entire game to give it that early 90s grainy effect.

Alex Kidd
Another reboot I'd be interested to see would be Alex Kidd. Given I've been playing a lot of Breath of the Wild recently, I imagine what if Alex Kidd had a world to explore like Ocarina of Time or Twilight Princess. A full open-world like BotW might be a bit overkill. I can imagine instead of being reliant on tools or weapons, Alex can master three different styles of an ancient martial art known as "Roshambo" which consist of three Core Techniques that make up the fighting style. Shellcore technique could be Hung Gar in fighting style, Fancore Technique can be like T'ai chi ch'uan or Baguazhang and Bladecore Technique can be light Praying Mantis style. Alex must learn each core technique in order to fight enemies which can counter or defend depending on which three of the styles you've chosen.

So what Sega games would you like to see rebooted for the modern audience?  