| Actually, I'd go just the opposite. Take new and cool looking good story based games and turn them into 8 bit graphics.
Reason being is because I actually like the older graphics. Rather than having to mess with a camera to see so many different eye candies, rather than figuring out that W, S, A, D in combination with your mouse and scroll button help you move, I like the simplicity behind the old graphics.
Take for instance, Final Fantasy 6. This was by far the best one in the series, and why? Because it used super nintendo old graphics even though the N64 was out at the time IIRC, and they concentrated on the story. And from that point on, the final fantasy series as it became 3D and more realistic with each game, it steadily and steeply declined in quality. FF7 being overrated, FF8 having nothing to do with actual fantasy but more with machinery (Even FF6 had machines but it was mostly fantasy), FF9 having a good story but rather hard to control at times making it frustrating to want to play, FF10 with both a horrid story and character development even with decent graphics, FF10-2 (an abomination), FF11 a cheap move by Square Enix to make a large sum of money with relative ease of game development, and finally FF12 actually stopping the decline and starting to rise back up, but I doubt this will last.
I would bet that every single one of those games would be just as good as the super nintendo Final Fantasies if they were made the same way as the SNES ones, (and I would give anything to simply read text than to listen to the horrid awful voice acting of Tidus and Yuna).
So, Both Dungeon Sieges, All the new final fantasies, the new Zelda's, definitely the Elder Scrolls 4 Oblivion with at least toned down to NDS quality graphics, Dawn of Magic doesn't even need the 3D quality with it's style of gaming, etc.
And if ya think about it, the RPG's that still are in mostly 2D animation that only slightly increase in graphics rarely so often, those are the games that still have a huge success. Just look at the pokemon series. We've gone from Gameboy to a Color Gameboy, Game Boy Advance, and now a slightly better gameboy (The NDS) which is still just about the same quality as the GBA, but with a perspective and two screens, yet the game goes on and on. Also, look at Paper Mario. Nintendo knew the 3D mario's weren't all that great, so they made paper mario, and that game is just awesome (if you didn't know, Paper Mario is a Super Mario type game but the characters usually look like crap, and you can go from 2D to 3D in the game). |