Birthright : The Gorgon's Alliance. Was a cruelly overlooked gem of a game.

Oh, and the original Stronghold. Not the castle building sim of recent years, but the D&D kingdom management sim. That was fun.

I was just talking with my friend about this game a couple days ago. How it was one of those rare games that combined campaign level warfare and politics with dungeon crawling. I also liked how they did the warfare, it felt like playing Stratego on the mini-battlefield. I still have the disk to it too!

Remake galciv II, but with MP.

Planescape: Torment doesn't need remaking, imho. It's perfectly playable as it is. What it would need, is a sequel I would love to see an Annah centered one, for instance (and I'm sure many would agree with me!)

Alpha Centauri, on the other hand, needs to be remade.

I was more referring to the stronghold, D&D kingdom management sim...  . I know the stronghold castle building sim.. but have not seen the other.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stronghold_%282001_video_game%29

is there another stronghold that I am missing?

I'd like a version of galactic civ with hotseat play and tactical battles similar to master of orion II.

Also elemental needs hotseat play as well

Thumbing through some forums I have noticed there is a huge void in the Castle/kingdom building simulation department. Seems there are a lot of people not happy with Stronghold 1 and 2 being the only players in that field at the moment. I would like to see something new on the order of castle/fortress building and management.

There seems to be plenty of Shooters, war games, fast paced strategy games, space based turn based strategy games and a lot of RPGs. Also the MMORPG scene seems to be flooded with games.(Way too many Everquest/WOW clones)

I like to play games that are slightly outside of the box. I am not even that big on uber flashy graphics (They don't hurt) I prefer a game that makes me think, one that requires strategy and that has lots of re-playability.

Stardock

Taleworlds  (Mount and blade)

Illwinter  (Domionions)

Have some great games that I just keep going back to. Now If only I could get all three of them to sit down and make a game together....

So New question, If you could mix any two existing games together to make a better game.. what would they be?

http://www.colony-wars.com/

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Uhhhhh....no. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colony_Wars

yeah, just like freespace 2. Colony Wars was impressive because of the branching story arc though.

Why do you call Elemental remake of Master of Magic, I had much fonder impression of MoM in all its aspects than anything I saw of Elemental.

The abysmal state of battle aspect is particularly troubling in terms of visuals, animations, and gameplay mechanic.

Syndicate is being remade, as are a number of other games on this list. The thing is, a remake is seldom what fans want in the end. They want the feeling back they got when they played the original game years ago, and that's mostly never going to happen.

Oh, Dungeon keeper is being remade as well, as some Asian MMO actually, I'll see if I can dig out the articles at some point. Xcom is being remade as well in a few different versions, both the FPS version and there is a true spiritual successor in the make as well.

I had forgotten about Birthright - that was one awesome game for its time...really, really complex and something I fear never will be repeated due to the genre probably being dead.