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It's very common for people to talk about what games they'd love to see remade with modern technology and gameplay changes, such as taking the old RE games which used fixed camera angels and tank controls and updating them to have real time visuals that look even better than the pre-rendered backgrounds of old and modern control schemes. But what are some games that you feel are so timeless that you feel a remake isn't really necessary? (though remember "remake" is NOT the same thing as "remaster," remaking a game typically involves making major changes to both visuals and gameplay, while remastering means leaving the core gameplay and structure alone but making the visuals look a bit nicer for more modern displays, like Bioshock Remastered doesn't make any changes to the visual design, gameplay, and level design, it just makes the textures and effects look a bit nicer than they did back in 2007)

While I'm not sure if I'm necessarily of this opinion, the two most common games I tend to see people bring up in this sort of discussion are Super Metroid and Resident Evil 4. Super Metroid's sprite based visuals have aged well enough that people feel it doesn't really need that much of a visual update unless the developers redid the game with hand drawn visuals similar to something like Skullgirls, as I've seen people say things like "Metroid 2 going 2.5D for the Samus Returns remake was fine because the visuals of the original don't hold up that great compared to other games of that time period and plus we've now a got an official color update to the game, but Super going 2.5D might not look as visually appealing unless the game has extremely well done art direction." Also Super is already held in high regard for having good controls and level design so it seems like people don't want those to be touched too much.

In the case of RE4 the most common thing I hear is "RE4 already has such great pacing and a nice mix of action, horror, and cheesy b-movie moments, that I worry a remake might lose some of that charm." Plus RE4 already introduced a more modern control scheme to the series so it's not like the game needs much of an update in terms of play control like the older games that used tank controls.

Might be my nostalgia bias talking, but I think Pokemon Gen IV (specifically Platinum Version) is good as it is.

I don't know. I feel Sinnoh can use a remake. Fix the slow ass pace in battles and not have HM Slaves be mandatory. Of course, I don't trust Game Freak in their current state to do Sinnoh justice with a remake.

Personally, Gen 5 of Pokemon I think is fine as it is.

The only game I had in mind that deserves a remake is Clock Tower.

Pretty much any game post PS1 era, even then I'm a much bigger fan of remasters.

Its typically better if they remake a game that was okay or slightly good or bad, but with a lot of potential.

I don't think most stuff need an outright remake, if anything at all unless it's a really old game.
If they do it, more power to them, especially if it turns out to be a good game that either does its own thing well while still hitting the same beats as the original, or a straight up 1 to 1 with some extra content or fixes.
But if the game's clunky or something, I'd take a port which just fine tunes some stuff in it, while not fucking with the balance (example being how SMT games and their ports have a couple which end up breaking the difficulty in two due to additions).
Plus, if a game's so well beloved and has a fanbase willing to buy stuff related to it, why not just make a new entry instead of a remake?

To be honest, I don't really want GameFreak as it is to remake Sinnoh, they'd likely dumb down the whole game to appeal to the casual market even though Pokemon Let's Go Pikachu and Eevee was meant to do that. While I do want to see Platinum improved, I'd rather have another developer like HAL Laboratory remake Sinnoh.

Also as much as I would love for Wario World to be remade, I wouldn't mind just having it get a sequel along with a remaster, I mean the original was considered short and I do think a remaster could work as a download only game.

Speaking of Wario, even though I would like to see the original Wario Land be remade, I think that it still has aged fine enough for the game to be fine enough as it is. I would prefer VB Wario Land to get a remake or any re-release of some kind, hell if Nintendo were to release any Game Boy games for Nintendo Switch online, I really hope we get the option to emulate the Super Gameboy.

If gen IV gets a remake, I really don't want it to end up with the same quality of what Sword/Shield got. I don't want a remake with say, lackluster backgrounds and having most of the pokedex cut out from the game.

I'd also hope that if it gets a remake, it won't end up like OR/AS and cut out the Battle Frontier. I'm not a fan of it myself, but I know other people were disappointed in that.

Although, right now, I'm a bit cynical of the Pokemon franchise after what happened with S/S. So my expectations of any remake are pretty low right now. I think I still have Pearl or Platinum version. If I want to play a Gen 4 game, I can just play those.

Looking at the games I played and seeing what could get a remake, I wanna throw in Gothic

Gothic – It had a playable demo for the idea of a remake but seeing videos of how it sounds, plays, and all, it gives me the feeling the original doesn't need some remake. I wouldn't of minded it but changing combat to copying For Honor turned me off. What got me more though was taking away choice that wasn't a binary "yes or no." One guy demonstrated that by trying to take a sword from a corpse only for an NPC to tell his character not to do it and the player character said "okay, I won't take the sword" effectively railroading the player to finding a better one from a quest rather than just exploring or fighting an NPC. And when they guy tried to demonstrate fighting that same NPC, that NPC magically regained his health when near death.

Another player showed how the intro was compared to the original. The intro was the same in getting the basic idea across of a king losing a war against the orcs and having anyone breaking any form of the law thrown into a prison colony where they have to mine magic ore to make magic orc killing swords. When the intro revealed the orc in the remake, the orc looked like something ripped out of Warcraft or Elder Scrolls rather than like the humanoid gorilla looking beings Gothic 1 & 2 had. On top of that, the playable demo also changed the beginning in having the elevator to the prison blow up, turning the whole beginning into an action movie styled scene that might look nice but in reality wouldn't make sense considering that elevator is how the prison gets all its supplies from the outside world. Add to that the character saying "right right, okay" at everything around him that's burning and saying lines like "worst prison ever." The protag in the original was voiced but his snark was more subdued than that.

I wouldn't mind a remake of Gothic but seeing how the devs could make it, it made me reconsider the idea of remaking a classic German RPG from 2001.