While we all love video games, it’s also not hard to admit that some of our favorite series could definitely use a reboot. After all, giving a great idea a fresh coat of paint is the very thing that gave us everyone’s favorite perpetually disappointed video game dad, Kratos.
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Needing a reboot isn’t suggesting that a series is dead or unsuccessful, but instead, that a reset of mechanics, lore, or even playstyle would take things from two-thumbs-up cool to rainbows-waterfalling-out-of-your-mouth amazing. Reboots may not always work, but they’re always worth a try, especially if the series has already tried something similar in the past.
10Resident Evil
Some people will call the remakes a kind of reboot, but that’s not the reboot I’m looking for. Realistically, the series should have been rebooted totally onceChris became a boulder-punching action herowho is capable of standing in an active volcano without breaking a sweat, let alone dying immediately.
There is a certain campy charm to the action-packed directionResident Evilhas gone in, and the remakes and first-person games have helped to bring back some horror, but the characters are just too weighted down by lore, even in remakes. Let’s just reset the lore entirely and go back to that creepy mansion.
9Metal Gear
If you asked me to tell you exactly what is going on in theMetal Gearlore, I honestly couldn’t even begin to try. Everything has become so convoluted thanks to the movie-like presentation, and apparently, there are even canon zombie infections.
The series can still be ridiculous; I’m not one to take away that beautiful rocket jump. But going back to basics would probably help things quite a bit. A lore reset would be great for bringing a new audience into what is currently a daunting universe, and the games wouldn’t need to change much.
8Mega Man
Every single Mega Man seriescould use a reboot, so really you have your choice as to which one you’d prefer. There are just so many games in each dedicated series at this point, and, outside, of diehardMega Manfans, no one cares about the story.
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A modern first-person shooter or even a third-person Mega Man game would be incredible, and the best way to do that would be to reboot the entire franchise and tell whichever version of Mega Man’s origin for a new audience… or just give us Mega Man Legends 3.
7Silent Hill
Is it even common knowledge that aspects of some of these games are interconnected? For a while, it actually looked like we were going to get a fantastic reboot of the series in some way before Kojima had the kind of ugly breakup with Konami that every couple on 90 Day Fiancé would blush at.
The identity ofSilent Hillstill feels like it’s stuck in the nineties, and that’s not necessarily a good thing. Updating the creepy town with some modern sensibilities might just revive the entire survival horror genre for good while allowing for a brand new take on what Silent Hill can be.
6Castlevania
A reboot of this series was attempted in 2010, but due to it feeling rather unoriginal, things didn’t go over all that well. The thing is,people love vampiresand all the creepiness that comes with them.Castlevaniais a timeless concept that deserves another shot at a reboot, I mean come on, even Twilight is being talked about for a revival, and that one has sparkling vampires.
If the Castlevania Netflix series is any indication, great stories can still be told, especially if those in charge go back to the classics. Whip combat might be a tricky thing, but maybe that just means the series should shift and give a more RPG-based approach a shot.
5Sonic The Hedgehog
People get really hyped for newSonicgames when theyare classic 2D side-scrolling action, so maybe it’s time the entire series started over. There is a ton of fascinating Sonic lore that could be used from eras past, but let’s just avoid the bedtime story concept this time around.
The character runs really fast, is sassy as can be, and can literally turn super saiyan, I can’t think of anything more “kid-cool” than that. Sonic is practically begging for success, but playing it too safe or swinging too wide just isn’t working for a lot of people.
4Assassin’s Creed
At this point, it feels like we’re a thousand assassins into this series and I still don’t care about any of them. The series has taken big steps to expand the gameplay, but for some, it’s strayed from the main draw, which is being a super cool assassin.
Shifting from historic setting to historic setting is nifty, but it really doesn’t do much to make the series a big draw outside of being reliable fun. Let me whisper sweet Italian nothings into the ears of targets once more; there’s a reason the assassins everyone remembers are Altair and Ezio.
3Mortal Kombat
Why not rebootMortal Kombatagain? Sure, the series just rebooted itself in 2011 and with Mortal Kombat One, but I’m just assuming it’s going to need another reset after this game. Something about those story decisions just doesn’t end up working out for whatever reason.
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Maybe a new world reset can let us see how Bo’ Rai Cho became the master of drunken fists, while also explaining how Ermac and Liu Kang have suddenly become best friends. That may sound odd, but that’s not even that out there considering we had a zombie Liu Kang in the canon for a while.
2Suikoden
I just needa modern JRPGwith a roster of basically a hundred characters, because why not? There’s a lot to love aboutSuikoden, and it would take a lot of effort to modernize, but if Persona 5 can be a multi-hundred-hour game to play through, I think a new Suikoden game could get away with it.
Heck, throw in some Persona mechanics to spice things up and foster relationships between the characters. If you’re building an army, the least the game could do is let you make all your shipping dreams come true.
1Borderlands
This might be one of the more called-for reboots I’ve personally heard people talking about. Despite telling a funny sci-fi story, theBorderlandsuniverse has begun to feel really stale, and a lot of that has been due to some big misses with characters.
The series has lost a bit of charm, so a total reboot of the looter-shooter could be just what is needed. It would probably work too, because the series is just meta enough to call out the fact that it’s being rebooted through those screechy Psycho dialogue lines.
