Games Inbox: What will be the next Nintendo remake after Zelda: Ocarina Of Time?

The Tuesday letters page is desperate for news on From’s next multiplayer game, as one reader hopes for more Doom from id Software.

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Remake reboot
With the news that Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced has done really well I think it’s proven that remakes are here to stay and that, as long as they’re good, everyone loves them. So assuming Nintendo does a good job on Zelda: Ocarina Of Time, which I think is a fair assumption, what’s next?

Will they do Zelda: Majora’s Mask next or is that too obvious, especially for Nintendo? There’s been some rumours of a Super Metroid remake going around for a while but I would assume that’ll be 2D and not change very much (would could you change? It’s already perfect).

Given Star Fox seems to have gone well I think they’ll go for something else that needs a reboot and isn’t just a nostalgia grab. That means F-Zero GX has a genuine chance of getting redone. Ocarina Of Time is a special case, but I think Nintendo is more interested in remakes that can help renew interest in dead franchise. I’m also hopeful that Paper Mario remake from the other year is also going to lead to a new game.
Bruno

From nothing
OK, this is getting crazy now, when are we going to learn what FromSoftware is working on right now? And I mean a new multiformat game, not The Duskbloods (not that we learnt anything new about that in any of the summer previews anyway).

I don’t remember them being this secretive about anything before, that’s never really been their thing, so I wonder why? Maybe something when wrong and what they were planning didn’t work out, so now they’ve pivoted to something else.

Or maybe it’s going great and they’re suddenly going to just announce a finished game out of the blue. I have no idea, and nobody else seem to either, as all I’ve heard is that pirate rumour, which didn’t seem very likely.

All I can say is I hope they tease something at The Game Awards in December… and they better have something ready for the Bloodborne 10th anniversary next year.
Yonda

Doomed again
I see a lot of confusion about whether id Software is still big enough to make new games and I’m not sure we can even trust the developers to say so, because they could be bigging themselves up in order to get ready for a sale.

I hope they do get to continue because I love the modern Doom games, but I do feel they’re a few degrees off being perfect. The Dark Ages almost got there, by ditching most of the annoying platforming, but the combat was dumbed down a bit too much for me. I also didn’t like the story (please, just stop having a story, I don’t care!) and there was too much repetition and wandering about. It’s a great game but it’s not yet all that it can be and I want to see it reach its full potential.
Jann

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Öoo that’s good
I would like to thank GC for highlighting Öoo in their recent article on the best games of 2026, which convinced me to graduate it from my wishlist during the last Steam summer sale.

What a clever little game that is. I can honestly say that it is one of the best designed games I have ever played. The way it gently pushes you, gradually and worldlessly, to find more and more uses for its single mechanic, until you realize that, actually, you could get over that obstacle after all, without the need of any upgrades. That flips the familiar Metroidvania formula on its head. I especially liked the ending, which was a twist on the usual Metroidvania final escape sequence.

That is why I keep reading GC. I don’t think any of the big games sites had this in their radar, and they certainly wouldn’t have made it one their best games. Please keep up the good work.
Ali K

GC: We’re glad you enjoyed it. Make sure you explore to the right after you’ve beaten it and compare the shape of the screens to ones inside the bird – the amount of post-game content is very impressive.

Picky Creed
I feel I should be cynical about Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced doing so well, because it’s going to encourage Ubisoft to do more remakes, but I’m actually fine with that. As far as I can see Resynced is well made, with a lot of effort put into it, and I think that’s great. It was already a well-liked entry, so why not remake it?

I’d also be happy for them to remake Assassin’s Creed 2, as I think everyone agrees that’s the other one that’s really good. After that I’m not sure. There’s games you can remake, for sure, but this is not Resident Evil, where everyone’s a banger and it’s just a question of getting round to it. I’m definitely not interested in playing Syndicate or Unity again, no matter how much they improve the graphics.
Lyndon

Losing the war
If it wasn’t for the amount of people that will lose their jobs over it, I would laugh so hard at the hole that Call Of Duty and Activision has got themselves into. As far as I can tell it’s not actually Microsoft’s fault that everything is in such a state and I wonder if their situation would be looking a lot healthier now if Call Of Duty was on top of its game. They’d be able to say that buying Activision was worth it and brag that they have the most popular game in the world. But that didn’t work out that way, obviously.

The only thing they can keep telling themselves is that the series has had ups and downs before, although I don’t know if it’s ever been as low as this. Although Black Ops 1 and 2 selling well shows that people are still interested in the games, or at least the old ones they’re nostalgic about.

At the end of the day people want to play soldiers, so there’ll always be a need for Call Of Duty or something like it, and I don’t believe Battlefield can ever fully take over, as it’s too complicated and realistic. When Call Of Duty works it’s like a cross between an 80s action film and an arcade game but at the moment it’s too worried about upsetting multiplayer fans and too obsessed with trying to look realistic, which Black Ops 1 and 2 definitely are not.

We haven’t seen anything of Modern Warfare 4 yet, so I shouldn’t really say anything about it. Although the fact that it is just another Modern Warfare already counts against it. The franchise needs to find its mojo again and I’m not really sure how. I’d say going back in time to a less well known war, because its roots will always be in WW2, but the most important thing is to just be a fun, imaginative game again.
Watson

No saviour
Of course, the EU can’t stop Sony from doing what it wants with its own console. I have to repeat the comments GC and others have made that nobody can save us from the all-digital future, because it’s the future we – or I should say all the people that stopped buying physical – have made for ourselves.

It’s not your job to prop up the games industry or keep physical media going but unless you did actually help there’s no point complaining about it now. Every time I hear people getting up in arms about it, I wonder where they were before, when 90% of everyone was buying online.
Salty

Smash the wall
With the news of Sony dropping discs and the EU not likely to stop them, given the law, I wonder how long it’ll be until there is pressure on the format holders to open up their walled gardens to digital competition? Microsoft (if they’re still in it at all at this point) will obviously get ahead of the game with their new machine essentially being a PC in a box, playing PC store front titles, but it feels like Sony and Nintendo are still exposed to regulators going into the next phase of their consoles.

I can’t see why the EU wouldn’t step in on the grounds of fair competition if in the digital-only world you were stuck on PSN or eShop shop fronts, unable to exercise your consumer right to choose. Valve selling Switch ports via a Steam app? Why not. Netflix do mobile games now… Get them on there.

Apple and Google have recently had to crack open their metal and plastic boxes open thanks to EU regulations, allowing you to side load apps onto devices, even if they hardly make it easy. Even Nintendo themselves have fallen into line with the new battery revisions too.

Digital competition like in the PC space would lessen the blow of losing physical media, since gamers being held to ransom by the format holders would no longer be an issue. Sony may have opened up a can of worms they’ll come to deeply regret and maybe even break the console subsidy model altogether.
Marc

Inbox also-rans
Does anyone else feel extra happy if their letter is picked for the inbox and gets a response from GC underneath it? Though I’m not sure this one warrants a response?
Mark Matthews

GC: We don’t know what to say.

Never mind Fire Emblem, for a minute there I completely forgot Persona 6 was announced last month. Hopefully the next time we see it we’ll actually learn something and won’t have to wait another 12 months.
Grintapp

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