5 incredible DOS games that still deserve a remake

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Here are my top 5 games from the DOS era that need to see a sequel or remake, ranked in personal preference.

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Let's get started through some of the most creative games from the DOS era I've come across, but unfortunately never got through newer generations.

#5 Road Warrior

A huge city where an endless war rages on between factions driving cars armed to the brim. As an ex-convict, you have to use your cunning to survive and climb the ranks of wealth into securing a comfortable life. You are the mercenary Road Warrior.

Drive around to find NPCs waiting for you with a quest. They usually involve dark humor, upgrading your car and of course blasting your enemies into oblivion, advancing the story.

The overall gameplay in Road Warrior is very unique. Non-realistic physics allow for incredibly fast and (somewhat) accurate driving which gets our adrenaline really pumped up through the gigantic city. Taking care of our car by Improving it a ton makes us feel right at home while driving it.

#4 - Shakii the Wolf

Shakii's world, challenges and combat are very dynamic. It's beautiful pixel-art and really cool-looking bosses were mesmerizing for it's time.

Traditional platformers are a dying art, which for me puts the traditional but still unique Shakii the Wolf in this list, since each of it's elements would certainly draw inspiration into making one hell of a remake.

#3 - Big Red Racing

Again, how amazingly dynamic this game gets is why I have to put it on this list. You can find everything you could want: fun tracks, land, water and air vehicles, competitive whacky humor and huge maps to explore if you decide to go offroad for some reason.

But to top it off, it is the only racing game I've ever seen that successfully encourages a player to naturally change camera view depending on what section of the track he is running through at the moment.


#2 - Lords of the Realm II

LotR2 is, correct me if I'm wrong, the first game ever to combine the grand strategy and real time strategy games, offering nationwide conquest on top of a turn based system, while battles are prepared for in advance and fought in a Warcrafty map, minus the buildings system.

You don't need to build in the RTS battles of this game because you already have cities on the world map which you only exit from when a battle is going to take place at a certain location. The game feels like a combination of Europa Universalis, Civilization and Warcraft II.

#1 - Beasts and Bumpkins

My number one choice has held up very well during all of these years. It's pixel art is still looking pretty to our newgen eyes, the gameplay is fun and fluid for an oldschool RTS and the mechanics have not been presented in any other game, ever.

You are a lord leading your villagers back into the mainland after getting exiled by the king. Commanding the few people left at your disposal leads into a growing village on every mission. But the way it builds itself is marvelous.

Pick up a spot to place a building's blueprints and let the men do their job. Making them work is important to keep them happy, which is already weird enough. But I'll explain.

Your villagers die of old age. If they are unhappy, it happens a lot faster. That will happen if your village becomes stagnant, even if it produces enough food for everyone. But if you expand too fast, men won't have time to make babies with women. Yep, that's right.

A mission can't be won without a population. Slow but steady makes everyone happy. When they're happy, a man and a woman will go into a house for a few days. A cradle will show up on the outside and pop a baby in when they've finished doing it. Soon after, you have a new teen villager walking around.

There's still the basic mission to accomplish: gather XXXXX gold, kill off your enemies, reach a certain map location, etc. Just with an elaborate village system not seen anywhere else. And I didn't even bring up the changing of seasons, morale, crime, taxing, and army systems, among so much other stuff.

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FIX: Road Warrior is actually Quarantine II: Road Warrior.

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