Has anyone ever thought about remaking Silkroad?

[unbalancedroad]

Today it's a lot easier to release a game project. We have powerful computers and tools. Let's say we will try to keep the game as original as possible (including main cities, monsters, click-to-move, camera angle etc.).

What do you think would be the difficulties? How close the final product would look like the original game (effects, animations, mechanics etc)?

Initial thoughts why this is exciting:

• Replicating the world isn't too hard: Cities and areas are vast open. NPCs and quest dialogues are simple.
  
• Click to move system is easy to implement but it is fun.
  
• Assets aren't too complicated to replicate and they have a style. Unity engine seems suitable due to graphics.
  
• Animations are the real work. They must be same like the original.
• Effects are same as animations and it may require more work.
• Trading, job system, random unique spawning, alchemy and the rest are more up to the coding.

What is missing? This can be exciting because there is still a demand for this game and nothing seem to fill it.

Gameplay wise, there is much to talk but it may better to begin with development process.

We should not worry a lot about copyright issues because that's obviously the thing we should avoid getting caught.

[florian0]

Many have tried, many have failed. Even JC-Planet's Official Remake failed hard.

1. Making a game, even if its a ripoff, is still a ton of work
2. Collaboration was never a thing in SRO. Information is highly valuable and will not be shared unless its completely useless or will be harmful to competitors
3. The remaining community is (aside from a few exceptions) unable to code proper C#
4. Unity is a ****** concept engine. Not a single game was developed in Unity without running into unresolvable performance issues.

[AnimuNazi]

requires a lot of work, many have tried but failed. Besides i don't see why would someone waste their time on a dead old game, community is dying.

[NoIdeaForAName]

[fenster3000]

Originally Posted by florian0

Many have tried, many have failed. Even JC-Planet's Official Remake failed hard.

JCPlanets Game is not a remake. It is a normal Silkroad version.
It is not even a remaster.

Remaster = Better textures, better performance and stuff like that. But overall no big changes in Gameplay and stuff like that.

Remake = Whole new game with a new engine. New gameplay, new graphics. Basically a completly new game/movie/whatever thats based on a original game/movie. Even the story can be different in some ways.

Examples:
The Last of Us PS3 vs. PS4 Remaster:

Ratchet and Clank PS2 vs. PS3 Remaster vs. PS4 Remake:

[-TRON-]

Originally Posted by NoIdeaForAName

this is the hope we have.

[Snow*]

The reason why someone should think of a remake for this old game is the pre-existing community, free advertising to boost your game, I don't recommend using any of the game models but using any online resources you can find from the engine asset store, you will be saving some cash because you already have players around that will help boost up your game, just to avoid that your projects gets down for a copyright claim. A few reasons why someone shouldn't think about this, is because the community is not welcoming of anything new (toxic) and it's just too much work. Regarding the developers, each think that he is a *** and doesn't want to help or work with someone else and they mostly prefer opening the same server over and over again for some pocket money (although some are pretty decent but they think that everyone else is toxic). That is my opinion on this, not really sure if it matters but I don't want to delete what I wrote.

[yalcincavdar]

Its a dream for many players remastered silkroad..

[biscu97]

it's in the making already

[Laнonda]

Originally Posted by biscu97

it's in the making already

look at the dates 😅

[MareSR94]

Hahahaha

[Devsome]

next time do not be a grave digger

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