Ubisoft are apparently working on AC1 as the next remake, just wanted to give my two cents on what improvements they need to do and what they should keep from the original. Feel free to disagree/agree or discuss it further in the comments
To start off Modern Day should be included with the exact same narrative, the way the story approaches lore and Desmond's connection to Altair nearly flawless already
Most of the Main Story should be the same as well with some changes to the mission structure, AC1 already has a great story but we should get unique missions leading to the assassinations of the 9 targets instead of doing the same generic information collection around the city over and over again. This would also mean we should get additional story segments for these missions
Furthermore we could use some lore moments only included in the Secret Crusade novel, like a bit of Altair's back story and his rivalry against Abbas in more depth. The stuff that happens in AC Bloodlines could be added as DLC later on
The weird camera angles we had in cutscenes need to be swapped for modern cutscenes with motion captures, this will probably mean voice acting needs to be redone, I hope we get so see the same actors for the main cast
Hidden blade combat needs to come back for obvious reasons, the animations need to be changed to a more Altair-like style, relying more on fast and agile strikes instead of brute force. Honestly I'm not too sure how they should approach the rest of combat
They'll probably have to expand the weapon variety to more than just sword, hidden blades and throwing knives, but they should be careful not to screw up historical accuracy and lore with it since a lot of the weapons we get in AC2 is due to Altair's own inventions latter on. Adding Smoke Bombs probably wouldn't hurt
They need to keep original art style for each city while still delivering good graphics. The cities should go unchanged for the most part but the Kingdom needs to be revamped
Now for the smaller and more obvious stuff
- We need the freedom and control we had in the OG parkour. Manual jump, side ejects, back ejects, speed and momentum with vertical movement, all of the good stuff
- Up to date Stealth mechanics, also social stealth
- The black box assassinations from Unity/Syndicate NEED to come back for the remake, there's simply perfect for the context of this game
- DNA Sequences and replaying missions need to come back too, I'm not exactly a big fan of optional objectives so I'm fine if those don't come back
Thoughts on this?