Nostalgia aside a word-for-word remake of Planescape: Torment with updated graphics and Stardock AI would be pretty epic.

Torment and BG are all well and good, but I'm throwing my 0.2c in that they should consider as source material one of the following:

1.   Shadowrun (only because I sold my childhood to the Sega Genesis version)

2.  Swanwick's The Iron Dragon's Daughter

3.  Snow Crash

4.  Moore's League of Extraordinary Gentlemen

5.  Gaiman's Sandman or Neverwhere, alternately Mignola's BPRD

6.  Banks' The Culture

7.  Erickson's Malazan Book of the Fallen

8.  Glen Cook, all of it 

There are way, way, WAY to little actual REMAKES of older games. I see no reason for a remake of an old game selling any worse than a sequel to an old game such as is the norm. Those that never had heard of Planescape: Torment is as likely to buy it as any other high-profile RPG, and old fans of the series will no doubt buy it too.

The only reason I don't see a reason to make a remake of a good, popular cult-game would be if you're expecting to dumb it down or make it worse. Which is horrible premise to start developing a game with. Since it'd be subject to endless comparisons to the original.

I can count a number of games that could benefit greatly from a remake. The entire Baldur's Gate series divided into three parts, Planescape: Torment, Deus Ex, System Shock 2. There's just so many games that are just so good, that still haven't aged very well.

*drops the uncuddly kind of bear on Vinraith*
Planescape: Torment was made into a novel and it sucked and it reveals the nameless one's name baaaaaw

A stardock developed Star Control (real)3 would go right too the top of the list.  The first time I played Star Control 2 was on my 3DO.  It was and still is the BEST game I`ve ever played.  Oh, System Shock 3 would be OK too...

I liked the BG1 map better too.  It added exploration to the map.  BG2 pushed you from one place too the next.

Please, please, PLEASE Starodck, give us something like Darklands.

1400 Germany with alchemy, saints, witches.

And give us some sense of freedom. i'm starting to hate all those damn Bioware games with nice graphic and stuff but without a true game behind.

And the new RPG Title is:

Galactic Sins of an Elemental Civilization Demigod. (GSECD)

On a more serious note and not a woefully attempt at humor way I'm hoping its a SCI-FI RPG. I'm so sick and tired of orcs and elves and what not. Planescape universe would also be welcome. Although the bioware game felt like reading a novel it had a damn good story and very interesting characters. I mean who wouldn't prefer to have Morte travelling with them instead of generic dwarf no3947

Final Fantasy my ass.

Get lost, emochild.

That's why mass market sucks.

If they do go with fantasy, I want them to make the races diverse. Look at the variety of humans and their culture on earth. Most fantasy games take the diversity found in humans and graft a certain part onto a single race. Take WoW culture for example. Tauren are representative of native americans, trolls are representative mostly of african voodoo, blood elves are the drug addicts, undead are the typical 'kill everything' psycopaths, orcs are the gung-ho charge into battle type. If they go with a fantasy theme PLEASE DO NOT MAKE A RACE WHICH RESEMBLES A SUB-UNIT OF HUMAN CULTURE.

Make each race unique from earth humans and earth cultures. If all a race is meant to do is portray a sub-unit of real life human culture, why not x out the race altogether and just keep it with humans?

For multiple fantasy races, make each race have various different ethnic groups, government types, and religious views within the race itself. Many fantasy settings overemphasize the inter-racial relations and fail to focus much attention on relations of groups within a race. Sure, some of that could be explained away by 'fighting a common enemy' but there will be tensions within various groups of a race. IMO games should focus on that as much as if not more than they focus on the inter-racial interactions.

And please... do not make them all look the same. Make regional variances in appearance if the groups are unable to interact (mate) due to long distances/barriers between the regions. If you look around, humans look very different, often enough to tell relatively where on earth they originated. Europeans look different from people from Asia for example. As do Asians from Africans. Or Africans from Native Americans. If the RPG is in a fantasy setting, include details such as these.

In short, avoid the steriotypical fantasy stuff. It detracts from the endless possibilities a multitude of sentient beings can give to a story.

True... I think the main thing I'm asking for is not to have one culture for the entire race. If you had to portray the cultures of all humans on earth, you wouldn't just show someone European culture, you would show them the huge multitudes of various cultural beliefs and practices. I would like for a large portion of the cultures to be somewhat of a blend of various earth cultures if nothing original can be concieved of (since its really hard to come up with new stuff). If a single race can be summed up to be a representation of ethnic group X on earth, that to me seems very shallow as far as storytelling opportunities go. You shouldn't be able to do things such as:

Elves - Tall, pointy eared, immortal, first sentient humanoid race, use longbow, in touch with nature
Humans - Diplomats, warriors, relatively short lives
Dwarves - Short, heavy built, long lives, created somewhat on accident, axe weilders, build underground cities, created from stone
Orcs - Stupid, brawny, rush into battle, use crappy weapons, strength in numbers

Those are your basic fantasy steriotypes. The descriptions overall aren't to bad; they are rather unique when compared to human cultures. The problem comes in that there is no variety what so ever in how the races are used. A majority of fantasy fictions use the exact same steriotypes with little to no variation. The races are often not given much variation within the race as far as physical appearance, religious views, cultural practices, ect...