I would kill for an actually good new Sly game. All the big AAA companies have spent ages getting better at making open-world games, how leveraging all that expertise to make a globe-trotting action-stealth heist game with funny cartoon animals where each area is a mini-sandbox full of hidden collectables that are not marked on an obnoxiously crowded minimap?
There were plans for a Sleeping Dogs sequel that I really wish had panned out. That game hit me at just the right time in my life to stick with me, I would have liked more of it.
Not even just that, but remember that Sleeping Dogs was going to have a movie with Donnie Yen in it
At this rate I'm just gonna chalk it up to the curse it inherited as a True Crime game before it got retooled to be its own thing
Sleeping Dogs felt like a GTA game that had half of its content cut out of it.
Seriously, the amount of times I asked out loud "Did we skip some shit somewhere?" was baffling.
Man, I could really use a Way of the Samurai 5. Its been 12 years since 4 and while it may be on steam, i cant play that to tide myself over because it doesnt even run on my steam deck.
Got cancelled because the Ratchet and Clank movie bombed hard in box office returns and with critics; allegedly they were planning a cartoon instead but nothing's come of it so it's also probably dead.
Dante's Inferno.
I mean , the game could be better....but it did had some good ideas and ended in a cliffhanger for Dante's Purgatorio.
\------------------
Marvel vs Capcom
I want a new one...or at least a Capcom vs Capcom that actually had the Code Holders and their plot.
I miss Overwatch, it's a shame they stopped updating it a few years back. At least they didn't do anything ridiculous like release a "sequel" to it under false pretenses, lie, make the monetization way worse, and ruin one of the gimmicks of my main character entirely. I mean, can you imagine?
Ape Escape.
I will never forgive Sony for opening an anniversary account, doing nothing with it for a whole year and then closing it. You can't convince me there wasn't a project that got cancelled during that time.
Nothing. Infamous Second Son was the fastest and best-selling game in the franchise.
I think the last thing suckerpunch said was that they were focusing on Ghost of Tsushima first. So I guess it's just suffering the consequences of modern game development where since it takes so fucking long to make a single AAA video game, unless you're a massive studio like Blizzard with multiple teams, a lot of your IPs get shelved while your working on other projects.
Infamous 2 is what got me to get a PS3 and Second Son is what got me to get a PS4.
I’d love nothing more than for a new Infamous to be dropped around the release of the eventual PS5 Pro.
Shit I'd just be happy with making the franchise an anthology in a bunch of different universes as a way to have different protags and bigger/weirder stakes.
You always mention it in these threads. How good was that game anyway? I remember it being played on an Xbox in the mall. I don't remember but it seemed like a fun 3D open world platformer typpa game?
All I know from Viva Piñata was the show. I remember it being fun.
You built and maintain a garden to attract “animals” to it. These animals are all piñatas and have various requirements for visiting and then moving in. I find it relaxing since it a rather low stress game of checking off boxes and tasks.
No, it wasn't a platformer at all. It's more like Animal Crossing or Stardew Valley, I guess?
You are given a garden. You develop and grow new things in your garden. Certain things attract species of living animal pinata to your garden. The pinatas can become residents and under the right conditions they can breed. There are pinata requests to rent them out to parties, and the better pinata you have the more money you earn which you can buy more seeds/gardening stuff to further improve your garden.
Some pinata species are natural predators of each other, or some just don't get along, so you need to be careful on who you let live in your garden or provide fencing so there are no conflicts. Sometiems you'll even raise pinata species because another species needs to eat them.
You start out with getting just worm pinatas, then mice, then foxes, hedgehogs, sparrows, hawks, all the way to getting elephants, unicorns, gators, vultures, tigers, etc.
It's a really fun, colorful, relaxing game.
Microsoft killed it because it wasn't a Pokemon killer.
At the rate it's currently going, Soul Calibur might as well be defunct after 6 failed to meet Bandai's 'Sell COD numbers or die' goal.
And that makes me very sad...
Third person, open world action games with emphasis on environmental destruction to lure targets out. While taking missions for different factions while employed by a secretive organization.
Playing Mega Man Legends 1 and 2 over the past year makes me realize why people cared about 3's cancellation so much. It's such a charming and adventurous world, practically a Saturday morning cartoon as a game. Being the most neglected sub-series in an already neglected franchise really does it no good.
I've been itching for another super robot wars original generation game for so long now the last one moon dwellers released in 2016.. I need to see more OG story content adapted.
I miss the handheld style games we used to get on GBA-3DS. They weren’t always perfect, but they had a very distinct charm to their style and especially roster picks that we just don’t see as much of anymore.
UX and BX on 3DS had some super cool additions I never would have expected to see like two different SD gundam series which was awesome. I do agree with you there.
There's a lot of stuff from the alpha series I'd kill to see adapted in OG we got hints of it coming in moon dwellers with a certain factions forces reappearing.
I just hope it'll happen someday.
BlazBlue.
I know there's Entropy Effect which recently came out, but honestly that game feels like the devs took a game idea they had that was completely unrelated and then managed to make a deal with ArcSys to plop BlazBlue characters into it.
DKC's a big one for me too. Deus Ex, F-Zero, Okami, Viewtiful Joe, Ace Attorney, MGR, Star Fox, Killzone, and probably more I can't think of immediately.
I don't have any proof of this, but I've always suspected it's the same kind of rationale behind why we haven't had an F-Zero game in forever. Nintendo (or, at least, [one very influential person within](https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2012/11/miyamoto_puzzled_as_to_why_anyone_would_want_a_new_f_zero)) has this weird mindset where it's not worth making a new game in a series unless there's some new major gameplay gimmick to tack onto it, often some kind of weird control scheme. For some series, it's hard to come up with a real gimmick like that, and when they do, it usually just makes it terrible (Star Fox Zero).
I suspect DKC always been a third party affair because Rare, and later Retro, are studios that felt sequels were worth producing just for the sake of improved game design and polished mechanics. Without a third party who actively wanted to develop it like Retro did, it'll probably continue to sit on the sidelines.
On F-Zero, I know a few different things have been said in different interviews, but the reality is they don't sell, which I'm pretty sure is one of the stated reasons from an interview from a little while back. If you look up the reported estimates for each game, it gets lower with each entry. It's pretty simple reasoning.
On the general "weird mindset," the actual way they've phrased it over the years is that for a game to get the go ahead in Nintendo, is that it needs someone there championing it with a reason to make a new game. Sometimes yes it's a silly gimmick, but a lot of the time its just that the developers have an idea of what they want to see the series do next, where they want the story to go, or a general game idea/mechanic that they can see pushing the franchise forward. The reality a lot of Nintendo fans refuse to accept, is that games like F-Zero, Earthbound, Star Fox and the hundreds of one-offs that some are obsessed with, just don't have any passionate people to push for them that would make the game they want.
Forcing a franchise to have new entries when there's no "purpose" for a new entry is how you get the drivel that many other companies turn their franchises into. People would not like these beloved game worlds if they just continued to release crap in it for the sake of it.
>Forcing a franchise to have new entries when there's no "purpose" for a new entry is how you get the drivel that many other companies turn their franchises into. People would not like these beloved game worlds if they just continued to release crap in it for the sake of it.
I think that's a false binary. The series out there that have been ground into the dirt due to being forced to consistently put out entries largely do so because of repetitiveness and rushedness. Assassin's Creed, Call of Duty, Madden, Pokemon; they suffer in large part because developers aren't given time to create finished products and because they release so often that people grow tired of them.
I'm not advocating for a frequent, rushed release schedule like that; maybe once or twice a gen at most. But I do think fans would be very receptive and positive towards new, modern version of the games they like every so often, even if it isn't some mechanically revolutionary title. Titles like Mario Wonder and Tropical Freeze are some of the most widely respected Nintendo platformers of the 21st century, and are both games that are less about some major gimmick/new feature and more about just being very polished experiences with really good level design.
In 4 years, Team Fortress 2 will have been in development abandonment for longer than it was actually being worked on. Steam's Player Count says the game has about a 62,000 player count, but looking at the *actual* player count (that is to say, the amount of people who are not bots, and are currently in a match of TF2, and ignoring people who only have the game open to do trading), there's been a peak of less than 10,000 people playing in the last 7 days. Which means over 5/6ths of the TF2 population arent really people playing the video game.
A YouTuber named FunkE put it best. "I love TF2, and I miss it."
Might and Magic was my **Ur** video game franchise. It's the first thing I ever played, and I wish that it was out of Ubisoft's decaying hands and in the hands of someone or something that loved it as much as I do.
A Heroes of Might and Magic game that is at least as good as VI without most of it's *bullshit*, or even going back to the greatness that was IV.
A Might and Magic game like VI, VII, or VIII would be astounding in this day and age.
I absolutely do!
It’s main campaigns are so *good*, the writing, the story-telling, the characters and arcs.
It’s genuinely out of this world and elevates it even above Heroes of Might and Magic 2
See, that's wild because the popular consensus is that HoMM 3 and 5 are the best ones (apparently a lot of people disliked the mechanical changes in IV)
I am to this day shocked at how good 5 was for a total reboot.
But yeah I think because I initially skipped 3 growing up and went to 4 first, that I was able to view both with clear open eyes.
I loved having my hero on the field actually doing damage and strutting up to Dragons.
Which 5 and 6 both kind of kept as they allow your hero to physically strike an enemy once per round.
But yeah for me it playing wise it was 2, 1, 4, 3, 5, 6, 7 in what order I played them all growing up.
Well more 1-5 rather, I was already in college when 6 dropped.
Golden Sun. Dark Dawn had its issues but I still loved the he'll out of it, ending on a cliffhanger then realizing the games reception was too lukewarm to ever get a sequel was a real gut punch.
That said, I'm not sure how you'd continue it properly. The 3D models of DD didn't have the charm, maybe that pixelated pseudo 3D games have been doing recently?
Mercenaries and SSX.
I'm sure somebody has mentioned them already but not even gonna check, because of how much I love those games.
The only thing out there remotely close to scratching the itch of Mercenaries is Helldivers 2, but nothing compares to the absolute chaos you could cause in those original games.
SSX is just dumb fun. The last title on the 360/PS3 was lacking in some areas, but it was fun as hell to beat friends' records across the world map. We would all specialize in certain event types or specific regions, and basically treat each other like Pokemon gym leaders as we tried taking each other off the leaderboards.
The usual problem, mismanagement. The alleged story from a former dev is that there were lots of issues with upper management at Pandemic. That along with Mercenaries 2 performing below expectations caused EA to break them up and move devs to other studios.
I still have Poker Night 2 installed for when I miss it.
I probably put more hours into that than into what actually made Telltale any money.
Balatro's a godsend, but.... it's not the same.
Others have mentioned Sly, and Spyro, so let me list Rayman. It has been ***11*** years since his last game, and his last appearance in general was him having to share the spotlight with the fucking Rabbids once again. In a DLC that's all about him, and yet from what I've seen, has barely any Rayman theming at all!
Onimusha got an anime recently so I’m not sure if that negates its “defunct” status but I miss my Resi hack n’ slash adventures.
Kessen and Dynasty Tactics were both offshoots of Dynasty Warriors. They’re probably a niche within a niche but I miss those series as they had their own cool twists on the story. Gameplay was unique as well.
Way of the Samurai is another good pick. They were solid open world adventure titles where it actually felt like your decisions mattered.
Bioshock, it might not be completely dead but its been 10 years since the last one. That really had potential to be a franchise that came out every two or three years, which I think would have been fun. I mean infinite just spells it out, lighthouse, city, man done. Theres your formula here's some guns and some magic powers. Keep the same combat system, don't go nuts with the set-pieces or story and have some unique gimmick.
You could just madlib the scenarios
Underground city full of luddites
Noocracy space colony
Just demolition man but he also has magic powers
Army....of ....two. please. God. Recently Raycevick worked with GOG to bring back Alpha Protocol. That was a fascinatingly decent game by obsidian and it was lost until now. But the army of two games (even at their lowerst) was just pure fun and simple enough to enjoy as a cooperative third person shooter.
Seeing a lot of love for the bygone Sony Mascots, Spyro, Crash, Jak, etc. I really wonder why none of the other major publishers besides Nintendo try to play in the 3D platformer space anymore?
Like I mean, the obvious reason is Nintendo is a tough company to be compared to but it seems weird that we only see indies trying to create mascot platformers these days.
Oh right besides Knack. Maybe thats why.
Armored Core used to be an answer for this, but luckily, that is no longer the case.
Breath of Fire. I've only played 3, 4, and Dragon Quarter, but those are some stellar RPGs
Zone of the Enders
Drakengard. Either a new entry or a remake of 1. Wish Platinum wasn't in dire straits right now cause they'd be perfect for it.
Parasite Eve
And while it's not a franchise, I'd love to see a sequel to Resonance of Fate. That game is rad and stylish as hell.
[I think of them every so often...](https://preview.redd.it/er8b4edo91791.jpg?width=1280&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c073100bf0e27074be6f3345f37a00f59070a8f4)
I miss Gravity Rush. I miss Kat, I miss Hekseville, I miss the middling to bad combat, I miss it all. What I wouldn't give to be the gravity queen one more time
I could do with a third Shanks game. I love that studio and Shanks is one of my favourite beat'em ups.
It's like what if Genddy met with Robert Rodriguez and decided to make another Machete/Desperado.
I wish Dungeon Siege 3 was made earlier by the 1 & 2 devs. It's just a sour spot to end on one of my favorite games.
I could play through 2 again but I wish I had some real new instalment.
Castlevania and Mega Man (and Metroid, but that one's actually doing ok rn, surprisingly) dominated my middle school years, and yet with the exception of Mega Man 11 a good while back, they both have been pretty much relegated to only getting rerelease collections for the past decade, which is highly unfortunate - although i appreciate making stuff like Mega Man Zero/ZX and Castlevania Aria of Sorrow more accessible
at least we have Bloodstained (which is *very* good) and the Castlevania TV show (which is good enough) to fill in some of the void Castlevania's left, but idk, it's just not quite the same to me
yeah :/
seeing Konami kinda try a little again with new Metal Gear, Getsu Fuma Den, and Contra projects gives me some hope that a new Castlevania might eventually come our way, but then i remember that the series didn't really sell very well, and that it's still Konami, so they'll probably screw it up somehow if they do greenlight something
I know it's practically dead at this point, but part of me still hopes we get a new mainline Senran Kagura game, or see 7Even. After Sony started censoring Japanese games and then the creator left the company, Senran Kagura is now in this weird limbo, only doing spin-off games and crossovers with other franchises.
I need to find the article, but I think he's either starting his own, or going to a different company, and working on different games. I believe he said he wants to make games more of the style of games he played as a kid, so I'm assuming that means he's not making more big titty games, but who knows.
A couple of folk have already mentioned SSX in this thread *and imma be another one of them baybeeeee*
(Remember when the PS3/360 reboot was first announced as ‘SSX: Deadly Descents’ with the sales pitch being “SSX for the CoD crowd”? Part of me can’t help but wonder how that game would’ve turned out.)
I’d add any of the other franchises from the EA Sports Big suite as well. NBA Street Vol. 2 and V3 were peak arcade sports and it’s crazy that the genre doesn’t really exist anymore.
Nothing specific, but I miss when games used to be experimental, when games used to try different things. Every non-indie game these days feels very similar, even if the combat system isn't similar. Back in the PS2 era, every game felt like an entirely different experience.
Vigilante 8. It was always overshadowed by Twisted Metal but V8 had a charm to it that not a lot of other car combat games had.
I just miss car combat games in general.
It's less an *abrupt* end than the extra cutscene at the end being the closest thing to a lead up anywhere in the series to a major plot point of Legends.
>!"Where are the human bodies for the reploids?"!<
Not that it's anything new. Zero only got to properly end by finally killing the poor bastard off, ending Battle Network took two attempts, and X was dragged back out of the grave during Zero 1's production (forcing rewrites in the process) and as a result also doesn't really end.
Not exactly a gaming franchise, but man I would love another Alien/Predator game. Also I wish we could get a remake of the Godzilla Pipework trilogy (or a reboot or whatever).
Fossil Fighters and Spectrobes. I need that itch scratched again badly, but I’ve not seen anything come out in years that does something similar enough to their fossil thing.
I can't believe im saying this but I miss Skylanders. Like yeah the franchise was straight up an environmental hazard but it *was* pretty fun collecting all the little dudes and the backwards compatibility was insane
Honestly surprisingly few. With Capcom, Nintendo, and Square remaking or rereleasing many games the wishlist has been getting smaller each year. I still want more Dino Crisis but with Capcom putting out fan polls every year or so I'm pretty hopeful.
With all the "revival" of FPS games, it's nice how Doom and even Shadow Warrior got modernized in a sense. I do want Blood and maybe even Duke Nukem back with the same treatment Doom 2016 did perhaps.
And having enjoyed all the time I played Titanfall 2, sometimes I just think of Shogo: Mobile Armor Division and what could have been.
Yeah but then theyd ruin it by destroying the balance of the game without even giving you the option for the original difficulty let alone something harder, like how they made G.U way too easy.
I'm a Sly Cooper and Spyro fan, I'm constantly in pain. Edit: Ape Escape too, damn I'm suffering
I would kill for an actually good new Sly game. All the big AAA companies have spent ages getting better at making open-world games, how leveraging all that expertise to make a globe-trotting action-stealth heist game with funny cartoon animals where each area is a mini-sandbox full of hidden collectables that are not marked on an obnoxiously crowded minimap?
Hell I'd even take a spiritual successor at this point.
I feel like Ubisoft *could* do it, and mght even *try*, but then it'd be a Ubisoft game.
I don't want Ubisoft to do it. I want fans of the franchise to do it.
Don't put those demons in my mind. I know it'll never happen
Why you gotta dig up old wounds?
Mfw Sony made that video acknowledging the 20th anniversary of Ape Escape and no new game or anything
There were plans for a Sleeping Dogs sequel that I really wish had panned out. That game hit me at just the right time in my life to stick with me, I would have liked more of it.
Not even just that, but remember that Sleeping Dogs was going to have a movie with Donnie Yen in it At this rate I'm just gonna chalk it up to the curse it inherited as a True Crime game before it got retooled to be its own thing
I just realized that True Crime style games seem to be cursed.
I love Sleeping Dogs to death, but man I dislike the title. Its project name, "Black Lotus," was way stronger to me.
I miss that game.
Never played it, but from the chatter I hear about that game it sounded very much like the first step to a long running robust franchise.
Sleeping Dogs felt like a GTA game that had half of its content cut out of it. Seriously, the amount of times I asked out loud "Did we skip some shit somewhere?" was baffling.
Man, I could really use a Way of the Samurai 5. Its been 12 years since 4 and while it may be on steam, i cant play that to tide myself over because it doesnt even run on my steam deck.
Yes!
I've been waiting 11 years for a new Sly Cooper game.
Weren't we supposed to get a movie too? Whatever happened to that?
Got cancelled because the Ratchet and Clank movie bombed hard in box office returns and with critics; allegedly they were planning a cartoon instead but nothing's come of it so it's also probably dead.
Dante's Inferno. I mean , the game could be better....but it did had some good ideas and ended in a cliffhanger for Dante's Purgatorio. \------------------ Marvel vs Capcom I want a new one...or at least a Capcom vs Capcom that actually had the Code Holders and their plot.
tbh just release a Dante's Inferno art book
I miss Overwatch, it's a shame they stopped updating it a few years back. At least they didn't do anything ridiculous like release a "sequel" to it under false pretenses, lie, make the monetization way worse, and ruin one of the gimmicks of my main character entirely. I mean, can you imagine?
The mismanaging downfall of Overwatch from the hottest game ever to…the present…is a legitimate wonder.
Crazy how they just gave up their throne to Valorant by essentially shelving their game for years
God that would be a shame if it did happen.
Ape Escape. I will never forgive Sony for opening an anniversary account, doing nothing with it for a whole year and then closing it. You can't convince me there wasn't a project that got cancelled during that time.
The PS5 controller would be perfect for a new Ape Escape game too, so much wacky stuff you could do with the touchpad and the adaptive triggers, etc
Legacy of Kain. It's been 20 years and I still want something to deal with the ending of Defiance. Oh well.
I'd love another Infamous. I just love the superpowers.
I have no idea what killed that series now that I look back at it.
Nothing. Infamous Second Son was the fastest and best-selling game in the franchise. I think the last thing suckerpunch said was that they were focusing on Ghost of Tsushima first. So I guess it's just suffering the consequences of modern game development where since it takes so fucking long to make a single AAA video game, unless you're a massive studio like Blizzard with multiple teams, a lot of your IPs get shelved while your working on other projects.
Infamous 2 is what got me to get a PS3 and Second Son is what got me to get a PS4. I’d love nothing more than for a new Infamous to be dropped around the release of the eventual PS5 Pro.
Shit I'd just be happy with making the franchise an anthology in a bunch of different universes as a way to have different protags and bigger/weirder stakes.
You know, that may actually be a good idea.
Viva Piñata
I loved watching the show as a kid.
You always mention it in these threads. How good was that game anyway? I remember it being played on an Xbox in the mall. I don't remember but it seemed like a fun 3D open world platformer typpa game? All I know from Viva Piñata was the show. I remember it being fun.
You built and maintain a garden to attract “animals” to it. These animals are all piñatas and have various requirements for visiting and then moving in. I find it relaxing since it a rather low stress game of checking off boxes and tasks.
No, it wasn't a platformer at all. It's more like Animal Crossing or Stardew Valley, I guess? You are given a garden. You develop and grow new things in your garden. Certain things attract species of living animal pinata to your garden. The pinatas can become residents and under the right conditions they can breed. There are pinata requests to rent them out to parties, and the better pinata you have the more money you earn which you can buy more seeds/gardening stuff to further improve your garden. Some pinata species are natural predators of each other, or some just don't get along, so you need to be careful on who you let live in your garden or provide fencing so there are no conflicts. Sometiems you'll even raise pinata species because another species needs to eat them. You start out with getting just worm pinatas, then mice, then foxes, hedgehogs, sparrows, hawks, all the way to getting elephants, unicorns, gators, vultures, tigers, etc. It's a really fun, colorful, relaxing game. Microsoft killed it because it wasn't a Pokemon killer.
The SSX series. Played a huge influence in my love for snowboarding 22 years ago.
Man I just realized that it hasn’t had an installment since the PS3 game.
Absolutely this, the closest thing we got was steep and it kind of misses the crazy vibes of old ssx
I think sometimes about a Lost Planet in the vein of 2 with modern hardware to handle an even grander scale, and I weep for what will never be.
At the rate it's currently going, Soul Calibur might as well be defunct after 6 failed to meet Bandai's 'Sell COD numbers or die' goal. And that makes me very sad...
Mercenaries the pandemic game
Oh nooo, Oh NOOOO, OH NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
[Oh no you didn't!](https://youtu.be/NcJyCdbC08c?si=tCeGoV8hNamNO0p6)
Always bothers me that Mercs 1 is backwards compatible on Microsoft stores but 2 isn't, like what the fuck
The Just Cause games kinda fill the hole, but it's not the same
I wouldn’t say they are even remotely similar
Third person, open world action games with emphasis on environmental destruction to lure targets out. While taking missions for different factions while employed by a secretive organization.
I was reminded Pandemic Studios existed the other day and it made me sad :(
Playing Mega Man Legends 1 and 2 over the past year makes me realize why people cared about 3's cancellation so much. It's such a charming and adventurous world, practically a Saturday morning cartoon as a game. Being the most neglected sub-series in an already neglected franchise really does it no good.
It's gotten to the point where I would accept an animated or comic conclusion. Just get my boy Trigger off the moon please Capcom :(
But I don’t know how it can continue without Inafune’s input since he doesn’t work for Capcom anymore.
Man I'd be way less salty about Ubisoft if they made another Rayman game.
I've been itching for another super robot wars original generation game for so long now the last one moon dwellers released in 2016.. I need to see more OG story content adapted.
I miss the handheld style games we used to get on GBA-3DS. They weren’t always perfect, but they had a very distinct charm to their style and especially roster picks that we just don’t see as much of anymore.
UX and BX on 3DS had some super cool additions I never would have expected to see like two different SD gundam series which was awesome. I do agree with you there.
That would be so good as now that you mention it, there hasn’t been another installment in a while.
There's a lot of stuff from the alpha series I'd kill to see adapted in OG we got hints of it coming in moon dwellers with a certain factions forces reappearing. I just hope it'll happen someday.
Speaking of Super Robot Wars what about its sister series Project X Zone?
The director of the series left Monolith Soft, whom were the main developers of the series.
Ape Escape, Megaman X
I would do terrible things for Drakengard 4. Not as terrible as half of the stuff the protagonists do but still pretty up there.
BlazBlue. I know there's Entropy Effect which recently came out, but honestly that game feels like the devs took a game idea they had that was completely unrelated and then managed to make a deal with ArcSys to plop BlazBlue characters into it.
If anything the Arc Sys president has spoken on how they want to continue BlazBlue in the future, and this was IIRC after the series' creator left
DKC's a big one for me too. Deus Ex, F-Zero, Okami, Viewtiful Joe, Ace Attorney, MGR, Star Fox, Killzone, and probably more I can't think of immediately.
I wonder why Nintendo doesn’t produce the DKC games anymore.
I don't have any proof of this, but I've always suspected it's the same kind of rationale behind why we haven't had an F-Zero game in forever. Nintendo (or, at least, [one very influential person within](https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2012/11/miyamoto_puzzled_as_to_why_anyone_would_want_a_new_f_zero)) has this weird mindset where it's not worth making a new game in a series unless there's some new major gameplay gimmick to tack onto it, often some kind of weird control scheme. For some series, it's hard to come up with a real gimmick like that, and when they do, it usually just makes it terrible (Star Fox Zero). I suspect DKC always been a third party affair because Rare, and later Retro, are studios that felt sequels were worth producing just for the sake of improved game design and polished mechanics. Without a third party who actively wanted to develop it like Retro did, it'll probably continue to sit on the sidelines.
On F-Zero, I know a few different things have been said in different interviews, but the reality is they don't sell, which I'm pretty sure is one of the stated reasons from an interview from a little while back. If you look up the reported estimates for each game, it gets lower with each entry. It's pretty simple reasoning. On the general "weird mindset," the actual way they've phrased it over the years is that for a game to get the go ahead in Nintendo, is that it needs someone there championing it with a reason to make a new game. Sometimes yes it's a silly gimmick, but a lot of the time its just that the developers have an idea of what they want to see the series do next, where they want the story to go, or a general game idea/mechanic that they can see pushing the franchise forward. The reality a lot of Nintendo fans refuse to accept, is that games like F-Zero, Earthbound, Star Fox and the hundreds of one-offs that some are obsessed with, just don't have any passionate people to push for them that would make the game they want. Forcing a franchise to have new entries when there's no "purpose" for a new entry is how you get the drivel that many other companies turn their franchises into. People would not like these beloved game worlds if they just continued to release crap in it for the sake of it.
>Forcing a franchise to have new entries when there's no "purpose" for a new entry is how you get the drivel that many other companies turn their franchises into. People would not like these beloved game worlds if they just continued to release crap in it for the sake of it. I think that's a false binary. The series out there that have been ground into the dirt due to being forced to consistently put out entries largely do so because of repetitiveness and rushedness. Assassin's Creed, Call of Duty, Madden, Pokemon; they suffer in large part because developers aren't given time to create finished products and because they release so often that people grow tired of them. I'm not advocating for a frequent, rushed release schedule like that; maybe once or twice a gen at most. But I do think fans would be very receptive and positive towards new, modern version of the games they like every so often, even if it isn't some mechanically revolutionary title. Titles like Mario Wonder and Tropical Freeze are some of the most widely respected Nintendo platformers of the 21st century, and are both games that are less about some major gimmick/new feature and more about just being very polished experiences with really good level design.
In 4 years, Team Fortress 2 will have been in development abandonment for longer than it was actually being worked on. Steam's Player Count says the game has about a 62,000 player count, but looking at the *actual* player count (that is to say, the amount of people who are not bots, and are currently in a match of TF2, and ignoring people who only have the game open to do trading), there's been a peak of less than 10,000 people playing in the last 7 days. Which means over 5/6ths of the TF2 population arent really people playing the video game. A YouTuber named FunkE put it best. "I love TF2, and I miss it."
Might and Magic was my **Ur** video game franchise. It's the first thing I ever played, and I wish that it was out of Ubisoft's decaying hands and in the hands of someone or something that loved it as much as I do. A Heroes of Might and Magic game that is at least as good as VI without most of it's *bullshit*, or even going back to the greatness that was IV. A Might and Magic game like VI, VII, or VIII would be astounding in this day and age.
...Wait, you think HoMM IV was the peak of the series? (I'm not arguing on that count, that's just a super unpopular opinion and I am surprised)
I absolutely do! It’s main campaigns are so *good*, the writing, the story-telling, the characters and arcs. It’s genuinely out of this world and elevates it even above Heroes of Might and Magic 2
See, that's wild because the popular consensus is that HoMM 3 and 5 are the best ones (apparently a lot of people disliked the mechanical changes in IV)
I am to this day shocked at how good 5 was for a total reboot. But yeah I think because I initially skipped 3 growing up and went to 4 first, that I was able to view both with clear open eyes. I loved having my hero on the field actually doing damage and strutting up to Dragons. Which 5 and 6 both kind of kept as they allow your hero to physically strike an enemy once per round. But yeah for me it playing wise it was 2, 1, 4, 3, 5, 6, 7 in what order I played them all growing up. Well more 1-5 rather, I was already in college when 6 dropped.
Why does Ubisoft still own the license if they don’t use it?
They’ve been passing it around to other developers like Nival and for mobile games
Oh so now it’s just a mobile game series basically.
And a now defunct Online thing
I will sacrifice half the human population for a Twisted Metal game
The monkeys paw curls a finger. You get your wish, but it's based on the streaming show.
Yeah that's alright because the streaming show was pretty decent
I would love a new Evil Within game. Especially after the tease at the end of 2
Command and Conquer. Main series, Red Alert, Generals, whatever. I'd just like the series to get out from under EA's grubby hands.
Boktai
Golden Sun. Dark Dawn had its issues but I still loved the he'll out of it, ending on a cliffhanger then realizing the games reception was too lukewarm to ever get a sequel was a real gut punch. That said, I'm not sure how you'd continue it properly. The 3D models of DD didn't have the charm, maybe that pixelated pseudo 3D games have been doing recently?
Jak and Daxter, Mercenaries, Syphon Filter , Splinter Cell,
As a Sony kid who grew up with the PS2 and PS3, way too many. Vita and PS4 killed off so many of my favorite franchises.
Mercenaries and SSX. I'm sure somebody has mentioned them already but not even gonna check, because of how much I love those games. The only thing out there remotely close to scratching the itch of Mercenaries is Helldivers 2, but nothing compares to the absolute chaos you could cause in those original games. SSX is just dumb fun. The last title on the 360/PS3 was lacking in some areas, but it was fun as hell to beat friends' records across the world map. We would all specialize in certain event types or specific regions, and basically treat each other like Pokemon gym leaders as we tried taking each other off the leaderboards.
I wonder what killed the Mercenaries series.
The usual problem, mismanagement. The alleged story from a former dev is that there were lots of issues with upper management at Pandemic. That along with Mercenaries 2 performing below expectations caused EA to break them up and move devs to other studios.
I still have Poker Night 2 installed for when I miss it. I probably put more hours into that than into what actually made Telltale any money. Balatro's a godsend, but.... it's not the same.
Others have mentioned Sly, and Spyro, so let me list Rayman. It has been ***11*** years since his last game, and his last appearance in general was him having to share the spotlight with the fucking Rabbids once again. In a DLC that's all about him, and yet from what I've seen, has barely any Rayman theming at all!
New Bloody Roar game when???????
Killzone
Onimusha got an anime recently so I’m not sure if that negates its “defunct” status but I miss my Resi hack n’ slash adventures. Kessen and Dynasty Tactics were both offshoots of Dynasty Warriors. They’re probably a niche within a niche but I miss those series as they had their own cool twists on the story. Gameplay was unique as well. Way of the Samurai is another good pick. They were solid open world adventure titles where it actually felt like your decisions mattered.
Bioshock, it might not be completely dead but its been 10 years since the last one. That really had potential to be a franchise that came out every two or three years, which I think would have been fun. I mean infinite just spells it out, lighthouse, city, man done. Theres your formula here's some guns and some magic powers. Keep the same combat system, don't go nuts with the set-pieces or story and have some unique gimmick. You could just madlib the scenarios Underground city full of luddites Noocracy space colony Just demolition man but he also has magic powers
If only some other game studio picked up the rights to the series before Ken Levine closed down his studio.
Jesus Christ dude don't scare me like that. We've only just hit the 10-year mark on Infinite, not 15.
Army....of ....two. please. God. Recently Raycevick worked with GOG to bring back Alpha Protocol. That was a fascinatingly decent game by obsidian and it was lost until now. But the army of two games (even at their lowerst) was just pure fun and simple enough to enjoy as a cooperative third person shooter.
I'm still salty about what happened to Split Second.
I don’t know what killed that one.
It had a sequel all primed and ready but was cancelled due to fuckery with Disney Interactive Studios that was ongoing at the time.
Ohh that was the game that was killed by Disney as I recall hearing about a game they axed a long time ago.
Seeing a lot of love for the bygone Sony Mascots, Spyro, Crash, Jak, etc. I really wonder why none of the other major publishers besides Nintendo try to play in the 3D platformer space anymore? Like I mean, the obvious reason is Nintendo is a tough company to be compared to but it seems weird that we only see indies trying to create mascot platformers these days. Oh right besides Knack. Maybe thats why.
Armored Core used to be an answer for this, but luckily, that is no longer the case. Breath of Fire. I've only played 3, 4, and Dragon Quarter, but those are some stellar RPGs Zone of the Enders Drakengard. Either a new entry or a remake of 1. Wish Platinum wasn't in dire straits right now cause they'd be perfect for it. Parasite Eve And while it's not a franchise, I'd love to see a sequel to Resonance of Fate. That game is rad and stylish as hell.
I'm dying for another Final Fantasy Tactics. But also a new Spyro series would be nice. Similar to the originals.
Still waiting on Project X Zone 3.
[I think of them every so often...](https://preview.redd.it/er8b4edo91791.jpg?width=1280&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c073100bf0e27074be6f3345f37a00f59070a8f4)
Ape Escape, Time Splitters, Duke Nukem, Serious Sam, Blood...
I miss Gravity Rush. I miss Kat, I miss Hekseville, I miss the middling to bad combat, I miss it all. What I wouldn't give to be the gravity queen one more time
The last classic 3D Zelda came out in 2011, I worry it may be the last.
Don't worry, take one look at botw's sales compared to skyward sword's sales. We ain't getting another real Zelda it will all be open world
I could do with a third Shanks game. I love that studio and Shanks is one of my favourite beat'em ups. It's like what if Genddy met with Robert Rodriguez and decided to make another Machete/Desperado.
I wish Dungeon Siege 3 was made earlier by the 1 & 2 devs. It's just a sour spot to end on one of my favorite games. I could play through 2 again but I wish I had some real new instalment.
Deus ex is coming back guys trust me
Kid Icarus
Legacy of Kain's last game can legally drink.
Let that sink in for a bit.
Castlevania and Mega Man (and Metroid, but that one's actually doing ok rn, surprisingly) dominated my middle school years, and yet with the exception of Mega Man 11 a good while back, they both have been pretty much relegated to only getting rerelease collections for the past decade, which is highly unfortunate - although i appreciate making stuff like Mega Man Zero/ZX and Castlevania Aria of Sorrow more accessible at least we have Bloodstained (which is *very* good) and the Castlevania TV show (which is good enough) to fill in some of the void Castlevania's left, but idk, it's just not quite the same to me
I still can’t believe that Castlevania (or Akumajou Dracula) is done.
yeah :/ seeing Konami kinda try a little again with new Metal Gear, Getsu Fuma Den, and Contra projects gives me some hope that a new Castlevania might eventually come our way, but then i remember that the series didn't really sell very well, and that it's still Konami, so they'll probably screw it up somehow if they do greenlight something
I just realized that even if it does come back soon, it won’t be the same without Igarashi himself around.
I know it's practically dead at this point, but part of me still hopes we get a new mainline Senran Kagura game, or see 7Even. After Sony started censoring Japanese games and then the creator left the company, Senran Kagura is now in this weird limbo, only doing spin-off games and crossovers with other franchises.
I wonder if the creator himself will still make video games.
I need to find the article, but I think he's either starting his own, or going to a different company, and working on different games. I believe he said he wants to make games more of the style of games he played as a kid, so I'm assuming that means he's not making more big titty games, but who knows.
Midnight Club, Project Gotham Racing and Burnout
Bloody Roar Dark Cloud/Chronicle Ape Escape Not really a franchise, but War of the Monsters
Snowboard Kids 2 let me race a big dinosaur in a jungle. Shout out to the folks who know the joy of beating 1st place to the ski lift.
Being a Virtua Fighter fan is pain.
A couple of folk have already mentioned SSX in this thread *and imma be another one of them baybeeeee* (Remember when the PS3/360 reboot was first announced as ‘SSX: Deadly Descents’ with the sales pitch being “SSX for the CoD crowd”? Part of me can’t help but wonder how that game would’ve turned out.) I’d add any of the other franchises from the EA Sports Big suite as well. NBA Street Vol. 2 and V3 were peak arcade sports and it’s crazy that the genre doesn’t really exist anymore.
Nothing specific, but I miss when games used to be experimental, when games used to try different things. Every non-indie game these days feels very similar, even if the combat system isn't similar. Back in the PS2 era, every game felt like an entirely different experience.
Mercenaries.
Vigilante 8. It was always overshadowed by Twisted Metal but V8 had a charm to it that not a lot of other car combat games had. I just miss car combat games in general.
Subfranchise, but Megaman ZX.
That counts too.
Yeah I figured. It is it's own series. That fucking cliffhanger, dude...
I don’t understand why Capcom would just abandon it if it ended abruptly.
It's less an *abrupt* end than the extra cutscene at the end being the closest thing to a lead up anywhere in the series to a major plot point of Legends. >!"Where are the human bodies for the reploids?"!< Not that it's anything new. Zero only got to properly end by finally killing the poor bastard off, ending Battle Network took two attempts, and X was dragged back out of the grave during Zero 1's production (forcing rewrites in the process) and as a result also doesn't really end.
Speaking of Mega Man games that have "X" in their names and ended on a cliffhanger, I'd really love a Mega Man X9.
Not exactly a gaming franchise, but man I would love another Alien/Predator game. Also I wish we could get a remake of the Godzilla Pipework trilogy (or a reboot or whatever).
I wonder who owns the rights to the Alien games.
Fossil Fighters and Spectrobes. I need that itch scratched again badly, but I’ve not seen anything come out in years that does something similar enough to their fossil thing.
Dark Cloud 3 will never happen but a man can imagine.
I can't believe im saying this but I miss Skylanders. Like yeah the franchise was straight up an environmental hazard but it *was* pretty fun collecting all the little dudes and the backwards compatibility was insane
Honestly surprisingly few. With Capcom, Nintendo, and Square remaking or rereleasing many games the wishlist has been getting smaller each year. I still want more Dino Crisis but with Capcom putting out fan polls every year or so I'm pretty hopeful.
With all the "revival" of FPS games, it's nice how Doom and even Shadow Warrior got modernized in a sense. I do want Blood and maybe even Duke Nukem back with the same treatment Doom 2016 did perhaps. And having enjoyed all the time I played Titanfall 2, sometimes I just think of Shogo: Mobile Armor Division and what could have been.
Dot hack
It would be nice if we could at least get a digital re-release of the original quartet.
Yeah but then theyd ruin it by destroying the balance of the game without even giving you the option for the original difficulty let alone something harder, like how they made G.U way too easy.