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Is there an old game series that you wish they'd start making more of again?

I started thinking the other day about Killer Instinct. I use to play the second one all the time when I worked at the local family fun center. I would kinda like to see an updated new game in that series.

-Battletoads
-Noctropolis
-Shadowgate, Deja Vu, The Uninvited (no necessarily those games, but maybe iPhone/Android remakes and a return to those style of games)
-Wing Commander

X-com, the strategy kind
X-wing/Tie-fighter

- System Shock
- Jagged Alliance

Lunar....

I would let Jay suck a dick for a real Lunar sequel.

The games I most want to see more of never had sequels to begin with:

Grim Fandango
Psychonauts
Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri (which might be happening)
Planescape: Torment

Jay said:

- System Shock
- Jagged Alliance

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This. i won't even read the other proposals. I want a new jagged alliance game so god damn much

Do you guys know about Jagged Alliance - Back in Action?

Legacy of Kain... with the writers they used for Soul Reaver and Defiance

Seriously, it just needed one more game to finish the saga... damn you capitalism and the profit motive...

No One Lives Forever.

DarkAudit said:

No One Lives Forever.

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That series died when Contract JACK failed to sell... at all.

ThatNickGuy said:

-Shadowgate, Deja Vu, The Uninvited (no necessarily those games, but maybe iPhone/Android remakes and a return to those style of games)

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Shadowgate got a crappy N64 game. Deja Vu was originally a PC game, but the GBA version actually has the sequel to it on it.

AshburnerX said:

That series died when Contract JACK failed to sell... at all.

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That's because there was almost no Cate Archer in the game. She's the star, pure and simple.

DarkAudit said:

That's because there was almost no Cate Archer in the game. She's the star, pure and simple.

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No, it was actually because it was boring as hell. They took out a lot of the exploration element and made a more straight forward FPS game instead.

Might and Magic. :|

Shadow Hearts.

Lets just pretend from the new world never existed, and go from there.

Also? Earthworm Jim.

figmentPez said:

Do you guys know about Jagged Alliance - Back in Action?

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No, I actually did not. you've made my day

@Li3n said:

Legacy of Kain... with the writers they used for Soul Reaver and Defiance

Seriously, it just needed one more game to finish the saga... damn you capitalism and the profit motive...

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A thousand times yes!

Shegokigo said:

Lunar....

I would let Jay suck a dick for a real Lunar sequel.

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For that you'll need to suck that dick.

Lunar is nice but not on MY list, it's on yours, now gimmie a duck face you white toothed latina.
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Math242 said:

This. i won't even read the other proposals. I want a new jagged alliance game so god damn much

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Well you'll be surprised to know that another JA is in the works and there are rumors of a JA MMO as well.

Jagged Alliance: Back in Action (a remake) - 1Q 2012
Jagged Alliance Online

Warsong (It was on SEGA)

Ravenpoe said:

Shadow Hearts.

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I think Nautilus Manufacture folded a while back and now most of the staff works at Mistwalker. Even if they didn't, Aruze Corp still owns the rights and they mainly only make pachiniko machines. Someone would have to buy the rights from Aruze.

I actually liked From the New World, because it was just mechanically better overall and avoided a lot of the pitfalls that Covenant did. The story wasn't great, but it certainly played better.

I second the Legacy of Kain thing, but Amy Hennig works at Naughty Dog now writing Uncharted games so I doubt that'll ever happen with her writing it.

I want a new fucking Star Control game made by Fred Ford and Paul Reiche and the other guys at Toys For Bob who've been languishing in kiddy licensed game hell since Activision bought them.

More of a wish list :

- Chrono Trigger (best RPG of all time, best music)
- Final Fantasy (the old good style before they started to forcefeed us shit)
- Romance of the Three Kingdoms (the strategy game not the dynasty warrior shit)
- Lufia (before they started making SHITTY action-rpgs)
- Secret of Mana
- Earthbound
- Shadowrun
- Phantasy Star (not the ONLINE SHIT)
- Baldur's Gate (or any fucken game based on D&D that isn't developped by fucken morons)

Sorry but when my plan to bring the world to it's knees goes into effect all game development will be put on hold until a new Jagged Alliance comes out.

Then I will be deposed by mercenary scum.

Jay said:

More of a wish list :

- Chrono Trigger (best RPG of all time, best music)

- Shadowrun
- Phantasy Star (not the ONLINE SHIT)
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I'm with ya on these Nintendo and SEGA both have some good/bad idea for Shadowrun. I didn't like the new PC/PS3 shadowrun

Jay said:

More of a wish list :

- Chrono Trigger (best RPG of all time, best music)
- Final Fantasy (the old good style before they started to forcefeed us shit)
- Romance of the Three Kingdoms (the strategy game not the dynasty warrior shit)
- Lufia (before they started making SHITTY action-rpgs)
- Secret of Mana
- Earthbound
- Shadowrun
- Phantasy Star (not the ONLINE SHIT)
- Baldur's Gate (or any fucken game based on D&D that isn't developped by fucken morons)

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Chrono Trigger: There is no reason Square couldn't do this, except that some of the biggest minds behind it are at Mistwalker now.
Final Fantasy: I still say 12 was great.
Romance of Three Kingdoms: Didn't they make a PS2 one? I'm pretty sure they did.
Lufia - They stopped making good Lufia games after Rise of the Sinistrals. It was 2-3 crappy GBA games after that and they were pretty much like Lufia 2.
Secret of Mana: The last few kinda sucked. Legend of Mana was fun, but they didn't explain anything to you. The DS ones were just plain bad.
Earthbound: Never going to happen, mainly because Nintendo can't seem to make money off of them. Mostly because they are idiots.
Shadowrun: I'd kill for a KOTOR style Shadowrun game.
Phantasy Star: I never played this series... is it worth it to track them down?
Baldur's Gate: Did you not like the Neverwinter Nights games? I'd almost call Mask of the Betrayer the successor to Planescape: Torment.

How's this for a good combination: Shadowrun. By Bioware (Mass Effect, Dragon Age). Nuff said. *droooool*

I'd be honestly afraid to see a new Chrono Trigger, now. At the rate Square Enix is going, it'll be a 70-hour movie with five minutes of gameplay.

Earthbound honestly should be a bigger franchise than it is. The problem, I think, is that it feels like it's an American-set RPG, but done in Japan. That's speaking as a big fan of the original.

I'd kill for a new Chrono Trigger, though. Then again, I don't know. I didn't like Chrono Cross at all.

ThatNickGuy said:

Earthbound honestly should be a bigger franchise than it is. The problem, I think, is that it feels like it's an American-set RPG, but done in Japan. That's speaking as a big fan of the original.

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No, the problem is...

- They have trouble with the music rights, mainly because some of the songs sound REALLY similar to more famous tunes.
- Reggie hates it.
- No one is quite sure how to market it to Americans. This should have been very evident with the "This game REALLY stinks" promotion they did for Earthbound.
- Nintendo takes forever to get it localized. One of the biggest reasons we didn't get Mother 3 is because it came out so late in the life of the GBA.

Mother freakin DUNGEON KEEPER.

Oh, and Half-Life. /drum fill

Final Fantasy: I still say 12 was great.

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No.

Romance of Three Kingdoms: Didn't they make a PS2 one? I'm pretty sure they did.

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They don't quite a few and I own them all, beyond ROTK 7-8 though, they are all lacking, X on PC and is OKish but they all feel... incomplete.

Lufia - They stopped making good Lufia games after Rise of the Sinistrals. It was 2-3 crappy GBA games after that and they were pretty much like Lufia 2.

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Like? Bad wording, they were no where close. That's like saying Dragon Age 2 is like Dragon Age Origins.

Earthbound: Never going to happen, mainly because Nintendo can't seem to make money off of them.

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I'm currenting playing Mother 3 on my PSP with an emulator, it's been good so far but just started it.

Phantasy Star: I never played this series... is it worth it to track them down?

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Absolutely, try an emulator of Phantasy Star 4 on the Genesis and take it from there.

Baldur's Gate: Did you not like the Neverwinter Nights games? I'd almost call Mask of the Betrayer the successor to Planescape: Torment.

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NWN games never felt like D&D, just D&D in spirit. They got classes, they got skills but essentially is not the D&D experience I love and expect. They are OK games. NWN 1 was nice because it offered worlds that DM can create but I still feel it was no where close to what I was expecting.

GasBandit said:

Oh, and Half-Life. /drum fill

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beat me to it.

I think HL is overrated.

Jay said:

I think HL is overrated.

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I just played through HL2 and the episodes again a couple months ago. They still mostly stand up.

AND I'M SERIOUS ABOUT DUNGEON KEEPER.

I didn't like Dungeon Keeper 2 as I did one. It was tons of fun!

Chibibar said:

I didn't like Dungeon Keeper 2 as I did one. It was tons of fun!

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1 was better than 2, but I'd settle for something as good as 2. Evil Genius just isn't enough any more.

Best game ever made deserves a real sequel. Not the shit Accolade made with the IP after they ousted Toys for Bob.

Freelancer

Frankie Williamson said:

Best game ever made deserves a real sequel. Not the shit Accolade made with the IP after they ousted Toys for Bob.

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From what I read, SC2 being so awesome was actually kind of an accident. There was a sort of "readme" file in my copy that described how when the game was 80% done, the developers went MIA and it took 6 months to track them down... and by the time the private investigator DID, they had basically re-written the whole game. So the manual that shipped with the game was barely even relevant.

I know lightning doesn't strike twice, but I wish they could've tried.

Frankie Williamson said:

I second the Legacy of Kain thing, but Amy Hennig works at Naughty Dog now writing Uncharted games so I doubt that'll ever happen with her writing it.

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One more reason to murder all console gamers... c'mon Shego, we can do it...

I'd like to see more of the old MicroProse catalog come back.

I found my old disks to Sword of the Samurai, F-15 Strike Eagle II, F-19, Pirates (I know this has been remade a few times even once recently.)

I'd love to see another open ended game of the depth that MP put out, that has that same level of replay. I would also like to see air-combat sims that are not just fly through this invisible tunnel and twitch at the right second or you will not survive the mission.

Sword of the Samurai.... just youtubed that.... Pirates game... with samurai? yes plz!

sixpackshaker said:

I'd like to see more of the old MicroProse catalog come back.

I found my old disks to Sword of the Samurai, F-15 Strike Eagle II, F-19, Pirates (I know this has been remade a few times even once recently.)

I'd love to see another open ended game of the depth that MP put out, that has that same level of replay. I would also like to see air-combat sims that are not just fly through this invisible tunnel and twitch at the right second or you will not survive the mission.

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MY BROTHER

Two words: Ogre Battle.

Gimme more Dungeon Keeper, The World Ends with You, Mega Man, (original - and NOT some download) just off the top of my head.

Oh, and I wouldn't mind me some more Total Annihilation - Arm vs. Core!

Tress said:

Two words: Ogre Battle.

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They released a remake of Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together on the PSP this year. It's pretty awesome.

Zappit said:

Mega Man, (original - and NOT some download)

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What's wrong with Megaman 9 and 10? They are great games, true to the original NES series in most every detail. I'd even argue that 9 and 10 lead directly into the X series, as 9 has the first mass Maverick uprising (Protoman is technically the first Maverick, but this was the first after him) and 10 show Wily experimenting with computer viruses (something Zero spread prior to X-1, which caused ALL the problems in the X Series).

I'm pretty sure it's even possible to get 9 and 10 on reproduction carts if you really want a physical copy.

Telephius said:

X-com, the strategy kind
X-wing/Tie-fighter

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Man I knew someone would beat me to it. The Ace Combat series, too. Pretty much any good fighter/bomber sim. They've gotten pretty sparse.
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AshburnerX said:

Baldur's Gate: Did you not like the Neverwinter Nights games? I'd almost call Mask of the Betrayer the successor to Planescape: Torment.

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Yes, this, please. NWN was okay, but it wasn't up to the writing standards of BG or BG2 or IWD, and definitely not up to Planescape: Torment. One of my biggest beefs with NWN2 was that it looked and played a bit dated for the time it was released. Plus I wanted to hit Bevin with a fish.

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Shadowgate got a crappy N64 game. Deja Vu was originally a PC game, but the GBA version actually has the sequel to it on it.

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Eh, yeah. But there hasn't been anything really mainstream released in a long time, you know? I think that style of gameplay would translate really well on the iPod, iPad, iWhatsit market.

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Man I knew someone would beat me to it. The Ace Combat series, too. Pretty much any good fighter/bomber sim. They've gotten pretty sparse.
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Ace Combat is mainly on the PSP right now, though a new one is coming out on the 360 soon.

Zappit said:

The World Ends with You

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Oh fuck yeah, this. If the DS only had that game to play, it still would have been completely worth it. I loved it.

Ravenpoe said:

Oh fuck yeah, this. If the DS only had that game to play, it still would have been completely worth it. I loved it.

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Considering Nomura is going to be involved with KH3 (the next big project after FF13-2) and is currently doing stuff with Versus, it's going to be a long way off. He did say he's totally up for it though.

AshburnerX said:

They released a remake of Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together on the PSP this year. It's pretty awesome.

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That's good, but I want a completely new entry into the series. I love those games!

AshburnerX said:

What's wrong with Megaman 9 and 10? They are great games, true to the original NES series in most every detail. I'd even argue that 9 and 10 lead directly into the X series, as 9 has the first mass Maverick uprising (Protoman is technically the first Maverick, but this was the first after him) and 10 show Wily experimenting with computer viruses (something Zero spread prior to X-1, which caused ALL the problems in the X Series).

I'm pretty sure it's even possible to get 9 and 10 on reproduction carts if you really want a physical copy.

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That's what I meant. A physical copy.

Zappit said:

That's what I meant. A physical copy.

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You might want to check the Anniversary collection when it comes out in 2012. It might have them on the disc then.

I hadn't even heard of that - thanks for the head's up, Ash!

Lost Vikings... Trine proved it could work...

Anyone say Battletoads yet? That was my first "throw the controller" game. Not even on the speeder stages - those weren't too bad. It was those damn snakes - EVERY TIME. But man, it was fun.

No, no Battletoads. I won't want to hear all the whining over it's difficulty.

(and that's just before the game even comes out. "it'll be too easy", "it'll be too hard", "damn these bears make tasty porridge")