A series that you love and fear may never be continued.
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In just the past year I've gotten Tropico 3 and Patrician 4. Paradox put out a Victoria 2 and announced a Crusader Kings 2. Creative Assembly decided to finally give a sequel to the game that started the Total War series so we're getting Shogun 2. I'm willing to believe anything at this point...maybe a proper SimCity 5 is next?
The Manga *Makes scoffing sound with spiting noises* shit got to depressing in that ending...not to say that the anime wasnt as depressing...but at least the anime had a...kinda good ending....and music.Furbyz said:
I've never seen Dollhouse, but I want to make sweet love to you right now for everything else you said. Unless you're underaged, which then I would like to tell the crew of Dateline NBC, that I did not know and wasn't serious with my statement.Furbyz said:
Last year NYX was continued with a miniseries called "No Way Home", the original creative talent didn't return, although Quesada was involved with the plot.
Yeah, like you said Dead Like Me shouldn't have been canceled, and the lackluster "Life After Death" was a proposal to Showtime to renew the show, but so far we still have no word.
And to add some series:
-Pushing Daisies: I absolutely adored this show. Bryan Fuller seems to have some curse with creating brilliant, original, and quirky television programs that live a short life. Dead Like Me, Wonderfalls, and Pushing Daisies all lived short but fufilling lives. At least unlike Dead Like Me, Pushing Daisies received closure. It was a rushed one, that still had loose ends, but it was closure nonetheless.
-The Master and Commander movies: The 2003 motion picture adaptation of The Far Side of the World made a mass killing in the box office, was well received by audiences and critics alike and earned 10 Oscar nods. It was played so many times in my best friend's VCR, that the tape was chewed up by the machine. The Far Side of the World was just one in a series of 20 (and one unfinished) books, and plans for a continuation of the series has been in development hell for seven years.
-Sin Episodes: VALVe is my favorite developer but damn them for popularizing the concept of episodic installments, and abandoning them like every other developer who jumped on their bandwagon to nowhere. Ritual Entertainment was one of the first to follow them and fall victim to this ideology, and released the sequel to their 1998 FPS Sin, which was a well liked and influential title which was eclipsed in the shadow of Half-Life. After releasing the first episode titled Emergence which ending in an expected cliffhanger, Ritual was bought by a casual games company that had no interest in continuing the series. Most of the developers quit or found jobs elsewhere, some banded together and even tried to buy back the rights under a new roof to no success.
-Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog: After becoming an international internet sensation that relieved weary people suffering from the writer's strike, there were all sorts of talk of a next installment. Nathon Fillion and Joss Whedon confirmed the sequel. Rumors that the next part (whose predecessor was written, shot and edited within just months with time to create an entirely separate musical just for the commentary track) was to come shortly was dashed by the writer's strike ending that the principal cast resuming day jobs. Shooting was scheduled to begin within the next year, then the next, then the next, and now Whedon is directing the Avengers. Will it just be a one time hit, whose original success wasn't sullied by a lesser sequel there only to milk the success? Who knows.
-The Team Fortress 2 Meet the Team videos: They eat up a lot of resources from the writing and animation departments and VALVe releases them for free. I'm not sure how much new publicity they get for it, so I don't blame them.
-Vampire: The Masquerade: Oh wait. [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/103767-CCP-Teases-New-Vampire-the-Masquerade-MMOG]
My heart says yes but my brain says noTaxicab Samurai said:
. Considering the development hell the original three went through, and how complex/story heavy the series is I'm pretty sure any attempts to revive it would be so awful as to drive me to tears. If they fucked up KOS-MOS there wouldn't be tears, there would be death.
And this is why I read the replies, so that rather than saying this myself I could just agree with the first person who said it.Irridium said:
Priest. It's such a great series and yet it's been at least 2 or 3 years since the last book came out. Not only that, but the last volume ended on a ferocious cliff-hanger. >_>
This, exactly. I only jumped on the BGE fantrain last year after getting it through GoG.com, but it's far and away one of my favourite games. Then I went looking for information on a sequel, right as there was the whole confusing mess of stories about Michel Ansel possibly, not really, leaving Ubisoft and the game getting canned. Thankfully it is apparently still in development, just on a valve-esque timeline.Gunsang said:
I too absolutely love Karen Traviss, and I hope she keeps writing despite people's feelings over Fett and other things. Just remember people, Fett wasn't even an ancillary character to begin with, just a dude in cool armor that more or less equated: EXTRA.Soviet Heavy said:
Besides, Traviss actually gave him some form of personality as well as giving clones a chance to have some humanity.
I'd love to see a real sequel to Azure Dreams, and no, Tao's Adventure doesn't count. I had a ton of fun with that game growing up, and even now I'll pop it in to play for awhile every now and again. Would just love to see an updated version with a bigger tower, more monsters, and more equipment.
Other than that.
F#@king R.A.D., or Robot Alchemic Drive. It was a PS2 game that Square Enix put out a few years back. In it, you played an heir to a bankrupt weapons manufacture, who charged with protecting the city from giant space monsters/robots by using one of three (you actually unlock all three by game's end) giant robots. The trick was that you didn't pilot the machines so much as you were given a remote controller for them, so the game had you switching between controlling your robot to running around as your character trying to find a better vantage point for the fight. The robots themselves kind of controlled a bit like the Fight Night series of games, where each joystick controlled an arm, each shoulder button controlled a leg (L1 and L2 controlled whether the left leg moved forward or back, ditto for R1 and R2) and the rest of the buttons did everything from cause transformations (One of them turned into a jet, one into a tank, one into a more badass version of itself that would kill you after three minutes) to firing off canons, beam weapons, and other varies heavy artillery. The whole thing was inspired by the classic giant robot animes and played out a bit like them as well. I've just been dying for them to make another one, especially with today's consoles. Bigger city, bigger monsters, bigger fights. Maybe even go over the top with the anime thing, let us ride on the robots shoulder or something, let us be psychic powered superkids or magic slinging fighters, maybe have us fight off some minor minions and do some random mission stuff (saving people from buildings, etc.) while our robot autopilots itself through the fight for a bit. I'll be happy if they don't really change anythign about it, just so long as we get another one.
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Other than that.
F#@king R.A.D., or Robot Alchemic Drive. It was a PS2 game that Square Enix put out a few years back. In it, you played an heir to a bankrupt weapons manufacture, who charged with protecting the city from giant space monsters/robots by using one of three (you actually unlock all three by game's end) giant robots. The trick was that you didn't pilot the machines so much as you were given a remote controller for them, so the game had you switching between controlling your robot to running around as your character trying to find a better vantage point for the fight. The robots themselves kind of controlled a bit like the Fight Night series of games, where each joystick controlled an arm, each shoulder button controlled a leg (L1 and L2 controlled whether the left leg moved forward or back, ditto for R1 and R2) and the rest of the buttons did everything from cause transformations (One of them turned into a jet, one into a tank, one into a more badass version of itself that would kill you after three minutes) to firing off canons, beam weapons, and other varies heavy artillery. The whole thing was inspired by the classic giant robot animes and played out a bit like them as well. I've just been dying for them to make another one, especially with today's consoles. Bigger city, bigger monsters, bigger fights. Maybe even go over the top with the anime thing, let us ride on the robots shoulder or something, let us be psychic powered superkids or magic slinging fighters, maybe have us fight off some minor minions and do some random mission stuff (saving people from buildings, etc.) while our robot autopilots itself through the fight for a bit. I'll be happy if they don't really change anythign about it, just so long as we get another one.
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I believe the original idea was to be called something along the lines of Chrono Break, if I'm not mistaken... But yes, I believe it seems to have disappeared.notsosavagemessiah said:
OT: I would just love to see another Megaman Legends arise. Roll Caskett is one of my all time favorite characters. And Megaman Volnutt is probably my favorite Megaman of the ones I have seen.
Also, (while the hope in my heart is all but dried up for it) my friends and I would still loooove to see a Legend of Dragoon 2. Unfortunately, it will probably never be able to live up to whatever expectations it may have now because of nostalgia and if it isn't the absolute greatest thing ever, bad things might happen.