Games that NEED a Sequel
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Hows about:
G-Police (Done in the Source engine?)
- Used to play a crapload of this on my PS1. Hell of a lot of fun dropping 1000lb bombs on a cluster of civilians and seeing them all explode violently. That and the combat mechanics were solid for its time. Very ripe to be re-done with modern tech. Especially since Psygnosis disbanded.
Freelancer (Same engine with a massive overhaul?)
-Digital Anvil, rest in peace. You brought us a fantastic overhaul of Elite and people still want more. Perhaps with better acting.
G-Police (Done in the Source engine?)
- Used to play a crapload of this on my PS1. Hell of a lot of fun dropping 1000lb bombs on a cluster of civilians and seeing them all explode violently. That and the combat mechanics were solid for its time. Very ripe to be re-done with modern tech. Especially since Psygnosis disbanded.
Freelancer (Same engine with a massive overhaul?)
-Digital Anvil, rest in peace. You brought us a fantastic overhaul of Elite and people still want more. Perhaps with better acting.
Jet Force Gemini, whats not to love about a game where you fight space ants and collect their heads?
also, Kya: Dark Lineage, i thought it was a pretty good game.
also, Kya: Dark Lineage, i thought it was a pretty good game.
Well, we don't really "need" anything but food and shelter, but I think the OP really was asking what games should have a sequel according to the community. Ah yes, language, mother of all misunderstandings.Funk Engine said:
While I agree that sequels shouldn't be done without sense or just for the sake of establishing a franchise (why hello there, BioShock), I think it's too narrow to only allow sequels if the story allows it.
First there are games like Portal 2. I agree with Yahtzee that Portal's fun comes from the puzzles, the story is a nice background, but it's still a background, so I didn't mind the sequel retconning and twisting stuff just so it could happen.
Those are the games where story plays a secondary or even altogether forgettable role and you want a sequel because of the overall gameplay.
Then there are games that do not necessarily add to the canon or rewrite history forever, but flesh out a Constructed World by letting us view the world from a different, interesting perspective. Its timeline may or may not overlap with the main one. I think Crysis: Warhead did the latter, but I haven't played it, so I can't name that as a confirmed example. I did play Homeworld: Cataclysm tho. It's set after the first game (Homeworld 1) that told a completely round story from beginning to end. Homeworld: Cataclysm's story is not mentioned once in the next sequel (Homeworld 2), but it let us view how history developed in general after the first game's achievements and how life is like for a small, weak clan (as opposed to the entire race you're commanding in Homeworld 1).
It's a sequel that isn't *necessary*, but fleshed out the world and brought some new toys in gameplay, thus it didn't feel like stagnant "franchise stretching" at all. Since its story is completely different from the original, as is the vast majority of the units, it's not exactly "more of the same" either, tho there are certainly characteristic similarities.
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So as I see it there are simply interesting and uninteresting sequels, those that can bring enough new things to the table to be interesting on their own, without the strength of its successor, and then there are the boring sequels that don't add enough new and just feel like stretching and a waste of creative minds. Nintendo's struggling with this.
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Rayman. The Jump & Run, not the bunny minigame collection.
Borderlands
Mirrors edge
War of the Monsters (the only good gaint monster game)
Sonic adventure 2 (I want a 3 damnit)
Dark cloud 2 (best RPG I have evry played, I want a third one)
Spore
Mirrors edge
War of the Monsters (the only good gaint monster game)
Sonic adventure 2 (I want a 3 damnit)
Dark cloud 2 (best RPG I have evry played, I want a third one)
Spore
I can see one minor problem with that: The spellplauge. Neverwinter didn't do so well, last I recall.Zebidizy said:
Still, I loved NWN2 and MotB (SoZ to a lesser extent) and would love to see another one.
I also would like one to RD:R.
Red Dead Redemption.
I want to see what happens to Jack after he kills Ross. Apparently, if you read a newspaper after beating the game, you find out what happens to everyone: Seth finds gold and becomes a millionaire, Marshall Johnson retires and leaves Armadillo, broken and dejected, Reyes becomes the new President of Mexico and is promptly killed for being a tyrant. It'd be interesting to see Seth come back as a rich Southern Gentlemen, maybe have the Army catch on to Jack killing Ross and go after him, idk, but there's a ton of great stories they could get from this.
