Games that should have some sort of "sequel" or at least spiritual successor

[Azaraxzealot]

There are some games that I LOVE their ideas. There are some games that have a premise that should have been taken farther or should have been worked upon more, but unfortunately there will never be a sequel for.

Some games I may mention:
Prototype (good old-fashioned dicking around fun that could have benefited from having the gameplay tie in with the narrative)

Terminator: Salvation (horrible game, but setting one in a post-apocalyptic time of the war against the machines had a LOT of promise that was unused)

Dead Rising 1&2 (still great, but still needs a straight up "free roaming" mode, a bigger city, and an engine that make gameplay a LITTLE smoother)

Brutal Legend (great idea to have a heavy metal universe, but needed better pacing and more of a "you versus the world" feeling sort of like God of War, maybe would have benefitted from being able to play the songs in a guitar hero-esque minigame that could have earned you in-game fan tributes?)

Pirates of the Caribbean (i just want a swashbuckling adventure on my seventh-generation console that's NOT owned by Disney... and something more brutal, because c'mon! THEY'RE PIRATES! and how many good, fun, action/adventure pirate games are there nowadays?)

but sometimes i suggest to make a game to people and at first all my friends tell me the idea is amazing, but when i bring it to the internet, it's called a "ripoff" and "stupid" why all the hate for wanting to make a spiritual successor to a game that i genuinely ALWAYS wanted a sequel to but never got? what's wrong with wanting to make a game that "I" want to play?

besides that, are there any games that YOU guys would love to make a spiritual successor (or just flat out sequel) to?

 

[Serenegoose]

My usual answer to this:

Arcanum: of Steamworks and Magicks Obscura. That game could be glorious remade with modern technology and gaming sensibilities (and regular patching to work the bugs out )

 

[tomtom94]

In before Psychonauts.

Age of Mythology. It just felt better than the normal AOE games in some way.

 

[DanielPowell33]

I would love another Jet Force Gemini game. I recently started playing it again, and still don't fully understand whats going on, but I love killing them bugs!

 

[randomsix]

My reply to all these kinds of threads is, and can only be, Psi Ops: The Mindgate Conspiracy.

 

[mirror's edgy]

Now this is just my wild imagination, but what if there was a sequel to Half Life 2: Episode 2?

 

[FalloutJack]

Well, I'm not going to ask for a spiritual successor, because that's the same (to me) as just asking for a different game, so on with the sequels!

Extermination

Think about it. This was a different kind of Survival Horror game that was received kind of Meh overall (I liked it, though.) which uses something somewhat freakier than a certain John Carpenter plot. (Of course, that is debatable, especially since I'm also a John Carpenter FAN.) Still, it was a freaky plot in which the remnant of an alien whatsit was recovered and experimented on, in which a neurotic scientist decides "Fuck humanity!" and decides to help the alien - Yup, still alive. - take over. The infection grows on anything - people, walls, whatever. There was even this freakish thing where some of the cast were somehow absorbed - cell by cell - by the stuff growing out of the walls.

Maybe it was the the curse of bad acting in Survival Horror or something else, but had freaky shit happening throughout the game, like the fact that water and heat makes the creatures stronger, and that there's loads of it all over the place! Now, lucky for them, this was in antarctica, where it's too cold for the infection to propagate. But I wouldn't mind seeing a sequel that takes things like...this.

Our hero, the chick, and the black dude made it out of the exploding facility alive and uninfected, taking care of the last - and strongest - creature following them. But what then? They were on a vessel covered in alien leftovers from the damn creature exploding all over the deck. That's where the game faded to black before. After the fact...what if the leftovers still had cellular activity, and our happy trio was giving it a free ride? Can we have a worst-case scenario of a world gone mad from an alien infection? I'd like to see that, for sure.

 

[aww yea]

WEEELLLLLL:

G-police.

 

[rileyrulesu]

My usual answer to this:

Arcanum: of Steamworks and Magicks Obscura. That game could be glorious remade with modern technology and gaming sensibilities (and regular patching to work the bugs out )

Oh my god, I thought I was the only one who ever played that. I LOVED that game, my favorite RPG of all time!

O.P.
mirrors edge. I REALLY liked the first, and apparently I am alone with this opinion, but i would like to see another with the technical issues worked out.

 

[Cosplay Horatio]

Cheetaman

 

[faspxina]

Final Fantasy

 

[Baron von Blitztank]

Blood.
Seriously, I want a Blood 3! (Or Blood: Forever)

Prototype.
I'm with the OP on this one, the game is excellent but the story just doesn't fit in.

Also a Painkiller-esque game would be nice (Although Bulletstorm seems to be taking that role)

 

[the Dept of Science]

In before Psychonauts.

Even though I think Tim Schaefer is great, I'm not sure how they could do a sequel as good as the first.

Its one of those occaisions where it stands perfectly well on its own feet. Even though they left the ending open for a sequel, I really don't know how they could pull off the concept again.

I mean, even things like "how many more mental illnesses could they do?". I mean, they have done OCD (Edgar), split personality (Fred Bonaparte), manic depression (Bonita Soleil), paranoia (the Milkman), pent-up emotions (Sasha), I can't see how a sequel could be that inventive again.

I think Schaefer would be far better off doing something completely new.

 

[Mr Pantomime]

How about a kingdom Hearts sprititual successor with Pixar and Tales Of/Dragon Quest/Star Ocean. It sounds awesome.

Id also like to see a game thats a spritual successor to Zelda:Twilight Princess. See how well a new franchise sells.

 

[ace_of_something]

My usual answer to this:

Arcanum: of Steamworks and Magicks Obscura. That game could be glorious remade with modern technology and gaming sensibilities (and regular patching to work the bugs out )

You beat me to it almost verbatim. Including the 'my usual answer' part. I still dust off that game about once a year to play it a bit.

 

[Tsunimo]

In before Psychonauts.

Age of Mythology. It just felt better than the normal AOE games in some way.

This
I loved both AoM and its Expansion... i wish i could find the disc for it

 

[Atmos Duality]

Tribes: Vengeance

At least establish the faux-Warhammer 40k universe before aborting the series entirely, Vivendi.
You had a diamond in the rough, but treated it like coal.

I would love to see another entry in the Chrono series, but I fear that whoever was responsible for the complicated story and style has long since ceased working in the gaming industry.

 

[grimhammer]

Armed and Dangerous and more importantly
ADVENT RISING!
Man the first game was pure awesome. Yes it was kinda easy towards the end and it had some bugs, but the story man, the story, the cinematography, the visuals. Pure win from start to end.

 

[Blindswordmaster]

Star Wars: Republic Commando
Loved seeing the Star Wars universe from something other than a jedi's viewpoint. That, and the piston blade was just badass.