Games you wish weren't dead

[Ancient Mariner]

Bioshock 2's multiplayer was unexpectedly well executed. It certainly did not reinvent the wheel; overall it's structure was pretty derivative of other popular FPS multiplayer games. However, the Bioshock mechanics work nicely in an online environment. It's a shame that it's essentially deserted, there are maybe a maximum of 20-40 people at any given time and most of those people only participate in the civil war (team deathmatch) lobbies.

 

[EyeReaper]

Well, I was going to say Medievil as a joke... but then I remembered how true it was. Oh look, I'm crying now. Also, Crash Bandicoot needs the Rayman: Origins treatment. I miss thaat lil guy.

Also, despite the flooding a couple years ago, I wish there was a new Rock Band/Guitar Hero. I don't have the stuff anymore and it's pricey to get the full set nowadays.

 

[t00bz]

Myeh but that's just the PC version I think, I play on PS3.

Guess you should get a PC, brah. Games never die on PC.

I've always preferred consoles, but that's another thread altogether

So you prefer to play on an inferior device that is obsolete before it even comes out? No wonder all your favorite games have died. The device you play them on is dead well before the games are.

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

Myeh but that's just the PC version I think, I play on PS3.

Guess you should get a PC, brah. Games never die on PC.

I've always preferred consoles, but that's another thread altogether

So you prefer to play on an inferior device that is obsolete before it even comes out? No wonder all your favorite games have died. The device you play them on is dead well before the games are.

I don't know how you went from "Borderlands' multiplayer is down so Moxxi's Underdome isn't palatable anymore" to "all my favorite games are dead", but I'm not one to question the power of imagination

 

[Ironman126]

Warhammer 40K Dawn of War.

Dawn of War isn't dead. You just need to install the Ultimate Apocalypse mod(s). There's like 100+ people on pretty regularly.

Unless you just want to play standard. Then I feel your pain.

I kinda wish Tribes: Ascend was still going. I had a lot of fun in that game, skiing around shooting stuff. Usually not people, but it still amused me.

 

[Pink Gregory]

Freespace 2. Not only the series is dead, and its body mutilated and sold for scraps, but the genre was dead for just as long...

Luckily, with the raise of indie games, some people are working on bringing the genre back, but the franchise never had a proper sendoff.

I loved the first game, for me the plot was actually better than the sequel. I liked the game play of the second more, I just wish I could have seen the war through to its conclusion.

Dead?

You do know that there's quite a large modding community for Freespace 2, right?

I'm not sure I'd call a game dead just because official channels say it is...

 

[vid87]

Tenchu Stealth Assassins. I've only played the 1st one for the PS1 and it's wildly uneven at times, but when I was on a roll it was fantastic. I imagine some people will claim the later installments weren't as bad as everyone else was making them out to be, but all I've heard for the series is that they just couldn't make it work, even though it's been around as recently as 2008.

 

[Mimic]

Jet Force Gemini..

Sin and Punishment came back, there's a chance.

Ah, then I will still hold onto a little bit of hope, but I don't think too many people have played it. Until then I still have my n64 copy and might give it another go for old times sake.

 

[PinkiePyro]

I feel a bit lucky I only became attracted to mutiplayer in recent years so I cant say there are many dead mutiplayer games I miss

but there are two I can mention both lesser known steam games

Horde: its a little game where you are a dragon and compete to amass the biggest horde multiplayer has been dead for a year or so. (its still quite playable though with singleplayer still working and pretty hard, I recommend it if you want a nice cheap indy game to kill time with)

Dino D-day: a quirky little idea of a FPS about dinosaurs in WW2 was 'stillborn' few people own it (though I haven't checked it for awhile and the company is still up dating it...)

 

[Ulquiorra4sama]

I wish the Bulletstorm's online wasn't virtually dead and/or shit so that i could get the last three or four trophies i miss in that game.

One thing i found myself wondering recently though is; If they patched ME3 so that Galactic Readiness was always at 100% how quickly would the online mode die out there?

 

[laggyteabag]

OP, both of those games look damn fun, especially Shattered Horizon, but I guess games die.

Battlefield: Bad Company 2. I invested so much time into this game on my 360, but it is a huge shame that the game pretty much up and died after Battlefield 3 came out. Last I checked, the game is populated almost exclusively by a small amount of level 50s, and that was about 2 years ago. I got it on my PC, and it was great to go back, but something just isnt right, but I cant pinpoint it.

Mass Effect 3 Multiplayer. A shadow of it's former self. It was a feature that nobody wanted, and it was implemented poorly, but my god it was a good time with 4 players. If the Dragon Age: Inquisition multiplayer is anywhere near as good as ME3s, then I can imagine sinking a very large amount of time into it.

Space Marine. I got it a few months after it's release for about £15 including all of the DLC, however, little did I know that if I wanted any chance at playing the game's multiplayer, I would have to play the vanilla version because the DLC playlists were dead. I think that I played one single game of the dreadnought mode, and I never found a server afterwards. It was super fun to jump across the map as an assault marine, or hunker down and open fire as a devastator, but I guess that Space Marine was just not as popular as I would have hoped.

 

[iwinatlife]

i wish City of heroes hadnt closed that was fun
and champions isnt the same :/

 

[Candidus]

Nexus TJI

This probably needs no introduction. A great space strategy game with a control scheme and gameplay that you'd expect to have seen more of since- on account of how fucking awesome it was. But NOPE. Dead.

Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning

I missed my chance to walk around it one last time, and that sucks. I had such a lot of fun playing this game with a friend. We probably snagged the first Open RvR kills on the Euro server, viciously hiding in the forest down the hill from the starting High Elf town on Blighted Isle and killing a White Lion by the name of Karlikoss. My heart hammered. It was about fifteen/twenty minutes after launch.

In the second zone, where the Dark Elf side is that blackened, craggy coast, this friend and I found a cave on the High Elf side full of skeletons that were blue to us. So we hid in there and pounced on anyone who came to do the quest, supported by these strong-ass skeletons, until the Order side had backlogged on that quest to such an extent that there was basically a raid to kill us! They stormed down the mouth of the cave and we held out for as long as we could, killing and killing and using the tunnels in the main chamber to LOS for healing time. It was titanic. **I have never had more fun than I was feeling at that moment. Not in real life, and not in another game.**

Later, I would endlessly re-roll a High Elf healer and repeat levels 1-11 in the PvP zones. I had always been shy about building and leading groups in MMOs (or anywhere else) before biting the bit and doing it in WO:AOR, but when I started I didn't stop. My warbands were always overflowing and people started to recognize me by name as my repetitions continued and continued.

The base game left a lot to be desired, but it was the most fun I've ever had. Yeah. Warhammer On-fucking-line.