Three franchises you'd fund a sequel for - three franchises you'd bury in a dank, dark pit

[GloatingSwine]

Spyro: We took a SERIOUSLY wrong turn somewhere with this series. The first PS1 games were some of the first games i ever played, and they were wonderful, fun, imaginative, and brutal as hell at times. Skylanders should have never happened, and i hope whoever decided to do the skylanders... thing... is kept up at night with the guilt of what he/she has fucking done. Revive the old format.

For all that the version of Spyro in it looks like he's been in a horrific car accident, Skylanders isn't a bad game.

Y'know, unlike every other Spyro game since the PS1, which were terrible. A voice cast to die for putting in actual performances, not even phoning it in, is no substitute for good level and gameplay design, and the later Spyro trilogy had terrible gameplay and dull levels.

FF: same as spyro. Back to basics, let's try this again. Too decadent, too ridiculous and outlandish, too "ignore that player guy". Back to the old format.

They actualy did this, it's just called Bravely Default now.

 

[ObserverStatus]

Resurrect:
TimeSplitters
System Shock
Vampire: The Masquerade

Bury:
Mass Effect
Resident Evil
Everything by Blizzard

I'm not sure about Metroid, it kinda fits both categories.

 

[ZippyDSMlee]

Metroid Prime

KOTOR

Warcraft

Jedi Knight

Final Fantasy/Dragon Warroir (set in a steampunk/medieval world with a deep class and equipment system)

Midevil

Bury Capcom, Konami, Ubisoft, ,Sony game dev, Microsoft game dev, 2K, EA and Activision and any other cash grab half assed AAA pub/dev.

 

[RavingSturm]

Resurrect:Ghosts n Goblins, Demon's Crest, SoulReaver/Kain


Bury:Halo, COD, Battlefield

 

[Username Redacted]

Throwing money at the screen:

Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines : Best vampire based game I've ever played. Very thankful that the fans of this game have kept it alive.

Vagrant Story: One of the most interesting Square PS1 games.

Skullgirls: It would be nice to see the people who worked on this get some real funding to keep on doing what they do.

Bury:

Street Fighter IV: I play this game quit a bit but between Capcom being Capcom and the repeated (and often ill-advised) updates you can practically hear the gears straining while you play. There where so many bugs in the most recent version ('Ultra Street Fighter IV' for those who care) that just make you go "How the fuck does that even happen?". This isn't even considering the fact that at least one of their patches introduced new bugs to areas of the game that the patch wasn't directed towards in possibly one of the most incompetent ways of handling version control I've ever seen. Capcom needs to stop milking this title and direct its efforts to some combination of Street Fighter V and not going bankrupt.

 

[Danny Dowling]

Ressurect:
Crash Bandicoot; back to the roots of the franchise, it's a killer IP.

Gex the Gecko: Although I'd have to have the British voiceover from Enter the Gecko. Enter the Gecko is platforming at it's finest on the PS1. It has that Mario 64 thing where you have to do the same level a few times with different objectives which works well, and over all the character is just decent.

Advanced Wars; can't say enough good things about the old Advanced Wars games. They could be eSports, I'm just saying

 

[vid87]

REZ:

-Crash Bandicoot (WOW there's a lot of love for this one): The cartoonish tone is ok, but the first one had a bit more subtlety. The sound and visuals added the tropical island flavor that made it so unique. Everything after that went a bit overboard.

-Medievil: Again, lost sense of self in subsequent titles, but the gameplay was solid and the gothic humor tone was like something out of Tim Burton's sketch pad.

-Legend of Legaia: Writing needs tightening and can do without random battles. I'd love how creative a studio could be with the RPG/fighter engine.


BURY:

I don't really play many of the current games so I couldn't say for sure, but I'm up there with people saying Final Fantasy has also lost touch with itself. Not so much bury as retool and simplify.

 

[deathbydeath]

Rez: Beyond Good & Evil, STALKER, and Section 8: Prejudice. All three of these games were relatively niche and couldn't rake in enough money to keep continuing, but I'd love to fix that problem.

De-Rez: Mass Effect, Everything Eidos Montreal produces with "Deus Ex" on the box, and I dunno about a third. The ones I listed may have done well critically/commercially, but I still get sick every time I run into them on the internet.

 

[Danny Dowling]

Also is anyone else still waiting for Sonic 4 Episode 3? Sonic 4 is a dope game, that needs to happen pretty soonish

 

[spartandude]

Resurrect:

Metroid- dear god do i want another Metroid game, preferably a 2d one on the 3ds as well as a prime like one on the WII U. Even better if it comes with a device that changed the history of our universe so Other M never existed.

Jade Empire- Holy crap i want a sequel to this game. It was new and different and so much fun.

Republic Commando- go play it... simple as that.


Bury

Call Of Duty- Ok i thought cod4 was amazing, but in mw2 they made changes to the way guns handle and i hated it and its been that way since.

Fable- Either get rid of it completely or really go back and look at why we liked 1 and 2. 3 and the spin offs were terrible and the new one looks nothing like fable.

Mass Effect-.... just no bioware, just no.

 

[Prince of Ales]

lets pull a Soulblazer

Did you just reference Soul Blazer without making that one of your three?

Ok I'll say it: Soul Blazer / Gaia series. Same vein as many people have said the Seiken Densetsu / Mana series (another one I agree with); there's a big lack of top down controller based action RPGs these days, and I'd welcome either series as a return to that. Do it. Please someone do it.

I'd like another FFT; I mean a real sequel. Not seen another game that was so complex in both the combat and the story. Could do with a few pointers on balance yeah, but the whole idea of the combat system was great.

Where has Tenchu gone? So far as I'm aware the rights are owned by From Software, the people that make Dark Souls, so it's not like we can expect a bad combat system from a reboot. Would like to see a more open world Tenchu game.

I don't think there are any series I'd actually bury. Like someone said, even if I don't like them there's probably someone out there that does.

 

[Clearwaters]

Resurrect:
Legend of Dragoon- There has only been one game in what should have been a great series
Star Wars: Republic Commandos- Same as the above game. Really solid FPS that just didn't take off
Ape Escape- I WANT A NEW APE ESCAPE SONY


Kill:
Halo- I know it's your cash cow Microsoft, but they just ain't the same without Bungie
Assassin's Creed- There are FOUR assassin's creed games in 2014. Granted one was an HD re release, this is way too much. Maybe not end this series entirely since I do enjoy it, but slow the hell down.
I can't really think of a third franchise to kill. I was gonna say Resident Evil, but I actually really enjoyed Revelations

 

[MirenBainesUSMC]

I would scuttle Assassins Yawn. They've ran out of steam and this new game seems to be a big prequel in many ways. We can do without any more Way of the Samurai. lastly we must commute Call of Duty to rest, its getting to look like Halo soon.

I would fund more Dues Ex, more Project Aces Ace Combat, and more Mass Effect.

 

[Shoggoth2588]

Support

The Thunder series needs to make a comeback...preferably a Thunder game that has awesome damage animations, and crash scenes like an awesome cross of Burnout and the two Thunder games I can remember (Hydro and Arctic to be specific). I miss me my arcade racing...the Rush and, Crusin' series are other racing titles that I'd like to see come back too but I had a ton more fun with Arctic Thunder than I did with San Francisco Rush or Cruisin' World.

I want Red Faction Guerrilla 2. I want an open-world game that takes place on a Mars set a hundred or two-hundred years after the events of the first Red Faction Guerrilla so we can have more than one Martian city to demolish as well as townships separated by the crimson dune-seas.

Colony Wars. It was a PSX trilogy that (from what I remember of the first one) was more-or-less an open space exploration/combat kind of game. A modern-day version could offer off-ship exploration on various planets and huge battles between rival armadas.

Bonus - Teleroboxer...I'm not going to count it officially though considering Project Giant Robo could easily be branded as the revival of Teleroboxer.

Further Bonus - I want to see more demakes of various games. I would love to play the de-make of The Last of Us, and Final Fantasy XIII. Aside from those I'd love to play New Super Mario Bros style demakes of Nintendo games like a proper 2D Metroid, a new 2D Wario Land...Even something completely different like a top-down bullet-hell Star Fox. Speaking of old Nintendo IP, who exactly owns Star Tropics? Is it Nintendo? If not, Why?

Bury

Traditional EA Sports can die. Fifa, and Madden can both go off and die out so that EA Sports can do something exciting and new...like reviving Mutant League Football. I realize it will end up being a trade-off but the first two or three installments will be pretty awesome.

Modern Military shooters can go die. I don't mind some of them...Sniper Elite has a great focus on sniping which I appreciate but CoD can go die.

It isn't as much of a problem now but there have been an anomalous number of Spider-Man games. Since Spidy has gotten fewer games recently though I'll say Arkham-clones since that's a thing this generation. Shadow of Mordor is fine since it's more of a Assassin's Creed/Batman hybrid thing.

 

[G00N3R7883]

Resurrect:

Dungeon Keeper. First 2 games were fantastic, lots of variety of creatures to recruit and rooms to build, and an entertaining dark sense of humour.

KOTOR. The first game is one of the best RPGs I've played, and the best *thing* from the Star Wars franchise as a whole. Second game was a rushed, buggy mess. Haven't played the MMO because I don't do MMOs (I don't think storytelling translates very well into multiplayer). Give me another single player focused game with the quality level of the original.

Half Life. Yeah I think its been gone for long enough that "resurrect" is the appropriate word. We've got no evidence that its in development so it might as well be dead. HL2 is one of the best FPSes I've ever played, fun weapons, smart AI, fantastic pacing. And I need to know how that story ends.

Bury:

COD for obvious reasons. Although to be honest I don't hate it as much as I used to. There was a time that every FPS wanted to be a COD clone and the genre as a whole was going down the toilet. In the last couple of years I've really enjoyed Far Cry 3, Borderlands 2, Metro Last Light, Shadow Warrior, Wolfenstein New Order, probably some others that don't immediately come to mind. COD is still COD but at least the rest of the genre is back on form.

Assassins Creed. I wanted to like this franchise for a long time but the gameplay never really interested me as much as the concept. I played the first 5 games, always thinking "this time will be better". AC2 was fantastic but it just went down hill from there. The thing that annoyed me the most was how little freedom the player gets on missions. AC5 (sorry, "AC3") was just insulting to my intelligence. Everything was so scripted "go and stand here to trigger the mission, now go here, now press this button, now kill that guy with the weapon we've decided you should use, now find this person/object (or activate eagle vision so the game will find it for you) ... oh, you decided to go off-script? De-sync! Restart the mission!"

Struggling to think of a 3rd, generally if I don't like a franchise I'll just ignore it.

 

[csulasiris]

Resurrect:

1) Chrono series - Chrono Break needs to happen while my thumbs are still young enough to twiddle.
2) Commander Keen - I've missed the pale little bugger, pogo-physics and all
3) Legacy of Kain - The last generation was lacking in Nosgoth

Bury:

1) Final Fantasy - I love Final Fantasy. It still needs to die.
2) Metal Gear Solid - 1 left me with a sizeable reserve of goodwill for every following entry to slowly erode
3) Sonic - We'll always have S3&K, blue dude

 

[FPLOON]

Necromancy:OdamaIt's a voice-commanded RTS/Pinball hybrid of a game set in an alternate feudal era of Japan... COME ON, NINTENDO!Virtua QuestOne part just wanting a sequel to finally give this could-have-been series a more conclusive conclusion and another part wanting this could-be series to expand on its use of its combat elements, mainly the overall customization elements...BurnoutThere are just some things that not even Need For Speed can fulfill... #BurnoutForNextGen

Death By Grave Shovel:

None... because the ones I could name either I don't play them or I don't play them enough to care if they still keep going or not... Enough said...

 

[Mister K]

I won't say that any franchise should be buried, because as long as people are buying games from this franchise and crave for more they should get those games. Who am I to deny people their funtime?

If I were to resurrect 3 franchises though, I think I'd pick the following:
-KOTOR. I like the Star Wars setting, but I don't like the movie thrilogies and I don't want to play a game pressured by them. KOTOR did what I wanted and also had rather nice story, characters and gameplay.

-Final Fantasy. "But Mister K, this franchise still exists." No, part XIII massacred this franchise for the whole generation of platforms. Lets hope that part XV can complete the resurrection.

-Chrono Trigger. I think it should go the same road as FF did with every installment being independant from it's predecessors, but have certain similar themes (time travel, characterspecific magic, etc.).
EDIT: I also want to see the 3rd installment in Zero Escape series.

 

[mxc2012]

For the sequels I'd most like to see:

Timesplitters - One of the games that I enjoyed and played the most on the original xbox.

Portal - I just want more glados.

Burnout - Burnout takedown and its crash mode, with the firetruck, was the most fun I have had in any driving game ever.

As far as games to bury:

Firefall - I haven't played it nor do I intend to. However, their massive month long ad campaign which consisted of spamming the same video on any video game related site I visited annoyed me to no end. For that I would like to see it buried.

wow - It has gone on long enough

any generic moba - I don't know why they all have to be so similar. They are basically copy pastes with the background image and character models changed.

 

[Villain Protagonist]

Ressurect:

1)Psi-Ops - that game was awesome and deserves a next gen sequel or reboot.

2)Legacy of Kain - nuff said.

3)Chronotrigger - nuff said.

Bury: eh, I don't hate any series enough to care that much.