I would nominate two series that are just about the same in the very disappointing bin:
Star Wars
Aliens
And my third series that simply ran out of ideas and steam: Red Faction.
Surely Lucas Arts could have done better in the later 2000's but in my view, aside from the Jedi Academy games, they've never really treated this vast and full series as it truly could have been with small sparks such as Force Unleashed 1 with its surprising back-story and conclusion....only to be screwed over with Force Unleashed 2. You did have Jedi Outcast which was great... but then that also stops dead in its tracks in which I think they could have done plenty other great things with that story concept. Tie-Fighter, one of my beloved games on PC as a child left with so many unfinished plots to follow ( the civil war that was going on in the last expansion). Star Wars empire at was was interesting ( the mods on it were great)... but the action games were so so... like Bounty Hunter. Well we know that Lucas Arts is gone...and quite frankly, good riddance. I haven't seen such a terrible developer house that simply was in the business of self destruction and foot shooting.
What I would like to see? I'd like to see the Netherrealm Studios have the rights to make a decent mortal combat-esque Jedi/Sith fighter. They touched upon it briefly in the terrible " Star Wars: Teras Kasi" fighter but it never went anywhere beyond that. A modernized X-Wing/Tie Fighter sim ( I heard Disney was going to attempt this). A first person shooter from a Storm Trooper's perspective. A Splinter-Cell like stealth game as a Rebel special ops commando.
Aliens / Predator
In my own opinion, the only game that got it right was the PC game Aliens Vs Predator 2. The rest have dropped the ball with the last one being a terrible bait and switch, fumbling an otherwise great opportunity with Colonial Marines. I don't know what gimmicks Sega and Rebellion has for their latest one but I suggest everyone wait and see because they have a garbage track record thus far. Two flops and a hell no.
I mean c'mon. The damn story is already there for you to go off from. They have good elements already from the previous games....they just never managed to meld them all into a solid game. Aliens should invoke the same fear and " Oh Sh---!" factor as Dead Space was able to perform. I know --- how about a game that coincides where Prometheus left off?
Red Faction
The first one was awesome... the second one not so much. The third had destruction going for it and it was fairly different...and then the 4th pretty much stuck a fork in it to die slowly into the sarlack pit. You would think with all of the FPS's to glean from that they could go back to what formula they had going for them in Red faction 1. There was a point where the evil scientist even left before you could kill him but they never really did anything coherent with the story after the miner revolution.
There is a lot more but those are some of the instances I think in which the series begs for more love than it had gotten.
What are yours?
Star Wars
Aliens
And my third series that simply ran out of ideas and steam: Red Faction.
Surely Lucas Arts could have done better in the later 2000's but in my view, aside from the Jedi Academy games, they've never really treated this vast and full series as it truly could have been with small sparks such as Force Unleashed 1 with its surprising back-story and conclusion....only to be screwed over with Force Unleashed 2. You did have Jedi Outcast which was great... but then that also stops dead in its tracks in which I think they could have done plenty other great things with that story concept. Tie-Fighter, one of my beloved games on PC as a child left with so many unfinished plots to follow ( the civil war that was going on in the last expansion). Star Wars empire at was was interesting ( the mods on it were great)... but the action games were so so... like Bounty Hunter. Well we know that Lucas Arts is gone...and quite frankly, good riddance. I haven't seen such a terrible developer house that simply was in the business of self destruction and foot shooting.
What I would like to see? I'd like to see the Netherrealm Studios have the rights to make a decent mortal combat-esque Jedi/Sith fighter. They touched upon it briefly in the terrible " Star Wars: Teras Kasi" fighter but it never went anywhere beyond that. A modernized X-Wing/Tie Fighter sim ( I heard Disney was going to attempt this). A first person shooter from a Storm Trooper's perspective. A Splinter-Cell like stealth game as a Rebel special ops commando.
Aliens / Predator
In my own opinion, the only game that got it right was the PC game Aliens Vs Predator 2. The rest have dropped the ball with the last one being a terrible bait and switch, fumbling an otherwise great opportunity with Colonial Marines. I don't know what gimmicks Sega and Rebellion has for their latest one but I suggest everyone wait and see because they have a garbage track record thus far. Two flops and a hell no.
I mean c'mon. The damn story is already there for you to go off from. They have good elements already from the previous games....they just never managed to meld them all into a solid game. Aliens should invoke the same fear and " Oh Sh---!" factor as Dead Space was able to perform. I know --- how about a game that coincides where Prometheus left off?
Red Faction
The first one was awesome... the second one not so much. The third had destruction going for it and it was fairly different...and then the 4th pretty much stuck a fork in it to die slowly into the sarlack pit. You would think with all of the FPS's to glean from that they could go back to what formula they had going for them in Red faction 1. There was a point where the evil scientist even left before you could kill him but they never really did anything coherent with the story after the miner revolution.
There is a lot more but those are some of the instances I think in which the series begs for more love than it had gotten.
What are yours?
