What game series would you bring back from the dead?

[gideonkain]

Notch wants to fund a Psychonauts sequel:
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/115713-Notch-Volunteers-to-Fund-Psychonauts-Sequel-UPDATED

If you became rich enough to fund a sequel to a game, which would you choose and what does that game mean to you?

 

[BloatedGuppy]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultima_%28series%29

Best RPG series of all time. Destroyed by the terrible 8th and 9th chapters. Deserves a proper sendoff, or a reboot.

 

[Aircross]

X-wing games.

Hell, the space combat simulator genre for all I care, and not the arcade ones like Rogue Squadron, I mean the ones where you sit in a cockpit and manage your fighter's power distribution while shooting down torpedoes aiming for your exhaust pipe and chasing down tie fighters, interceptors, and bombers going for your capital ship which is also engaged with the enemy capital ship which is 50% more powerful and bigger than your capital ship.

 

[Sixcess]

Fear Effect. My favourite PS1 game series, with both games in the series being in my top 10 of all time.

Imagine Resident Evil as written by Bioware after a long weekend of watching Hong Kong action movies. It had terrific writing and voice acting in an era when that was definitely not the norm. The third game in the series was cancelled by Eidos in 2003, during development, and there's only a few cut scenes to give an idea of it.

If I had the money to burn, I'd burn a lot of it just to get my hands on that game.

 

[Soxafloppin]

Lost Kingdoms: Real time, monster summoing card battles? HELL YES!

And a new shiny Legacy of Kain.

 

[Dane Tesston]

The Suffering. Two of my favorite games for the PS2, and the ones that really got me into third-person shooters. I thought the creature designs were really cool, and I love to see what could be done with current gen hardware.

 

[LookingGlass]

Does Silent Hill count? It "died" when the Americans took over. Or we could just resurrect survival horror in general.

Also, another vote for the X-Wing/TIE Fighter series. And also Freespace.

 

[Mr. Omega]

Now that Hudson has gone under, I would dedicate those resources to bringing back Bomberman. I would fund it, but also demand 3 conditions.
1: It plays like the games on the N64 or Gamecube. Or maybe the SNES.
2: Get the guy who made the music for either Generation or The Second Attack on this project
3: The first boss looks like the version of Bomberman from Act Zero. For shits and giggles.

 

[Melon Hunter]

Spyro the Dragon. Because, as far as I'm concerned, the last true Spyro game was Year of the Dragon. I played Enter the Dragonfly, and my opinion of the series was tarnished forever more. The reboots with Cynder really weren't up to scratch, either. Getting the old Insomniac style games back would be a dream come true. Hell, even an HD remake of the original trilogy would be welcome.

Either that, or Sin. It was a late 90's FPS, in the same vein as Half-Life, but it took itself a lot less seriously. It was a lot of fun, and the first FPS I ever played through. A sequel was released, but in episodic form, and only Episode 1 was ever produced. I'd like to bring that back, too.

 

[Irridium]

Freespace.

Or, hell, the entire Space-sim genre. Yeah, it is kinda still here with Egosoft and the X-series, and there's a couple of little blips like Evochron Mercenary and SOL, but man, what I'd give to have another proper Freespace and/or Freelancer game...

Also Metal Arms.

You deserved better dammit...

The creator had a whole trilogy planned too.

 

[ffs-dontcare]

Right now, I really, really, really want to see a return to Homeworld.

And I want to see it done right, rather than dumbed down for the sake of "accessibility" and/or "attracting players new to the Homeworld series". Homeworld 2 was accessible without being condescending. But somehow, I get the strongest feeling that if one of most well-known development studios were to start work on a Homeworld sequel today, the end result would be... ugh. That's just my cynicism talking, though.

Hell, I'll even take Homeworld 2 with updated graphics (incidentally, same with Starcraft but that's had its sequel released fairly recently so it probably doesn't count for this particular thread... I'd absolutely love to play Starcraft's campaigns with SC2 graphics though!).

 

[endtherapture]

Knights of The Old Republic.

Not The Old Republic, but KNIGHTS OF The Old Republic.

 

[Arcane Azmadi]

Aw man, too many good series dried up in the aether:

*Legacy of Kain (even with Tony Jay dead, they can't just leave it like this!)
*Shenmue (GOD-DAMNED CLIFFHANGER ENDING!)
*Powerstone
*Zone of the Enders (they were supposed to be making ZoE3 for PS3, but that seems to have gone AWOL)
*Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan! (the original Japanese version of Elite Beat Agents)
*Rival Schools
*Ghosts and Goblins/Ghouls and Ghosts
*Homeworld
*Klonoa
*Grandia
*Shadow Hearts (take the series into WWII!)

Then there's all the good individual games that never got even a first sequel (like Psychonauts):

*Jet Force Gemini
*Chaos Legion
*Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem
*Legend of Dragoon
*Vagrant Story
*Infinite Space
*Battle Realms
*Ring of Red
*Hybrid Heaven
*Universe at War: Earth Assault

 

[LeQuack_Is_Back]

Metal Arms or Battlezone

Metal Arms because it was an interesting universe, and we never got to see the story properly concluded.

Battlezone because Action-RTS games are awesome. Seriously, I'd take it over Starcraft anyday, because when I'm in the match-ending charge in Battlezone, I GET TO DRIVE THE BIG TANK!

 

[Nooners]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultima_%28series%29

Best RPG series of all time. Destroyed by the terrible 8th and 9th chapters. Deserves a proper sendoff, or a reboot.

Amen. While I admit I haven't played it (I have U4 from GOG, but haven't had any time to play it), I've followed Spoony's Retrospective, and would really like to play through the storyline...I'm kinda hoping that a really, really ambitious team of Skyrim/Oblivion/whatever modders can recreate it on a more modern engine. I'd even be willing to buy Morrowind if that happened.

 

[Nigh Invulnerable]

Knights of The Old Republic.

Not The Old Republic, but KNIGHTS OF The Old Republic.

What this guy said. I'm sure the MMO is great and all, but give me another cool single player Star Wars based RPG, please.

 

[Timberwolf0924]

I loved those games

and

that one too!

 

[Vigormortis]

It's funny, I was literally just thinking on this today. Point for point.

I came to four primary conclusions/choices, one of them being Psychonauts. The other three were as follows:

Spoiler: Earthworm Jim

It would be amazing to get a true HD remake of this game as well as real, solid, contemporary sequels. Look at Rayman Origins. If there were any evidence that quality, 2D side-scrollers can still be amazing, that was it. A new Earthworm Jim would be phenomenal.

Spoiler: MechCommander

I'm a sucker for both well-made RTS games and mech-based combat. Couple that with my undying love of the Battletech story universe and the MechCommander series has been a personal favorite for years. I'd love to see a new entry.

Spoiler: Homeworld

Homeworld was, and in some ways still is, one of the greatest RTS games ever crafted. The story, the setting, the pacing, the graphics, the art, the music...all were astoundingly high quality. I still assert it had one of the finest sci-fi stories ever put to a game. Relic Studios still exists, and is quite successful at this point too. And, they still own the rights to this series. (I believe) So it would be a dream come true to see them rebirth this series. Either with a real sequel (HW2 wasn't that great) or an HD remake of the original. But unlike my other choices, this one is technically possible.

[edit]

Spoiler: Freespace

Can't believe I didn't think of this until now. God I loved those games. Still easily the best space-combat sims made so far.