What game series would you bring back from the dead?

[Garth Richards]

Tombi and Tombi 2 for the ps 1

 

[Yeager942]

Normally, I'd say Psychonauts, BUT NOT TODAY! WOOOOOOHOOOO!!!

 

[Canadamus Prime]

Spoiler: *snip*

Incidentally, I know I say this every time a thread like this comes up, but it seems many of you aren't familiar with the concept of "all good things must come to an end." I mean I know it sucks to have to let go, but think about this, how many franchises have gone down the shitter because someone behind the scenes just had to push out one more entry, one more sequel/episode/whatevver? Esp. when said franchise was already bordering on the realm of absurdity?

1) The whole point of the thread is "if you could bring back a game series". Your argument is kinda null and void here, the topic invites people to share what games they'd like to see again.

2) You can make shit whether you take an original concept or base it on something that already existed. On the down side, yes, publishers/developers often abuse the fact previous titles were good, but in the age of reviews, who gives a shit. On the plus side, they've got the basic concepts from the start, which gives them more time to work on the rest of the game.

Most importantly, personally, I don't so much care for the sequels as for not abandoning certain things that were done well. Like with Jedi Knight games (Outcast/Academy), it had brilliant lightsaber fighting. We go with your idea of "lets make new games instead of sequels", what comes out of it? The Force Unleashed. Not really an improvement - Jedi Knight had far better combat than the arcade-like, QTE-infested gameplay of TFU.

Let me give another, better, more important example, Alpha Protocol. You know that dialogue system? Why the fuck hasn't anyone taken that on yet? I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one who thought that system brilliant, not to mention bursting with potential. It made an actual GAME out of dialogue, no "oh, cool, he's jabbering, I can go take a piss and answer when I get back", no, the dialogue was an actual part of the game and for once, it kept moving full time, keeping the player engaged instead of having awkward staring pauses for indefinite periods of time between the player and the NPC.

That's what I care about, preserving good game design. Whether they wanna call the game "Jedi Knight 3" or "Star Wars: Lucas's Left Testicle", I don't care, I just wanna see those mechanics in play again, not just rehashed, but polished and evolved. We see so many games use the same crappy system for something when we already have standing examples of how it can be done better. It's just that instead of looking for what's been done well, the publishers/devs look at what DID well.

Oh wow that was unnecessarily wordy. Ok first let me clarify that I never said anything about never making sequels and only making new games. What I was talking about is knowing when a series/franchise has run it's course and needs to put to rest. You know, the point at which adding additional entries to a series would only be detrimental to it rather than beneficial.
I'm all for reusing and even improving upon good gameplay mechanics, what I'm not fond of is the blatant milking of IP's until they've been driven into the dirt.

 

[Wilbot666]

I would love to play another instalment in the Legacy of Kain series, it's been quite a few years since the last one, Defiance.

Somebody make this happen dammit!

 

[lordlillen]

Zone of the Enders and the Tales of series.

Tales of is practically dead in America and while it may be announced that Tales of Graces F is coming to the states, I won't believe it until it's sitting on a retail shelf.

well kojimas team wants to make ZOE 3 but there a little busy but im guessing after the ZOE collection.

 

[zehydra]

I've said it (more than) once and I'll say it again: Magic Carpet series by Bullfrog

 

[sage42]

I've said it every chance I get and will continue to do so until it happens. KOTOR 3 would be much more preferable over TOR.

Also Spyro, how I miss that little purple dragon, and moneybags! I don't care if he was a greedy bastard I always got to torch his ass at the end. Favorite part of the second two games.

 

[Epicspoon]

Darkstalkers Hands down. one of the reasons alot of people don't play street fighter is simply because the characters do not appeal to them, and I myself like a bit of supernatural in my games.

 

[Zx30]

Megaman...=[

 

[Auron225]

Kingdom Hearts

What, so I just hallucinated all those recent Kingdom Hearts games, including the one coming out for 3DS?

Im afraid so. You're officially insane. We're going to have to lock you up for 358 days.

 

[Vern]

Actraisers with the RPG elements. Could be done very well now. And of course Firebrand needs a new game fast. Maximo/Arthur needs a new game fast. And Rygar and Maximo were the two games that convinced me to by a PS2, along with Contra. I always hoped the PS2 would carry on the 2D games that I loved. I was less than one fourth right.

 

[ACman]

X-Wing.

Or we need a massively multiplayer Starwars Space battle thing in Old Republic. Not the crappy rail shooter but an actual full 3d you and your friends must blow up the super star destroyer in crappy light fighters.

 

[Plucky]

Id probably say Dungeon Keeper....yet it has probably been phased out in the buyout of Bullfrog by EA, and made an MMO in the Korean market based on the IP....but i want a true sequal, basically Dungeon Keeper 3.

 

[Mycroft Holmes]

Definitely Arcanum. If the universe might see fit to make it in any way possible; I would love for Obsidian Games to make Arcanum 2 with a modified Skyrim Engine. Hell I would even be happy if Bethesda made it, although I think their unimaginative(read: poor) writing would very much detract from the games reputation.

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.

I liked U8.

:crosses arms:

 

[Ix Rebound]

Knights of The Old Republic.

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

I could not agree with you more

 

[RuralGamer]

Star Trek Armada; first game was okay, but a bit unpolished; second game was better and showed promise... then Activision decided they weren't going to make a third and held all the rights to the series.

 

[CatmanStu]

ELITE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yay! I thought I was going to have to be the old fart that reminded people of the game that was '3D' when Nvidia were an itch in their daddies pants (metaphorically speaking).

Seriously though, Frontire: Elite 2 was a phenominal piece of coding for its day and I would love to see David Braben make good on his threats to make Elite 3.

This is the man who put a galaxy on a floppy disk; just imagine what he could fit on a BluRay.

 

[DarthVAlo]

I would love to see the Advent Rising trilogy finished. I really liked the first game despite its flaws.

 

[Daygall65]

DESCENT!!! and not the crap that was Descent3 eather, but this one

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Descent_(video_game)

would pay allot for another one of those... sadly I don't think it will ever happen, classics always seam to get ignored, or remade so poorly that you'd think it was an entirely different game

 

[Ralen-Sharr]

Sacrifice was mentioned before, good game, would like to see another if possible.
Homeworld - I liked Cataclysm a LOT, I really enjoyed the story and I liked the other 2 Homeworld games as well. I'd certainly like to see another one.
Master of Orion - 2 was awesome, 3 just lost touch with what made 2 great, another MOO might be cool.
Quest for Glory - old series, really beat to death. I played it a loooong time ago, but I loved the hell out of it. Give it a new game, new hero, and let us import our old games to give it background so we can hear/read/whatever about our old character, or even let us meet and interact with them.
If I had more money than I knew what to do with, and could bring something back from the dead just because I want to, it would likely be Quest for Glory just because I remember having a lot of fun playing those games.