Dead video game series/franchises you refuse to let go

Shining Wit said:
Trauma Center is criminally dead. I can't think of any other surgery simulators, let alone any arcade style ones where you fight superviruses.
Still not over Team not being released in eu
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Oh fam, I couldn't agree more. Trauma Centre: Second Opinion was the game that sold me on the Wii, and New Blood and Team were outstanding games. Surely you have soft-modded your Wii to play images, right? Even if Team wasn't released in EU, you can still play it and you totes should.

I don't know if it's the developer having broken up or something with Atlus not wanting to do a new one or something but it makes no sense such a well-loved franchise hasn't had a 3DS or even Switch update. Switch could work if given very generous collision detection and time for movement imo.
 
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In general I keep just hoping we get a solid tactical shooter again where you get to direct your squad of AI Teammates.

SWAT 4, Rainbow Six 3 Raven Shield, just satisfying to have guys breach doors and throw flashbacks. Speaking of which The Door Kickers games are solid fun.
 
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The Un-Clit said:
Oh fam, I couldn't agree more. Trauma Centre: Second Opinion was the game that sold me on the Wii, and New Blood and Team were outstanding games. Surely you have soft-modded your Wii to play images, right? Even if Team wasn't released in EU, you can still play it and you totes should.

I don't know if it's the developer having broken up or something with Atlus not wanting to do a new one or something but it makes no sense such a well-loved franchise hasn't had a 3DS or even Switch update. Switch could work if given very generous collision detection and time for movement imo.
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Yeah, ive played it but its annoying when a series dies from lack of sales when you cant even help support it

Doesn't switch have a touch screen?
 
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Yeah, ive played it but its annoying when a series dies from lack of sales when you cant even help support it

Doesn't switch have a touch screen?
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I don't own one, but I have no idea why I assumed a portable console in 2021 wouldn't have touch, LOL. I wasn't fully awake posting that I think.
 
Soon to be LittleBigPlanet probably. They shut down the servers of LBP1 and 2 after more than ten years and LBP3 seems to be on life support. I wonder if they're just gonna keep making games like that sackboy spinoff and not a proper LBP4. It really sucks because LBP1 and 2 were some of the last remaining online games from before DLC and microtransactions irreparably damaged games. 3 isn't too bad about that but the game's online has always been shitty so not many people played it.
 
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Likely mentioned already but Sleeping Dogs. I've seem others say they feel the game works best as a one and done, which is fair because the story isn't screaming for a continuation, but imagining Sleeping Dogs with a little bit more (particularly more details for the dates, more to do with apartments and the notoriety system, and possibly integration your police/gang missions choices in the plot) leaves my mouth salivating.

No game post the series has looked like it could scratch the same itch.
 
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System Shock. Cyberpunk (the genre) feels dead in general. Maybe because reality is kinda like cyberpunk, just lame and boring. Also I genuinely think the current crop of game developers is afraid of the grittiness, at least the more mainstream ones.

And yeah I know about System Shock 3. If that's ever going to be finished (honestly looks like it got lost in limbo...again) it's gonna suck and miss the point entirely. The one trailer from '19 looks like generic shooter #4601 Just the way it is. Same reason we won't have another decent Terminator. But hell if I don't get excited (and disappointed) each time I hear about something new here.
 
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Sometimes I think it's better for a franchise to die with dignity in today's atmosphere of 90% of all new media being shit. I like old Darkstalkers games, so why would I want a bunch of soulless new 3D Darkstalkers that just dumb down the mechanics? All hail dead franchises,
 
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Tom Nook's Gloryhole said:
Sleeping Dogs will never continue for political reasons. I'm frankly amazed they got away with a Hong Kong based game in the first place.

Given how... sensitive the HK situation will be for the next 10-20 years until fully swallowed up by China, no company will be touching that.
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Test Drive Unlimited: Solar Crown (TDU 3) will be set in a 1:1 scale map of Hong Kong territory.

I can already imagine the "virtual protest" possibilities.
 
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I really like the Startropics series, I have both games and I know for a fact it will never ever get a third game because Nintendo barely remembers it being a game not released in Japan and only in the West. The creator is long gone from the video game scene who is the one of the only important Japanese people who remembers it. I know some people complained the second game Zoda's Revenge killed it due to it being a little underwhelming for a sequel and released a little too late in the NES's lifespan (the second to last official one the last one IIRC being Wario's Woods) and they probably should have just made something for the SNES instead, but even then, I don't think it would have saved it since the games were very late 80s, early 90s
 
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I'd like to see a Siren 3 some day, but I doubt it will ever happen since Siren 2 was never released in North America. It's one of the few horror games that physically stresses me out when I play it and the lore is very interesting and creepy. I patiently waited for years for someone to get Siren 2 to work properly on an emulator, so I'm willing to wait for a third game.
 
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SSj_Ness said:
Last Window: The Secret of Cape West needs a sequel, they were building up to something big. Company went out of business but Nintendo seems to own the rights.

Star Fox Adventures needs a sequel, obviously not happening, maybe due to Rare or something (it sold well and got good reviews).

Also, I'll just cram a bunch of JRPG pipedreams here:

Super Mario RPG 2 Chrono Break
Mother 4
Golden Sun 4
Final Fantasy X-3
Legend of Dragoon 2
Lost Odyssey 2
Threads of Fate 2
Final Fantasy Tactics 2
Mega Man Battle Network 7
Mega Man Star Force 4 Parasite Eve 3
Dragon Quest Monsters 3
Monster Rancher Battle Card Game 2
Lost Kingdoms 3
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The closest you'll get to Threads of Fate 2 is a doujin game by EasyGameStation called Duo Princess. It's the same team that made Recettear and Chantelise. It shares some assets and art style.

It's rather short and it's just a magic heavy hack & slash with story segments. But you can play as both Mint and Maya and they have different spells and attacks. There's also a two player mode. As far as I know there's no English patch. But I did enjoy it for what it was.
 
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WULULULULU said:
I gave up with DoW when I saw the gameplay for Company of Heroes 3. Relic did not learn from DoW 3 and are fucking another once venerable series with their stupid design decisions.
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Dawn of War 3 is why its dead, but I love 1 and 2.
 
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Dawn of War 3 is why its dead, but I love 1 and 2.
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Late reply but I say this because there is a slimmer of a chance that DoW 3 can get a full on overhaul if the devs were actually competent and did not chase Starcraft bux. I say IF because playing the beta of Company of Heroes 3 shows that the devs have actually gotten worse. Cinematic trailer, less violence in a WW2 setting, mesh of mechanics from the two fundamentally different games, yeah I kinda gave up with it.
 
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