Dead video game series/franchises you refuse to let go

[LordDarkrai]

.hack series has always been one of my favorite game series. I really wish they didn't have to end with a shitty PSP game. I felt that after GU, it went downhill a bit. I hope they do a HD collection at some point.

 

[Linako 2.0]

They will never make a Dungeon Siege as good as the first one.
Elder Scrolls was dead after Oblivion, but I'm too optimistic that TES6 will be good.
I've already let go of Fallout after I saw the trailer for FO4

 

[wheat pasta]

Metroid.

 

[Sable]

Breath of Fire (vi was cancer apparently) and Suikoden ( Konami is cancer) series.

Chrono's been mentioned too.

I'll agree with Castlevania too - Mirror of Fate was a pretty fun game, and is probably the most Castlevania-y of the reboot series, but it's not...Castlevania.

Yay for bloodstained.

It's never getting another game, but I'd play the fuck out of another Lost Kingdoms game.

 

[Coldgrip]

Breath of Fire (vi was cancer apparently) and Suikoden ( Konami is cancer) series.

I think you mean BoF V. BoF VI was released this month in Japan and is an online RPG of some sorts.

But yeah, Breath of Fire V was turbo cancer.

 

[caffeinated_wench]

Summon Night: Swordcraft Story. They never got to release the third game in English, but I hear a patch is on the way for ROM copies (all three were on the GBA).

They're not the best games ever, and who knows if we're ever going to see the series it was spun off from being localized, but they were fun enough and I enjoyed the main stories immensely (for the first and second, at least, since I haven't been able to play the third).

 

[Sable]

I was apparently thinking of some iOS game.

V wasn't great, but it wasn't cancer.

People usually joke that IV killed the series because it's the one that hasn't been remade or ported or whatever.

Has the Golden Sun series been quiet long enough to be declared dead? I like those games...

 

[D.Angus]

I was going to say Bomberman.. But then I just looked online, and it's going to get a Japanese Andriod/iOS game

But hey, Konami owns the rights now, and we all know how well they're doing...

 

[John Titor]

Rise of Nations. Age of Empires is considered the RTS gold standard but I prefer RoN more. Legends wasn't all that great.

Ogre Battle. It was trying to do the whole Star Wars episode count where they started with 'V' but only a few games were ever made. Squarenix has the rights but they're just sitting on it. Since it's related, Final Fantasy Tactics too since I thought Ivalice was cool and would loved a sequel set in the same world.

Xenogears, same deal with Ogre Battle. Saga was hoped to be a fresh start but Bandai had to fuck it all up.

Infinity. It's the spiritual predecessor to Zero Escape. The last one sucked because the core writers left and it was obviously a Steins;gate clone but with less science.

 

[XH 502]

Metroid.

Metroid isn't dead, it's just in one of its typical "what the fuck do we do with it now?" phases that always last at least half a decade. Seriously, Super Metroid came out in '94, and then we didn't get anything until 2002 came around and kicked off the epic Prime trilogy along with motherfucking Fusion. Eight years between those fuckers, most likely because Nintendo wasn't sure how to transition the series from 2D into 3D until Retro came along and blew our minds.

It's not surprising to see the series goes into another lull after the shitstorm that was Other M. I think Nintendo was banking on that game starting another wave of games (like Prime did) but then the universal backlash killed those plans so they put the franchise on hiatus while they try to figure out a new strategy.

Poor @DeagleBoipussy420 will never get another F-Zero game, though.

 

[Aquinas]

I could say Metal Gear or the aria of sorrow subseries of castlevania. but no.
Nox, thats the hardest one me. there will never be another Nox.

 

[Coster]

Way of the Samurai. A little shit series that barely got localized over here but managed to do it for four solid, interesting games. To my knowledge the developer's pretty much abandoned it after 4 because they're working on what is essentially a facelifted version of it but naturally no company has even tried to bring it to the west.

.hack series has always been one of my favorite game series. I really wish they didn't have to end with a shitty PSP game. I felt that after GU, it went downhill a bit. I hope they do a HD collection at some point.

It didn't end with Link. .hack continued afterwards with a web novel, .hack//The Movie (or w/e it's called, naturally the three main characters are just genderbent Kite again, and a rehash of Orca and Balmung for party members), Guilty Dragon (free to play mobile MMO, shut down last year), and New World, with vol. 1: Maiden of Silver Tears. Naturally New World is another free-to-play mobile MMO, because Guilty Dragon worked out great.

Spoiler: small rant

Just so much of the series' original charm was lost in G.U. imo because Yoshiyuki Sadamoto wasn't doing the character design anymore, and he has a really awesome style that needs to get out of EVA more.

Would absolutely murder for an HD collection of IMOQ. It's been too long and I'd definitely play a compilation of it on PS4.

 

[Whatisgoingon]

Poor @DeagleBoipussy420 will never get another F-Zero game, though.

F-Zero is the one that I'm pissed about. Why on earth won't they make another one, if I remember correctly, Miyamoto stated in an interview that he didn't think that people wanted another one...or something along those lines. Which makes absolutely zero sense, sure it has a smaller fanbase than other Nintendo games, but it always sold enough to be profitably if I remember right, and it still has name recognition.

Also, Monster Rancher, like someone mentioned previously, is really fun, with how technology has progressed I'm sure they could come up with all kinds of crazy ways to generate monsters in addition to using CDs.

And while it isn't technically dead, I consider the Paper Mario series to have been dead since The Thousand Year Door, I didn't particularly care for the Wii one, which was like a hybrid platformer/point and click adventure style of game. I absolutely hated Sticker Star, that was honestly the worst Nintendo game I've ever played. I was shocked, since I consider Intelligent Systems (the dev-team owned by Nintendo that makes/made the other Paper Marios, Fire Emblem, WarioWare, Advance Wars, the underrated Pushmo series and many more) one of the best game developers of all time. It turns out that they were going to make Sticker Star like TTYD, but Miyamoto stepped in and forced them to change it and cut out/tone down the story, and change the battle system to one where there aren't experience points or levels, but stickers (aka only items) in an RPG, and you have limited sticker space, which makes battles pointless. Why he decided to do this, after the other three had tons of text baffles me, and the result is a terrible and bland game. I know that the Mario & Luigi/Paper Mario crossover game just came out, but I saw the trailer and it had stickers and the annoying Navi-like helper from Sticker Star, so yeah, the Paper Mario RPG series is basically dead.

 

[P.A]

Has the Golden Sun series been quiet long enough to be declared dead? I like those games...

Depends, do we start counting from The Lost Age or Dark Dawn?

Because I REALLY didn't like Dark Dawn.

F-Zero is the one that I'm pissed about. Why on earth won't they make another one, if I remember correctly, Miyamoto stated in an interview that he didn't think that people wanted another one...or something along those lines. Which makes absolutely zero sense, sure it has a smaller fanbase than other Nintendo games, but it always sold enough to be profitably if I remember right, and it still has name recognition.

What I heard was that Miyamoto had no idea how they even could make a sequel to GX, not that people didn't want it.

 

[SpessCaptain]

LISA is unlikely to get a sequel, which is a pity as it was to me one of the most amazing indie games I've played. It's wrapped up but then... it tears me apart.

 

[MarineTrainedTard]

Quake. I'd love to see a direct sequel to the really bizarre and schizophrenic original with modern graphics.

 

[Sable]

Depends, do we start counting from The Lost Age or Dark Dawn?

Because I REALLY didn't like Dark Dawn.

Dark Dawn- I'd argue that aside from Himi's lack of characterisation and more importantly the POINTS OF NO RETURN, it's still a great game.

TBS/TLA are better of course, even if they were supposed to be one game and TLA's endless sailing drags a little.

 

[Positron]

I'll always remember Wizardry.

 

[Aquinas]

LISA is unlikely to get a sequel, which is a pity as it was to me one of the most amazing indie games I've played. It's wrapped up but then... it tears me apart.

This, while i dont get why undertale is so popular, its criminal hat this game seems so underrated. they say that undertales story is so profound i gues but it just seems preachy. LISA sets out to eventually crush you emotionally and does too good a job of doing it.

 

[vertexwindi]

LISA is unlikely to get a sequel, which is a pity as it was to me one of the most amazing indie games I've played. It's wrapped up but then... it tears me apart.

Problem is there's nowhere to really go after Brad, Lisa, Buddy and everyone else's story was told. Also Buddy slaughtered basically everyone in The Joy.