Dead video game series/franchises you refuse to let go

[Enola Straight]

Fatal Frame. Between the general lack of interest in Nippon and the often limited releases in the West, combined with the fact a dev said they would like to make more but it would be a huge uphill battle, this series is pretty much on life support, yet I would refuse to let.

 

[little meow meow]

it’s probably been said, but mass effect and dragon age. i got into both of them super late, enjoyed the hell out of them, then andromeda came out and basically murdered bioware. i had such a good time with both series, it’s a shame.

until dawn was good too, i heard something about vr, but since i don’t own vr i didn’t care for updates, and the entire series seems in limbo.

 

[Ruin]

I'd like to see some of the non Persona SMT spinoffs like Digital Devil Saga and Devil Summoner make a comback. I think no new games since the ps2 era qualifies as dead.

 

[The Sauce Boss]

I have quite a few of these suckers lined up.

Twisted Metal
Medal of Honor. OLD SCHOOL Medal of Honor.
Fatal Frame
F.E.A.R.
Burnout
Mercenaries

 

[Cpl. Long Dong Silver]

Deus Ex (Jensen Games or 1. Anything but IW)

 

[Syaoran Li]

Saints Row was awesome and one of the better game franchises of the Seventh Generation of Consoles.

Saints Row 4 was kind of a mess and the superpowers made a lot of the gameplay mainstays utterly pointless, but I think part of what limited SR4's potential was the deadline of trying to release it before Grand Theft Auto V came out and then you had the utter shitshow that was Gat Out of Hell, which killed the franchise.

Deep Silver tried to bring it back via a stealth reboot in Agents of Mayhem, but that game was awful as well.

I'm hoping THQ Nordic can get a hold of it and reboot the series completely, maybe do an overhauled remake of the first game?

 

[Dom Cruise]

Fatal Frame. Between the general lack of interest in Nippon and the often limited releases in the West, combined with the fact a dev said they would like to make more but it would be a huge uphill battle, this series is pretty much on life support, yet I would refuse to let.

I was always perplexed that Fatal Frame wasn't a bigger deal in the states given the popularity in the 2000s of J Horror, Japanese culture in general and horror games.

You can tell Tecmo had high hopes for the series too given the huge leap in production values between the first and second games.

 

[vertexwindi]

Saints Row was awesome and one of the better game franchises of the Seventh Generation of Consoles.

Saints Row 4 was kind of a mess and the superpowers made a lot of the gameplay mainstays utterly pointless, but I think part of what limited SR4's potential was the deadline of trying to release it before Grand Theft Auto V came out and then you had the utter shitshow that was Gat Out of Hell, which killed the franchise.

Deep Silver tried to bring it back via a stealth reboot in Agents of Mayhem, but that game was awful as well.

I'm hoping THQ Nordic can get a hold of it and reboot the series completely, maybe do an overhauled remake of the first game?

Last I heard they're bringing it back? At the very least they're patching SR2 to be playable on PC so that's pretty sweet.

 

[Stasi]

Last I heard they're bringing it back? At the very least they're patching SR2 to be playable on PC so that's pretty sweet.

Bastard franchise. Popularity of Saints Row probably killed any change of me ever getting Summoner 3 from Volitio/THQ.

Can't hate too much though, pretty good franchise, probably the best of the GTA clones in terms of staying power and what they did with the games.

 

[Massively Strong Greed]

F-Zero
Chibi-Robo!
Paper Mario/Mario & Luigi
Earthworm Jim (put him in Smash)
Halo (I hate the 343 games)

 

[Agent Abe Caprine]

Sly Cooper
Jak and Daxter
Team Silent era Silent Hill
Zoo Tycoon
Thief
Single player Phantasy Star
Tak

Zoo Tycoon finally has a successor in Planet Zoo, at least. Pretty much nothing will capture the feel of the first 3 Sly games. Jak kind of got a successor from Ninja Theory. Then Enslaved bombed.

There was The Last Tinker that tried to capture the feel of stuff like Jak, but it lacks a jump button. Not having a jump button in a 3D platformer is like not having a punch button in a beat 'em up.

There was Rampage: Total Destruction on PS2, which was my introduction to the series. It was okay. It comes with the first game and World Tour and I probably sunk more time into World Tour than the main game.

I played the hell out of that game. Never liked World Tour as much as the first one, though. Total Destruction and the first game were what I played the most.

Fighting games pretty much killed the beat em up genre.

Sad since I like both.

Character action games are just flashy beat 'em ups. The genre has just taken a different form thanks to games like Devil May Cry. The traditional style ones still get made sometimes. Mostly by indie devs.

 

[Fougaro]

Another decade is about to end and still no Oni in sight. I want to let it go, but I just can't...

 

[The 3rd Hooligan]

Saints Row was awesome and one of the better game franchises of the Seventh Generation of Consoles.

Saints Row 4 was kind of a mess and the superpowers made a lot of the gameplay mainstays utterly pointless, but I think part of what limited SR4's potential was the deadline of trying to release it before Grand Theft Auto V came out and then you had the utter shitshow that was Gat Out of Hell, which killed the franchise.

Deep Silver tried to bring it back via a stealth reboot in Agents of Mayhem, but that game was awful as well.

I'm hoping THQ Nordic can get a hold of it and reboot the series completely, maybe do an overhauled remake of the first game?

They are working on 5!

And if certain ytber who got to play some sort of development build at Volition is to be belived the game looks to be atleast better than GooH.

Also there is going to be a patch for 2 and possibly, maybe mod support, so Im hyped.


As for dead game series Ill say Silent Hill as Konami seems to really despise it. One look into the development of HD collection is all it takes. Not to mention Pachinko.

 

[Disc]

Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective.

A game that takes the two plot devices that always fuck up franchises - Time Travel and Resurrection - then builds an entire story around those two main plot elements, and does it all with incredible skill, heart, and a really unique gameplay style. It's available on iOS (though I don't know how up to date it is), though the original was a DS release.

 

[Pissmaster]

Another decade is about to end and still no Oni in sight. I want to let it go, but I just can't...

That might be the best box art that Guru Larry ever drew

 

[Dom Cruise]

Medal of Honor. OLD SCHOOL Medal of Honor.

There's a lot of potential to returning to the original premise behind Medal of Honor, where you're an OSS agent tasked with infiltrating various locations rather than just a grunt in the thick of combat.

They could play up the stealth/disguise angle, almost like Deus Ex in WW2.

 

[Titanic Cow]

The Legacy of Kain series, though when I see what they had planned for the future this may be a stroke of luck.
Viewtiful Joe. Henshin-a-go-go, baby. Loved the first game, second was alright. Went to shit after that.
Starsiege: Tribes / Tribes 2. Ascend was alright but it really failed to capture what made the older games so enjoyable. It wasn't just about GO FAST and spinfusors, you had transport ships and bombers attacking large bases, ground vehicles that served as mobile spawn points with cannons on them. Shit was dope and it's gone now.

 

[DatSpicyBoi]

Epic Mickey, Project M, Mario RPG, Metal Gear, Syphon Filter, Splinter Cell, and Earthbound.

 

[A_Skellington]

Syphon Filter, Parasite Eve, Turok.
The holy trinity of series killed by shitty sequels.

 

[Jason Wynn]

Warlords Battlecry was a pretty fun RTS series that doesn't get talked about much. Had a lot of fun with 2 and 3 in the series. Nothing will bring greater shame to your opponent by having his big bad demon and undead army get trounced by a swarm of fairies.