Crying out for a Sequel

Generic Dreadhead · 22-08-2014 2:58pm #1

So many games that if existed would be very much "Shut up and Take my Money"

Gansters: Organized Crime (1&2)
Rock & Roll Racing (a Proper game, not the russian thingy)

Jagged Alliance 2 (let's pretend the last release just straight up didn't exist)
Theme Hospital (i'd even settle for 1.5 version)
Zombies Ate My Neighbours (though I guarantee it would be ruined by any major developer, maybe someone like The Beamoth would do it justice, €10 arcade release maybe)
Lemmings (something not 3D or crap please)

There are many others.

Basically what games would you pay €50+ for without knowing much other then:
"it's true to original but adds more"
A couple of screenshots
1 faithful review from a reliable source

(and yes I understand it's reasons like this are why kickstarted exists) :P

Zillah · 22-08-2014 3:17pm

Half Life 2 there I said it first lol

Zillah · 22-08-2014 3:17pm

A good Homeworld sequel. 2 was pretty bad.

o1s1n · 22-08-2014 3:21pm

Rock n' Roll racing was such a bland game that they had to tack a rock soundtrack onto it at the last minute of production to make it 'interesting' - I never understand why people go so ape **** over it. Micro Machines is where the real fun is

Zombies Ate My Neighbours has a sequel, it's called Ghoul Patrol.

Generic Dreadhead · 22-08-2014 3:23pm

o1s1n wrote: »

Zombies Ate My Neighbours has a sequel, it's called Ghoul Patrol.

I refuse to acknowledge this games existence :pac:

Granted R&R was basic, but the car customisation and upgrading was what set it apart from the likes of Micro Machines.

Julez · 22-08-2014 3:25pm

o1s1n wrote: »

Micro Machines is where the real fun is

Now that you mention it! Needs decent local 4 play (or more, shared controllers!!) version, and again, not fuppin' 3D!

Potatoeman · 22-08-2014 3:26pm

Vampire the Masquerade Bloodlines. I still go back and replay this every so often. Great characters and voice acting and the different clans make for almost another game.

FortuneChip · 22-08-2014 3:26pm

Vagrant Story. It had a quirky battle system that might be a bit dated now, but it had lots of great lore; loved the gothic atmosphere. Also some really good characters, Rosencrantz & Sidney being among them. Very good New Game + mode too (if a sequel was to be spanned they could probably try Dark Souls the enemies in NG+).

Uncharted sequels are insta-buy.

F1ngers · 22-08-2014 3:27pm

The Last Guardian II - Because that would mean The Last Guardian finally got released...:P

Beyond Good and Evil II.

cherryghost · 22-08-2014 3:27pm

Proper Age of Empires sequel.

Landoflemon · 22-08-2014 3:28pm

I don't know if many people played Psi-Ops, but the boss battles were great, the ragdoll physics were very fun and the game was just very well thought out!

Stone Deaf 4evr · 22-08-2014 3:29pm

Freedom Fighters from original Xbox,
Full Spectrum Warrior - I know this got a sequel, but i want MOAR!
Battlefield: Bad Company 2

Sephiroth_dude · 22-08-2014 3:29pm

Dragons dogma

Red dead rempdemtion

o1s1n · 22-08-2014 3:33pm

Cormac... wrote: »

I refuse to acknowledge this games existence :pac:

Granted R&R was basic, but the car customisation and upgrading was what set it apart from the likes of Micro Machines.

Ah it's painfully average though. It's definitely not the classic everyone seems to think it is. There are so many better Snes games.

Not saying a sequel wouldn't be fun though... but then again, isn't that more or less what Twisted Metal is?

Julez wrote: »

Now that you mention it! Needs decent local 4 play (or more, shared controllers!!) version, and again, not fuppin' 3D!

I've been playing 4 player Micro Machines a lot lately on the Megadrive. You really can't beat it for sheer fun. The absolute hilarity on the Ferry Fiasco level when four of you are all trying to get onto a sponge to go across a sink.

'okay okay! nobody hit anyone! we'll all make it across together!' - about half a second later, everyone is in the water after being nudged off.

Generic Dreadhead · 22-08-2014 3:37pm

cherryghost wrote: »

Proper Age of Empires sequel.

Yes, 3 was absolutely dreadful

Stone Deaf 4evr wrote: »

Freedom Fighters from original Xbox,

And gamecube, really great game

Zero-Cool · 22-08-2014 3:37pm

Potatoeman wrote: »

Vampire the Masquerade Bloodlines. I still go back and replay this every so often. Great characters and voice acting and the different clans make for almost another game.

+1 I dunno this hasn't happened yet! I know the studio that made it is closed down but can someone pick up the rights or just make a new IP in the same vein?

A Comix Zone sequel would be class.

Potatoeman · 22-08-2014 3:40pm

sheehy83 wrote: »

+1 I dunno this hasn't happened yet! I know the studio that made it is closed down but can someone pick up the rights or just make a new IP in the same vein?

A Comix Zone sequel would be class.

Picked up by ccp for an mmo but scrapped due to workloads on other projects.

SpiceWeasel · 22-08-2014 3:42pm

An updated Goldeneye would be nice

the incredible pudding · 22-08-2014 3:46pm

Mashed on the ps2 is the perfect game for those that crave a micro machines update, the 4 player on polar wharf was the ultimate game for having friends over for games and beers. It has a spiritual successor on xbox arcade but i only played it a handful of times and didn't find it as fun.

Timmyctc · 22-08-2014 3:47pm

SpiceWeasel wrote: »

An updated Goldeneye would be nice

They did that in the source engine. Its pretty meh. Part of the novelty in that game was the retro feel and the controller (I loved it :pac: )

Have to +1 Freedom Fighters. It was on all platforms guys I dunno why you're naming specific ones :P

XIII was a great game too. Pity that never got the sequel it deserved.
Always had a soft spot for the Conflict series. Desert storm et al.

Battlefield Bad Company 2 needs a sequel too. Bf4 was a scourge on the series.

megaten · 22-08-2014 3:55pm

Dark Chronicle. I'm not sure if I'd trust Level-5 these days with a sequel though.
I will be giving Fantasy Life a chance but I'm not confident in the RPG abilities these days.

Julez · 22-08-2014 4:03pm

Shenmue 3!

Generic Dreadhead · 22-08-2014 4:05pm

Zillah wrote: »

Half Life 2 there I said it first lol

Julez wrote: »

Shenmue 3!

Well we've gotten the obligatory ones out of the way there now anyway :pac:

Sonics2k · 22-08-2014 4:11pm

Pax Imperia: Eminent Domain. Absolutely loved that game on PC, think it was back in '97 or '98 it came out.
Proper space RTS game that was surprisingly hard at times but deeply involving.

Not exactly a huge type of game anymore, but I still load it up now and then and give it a play.

Skerries · 22-08-2014 4:12pm

sheehy83 wrote: »

+1 I dunno this hasn't happened yet! I know the studio that made it is closed down but can someone pick up the rights or just make a new IP in the same vein?

there was an MMO planned and was years in the making but ended up being scrapped, I still would have preferred a single player game though
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jun/05/world-of-darkness-the-inside-story-mmo-ccp-white-wolf

Captain Chaos · 22-08-2014 4:15pm

System Shock 2. SS3 is just never going to happen though.

Penn · 22-08-2014 4:18pm

Destruction Derby. Proper multiplayer 8th-gen destruction. How is it not already in production?

Timmyctc · 22-08-2014 4:33pm

Penn wrote: »

Destruction Derby. Proper multiplayer 8th-gen destruction. How is it not already in production?

That reminds me. Carmaggedon

Potatoeman · 22-08-2014 4:35pm

Skerries wrote: »

there was an MMO planned and was years in the making but ended up being scrapped, I still would have preferred a single player game though
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jun/05/world-of-darkness-the-inside-story-mmo-ccp-white-wolf

Yeah, you would lose the atmosphere and how would you do celerity?

super_furry · 22-08-2014 5:08pm

A 2D Turrican with a massive metroidvania style map.

deathrider · 22-08-2014 5:13pm

Do they have to be oldies, or can I throw Mashed: Fully Loaded, Bully, and Vanquish into the mix?

Generic Dreadhead · 22-08-2014 5:14pm

deathrider wrote: »

Bully

Seriously?

deathrider · 22-08-2014 5:21pm

Cormac... wrote: »

Seriously?

Yes indeedy. I loved the first one. Only time I ever got to class on time was in that game.

Dyr · 22-08-2014 5:41pm

Potatoeman wrote: »

Picked up by ccp for an mmo but scrapped due to workloads on other projects.

Scrapped due to CCP being clueless.

There's a ton of mods out there for it and a project to port everything to the unity enginr

Evade · 22-08-2014 5:41pm

Another +1 for Freedom Fighters. I'm half afraid to play my PS2 copy in case it doesn't hold up.

Tenchu, but maybe that needs a reboot more than another sequel.

Generic Dreadhead · 22-08-2014 5:42pm

Evade wrote: »

Tenchu

+1 for this, great game for the time

deathrider · 22-08-2014 5:53pm

Evade wrote: »

Another +1 for Freedom Fighters. I'm half afraid to play my PS2 copy in case it doesn't hold up.

Tenchu, but maybe that needs a reboot more than another sequel.

Cormac... wrote: »

+1 for this, great game for the time

I played through Tenchu Z lately. I can see why it wasn't well received, but I still had some fun with it.

briany · 22-08-2014 6:02pm

o1s1n wrote: »

Rock n' Roll racing was such a bland game that they had to tack a rock soundtrack onto it at the last minute of production to make it 'interesting' - I never understand why people go so ape **** over it. Micro Machines is where the real fun is

Zombies Ate My Neighbours has a sequel, it's called Ghoul Patrol.

Rock 'n' Roll racing was a great two player game and I thought that the upgrades and weapons made the game quite interesting as well. The soundtrack may be tacked on but it's kick-ass. Nobody could beat me at that game when Born to be Wild was playing. The mechanics were just very good also, being that it was based on the R.C. Pro Am engine. Overall, a pretty nifty game. I loved Micro Machines as well.

SouthTippBass · 22-08-2014 6:31pm

I'd love to see a new Strike game. Or even just Jungle Strike remade using the Frostbite engine. No need for the isometric viewpoint anymore though, have it play just like the attack choppers in Battlefield 4. Would make for an awesome co-op game with your buddy as gunner.

briany · 22-08-2014 7:04pm

SouthTippBass wrote: »

I'd love to see a new Strike game. Or even just Jungle Strike remade using the Frostbite engine. No need for the isometric viewpoint anymore though, have it play just like the attack choppers in Battlefield 4. Would make for an awesome co-op game with your buddy as gunner.

The '...Strike' series was very much of it's time, I think. If it were made now, it would just end up very generic. The gameplay elements that made it stand out back then would seem rather simplistic now, IMO.

YouSavedMyLife · 22-08-2014 7:58pm

Cannon Fodder
Chaos Engine
Vagrant Story
Risky Woods
Turrican
Tenchu
G - Police
Streets of Rage

Angron · 22-08-2014 8:10pm

With the death of THQ it probably won't happen, but I'd love a sequel to Space Marine. I thoroughly enjoyed the first game, and the ending was a pretty clear set-up for a sequel.

SouthTippBass · 22-08-2014 11:37pm

briany wrote: »

The '...Strike' series was very much of it's time, I think. If it were made now, it would just end up very generic. The gameplay elements that made it stand out back then would seem rather simplistic now, IMO.

No way, blowing up the White House with an attack chopper will always be fun, regardless of which console generation we are in.

Come to think of it, do we have any series of game these days doing anything similar to Strike? I think a co-op attack chopper game would have amazing potential btw.

Glebee · 23-08-2014 12:42am

Homefront (I dont care wnat people say, I liked it anyway)
Bulletstorm ( I really enjoyed this)
Mirrors Edge (Think its on the way)
Ico
Red Dead Redemption
Freelancer
More Icewind Dale, Baldur Gate franchise.
Rage

BeerWolf · 23-08-2014 12:50am

Not much of a sequel, but I was rather happy hearing a remake of Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers was being done.

Zillah · 23-08-2014 3:53am

Oh! A new Freespace! Man, I'd go nuts for that.

Skerries · 23-08-2014 8:05am

Glebee wrote: »

Homefront (I dont care wnat people say, I liked it anyway)

More Icewind Dale, Baldur Gate franchise.

there is a sequel due for Homefront already in the works
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homefront:_The_Revolution

maybe try the kickstarted games Project Eternity and Torment: Tides of Numenera if you liked the Baldurs gate games

brady12 · 23-08-2014 11:09am

Vanquish, bulletstorm, freedom fighters, age of empires or command and conquer

briany · 23-08-2014 12:50pm

SouthTippBass wrote: »

No way, blowing up the White House with an attack chopper will always be fun, regardless of which console generation we are in.

Come to think of it, do we have any series of game these days doing anything similar to Strike? I think a co-op attack chopper game would have amazing potential btw.

Something about the times we live in tells me a simulation of blowing up the White House wouldn't quite make for the wholesome innocent fun it used to :pac:.

There's Battlefield, Arma and AC-10 Warthog for chopper combat so it's not exactly as though it has disappeared, but maybe there's a niche for a more arcadey type of thing, I don't know. I doubt the Strike series would make a comeback though, although if it did, I'd prefer it done in the same 8/16 bit style. Could release it for mobile devices.

deathrider · 24-08-2014 12:56am

Glebee wrote: »

Bulletstorm ( I really enjoyed this)

Yes, yes, and yes some more! Easier the most fun I've had with a shooter in this generation.

shruikan2553 · 24-08-2014 1:01am

Too Human, Space Marine, Republic Commando, KotOR

That's all I can think of right now.

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