Series that should be revived, continued, left in the dust, or stopped immediately

[doodo!]

Originally Posted by Falanca

The word disgusts me because of that McDonald's' mascot. Creepy tumor-purple slug with limbs for a mascot for a chain of restaurants. Man.

Well we could both agree that it's NASTY!

[DrRocketGenius]

Originally Posted by tredlow

STAY DOWN
Shrek (Movie)
One thing I hate about Shrek is its ability to keep me watching despite how much I am sick of it. Are they going to make more? Of course what do you think? They already put the ideas into practice. The studio makes money and they are using me and I am the fool.

Shrek? Shrek's over. This, however...

[tredlow]

Originally Posted by DrRocketGenius

Shrek? Shrek's over. This, however...

Uurgh. Don't remind me.

[tredlow]

Originally Posted by Davies

Urgh! They couldn't possibly leave the gorgeous pre-rendered graphics as are. Noooo, they have to update it with 3D graphics... on a 2D plane.

Well, they already re-released the original games on PC. Also, these days, real time rendering can sometimes bear pre-rendered graphics.

[JuntMonkey]

Originally Posted by Davies

I wasn't aware that such a thing was happening. Not only does it seem like one step forward and two steps back for the franchise, but it also irks me because the original is still a great game. Why not just offer a re-release through PSN / X-Box Live instead?!

The PS1 versions of the two Abe games are available from the PSN store (when the store exists). They gave Exoddus away as a free game for PS+ subscribers.

[Davies]

Originally Posted by JuntMonkey

The PS1 versions of the two Abe games are available from the PSN store (when the store exists). They gave Exoddus away as a free game for PS+ subscribers.

That's cool. I wasn't aware of that (seeming as I already own the original PS1 discs it's not surprising), but it's good to know that the originals are available for newcomers.

[Leplaya]

Originally Posted by doodo!

Reviveragon's Lair
How hasn't any one touched this yet? I see it on PS3 Network , and else where. But, how a remake hasn't been considered is beyond me. A remake would likely be much easier and maybe even in a slightly different format, but a game like this could benefit from modern technology and a company with vision to create a new engine that could be used for other titles in the future

I have heard reports that Don Bluth is currently trying to find a studio to make another video game before doing the feature of Dragon's Lair. Although the last time a Dragon's Lair game was made was that Cel shaded game. Which I dont think it did good sales wise. Now for my games to see returned, going on, or leaving in the dust.


Bring back
Earthworm Jim- 2D sidescrollers are getting popular again, so why not bring back the worm to fix what those people did to kill off Jim? I've even heard stuff of Doug tennapel being interested in a new game if ever a chance would come(Last thing I heard about jim, was that Doug was trying to find who owns the rights to the character).

Leisure Suit Larry- If I ever get into the video game bussiness, I might consider on making a larry game that is more true to the original series. Just remove that horrible so called nephew loveage from the series. He's just a wannabe of the original Laffer.

Crash Bandicoot- I would really love it to see this wacky bandicoot back, anyways. I've heard stuff about a new title that was in development but for reasons unknown was canceled. here's some footage of it though, along with concept artwork. A new game with the platform elements from the first three games along with some new elements. Although, I always saw Mind Over Muntant and Crash of the titans medicore. The only thing that annoyed me about titans was the design change. Although I did laugh that Tiny was sounding a bit like Mr.T xD.


Continue

Puzzle agent- Hey telltale games, bring on more Puzzle agent. They are fun and not to mention the fact that Grickle is of the best guys to do video games.

Epic Mickey- Mickey mouse is brought back to his old school roots in this, so countine the story of epic mickey. There is so many possibilities with the concepts of The Wasteland.

Madworld- I wanna see some more Sin City like action for the Wii, besides. Madworld is one of the few M rated video games that I had fun with on the Nintendo Wii..


END NOW!!

Call of Duty- Quit making people so brainless to think that nearly every video game needs to be endless running around with shooting everything in sight.

Halo- Same reason as call of duty.

Final Fantasy- Oh lord. Square has really messed up this time. I used to be a fan of this series, but I now only play one title and thats Final Fantasy 7. All of these endless sequels trying to make profits are unneeded and its making the final fantasy fanbase more and more crazy.

Kingdom Hearts- Same reason as Final Fantasy. Although it irks me that people just play this game just for Sora, his idiotic friends, and the organization over the Disney characters and Final Fantasy characters. End the series now, make the 3rd KH game and be done with it! I bet this series wouldn't do so well if it didn't have Disney characters or even the Final Fantasy characters for that matter. They should have just stuck with the original idea to have Donald Duck as its main character. But that got changed since the creator of Kingdom Hearts hates Donald duck.

[doodo!]

Final Fantasy was a good franchise, why end it? It just needs redirected, revived. They just stopped expanding their horizons and making improvements with sequels and went on to making spin offs without any real heart/ ambition where improvements were made or vision was seen.

Notice how the map size in 13 was pocket sized, and how the franchise is shrinking rather than expanding, it was always the other way around.

Bring Back

Still Life, I haven't beaten it yet , but I simply love the first game. I stopped playing a while back, because I don't use my old computer anymore. I might go back to it some day.

Continue

Tron, let's be realistic, Tron isn't that impossible, it's good to see a movie that thinks so, even if it's a science fiction film.

[tredlow]

Originally Posted by Leplaya

Bring back

Leisure Suit Larry- If I ever get into the video game bussiness, I might consider on making a larry game that is more true to the original series. Just remove that horrible so called nephew loveage from the series. He's just a wannabe of the original Laffer.

Continue

Puzzle agent- Hey telltale games, bring on more Puzzle agent. They are fun and not to mention the fact that Grickle is of the best guys to do video games.

END NOW!!

Call of Duty- Quit making people so brainless to think that nearly every video game needs to be endless running around with shooting everything in sight.

I agree with these three. While I like EWJ, I think I'd rather have a new Neverhood more.

I think the one thing I hate the most about the new LSL games, especially MCL, is that the engine, interface and navigation is actually pretty good if implemented into an adventure game, but they ended up making some stupid mini game collection.

[Leplaya]

Originally Posted by tredlow

I agree with these three. While I like EWJ, I think I'd rather have a new Neverhood more.

Doug had a neverhood movie planned, but its good as dead. I wished I had a ton of cash to give it to him to make the movie.

[Falanca]

Originally Posted by doodo!

Final Fantasy was a good franchise, why end it? It just needs redirected, revived. They just stopped expanding their horizons and making improvements with sequels and went on to making spin offs without any real heart/ ambition where improvements were made or vision was seen.

I object to that. They had their chances.

15 times. No other franchise got that much of an amount of tries. Well, maybe Mario or Ultima, but those franchises are consistently good. There is that Sonic franchise also tried at least 15 times and I gotta say not many people dig the franchise anymore BECAUSE of it. Why is Final Fantasy that special from, say, Sonic?

[yoman45135]

Revive
___________

¬ Luigis mansion (I have to admit i never played it but i really want to)
¬ Time splitters (I think thats the name its been a while Its the one where theres a mini game where you shoot mellons of monkeys heads)
¬ Streets of rage

Stop
___________
¬ Halo (geekest and most overated game)
¬ Call of duty black ops (worst of all of them)
¬ Driver (Atari did a way better job than ubisoft will ever do)

[doodo!]

Originally Posted by Falanca

I object to that. They had their chances.

15 times. No other franchise got that much of an amount of tries. Well, maybe Mario or Ultima, but those franchises are consistently good. There is that Sonic franchise also tried at least 15 times and I gotta say not many people dig the franchise anymore BECAUSE of it. Why is Final Fantasy that special from, say, Sonic?

Let's see 1- 6 are classics. People love 6! People love 7! People love 8, though it's mixed audience. 9 Has a fair fan base. X has a large following.

x-2, meh...11, MEH....not bad meh though. 12, kind of shaky, different. 13, ok, not so good.

But, where have they used 15 tries , directly, rather than abstractly with all their stupid spin offs and kingdom hearts games, and ...

But, as far as a series, I don't think we're that bad yet, but with all these future spin offs coming out...

[Leplaya]

I dont even care about Final Fantasy anymore. I think it should have just ended off with 7, but no. They just had to keep going, the only thing good about the FF series to me is the soundtrack of the games.

[Silverwolfpet]

I would just like to share a short story here which I witnessed not too long ago.

Mother enters room.
Mother: Mihai, are you still playing Gothic?! You haven't eaten in more than 10 hours!!
My bro: Ok, Mom! I'm eating! *presses button, character on screen starts eating porkchop*

o.O
Opinions?

[BlazeDragon147]

I think that they should revive Animaniacs, a very good show.

[Secret Fawful]

Originally Posted by Silverwolfpet

I would just like to share a short story here which I witnessed not too long ago.

Mother enters room.
Mother: Mihai, are you still playing Gothic?! You haven't eaten in more than 10 hours!!
My bro: Ok, Mom! I'm eating! *presses button, character on screen starts eating porkchop*

o.O
Opinions?

Time for an intervention. Tie him up, delete the game from his PC, avoid his claws and teeth as he turns violent, then take him to a park and comfort him as he breaks down.

Also, I forgot a series I think should be continued-

Mother.

[Ribs]

Y'know, the Adventure game community is the hipsters of the video game industry. 'Hey, have you played The Dig? It's pretty obscure, you probably haven't heard of it.' You all act like shooters are terrible things when it's people who think Portal 2 is a wonderful game that should come under scrutiny because it's just not.

[Leplaya]

Anyone want to see the Discworld series back in the point and click atmosphere? I'd like to see it back as long as they make it animated like second Discworld game.

[Secret Fawful]

As long as you play as someone other than Rincewind, like Moist von Lipwig.