It's really no secret that the video game industry (and more specifically its fans) love video game sequels; understandably so. When you get a game as distinctly badass as God of War or as addictive and fun as Super Smash Brothers, it only makes sense that you would want more and more and more. After all, more of a good thing is never bad, correct? For the most part, that sentiment rings true, and subsequently, for the most part game developers have been pretty faithful about not only maintaining the quality of their franchises, but adding little twists of innovation to keep things fresh. Sure, EA Games has the unfortunate tendency to release practically the same damn game each and every year, and sure Nintendo has been accused (and blatantly guilty) of repackaging their games for the Nintendo Wii (see: Animal Crossing for the Nintendo Wii). But at the end of the day, there's a good reason why gamers get excited when Uncharted 2 or Killzone 2 were announced -they know the games are going to be absolute kickass.
But with every current successful franchise getting a sequel to some extent or another (not an exaggeration really) there are a whole lot of old-school or less popular franchises that have tons of potential to not only be fun but also financially lucrative that are being neglected. Here are five games that I would kill to see in the near future.
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When Google unveiled Genie 3, an AI that generates explorable 3D worlds from simple text prompts, investors responded by dumping video game stocks en masse—wiping out billions in market value in mere hours. But in their rush to flee, Wall Street confused "playable environments" with actual video games, ignoring the technology's hard limits while threatening the human creativity that makes games worth playing. As the industry faces a future of automated mediocrity driven by shareholder demands, the panic reveals a deeper truth: investors aren't betting on better games, just cheaper ones.
same level of fear that gen ai will replace art ... it is a tool that will help to prototipize open world games, but to completelly substitute game engines ... we are still a long way from it
Humans have been developing things to simplify jobs since the beginning.
AI is going to remove the human factor from the job, but it can never replace all jobs that need a human factor.
I wish I could see the end of the story. What is the end, end goal, final piece, etc.
Is it a world run by machines, do humans live in a free world, does a dictator finally have an robot army, do humans finally free of working forever, does ChatGPT create an army to defeat Gemini., so many possibilities …
You know what games need a new sequel?
X-COM
Star Control II
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I totally agree with Vagrant Story, though. That game is incredible.
Vagrant Story so needs a new game game. Also what ever happened to the remake of Vagrant Story for the PSP. Square-Enix talked about it after making Final Fantasy Tactics for the PSP. That being said Vagrant Story 2 would be a day one buy for me.
Darkstalkers (should of been made instead of SF4)
King of The Monsters (Next-Gen reboot)
Folklore
Chrono Trigger (Chrono Cross doesn't count)
Rygar (an actual next-gen sequel)
Strider
Secret of Mana (Remake)
Mega Man Legends (Next-Gen reboot MML2 was bad)
Earth Defense Force (a true sequel to EDF2 for PS2)
Panzer Dragoon
Grim Fandango
Call of Cthulhu
Phantasmagoria (kidding)
Alien Vs. Predator (FPS remake)
Bonk's Adventure (make a cool Wii game)
Definitely the best "in need of sequel" list I've seen in a long time, pretty much for the Lunar 2 shoutout. That game was one of the few that truly got me into gaming.. the fantastic storyline and truly engaging characters was enough to get me to tear up at the end.
-The Legend of Dragoon desperately needs a sequel as well, though.
Shenmue 2. Nuff said.