your favorite series that hit a dead end.

Hi. So i was thinking today about one of my favorite series that looks like it will never have another sequel. The SSX games. SSX3 was sublime. It made snowboarding really fun and arcadey with compelliing graphics, interesting courses, unique likable characters. An open world style trio of highly explorable mountains. A realxed non-linear progression system where you could choose to concentrate on racing or tricks and excellent music ant style. ITs one of my favorite games ever, and i dont mean just in the sports genre. But now its looking like we might not see anymore of them because the last two games were busts.

SSX on Tour, while not really a bad game, was not up to the ssx 3 or Tricky standard. It removed all the characters, took out the open world, made character progression slow and confusing, looked graphically worse, and had a weird punk rock napoleon dynamite doodle thing going on instead of the hip (okay, maybe a little "hipster") atmosphere of ssx 3. It was strongly disliked by fans. This was followed up by ssx blur, which was essentially just a rehash of old ssx3 and on tour tracks with weirded out versions of ssx3 characters, kinda muddled graphics and highly complex, though not necessarily bad, motion controls with no gamecube controller option.

Now its looking like the series may not get another revisit and its a total bummer. Do you have a favorite series that developers ran into the ground and now you wont see any more entries?

Dood, I absolutely agree with you on SSX.  It's funny that as much as I love SSX3, I just realized that I NEVER talk about that game on the forums.

Mortal Kombat.

I've been the biggest fan for so long, but MK vs. DC just killed my love for the franchise.    Used to be my favorite fighting game, now I'm kinda disinterested in the whole thing.     Seems like the MK franchise was brought down by Midway trying to do anything with their popular franchises to make money, even if it means running them into the ground.

Probably Medal Of Honor. MOH: Airborne was my first 360 game and I loved it. It's too bad that series lost all of its steam.

Crash Bandicoot was awesome back in it's heyday, but ever since Naughty Dog left it, the series have turned to crap.

Tomba!  I fucking love the first game.  The second was good but, not as good as the first one.  Now if they would make a third one, I would cum in my pants.

First one to say Final Fantasy. Hurrr.

I'd have to say Shining Force. I grew up on Grans Island, and to see the bastardizations they've made over the past few years kills me a little inside. Shining Force 4 would completely rock my world.

Mega Man Battle Network(They did get stale towards the end, but Star Force is hardly an improvement - all the series needed was some changes) and Mega Man Zero.

I'll say two genres, take your pick of their better franchises: the beat em' up and the top down shooter.  Why aren't they still making quality Streets of Rage games? (lets forget about those "badatude" train wrecks)  How about a new Smash TV?  If they would just incorporate modern features to these genres they could be resurrected again.  We've seen it done peacemeal and here and there but it should be a regular thing.  Honestly you can just combine the two genres and have an awesome product.  Red Star was pretty sweet and it could have been even better and there's plenty of room to expand on that formula.

SSX for me if not Half-Life.
They claim that Half-Life 2: Episode 3 is in development. But they have made a mess of the term "TBA".

" @freakin said:

" Mortal Kombat.I've been the biggest fan for so long, but MK vs. DC just killed my love for the franchise.    Used to be my favorite fighting game, now I'm kinda disinterested in the whole thing.     Seems like the MK franchise was brought down by Midway trying to do anything with their popular franchises to make money, even if it means running them into the ground. "

Aside from the fact that the 360 has a shitty D-pad so playing the game is nigh impossible for the most part, MK vs. DCU was a great return to form for MK after MK4 - MK: Armageddon reigned shit all over the place.  Granted, I kind of enjoyed Deception, but I think it's only because it had the fun little mini-games on it. "

XIII and luigi's mansion

Star wars republic commando

Halo.


OH SNAP.

Joking off-course, Halo 3 was excellent.

" @Tarsier: Wasn't there just a NWN expansion for the sequel not long ago? "

" Hi. So i was thinking today about one of my favorite series that looks like it will never have another sequel. The SSX games.

Tony Hawks Pro Skater.

Pro Skater 3 was incredible, I invested many fun hours into that game.

It's dead now, it would take nothing short of a miracle to ressurect that franchise.

also i miss oldschool resident evil. 

Quake by far. I wish those games could still exist in this day and age. 

james bond games.Devil May Cry 4 would be another,nero just killed the game for me.And GTA 4 left me very dissapointed.

" @Stephen_Von_Cloud: NWN 2 was dead the day it was released. The system requirements were ridiculous, so nobody got into it, and all the modules people have made for it (that I have seen) are poor.

Then again, I didn't really like most of the modules for the first game either. The only one I ever played was Fork, which had like 7 active servers with different versions. The whole success of those games rides on whether or not there are good modules, and according to my taste, NWN 2 didn't have many. And if it did, none of them were active..

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shenmue

Fear effect :'(

Area 51..... *sigh* Blacksite was..... okay I don't want to talk about it :(

" Mortal Kombat.I've been the biggest fan for so long, but MK vs. DC just killed my love for the franchise.    Used to be my favorite fighting game, now I'm kinda disinterested in the whole thing.     Seems like the MK franchise was brought down by Midway trying to do anything with their popular franchises to make money, even if it means running them into the ground. "

" @Tarsier said:

" @Stephen_Von_Cloud: NWN 2 was dead the day it was released. The system requirements were ridiculous, so nobody got into it, and all the modules people have made for it (that I have seen) are poor.

Then again, I didn't really like most of the modules for the first game either. The only one I ever played was Fork, which had like 7 active servers with different versions. The whole success of those games rides on whether or not there are good modules, and according to my taste, NWN 2 didn't have many. And if it did, none of them were active..

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Okay, yeah I mean I liked NWN 1 a lot and didn't care for 2 so I understand where you're coming from, it's just this thread was for games that aren't getting new installments at all.Obsidian seems to go only part way to making good games I think.  Not sure why exactly. "

Not so long ago I was reminded of SSX and went on a massive net hunt to see if there was a new one, there's must have been something, but I found nothing =(
Makes me sad.

Resident Evil is dead to me (no pun intended), that series lost its way after Code Veronica when Capcom turned its back on the faithfull to go after the casual.  And to go way back to my childhood days I miss the joy that came from the original Sonic games the first three + Sonic & Knuckles were fantastic, and also I miss Vectorman. I was pumped when they announced the PS2/Xbox revival but for some stupid reason or another it got canceled. Way to shit on my parade guys.

Republic Commando. Who doesn't like Rainbow Six with those white army guys from Star Wars, don't know their name.

" @Stephen_Von_Cloud said:

" @Tarsier said:

" @Stephen_Von_Cloud: NWN 2 was dead the day it was released. The system requirements were ridiculous, so nobody got into it, and all the modules people have made for it (that I have seen) are poor.

Then again, I didn't really like most of the modules for the first game either. The only one I ever played was Fork, which had like 7 active servers with different versions. The whole success of those games rides on whether or not there are good modules, and according to my taste, NWN 2 didn't have many. And if it did, none of them were active..

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Okay, yeah I mean I liked NWN 1 a lot and didn't care for 2 so I understand where you're coming from, it's just this thread was for games that aren't getting new installments at all.Obsidian seems to go only part way to making good games I think.  Not sure why exactly. "

Why cant it be about games that have new entries, but the new entries either arent updating the franchise or are terrible? "

NBA Street or Tony Hawk

" NBA Street

Silent Hill... without team silent, it was never the same again.

And there is no game like silent hill :'

Monkey Island, I'm stoked for the new games, but I'm also feeling really uncertain.

Zone of the enders, as much as I love MGS I want another ZOE the 2nd one was by far the best giant robot game in a long while

I can't believe nobody has mentioned Sonic the Hedgehog yet. So here I go:

Sonic the Hedgehog.

@DaFT_PLAyeRr said:

"Star wars republic commando"

oh yah , i remember that game being pretty fun,  that disapeared pretty fast

Soul Calibur for me. Loved Soul Blade, Soul Calibur and SCII but after 3 and Legend it just went downhill.

Golden Sun...UNTIL NINTENDO'S PRESS CONFERENCE.
Come on guys. Resurrections can happen.

The original Phantasy Star series. PS IV is still one of my favorite games of all time. The PSO stuff they've been doing for the last few years has been junk. I'd love to see another proper Phantasy Star game.

"@zombie2011 said:

" Republic Commando. Who doesn't like Rainbow Six with those white army guys from Star Wars, don't know their name."

O.O  Did you just say that?  Seriously?  I smell an MB ban approaching!  lol

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They need to reboot Streets of Rage. I loved those games as a kid. Even if they just pulled a mega man 9 I would be happy.

" @jakob187 said:

"@zombie2011 said:

" Republic Commando. Who doesn't like Rainbow Six with those white army guys from Star Wars, don't know their name."

O.O  Did you just say that?  Seriously?  I smell an MB ban approaching!  lol

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He's not alone...I vaguely remember their name...Star Troopers or Shippers or something >_< "

The Tony Hawk series. A dead end has been hit. It makes me so sad.