Vanquish. The mechanics and feel of this game were so great, but it seemed like Platinum didn't have the time or the budget to make the campaign as fully featured and wild as it could be. Easily the game most deserving of a sequel out of just about anything I can think of from last gen.
All you PC owners better fucking buy that port if it ever actually happens.
Burnout - I'll never understand how these games weren't massively successful.
Skate - Another obvious choice, but enough time has passed since the last one that I would be eager to see what EA could do with another iteration
Syndicate (the Starbreeze version) - The world needs more Miles Kilo
DmC Devil May Cry - I loved Ninja Theory's take on the character and the action was so stylish
The World Ends With You - The best game Square Enix ever made. Persona 5 reminds me of this game since they're both set in Shibuya and have dope art styles. A sequel/remake would play excellently on the Switch.
Might and Magic: With Heroes VII apparently being a burning garbage fire and the surprisingly good "RPG with more heart than budget" Might and Magic X being a sales disappointment, I think it's fair to say that Ubisoft is probably done with the franchise for a while... until they decide to revive it to run it into the ground again. C'mon guys, Heroes V was pretty great by its second expansion so I know you're theoretically capable of making one of those that isn't mediocre-to-trash.
Wizardry: Like Might and Magic, I just really like Wizardry 8 and wish someone would make a new party-based "blobber" in that same vein. The Japanese Wizardry or Wizardry-inspired games too often take influence from the earlier games in the series (1-5) and aren't quite the same. If nothing else, I guess the infamous vaporware Grimoire is supposed to come out this month, which could scratch that itch. I'll believe it when I can purchase and download that thing on Steam.
Like, most of Capcom's franchises? Hey Capcom, it's great that you finally made a good Resident Evil game again. But what if you finally made Dragon's Dogma 2? Or a new real Devil May Cry?
Advance Wars: As someone who liked Fire Emblem before it was all waifu dating sims for casual babies, I'm glad that's finally getting the recognition it deserves. But what about Intelligent Systems other cool turn-based tactics series?
Thief: I didn't hate the 2014 Thief reboot. Shoot me. And yes, while there are quite a few new games that are on that same Looking Glass-inspired wavelength, I'd like one that is purely about sneaking and not one where sneaking is the thing I do to satisfy my obsessive-compulsive need for no kill/no detection runs.
Dead Space: Every time I'm reminded of Dead Space 1 and 2 I think "Man those games were awesome!" and then I remember that Dead Space 3 happened and EA would probably cock up any sort of revival or reboot if given the chance.
Valkyria Chronicles: Not whatever that new spinoff RPG thing is.
Warcraft II got me into PC games when I was a kid and I probably played Warcraft III for hundreds of hours. I was like 10 but I used the map editor to create a dungeon crawler with loot, bosses, and a story.
I played WoW a lot when I was younger, up until the end of WotLK then I had to quit because it was getting in the way of high school. I just want a single player return to Warcraft's roots but seeing as the RTS genre died out a while ago (probably thanks to DotA, actually) I doubt that will happen.
Metroid! I played a bit of Metroid Fusion recently and I was thinking how awesome it would be to have a full console 2D Metroid. Not a Metroidvania, not Castlevania, nor Bloodstained, nor an indie Metroidvania like Axiom Verge or Ori and the Blind Forest. An actual. Fucking. Metroid game. A new 2D one that I can go buy in a box, come home, put in the Switch that I bought with it, and play.
Would also be pretty cool to have some sort of ending to Half-Life, but Episode 2 came out an entire decade ago so I've come to terms with the fact that I'm never going to get a resolution to that story. I have a sneaking suspicion that Valve wrote themselves into a corner and now have no idea how to end that series without raising Mass Effect 3 levels of ire from the gaming community, so they're just coasting by on CSGO gun skins, TF2 hats, and Dota 2 items.
Fable, Skate and THPS. That last one is technically alive, but it isn't very well. I'm still bummed that BC never came out for the original xbox. MOLYNEUX! You big tease.
If there was justice in this world Virtua Fighter would still be alive and kicking. Also think Ape Escape should have had a longer run. And seriously, where's F-Zero?
Gotta agree that Suikoden is an amazing series. I & II are classics in the genre and V was even a great return to form, but apparently no one cared anymore. The series is amazing and well worth the bargain basement prices that Suikoden I & II go for on PSN these days.
I would also add that Heroes of Might and Magic is wonderful as well and that series deserves better than it's getting from Ubisoft atm FOR SURE.
Roller Coaster Tycoon (as in the series around the 1 and 2 style games)
TOCA Touring Cars
Project Gotham Racing
These titles are ones I spent a lot of time with in the past and would enjoy modern updates, oh, and a new Grand Prix game as Grand Prix 4 was really awesome and a modern F1 game by that team would be really special.
- Dragon's Dogma - City of Heroes/Villains - Armored Core (pre-AC 5)
A few months ago I would have also said Onimusha, but Nioh is basically a modern Onimusha game, so that's more-or-less covered. (Team Ninja, please let me transform into Jean Reno, TIA.)
These two are by the same company, but also pretty similar: Dune and Command & Conquer, my two favorite RTS franchises.
A Blue Byte/Ubisoft franchise I miss dearly is Battle Isle, turn based strategy inspired by Military Madness.
There's also Wing Commander. Assuming Star Citizen is ever even getting released I've practically given up any hope that it'll be able to capture the things I loved about the originals.
Bloody Roar could make a great comeback under the reigns of Iron Galaxy or something, but it's probably dead for good. I had a soft spot for the series; the concept itself is just so damn cool.
The Suffering. I think the concept was a little ahead of its time, as the outdated mechanics held it back, but it was a solid series. A reboot from a Rockstar studio would be good, I think. The Manhunt guys would have done a good one I wager, and modernized it adequately.
Gungrave. Great B-tier or even C-tier games. Platinum could make it legendary.
I can't believe we get a sequel/reboot of every old game ever and this one is stuck as some MMO I'll never play for the rest of eternity. I'm angry now.
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time. I really disliked what they did with that series but thought the first game was just incredible. I really wish that game could've grown without being so twisted and "metal". Oh well.
Torchlight/Sacred/Dark Alliance style light weight coop loot + hack and slash game. Diablo III is good in concept, but its focus is just something I can't get into fully.
We'd have more Freedom Fighters, more Freedom Force, more real Final Fantasy Tactics games like the first one, Jagged Alliance games made not half assed in Easten Europe, Dragon's Dogma 2 and 3 probably about to come out building on the amazing core of the first game, and Deus Ex sequels that weren't steps backwards from the first game in every single part of the game besides graphics.
Mass Effect (it's not dead, but it's not healthy right now either)
Titanfall
Ninja Gaiden
DMC
Marvel Ultimate Alliance
Largely Ubisoft games are on my list since they have potential then screw them up with the later sequels. Ninja Gaiden on Xbox is still my favorite game from that genre. I liked the DMC reboot and would like to see more. I'm not a huge Titanfall fan, I just felt bad for the devs for making a good game then having dumbass EA executives kill their game by releasing it 7 days after BF1. A new Marvel Ultimate Alliance would probably sell like crazy given the movie universe success.
Virtua Fighter's my main pick, if only because so many people love it and if I had the power to change fate I'd give Jeff a new, great VF to play. Never was the type to play it myself.
Obsidian's KotOR. (Though I'd take another SP BioWare game.)
Star Trek video games generally. (Bridge Crew looks cool, don't get me wrong, and STO... exists, but I'm talking singleplayer RPG type stuff, not VR experiments or ageing MMOs.)
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