How many of your favourite game series are dead?

[Wiped]

Staude said:

Wiped said:

...or quite past-it? I was thinking about this, and I was alarmed at how many of mine were. For all the great games out today, it saddens me to realise how many of my favourites have been lost:

 

1. Pokemon - Alive

2. Gran Turismo - Alive

3. Jak and Daxter - Pretty Dead

4. Worms - Past it

5. LMA Manager - Dead

6. Theme Park - Dead

7. Wipeout - Almost certainly died (or changed forever...) with Studio Liverpool's death this week

8. Uncharted - Alive

9. Guitar Hero - Alive, but for how much longer?

10. Super Mario Galaxy - Alive, but if NSMBWii sells much more, I wonder how many SMGs we'll get in future...

How about you? (Yes, I know my top 10's an odd bunch, lol).

Studio liverpool is not dead. It's merely a restructuring.

 

Also anyone saying tekken is wrong. Despite it being their own opinion. Tekken 6 is unarguably the best tekken game yet. It is EPIC !

 

As for mine.. . Well

 

Command & Conquer would be one. It's been dead since westwood closed.

Heroes of might and magic ? well i thought the 5th game was good.. but too slow .. I'm not sure ubisoft is making a 6th.

Dark Messiah of might and magic. .. It's hands down the best first person game i've played where you could do melee fights. It's truly an astonishing game. Awesome. It didn't sell well though (i think ?) so hopes for a sequal are slim

Universe At War: Earth Assault. Again a truly epic game but very underrated. Microsoft and sega delaying a patch for more than a year destroyed a lot of the online part of the game.. But it's a rts that's even more adverse than starcraft and while it does have a few flaws.. It's definetly one of the best rts games of all time.

I have plenty that are still around. probably a bunch more has died off too.. Anyways.. It's how it is. .. And sometimes the franchises get resurrected and sometimes they don't. Fortunately, most games has a satisfying story and a conclusion if you play them through, so the lack of a continuation of the franchise is often not as bad as it could be.

That is indeed the official line, yes, but if you go to fansite Wipeoutzone.com, where they have close ties to the WO developers, there's a lot of mourning - apparently pretty much the whole Wipeout team is gone, and the majority of SL as a whole has been let go in order to integrate with Evolution Studios, including Colin Berry, lead designer on Wipeout games for about a decade. So SL may not be officially dead, but it looks like Wipeout is over, or if it does return, undergoing a big change of hands.