Lost RPG Franchises: Where Are They Now?

[Player2]

BasilZero said:

Player2 said:

You can add Valkyrie Profile, Star Ocean and Front Mission to this list.

The first two because it doesn't look like tri-Ace will work with Square-Enix again, and the last one because that aberration called Front Mission Evolved killed it.

Not really, those games have had a release in some form this generation but the one in the OP (except for .hack) hasnt seen the light of day this generation :/.

 

Tri Ace made remakes for both the first and second Star Ocean for the PSP 2009 and later and there was a Valkyrie Profile for the PSP (in 2005/6?) and a spinoff on NDS later on. 

Tri Ace also usually makes one Star Ocean console game per generation but I can see what you mean by no more new games being made unless they do either a remake of Blue Sphere for the 3DS/remake of SO3 for the consoles or another prequel since they pretty much destroyed the universe in SO3 l0l.

If I'm not mistaken tri-Ace and S-E had a dispute over the PSP port of Star Ocean so they won't work with S-E again. And tri-Ace doesn't own the rights of those franchises.