Biggest franchises that are now dead

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Jumpin said:

Bofferbrauer2 said:

HoloDust said:

Aren't they just Japanese spin-offs though?

Even those have stopped now about 10 years ago.

At least we got a remake/remaster (it's built on the original code, but the visuals are all new) of the very first one last year, but that's really the only news in the series in a long time.

They were still core games, just exclusive to Japan (as far as I know) where the series found its largest fanbase.
I mean, you could kind of argue that Wizardry lives on in turn-based RPGs. Its legacy is quite constant in the genre.

I would say it lives through most RPG that go with a first person perspective, especially when they come with high difficulty, like the Etrian Odyssey series for instance.

But the last new Wizardry title came out in 2011, and I can only hope that the acclaim the remake of Proving Grounds Of The Mad Overlord will spark new interest in the series as a whole.