Biggest franchises that are now dead

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Bofferbrauer2 said:

Jumpin said:

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.

On a related-ish note, Richard Garriott has apparently been trying to buy back Ultima, to no avail. He's also apparently been hanging around at Larian Studios, which fuels all kinds of wild speculation about Larian doing an Ultima game.