VanQuish

To me, this is the best playing TPS ever. I like my Gears. I like Space Marine. I like Binary Domain. EX Troopers. Fall of Cybertron and more.

In an era of Gears of War clones and cover third-person shooters. This had bad marketing. The era of the West hating Japan. It didn't help that most Gears clones sucked and most Japanese third-person shooters were nothing special aside from a handful. The thing is, VanQuish is not a Gears clone nor a cover shooter, Binary Domain was. The rocket sliding while entering slow-motion (think third-person shooter Bayonetta Witch time) makes it unique. No other game before or since has done something this cool. Like any Platinum game, you can combine melee and shooting combos.

Tell me how this is just another cover shooter or Gears clone.

While the thread is mainly about games that never received a sequel I also said proper sequels so maybe a game got a follow-up but it was a spinoff or a mobile thing. For example, El Shaddai got a Sequel on Vita/Switch in the form of a Shin Megami Tensei clone. I think Titanfall 2 also counts since the first is MP only. 2 had an SP campaign so it skirts the rules but still works.

The Last Story.

Excellent game, but was largely overlooked due to the circumstances of its release.

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Must have hit the wrong key, in mid-sentence the site posted haha.

Eternal Darkness. Dont really need a sequel though since I feel its such a great and unique experience that I dont think can be replicated in the same way.

Alpha Centauri.




I still play this often.
I still think it's one of the best Turn based strategy games of all time.

It still doesn't have a sequel.

Still a chance, right?!:

Absolutely. What a game. Also a +1 for Eternal Darkness that @KLXVER mentioned.

For me, I'd also say

- Powerslave

- Space Station Silicon Valley

- Plok

- Beetle Adventure Racing (or maybe a spiritual sequel with the same sort of design philosophy if the licence is unavailable).

Metal Gear Rising Revengence

I have never been a fan of Metal Gear or Metal Gear Solid. I tried them, but they never clicked with me. I never tried MGS2 because I found the visuals ugly, even in 2001. Blurry, green haze, low-rez textures. Dreamcast and Gamecube impressed me far more, and eventually Xbox. Rising, however, is right up my alley. It's pure adrenaline action. Metal OST. Cyber Ninja, like an 80s NES game, went 3D! I love this game and like VanQuish one of my fave Platinum games. Finished it countless times. In 2015 we got a tease for an MGR2 but nothing ever came from it. Konami became the Konami we all know now and hate. 0-2 on amazing Platinum games that need a sequel esp as they ended on cliffhangers.

Skies of Arcadia

This game was never teasing a sequel but the game world is so charming. Wonderous. Fun and full of potential. Fun characters and such an amazing OST. God I love this game. I'd even take a remaster at this point. With modern hardware and how many islands or how big they could make them. Sky is the limit for a sequel.

Xenogears and Skies of Arcadia.

But, as we saw with Chrono Trigger, sometimes sequels aren't a good idea - even when made by the most creative guy on the team - IMO, creatives like Kato need and organized force like Takashi Tokita to be successful. Not that Chrono Cross is a bad game, but I find it utterly fails as a sequel to Chrono Trigger - and IMO, the DS Chrono Trigger felt a little sullied by putting the tie-in new ending.

A proper sequel to Skies of Arcadia is impossible after the unfortunate passing of Kodama a few years ago.
Xenogears has a number of spiritual successors - three, if you count Xenosaga, Xenoblade Chronicles X, and the Xenoblade trilogy. I think proper successors to Xenogears, and by the authentic development team, would be ideal. Most of the Xenogears core team is still with or aligned with Monolithsoft. They could conceivably get all of them back together, even Kunihiko Tanaka might consider coming out of retirement (he retired young).