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PhoenixKing said:
weaveworld said:
Well, Xenogears/Xenosaga still dead... Number 1 by far for me!


Some games should be left to rest in piece...

 

There's a new one coming out for the Wii called "Xenoblade". >_>;

 

And the cow had begun to get milked.

Strange remark: that would be a very non-profitable cow then...

 

I dont mind more of the epic stuff, cause nothing has ever come even close to Xenogears...



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Wizardry: dead

Ultima: dead

Fallout: undead

Outcast: died before becoming a series

Final Fantasy: might have a terminal illness, hopefully recovering



“It appeared that there had even been demonstrations to thank Big Brother for raising the chocolate ration to twenty grams a week. And only yesterday, he reflected, it had been announced that the ration was to be reduced to twenty grams a week. Was it possible that they could swallow that, after only twenty-four hours? Yes, they swallowed it.”

- George Orwell, ‘1984’

Banjo - dead, after the sales of the new one
Final Fantasy - not dead in the gaming world, but it's pretty much dead to me.
Chrono trigger - Chrono cross... and to think it received a lot of perfect scores back then.
Donkey Kong Country - It'll ressurect someday, sure... but nintendo is keeping the kong under the grave for too long now!



My favorite genre (Japanese action RPG/adventure) has been on life support for 3 gens running... looking back at the long running series (32bit and older) in the genre...

R.I.P.

  • Alundra (SCE/Matrix)
  • Creation Trilogy (Square Enix/Quintet)
  • Crystalis (SNK Playmore)
  • Exile (Sunsoft/Telenet)
  • Golvellius (D4/Compile)
  • Hydelide (T&E)
  • King's Field (From)
  • Mana (Square Enix)
  • Monster World (Sega/WestOne)
  • Neutopia (Hudson)
  • Oasis (Sega/Ancient)
  • Popful Mail (Falcom)
  • Stalker (Climax)
  • Xak (Microcabin)

Still kicking!

  • Legend of Zelda (Nintendo)
  • Xanadu (Falcom)
  • Ys (Falcom)


Donkey Kong Country, Banjo and the Mana series is dead, hopefully they can all be resurrected. And Final Fantasy has been dead to me since IX, the last one I liked.



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Xbbjf9s said:
V-r0cK said:
- Dino Crisis
- Rival Schools
- Onimusha? no news of it at all yet.


The onimusha games were my fav.

Yea they are one of my all time favs.  I hope they make a new one this gen and possibly have a co-op feature like Dawn of Dreams.



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.



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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.

Heroes of M&M certainly isn't dead.

Dark Messiah, I just watched a ton of 'lets play' videos of it on YouTube last night. I don't know why I skipped that game, probably cos of mediocre reviews. But it looked very good on those walk-throughs. Had bigger variation in environments than I thought too.

I'd be very surprised if Dark Messiah got a sequel.



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wonder boy
alex the kidd
road rage
nights
shenmue
powerstone
silpheed
fighting vipers
streets of rage
classic sonic
rpg mario
after burner
space harrier
panzer dragoon
virtua cop
lylat wars/ star fox
star wars rogue squadron

just to name a few :(



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