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Franchises that disappeared for no apparent reason despite positive reception and sales
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1. Quality is subjective.
2. It's a single player game with a side of gacha elements. Branding it as just a gacha game is disingenuous.
3. The point of me mentioning it is because it has some of the same staff working on it, and it's an epic time-traveling RPG.
The only hope for battlefront is if they try to capture Free radicals vision with the new "Battlefront 3" if that will even be released. Everything I saw from the reboots honestly looks like modern Battlefield gameplay with Star Wars skin. No soul, nothing exciting about it(the reveal was ok) They even considered making the BF reboot 1st person only. Heard BF 2 is better now to be fair who knows what the future brings but by that time other similar games might have better gameplay.
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Yeah this was wack, I remember everything seemingly going great with Battlefront II and they just never made a sequel.
It's kind of hard to make a sequel to this, unless they did another famous composer. Mozart or Beethoven anime dreamland when?
The game was fantastic. The reception was excellent, both critically and sales-wise. Never got anything else to make it a series.
It is a tragedy that we have not gotten a SNES remix.
Admittedly, it's hard to have a clear picture of how it sold, given the digital nature of the title, but it did at least well enough to merit a sequel, and was reasonably well-reviewed.
Bubble Bobble then Rainbow then Parasol Stars then nothing
Also a 3D Bubble Bobble could be the most fun couch co op battle game
Also a 3D Bubble Bobble could be the most fun couch co op battle game
Quake, Jet Moto, Power Stone, Jet set radio, Soldier of Fortune, Wild Arms, Road Rash (a real one not a fan made)
OK, but is it for no apparent reason? Did they all sell gangbusters? Was there an appetite in the mass market for those types of games?
Sold well enough to have multiple entries. I don't know the numbers. Never followed sales figures when I was a kid.
advance wars was getting new sequels while it was selling okayish but the last games bombed hard
Yea, now that I think about it, the last one was def a bomber. Medicore reviews didn't help.
Advance Wars: Days of Ruin
(Also known as "Advance Wars: Dark Conflict" in the UK/EU) After a cataclysmic meteor strike exterminates 90% of the population, the survivors must battle barbarians, disease, and strongmen who seek only to secure their own power. Advance Wars has been reinvented. Set amidst a world in chaos...
www.metacritic.com
\shrug
The game was really good, had very good reviews and... everyone decided to collectively ignore it. It bombed massively
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Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney. Especially the last game, Spirit of Justice was so beloved by everyone and it sold extremely well and yet Capcom decided now was the time to stop making them.
I had fun playing that game on my flashcard ^^Advance Wars: Days of Ruin
(Also known as "Advance Wars: Dark Conflict" in the UK/EU) After a cataclysmic meteor strike exterminates 90% of the population, the survivors must battle barbarians, disease, and strongmen who seek only to secure their own power. Advance Wars has been reinvented. Set amidst a world in chaos...
\shrug
The game was really good, had very good reviews and... everyone decided to collectively ignore it. It bombed massively
The game was fantastic. The reception was excellent, both critically and sales-wise. Never got anything else to make it a series.
I love Eternal Sonata, but a sequel wouldn't really work. Unless you ignore the whole "world takes place in the mind of a dying man, the famous pianist Bach" angle.
They're totally different franchises, so it's hard to say they'll be doing the same thing. For example, the same narrative director worked a bit on Gods & Monsters before going to the new BioShock. Also, it's a whole new studio: Cloud Chambers. Ken Levine isn't involved at all.
I can see a new VT and Power stone or PS all stars battle royale with bird view turning into popular games. Now that there is a demand for arcade games there is a chance that some of them will eventually come back
It does a bit- Blacklist seemingly underperformed at 2 million sales. Which is a shame.
Blacklist, aside from lacking Ironside as Sam (which we now know because Ironside was battling potentially terminal cancer) was the best the series had been imo.
I think it releasing at the tail end of last gen didn't help, and there was the fan outcry hoopla about it's initial reveal, despite it offering the most gaming freedom in the series. I hope it returns- I fed the Ghost Recon crossovers are pretty clear testing the water attempts. They've gotta be cooking something up.
At this point though I'd be perfectly content with an HD remaster of Blacklist with Ironside overdubbing the voice.
Just give me something.
Ùbi still hasn't fixed Pandora Tomorrow on PC; the game remains pulled from digital distribution. That tells me all I need to hear about what they think of Splinter Cell.
I wish I could but one isn't just a baseless example, rather its the immediate cause of the Jak series being completely forgotten.
Don't think I questioned the historical importance of the block buster Sony AAA template that was established by it and much part of the PS3/360 generation, but the point isn't on what they made but on what they forgot. Look at Insomniac as a complete counter point. They took their time creating Ratchet and Clank games all throughout last and current gen while still being able to produce a large catalogue of quality gaming experiences at the same time.
Though to be clear, modern day ND should have nothing to do with a new Jak game as the true team for that is no longer present at the company.
A lot would argue that ratchet and clank was also borderline being run into the ground. ND was done with Jak and wanted to try something brand new. It was a big hit and became a series.
People can argue whatever they like bout the state of R&C, the fact stands is Insomniac showed they can easily carry there older IPs along side other new ones.
ND was done thats true, which ND themselves didn't pussyfoot around the fact they wanted to attack the mature AAA blockbuster market hence the pursuit of the Uncharted series. Point is they made a conscious decision to let the series go and tackle other kind of games, whilst Insomniac started more IPs since the PS3 gen then ND has in their entire life time, leading Jak and Daxter a beloved series with respectable sales to be swept by the wayside.
I don't actually think Cross sold well and the reaction to it in Japan was pretty tepid at best. Hurts to say since it's my favorite RPG of all time.
I mean for one, Jak and daxter definitely has a fanbase, but it also mixed. A lot of people didn't like jak 2 at all, and was just the second game, whereas RandC 2 is loved more than 1.
Alao not discounting that the uncharted games and TLOU went abive beyond stuff sucker punch really until Spiderman. They had to go all hands on deck.
Critically and financially Jak 2 was far from a mixed result. The distaste for Jak II really only seems to be subject to online forums such as Era. But the point is the Jak series got a third game, a PSP spinoff and a ND developed arcade racer despite your attempts to undermine the series' success.
Sucker Punch also isn't being discussed her as they are not the developers of Spiderman, Insominac is.
FANTASY LIFE (Level 5)
One of their best selling and received IPs - globally. Yet they refuse to develop a sequel. Let's see if AC can inject some courage into them.
One of their best selling and received IPs - globally. Yet they refuse to develop a sequel. Let's see if AC can inject some courage into them.
You know a new Bubble Bobble literally came out last month, right?
Bubble Bobble 4 Friends for Nintendo Switch - Nintendo Game Details
Playing alone or with up to 3 friends in couch co-op mode, jump your bubble dragons through 100 levels to defeat the wicked magician Bonner and his henchmen.
www.nintendo.com
DK and metroid are so tied to specific people making them that neither can ever be stable, unlike stuff like kirby or fire embkem.
Splinter Cell and Prince of Persia immediately came to mind for me.
Don't get me wrong, I love Assassin's Creed, but I miss the PoP "thing". I enjoyed Origins and Odyssey, but the more the AC games moves away from its roots and becomes a big RPG, the more I miss a more defined Prince of Persia-esque experience.
RIP Splinter Cell, so annoyed and sad it's been relegated to DLC missions in Ghost Recon. Maybe someday we'll get a real one.
Don't get me wrong, I love Assassin's Creed, but I miss the PoP "thing". I enjoyed Origins and Odyssey, but the more the AC games moves away from its roots and becomes a big RPG, the more I miss a more defined Prince of Persia-esque experience.
RIP Splinter Cell, so annoyed and sad it's been relegated to DLC missions in Ghost Recon. Maybe someday we'll get a real one.