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Games that end on a cliffhanger, but have yet to receive a sequel or received one after a long period of time
- Thread starter Momo
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I think a lot of people confuse sequel teasing / open endings with cliffhangers.
Like, there's no cliffhanger ending in Wolf Among Us or Bulletstorm as examples from the first page. There's a million noir stories where the hero gets thrown on his ass with questions right near the end, and very few of them have sequels or direct follow ups.
Like, there's no cliffhanger ending in Wolf Among Us or Bulletstorm as examples from the first page. There's a million noir stories where the hero gets thrown on his ass with questions right near the end, and very few of them have sequels or direct follow ups.
Came here for this. They're doing a remake though. Or was it a sequel even? Dont remember.
that's what I was gonna say too, and it's actually the only one I would care about
I forgot about that game! I was so hyped for it that I bought day one on Xbox One...game was pretty bad, I expected way more from Swery after Deadly Premonition
I... Don't remember a cliffhanger ending in Earthbound? What am I forgetting?
The letter Ness gets from Porky at the end saying 'Come get me' and it fades to black with a 'To Be Continued...?' on screen.
And in Earthbound Beginnings, Ninten's dad rings him saying that something else has come up.
Though neither cliffhangers are followed up on in Earthbound and Mother 3 respectively, they're still saying 'the story isn't over'.
Let us Cling Together certainly does with the main villain getting away and the story setting up a big conflict to come.
Also, Mari in OB64 is implied to be Rashidi'a daughter, and thanks to the witch Zeda, gives birth to the reincarnation of Rashidi, now with the body of a demon.
The whole saga as released so far sets up a continent-engulfing invasion by the demons (a new Ogre Battle) in the near future.
Oh man I loved these games and don't often hear people talking about them.
Half-Life series is the only one that matters to me, and I've long given up.
One of the best selling series of all time; one of the most popular games of all time; one of the most anticipated games ever; one of the highest reviewed games ever ...
And the series just ends on a massive cliffhanger and it's been ~15 years and Valve will never resolve it. They just decided they didn't want to make videogames anymore.
One of the best selling series of all time; one of the most popular games of all time; one of the most anticipated games ever; one of the highest reviewed games ever ...
And the series just ends on a massive cliffhanger and it's been ~15 years and Valve will never resolve it. They just decided they didn't want to make videogames anymore.
- The game is 20 years old
- It's PC only
- It's a space-sim, the genre is pretty much dead or better said super-niche nowadays
Prince of Persia '08 is my Half-Life 2
and even with the DLC I consider the end-game state of the world to be one fucking hell of a cliffhanger
and even with the DLC I consider the end-game state of the world to be one fucking hell of a cliffhanger
Project Justice: Rival Schools 2.
http://www.vgmuseum.com/end/dc/a/pj.htm (spoiler warning - is that necessary for an 18 yo game though?)
Hideaki Itsuno even said in an interview he's got the ideas/outline for a Rival Schools 3 to complete the story, but neither he nor Capcom seem to really want to go forward with it.
http://www.vgmuseum.com/end/dc/a/pj.htm (spoiler warning - is that necessary for an 18 yo game though?)
Hideaki Itsuno even said in an interview he's got the ideas/outline for a Rival Schools 3 to complete the story, but neither he nor Capcom seem to really want to go forward with it.
Yes to all this post. I want some skells on my Switch, and fly across new areas of Mira.
Huh. I clearly need to play Scenario 3 again. It's obviously been years, I guess I don't remember it as well as I thought I did.
Zero Time Dilemma
It was not a cliffhanger like Virtue's Last Reward, but damn why they tease me like that.
It was not a cliffhanger like Virtue's Last Reward, but damn why they tease me like that.
I'm right there with you...down to the Sidewinder Pro. That last set piece with the supernova blew my mind.
I was also a big fan of Heavy Gear.
It's not exactly a cliffhanger - more a tease, but:
(I can't find a screenshot of Underwurlde, but here's a cut of a magazine map that mentioned it):
Several of Ultimate's games teased the final part of the Sabreman series, Mire Mare. Underwurlde mentioned all three games depending on which exit you took, and both Knight Lore and Pentagram teased the game as the conclusion, and in the end, it never came out.
(I can't find a screenshot of Underwurlde, but here's a cut of a magazine map that mentioned it):
Several of Ultimate's games teased the final part of the Sabreman series, Mire Mare. Underwurlde mentioned all three games depending on which exit you took, and both Knight Lore and Pentagram teased the game as the conclusion, and in the end, it never came out.
-Kya: Dark Lineage
Especially since the gameplay was actually a lot of fun and the world was fairly interesting. also some people (like me!) had weirdly bugged versions where the cliffhanger ending and literally nothing ending were reversed. Amusingly, my then-girlfriend-now-wife's copy is not bugged.
-The MML series stings like very little else.
-BGE2 is not the sequel we want but it's clearly the one we (or you, the general gaming public) deserve for wanting everything to be AAA open world garbage
-VP feels like it'll never get the Hrist game. It's less of a cliffhanger and more "we have one more Valkyrie to have star in her own game", yet we got Covenant of the Plume which was just okay and also not starring Hrist
Especially since the gameplay was actually a lot of fun and the world was fairly interesting. also some people (like me!) had weirdly bugged versions where the cliffhanger ending and literally nothing ending were reversed. Amusingly, my then-girlfriend-now-wife's copy is not bugged.
-The MML series stings like very little else.
-BGE2 is not the sequel we want but it's clearly the one we (or you, the general gaming public) deserve for wanting everything to be AAA open world garbage
-VP feels like it'll never get the Hrist game. It's less of a cliffhanger and more "we have one more Valkyrie to have star in her own game", yet we got Covenant of the Plume which was just okay and also not starring Hrist
Golden Sun: Dark Dawn. The objective the MCs went on the entire adventure for (to stop Psynergy Vortexes from appearing) isn't even solved at the end. The game literally ends with them looking at a Psynergy Vortex and then them going "omg right, we were supposed to deal with that" and then "The End?".
