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Games That Deserve New Year Sequels
Retrogaming with Racketboy has a piece looking at 10 Games that 'need' a sequel. Each title is a deserving candidate for an updating, though probably some more than others. From the article: "Possibly one the best games of 2004, Beyond Good and Evil featured a magical combination of action, animation, and storytelling that won it high regard among critics. The game represented high quality and production values when most other games on the market were either re-hashes of other successful games or just plain awful. With all the unimaginative plots in games today, a series like BG&E deserves to live on. Of course, it didn't sell well in its first iteration, but much of the buzz about the game happened just a bit after stores started taking it off their shelves. Now that there is a healthier fan-base, a sequel might just flourish."
I cannot believe that Starcraft didn't make that list.
And they said zombies weren't real!
Duke Nukem 3d was one of the best single-person FPS games ever published; the secrets and plot were unparalleled, and the game got shadowed by the release of Quake (which evolved FPS from sprite-based graphics to today's 3-D feel and made the (spirte-based) Duke Nukem "3d" title look ... dumb). Gameplay and overall design were either on-par or superior to Quake, and many people still regard it as the best of the genre. This screams for a sequel.
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Four Civs and three MOOs, but not one MOM sequel?
It's suck a pity that the IP rights got swallowed and divided up when Looking Glass went titsup limiting any feasible official remake (I don't have a link to this info, but AFAIK it was in an interview with Warren Spector somewhere).
Oh, and add in a Sam and Max sequel... but it is nice to see Grim Fandango in that list though.
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