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."

Comments

No Syndicate?

[*weasel]

You could randomly pluck a Bullfrog game out of a hat and it'd be more in need of a sequel than half those titles.

R.I.P. Bullfrog!

[WidescreenFreak]

I would absolutely love to see a Magic Carpet sequel using modern graphics and surround sound. I even went so far as to build a 233 MHz PC with PC-DOS 7 and (just for fun) Windows 3.1 so that I could play Magic Carpet in its native environment. All that I needed was to use a CPU slowdown utility.

So, even with an Athlon 3200+, GeForce 6600GT, 4.1 sound system, and 21" monitor next to me with BF2, HL2, and a slew of other games installed, the basic simplicity, great gameplay, and truly deformable terrain (which still has not been duplicated in modern games) make the Magic Carpet series scream for a sequel.

R.I.P., Bullfrog! We miss ya!