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Games That Deserve New Year Sequels

Posted by Zonk on from the moving-beyond-halo-3 dept.

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."

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  1. Starcraft?? by Sierpinski · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I cannot believe that Starcraft didn't make that list.

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  2. Duke Nukem 3d didn't make the list!? by Khopesh · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Duke Nukem Forever is among the most famous vaporware titles out there, as the intended sequel to Duke Nukem 3d ... and somehow doesn't make this list.

    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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  3. No Syndicate? by *weasel · · Score: 4, Interesting

    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.

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  4. I'm on Slashdot? by racketboynick · · Score: 4, Informative

    Wow -- how'd I end up on Slashdot?
    Not that I'm complaining :)

    Anwyay, I must confess, I'm not a big PC gamer and my site primarily covers console games. So that would explain a lot of PC games missing from the list.

    As for the Sonic CD comment, I realize that Sonic Rush is a quality game, but I'm waiting for a full 2D console game that makes the most of the hardware.

    For more of my thoughts on the Sonic topic, check out this post of mine:
    http://www.racketboy.com/retro/2005/12/sega-i-dare -you.html

    And thanks guys, for not chewing my post to pieces :)
    I'm still working on improving my writing.