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Sequels We'd All Like To See

Posted by Zonk on from the i-am-looking-at-you-tie-fighter dept.

Voodoo Extreme has a feature up that's a wishlist for future sequels. They run down some great game franchises that have been off the board for a little while, and wonder out loud about the possibility of new installments. Besides the usual suspects for lists like this (StarCraft, TIE Fighter, Descent, Ultima), they touch on some cult favorites that are ... less likely to show up in modern gaming. From the article: "Planescape Torment 2: The Poop -- Loved by many a forumgoer is Planescape Torment, a Dungeons & Dragons-themed RPG set in the other planes of existence. It was a dark game with evil undertones, but also lighthearted and funny at times. Just think Baldur's Gate with an M rating. The Scoop -- Odds of a sequel are equal to or greater than Elvis coming home on the mothership." Any oldies you'd like to see back on modern systems? While I really like many of the ideas listed here, the LucasArts classics Grim Fandango and Maniac Mansion are the ones I'd most like to see rehashed.

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  1. System Shock 3? by Clazzy · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Enough said? Really, I could think of a few games which would be lovely to have sequels to (DX, KOTOR to name a couple) but sometimes it's better to have an original story than churning out the same thing over and over which is what seems to happen nowadays. Perhaps I'm just too cynical.

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  2. StarCraft, TIE Fighter, Descent by Cyno01 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Hell, re-release those with modern graphics and upgraded online play (ala Half Life:Source) and they would sell all over again. I still play all three of those games and i cant remember a LAN party i've been to where we didnt get a game of starcraft going. Show me a gamer that doesnt have starcraft tucked away on their system somewhere.

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  3. Fallout by Chemisor · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Fallout was unquestionably the best PC game ever made.

  4. This Time, He's Really Really Immortal + Anguished by FhnuZoag · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Pleeeease don't make a Planescape Torment sequel. Sure, make another game set in the Planescape multiverse. But a sequel to Torment can only be a rape of a fine game's memory. The game had a fine ending, a great ending. Don't ruin it by tacking something on.

  5. Master of Magic II by Usekh · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Anyone else remember that game? man Master of Orion got 3 sequels. It deserves at least one.

  6. Re:They already did that... by Monkelectric · · Score: 4, Insightful
    I pine for the LucasArts games of old. The Monkey Islands, the Day of the Tentacles, and Grim Fandango which was more art than a videogame.

    Why is it that everything good and full of art, thought and wit must make way for what is base and stupid and vulgar? I pine for charm and subtle humor, for fully developed characters, for well developed plots for the denouement... for story telling and all the other things forgotten.

    Fuck it, I'm going to write a video game and show 'em how it's done.

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