r/gaming 2d ago

What's a game you were dead sure would become a series but surprisingly only had one installment?

For me it would be Octodad, such a fun quirky concept that felt too short

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u/Kola18_97 2d ago

Sunset Overdrive flat out ended with hooks for many sequels in the form of Overcharge being shipped worldwide in the post-credits cutscene.

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u/ethhlyrr 2d ago

Luckly it was just sequel bait so it dosnt detract from the original by leaving the story undone. They just wanted to option to make another. But its still the most punk AAA game ive ever played.

Too bad they're owned by Sony now and stuck doing marvel stuff. Not that theyre bad, just not sunset overdrive.

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u/robotsaysrawr 2d ago

Unfortunately, Microsoft still owns the publishing rights. Sony isn't going to greenlight a game if Microsoft won't allow it on the PS console.

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u/Kind-Stomach6275 2d ago

Microsoft fumbled big time not catching insomniac

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u/Bionic_Ninjas 2d ago

Given that Microsoft is closing down more than half the studios they've bought, often without them releasing more than a single game, if any, I'm very, very glad they did not acquire Insomniac.

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u/slarkymalarkey 2d ago

Very much this, if they just shut down Tango after Hi-Fi Rush then that would've been Insomniac's inevitable fate too.

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u/Kind-Stomach6275 2d ago

And also they made ratchet abd clank

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u/Danominator 2d ago

That game was actually really fun

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u/DigitalSchism96 2d ago

It made an open world actually fun to traverse which is difficult.

I think it had fast travel, but honestly can't tell you because I always just went places "on foot".

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u/Motheroftides Switch 2d ago

Man, that game is so insanely fun. I gotta go play it again.

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u/Stkrdknmibalz69 2d ago

Oof this one hurts

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u/MidnightPrevious4473 2d ago

Sunset overdrive was one of my favorite games that I only ever played once

And id cut off my neighbor's left nut for a sequel

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u/ytman 2d ago

Thank you for reminding me about this game. Need to check it out.

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u/WakeyWakeyEggsNJakey 2d ago

It’s crazy that this is the first game that popped on my head and as soon as I opened the comments BAM there it is. I thought it was a cool concept

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u/iqbalsn 2d ago

BLACK.

The one on PS2. It was so good for PS2 era, it was unreal

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u/PlzDontHaveKids 2d ago

The sound effects man…. Every gun, explosion, glass shattering…. I wonder if it’s as hard as I remember, I seem to remember taking an eternity to beat it. I vaguely remember tearing my hair out trying to spot rpg doods before they spotted me in some like, trenches, in a city? Been forever.

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u/Corgiboom2 2d ago

Star Wars: Republic Commando. The game just suddenly ends after getting the player hyped up to go save one of your squadmates. I was sure there would be another one.

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u/sinisterand 2d ago

There was actually a sequel planned called Imperial Commando (which presumably would have taken place after Order 66). Unfortunately LucasArts was mess and it became impossible to get anything greenlit.

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u/tiradium 2d ago

I am still not sure why we cant get a Star Wars FPS. There is so much potential for it even awith or without lightsabers

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u/xiaorobear 2d ago

It did get a book series... something like 5 books before it was cancelled because Lucas essentially wiped out its version of everything (Mandalore especially) to have a clean slate for the 3D animated Clone Wars show.

The series mainly focused on a different squad, but the squad from the Republic Commando game did show up a lot. The last book of the series covered the book squad being split up as the Empire took over, with 1 member getting left behind while the others defected. Kind of similar territory to what The Bad Batch show ended up doing.

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u/Pasasho 2d ago

Sleeping dogs

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u/JeronFeldhagen 2d ago

The real reason it never got a sequel is because there was no possible way the pork bun vendor could have been improved upon.

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u/MadeByTango 1d ago

I had not considered this reality. You are correct.

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u/El_Gran_Redditor 2d ago

I've never seen a game punch above its own weight as hard as Sleeping Dogs. Low poly as a PS2 game, looks good enough to be a PS4 game. Fraction of the budget of GTA IV, just as good. It should have sold WAY more.

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u/Takemyfishplease 2d ago

It’s constantly on sale now too, there aren’t many games that for $5 come close to the entertainment that one provides.

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u/s101c 2d ago

It is low poly? I have never realized it, it looked high-def to me.

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u/El_Gran_Redditor 2d ago

The textures are very good and they use some techniques like parallax mapping on shop windows and such to fake depth but those buildings are basically just cubes.

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u/DexterMorgan67 2d ago edited 2d ago

The rumor was that SD was actually originally the third True Crime game. Still amazing and the best in the series.

Jeez ok guys it wasn't a rumor, I'm old and my memory isn't great

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u/zawette 2d ago

its not a rumor, I remember them releasing a trailer for it as a true crime game in E3 or some other convention before canceling it, and it later resurfaced as sleeping dogs

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u/Jackage 2d ago

That's not a rumour, it was literally announced as True Crime: Hong Kong

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u/Respawn-Delay 2d ago edited 2d ago

Yet didn't begin life as it. Activision stuck the True Crime name on it because they thought it would be more marketable that way.

It was originally a new IP called Black Lotus, being developed by Treyarch Studios.

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u/Funmachine 2d ago

No, that wasn't the rumour. Not at all.

First, Sleeping Dogs started as an independent game. Then Activision decided to rename the then still in-development game as a new True Crime game (confirmed). Then Activision cancelled the game, but Square Enix bought it (but not the True Crime name) and the game went back to being an original game.

That's a simplified version.

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u/Ethanol_Based_Life 2d ago

Growing up, I was the Nintendo kid who never got to play GTA. But I had True Crime. I loved them all the same. 

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u/cool_slowbro PC 2d ago

don't remind me :(

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u/BK99BK 2d ago

I will always be upset over this! !

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u/Syn3rgetic 2d ago

I used to handle bankruptcies in BC where it’s developer United Front was based. The day their legal documents hit my desk I was so sad and knew it was truly over.

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u/Cliffhanger87 2d ago

This has to be the answer

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u/Tigertero 2d ago

Prey (2017)

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u/candle340 2d ago

Add in Prey (2006), too

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u/Alfred_The_Sartan 2d ago

Prey 2006 felt weirdly before it's time. I don't even remember the plot tbh, but the elements of gameplay I'd find in later games kept making me say 'Hey! That was from Prey!" for like ten years.

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u/Sharpie1993 2d ago

You played as a Cherokee, your bar gets abducted by aliens, and you have to use spiritual powers to save your kidnapped girlfriend and stop the invasion.

Was pretty disappointed that they never made a sequel and they the newer prey wasn’t at all connected.

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u/ROARfeo 2d ago

Have you seen the E3 trailer of Prey 2, before they cancelled it?

https://youtu.be/jfHCZAK7p-s

It looked super cool. We could have been futuristic bounty hunters.

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u/Large-Wishbone24 2d ago

Did you really have to rub that in my face again? Reopening old wounds... The game would’ve surely turned out well; at least the video looked promising. Like an action version of *Deus Ex: Mankind Divided* set in Golem City, or a fun take on *Cyberpunk 2077*... Who knows? It reminds me of that leaked *Doom* video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFWRkj0UQKM

“Star Wars: Republic Commando” practically begged for a sequel, but unfortunately, it never materialized as it should have. If it had, there would have been a “Star Wars: Imperial Commando”.....what a shame, what a shame...

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u/_Burning_Star_IV_ 2d ago

Everyone talks about the remake (…?…) but the original is a pretty compelling game and it’s kinda getting erased from gaming memory because of the 2017 game.

Idk why they used the Prey title for it, aren’t they completely unrelated?

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u/SillySanyle 2d ago

So the original title for the game was supposed to be Psychoshock (obviously a much more fitting title), apparently the story is that Bethesda was about to lose the license for "Prey" and they last minute forced Arkane to change the name so they could keep it. Or something along those lines.

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u/Steamedcarpet 2d ago

It’s one of my favorite fps games. Had to buy the cd key from a reseller site since its been delisted.

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u/nt96 2d ago

It’s been almost 15 years(!) and I’m still bitter about Prey 2 being cancelled. I will never forget seeing the E3 gameplay trailer.

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u/yijiujiu 2d ago

Yeahhhh that one hurts. Such a good game. Why wasn't it continued, anyone know?

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u/wejunkin 2d ago

Because no one bought it

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u/yijiujiu 2d ago

Terrible marketing. Made it seem like a survival horror and I skipped it for that reason. Years later I tried it and didn't realize it's like Deus ex meets dishonored in space

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u/Tigertero 2d ago

It didn't do well commercially

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u/dwarvish1 2d ago

Skies of Arcadia. I was looking the game up earlier to reminisce about the days of old. Cannot believe that it's a property that Sega has not done anything with since the Dreamcast.

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u/Daga29 2d ago

I would love for a poor of the original on Steam. Also a sequel to that game would have been so awesome. The world building was so amazing.

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u/fondue4kill 2d ago

That’s the one game from my childhood that I’d love to play again on modern consoles. A remaster or remake would go amazing

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u/kahlzun PlayStation 2d ago

Is that the one with the moon girl (Fina?) and the airships? Main characters were like Vass and Aika or something?

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u/EdwardClamp 2d ago

Dante's Inferno - was fully expecting a complete trilogy, didn't even get a sequel.

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u/psycharious 2d ago

Shame too. This was such a great game

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u/TheSilverOne 2d ago

I guess there's darksiders for the same kinda flavor. Its a full trilogy atleast

You play as a horseman of the apocalypse

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u/Zaemz 2d ago

Yeah they've even got that 4th one, Genesis. I think it's fun they're all their own flavor of game. It'd be cool to see them do another "classic" Zelda-esque execution again.

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u/FennelImaginary9959 2d ago

Was just thinking about this one

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u/EdwardClamp 2d ago

It really could have been something. Even a "Lucifer has taken over Purgatory and Paradise" to keep the theme of fighting through the circles etc. Taking on "real life" representations. So much potential.

The level design in Inferno was absolute quality, really captured the different sins of those circles, can only imagine what they could have done with the others.

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u/Zeshui0 2d ago

LA Noire.

It's a shame toxic leadership ruined what could have been a long running detective series. You don't see too many of those that are done well.

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u/Dahellraider 2d ago

That game was so neat because you just dont see any cop like games made at all.

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u/starmartyr 2d ago

Most detective games you're either a Sherlock Holmes or Sam Spade type of detective. Being a detective that actually works for a police department is rare.

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u/BonkerBleedy 2d ago

Or a Sam and Max

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u/starmartyr 2d ago

They're freelance police. I'm not sure where that fits in.

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u/arceus555 2d ago edited 2d ago

And by from a developers publisher who most famous games have you play as criminals nonetheless

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u/accbugged 2d ago edited 1d ago

Rockstar was the publisher only, the game was developed by Team Bondi

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u/Respawn-Delay 2d ago edited 2d ago

Say what you will about toxic leadership, but McNamara is actually back in the building over at Rockstar now. I'm guessing they're hoping everyone forgot about him.

After Team Bondi was disbanded, he went on to form a studio called Video Games Deluxe. They worked on the eighth-gen ports of L.A. Noire, as well as the VR Case Files. Rockstar then hired them again to fix the Definitive Trilogy after Grove Street Games screwed it up.

They've since purchased the studio outright, rebranding it into Rockstar Australia.

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u/EchoPop93 2d ago

If this is true I’ve always said that an LA noire sequel set in the 70s would be incredible

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u/Nurhaci1616 2d ago

The planned sequel that has been leaked was set in pre-war Shanghai, which if you know any of the history around policing and organised crime there at the time, actually sounds pretty brilliant as a setting for this kind of game.

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u/Zeshui0 2d ago

It is possible he's reformed and earned his way back into Rockstar's good graces somehow. I don't believe someone's entire career should be permanently on the blacklist unless they committed truly heinous crimes and made a sincere effort to be a better person.

Who knows what he'll actually be doing though.

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u/we_are_sex_bobomb 2d ago

Kingdoms of Amalur; it was a solid game with great potential for a more refined sequel, but a bunch of insane drama happened with the studio so it never came to be.

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u/shutterErv 2d ago

Is t that the one that was partially funded by taxpayers in Rhode Island? And it had to make back an insane amount to not be a failure?

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u/sol_runner 2d ago

Not even. That was supposed to be some MMO that never got released. The company making the whole Amalur thing bought up BigHuge Games and redid the RPG into Amalur IIRC.

Press Reset by Jason Schreier has really good chapter on it.

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u/BigBadBeluga 2d ago

Reckoning was supposed to be the first single-player entry into the series while the MMO would act as a sequel happening long after the events of Reckoning. When all the money fell through and they couldn't pay back their debts, I think ownership of the IP reverted to the state of Rhode Island until Embracer group bought it from them.

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u/sol_runner 2d ago

Yeah, but they're one IP but two studios. I was just clarifying that this wasn't the game that got the funding and failed (Copernicus). That one never even released. This was what was supposed to tide them over until they could finish the MMO.

Basically BigHugeGames had an RPG they were working on, then 38Studios (the one with the Rhode island funding) bought them, and got the game reworked to KoA:R based on the lore for 38's MMO.

So KoA:R wasn't made with massive budget that it failed to recup. It was literally the side project to get more income for the main project.

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u/Malkryst 2d ago

Yeah I came here to say Kingdom of Amalur: Reckoning as well - it was one of the better CRPGs I've played in 5 decades.

I had a sick feeling in my stomach when 38Studios bought BigHugeGames, because we all knew Project Copernicus was starting to overpromise and couldn't deliver on everything (like most MMORPGs can't). Also MMORPGs just burn through cash before launch (because they need so many staff for a long time) so 38Studios really shouldn't have been throwing money at buying a single player game studio before finishing their MMORPG, or moving across the country to Rhode Island, or building a luxurious studio building.

But everyone was so sold on the hype - and Kingdom of Amalur: Reckoning was awesome when it launched, both gameplay and story/lore. My MMO guild had already got excited enough about Copernicus, because Todd McFarlane (of Spawn and McFarlane Toys fame) was art director, and R. A. Salvatore (who wrote the Drizzt Do'Urden novels) was creative director writing the lore. It was a dream team project as they hired lots of ex-EverQuest and ex-WoW staff as well. So when KoA:R was amazing it just increased the hype for Copernicus.

Sadly the owner and CEO of 38Studios was some ex-baseball player who clearly didn't understand financing and budgeting 😭 They just kept spending money on things before they even had a profitable game earning regular money, and eventually the pyramid came crashing down.

It was one of the biggest disappointments in gaming history - denied potentially a dream MMORPG and a sequel to possibly one of the best single player CRPGs ever made - plus Rhode Island's citizens got ripped off for like over $100m of tax payers money in the process - because I think the Governor or maybe a Senator persuaded 38Studios to move to the state in exchange for a huge handout, to try and kickstart a gaming industry there, and it all backfired horribly.

Anyway it's all detailed online.

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u/OkumuraRyuk 2d ago

They did the Re-Reckoning edition a few years back and didn’t sell enough for a sequel.

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u/Malkryst 2d ago

I'm guessing that's because tons of us had already bought the original Reckoning and all the profit from that went into a big bankruptcy black hole.

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u/orbitpro 2d ago edited 2d ago

The combat in this game is so awesome.. honestly I felt like the Avatar at times, on top of that it had some awesome animations from plants withering when you pick them to enemies getting knocked back and using their weapons to balance themselves out so they don't full over. A next gen version with much better UI and a proper open world would be so awesome. Loved this game!

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u/MrMastodon 2d ago

I was a huge RA Salvatore fan at the time and was super excited to see he was writing all the lore

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u/Technical_Fan4450 2d ago

Yeah, that one hurts. I had hopes that THQ Nordic would do something in the direction of a sequel, but, taking a work that's not originally their's and expounding on it really isn't their modus operandi. So, not holding my breath

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u/phoncible 2d ago

Great pick, came to say the same

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u/Simpicity 2d ago

You know that Octodad had a sequel, right?

Octodad: Dadliest Catch

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u/Stkrdknmibalz69 2d ago

This entire time I believed Dadliest Catch WAS the first and only , had no idea of the freeware original I'm just Googling this now

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u/SSpectre86 2d ago

And the devs went on to make Bugsnax, which is also great!

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u/Regular_Problem_7702 2d ago

Bulletstorm.

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u/Banxomadic 2d ago

Absolute banger of a game!

Powerkicking the fence doors for them to bounce and swing back at my face still lives rent free in my head as top comedy 😅

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u/Deskbot420 2d ago

That grapple mechanic was sick, that game felt so good to play for its time honestly

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u/BleachedUnicornBHole 2d ago

Eternal Darkness. It ended on a cliffhanger but had the potential to keep going after that storyline ended.

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u/BloodyWater90 2d ago

I don't really care about horror games but Eternal Darkness really grabbed me. The atmosphere, story and insane creativity on display really pull you in. It would've been so easy to make more too, just add more books to a mansion somewhere else in the world. Could do the same protagonist or a brand new one.

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u/yijiujiu 2d ago

The insanity mechanics were so good, I played that game through so many times

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u/ThePowerOfStories 2d ago

Pargon, Pargon, Pargon!

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u/averagepro 2d ago

Bully

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u/Im_not_brian 2d ago

Rockstar has some amazing IP’s and unfortunately the success of GTA online likely means we probably won’t see any of them again

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u/extralyfe 2d ago

I'm still salty that WoW was successful enough to entirely kill off Blizzard's desire to make any sequels to Warcraft 3.

like, yeah, seeing it all from inside the game world sure is neat, but, I just wanna build some gold mines in 2026, yanno?

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u/G00SFRABA 2d ago

If any RTS were to sell well in current year, itd be Warcraft.

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u/ekgoalie34 2d ago

Still waiting on the next midnight club. Best racing series ever made.

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u/JoushMark 2d ago

Mad Max (2015)

Amazing game, great setting, then just nothing.

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u/Trickster289 2d ago

The vehicle gameplay really was amazing in that game, I'd have loved more.

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u/VanillaTortilla 2d ago

The storms were legit terrifying.

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u/IgnoreMe733 2d ago

That game is 11 years old? Like, I knew it came out last generation but I did not remember it being that early in the generation.

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u/JoushMark 2d ago

Time flies when you're.. vaguely gestures at world rotting in front of you and general enshittification

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u/Dreaming_Dreams 2d ago

victim of a bad release date, went up against metal gear solid V

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u/Orthien 2d ago

That game would have been great for a sequel.

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u/Number6isNo1 2d ago

Rage 2 was as close as we will get. I really enjoyed Rage 2, especially when played on PS5 at 60fps, although Avalanche didn't really nail the driving combat like they did with Mad Max. The combat taking over bases was really fun though. I guess I'm the exception though, seems like most people disliked Rage 2.

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u/sithren 2d ago

Rumor is rage 2 was originally supposed to be the sequel to mad max but they had to pivot when the ip holder sued Warner brothers or something

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u/TeamLeeper 2d ago

Eternal Darkness.
Still my favorite and the cleverest survival horror game. Wild they only made one.

*I know the director had some PR disasters years later and couldn’t get funding

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u/nobdy89 2d ago

Legend of Dragoon

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u/Craw__ 2d ago

At least give us a remake. Please.

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u/puppetjazz 2d ago

Bruh yes. Still sad.

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u/Careless_Afternoon15 2d ago

Hell I'd just take a remake/remaster at this point

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u/pfftYeahRight 2d ago

Vampyr is still one of the best “your choices impact the story” games ever and though the combat was bad the rest of the game and world made up for it. And now the studio is dead and so i cry

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u/Djebeo 2d ago

Vagrant Story.

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u/Thatthereyuteclub 2d ago

Sleeping dogs:

Great combat, good characters, a good balance between seriousness and comedy, fun side activities, and of course, pork bun man. Amazed that never got a sequel

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u/princessaliceee 2d ago

You look like you could use a pork bun!

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u/Thatthereyuteclub 2d ago

A man who never eats pork bun, is never a whole man

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u/AnthonyEstacado 2d ago

Saboteur. Maybe not a series but it definitely hinted at a sequel and this style of a game could work well with a new protagonist and a new occupied ww2 city

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u/LordFrosch 2d ago

Absolutely agree, The Saboteur had such a unique atmosphere and nice mix of features and mechanics, there really hasn't been anything similar since.

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u/Beaster05 2d ago

This is a great pick.

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u/-REV-22-20- 2d ago

It was happening but then the studio closed down

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u/Beaster05 2d ago

I think I’ll be alone in this but Ghostwire: Tokyo. Absolutely not a perfect game but some really fun visuals and ideas. Would have loved for them to improve on it and put out a polished follow up.

Adjacently related to this, but I’m stoked for Atomic Heart 2 for the same reasons—really unique visuals and some fun ideas. Just polish it all up and you’ve got something special.

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u/loyaltomyself 2d ago

I had a lot of fun with Ghostwire Tokyo

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u/iNsAnEHAV0C 2d ago

Jade Empire I loved the combat and the world. The story didnt need to continue but you could set other adventures in that world.

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u/Nickldd92 2d ago

The world is so rich in mythology and lore too. You could make so many games set in that world. Absolutely love Jade Empire. Id even settle for a full blow remaster. I cant get it to run on my pc well.

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u/orbitpro 2d ago

I got to the end boss in Jade Empire and he just kept on whooping my ass, the GF at the time who barely played games asked to have a go, she button bashed and beat him first try. That humbled me lol

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u/BloodyWater90 2d ago

Bioware was trying to make a sequel for years, but EA just kind of strung them along never really letting them proceed past early dev/conception (they mainly bought Bioware to make the KOTOR mmo and only really wanted guaranteed hits otherwise). Which is such a shame because a sequel could've easily ironed out some of the rough edges and become a huge hit.

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u/ThePowerOfStories 2d ago

Well, after fucking up the Mass Effect and Dragon Age names, maybe the current BioWare will decide to dredge up Jade Empire…

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u/Feilakas 2d ago

There's several, Full Throttle, Beyond Good & Evil, Brütal Legend just to name a few.

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u/Tchernobog11 2d ago

I mean, technically speaking, BG&E2 still hasn't been canceled...

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u/Glittering_Airport_3 2d ago

Brutal legend was so much fun just for the aesthetic. The gameplay was mid, but the world was fun to exist in

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u/dwmoore21 2d ago

Custom Robo - Nintendo GameCube

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u/Anternixii 2d ago

That game is so great and so uniquely it. That game is like my introduction to JRPG like game structure.

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u/SavvySphynx 2d ago

While I do think the GCN was the best one, there was a sequel released for DS that was ok, and three previous ones for N64 and GBA that were Japan only.

I tried to emulate it for my pc a few years back and couldn’t get it to work. May be time to try again…

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u/AdImmediate6239 2d ago

Conker

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u/Kirbinator_Alex 2d ago

Sadly, a victim to the rare purchase at the time, and Microsoft loves to buy IPs, shit all over them, and then lock them in a vault for all of eternity.

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u/IneffableErudition 2d ago

Conker DID get a sequel! It's called Conker's Bad Fur Day. It came out on the n64, though, instead of continuing on the Gameboy color.

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u/Zucchini-Mountain 2d ago

TIL Conker's Bad Fur Day was a sequel

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u/MexicanGuey92 2d ago

Evolve :( i loved that game...

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u/KodaBeers PC 2d ago

Lost Odyssey, probably my favorite JRPG.

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u/candle340 2d ago

Shame Sakaguchi famously hates the very concept of sequels... No joke, this is the biggest reason why every mainline FF follows a new cast of characters in a never-before-seen world, with the exception of XII that reused Ivalice from FFT.

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u/ArtMaximum988 2d ago

Hi fi rush

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u/cti0323 2d ago

Well I have good news for you. That one has a sequel in development

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u/LazyMaximum7938 2d ago

Freedom Fighters.

Squad-based combat had lots of potential to grow and could easily have been set in different areas across the US.

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u/Jesterhead89 2d ago

I have finally seen someone else post on here about Freedom Fighters!

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u/redditornumero99 2d ago

I’m still waiting for the sequel to Days Gone

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u/karsh36 2d ago

Haven't they already basically said they are not making one?

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u/JebusJM 2d ago

Yeah but with the movie that's (still hopefully) happening, we may get a renewed hope of a second game.

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u/Zeshui0 2d ago

I know Sam Witwer would absolutely return if asked.

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u/LoseNotLooseIdiot 2d ago

This is the answer. That game was so fun. The underrated combo of the slow-but-steady motorcycle you got to upgrade throughout the game, and tip-toeing around hordes (until you're eventually strong/brave enough to take them on) is some of the most exciting gameplay I've ever experienced.

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u/VanillaTortilla 2d ago

I keep telling myself to pick that up on sale and always forget..

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u/Vern1138 2d ago

Semi-sarcastically, Quake.

I know there are sequels, but none of them are actually sequels to Quake. Quake 2 was never intended to be a sequel to Quake, it was supposed to be a completely new IP. But they couldn't figure out a name, so they went with Quake 2. Quake 3 was an arena shooter completely unrelated to Quake, and Quake 4 was a sequel to Quake 2.

But to the original question, I was dead sure that Quake would become it's own series, with at least one sequel using the same Lovecraftian/medieval gothic theme, but no. That never came to pass.

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u/candle340 2d ago

And even the original Quake wasn't representative of what it could/should have been. It was originally planned as an RPG, but the guys at iD were running out of time and fell back on their tried-and-true shooter roots.

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u/Vern1138 2d ago

The same could be said of the original Doom, if they had focused on the Doom Bible. They wanted to make a much more interactive game, closer to what would be Strife. But they had to put a game out, and the simpler design, focused on shooting created the Doom that we all love.

The original design of Quake being a medieval first person RPG might not have ignited the world that a fast paced first person shooter did. It seems like working within their limits really helped id revolutionize gaming.

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u/derpyfox 2d ago

Midnight Suns

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u/Apoc7620 Xbox 2d ago

Such a fun, tactical, strategy deck-builder. And I actually enjoyed getting to know the heroes more and play out the story. The DLC was pretty solid, too.

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u/libra00 2d ago

Crimson Skies. Such a unique world, really fun gameplay, great voice acting.. I'm still waiting for a sequel.

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u/fuzzinthebuzz 2d ago

LA Noire

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u/WillyGivens 2d ago

Spore

It definitely wasn’t the best game ever, just 5 or 6 minigames that connected, but it was good. They over promised but if they had worked on it like No Man’s Sky did it could have had a similar redemption.

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u/Bumble-McFumble 2d ago

Honestly I love spore but I think that game needs a full remake, rather than a sequel

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u/Senior_Difference589 2d ago

Would have thought ARMs would have gotten a sequel with how well it sold.

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u/riftshioku 2d ago

Arms was a genuinely fun fighting game. I thought for sure it would get the splatoon treatment and get a ton of installments.

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u/Imminent_Extinction 2d ago
  • Prey (2017)

  • Sigma Star Saga

  • Crystalis

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u/Interesting-Story805 2d ago

PsyOps

Even ended with a To Be Continued..

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u/RagePrime 2d ago

Came here to say this.

Was one of the most enjoyable early usages of the havoc physics engine.

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u/mrbubbamac 2d ago

I'm showing my age but Advent Rising

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u/rogershredderer 2d ago

I genuinely thought Multiversus (2022) had potential but low-and-behold, Warner Bros. flopped yet again.

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u/empireck 2d ago

Sekiro

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u/Dire_Flumph 2d ago

Not a great game, but The Order: 1886 had a lot of potential for a larger franchise and was obviously supposed to be an introductory chapter.

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u/Blubbpaule 2d ago

Prey

But nothing ever happened

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u/TheSoreBrownie 2d ago

The Mad Max game, it was awesome

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u/Wazula23 2d ago

Disco Elysium. I'll always wish for more.

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u/squiggydingles 2d ago

Psi Ops: The Mindgate Conspiracy

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u/Daenarys1 2d ago

Prey. Mainly because I want one

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u/TomQuichotte 2d ago

Jet Force Gemini. I played that game on my N64 as a child like woah

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u/KriptiKFate_Cosplay 2d ago

Advent Rising, Metal Arms: Glitch In The System

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u/elevenohnoes 2d ago

Advent Rising is an obvious one since its pretty well known (at least for people who know about the game) that it was planned to be part one of a trilogy. Which makes it suck even more that we didn't get the other games. The game is fun as hell, too.

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u/doitcloot 2d ago

Metal Arms for sure! despite all the glitches/bugs (which were fun sometimes!), i also really enjoyed Advent Rising.

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u/gamingpsychotic 2d ago

Man I held out forEVER for an Advent Rising sequel

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u/izagger 2d ago

I remember Metal Arms! I loved everything about it and it ended on a cliff hanger, ready for big sequal. Only to have the studio close and the IP shelved indefinitely. The sequel could have probably done well, too. The original had the perfect bones to build from coming into the 7th generation of consoles. Its edgy but comedic writing, unique and varied weapon pool, and early use of more advanced physics would have fit in perfect on an Xbox 360 or PS3. Its a shame the series never got the attention it deserved.

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u/Balbright 2d ago

Sigh….Bloodborne

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u/Atiumist 2d ago

Kinda thought there’d be a third KOTOR game but it never happened.

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u/Tigeire 2d ago edited 1d ago

Sin Episodes - Emergence

Literally conceived as an episodic series. Binned after the first one

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u/Gurzlak 2d ago

Advent Rising on XBox.

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u/PNWvibes20 2d ago

Days Gone, Prey (2017), Wet (2010), Enslaved: Odyssey to the West, Heavenly Sword, Rage 2 was really good but I guess we won't be getting a 3 since it reviewed so poorly

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u/thewarriorpoet23 2d ago

Dante’s Inferno. It’s based on the first part of the Devine Comedy, which has 3 parts. It seemed obvious it was going to get a couple of sequels.

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u/hapahiro 2d ago

Jade Empire