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What franchises could use a hard reboot right about now?
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Honestly I think they can continue what they've been doing. What needs to change about it is that they need a direction and production team that understands what a story is.
That pretty much reboots itself every time (for better or worse). But I get what you're saying... I too would love a FF VI or IX inspired Final Fantasy XVI.
I have a feeling the next one is very far away...
Kid Icarus? Uprising was practically a reboot already comparing it to the 2D games
Unfortunately, I think if Square-Enix is ever serious about bringing the Legacy of Kain IP back it will have to be rebooted. I know they've tried and cancelled one such attempt. Maybe it'll be tried again one day...
I've been waiting for a decade plus for a LOK reboot, I dunno why nobody can get it to work.
Lore wise. The franchise can continue selling millions while not crushing fans' hopes with every game.
There is so much they could do with the IP. I'd love a modern open world RPG based on it.
Dino Crisis easily. Reboot the series and keep Dinosaurs along with Regina & other characters. Then it could be anything really.
Absolutely not. I already made a post about it that I'll just quote in a moment when I find it, but that would break all semblance of difficulty. It's important that you don't know what wild Pokémon will be prior to the battle starting otherwise there's no point at all to having them.
It only worked in let's go because they specifically knew they were removing the battles in the first place.
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This. Pokemon has to make the leap forward,I can't stand the same formula for the 20th time. A full third person open world pokemon game would be awesome
Wild battles were already a trivial chore to get through in Pokemon games. If they're bringing random battles back then they need to make some Pokemon challenging or meaningful to battle because as it is even the random trainer battles have been mostly trivial too so having both is just tedium simulation.
Even worse when it took 10-15 seconds to get into said battles before you can even act.
Id enjoy if it mixed things up a bit, but from their point of view I doubt they see a hard reboot as anything but a completely unnecessary risk. If the OP was asking which games you'd enjoy more if they were different then yeah, but this is asking which could use a reboot and its completely illogical to reboot Pokemon from a business perspective.
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I see this a lot and I have a genuine question: What is the answer to this problem? Is there a game we can point to and say "Yeah, they got this right"?
I wanted a new faction/race so much after Reach but after spending the last two games killing Prometheans, I love nothing more than a game that only has Covenant.
Glad I'm not the only person who thought of this. I've thought for a while that they should keep the 1000 man battle or whatever it's called but make the hoards of enemies more dangerous and better at punishing the player, and add in some high risk, high reward parry/counter mechanics like in Yakuza. Some unusual movesets like a designated grappler or mounted combat specialist would be great too.
While I would like to see a change in Tomb Raider, an open world is not the solution.
After 15 years I feel that a new entry would be a reboot by definition..... sadly.
Valkyrie Profile. They obviously don't believe in Hrist as a continuation so just start over with Lenneth in a game closer to 2 but with the technology showed off on that old realistic Star Ocean concept.
A new art style for that series would be nice. They had Amano for its first 9 years, then Nomura for 22 years after that (aside from a brief moment of Yoshida with XII). It's time they gave a new style a try.
Kingdom hearts becoming increasingly unapproachable is going to be hard for people that haven't played all the previous games or those than played them when they released.
Plenty you can do with warrior with key going to Disney worlds.
Don't need to make Sora's adventure non canon, but get away from that story.
I believe KH mentions that Mickey went on adventures with Scrooge before the events of KH1.
Could make for a standalone story.
Maybe visit Disney Afternoon cartoon worlds like darkwing duck and gargoyles.
Tomb raider is another good one. Story and characterization of Lara seem kind of poor. Gameplay is fine, but could change up quite a bit.
Remove boring linear climbing, maybe allows you to climb most things to find your own path like an explorer/tomb raider would.
Less violence might be nice too - both to and from Lara
Plenty you can do with warrior with key going to Disney worlds.
Don't need to make Sora's adventure non canon, but get away from that story.
I believe KH mentions that Mickey went on adventures with Scrooge before the events of KH1.
Could make for a standalone story.
Maybe visit Disney Afternoon cartoon worlds like darkwing duck and gargoyles.
Tomb raider is another good one. Story and characterization of Lara seem kind of poor. Gameplay is fine, but could change up quite a bit.
Remove boring linear climbing, maybe allows you to climb most things to find your own path like an explorer/tomb raider would.
Less violence might be nice too - both to and from Lara
