-
Ever wanted an RSS feed of all your favorite gaming news sites? Go check out our new Gaming Headlines feed! Read more about it here.
Obscure Series You Wish Would Make A Comeback
- Thread starter Aokiji
- Start date
Laura Bow. Just great little adventure series with fun plots, clever puzzles and amazing atmosphere.
I liked the characters in Laura Bow games quite a lot :) The gameplay, however, should not be as unforgiving during "action scenes" (may be an artefact of memories, but i remember getting as frustrated during the final scenes of the second game as during Freddy Farcas Frontier Pharmacist's last scene...).
To sum it up, i would love a revival, perhaps with our favourite heroine in her late days, having a young one under her wing trying to make it as a reporter.
I should replay the games...
Ecco the Dolphin
At the end of Ecco: The Tides of Time,
Ed Annunziata, Ecco's creator, was once asked on Twitter what his plans were for an Ecco 3. He wrote:
Ecco 2 was released in 1994, and it's been 23 years since its release (the Dreamcast spinoff was cool, but its own continuity). The gameplay was incredible, dolphins are fun to play as. Eating fish for health, managing on oxygen meter, blasting alien heads off with your sonar - the gameplay was really solid. Maybe introduce Metroidvania elements? Let's bring back Ecco. Ed Annunziata's down for it. Call him up, Sega.
At the end of Ecco: The Tides of Time,
Ecco is instructed to destroy the Atlantean time machine by the progenitor of all life on Earth, the massive sentient double-helix Asterite, so he heads to their sunken city to execute the task. The Vortex Queen - a defeated alien from another world - beats Ecco to the time machine and travels back in time, integrating with life on Earth and giving rise to arthropods. When Ecco arrives at the machine, he decides not to destroy it, but to again use it, departing to a time unknown...
Ed Annunziata, Ecco's creator, was once asked on Twitter what his plans were for an Ecco 3. He wrote:
Ecco 2 was released in 1994, and it's been 23 years since its release (the Dreamcast spinoff was cool, but its own continuity). The gameplay was incredible, dolphins are fun to play as. Eating fish for health, managing on oxygen meter, blasting alien heads off with your sonar - the gameplay was really solid. Maybe introduce Metroidvania elements? Let's bring back Ecco. Ed Annunziata's down for it. Call him up, Sega.
Last edited:
Wonder Boy/Monster World was just too good for this... world.
I guess we did have the Dragon's Trap remake and Monster Boy is in the works, but I really wanted something with a similar art and musical style. I just love it so much.
DOWNHILL DOMINATION.
Probably my favorite racing game, but it's just entirely gone. No re-releases, no mentions in other games, nothing.
And yeah, Shadow Hearts.
Also, it's stretching the definition of "obscure", but I'd go Marathon. People know about it because Bungie went on to make Destiny, but I'm not sure how many have actually played it. Forget all this Destiny nonsense and just re-do the Marathon series as a proper, recent SP-only game.
Probably my favorite racing game, but it's just entirely gone. No re-releases, no mentions in other games, nothing.
And yeah, Shadow Hearts.
Also, it's stretching the definition of "obscure", but I'd go Marathon. People know about it because Bungie went on to make Destiny, but I'm not sure how many have actually played it. Forget all this Destiny nonsense and just re-do the Marathon series as a proper, recent SP-only game.
<---
Although I guess Ape Escape really isn't all that obscure.
If I had to choose something else, I'd pick Monster Rancher. The switching disk gimmick is still so strong, and with today's technology I'd bet that the developers could really make it really something else.
Although I guess Ape Escape really isn't all that obscure.
If I had to choose something else, I'd pick Monster Rancher. The switching disk gimmick is still so strong, and with today's technology I'd bet that the developers could really make it really something else.
Drakan
Open world Dragon riding/fighting and third person action with lite rpg elements?
With today's technology, flying Arokh around would be fantastic as you wouldn't be limited to canyons and foggy island coasts (Full disclosure, I've never played the sequel). This would be amazing now. Just give Rynn more actual armour, and less male gaze in her character model. She already had a pretty good story line/motivations in Order of the Flame
Crimson Skies
Again, full disclosure, I have no idea how the OGXbox sequel plays, as I never played it, but the original was far too well written and well designed a flight sim (what with the pulpy heroes and 1930 serial aesthetics) to be left to die. Again, better tech, just upgrade the visuals but keep everything else the same. Was hoping Harebrained Schemes would one day get to this after Shadowrun
Open world Dragon riding/fighting and third person action with lite rpg elements?
With today's technology, flying Arokh around would be fantastic as you wouldn't be limited to canyons and foggy island coasts (Full disclosure, I've never played the sequel). This would be amazing now. Just give Rynn more actual armour, and less male gaze in her character model. She already had a pretty good story line/motivations in Order of the Flame
Crimson Skies
Again, full disclosure, I have no idea how the OGXbox sequel plays, as I never played it, but the original was far too well written and well designed a flight sim (what with the pulpy heroes and 1930 serial aesthetics) to be left to die. Again, better tech, just upgrade the visuals but keep everything else the same. Was hoping Harebrained Schemes would one day get to this after Shadowrun
I always imagined a 3DS Monster Rancher where you generate monsters based off StreetPass data. I guess the time has passed for that though.
Oh god, that would've been awesome!
...but yeah, a little late on that front, I guess.
Aquanaut's Holiday.
Would be amazing for a PSVR title.
I came in here just to say this! The PS3 one looks gorgeous. I would love to see how it looks on PS4.
These aren't the most obscure games out there but...
Actraiser
Goemon
Shadowman
Turok
All excellent series. Deserve another go.
Actraiser
Goemon
Shadowman
Turok
All excellent series. Deserve another go.
There is a new downhill game coming to PS4, Xbox One and PC:
http://descendersgame.com/
Looks promising. :)
I bet people that are in college and play video games as a hobby have never heard of it.
Hidden content
Hrm.. Cautiously optimistic. Dunno about procedural tracks, but if they can capture the physics of it, I'm down.
Hopefully they have some unlockable equivalent to Kineticlops, too. :P
So, so much during the Dreamcast's heyday.
Samba de Amigo, Chu Chu Rocket, Jet Set Radio, Space Channel Five...the list goes on and on.
Samba de Amigo, Chu Chu Rocket, Jet Set Radio, Space Channel Five...the list goes on and on.
They should give up on college if they don't know what Dino Crisis is
The Ganbare Goemon series. Every game that's ever made it to the west has been phenomenal. The two N64 games are some of my most treasured memories of that console. The last true game in the series came out in 2005 on the DS, which I heard was pretty good though it was very Japanese heavy and difficult for a non-speaker to play. He's basically only been used as a pachinko machine mascot ever since, though even the last time he was seen in that context was 2011. He did get included as a Bomberman Switch costume in a very recent update, however.
Unfortunately he's a Konami property, and it's very likely we'll never see another Goemon game again. Which is a damn shame, because his games are a goofy-ass, robot-punchin', coin-collectin' good time.
+1, even though there's a 0% chance we'll ever see Goemon again the way Konami has gone. I'm sure you'll be shocked to hear that the latest iteration of this series is a pachinko machine.
Also, I would totally second the guy who said Bloody Roar. Primal Fury on gamecube is one of my favorite fighting games of all time, there's something amazing about a fighting game where you can turn into a giant wolf and just go to town. Or a penguin, pecking your friend's feet until they die and throw their controller across the room in a fit of totally understandable frustration. Fuck I miss that game.
I'm with you, I played the hell out of Tenchu 1 and 2. I don't recall ever getting particularly great, but those games had a real sense of both tension and accomolishment during the stealth and kills.
It's my favorite N64 game and one of my favorite video game franchises of all time. I would love to see it come back.
Ring of Red is one of my atf games.
I thought that got a sequel on the 360?
Sorry.
I would love to see a new No one lives Forever. That was a fun fps that had a fun setting.
I would also like to see a new Commandos. I want them to do a fun 2d game.
I would also like to see a new Commandos. I want them to do a fun 2d game.
