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Post by Spirit Bomb on Oct 11, 2017 9:31:06 GMT
What are your favorite dead game series? (i.e. a series that hasn't produced anything for many years.) Examples include Metal Slug, Mega Man & Half Life. Mine are definitely Metal Slug and Streets of Rage. While I am glad that SNK is no longer lazily rehashing/reskinning the MS series like they did with Metal Slug 4, 5 & 7, it still saddens me that such an amazing series has been completely inactive for so long. We never got to see an HD Metal Slug game. As for Streets of Rage, for years it's been my dream to get a new Rage game developed by Sega themselves that has the exact same gameplay & challenge level as Rage 3 but with a larger selection of characters & equally good art direction + hand drawn sprites rendered in HD. That would be amazing. My honorable mentions: Ghouls N' Ghosts and Half Life series. What are your choices?
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Balder
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Post by Balder on Oct 11, 2017 10:24:38 GMT
Battle Arena Toshinden, my favorite fighter. I'd buy that shit day one if they ever released a fifth game.
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Post by Dan E. Kool on Oct 11, 2017 16:50:11 GMT
I'd say most of my favorite series are dead. The most obvious one is Mega Man. But I'm not even sure that I want these games to be brought back. Sometimes it's better to leave something alone when it's still good.
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Post by Balder on Oct 11, 2017 17:14:13 GMT
I'd say most of my favorite series are dead. The most obvious one is Mega Man. But I'm not even sure that I want these games to be brought back. Sometimes it's better to leave something alone when it's still good. What do you mean? Mega Man is at the top of the world isn't it?
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Post by winnersdontusedrugs on Oct 11, 2017 18:21:53 GMT
You've got some good taste Spirit Bomb . I fell in love with the Metal Slug series when I was a kid playing the shit out of Metal Slug 2. When Metal Slug Anthology came out it was easily my most frequently played game on the PSP. As for the question, deciding your favorite dead videogame series is like deciding your favorite videogame series in general, it's too hard to pick just one. As for me it's Virtua Fighter, or Virtual On. Or maybe it's Tony Hawk, or Megaman X, or good Need for Speed games. I'll just go with what Dan E. Kool said.
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Post by Balder on Oct 11, 2017 18:52:55 GMT
You've got some good taste Spirit Bomb . I fell in love with the Metal Slug series when I was a kid playing the shit out of Metal Slug 2. When Metal Slug Anthology came out it was easily my most frequently played game on the PSP. As for the question, deciding your favorite dead videogame series is like deciding your favorite videogame series in general, it's too hard to pick just one. As for me it's Virtua Fighter, or Virtual On. Or maybe it's Tony Hawk, or Megaman X, or good Need for Speed games. I'll just go with what Dan E. Kool said. Tony Hawk 5 came out, and it's one of the biggest pieces of shit this generation.
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Post by winnersdontusedrugs on Oct 11, 2017 19:14:49 GMT
Balder As it just so happens, I heard that Activision's license to make Tony Hawk games expired the same year THPS5 came out. I'm assuming the game didn't sell well, especially not well enough for Activision to pursue another license with Tony Hawk, so it's safe to assume the series is dead imo.
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Post by Balder on Oct 11, 2017 19:41:28 GMT
Balder As it just so happens, I heard that Activision's license to make Tony Hawk games expired the same year THPS5 came out. I'm assuming the game didn't sell well, especially not well enough for Activision to pursue another license with Tony Hawk, so it's safe to assume the series is dead imo. It's probably going to become dead now, but I wouldn't call a series dead if it had an installment in the last 5 years.
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Post by Cervantes on Oct 11, 2017 20:04:18 GMT
I'd say most of my favorite series are dead. The most obvious one is Mega Man. But I'm not even sure that I want these games to be brought back. Sometimes it's better to leave something alone when it's still good. I'll agree with Mega Man and add Panzer Dragoon. Though the last game in the series, Orta, works as a beautiful ending for the series, so I don't think it really needs any sequels after that. It's a very short series (only 2 games) but I like Beyond/Legend of Oasis quite a bit and hope that Sega and Yuzo Koshiro decide to bring it back sometime. It could've been a very competent competitor to Zelda, if the Saturn game is anything to go by. While I mourn the death of Metal Slug, I think Cuphead might compensate for it, as it looks very similar gameplay wise. Haven't played it, though. As for Half-Life, at least we now know how Ep. 3 was supposed to end.
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Post by Dan E. Kool on Oct 11, 2017 22:18:30 GMT
Balder As it just so happens, I heard that Activision's license to make Tony Hawk games expired the same year THPS5 came out. I'm assuming the game didn't sell well, especially not well enough for Activision to pursue another license with Tony Hawk, so it's safe to assume the series is dead imo. It's probably going to become dead now, but I wouldn't call a series dead if it had an installment in the last 5 years. Nah. Tony Hawk's was and is dead. They dug up the body and tried to parade it around a bit with 5, but none of us were fooled.
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Post by spidershinobi on Oct 12, 2017 0:09:17 GMT
Guys, a bunch of those (specially the ones you repeat the most) are super alive. Maybe you guys shouls re-think the idea of the topic?
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Post by Balder on Oct 12, 2017 10:08:48 GMT
It's probably going to become dead now, but I wouldn't call a series dead if it had an installment in the last 5 years. Nah. Tony Hawk's was and is dead. They dug up the body and tried to parade it around a bit with 5, but none of us were fooled. Yeah they basically did that. But all in all, it is an official game in the series.
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Post by Dan E. Kool on Oct 12, 2017 19:09:47 GMT
Nah. Tony Hawk's was and is dead. They dug up the body and tried to parade it around a bit with 5, but none of us were fooled. Yeah they basically did that. But all in all, it is an official game in the series. If it's not by Neversoft, it isn't an official Tony Hawk's Pro Skater to me. Licensing the name doesn't make it legit.
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Post by Balder on Oct 12, 2017 19:44:56 GMT
Yeah they basically did that. But all in all, it is an official game in the series. If it's not by Neversoft, it isn't an official Tony Hawk's Pro Skater to me. Licensing the name doesn't make it legit. You're in denial.
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Post by Dan E. Kool on Oct 12, 2017 21:16:33 GMT
If it's not by Neversoft, it isn't an official Tony Hawk's Pro Skater to me. Licensing the name doesn't make it legit. You're in denial. Not at all. I just have higher standards than you. You accept anything as being part of a series just because you were told to think so. I, on the other hand, am able to come to my own conclusions. This is my reality and there's no room for Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 5 in it.
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