In Pictures: Dear Developers, 15 Games Worthy Of A Sequel
Games That Deserve A Sequel
The truly great studios put a lot of work into creating immersive, replayable games that live on in our collective memories. Originals are often a roll of the dice. The viability of a sequel, however, is almost always based on the success of the original. Some games sell well and get decent reviews, but follow-ons get rerailed due to other factors.
In putting this story together, we polled the Tom's Hardware audience on Facebook and cross-referenced the scores at Metacritic to come up with a list of fifteen games that deserve (but lack) concrete evidence of sequels.
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Out of all those games L.A. Noire is the most worthy and I'm sure Rockstar will not miss the chance to make a sequel.
I wonder how they'll manage to come up with a good story in a "The Saboteur" sequel.
Will it become completely unrelated to the first except in the fact you blow up and parkour; or will Sean play a part in the Cold War or a more regional one perhaps?
Remake Quake I and follow that by a sequel. Seal of Nehara storyline maybe?
For indie games, Shadowgrounds needs a sequel (I'm not counting the Survivor prequel).
Freespace 2. That is all.
o come on, a rainbow 6 vegas game apposed to the older tactical rainbow 6 games? and many of the games on the list new enough to the point that a sequal will come at some point.
when i read this i thought it was going to be old games that fell off the map, not a whole bunch of new games... of all the games i only really agree with 4 of them...
but no roller coaster tycoon, sim city, nox, ultima, balders gate, never wither nights, i mean really... no one remembered those games?
o come on, a rainbow 6 vegas game apposed to the older tactical rainbow 6 games? and many of the games on the list new enough to the point that a sequal will come at some point.
when i read this i thought it was going to be old games that fell off the map, not a whole bunch of new games... of all the games i only really agree with 4 of them...
but no roller coaster tycoon, sim city, nox, ultima, balders gate, never wither nights, i mean really... no one remembered those games?
This is about sequels not reboots. That's a whole other can of worms mate.
Masters of Orion 2 really needs a good sequel, lets all just try to forget about MOO3.
I'm still waiting for a Tachyon: The Fringe sequel. Great Space Sim Combat + Bruce Campbell doing the voice over needs to happen again.
Re: Unreal Tournament, "Here you go, have a load of waste!" as another gob of green goo rains down from a balcony onto some hapless drone...
Just Cause 3 and Nexus: The Jupiter Incident?2!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Robot Arena 2... Which in itself is a sequel so sorely deserves a sequel/remake.
Where are No One Lives Forever and Kingpin?
RIP, Pandemic.
I'd still like to see a Shining Force game come out.
i hoped project IGI wud make in that list
Add Thief, Singularity and Mechwarrior to the list
... Games Worthy Of A Sequel? Bullfrog's Dungeon Keeper and M$'s Urban Assault, Forsaken and Carmageddon, Descent, Bomb Jack, Frost Byte on zx-spectrum...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwZ68e-hsqw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnROcp5tmBk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWb9_5N91OE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVvjUlusyEA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jJzasm63DE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqrftlCAic0
... they don't make them like this anymore....
Cossacks 2
Spellforce 2
Rage of Mages 2
Neverwinter Nights 2
ol, over half of the game i didnt even touch b4. This list sucks, the author obvious got bad taste, Besides, u not even mention Simcity 5 sequel of Simcity 4. Its 8 years already. Simcity 4 sold pretty well, yet i didnt see EA/maxis have any plans on it, they keep making C&C 3/4 which is a complete failure. Simcity is probably one of the biggest title that deserve a sequel. Where is Noone lives forever 3? How about populous 3 sequel?
I'm still waiting for a Tachyon: The Fringe sequel. Great Space Sim Combat + Bruce Campbell doing the voice over needs to happen again.
Open world space sims are awesome. Too bad X3 is spreadsheets in space and EVE: Online WOW in space. Privateer was about as much fun as I've ever had gaming.
Company of heroes anyone?