Sleeping Dogs was one of the best games of that generation. The DLC stuff they gave us was a lot of fun too. Such a great game in so many ways. The story and ending really got me. Good writing and acting goes a long way.
A Sleeping Dogs sequel or spiritual successor (i.e. in a different location with different characters but similar mechanics) would be amazing. I had so much fun playing that game recently (first time player here).
I miss Jak and Daxter. That was my beginning to adventure games. And Jak 2 blew my mind when they just completely shifted the entire series while still keeping the core characters and personalities and eco while completely shifting the setting. Man they left us on such a huuuuge cliff hanger with Jak 3 too.
It's the prince of persia series that I miss the most. The original trilogy had its own fanbase but ubisoft ruined it with prince of persia forgotten sands and then epilogue. Now they tried to remake sands of time and ended up failing miserably. Hope they learn from capcom and do justice to the OG prince of persia fans by remaking all the trilogy.
Yeah I was looking forward to that reboot too. Such a shame these important IP's are held back by companies that used to do a decent job but are so consumed by greed now that they'll just keep throwing cheap shovelware at the wall to see if anything sticks. Every investor wants an amogus or vampire survivors for maximum profit and its just sad its started to get in the way of AAA games
It’s still in development. It just restarted with a different team. So there hope. If they restarted development that means it didn’t live up to Ubisoft expectations. Surprisingly enough, that’s not a bad thing
Yehhh i didn't play it when it sleeping dogs launched but i played it couple of years ago when it went on sale on steam and man i regret not playing it back then it's soooo good
I suck at games with melee combat due to poor reflexes, but I loved it! The fact that the combat wasn't so gun focused actually made the world feel more believable. I should see if I can track down a PS4 copy to try on my PS5. I played on PC and controller here might help here.
Sleeping Dogs is probably my favorite game of all time and I’m constantly saddened by the fact that we’re never getting another. There is a very specific vibe to the asian crime drama and the game captured it perfectly in its movement, driving, fighting, storyline etc. While also actually being insanely high-quality on all these fronts.
There's a lot of older games that deserve a remake more than the games that are being remade. Mercenaries is absolutely up there but lets talk about Red Faction Guerilla. that's the one that really opened up what open world destruction could be.
God I miss mercenaries... I played Playground of Destruction for years, even after the second one was released. True crimes was also a great series....
Crossover I didn't expect. I watched your motovlogs a lot when I was younger on an old deleted UA-cam account and been watching gameranx for ages. Of all the youtubers I expected to see a comment from you were not on that list ha. Never played mercenaries myself but the true crime series was great, and it's a shame because nothing really came along to replace it unlike some games on this list (like cities skylines for SimCity)
One series I miss is Killzone. There's something about the setting and lore that really sets it apart from any regular FPS for me. Sure it's not the best in a technical (Although KZ2 was an incredible step up from the first one) I really enjoyed the single player campaigns and even the multiplayer, I’d not have enough friends to fill an entire lobby, but they named the bots after members of the dev team, making the lobbies feel a lot more full and personal than mere cold numbers.
same...Playing sleeping dogs since a few days... Always wanted to since 2012 but only had my uncle's 2010 laptop.Played in 2017. Then again in 2020 after i got a vivobook with integrated graphics. Now in 2023 its my third playthrough.
Prototype was an awesome game. I loved that game. I played it so much more than most games of that time and more than Infamous which came out around the same time. I wish they’d come out with another game closer to the first game over the second. I think the first game was way better than the second game though some of the power in the second were definitely better than the first game
Prototype was fun game yeah. Second wasnt as good though. But they dont need to name a game "Prototype" to have similar feeling game. Arent the new Spiderman games like that kinda? I am not fan of Spiderman so I havent played them, but people say those are good in similar style. Except the violence, of course....
Man I miss the Jak & Daxter series, and would love a new entry. Jak & Daxter 1-3 were just so much fun, and each one changed things up just enough to keep them interesting. Jak X took advantage of the racing genre boom but was still a decent game. I would go back to the Jak & Daxter 1-3 formula for a new one but would anything using the IP really.
They actually had plans on making a Jak 4 but all the art concepts they got from the artist making it look more realistic, they didn’t like and eventually pulled everyone from that branch into helping make the Last of Us part 1. One of the head guys (I think the CEO can’t remember) said he’d love to go back to it and said there’s more they can do but nothing is currently in the works and that was like 3-4 years ago I think.
I love the Jak & Daxter series dearly. I've wanted a new game for years, but it would have to be done with the same love and care that was given to the latest Ratchet & Clank game. I'd want Amy Hennig back for it, and for Druckmann to stay far away from it.
Just Cause always reminded me of a more wild and violent version of Mercenaries. After the failure of 4 I hope they go back to the drawing board for 5 or reboot the franchise entirely.
Mercenaries 2 was one of the last few games released on PS2 before the end of its console lifecycle. I remember the day I bought it with the money I'd saved - popped it into my console. And recall thinking to myself "Wow, this looks like ass"
I loved theSly Cooper games when I was grown up. I hope they make a new one where it can wrap up everything in a nice little bow. Or, if they want to keep going with it, have the ending to the next game where it shows Sly and Carmelita have a kid that has to choose which side of the law they want to be on, while still having the same stealth mechanics that the series is known for.
Socom, Parasite eve, Dino Crisis, Powerstone, Motorstorm, Warhawk, Resistance, Timesplitters, and Tenchu come to mind when thinking of games that need modern sequels or even remakes in some cases.
Omfg Tenchu stealth assassins was amazing, and the first game that made me "get good" and figure out damn near every aspect of the game because there is zero handholding
Sekiro started off as a Tenchu game. However they noticed it strayed pretty far from what Tenchu is and changed the name. I guess, good thing they haven't forgotten the series.
@BinaryDoesNotExist I'd love a remaster.. As for the story.. there's always a way to continue a story. We've seen it in games, movies, TV etc. It just needs to be well written. Heck, I didn't mind when Killzone took the fight to the Helghan planet.
I really love Soul Reaver, I still play it on my PS1 and Vita to this day. Unfortunately, the series was fraught with production setbacks that have left the series feeling incomplete and a little underwhelming. It would be great to see a remake of the series, created as Amy Henning originally envisioned it
Sleeping Dogs definitely doesn't get enough love - I don't even remember how I came across it, but I loved playing it. SimCity was just embarrassing, but also set a tone. It's like they didn't even stress-test the servers that they were forcing players (for no good reason) to be a part of.
It was free on Xbox 360 back in 2015 if I remember correctly. Back when games with gold still meant something. First game I ever completed after I lost my childhood Xbox account.
Sleeping Dogs is a great game! It doesn't have the best graphics or polish, but there is a lot of attention to detail and a captivating atmosphere. It's a good example of how devs can make a good game without trying to make it the biggest open world or have the most realistic graphics. The gameplay really held it together and the game is very well paced. You really enjoy the combat and you don't have to go through too much to get to the fun parts.
Sleeping Dogs was such a great game! The story was interesting, the gameplay was fun, the open world and atmosphere was nice, and all the little things you could do on the side were really entertaining.
I miss Army of Two. The customizability of the guns was amazing, the masks were incredible and when they added the function of customizing your own made it even better, and the story of each game was actually really good for what entry in the series it was. The main issues were the non co-op multiplayer being severely underserved, and the player characters in the third were supposed to be empty slates for a more rpg style game which could've worked had they not put so much pre-established personality into them and allowed your actions to dictate their behavior like in AoT: The 40th Day.
I miss multi-player Co op game I. General but damn was army of 2 ever fun as hell with friends.. back in the day where people actually hangout in eachothers houses to play together 😅.... good times
Army Of Two was rad. A buddy of mine and I liked it so much that we pulled an impromptu all-nighter and beat the game in one night. I remember the "aggro" system was pretty interesting and allowed for different co-op strategies.
Mercenaries was such an incredible game. One of my most played when I was a kid, you really were able to do so much cool stuff and had so much freedom exploring and going about the missions. Awesome game!
If you love the old Sim City and havent played Cities: Skylines you definitely should. Very indepth and detailed but so easy to sink a ton of time in it and never get bored. Plus there is a new one coming out in October
CS2 is going to be the final nail in the coffin of Simcity. CS1 is great, but even in it's greatness it's still missing a few things, in fact one of the best things that SC had was being able to add addition to already existing buildings, and this is something that CS1 does not have. So there was still space for Simcity to make a return and compete and maybe even surpass CS if EA gave the developers enough time, money and freedom. However with CS2 coming and it adding many of the things that CS1 was missing, I think after it releases Simcity will be buried for good.
The impact of Mirror's Edge CANNOT be overstated even though the IP itself died. Every FPS to this day still use its motion mechanics. Amazing game and sequel.
@@ridwanurrahman1967 because the second game was boring. They didn’t do a whole lot to make the game anymore interesting than the first so it quite literally just died because they lacked innovation.
Legacy of Kain MUST be either remade or continued... one of the best narrative based games ever; with fantastic voice acting, music, story and game play!
I would absolutely love a sequel to Bulletstorm. I’m imagining it as something closer to Doom Eternal and Shadow Warriors 3 with the absolute fantastic cartoony humour from the original.
I’m so happy to see Sly Cooper on a list like this, one of the best platforming games of all time with a great unique selling point from the stealth aspect, so much potential for a new game after the success of Ratchet and Clank on the ps5
I've never played Sly, but wanted for a long time. I got my wife PS4 because she wanted to play the remakes of Crash. And I hoped they'd revive Sly to PS4, like they did for Spyro too. And I got nothing.
Well sucker punch (who made sly cooper if I remember correctly) referenced it in ghost of tsushima so maybe if they keep referencing it in each of their games it’ll bring demand for a remake or reboot
Soul Reaver was so far ahead of its time, the ability to morph the world between the two realms was something virtually unheard of at the time, the graphics were stunning for its time, I'd even go as far as to say it might have had the best graphics of any game when it came out. It also has one of the most legendary OSTs, the boss fights were fun and engaging, the story was brilliant, like you said it did start to get a little confusing with the whole time warp thing, but overall was still a great story. But I think if you had a studio that was passionate for the game, and not just focused on money, I think they could make a legendary reboot. And if they pushed it to the limits of today's graphics like they did back then, I think a soul reaver reboot could be one of the most visually impressive games ever made to this point. This game is probably my most wanted reboot. I just hope if they ever do, they don't have someone like EA or Activision behind it.
Socom for sure! I also would LOVE a sequel to LA Noire. I know it's not a series, but I can't stop thinking how cool it would be if Rockstar made a sequel. It could be named LV Noire - set in the 60s or 70s. I'd love to see them recreate old Las Vegas in the same detail they did with LA.
LA noire got so screwed, the game did well, but they closed the studio anyway! socom and its spiritual successor resident evil, operation raccoon city, deserve more!
True Crime New York City was my first game, I still remember it super fondly even though I was way to young to be playing it. I had no idea sleeping dogs was the finale form. I knew I loved that game for a reason. Sly Cooper is also a game I will forever wait for.
@@h4rshturtle456 Well that's a shame. SSX 3 and SSX On Tour are the two I best remember. The unapologetically impossible stunts, the over the top characters, and the absolutely incredible soundtrack was just so fun.
I love Legacy of Kain and to see someone else say they miss it is not just awesome, but a hell of a surprise given how rarely I see mentioned anywhere. It's a series that every year I so wish they would bring back. Also I'd love to see another Dark Cloud, the first two were just so cool and so different from each other.
Never played it but josh strife plays has a "was it any good" series and legacy of kain looked like a great game i missed out om at the time. Also, random, but screw rayman!
Soul Reaver was such a great game. Played it multiple times on the Dreamcast. Best version of the game, beats the PC version of the time. The last game kinda got a ending with Kain going to fight on. But really want too see the story continues
I loved infamous Cole was the man lol and it had great replay value because u through the first time as the good and you know want to see the the awesome evil side powers so u go back through the story
One game I wish someone would give a go at is Black and White 2. Not the Pokemon game, but the God simulator. It was so well done, especially with the hardware limitations of the 2000s, and I have yet to find anything even remotely close to it. It was like a supernatural Zoo Tycoon RTS with plenty of humor. Most modern RTS games are too soulless straight strategy for my liking. It was made by Lionhead Studios, yet another victim of the EA machine.
I miss Army of Two, the first 2 entrees were amazingly fun co-op shooters, sadly killed by EA after an unsuccessful third entree (Dead Space shared a similar fate the same year)
The Legacy of Kain/Soul Reaver series certainly lives rent free in my head, the story and writing are on its own level of greatness, I'll always wait for a comeback of the series
@@squallthegriever I also took this survey and I wrote a three page letter at the end explaining why they Need a revival! I have a feeling they might be working on something very soon....?
I really miss the No One Lives Forever series, it was so much fun to play and had some really good characters and story. The female lead was such a badass character which was really unusual for an FPS at the time. Unfortunately there are some serious issues regarding the licensing for the NOLF franchise (game was developed by Sierra and published by Fox Interactive, both defunct and technically incorporated by Activision). Some fans actually tried to purchase the rights from Activision but they claim that they don't own the rights for those games and they also don't know which company in fact does own the rights, it's a really bizarre story. But that means these games will probably never be remade or get a sequel, which is a big shame.
Sleeping Dogs & Prototype were so underrated and beloved during my childhood years. . Never heard of them before.. but there were always present as pirated copies at majority of the Internet Cafes in my country
If a once-dead Capcom IP like Dragon's Dogma can get a full-fledged sequel (in spite of the first game not even being that much of a commercial success), then why not Dino Crisis?
I never played the SimCity games but City Skylines from what I can tell is definitely a proper predecessor of that genre and definitely worth a look into if you haven’t heard of it.
Cities Skylines is what killed SimCity. They messed up big time with the last SimCity game and the Cities Skylines devs filled the hole that left in that gaming niche. We'll probably see something similar happen with The Sims too given all the life simulator games being developed right now and how poorly EA has been handling The Sims for the last decade or so
i loved SimCity but with no internet/money most of the time when i was 15 i gained a deep hatred for cloud based games and streaming music i backed every thing up TBs of music lodes of pics and all games and DLLs i could ever need honestly i forgot simcity existed till i found eu4 then cities skylines about 2-3 years later and i never looked back cuz i really felt slighted
@@thepatrikperspective you forgot or maybe did not play Sim City 4. Because i do remember how management and money was always the issue. I did not know how to play it until i found out about money strategy. Older Sim City games are too old and obsolete to compete against anything. Skylines is very advanced and also tough without mods, but still very best city building game, others are ANNO series though more like city building combined with RTS strategy game.
I remember watching a twitch steamer stream Cities Skylines back in the early days making a comment about *Sim City HD/4K* , then a fellow twitch chat member replied "It's the last game Sim City wishes it was", good times.
Blood Omen 2 actually began its life as a weird sequel/reboot of an old Genesis game called Chakan: The Forever Man on the Sega Dreamcast. When Chakan got canceled, they salvaged and repurposed almost ALL the assets from it (costumes, city/level design, the enemy designs), painted Legacy of Kain vampires over it, and threw together a plot after the fact (hence the weird Sarafan alien nonsense and why the whole game takes place in a gothic steampunk city). If you look hard enough, you can still find the old Chakan concept art where he's literally wearing Kain's exact costume with a simple head swap. So if you're wondering why Blood Omen 2 always felt a bit off from the rest of the series, that's because it was never meant to be Blood Omen 2 in the first place. I still liked it though lol
I need more Infamous, Kung-fu Chaos, and Power Stone. I'm really happy that Prototype was on this list. It's honestly all I could think about while watching the new Spiderman 2 trailer, because of the symbiote suit's powers.
Infamous! As much as I enjoyed Ghosts of tsushima it still never filled the void of not having a good Infamous game since #2, that being said both 1 and 2 are both still on my top 10 favorite games of all time
@KiDD VaMP Cole was the only infamous worth mentioning, second son was awful, tried too hard to be like prototype, but infamous 1 & 2 were amazingly good times
Great to see legacy of Kain getting some love. Probably the best story i've ever seen in a game. Great voice acting as well. A remake of Soul Reaver would be a blind purchase.
For me i still think about Sunset Overdrive to this day Such a phenomenal but underrated game I doubt the sequel is ever coming out but it deserves another entry for sure
Unfortunately there's probably no chance of a Sunset Overdrive 2 ever coming out because the first game was published by Microsoft and Insomniac is now a first-party PS studio. Plus, I doubt a sequel to Sunset Overdrive would sell nearly as well as Spiderman, Wolverine, or even R&C. It's a shame, because - prior to being acquired by Sony in 2019 - Insomniac's CEO had said that he would love to make a Sunset Overdrive sequel. Why???? I loved Sunset Overdrive, why can a sequel never come out????
@@jimmythegamer2231 After looking into it. Insomniac still owns the Sunset Overdrive IP. Microsoft only has rights to the first game. So a sequel 100% could be in the picture WAY down the road. Also, there was talks back in 2021 of SONY getting the first title. That clearly didn't happen or hasn't gone through yet, sadly..
MotorStorm is a canned game series that I still think about to this day. The first two were phenomenal when they released for the PS3, sadly it’s just the PS3 only. They were very fun. The third installment, Apocalypse, had almost no off-road, but it was still as good as the first two games. Sadly, in 2011, when that huge tsunami hit Japan, the game got canned in Japan, and it almost got canned in Europe. At least it released in the US. But you gotta remember, this game released around the same time as NFS The Run and NFS Shift, which The Run didn’t sell very well. But Apocalypse sold even worse due to low marketing campaigns for the game went. I mean we did get R/C for the Vita, but it just wasn’t the same. And after Driveclub flopped for Sony, they decided to throw Evolution Studios, the ones who created MotorStorm and Driveclub, into the forever box. Some of the devs went to Codemasters, in which Codemasters got bought out by EA somewhere this decade. Sadly, we will never see a racing game quite like MotorStorm ever again, unless some indie devs try to revive it under a different name.
i had a 3d tv (gimmick) but ms apocalypse special effects were so good. loves broken floating skyscraper level, dust and rain went 3d. bits of broken building flying past your face.
I have to go with Command and Conquer Generals, specifically. That game was amazing once the Zero Hour expansion came out. My friends and I played every week, and my brother and I had to share a PC after school to play online. Loved the modern military take. Miss it.
How do you go through a whole Legacy of Kain description and not even mention how amazing the story was. It's easily one of the best acted, delivered, and interesting stories ever. Yes, the games themselves and the gameplay sorta meandered and took missteps, but through it all the story thread and world building was unparalleled for its time and still holds up today!
I will NEVER EVER forget Jet Set Radio. I played Jet Set Radio Future when I was a teen and it’s now so nostalgic to me. The graphics, the music, the story, the gameplay….all so memorable. I wish they would come out with a new age version of it. I would buy it in a heartbeat. What an incredible game. I still watch it’s gameplay by Scope here on UA-cam 😢
I will always like and respond to comments that mention Jet Set Radio Future. It was such an integral part of my early console days and I so despereatly wish for a sequel.... Which is why I am so friggin' excited for the spiritual successor *Bomb Rush Cyberfunk* , developed by Team Reptile. I have high hopes since they got Hideki Naganuma to do the music for the game! Not to mention the graphics look so extremely similar to the original series. I really, REALLY, hope this game can live up to the hype I've created in my head lol
Do a Ctrl f on these comments for Sim City, nobody misses it! almost everybody is content with Cities Skylines and the other indie city builders out there and happy to no longer be dealing with EA's awful business practices
Legacy of Kain, totally miss that series. The Soul Reaver games had some of the most well written dialogue in a video game. Gameplay I'm sure doesn't hold up well, but I'd love to see a new game from that series.
The game play was pretty straightforward but that was a really good thing since it didn't break the immersion of the game. When you went to fight someone, you just went up to them and fought them. Nothing popping up on the screen, no combos you had to do just right or anything. It's a case of just keeping things basic, even by the standards of the day, really served the games well.
I remember playing Legacy of kain: defiance as a young teen, it was painstaking and frustrating as hell, but it was one of the best experiences I’ve had, I think that game was the last game I could truly immerse myself in, so when I got a PC copy of it years later it was just as frustrating as I remember, it didn’t really age well but I still find myself replying it to this day
Suikoden, Breath of Fire, Xenosaga , Parasite Eve, Tenchu, Legacy of Kain, Bloody Roar, Rival Schools, Forbidden Siren, Viewtiful Joe, Prince of Persia... there's a lot of great dead franchises
Tenchu. Definitely Tenchu. Although I think Ghost of Tsushima was pretty much everything you could have hoped for from a Tenchu sequel so it’s probably not really worth it now.
@@mmcmullen8543 never played it. Did they try the usual trick of saying ‘ah, it’s the body of a child but it’s inhabited by the soul of a 2,000 year old demon’ or similar? As if that makes any difference in justifying the sexualisation of children….
Nosgoth was a great asymmetrical pvp game, yes it wasn't a RPG Legacy of Kaine game, but was super fun if you just wanted to play as a vampire vs hunter type game.
As much as I enjoyed Sleeping Dogs, I always thought it felt unfinished. It seems like there was set up in the game that would have led to different outcomings for the ending but they were just never utilized.
@@jlaakso1706 Because it was intended to have a sequel. A sequel was in the works, which the developer cancelled then began work on a spin off called Triad Wars. That shutdown with the developer suddenly following soon after.
14:55 I like what you did here with the tombstones. So sad to see so many of my such loved studios ruined by EA. Bullfrog (A.k.a. Lionhead) for the Theme series and Fable series. Maxis for the Sim series. Westwood for probably my most favourite series of games ever Command & Conquer. So so sad. 😢😢😢
I don't know if anyone else still thinks about it but I still think about the Deus Ex series, I was really interested to see where the story was going to go. Plus I loved how they updated the sequal to be more flexible in terms of choices.
One that I miss is Banjo Kazooie. The first and second were great. I was happy when they announced Nits and Bolts, but it was nothing like the previous titles. What I liked about the games is that it had some challenging puzzles and amazing boss fights.
Also another game that sadly for me did not get a sequel is Binary Domain released back in 2012. It was a game that had a morality kind of in the same direction as Mass effect, its sad that they did not sell it well enough to make a sequel.
I miss the Tenchu series. I played them since the beginning... When the mission editor came out for Tenchu 2, I thought "Awesome, this is going to be the new standard" and then they dropped it. When Tenchu Z started letting you customize your own character, I thought, "Awesome, this is going to be the new standard" and then they dropped it. Then they just straight-up dropped the franchise... I personally think they could've gone a bit further than they did if they continued to build off of those two aspects...
I want to see the Thief games make a comeback, specifically in the form of a direct sequel to the first 3 games. Maybe now that Square Enix (thankfully) doesn't own the IP anymore we might see a new Thief game someday, hopefully one that lives up to the name.
Would love to see a remake of the original Looking Glass Studio versions of the trilogy. The games were amazing and rarely get the credit they deserve for really creating the stealth genre we have today.
Singularity deserves a sequel, Far Cry 2 deserves a continued storyline, Kane & Lynch deserves a less over the top third installment, Bionic Commando deserves a sequel, and Darkvoid deserves a sequel but plz god with better writers and level designers.
Man the sly cooper entry hits hard:( absolutely love all those games. Still remember buying the 3rd one on release day, and getting the 3d glasses for it. Would love for sucker punch to revisit the series
I'm surprised no one ever talks about the Bloody Roar fighting games. Those are some of my favorite games from my childhood. They really never get the love they deserve
To be fair, Soul Reaver is the game from the series that most people played and recognize. The original Blood Omen is the one that most people missed out on (SR sold over 4 times as many copies as BO)... but yes, it's a shame more people haven't played them. Game exposure was a completely different thing back then compared to now.
Most fun I ever had was with SimCopter. You could fly on a 3D city you built on SimCity 2000 an do missions. This was mind blowing at the time 😂 Most series I miss are not canceled, but have been disfigured beyond recognition: - Rainbow Six - Ghost Recon - Max Payne - Hitman
Mercenaries are amazing, one of my most played games when it came out and played it for years. Crazy how True Crime new York reviewed poorly, I loved it. Great story, city, and you could learn different martial art forms for combat. Both those games were top tier in my opinion.
Lots of great series mentioned in the comments already that I would love to come back; TimeSplitters, Dino Crisis, No One Lives Forever, Parasite Eve. My biggest want is a new Suikoden game. Fortunately we do have Eiyuden Chronicle Hundred Heroes on the horizon. I also wouldn't mind a new Dead Rising, so long as whoever was in charge of directing Dead Rising 4 is no longer at the helm.
Thank you for mentioning what EA has done to the video game industry. For all the good that they have done as a publisher they should be completely rinsed for the bad.
Ultimately it's the fault of the gamers for not supporting small studios, making EA rich and rather buying the billionth Fifa than something like Mercenaries.
They really weren't popular, but we love the Condemned games. Dark, violent and honestly kind of insane. It's too bad there will probably never be a third installment to wrap up the story.
I'm really surprised there was no mention of Cities: Skylines in the Sim City segment. I realize it's "different" than Sim City and certainly isn't a SC2000 with better graphics, but I figured there would have been at least a passing mention like "I guess we can just keep playing Cities: Skylines in the meantime," particularly because they just announced Cities: Skylines II is coming out this year and it looks fantastic.
I miss Phantasy Star. I was a Sega kid. The original Phantasy Star was the only game i had for it for a long time. Such an under rated JRPG from back in the day. The entire series was good. Odd at times, admittedly. I'd love to see a non-MMO version with current gen graphics
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Sleeping Dogs was one of the best games of that generation. The DLC stuff they gave us was a lot of fun too. Such a great game in so many ways. The story and ending really got me. Good writing and acting goes a long way.
One of my favourite games of all time.
one of my most favourite game.
I never could beat a Sly Cooper game. But I played ALL the games. SMH!
Sleeping dogs is dope, way better than gta
Honestly it’s my favorite GTA style game. The combat is great. I hope one day Sleeping Dogs 2 will come out.
A Sleeping Dogs sequel or spiritual successor (i.e. in a different location with different characters but similar mechanics) would be amazing. I had so much fun playing that game recently (first time player here).
Facts! I want a sleeping dogs sequel or reboot! The best combat at the time since the Batman games.
We need a new sleeping dogs game
Sleeping Dogs is fire I thought the kind of spiritual successor was judgement
For sure! Sleeping Dogs was one of the first games I 100%ed on X360
I remember looking for a fun game in GameStop and the employee talked me into getting Sleeping Dogs. That dude was cool
I miss Jak and Daxter. That was my beginning to adventure games. And Jak 2 blew my mind when they just completely shifted the entire series while still keeping the core characters and personalities and eco while completely shifting the setting. Man they left us on such a huuuuge cliff hanger with Jak 3 too.
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jak 3 is one of my childhood games, along with sly cooper, spyro and sonic heroes
You know there was a fourth game right? Jak and Daxter the Lost Frontier
It's the prince of persia series that I miss the most. The original trilogy had its own fanbase but ubisoft ruined it with prince of persia forgotten sands and then epilogue. Now they tried to remake sands of time and ended up failing miserably. Hope they learn from capcom and do justice to the OG prince of persia fans by remaking all the trilogy.
Yeah I was looking forward to that reboot too. Such a shame these important IP's are held back by companies that used to do a decent job but are so consumed by greed now that they'll just keep throwing cheap shovelware at the wall to see if anything sticks. Every investor wants an amogus or vampire survivors for maximum profit and its just sad its started to get in the way of AAA games
It’s still in development. It just restarted with a different team. So there hope. If they restarted development that means it didn’t live up to Ubisoft expectations. Surprisingly enough, that’s not a bad thing
It's still in development they gave it to the studio that worked on the original trilogy.
@@Legion849 Yeah I saw that too but as of 2023 May ,they are still in the conception phase.
I was really waiting for sleeping dogs 2
It would be nice, but who knows if we'll ever get it. I put off playing Sleeping Dogs for years, but instantly fell in love with it
Yehhh i didn't play it when it sleeping dogs launched but i played it couple of years ago when it went on sale on steam and man i regret not playing it back then it's soooo good
I still have hope that they will realize that they have a gold just sittin there, waitin.. But they won't, Theres too mucg greed
I suck at games with melee combat due to poor reflexes, but I loved it! The fact that the combat wasn't so gun focused actually made the world feel more believable. I should see if I can track down a PS4 copy to try on my PS5. I played on PC and controller here might help here.
Sleeping Dogs and Bully are two games That I really want sequel for
Sleeping Dogs is probably my favorite game of all time and I’m constantly saddened by the fact that we’re never getting another. There is a very specific vibe to the asian crime drama and the game captured it perfectly in its movement, driving, fighting, storyline etc. While also actually being insanely high-quality on all these fronts.
Sleeping dogs was basically true crime 3 man..square bought the franchise
Mercenaries really set the bar for me for a sandbox shooter that let you destroy everything. Still one of my favorite games from when i was a kid.
At this point I'd be happy with just a remaster of Merc 1, wishfull thinking I know!
There's a lot of older games that deserve a remake more than the games that are being remade. Mercenaries is absolutely up there but lets talk about Red Faction Guerilla. that's the one that really opened up what open world destruction could be.
@@christopherrowe7860 Mercenaries 1 is on Xbox and has a XB1X upgrade that has made it look much better, and it's still a blast to play.
Just cause kinda felt like a successor to the mercenaries series for me, even though I didn't like 4 very much.
One of my favorite games ever!
God I miss mercenaries... I played Playground of Destruction for years, even after the second one was released. True crimes was also a great series....
Playground of Destruction had a special atmosphere while playing. You could really feel the tension in the conflict zone.
Crossover I didn't expect. I watched your motovlogs a lot when I was younger on an old deleted UA-cam account and been watching gameranx for ages. Of all the youtubers I expected to see a comment from you were not on that list ha.
Never played mercenaries myself but the true crime series was great, and it's a shame because nothing really came along to replace it unlike some games on this list (like cities skylines for SimCity)
Ahhh... the first time I unlocked the carpet bomb.
... 🤧😍
Loved Mercenaries, & loved True Crime NY.
Dan!!! 😀
One series I miss is Killzone.
There's something about the setting and lore that really sets it apart from any regular FPS for me. Sure it's not the best in a technical (Although KZ2 was an incredible step up from the first one) I really enjoyed the single player campaigns and even the multiplayer, I’d not have enough friends to fill an entire lobby, but they named the bots after members of the dev team, making the lobbies feel a lot more full and personal than mere cold numbers.
COD killed that game
resistance as well.
Shadow Fall was absolutely horrible.
I'm replaying Sleeping Dogs right now and it's so good. I would love a sequel
I recently played it for the first time about a week ago. Fantastic game, shame it never got a sequel.
same...Playing sleeping dogs since a few days...
Always wanted to since 2012 but only had my uncle's 2010 laptop.Played in 2017.
Then again in 2020 after i got a vivobook with integrated graphics.
Now in 2023 its my third playthrough.
I completed playing it just a few days back. It was so fun.
@@ayushsingh-ku7yx hi fellow indian.
The studio crashed and the I.P ceased so cannot be bought out
Sleeping dogs really deserves a (continuation) loved that game, spent alot of time playing that
We don't really see games like that anymore, it sure was amazing
Prototype was an awesome game. I loved that game. I played it so much more than most games of that time and more than Infamous which came out around the same time. I wish they’d come out with another game closer to the first game over the second. I think the first game was way better than the second game though some of the power in the second were definitely better than the first game
prototype killed my first pc 😂 installed it and it shut off everytime i started it
Prototype was fun game yeah. Second wasnt as good though. But they dont need to name a game "Prototype" to have similar feeling game. Arent the new Spiderman games like that kinda? I am not fan of Spiderman so I havent played them, but people say those are good in similar style. Except the violence, of course....
Man I miss the Jak & Daxter series, and would love a new entry. Jak & Daxter 1-3 were just so much fun, and each one changed things up just enough to keep them interesting. Jak X took advantage of the racing genre boom but was still a decent game. I would go back to the Jak & Daxter 1-3 formula for a new one but would anything using the IP really.
They actually had plans on making a Jak 4 but all the art concepts they got from the artist making it look more realistic, they didn’t like and eventually pulled everyone from that branch into helping make the Last of Us part 1. One of the head guys (I think the CEO can’t remember) said he’d love to go back to it and said there’s more they can do but nothing is currently in the works and that was like 3-4 years ago I think.
I love the Jak & Daxter series dearly. I've wanted a new game for years, but it would have to be done with the same love and care that was given to the latest Ratchet & Clank game. I'd want Amy Hennig back for it, and for Druckmann to stay far away from it.
Another vote for Jak and Daxter, I love those games.
Jak 2 is good but overly hard and Jak 3 is great the best one. Jak 3 the powers, driving, story. Game is so badass.
I wish they would atleast remaster the series
Mercenaries had such a great progression mechanic that I think other open world games (cough cough Just Cause) could benefit from
Mercenaries 1 was some of the most fun I've ever had in gaming
Just Cause always reminded me of a more wild and violent version of Mercenaries. After the failure of 4 I hope they go back to the drawing board for 5 or reboot the franchise entirely.
There’s also infamous that Could also kinda benefit from this and there’s also Dead rising series
Mercenaries 2 was one of the last few games released on PS2 before the end of its console lifecycle. I remember the day I bought it with the money I'd saved - popped it into my console. And recall thinking to myself "Wow, this looks like ass"
@@c3lphtitl3d I did the exact same thing thinking it was going to be an upgrade from the 1st game but it looked like shit and played even worse.
I loved theSly Cooper games when I was grown up. I hope they make a new one where it can wrap up everything in a nice little bow. Or, if they want to keep going with it, have the ending to the next game where it shows Sly and Carmelita have a kid that has to choose which side of the law they want to be on, while still having the same stealth mechanics that the series is known for.
I just wanna know where/when sly is and how they gonna get him back lol.
Such a fantastic series
Socom, Parasite eve, Dino Crisis, Powerstone, Motorstorm, Warhawk, Resistance, Timesplitters, and Tenchu come to mind when thinking of games that need modern sequels or even remakes in some cases.
Omfg Tenchu stealth assassins was amazing, and the first game that made me "get good" and figure out damn near every aspect of the game because there is zero handholding
Timesplitters was my favorite game for so long. Definitely needs a redo.
Sekiro started off as a Tenchu game. However they noticed it strayed pretty far from what Tenchu is and changed the name. I guess, good thing they haven't forgotten the series.
@BinaryDoesNotExist I'd love a remaster..
As for the story.. there's always a way to continue a story. We've seen it in games, movies, TV etc. It just needs to be well written. Heck, I didn't mind when Killzone took the fight to the Helghan planet.
Oh man, I have tried to tell people about Dino Crisis so many times, and no one ever knows what I'm talking about
I would've included The Resistance series. I liked all 3 of those games, wish they would make a 4th installment.
First one was the best
@@TraitsofGreatness so true. With the co-op campaign. It was basically perfect
I really love Soul Reaver, I still play it on my PS1 and Vita to this day. Unfortunately, the series was fraught with production setbacks that have left the series feeling incomplete and a little underwhelming. It would be great to see a remake of the series, created as Amy Henning originally envisioned it
Sleeping Dogs definitely doesn't get enough love - I don't even remember how I came across it, but I loved playing it. SimCity was just embarrassing, but also set a tone. It's like they didn't even stress-test the servers that they were forcing players (for no good reason) to be a part of.
Sleeping dogs was such a phenomenal game for how small it really was, I managed to stretch the game to 20 or so hours mostly story
It was free on Xbox 360 back in 2015 if I remember correctly. Back when games with gold still meant something. First game I ever completed after I lost my childhood Xbox account.
Sleeping Dogs is a great game! It doesn't have the best graphics or polish, but there is a lot of attention to detail and a captivating atmosphere. It's a good example of how devs can make a good game without trying to make it the biggest open world or have the most realistic graphics. The gameplay really held it together and the game is very well paced. You really enjoy the combat and you don't have to go through too much to get to the fun parts.
It came out in 2012 it looks great for that Era
the definitive edition was pretty sharp
Sleeping Dogs 2 is a must need
I recently just played it still don’t look bad
It was honestly one of the games that changed the type of games I played, loved the open world and haven't really went back to closed in worlds
Sleeping Dogs was such a great game! The story was interesting, the gameplay was fun, the open world and atmosphere was nice, and all the little things you could do on the side were really entertaining.
I miss Army of Two. The customizability of the guns was amazing, the masks were incredible and when they added the function of customizing your own made it even better, and the story of each game was actually really good for what entry in the series it was. The main issues were the non co-op multiplayer being severely underserved, and the player characters in the third were supposed to be empty slates for a more rpg style game which could've worked had they not put so much pre-established personality into them and allowed your actions to dictate their behavior like in AoT: The 40th Day.
I miss multi-player Co op game I. General but damn was army of 2 ever fun as hell with friends.. back in the day where people actually hangout in eachothers houses to play together 😅.... good times
Army of 2 and Kane and lynch
Yes ! I totally forget about AOT. Kane & Lynch solid too
Army Of Two was rad. A buddy of mine and I liked it so much that we pulled an impromptu all-nighter and beat the game in one night. I remember the "aggro" system was pretty interesting and allowed for different co-op strategies.
“Aggro” has become part of my gaming vocabulary ever since playing that game
Mercenaries was such an incredible game. One of my most played when I was a kid, you really were able to do so much cool stuff and had so much freedom exploring and going about the missions. Awesome game!
If you love the old Sim City and havent played Cities: Skylines you definitely should. Very indepth and detailed but so easy to sink a ton of time in it and never get bored. Plus there is a new one coming out in October
Thinking the same thing. It really is like SC2K with updated graphics and engine
CS2 is going to be the final nail in the coffin of Simcity. CS1 is great, but even in it's greatness it's still missing a few things, in fact one of the best things that SC had was being able to add addition to already existing buildings, and this is something that CS1 does not have. So there was still space for Simcity to make a return and compete and maybe even surpass CS if EA gave the developers enough time, money and freedom. However with CS2 coming and it adding many of the things that CS1 was missing, I think after it releases Simcity will be buried for good.
The impact of Mirror's Edge CANNOT be overstated even though the IP itself died. Every FPS to this day still use its motion mechanics. Amazing game and sequel.
Why have I seen this comment before? Did you copy and paste this?
@@CasepbX he did I remember this comment.
Copy paste or not, why did mirror's edge die?
Ngl mirrors edge is sorely missed, so much potential in the first game and almost completely flopped in the last one 😞
@@ridwanurrahman1967 because the second game was boring. They didn’t do a whole lot to make the game anymore interesting than the first so it quite literally just died because they lacked innovation.
Legacy of Kain MUST be either remade or continued... one of the best narrative based games ever; with fantastic voice acting, music, story and game play!
I would absolutely love a sequel to Bulletstorm. I’m imagining it as something closer to Doom Eternal and Shadow Warriors 3 with the absolute fantastic cartoony humour from the original.
Freedom Fighters would have been a good addition to this list. Have always hoped for a reboot. Innovative game mechanics and concepts.
Holy shit I forgot about that game. It was so damn fun...
Was about to comment saying this lol! Loved freedom fighters
I think i remember jake saying that was one of his most wanted games to come back as well 😄
Was going to make this comment myself, but glad to see i'm not the only one that misses that gem of a game.
The first one is so damn good. The second one is more a generic third person shooter. But man, the first one is fantastic.
I’m so happy to see Sly Cooper on a list like this, one of the best platforming games of all time with a great unique selling point from the stealth aspect, so much potential for a new game after the success of Ratchet and Clank on the ps5
So many memories of the first 3 games on the PS2. One of the all time greats imo
I've never played Sly, but wanted for a long time. I got my wife PS4 because she wanted to play the remakes of Crash. And I hoped they'd revive Sly to PS4, like they did for Spyro too.
And I got nothing.
Well sucker punch (who made sly cooper if I remember correctly) referenced it in ghost of tsushima so maybe if they keep referencing it in each of their games it’ll bring demand for a remake or reboot
@@tuttiman55they reference Sly in every game they’ve made, you’re late
Soul Reaver was so far ahead of its time, the ability to morph the world between the two realms was something virtually unheard of at the time, the graphics were stunning for its time, I'd even go as far as to say it might have had the best graphics of any game when it came out. It also has one of the most legendary OSTs, the boss fights were fun and engaging, the story was brilliant, like you said it did start to get a little confusing with the whole time warp thing, but overall was still a great story.
But I think if you had a studio that was passionate for the game, and not just focused on money, I think they could make a legendary reboot. And if they pushed it to the limits of today's graphics like they did back then, I think a soul reaver reboot could be one of the most visually impressive games ever made to this point.
This game is probably my most wanted reboot. I just hope if they ever do, they don't have someone like EA or Activision behind it.
Socom for sure! I also would LOVE a sequel to LA Noire. I know it's not a series, but I can't stop thinking how cool it would be if Rockstar made a sequel. It could be named LV Noire - set in the 60s or 70s. I'd love to see them recreate old Las Vegas in the same detail they did with LA.
Socom 2 was so amazing
Man, Socom was such a solid series.
Man I played SOCOM sooo much on PSP that I knew the game inside out
LA noire got so screwed, the game did well, but they closed the studio anyway!
socom and its spiritual successor resident evil, operation raccoon city, deserve more!
When I see gameranx, I click.
When I see lame ass comments, I cringe
as one should
I'm not even a gamer and it's become second nature.
I also click
It's one of the few channels that don't just have AIs reading internet pages.
True Crime New York City was my first game, I still remember it super fondly even though I was way to young to be playing it. I had no idea sleeping dogs was the finale form. I knew I loved that game for a reason. Sly Cooper is also a game I will forever wait for.
Timesplitters and maybe SSX would be on my list, two of my most beloved series on the PS2 era.
I honestly don't know why there aren't new SSX games. Also TIMESPLITTERS! I totally forgot that franchise! Thanks for the reminder
@@hoid9407they messed up with ssx 2013 i think it was since then its dead
@@h4rshturtle456 Well that's a shame. SSX 3 and SSX On Tour are the two I best remember. The unapologetically impossible stunts, the over the top characters, and the absolutely incredible soundtrack was just so fun.
I was totally expecting TimeSplitters on the list, and an honorable mention to Earthworm Jim.
I love Legacy of Kain and to see someone else say they miss it is not just awesome, but a hell of a surprise given how rarely I see mentioned anywhere. It's a series that every year I so wish they would bring back. Also I'd love to see another Dark Cloud, the first two were just so cool and so different from each other.
I played Blood omen 2 when I was a kid.
The Dark Cloud games had potential, but they were really grindy, but yeah if that got polished a bit more a new game could be great.
Never played it but josh strife plays has a "was it any good" series and legacy of kain looked like a great game i missed out om at the time. Also, random, but screw rayman!
Remember darkwatch as well that was hella good
BEST GAMES EVER
Soul Reaver was such a great game. Played it multiple times on the Dreamcast. Best version of the game, beats the PC version of the time.
The last game kinda got a ending with Kain going to fight on.
But really want too see the story continues
Legacy of Kain Is a Underrated game wish they made more Had one of the best stories ever in a story driven focused video game!
I actually heard a rumor the IP was sold to another studio and actually might be in the works but I won't hold my breath
Fax
We desperately need a new Legacy of Kain game.
We had one in the works it was called dead sun but Kain wasn’t in it, they cancelled it
Have you ever played Primal on ps2? Its got a lot of the same themes and vibes as legacy of kain although a bit more lightheaded characters heh 😄
I really wanted more entries in the Infamous series. Their morality system was really fun and getting the different powers was really cool!
I loved infamous Cole was the man lol and it had great replay value because u through the first time as the good and you know want to see the the awesome evil side powers so u go back through the story
Yes
Such a good series!
I mean a free dlc for second son was released last year
Props for the Ultima callout. Loved that series and still miss it 😢
I'm so happy to see Sly Cooper make this list! Sly Cooper definitely needs to come back in some way!!
I'd even take a simple remaster at this point, those games shaped my childhood
@@Moviesan69already got one with ps3, id like new enhancements
@@160sharp funny enough, recently bought the trilogy through the ps3 store just cause i was feeling nostalgic. Still holds up after all this time!
@@Moviesan69 i bet, they go for a lot physically
Would love to see the Syphon Filter franchise get a remake.
Sam Fisher > Solid Snake
@@z216ghost Neither of them are in Syphon Filter though, right? It’s Gabe Logan.
I came here to say the same thing 😁.
Plus tenchu , gex enter the gecko
@@z216ghost that’s a dumb comment. Not even comparable franchises. Syphon Filter isn’t a stealth game lol
@@Syphon_Drummer Plus none of those characters are even from Syphon Filter. That was just a braindead comment.
One game I wish someone would give a go at is Black and White 2. Not the Pokemon game, but the God simulator. It was so well done, especially with the hardware limitations of the 2000s, and I have yet to find anything even remotely close to it. It was like a supernatural Zoo Tycoon RTS with plenty of humor. Most modern RTS games are too soulless straight strategy for my liking. It was made by Lionhead Studios, yet another victim of the EA machine.
Black and White! Great call!
I miss Army of Two, the first 2 entrees were amazingly fun co-op shooters, sadly killed by EA after an unsuccessful third entree (Dead Space shared a similar fate the same year)
Honestly didn’t even know there was a third game
@@TheDonkeyFLOPPERme neither
@@TheDonkeyFLOPPERThe Devil's Cartel I believe it was called. It was a soulless pile of trash.
EA moment. They seem to fuck everything up
Killzone was pretty fun
The Legacy of Kain/Soul Reaver series certainly lives rent free in my head, the story and writing are on its own level of greatness, I'll always wait for a comeback of the series
They did a survey last year by the creators who wanna bring it back. I did it. Maybe still available?
@@squallthegriever if they ever do something again, it's gonna be full remake and good luck making it that good again
I feel like remaking the original in 3D would be a great start. Give it a real 3D Zelda treatment. I’m not sure there’s a market for it, TBH.
SAME!
@@squallthegriever I also took this survey and I wrote a three page letter at the end explaining why they Need a revival! I have a feeling they might be working on something very soon....?
I really miss the No One Lives Forever series, it was so much fun to play and had some really good characters and story. The female lead was such a badass character which was really unusual for an FPS at the time. Unfortunately there are some serious issues regarding the licensing for the NOLF franchise (game was developed by Sierra and published by Fox Interactive, both defunct and technically incorporated by Activision).
Some fans actually tried to purchase the rights from Activision but they claim that they don't own the rights for those games and they also don't know which company in fact does own the rights, it's a really bizarre story. But that means these games will probably never be remade or get a sequel, which is a big shame.
Sleeping Dogs & Prototype were so underrated and beloved during my childhood years. . Never heard of them before.. but there were always present as pirated copies at majority of the Internet Cafes in my country
Parasite Eve and Dino Crisis would make excellent additions to this list.
Great call on the Dino Crisis.
If a once-dead Capcom IP like Dragon's Dogma can get a full-fledged sequel (in spite of the first game not even being that much of a commercial success), then why not Dino Crisis?
I haven't watched a Gameranx video in a few years, and the fact that FALCON is still here makes me smile.
I never played the SimCity games but City Skylines from what I can tell is definitely a proper predecessor of that genre and definitely worth a look into if you haven’t heard of it.
Successor rather and yeah
Cities Skylines is what killed SimCity. They messed up big time with the last SimCity game and the Cities Skylines devs filled the hole that left in that gaming niche. We'll probably see something similar happen with The Sims too given all the life simulator games being developed right now and how poorly EA has been handling The Sims for the last decade or so
i loved SimCity but with no internet/money most of the time when i was 15 i gained a deep hatred for cloud based games and streaming music i backed every thing up TBs of music lodes of pics and all games and DLLs i could ever need honestly i forgot simcity existed till i found eu4 then cities skylines about 2-3 years later and i never looked back cuz i really felt slighted
@@thepatrikperspective you forgot or maybe did not play Sim City 4. Because i do remember how management and money was always the issue. I did not know how to play it until i found out about money strategy. Older Sim City games are too old and obsolete to compete against anything. Skylines is very advanced and also tough without mods, but still very best city building game, others are ANNO series though more like city building combined with RTS strategy game.
I remember watching a twitch steamer stream Cities Skylines back in the early days making a comment about *Sim City HD/4K* , then a fellow twitch chat member replied "It's the last game Sim City wishes it was", good times.
Canceled by the executives not by our hearts and minds😂
Blood Omen 2 actually began its life as a weird sequel/reboot of an old Genesis game called Chakan: The Forever Man on the Sega Dreamcast. When Chakan got canceled, they salvaged and repurposed almost ALL the assets from it (costumes, city/level design, the enemy designs), painted Legacy of Kain vampires over it, and threw together a plot after the fact (hence the weird Sarafan alien nonsense and why the whole game takes place in a gothic steampunk city). If you look hard enough, you can still find the old Chakan concept art where he's literally wearing Kain's exact costume with a simple head swap.
So if you're wondering why Blood Omen 2 always felt a bit off from the rest of the series, that's because it was never meant to be Blood Omen 2 in the first place. I still liked it though lol
I would love a comeback of cheats and couch co-op.
I need more Infamous, Kung-fu Chaos, and Power Stone. I'm really happy that Prototype was on this list. It's honestly all I could think about while watching the new Spiderman 2 trailer, because of the symbiote suit's powers.
I haven’t herd of Kung-fu Chaos for years
Infamous! As much as I enjoyed Ghosts of tsushima it still never filled the void of not having a good Infamous game since #2, that being said both 1 and 2 are both still on my top 10 favorite games of all time
@@bpmcmanson8701that’s how I feel about sly everytime I see the sucker punch logo, infamous too (specifically cole)
@KiDD VaMP Cole was the only infamous worth mentioning, second son was awful, tried too hard to be like prototype, but infamous 1 & 2 were amazingly good times
Played True Crime back in the day, i have Sleeping Dogs.
I didn't know it was from the True Crime franchise.
The legacy of kain series is fantastic and I wish they would release another one or even just remake the series, such a fantastic story overall
Great to see legacy of Kain getting some love. Probably the best story i've ever seen in a game. Great voice acting as well.
A remake of Soul Reaver would be a blind purchase.
I'd rather have a new Rival Schools than Darkstalkers!
Number one on your list is spot on! Couldn't agree more!
Jak and Daxter, the original three games are still some of my all time favourites
well for no. 1 Cities: Skylines 2 is releasing very soon.
I often think about what prey 2 was going to be. It looked awesome but for some reason they cancelled it and then came up with some new bad idea
For me i still think about Sunset Overdrive to this day
Such a phenomenal but underrated game
I doubt the sequel is ever coming out but it deserves another entry for sure
Unfortunately there's probably no chance of a Sunset Overdrive 2 ever coming out because the first game was published by Microsoft and Insomniac is now a first-party PS studio. Plus, I doubt a sequel to Sunset Overdrive would sell nearly as well as Spiderman, Wolverine, or even R&C. It's a shame, because - prior to being acquired by Sony in 2019 - Insomniac's CEO had said that he would love to make a Sunset Overdrive sequel.
Why???? I loved Sunset Overdrive, why can a sequel never come out????
@@jimmythegamer2231 After looking into it. Insomniac still owns the Sunset Overdrive IP. Microsoft only has rights to the first game. So a sequel 100% could be in the picture WAY down the road. Also, there was talks back in 2021 of SONY getting the first title. That clearly didn't happen or hasn't gone through yet, sadly..
MotorStorm is a canned game series that I still think about to this day. The first two were phenomenal when they released for the PS3, sadly it’s just the PS3 only. They were very fun. The third installment, Apocalypse, had almost no off-road, but it was still as good as the first two games. Sadly, in 2011, when that huge tsunami hit Japan, the game got canned in Japan, and it almost got canned in Europe. At least it released in the US.
But you gotta remember, this game released around the same time as NFS The Run and NFS Shift, which The Run didn’t sell very well. But Apocalypse sold even worse due to low marketing campaigns for the game went. I mean we did get R/C for the Vita, but it just wasn’t the same.
And after Driveclub flopped for Sony, they decided to throw Evolution Studios, the ones who created MotorStorm and Driveclub, into the forever box. Some of the devs went to Codemasters, in which Codemasters got bought out by EA somewhere this decade. Sadly, we will never see a racing game quite like MotorStorm ever again, unless some indie devs try to revive it under a different name.
i had a 3d tv (gimmick) but ms apocalypse special effects were so good. loves broken floating skyscraper level, dust and rain went 3d. bits of broken building flying past your face.
I have to go with Command and Conquer Generals, specifically. That game was amazing once the Zero Hour expansion came out. My friends and I played every week, and my brother and I had to share a PC after school to play online. Loved the modern military take. Miss it.
100% agree. I loved Generals. "Ok, ok, I will work!".. love it.
How do you go through a whole Legacy of Kain description and not even mention how amazing the story was. It's easily one of the best acted, delivered, and interesting stories ever. Yes, the games themselves and the gameplay sorta meandered and took missteps, but through it all the story thread and world building was unparalleled for its time and still holds up today!
I loved the final boss of Defiance and that was one of the biggest plot twists at the time for me.
I will NEVER EVER forget Jet Set Radio. I played Jet Set Radio Future when I was a teen and it’s now so nostalgic to me. The graphics, the music, the story, the gameplay….all so memorable. I wish they would come out with a new age version of it. I would buy it in a heartbeat. What an incredible game. I still watch it’s gameplay by Scope here on UA-cam 😢
I will always like and respond to comments that mention Jet Set Radio Future.
It was such an integral part of my early console days and I so despereatly wish for a sequel....
Which is why I am so friggin' excited for the spiritual successor *Bomb Rush Cyberfunk* , developed by Team Reptile.
I have high hopes since they got Hideki Naganuma to do the music for the game! Not to mention the graphics look so extremely similar to the original series.
I really, REALLY, hope this game can live up to the hype I've created in my head lol
Jet Grind Radio
I actually bought an original Xbox again just for Jet Set Radio! That game was my childhood.
Bomb Rush Cyberfunk just released which looks very similar to Jet Set Radio
Thank you! At least one other person remembers the ACTUAL name of that game @@CodyDaCoyote
Do a Ctrl f on these comments for Sim City, nobody misses it! almost everybody is content with Cities Skylines and the other indie city builders out there and happy to no longer be dealing with EA's awful business practices
Sleeping Dogs really deserves a sequel or remake. Underrated gem 🔥
I had it on PS3 & I bought it again on PS4. Currently on a play thru.
Legacy of Kain, totally miss that series. The Soul Reaver games had some of the most well written dialogue in a video game. Gameplay I'm sure doesn't hold up well, but I'd love to see a new game from that series.
Is it blood omen 2 one?
@@anonymousinfinido2540 There's Blood Omen, Blood Omen 2, Soul Reaver, Soul Reaver 2, and Defiance
@@ikeaira8701 oh yes the old ones too, love them. I haven't heard about these games for a 2 decade. 😢😅🥲
The game play was pretty straightforward but that was a really good thing since it didn't break the immersion of the game. When you went to fight someone, you just went up to them and fought them. Nothing popping up on the screen, no combos you had to do just right or anything. It's a case of just keeping things basic, even by the standards of the day, really served the games well.
I remember playing Legacy of kain: defiance as a young teen, it was painstaking and frustrating as hell, but it was one of the best experiences I’ve had, I think that game was the last game I could truly immerse myself in, so when I got a PC copy of it years later it was just as frustrating as I remember, it didn’t really age well but I still find myself replying it to this day
Suikoden, Breath of Fire, Xenosaga , Parasite Eve, Tenchu, Legacy of Kain, Bloody Roar, Rival Schools, Forbidden Siren, Viewtiful Joe, Prince of Persia... there's a lot of great dead franchises
Kinda weird to see where Sekiro is now, as it was originally started off as a Tenchu game.
Tenchu. Definitely Tenchu. Although I think Ghost of Tsushima was pretty much everything you could have hoped for from a Tenchu sequel so it’s probably not really worth it now.
I loved xenosaga as a kid but I went back and played it recently and it was creepy. Alot of upskirt shots of little girls
Parasite eve & legacy of kain for sure.
@@mmcmullen8543 never played it. Did they try the usual trick of saying ‘ah, it’s the body of a child but it’s inhabited by the soul of a 2,000 year old demon’ or similar? As if that makes any difference in justifying the sexualisation of children….
Nosgoth was a great asymmetrical pvp game, yes it wasn't a RPG Legacy of Kaine game, but was super fun if you just wanted to play as a vampire vs hunter type game.
Sleeping dogs is easily one of the most absurdly underrated game and it truly deserves a sequel.
As much as I enjoyed Sleeping Dogs, I always thought it felt unfinished. It seems like there was set up in the game that would have led to different outcomings for the ending but they were just never utilized.
@@jlaakso1706 Because it was intended to have a sequel. A sequel was in the works, which the developer cancelled then began work on a spin off called Triad Wars. That shutdown with the developer suddenly following soon after.
Gotta be TimeSplitters for me, spent way too much time in all three games growing up
My man!
14:55 I like what you did here with the tombstones. So sad to see so many of my such loved studios ruined by EA. Bullfrog (A.k.a. Lionhead) for the Theme series and Fable series. Maxis for the Sim series. Westwood for probably my most favourite series of games ever Command & Conquer. So so sad. 😢😢😢
I don't know if anyone else still thinks about it but I still think about the Deus Ex series, I was really interested to see where the story was going to go. Plus I loved how they updated the sequal to be more flexible in terms of choices.
One that I miss is Banjo Kazooie. The first and second were great. I was happy when they announced Nits and Bolts, but it was nothing like the previous titles. What I liked about the games is that it had some challenging puzzles and amazing boss fights.
Also another game that sadly for me did not get a sequel is Binary Domain released back in 2012.
It was a game that had a morality kind of in the same direction as Mass effect, its sad that they did not sell it well enough to make a sequel.
I miss the Tenchu series. I played them since the beginning...
When the mission editor came out for Tenchu 2, I thought "Awesome, this is going to be the new standard" and then they dropped it.
When Tenchu Z started letting you customize your own character, I thought, "Awesome, this is going to be the new standard" and then they dropped it.
Then they just straight-up dropped the franchise... I personally think they could've gone a bit further than they did if they continued to build off of those two aspects...
made sequels to tenchu, I thought, "Awesome, this is going to be the new standard" and then they dropped it.
I miss tenchu so much
Me and my friend played the multiplayer in Tenchu 3 for so long. Super fun game
Really sad that Thief, TimeSplitters and Fable got discontinued. No game has ever made me laugh like the Fable games could.
Fable is coming back tho, apparently the gameplay of the Fable reboot will be revealed on June 11th.
@@jimmythegamer2231 No way! How have I missed this‽‽‽
Holy cow, you put Legacy of Kain on the list. Mad respect!
I want to see the Thief games make a comeback, specifically in the form of a direct sequel to the first 3 games. Maybe now that Square Enix (thankfully) doesn't own the IP anymore we might see a new Thief game someday, hopefully one that lives up to the name.
Would love to see a remake of the original Looking Glass Studio versions of the trilogy. The games were amazing and rarely get the credit they deserve for really creating the stealth genre we have today.
do you mean theif as in like the 90s game or the more recent incarnations?
I miss Turok series.
I still have flashbacks of me playing Turok: Dinosaur Hunter
@@theezrabeast7590 that and seeds of evil were masterpieces
Turok, was class, and its a shame BLACK wasn't continued. That was a great shooter.
@@paulainsworth9229 the way black was set up at the end there should have been a sequel what a cliffhanger
@almostfree9255 yes, it was brilliant, but just an unexplained sudden ending.
wow I had thought after a few years after unsubscribing id find a good video here, sad to see nothings changed and the picks are still horrible.
Singularity deserves a sequel, Far Cry 2 deserves a continued storyline, Kane & Lynch deserves a less over the top third installment, Bionic Commando deserves a sequel, and Darkvoid deserves a sequel but plz god with better writers and level designers.
Man the sly cooper entry hits hard:( absolutely love all those games. Still remember buying the 3rd one on release day, and getting the 3d glasses for it. Would love for sucker punch to revisit the series
For me is Onimusha. Don’t understand why they have completely abandoned the franchise. Every single game is marvelous.
I'm surprised no one ever talks about the Bloody Roar fighting games. Those are some of my favorite games from my childhood. They really never get the love they deserve
Yes bloody roar was fire
@@sirwilliam3814 still waiting my man. todays graphics, get some exotic animals like killing bites did and boom
I really miss the old stuntman games a new stuntman would be dope.
The late 90s and early 2000s was the best era of gaming hands down it’s not even close!!!!
Back in the day Legacy of Kain was my favorite game series! It's crazy how so many people missed out on those games, mainly the original Sou Reaver
To be fair, Soul Reaver is the game from the series that most people played and recognize. The original Blood Omen is the one that most people missed out on (SR sold over 4 times as many copies as BO)... but yes, it's a shame more people haven't played them. Game exposure was a completely different thing back then compared to now.
I'd love a new Soul Reaver game. Something like a condensed Assasins Creed that doesn't suck. There's a lot of potential there.
Most fun I ever had was with SimCopter.
You could fly on a 3D city you built on SimCity 2000 an do missions.
This was mind blowing at the time 😂
Most series I miss are not canceled, but have been disfigured beyond recognition:
- Rainbow Six
- Ghost Recon
- Max Payne
- Hitman
Mercenaries are amazing, one of my most played games when it came out and played it for years. Crazy how True Crime new York reviewed poorly, I loved it. Great story, city, and you could learn different martial art forms for combat. Both those games were top tier in my opinion.
Lots of great series mentioned in the comments already that I would love to come back; TimeSplitters, Dino Crisis, No One Lives Forever, Parasite Eve. My biggest want is a new Suikoden game. Fortunately we do have Eiyuden Chronicle Hundred Heroes on the horizon. I also wouldn't mind a new Dead Rising, so long as whoever was in charge of directing Dead Rising 4 is no longer at the helm.
Yes finally! I see a Timesplitters fan here
Timesplitters 2 and future perfect were the best FPS' of that generation!
How could Mercenaries be on here but the OG Battlefront III is missed off the list?
Thank you for mentioning what EA has done to the video game industry. For all the good that they have done as a publisher they should be completely rinsed for the bad.
They probably influenced Rockstar and blizzard and all the amazing video game companies that have gone corrupt
Ultimately it's the fault of the gamers for not supporting small studios, making EA rich and rather buying the billionth Fifa than something like Mercenaries.
They really weren't popular, but we love the Condemned games. Dark, violent and honestly kind of insane. It's too bad there will probably never be a third installment to wrap up the story.
love condemned. The first one was more creepy and atmospheric than two, but the second one still had its moments.
I'm really surprised there was no mention of Cities: Skylines in the Sim City segment. I realize it's "different" than Sim City and certainly isn't a SC2000 with better graphics, but I figured there would have been at least a passing mention like "I guess we can just keep playing Cities: Skylines in the meantime," particularly because they just announced Cities: Skylines II is coming out this year and it looks fantastic.
A new Mercenaries title would do well right now, I think. Would love to see what a passionate team of devs could do with today's tech.
I miss Phantasy Star. I was a Sega kid. The original Phantasy Star was the only game i had for it for a long time. Such an under rated JRPG from back in the day. The entire series was good. Odd at times, admittedly. I'd love to see a non-MMO version with current gen graphics
I bet it would be still going toe to toe with FF. They need some more competition