Inexplicably exhausted and entirely devoid of an attention span as a result, I’ve been fruitlessly searching for a game to sink my teeth into and refocus myself. Planescape’s calling to me again – it’s been a while – but so far the thought of locating and installing all four of its CDs is putting me off. Yes, it’s that bad. Instead, gazing idly at my bookcase in the hope of inspiration, I find myself ruminating randomly upon games I wish there were sequels to right now.
I often pretend to think sequels are bad ideas creatively speaking, that really developers should go explore whole new universes instead. And yeah, they probably should. Unfortunately, I secretly get as giggly about news that Fun Game X Is To Have Inevitable Sequel as the next raving fanboy. There are ideas and places I’d simply love to go play in again, preferably with extra-sparkly graphics.
So, in no particular order, with no particular reason and with several dozen omissions:
X-COM
Dungeon Keeper
Planescape Torment (with different characters entirely, of course)
Colonisation
Beyond Good & Evil
Star Wars Galaxies (don’t give much of a hoot about Star Wars anymore, but it was a sci-fi MMO with some bold ideas in terms of escaping prescribed classes and allowing players to shape themselves and the world. Horribly clunky, yes, but infinitely more interesting than, say, Tabula Rasa.)
Freelancer (this has been on my Revisit For A Retrospective list for ages now)
Syndicate
Cannon Fodder
Sam & Max Hit The Road (er – a different sequel, anyway)
Homeworld
Smash TV (attempting its glorious manplosions in a super-detailed modern engine strikes me as potentially very funny)
Psychonauts
Dune 2 (C&C’s units never charmed me as Dune 2’s did. I know C&C3’s hardly rocket science, but it still seems so fussy compared to Dune 2’s small, wonderfully focused toybox. Also, giant worms. Every RTS without giant worms seems somehow lacking).
Giants: Citizen Kabuto
Now, sleep.
http://www.gamersyde.com/stream_7321_en.html
Beyond Good & Evil 2 trailer…
Goddamnit Al3xand3r! I just posted that on another thread… I think you beat me to it, though.
Not Summoner (which is a bad console port from the early days of the PS2), but The Summoning, which is if not the best thing SSI ever put out, then pretty damn close.
Halflife
Doom
Tomb Raider
John Madden
C&C
The Sims Vacation Expansion Pack
Seriously though.
XCOM
Mercenary. Though there was an expansion\sequel wasn’t there? It had a red disk, or the world was red or the loading screen was red. Something about it was red!
Syndicate\Syndicate Wars
Sacrifice
True Love
Battlezone
Dungeon Keeper
Grim Fucking Fandango
When I think of more I will add them for posterity.
I would like to see a Graphically enhanced DOOM. No change in weapons or game play, just the same game with new shiny graphics. Cause now, like then(when DOOM was made) there is just something satisfying about mowing down a room full of 30+ monsters with only a pile of empty shells as contribution to the brief battle that was waged there.
Serious Sam & Painkiller are in order for you MrMelons. Especially the 2nd option…
Just a small thing, but Grim Fandango absolutely, CATEGORICALLY, does not need a sequel.
It ended perfectly. It’s one game that should and will be remembered fondly rather than picked at for needing a cash-in sequel.
Although ‘cash-in’ doesn’t really go hand in hand with ‘point -n-click’, so I guess it would technically be OK.
Stop knocking remakes people!
Dune 2000 was a remake of the older Dune 2, not a new game.
I don’t know why some of these replies have knocked it so hard. It was pretty competent. And the FMV was pretty good, to boot as I recall. IIRC, the guy who played Gimli in the LOTR films played your Mentat. This was around the same time he was making cameo’s in Wing Commander 3.
Also there was a voice cameo by Frank Klepacki buried somewhere inside it.