Six Games That Truly Need A Sequel

ByRemy Carreiro Posted on

The Oddworld Series

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Look, he is doing “the shocker”!

How the f*ck this series has fallen by the waist side is beyond comprehension to me. Every single entry in this entire series is amazing, and all for entirely different reasons. The first few games (Abe’s Exodus, Munch’s Odyssey)  were old-school, platforming-puzzle brilliance, looking absolutely stunning, and having more character and creativity than most movies you see. And then, they gave us the badass Stranger’s Wrath (with one of my favorite plot twists ever presented in a video game outside of KOTOR), which was first person absurdity at its finest (with a cool Western motif) where you were forced to use live critters as different ammo.

You could give me a sequel, in either vein, taking place in the Oddworld universe, and I would be SO happy. Hell, you could come up with an all new gameplay mechanic, I don’t even care! Just give me more time in that stunning world, I beg of you. Remember the last Oddworld game we were SUPPOSED to get? The Brutal Battle of Fangus Klot? A darker take on the Oddworld series? I swear to God, if I am ever rich I will fund this game privately. Swear to Glob.

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I wanted this game so bad that I see this picture and weep like it is a dead friend.

Tecmo’s Deception Series

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In this game, you play an evil castle, and you go all “Home Alone” on anyone who tries to come in. For SERIOUS!

I can’t say I am not surprised this series has not carried on, because honestly, I was SHOCKED it came over to our shores at all. Deception was a Playstation (1) era game where you played as some sort of ultimate evil that died and got reincarnated into a castle (or something). Though the details of the story escape me, let me say it once again for those not paying attention: You played a f*cking evil castle, and you set up traps all around for wandering adventurers brave enough to explore your inner sanctum.

So, in essence, you were KILLING the characters you normally play as, in the most cruel and unusual ways possible. And let me tell you, f*ck the canned sadism it takes to beat a game like Dark Souls, there are few feelings in gaming as rewarding as smashing some do-gooder with a giant hand you set up to come out of the wall. Honestly, that was literally a thing you could do. So remake it, reboot it, whatever, but give me more Deception madness, STAT!

Onimusha Series

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Yes, that’s right, Jean “The Professional” Reno was in part 3. Booyakasha!

So let me get this straight? An action game series that mostly takes place in old-world, Feudal Japan, but features demons and zombies and shit? And CAPCOM made it? SO what the shit happened and where did it go? Honestly, I have NO idea. I have beaten every one of the games in this series, and thoroughly enjoyed every second of them all, so it has escaped me completely why the series just kind of died away.

If you think about where graphics are at right now, and how far action games have come since Onimusha first came out, and you can imagine just how dope a proper sequel to this series would be. Think Ninja Gaiden meets Devil May Cry meets an Akira Kurosawa zombie movie and you would have a fairly drug-fueled and inaccurate vision of a game I will spend my life only dreaming about. The thing about dreaming is, sometimes they end up turning into nightmares, so maybe it is best to keep all these as dreams and not sully my memories of these great games.

Okay, so what did I miss? What do you want to see a sequel to? Take to the comments and let me know.

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My name is Remy Carreiro and I live in New England, where most of my time is spent trying to summon the Great Old Ones, like Cthulhu. When not writing for Unreality, I am writing for a slew of other sites, and working primarily on unending music and art projects. I am not married but I have a beautiful young lady in my basement, errr, life, whom I love very much. When not focused on those things, I play video games and watch movies. I am EXACTLY what my parents feared I would become, and I take pride in that.

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23 Comments

  1. I agree with the Oddworld suggestion. I loved the first two Abe games for PC. The problem is that everything after that wasn’t released for PC. They didn’t want my money. Nor to expand their brand apparently. And the series died out shortly after that. Funny what limiting your game to a smaller market can do.

    They did release a compilation for PC much later. But it was so outdated for the current operating systems. It ran horribly and wasn’t optimized or updated in the least.

    I’ll probably never get to play Red Dead Redemption for the same reason. I simply won’t play enough console games to justify the expense. Speaking of which, can you write a Playstation or Xbox off your taxes as a business expense if you write about them for your blog?

  2. Yes to Condemned 3! One of the scariest levels from the first game was the one where you were at the mall and you were fighting those mannequins. It was so funny I was walking and I passed a mannequin, I come back and it’s gone!!! Shit just got real…

  3. Yes! Onimusha is awesome, and 3 was much better than 2, so they clearly were headed in the right direction. And then? A “Smash Bros” type game. Yea-…er, what? Who wanted that? Then you have “Beyond Good and Evil” which had a cliffhanger ending, even!

    I also think that “Psychonauts” could have had a great sequel. And where’s my “Zak and Wiki 2”?!

    @Postal, I’m not even kidding when I say that with prices now, RDR is totally worth the price of admission.

  4. Oddworld!!! Kinda makes you wonder what Lorne Lanning is up to these days. I’ve always been concerned that we may never see another game in that series due to the EA acquisition. Only time will tell I guess.

  8. Bulletstorm was fine, but not every game needs a sequel and Bulletstorm is one of those games. It did what it wanted to do, playing it was a good time, and it can end there.

  10. Where did the reverence for Legend of Dragoon come from, Frank? One of my least-favorite RPG’s ever, but people goddamn love it.

    I absolutely LOVED Overrun in the new Gears, and it was a great game overall with lightning-fast matchmaking. My only big complaint is nobody was ever playing it. I’ve never seen a AAA franchise take such a sudden dip. Gears 3 was always stocked with players, but Judgement had trouble stocking a 5 man team in Survival within weeks and many games of Overrun would end up with you and a team of bots versus one other player and a team of bots. Only a triple-digit number of people in any given game mode of an exclusive AAA gaming title a few weeks after launch? Madness.

  11. Well, trashcanman, it’s hard to say… I wouldn’t say I have reverence for it. But I did enjoy it quite a lot. Bear in mind I was pretty new to RPGs at that point but I just liked it nonetheless. Might be rose colored glasses but I want a sequel anyway, dammit.

  12. Did the guys from Oddworld just respond to this article?
    And there is a HD remake coming out, with the company slowly rebuilding itself?
    I won’t lie, that is incredibly awesome and makes my soul very. very happy.
    I am kinda stuck on that right now. Wow!

  14. Square needs to make another Vagrant Story.

    I was in Japan recently and I kept on seeing posters for Onimusha, I kept on thinking how is there a new game with out me knowing about, turns out it was just advertising a new slot machine based on Onimusha.

  16. Devil’s deception!! Holy fuck I had forgotten about that weird little game. I had it for my ps1. I spent a lot of time with that game. It had a very surreal and David Lynch’ian feel to it and it was very satisfactory in a sadistic way. I’m gonna see if I can find it somewhere in the basement. And yes.. Remake please!

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