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Game IP that is unlikely to get a sequel

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There's so many unlikely sequels that came to mind when I saw the thread title, but Okage's the one that popped up first. It was my first JRPG that wasn't Pokemon, so the gameplay felt fresh to me. In retrospect, it was probably tedious, but I loved it as a kid. The art style's what drew me in; it was unlike anything I, or anyone else that had never seen literally a minute of any Tim Burton film, had ever seen before. However, I liked the setting, I liked the characters, and even now that I know that the game probably wasn't all that special, I still want to see it return.

Mischief Makers is a close runner-up, though, and unlike Okage, I can still vouch for its greatness.
 
Ice Climbers.

I honestly have no clue how you'd make a sequel or a revival in this day and age. All expectations would need to be thrown out and put on their head.
Prime for a mobile title I think. Nintendo is on a pretty aggressive path of using their IPs for whatever can get them back into the black and I think Ice Climbers are a shoe in for the mobile future.
 
Without diving through the collection to depress myself even more:
MySims/MySims Kingdom sequel - would require EA and Nintendo to be on speaking terms.
Lost in Blue - lol, Konami
Chibi-Robo - if that 3DS/Platformer was his final chance to take the world by storm before getting the axe from big N.
A SRPG Shining Force similar in playstyle to SF, SFII, SFIII.
A non-online, non-action Phantasy Star.
Related: Anything by Quest (Ogre Battle/Tactics Ogre).
Rune Factory, maybe? This is the one people still have hope for, but this year is the 20th anniversary of the Harvest Moon series, and there has been no word about a new RF (yet).
Skies of Arcadia

Pokémon Snap, which is the game we should get out the torches and pitchforks for.

If we're going to do the "in NA" thing, the list gets bigger and gloomier. (Thanks, TI82.)
 
Resistance. And right after we got the amazing R3. For shame,=.

Marvel vs Capcom 4. Disney and Marvel are making a ton of money on their mobile fighting game apparently. They probably don't even care about another installment for movie hype.
 

I was full on the D4 hype train back when it launched, and when that story was posted, but its been so long that I've started to doubt it :(

You should probably blame consumers instead of MS, the game got a decent amount of advertising leading up to it's release, then no one bought it.

Gonna be honest, don't believe I saw more than 1 (MAYBE 2 or 3) ads for D4, the biggest push I saw was when it came to GWG. I mean FFS the best friends pushed that game harder than MS!

I do hope it did alright, but if we get similar advertising if season 2 comes out, boy, I'll be miserable
 
I'm pretty confident Parasite Eve is getting a sequel. Verendus mentioned it last E3, Square Enix seems to be in late 90s nostalgia mode, and there's been some rumours here and there about what certain directors are working on.

Not to mention, there's a poster of Aya Brea in the first Final Fantasy VII trailer

 
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.

No way that's happening. I am not counting the MMO games that various studious trying to shit out, those are not S.T.A.L.K.E.R.
 
Quintets series of games (blazer/gaia/terranigma/granstream) - I would accept remakes of Gaia or Terranigma @s-e
Skies of Arcadia
Half life

If either of the first two were announced at next E3, it would be bigger than last year's announcements for me
 
Silent Hill. That hope died when Kojima left Konami.

Lollipop Chainsaw. Loved the first game and would return for a sequel.

American McGee's Alice: Madness Returns - McGee released a sort of sequel in form of animated videos, but an actual video game sequel is probably out of the question.
 
I'll say Remember Me. I think the studio went broke.

Really enjoyed the setting , story and memory sequences. The combat, at first was pretty bad, with the touted 'dial-a-combo' system being more or less pointless, but it got better towards the end. Fights were basically a fancy version of paper-scissors-rock. By the end they were more like puzzling sequences disguised as fighting

One of the few games where I got right into the lore, and read and actively seeked out all the diary entries too. The idea of Neo-Paris and how it came about was pretty cool.

Also +1 to anyone saying Sleeping Dogs
 
I just finished Prince of Persia 2008. Great game and a cliffhanger ending. Obviously not likely to get a follow up sequel (other than the epilogue) at this point.
 
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