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GI: 10 RPG franchises they'd like to see come back.
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Samurai G0SU
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I guess im looking for a re-make like how FF7 is getting.
i only played it on the sega cd.
Malick[AI]
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Wild Arms needs to make a grand return on the PS4.
LegendofDragoonLives
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I'm confused, Legend of Dragoon seems to be missing.
It needs to be rebooted. Most people do not know or remember the story all that well, so you might as well reboot. Refine the story and work on gameplay, game design etcdarksagus said:
Then they should have ajoint partnership with Nintendo and monolithsoft.
If there is one thing Nintendo has consistantly done right recently, its been being fucking amazing with treating classic franchises from other businesses they get to work with right. Better than the ip holders ever treated them in decades.
Trogdor1123
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Only chrono for me.
Funyarinpa
Member
Honestly it was System Shock for me and with a remake and sequel on the way I could not be happier.
SHHH if sega hears you they'll take all your money
Shit, how could I forget this. I was too focused on JRPGs. I have brought shame to my house.
Larson Conway
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Xenosaga
Shadow Hearts
Valkyrie Profile
Legaia series
Shadow Hearts
Valkyrie Profile
Legaia series
Larson Conway
Member
Deputy Moonman
Member
Shining Force!
The first has a good story and huge open world. The setting is amazing, you're living on two gods locked in eternal battle. It has a fair amount of cutscenes but not as long or often as xenosaga. The battle system isn't the same either.
Xenoblade X is more mission based and less story focused. Exploration with your skells and completing missions is key. It still has a story though.
Sir_Crocodile
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I don't think Camelot will ever reconcile with Sega so that one's a forlorn hope anyway. :/
Zalusithix
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I wouldn't have a problem with that, if not for wanting a sequel to XCX too. I don't think Monolith Soft is capable of two productions that large at the same time. Expanding enough to make it feasible could have negative consequences.
Serious talk...
If ANY of these JRPGs got a remake or sequel, I'd be over the moon:
1) Shadow Hearts - The mix of horror and humor, of such a charismatic cast, of goofy fun mixed with gut-punching sorrow. When Covenant came out, it was the first JRPG that made me look at what Square Enix was doing and realize that a new JRPG had beaten them at their own game.
2) Skies of Arcadia - Storm the enemy fortress, fight the smug boss, rescue the girl, and fly off in your airship. I remember thinking the climax of any other JRPG was the INTRO to this one. Now, with games like Xenoblade Chronicles X and Final Fantasy XIV showing off how to do flight and exploration, the idea of a modern Skies of Arcadia makes me salivate.
3) Panzer Dragoon Saga - This is a lost game. One of the greatest JRPGs of all time... trapped on the Sega Saturn, the code for the game apparently lost, and used copies selling for the price of a kidney. That setting, though... that music. It's what I imagined a Nausicaa game would look and play like.
4) Legend of the Dragoon - Ah yes, the "Final Fantasy 7" rip-off that was nothing like Final Fantasy. While it had its problems, the game still blew me away. The rotating cast of characters, the legitimately shocking deaths, the power-ups and Dragoon forms, the challenge, the soundtrack and visuals, the jaw-dropping background lore and cutscenes... This is one highly underrated game. I want a remake or sequel just so the few things it did wrong could be addressed, because it does so much else right.
5) Lost Odyssey - This was my favorite traditional JRPG of last gen. It was also on the wrong platform. While Microsoft helped publish it to "win over" Japanese players, it just didn't work and was ignored. That's a travesty and I'll go to my grave believing that if it had been on PS3, it would have ushered in a new lasting, beloved franchise. It was such a great Japanese RPG but is forever stuck on a system Japan avoided like the plague. Even a PC port at this point would be better than this fate.
6) The World Ends With You - UGH. SQUARE ENIX.
If ANY of these JRPGs got a remake or sequel, I'd be over the moon:
1) Shadow Hearts - The mix of horror and humor, of such a charismatic cast, of goofy fun mixed with gut-punching sorrow. When Covenant came out, it was the first JRPG that made me look at what Square Enix was doing and realize that a new JRPG had beaten them at their own game.
2) Skies of Arcadia - Storm the enemy fortress, fight the smug boss, rescue the girl, and fly off in your airship. I remember thinking the climax of any other JRPG was the INTRO to this one. Now, with games like Xenoblade Chronicles X and Final Fantasy XIV showing off how to do flight and exploration, the idea of a modern Skies of Arcadia makes me salivate.
3) Panzer Dragoon Saga - This is a lost game. One of the greatest JRPGs of all time... trapped on the Sega Saturn, the code for the game apparently lost, and used copies selling for the price of a kidney. That setting, though... that music. It's what I imagined a Nausicaa game would look and play like.
4) Legend of the Dragoon - Ah yes, the "Final Fantasy 7" rip-off that was nothing like Final Fantasy. While it had its problems, the game still blew me away. The rotating cast of characters, the legitimately shocking deaths, the power-ups and Dragoon forms, the challenge, the soundtrack and visuals, the jaw-dropping background lore and cutscenes... This is one highly underrated game. I want a remake or sequel just so the few things it did wrong could be addressed, because it does so much else right.
5) Lost Odyssey - This was my favorite traditional JRPG of last gen. It was also on the wrong platform. While Microsoft helped publish it to "win over" Japanese players, it just didn't work and was ignored. That's a travesty and I'll go to my grave believing that if it had been on PS3, it would have ushered in a new lasting, beloved franchise. It was such a great Japanese RPG but is forever stuck on a system Japan avoided like the plague. Even a PC port at this point would be better than this fate.
6) The World Ends With You - UGH. SQUARE ENIX.
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Jade Empire's totally-not-asia setting would have been better if they had gone all the way with it.
Jade Empire has the best villain and plot of any Bioware game. It did Kotor's twist better than Kotor.
Chrono entry really makes a lot of sense.
The Chrono "series" (CT, Radical Dreamers, Chrono Cross) are never directly connected. It really is an interpretation of time and its ripple effects. It's mostly what led people to be disappointed with Chrono Cross.
I think another writer can interpret his own story and make a game out of it. Time is boundless, you can come up with something really good with it.
I don't know why the game has to be even remotely like FFXIII-2. I think it's hilarious how this gets brought up every time there's a conversation about a new Chrono game.
FFXIII-2 had retcons up the wazoo and had incompetent writers as well, along with a base story from a game known as FFXIII. You can tell that it was never meant to exist as its own story.
The Chrono "series" (CT, Radical Dreamers, Chrono Cross) are never directly connected. It really is an interpretation of time and its ripple effects. It's mostly what led people to be disappointed with Chrono Cross.
I think another writer can interpret his own story and make a game out of it. Time is boundless, you can come up with something really good with it.
I don't know why the game has to be even remotely like FFXIII-2. I think it's hilarious how this gets brought up every time there's a conversation about a new Chrono game.
FFXIII-2 had retcons up the wazoo and had incompetent writers as well, along with a base story from a game known as FFXIII. You can tell that it was never meant to exist as its own story.
Shadowplay1979
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Whatever games they bring back, Lightning needs to make an appearance in them.
but only during rainy scenes of course
DiipuSurotu
Banned
It's too late to resurrect Chrono, because it has already reincarnated.
^Project Setsuna
^Project Setsuna
Shadowplay1979
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They should make Chrono Christ..a game where Chrono is worshipped by some weird Time paradox worshipping cult.
Lunar needs to come back..but after Dragon Song i doubt it could capture the feel of the old games. Lunar is just a very late 80s early 90s kind of feel that was in games in anime that is hard to reproduce now.
Also Dragon song failed because there was no color in the title...you gotta have a color in the title!
Can we get a new seiken Densetsu now ( mobile doesnt count)pls....not one of these weird mana offshoots.
I know some people really like LoM but thats where the series really went astray. They need to do a more back to basics game using SD3 as the basis.
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Xenogears
seriously a proper telling of the 6 episode original series as it was intended from perfect works. Xenosaga did not really live up to it. The art style and music had nothing on it either.
Xenogears 1-6...using animated cut scenes
Lunar needs to come back..but after Dragon Song i doubt it could capture the feel of the old games. Lunar is just a very late 80s early 90s kind of feel that was in games in anime that is hard to reproduce now.
Also Dragon song failed because there was no color in the title...you gotta have a color in the title!
Can we get a new seiken Densetsu now ( mobile doesnt count)pls....not one of these weird mana offshoots.
I know some people really like LoM but thats where the series really went astray. They need to do a more back to basics game using SD3 as the basis.
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Xenogears
seriously a proper telling of the 6 episode original series as it was intended from perfect works. Xenosaga did not really live up to it. The art style and music had nothing on it either.
Xenogears 1-6...using animated cut scenes
Neither is Jade Empire or Vagrant Story.
dreamlongdead
Member
I definitely want Chrono and Dark Cloud to come back, even though I don't expect them to actually come back. Mother and Suikoden certainly won't be coming back.
Vagrant Story is pretty divisive, but the game is a masterpiece in my opinion. It is a great one-off title that had its story wrapped up nicely. A sequel isn't coming, and there is really no need.
The two Bioware games were definitely good, but I don't think the IPs need to come back.
I could live just fine without another Valkyrie Profile.
Vagrant Story is pretty divisive, but the game is a masterpiece in my opinion. It is a great one-off title that had its story wrapped up nicely. A sequel isn't coming, and there is really no need.
The two Bioware games were definitely good, but I don't think the IPs need to come back.
I could live just fine without another Valkyrie Profile.
DiipuSurotu
Banned
Matsuno said he scrapped 50% of the game's story to fit time and memory constraints. I'm sure that's well enough material that could be repurposed in a sequel.
) since Wii U and its gamepad makes so much sense for dungeon exploring.Legend of Dragoon franchise?
WickedLaharl
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No shitty ass legend of dragoon? GI you done good!
jade empire and vagrant story were never a franchise either
jade empire and vagrant story were never a franchise either
Yeah, but there have been talks about reviving Jade Empire, and Vagrant Story is a part of Ivalice. LoD is just...there and forgotten.
MHWilliams
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Right there with you.
dreamlongdead
Member
Whoa, it didn't seem like story content was cut. I never had that impression from playing the game.
DustyVonEric
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Lost Odyssey
AD&D Gold Box
FF Tactics
Dragon's Dogma
Dragon's Crown
AD&D Gold Box
FF Tactics
Dragon's Dogma
Dragon's Crown
It's too late to resurrect Chrono, because it has already reincarnated.
^Project Setsuna
My most anticipated jrpg.
More Fun To Compute
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I don't think there has been a 5th edition D&D crpg yet. The licence cost and rules would probably not be worth it but I don't know if a ded company like Atari is still sitting on the rights. I can't see anyone making a new 2nd edition Greyhawk AD&D crpg though.
SolVanderlyn
Thanos acquires the fully powered Infinity Gauntlet in The Avengers: Infinity War, but loses when all the superheroes team up together to stop him.
Valkyrie Profile needs its Hrist game.
And Suikoden needs its Harmonia game.
And Suikoden needs its Harmonia game.
Samurai G0SU
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It's too late to resurrect Chrono, because it has already reincarnated.
^Project Setsuna
That looks so gooood!!!
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