As soon as a game is a hit, players start buzzing about the game having a sequel.
It's a familiar sentiment for most of us, which makes it ever so painful when a game
doesn't get one.
So today, we're discussing some of those games with our list of the top 10 video games
that are overdue for a sequel.
Now we touched on this list a few months back, but this year we've seen a whole lot of
sequels and spiritual successors come out of the woodwork, so we felt it's time to
visit it again!
This time focusing a little bit more on newer games than older.
And this time around, I've got a special guest-
Rebecca: 10 Bully
Times have changed a lot since the first Bully came out.
Back then, it was released in 2006 on the PS2.
The game raised a whole lot of controversy for Rockstar, and parents were up in arms
prior to its debut about it's expected violence.
It even stirred the pot about having queer content, despite that content being super
ambiguous.
Regardless of all that, it was praised by critics for its narrative, it's missions
and it's characters and sold over 1.5 million copies.
These days, there's been some leaked information that has fans jumping on the possibility of
a sequel.
For starters, in 2009, the musician who scored the game, Shawn Lee, told The Gaming Liberty
that he would be doing the soundtrack for Bully 2 in the not so distance future.
In 2011, Rockstar exec Dan Houser stated that they may focus on a sequel after releasing
Max Payne 3.
In 2013 he stated he had multiple concepts for the sequel.
And, the most recent rumor, in August of 2017, rumored concept art was leaked, along with
concept art for Agent, another Rockstar game that has been highly anticipated but never
actually made.
Rockstar has made no comment on the rumored leak.
9 Okami Recently remastered by Capcom, Okami is an
action adventure game set in ancient Japan that uses myths, legends, and folklore to
progress the narrative, with gameplay similar to The Legend of Zelda.
Game director Hideki Kamiya has stated that he'd love to come back to Capcom and work
on a few titles, including a true sequel for Okami.
There was a sequel of sorts published in 2011 titled Okamiden for the Nintendo DS, but was
made without Kamiya, and didn't get all too great of a reception.
Kamiya was responsible for the likes of Resident Evil 2, Devil May Cry and Bayonetta prior
to separating from the publisher.
Rebecca: 8 Never Alone Never Alone was a beautiful 2015 puzzle platform
adventure developed by Upper One Games about a native Alaskan tale that was first recorded
by Robert Nasruk Cleveland in his collection Stories of the Black River People.
You play as Nuna and her arctic fox companion through 8 chapters of puzzles.
The game won several awards, including a BAFTA, and did get an expansion titled Never Alone:
Foxtails which added new levels and expanded further on the story.
Despite being raved for turning cultural heritage into video game history, the game never got
a sequel, although it was a big step forward in more mainstream video games developed by
indigenous people that feature accurate representation rather than post-colonial stereotypes.
7 Beyond Good & Evil At the 2017 E3, a new trailer for a sequel
to Beyond Good & Evil was shown.
It was a big deal.
It looked sharp, and there was definitely a big enough world left off from the original
that a sequel would be awesome.
But here's the thing about Beyond Good & Evil - a sequel has been in the works since 2008.
The game has been in a constant development hell, and while it seems to be moving forward
more progressively this year, hopes for a sequel are still pretty shady.
If history has shown us anything about E3, it's that not all titles that are presented
there necessarily get made.
Here's hoping Beyond Good and Evil 2 isn't one of those titles.
Rebecca: 6 Saints Row We haven't seen a Saints Row game since
2015's Gat out of Hell, which was technically sort of an expansion.
Which was super enjoyable to play.
While the franchise is often deemed as a rip off of Grand Theft Auto, it's also unique
in many ways, with the bulk of the franchise focusing on the story of a gang called the
Third Street Saints.
In the main story, we last left off with the gang fighting off against an evil alien invasion.
A little wild, yes, but kind of fitting of the series.
What we'd love to see is a sequel that took the series in a new direction, or perhaps
revamped it all together.
5 Shadow of the Colossus There have been spiritual successors to Shadow
of the Colossus, and even a remastered version of the game released last year.
But what about a full-blown sequel?
By the end of the game, we were left with Wander gone and the mysterious appeared of
a horned baby boy, and many see that as having some potential in terms of a new narrative.
According to rumors though, developers are currently moving forward with what some speculate
to be a follow up to Shadow of the Colossus.
A piece of artwork surfaced featuring a lone female who many fans think maybe Mono, the
girl you save at the end of Colossus.
Hopes are high that we'll get to learn more about this mystery project at this year's
E3 in June.
Rebecca: 4 Valiant Hearts Developed and released by our mates Ubisoft,
Valiant Hearts: The Great War was a critically acclaimed game released back in 2014 that
won a slew of awards.
Playing as multiple different characters in four different chapters, you navigate World
War 1, solving puzzles, completing stealth missions and surviving gunfire all woven into
heart-wrenching intertwined stories about the tragedy and resilience of those who endured
it.
Fans of the game hoped for a sequel after seeing the post-credits scene of one of the
characters, Freddie, on a dock in front of a WW2 battleship.
The game's director left Ubisoft after a 14-year career with them back in 2015, so
many think a sequel - or at least one of the same caliber - is quite unlikely.
3 Limbo Most fans of Limbo would argue that it doesn't
need a sequel.
Rather, it needs a spiritual successor.
To which some of you may say, well the developers made Inside.
Which, yeah, was a great game, it just wasn't the same.
Limbo followed a young boy traveling through what many perceive as purgatory to find his
sister.
It's a puzzle game that requires you to survive various vicious threats, and by the
end of the game - spoilers - it's really questionable whether or not the protagonist
is reunited, or, as some theories suggest, if the two characters are even aware that
they're dead.
Luckily, turns out that Limbo's developers, Playdead, announced on Twitter that they had
another game in the works, despite the recent departure of one of the companies co-founders.
Rebecca: 2 Dino Crisis I love me a dinosaur!
Although I do not love me a crisis!
Dino Crisis was a fairly big franchise back in the days of PS2.
It's been about 15 years since we last saw a Dino Crisis game, and it's one of the
only popular game franchises on Capcom's roster that has yet to be remastered.
The series focuses on multiple characters surviving through outbreaks of deadly dinosaurs
and other monsters within various locations.
A little like Jurassic Park, but without the theme park.
A sequel may be in the works though!
Recently, on Twitter, Capcom teased the possibility of a sequel when a fan tweeted them inquiring
about it.
They responded with "If a lot of people wish" with a smiling emoji.
Whether this means a new game or just a remastered one is still unknown.
1 LA Noire Still topping our choice for number one game
that needs a sequel, L.A Noire was one of Rockstar's more inventive games that were
really onto something.
By today's standards, some of the game's groundbreaking features may be a tad rigid
or laughable, but at the time, the neo-noir detective action adventure made headlines
for being incredibly innovative.
It used Depth Analysis' newly developed technology MotionScan, which used 32 cameras
to capture an actor's facial expressions.
The game featured an interrogation mechanic where you'd have to solve crimes by interrogating
witnesses and suspects, all while traversing through 5 divisions of the LA PD in 1947.
The game was recently remastered, but rumors of a sequel have been kicking around since
2011.
In 2012, Rockstar Games answered a fan question stating that they are "considering what
the future may hold for LA Noire as a series", and added that they "don't always rush
to make sequels".
Lastly, in 2013, the chief operating officer of Take-Two Interactive hinted that there
were numerous unannounced titles in development and that the LA Noire franchise was important
to the company.
There we have it, friends!
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