forgotten franchise revival

[gamemaster1991]

So Uncharted 4 will be a revival of a franchise because Uncharted 3 came out 4 years ago in 2011... 4-5 years is hardly a forgotten franchise.
Hell there's a 5 year gap between Mario Sunshine and Mario Galaxy. Hell Metroid Prime 3 came out in 2007 (and if you count Metroid Other M that's still 2010) and it would be mad to say Metroid is a forgotten franchise. A franchise that desperately needs a 2D entry again, but not forgotten.

So no, NiGHTS doesn't count. I mean the last NiGHTS game may have been forgettable, but I don't think that makes it a forgotten franchise.

I don't understand what you count as a forgotten franchise. I would count a game that either the public, the company, or both has forgoten about along ago. I could count Ristar as a forgotten franchise, but Sega has not forgotten about it (from the looks of SEGA All-stars Racing along with NiGHTS) and nither have the fans. I have a feeling that if Samus was not in Smash, Nintendo would forget about the Metriod francise, due to how much they don't like it. Most people would say that Half Life is a forgoten franchise but a lot of people remember it.

I really don't like to have people upset with me, So as a way of saying sorry and not to start off on the wrong foot, I'll rewrite my list of forgotten franchises I want to see more of:

Alter Echo
Bloody Roar
Doctor Lautrec
Malice
Okage
Sudeki
Under The Skin
Whacked!

I'm surprised that you pointed out NiGHTS and not Prince of Persia, since PoP is remembered more then NiGHTS is.

[felineki]

Everyone knows Street Fighter and Marvel. Not may know Darkstalkers. JoJo is weird enough to have a crazy following. I love DarkStalkers, hell like my love for the franchise is insane. But it's just not well known enough to claim it's own space in the world now, times have sadly changed.

If everyone knows Marvel, then the MvC1 rerelease should have sold well. But it didn't. So the excuse of "a rerelease of an old game didn't sell well, therefore a new one wouldn't sell either" doesn't hold up. Tatsunoko VS Capcom managed to sell well enough despite everything it had going against it, like being on the Wii, half of the roster being virtually unknown to anyone outside Japan, and even a big fraction of the Capcom side of the roster being very obscure picks. So I think the idea that if Capcom were to make a new fighter that wasn't Street Fighter or Marvel it somehow wouldn't sell is not that sound.

[Kriven]

I don't think these franchises need whole new games, but Frogger and Q*Bert could at least use some recognition in games like Super Smash Bros., even if they are just trophies. By "like Super Smash Bros.", I primarily mean any game that celebrates video gaming's rich history. Frogger, especially, should have had a place on the roster of TV DreamMix Fighters, seeing as he's a Konami character...

It would also be nice if BurgerTime, Paperboy, and Mappy got a little more recognition.

[E-Man]

Speaking of Mappy, did anyone watch that one animated series on YouTube starring the police mouse? The two guys who created it actually implemented a lot of good ideas that expanded upon Mappy's universe and added a good deal of depth to the characters from the game. If Namco is going to make a reboot of that game, I'll be thrilled if they used that for inspiration (especially since it is more or less officially affiliated with Namco itself).

[Kosheh]

But Mappy does get love. He was in Noby Noby Boy )':



You can eat Mappy and fart him out. And BOY (the pink thing) will state his name upon completing the process. :')

[Helmo]

A Glover revival that allows 2-Player co-op between the left and right hands.

I didn't like the direction the unfinished Glover 2 was going in. It was becoming less Glover and more Banjo-Kazooie. Also the story annoyed me a bit as it implied left-handedness was inherently evil.

Was this game funded by the Catholic church?

[SchAlternate]

Puzzle League hasn't exactly been forgotten, but it'd would be really nice if we got another game. You'd think that we'd already have a 3DS/Wii U edition by now, but nope.

It'd be wonderful if they got the original cast from Panel de Pon back as well (#lip4smash4).

[Koopaul]

A Glover revival that allows 2-Player co-op between the left and right hands.

I didn't like the direction the unfinished Glover 2 was going in. It was becoming less Glover and more Banjo-Kazooie. Also the story annoyed me a bit as it implied left-handedness was inherently evil.

Was this game funded by the Catholic church?

It was more just lazy excuse to have the left glove be the villain again. In the first game it was an accident that turned the left glove evil. He was cured by the end of the game. In Glover 2 the left glove turns himself evil on purpose (Why?) And plans to curse the entire world... by making everyone left-handed. Oh no! Not that! What an evil plot to turn everyone left-handed!

[Gwen]

Man, us lefties get a bad rap

[Gors]

lefties are bullied all the time, see evil connotations/appliances made for right-handed people/etc

What's interesting though is that apparently the percentage of lefties and righties are almost always in the same ratio, and the lefties who are forced to use the right hand either by own will or obligation will have a chance of developing ambidexterity

[Koopaul]

Yup had to learn the hard way to use the scissors.

[~Axis~]

A classic Sonic revival (before the dreamcast. Not another sonic 4 thing). Those games were just incredible to play over and over again, which the newer titles kind of lack.

[psychospacecow]

I don't have any particular game in mind, but here's how I'd do it. First, it'd have to have been released on a Nintendo console exclusively. Make the main character a smash bros character. Wait for interest to rise sufficiently. Announce game that has been worked on for ~1-3 years.

[Jermungandr]

Makes me wonder why we haven't seen a modern Ice Climbers game ...

[psychospacecow]

What would you do with it, is the real question.