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What is the best game or just a great game that never had a sequel.......

Uniracers.

Yeah, I know, I am a total Nintendo Fanboy, no need to let me know.

Shenmue II, because Yu Suzuki will never follow through.

Okay, so you want a real one?  Gotta be StarCraft.  People are still playing that game online and in tournaments 10 years later.  Second choice is Duck Hunt.  Its a tough call, which means I should try new stuff.

Circus Atari or Warlords

nightmare on elm street (NES).

Uniracers is a cool little game..Good topic too...Hmm let's see here...  Tough question though.  Only games I can think of are:

Diddy Kong Racing
Mickey Mania

:D

Crazy Taxi.

OatBob, I wouldn't expect Blizz to make anything but MMORPGs from here on out.  They found out that MMORPGs print money.

As a matter of fact...I'm selling Crazy Taxi 2 on eBay as I type this! :D ;)

Another game that needs a TRUE sequel is Yoshi's Island...Yoshi's story is quite a bit different from YI...And not really near as good.  It's good, but YI is pretty much perfect.

Yeah, I know there was a Crazy Taxi 2, but the series seems to have died.  I would so buy it if there was a Wii Crazy Taxi.

What about Crazy Taxi 3? I got it for PC :P
Nights into dreams....
And it better stay that way, that game was magical and if Sonic Team piss on my memories with a Next Gen sequel I'll spit in their face.

Same goes for Burning Rangers. The Saturn is where those games rocked, and should stay.
Yep, I'm a Saturn Otaku.

Planescape Torment never had a sequel, but it should get one.

A sequel to Jade Empire might be good too, but I'm not entirely sure.

Uniracers is indeed bad ass. I bought that game when it first came out, and played the hell out of it up until the N64 came out.

There are so many awesome games the never spawned sequals. Right off the top of my head...
General Chaos (Genesis)
Stunt Race FX (SNES)
UN Squadron (SNES/Arcade)
Rock N' Roll Racing (SNES/Genesis/GBA)
Captain Commando (SNES/Arcade/XBox/PS2/PSP)
Chakan: The Forever Man (Genesis/Game Gear)
...and the list goes on.

One of my favorite games that never spawned a sequal was Black Tiger by Capcom released back in '87. It was only released in the arcades, and never got ported to the NES. I was lucky enough to have access to a Black Tiger cabinet growing up, as there was one in the arcade at my mom's work place. It looks and plays alot like Castlevania, but the added twist of being able to buy weapon upgrades, and health from shops made it pretty sweet. Why this game never got ported back in the day, yet games like Section Z, and Trojan were, still boggles my mind. It finally got ported to the Xbox, PS2, and PSP last year, as part of the Capcom Classics Collection.

I believe there is sequel being made to Jade Empire...

personally i think all these game were utter shit, the problem with sequels they aren't always as good as the first ones like Project Gotham Racing 3 is wank yet Street Fighter 2......

It might not just be sequels that didn't get made but ones that didn't get translated like i wanted Bust a Groove 2 but its only in Japan

Heheh...  to each their own. :P

I thought Rock n' Roll racing, Stunt Race FX, and General Chaos were fun with two players.
Chakan is an aquired taste. The game is hella evil, and the music is pretty weird, still with some tweaks, I think it could have evolved into a pretty sweet franchise.

On the topic of imports, I really wish that alot more of the "Kunio-kun" series would have made it across seas. All we got were Renegade, River City Ransom, Super Dodge Ball, Crash 'n the Boys: Street Challenge and Nintendo World Cup, and later that crappy Super Dodge Ball revision, and River City Ransom DX on the GBA.

Secret of Mana 2 should have made it over here as well. :/

Soldiers of Fortune (The Chaos Engine)
Illusion of Gaia
Alien Front Online
Diddy Kong Racing
Jet Force Gemini

Diddy for the DS will probably be as close as that one gets, that is if it's ever released.

What about Yoshi's Island DS? It's much in the vein of the original, but it's a bit more difficult IMO.

I'll also second Nights for the Saturn.

I think there's a "Special Edition" coming out on the PC version, but I wouldn't call that a sequel.  I agree that it needs one, though.

KOTOR 2 needs one more game.

Master of Monsters on the Sega Genesis was awesome! Never got a sequel.

I'm still waiting for a next gen version of Road Rash as well.

Isn't a sequel to StarCraft in the works?

As for my choice, first thing that came to mind was Armada for DC...that game was awesome, too bad the sequel was cancelled :(

crystalis for the NES (the GBC remake was terrible)

Never heard of it.  Never seen it.  But aparently it does exist.  I thought the series died on the DC.  (I know that other systems had Crazy Taxi 2, but it was just a port of the DC version.) 

I'm much more of a PC gamer than a console gamer, but that is one game that I think is much better on a console.  Big screen, big speakers, big fun. 

There still needs to be a new Crazy Taxi for Wii. 

I wouldn't mind another Arx Fatalis. Although I guess the whole underground world thing kinda limits you.

Starcraft definitely.

Yeah, it's called World of Starcraft :laugh:

I thought YI DS was basically a direct port of the SNES version?

Nope, it's an entirely new game. :)

Loved Crystalis! Yeah...bring it to next gen!

id say DS

Rock 'N' Roll Racing actually did get a sequel, and that's what killed it.
Amazing it's not in the bottom 25 actually, if you wanna hunt it down it's a PS1 game. A case where a great 2D game got forced to go 3D prematurely like many others at a time when 3D technology was too new and utterly crap so died. Bubsy and Earthworm Jim are other great titles that suffered this fate like many did.

I also remember Chakan being a future title planned for the DC along with Streets of Rage for the Dreamcast, had the system not seen a early death. Beta's of Streets of Rage 4 on DC can bee viewed on YouTube.

Well if you want to play Crazy Taxi 3 on a console you could always get the Xbox version.

I would love to see a Bonanza Brothers Sequel!  :nod:

Yeah, at E3 2003 and 2004 Blizzard showed a trailer for StarCraft Ghost, a fps where you play as a Ghost, or a stealth/spy character.  Unfortunately, nothing has been said since then.  I also remember hearing about a StarCraft 2 back in the day with a new water race, but that might have just been a rumor.

Anyways, here's the wikipedia article on StarCraft Ghost:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starcraft:_Ghost

I personally think the world would end if a World of StarCraft MMORPG ever surfaced. 

And a PA strip
http://www.penny-arcade.com/images/2006/20060616.jpg

WOW...If only I could afford a DS!

Even if you could you still have to find one!!!! I don't know about where you live, but they are impossible to find in the St. Louis Area.

Chrono Trigger

Psychonauts
Grim Fandango
Uniracers
Thrasher: Skate and Destroy

same in the cincinatti/goshen area.

There's a PAL sequel; Terranigma :)

It's a trilogy: Soul Blazer, Illusion of Time/Gaia and Terranigma

Chrono Cross for the PS1  ;)

Doesn't count.

Terranigma is IMO the best SNES RPG, so if you like Illusion of Gaia, give its sequel a try. Chrono Cross is supposedly a very good game so I don't see why Leon doesn't acknowledge its existance. Yoshi's Island DS is just like the original except maybe a bit more puzzle oriented, which IMO is good.

For me however, I would kill to have a sequel to Skies of Arcadia. I know the entire world has been explored and there is virtually no way to create a sequel but damnit I want one.

Also, a few others I will throw out there... A sequel to Kid Icarus of Myths and Monsters(so essentially a third Kid Icarus), Jet Force Gemini, Beyond Good and Evil (that game left with a cliff hanger, too bad the sales of the game will never enable a sequel), another Game and Watch Gallery for the DS which I'm amazed hasn't happened yet, Donkey Kong Country 4, Uniracers though it would be wierd going back to only 2 racers at a time and also 3d wouldn't work.

Well that's about it. Good topic by the way. And to answer the topic title I would have to say Skies of Arcadia.

Thanks, I thought this would be a good discussion when I posted it, but couldn't think of one myself.
But now that I have thought about it. I would like to see another God of War, and Castlequest ( Nes).

God of War 2 was announced a while ago and is supposed to come out in February, but who knows when it will actually come out. I only hope that the game has a more complex battle system along the lines of Devil May Cry 3's.

A quick look at my collection and I can't see many recent games that haven't had a sequel. And if they haven't had one, they've got one on the way.
FORZA Motorsport - sequel due in March.
Manhunt - not really worth a sequel.
Dead Rising - not sure how they would make a sequel but it could easily do with some little tweaks to the gameplay.

Moving to my PC collection, there are a few which aren't sequels.
Grim Fandango - not played it yet but supposedly very good.
The Movies - Crikey! It's still sealed. That's not much good.
Monkey Island - defiinitely needs a sequel in the style of The Curse Of.

I agree. I would KILL for a direct sequel to Chrono Trigger (DS please!).

Don't worry Leon does count. ;)

You bet me to it :)

I would like to see a sequel of Haunting off the genesis. I love that game! plus the way it ended left you hanging.

If your PC can run it you should pick up a copy of Ghost Master.  The premise is the same as the Haunting, but you need to achieve different objectives than just scaring residents, and it has recruiting and experience building for all your ghosts.  The game was released a few years ago and reminded me of the Haunting almost immediatly.

I'm still waiting for a sequel to Shadowrun.  I heard that a MMORPG was in the works for it, but I'm a hermit so online games are off the radar.  I would be very content with even a remake of the genesis version.  Maybe it is just me but the Shadowrun games were my favorites during the 16-bit era.  I would also like to see a sequel to Fallout that does the series justice.  All the Fallout 3 talk quickly faded, and I'm just waiting to here some news.

Haunting was a really cool game, and was the reason why I got Ghost Master for the PC as from the back it looked like Haunting meets the sims.

A sequel of that would be awsome.
Thrasher is one of the best skateboarding games ever made.
...and the music is so cool.

You know what's so weird, one of the games that I listed as me wanting a sequel was Diddy Kong Racing.  Well, I just got my NUON in the mail recently with a game called "Merlin Racing" and it is VERY similar to Diddy Kong Racing.  Really fun game.  It came out in about 2000...The NUON only had like 7 official release or so.  Tempest 3000 is SICK too...

For the record, Chrono Trigger has no sequel. Chrono -----, which will forever be known only as Chrono -----, or if spoken Chrono <BLEEP>, is not a sequel. Akira Toriyama would roll over in his grave if he saw that abomination.

But Akira Toriyama is still alive and kicking?

I agree with your comment though.

I'm going to say Nights into Dreams, although that's one of the things that makes it so special. My brother said Goldeneye 007. Oh and of course Super Street Fighter II Turbo.

I started thinking and another game that deserves a sequel in Gladius. I love this game.

A few I enjoyed and wished a sequal had been released for.  That or wished they'd released the sequal for in the states.
Arcana
Great Greed
the Legend of Dragoon
Operation Logic Bomb
Shadow Madness
Persona 2 (the half we didnt get)
Sky Shark
Zanac
the Guardian Legend
Hoshigami
Thousand Arms

There are more but that's off the top of my head.

good call! it's one of the underrated turn based strategy games out there...and it's actually a LucasArts game, too. definitely needs a next-gen iteration.

and on that note, Wrath: Unleashed could use a sequel too. it was definitely a flawed game, but with some good initial mechanics. It reminded me of Master of Monsters for the Genesis, but not as polished.

another one is Marvel Nemesis: Rise of the Imperfects. some good mechanics and ideas, but overall a disappointing game with balance issues. give it an overhall, fix the problems (add 4P simultaneous offline, too, a la Def Jam), and part 2 could definitely succeed.

What happened to LucasArts? The last I heard of them was Escape from Monkey Island.

Edit: Oh yeah, all the Star Wars games. That's a little boring.

They've been focusing on the PC with their MMO lately. No word on any console releases... :(

Hasn't there been about 200 SF games made since SF II Turbo?

I know, I was joking. That was the SF game with the silliest title. I actually just said the name randomly and later found out that it was indeed a real game. I"m glad someone finally noticed.

Oh Ok glad I helped you out. ;)

Although now that I think about it, there hasn't ever been a Super Street Fighter II Turbo II.

Street Fighter 3? Why wouldn't that count it goes 1, 2, 3, 4, I could go on. :P

what about
Snatcher
Super Mario world (i like 2d)
Bionic Commando
and loads of others i cant think of

Yoshi's Island is actually Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island. But everyone is disregarding sequels if they don't meet with their approval so i'll do the same. :P

Yeah I'd love to see a real SMW2

I agree with starcraft.  duck hunt is possible for wii.

Zanac was a great game.  God only knows how many hours I spent on that game.

That's actually wrong. Yoshi's Island is not Super Mario World 2. It was always meant to be a new series in Japan, however Nintendo of America feared it would not sell well so they slapped the Super Mario World 2 label on the game in order to make it sell better than it otherwise would have.

hmmm. i'm going with
Skitchin'
Cubivore
Skies of arcadia
ikaruga
Rogue trip: vacation 2012
NiGHTs
Gitaroo man

i think thats it heh

I'll go ahead and say it....
There needs to be a Pilot Wings for Wii. 

I think I played that game for two days straight (Christmas and the day after) the year the N64 came out.

Skitchin!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I am late to this thread but it has to be Transport Tycoon Deluxe for the PC.  This game came out in 1996 and still rocks hardcore.

I'm a huge Snatcher fan! Although it was never released in English, Policenauts is described as many as the sequel to Snatcher.

That's why I disregarded it as a sequel  ;)

thought of a few more:

Silent Bomber
Jade Empire
Mechwarrior
Bonk
Splatterhouse
Zombies ate my Neighbours

I thought Snatcher was the sequel to Policenauts.  I've not played either though I hear Konami upset alot of people when they cancled the north american release of it after getting some 70-80% of it finished.

Not as far as I can tell you (only know English so that's not much I can)
Still got a CVG magazine that has a screen shot of Policenauts for Saturn saying the sequel of Snatcher will be coming out soon. Plus Snatcher has been around since the 80s  ;D

Courtesy of Wiki, so scratch that as a sequel.

Here's some more I thought of...

Maniac Mansion NES
Demon's Crest SNES (Unless you consider this part of the Gargoyle's Quest series)
Kings Of The Beach NES
Zombies Ate My Neighbors SNES/Genesis
Fester's Quest NES

That is a great one!

Demon's Quest was in the Firebrand series which was not the same as Gargoyle's Quest. I'll be damned if I remember the name of the series though(actually, it may be Firebrand).