What are some games that are practically dead or dead that make you really wonder why

*dead can also mean the games have turned to mostly garbage.

I miss fable the first two and half of the third where awesome.

I believe Call of Duty can fit in here. People keep on buying it though.

Half Life is a rather obvious and well known one, but the one I miss the most is Advent Rising. It was one of the greatest Sci-Fi games I have ever played and I would go so far as to say its better than Mass Effect to me. I really wish the developers would of stayed going at least long enough to make a sequel but sadly they didn't and if someone made a sequel in this day and age they would very likely ruin it. I mean just listen to its theme, so beautiful. It was good enough to make it into the London Philharmonic Orchestra's Greatest Video Games Music, but not good enough to warrant a sequel. I still shed tears for that game almost every day, truly a death of a great video game.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdQYmN1NnTI

Heh, that game is the one that came to my mind as soon I read the thread title.

There are also Shenmue, System Shock, Suikoden and Yakuza (at least outside of Japan).

hmm... dead series..

well, if we are talking about games that are literally not made anymore, Kings Quest

with Kings Quest, they stopped making them after Mask of Eternity.. Mask of Eternity was a great game, and if they had made a few more in the same style as MoE I would have bought them easily




If we are talking dead as in "series has been ruined, its dead to me", anything with Might & Magic in the Name

Might and Magic was by far the greatest series of Western RPGs and Turn-based-strategy games ever made.. the lore was extremely interesting and fascinating (to the point it make Elder Scrolls or Fallout lore look like a Chinese restaurant pamphlet) with the Ancients Seeding the Worlds, the Kreegans, the Elemental Plains, the Guardians, the Silencing etc..

they would often reference one another, such as M&M 6-8 clearly mentioning the Succession Wars from Heroes 2.. some of the best Classic RPG mechanics out there (makes peoples beloved Morrowind seem like what the call Skyrim "a watered down game and not a true RPG") made it feel as if you were palying a game of D&D, and the Heroes side of the franchise was one of the most addicting strategy games I have ever seen..

when it was owned by 3DO and New World Computing, it was one of the greatest PC series of that generation..

but then Ubisoft took over, they suddenly decided all the events of the previous games never happened, that the encyclopedia's worth of lore never existed.. they took one of the most interesting series and worlds, and turned it into just another generic fantasy setting..

these games Ubisoft call "Might & Magic" are less than shadows of what Might & Magic once truly was..



Sorry, about the rant.. I get really passionate when it comes to the M&M games from 3DO and NWC

Oh I love Advent Rising!

There are a lot of series that I find "dead", either it feels like they were released as an afterthought (Might and Magic X and Heroes of Might and magic, the newest releases were...bad), or we never heard from them again (Suikoden, Xenosaga)

Kings Quest as well!

hmm I donty know since all I really play is the sims mincraft skyrim and a whole lot of other stuff but I don't play call of duty im a girl but I play a little bit

Its good to know I'm not the only one that played Advent Rising. When it first came out it nearly bankrupt Majesco because it did so poor in sales. Sadly it was supposed to be a trilogy but we will never have another, truly a tragic ending to a series that never got a chance to be greater than the first game.....

Sonic the Hedgehog

Shining Force. :/, I loved this series.

[Insert Valve series here]

Descent and Descent Freespace.

Sonic the Hedgehog.

I don't particularly think series that aren't around anymore are necessarily dead. Take Duke. Even though it was over a decade between games, it really didn't need a new one. Duke 3d plays just as well today as it did, and it didn't beg for a sequel. Series that don't get a sequel are dead, but they aren't necessarily dead. More like finished.

On the other hand, I think Anachronox can be said to be dead. It's obscure, it's never going to receive a sequel, and from a narrative perspective, it required a sequel. The story isn't finished, at all. So I look at it as series that are dead prematurely. Another thing to look at is series that have a final entrant that puts them in an early grave, a failure of a sequel.

From the first category, I think a few games that might have strongly benefited from a sequel that they'll never receive are the aforementioned Anachronox, Lionheart, Arcanum, that sort of thing. The obvious example for the latter category would be Ultima. Ultima IX killed that and pissed on its corpse. Tomb Raider and Thief are there, but they're weird. Both of the last games are pretty damn good, but they differ so radically from the previous entrants into the series that they might be considered different IPs, even though they share a title.

I don't know. "Dead" is so broad that I have no idea how to define it, and games have a bad habit of zombifying and coming back to life.

Supreme Commander and Homeworld comes to mind, though with the Homeworld games getting a facelift there is hope that the series could be revived.

Turok. Cause of Death: QTE.

Command and Conquer and Unreal

The Godfather games and Dungeon Keeper

Yes... And Halo going down the same road. (At least Bungie attempted to stop the Halo games with Reach, which would've let the game series end with a bang... But Micro$oft had other ideas).