I loved Panzer Dragoon: Orta; it was one of the few Xbox games that I really got into before my middle-teens. It's story was compelling, it was visually stunning (at the time), it was fun, challenging, and very strategic for an on-the-rails-game. I played it to the last boss (although I never beat it; I tried, and tried, with no progress. It's been years, so I'll probably try again soon), and only recently began wondering what's become of the franchise. Is the developer still around? Is the series not open to sequel or reboot?

I'd like to know what's become of it. Anyone know anything?

I wasn't even aware that it was a series, I only played the original game from 1995.

I just looked it up, and I couldn't find anything about a new Panzer Dragoon game, but Sega still owns it, so I suppose it's possible that a new one will be made eventually.

Nothing seems to be in the works at the moment though.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8GJZbvsxxU is in development for Xbox 360's Kinect. It isn't a Panzer Dragoon game, but it was inspired by the series and is headed by Panzer Dragoon's Yukio Futatsugi.

Probably not what you were hoping for, but it's the next best thing. Kinda...

I don't even like the xbox platform, and I loved panzer dragoon. Hell I own a copy of the game just in case, sadly no xbox to use it. It wasn't too hard, personally I found some of the side missions and unlockable missions way harder.

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I was just thinking about this yesterday too. Such an amazing series, but alas no more. Just doesn't sell very well.

Goddammit...I look at how amazing of a game Orta was, both graphically, artistically, and in terms of gameplay and the rich, well written world that it takes place in, and cannot fathom how much it svcks that something from its continuity won't see a next-gen treatment. Project Draco sounds interesting, but something tells me that it won't even come close to being as awesome as the Panzer Dragoon series...

Why is it that awesome stuff dies, and the mundane, repetitive crap sells millions of copies? I mean, come on; if you had a choice between riding on the back of a badass dragon that fires laser beams out if its mouth over a vibrant, alien landscape, or shooting at Russians in a dull, brown and gray cookie-cutter "gritty", "realistic" battlefield, which would you choose? Which is logically more attractive gameplay? How the hell can a series that awesome just disappear?

Has the medium just become so commercialized that it's doomed to fall into the same paradigms as film and TV? I think the world may have forgotten what videogames are capable of as sit sits and waits for its yearly CoD, or whatever-the-hell else is drowning the market. If I can't turn on my console, or log onto my PC, or phone, or whatever the hell else people play games on, and bring down massive airships with energy beams from dragon-back, then videogames are no longer worth playing. /mini-rant.

(note: I'm not saying that Draco is automatically not going to be as good as PD just because it isn't PD, It actually seems like it's going to be its spiritual successor for this gen, although it'll probably lose a lot of it's magic in favor of Kinect motion-gimmick flashiness)

The Panzer Dragoon games are amazing, especially Panzer Dragoon Saga. Despite being one of the absolutely best series of games ever it just doesn't sell well perhaps in part due to it starting out on the Saturn which didn't sell well in North America.

Panzer Dragoon Saga is in my opinion easily the best game of its generation though and my favorite game after the Shenmue games.

Speaking of Shenmue... pretty much the same news though

http://www.destructoid.com/yu-suzuki-teases-shenmue-3-at-gdc-though-not-guaranteed-195502.phtml