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Post by edmonddantes on Jul 8, 2017 3:44:06 GMT -5
Getting a little oldschool and obscure here, but...
Okay as a kid I had read in magazines about a Sega CD game called Mansion of Hidden Souls. Last year, I remembered that game and, being an adult with his own money and a Sega CD now, I decided to look it up...
.... only to be shocked and amazed that in addition to the original Sega CD game, there's a Saturn sequel (though confusingly its also just called Mansion of Hidden Souls, even though it IS a sequel following on from the first game's events). Not much but its a legacy for a game I never knew even had one.
Likewise I was a little surprised to learn that obscure horror classic D got both a sequel and a spiritual spinoff, Enemy Zero.
One that didn't strike me as unlikely at the time (because I was young) but which in retrsopect is... well, two of them, actually: Ducktales 2 and Rescue Rangers 2 on the NES, both produced like 3 years after the first game in either series, coming out when the NES was on the way out the door, and based on cartoon licenses that were basically old hat by this point. Of course, by extension I have to mention the Ducktales Remastered thing that came out a decade later, which the Happy Video Game Nerd accurately summed up how weird that was that it was the licensed spinoff getting brought back and not the original cartoon (that wound up happening almost a decade later).
I'm sure I could think of more if I didn't have a headache right now.
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Post by kaoru on Jul 8, 2017 5:23:33 GMT -5
Okay as a kid I had read in magazines about a Sega CD game called Mansion of Hidden Souls. Last year, I remembered that game and, being an adult with his own money and a Sega CD now, I decided to look it up... .... only to be shocked and amazed that in addition to the original Sega CD game, there's a Saturn sequel (though confusingly its also just called Mansion of Hidden Souls, even though it IS a sequel following on from the first game's events). Not much but its a legacy for a game I never knew even had one. I played those! They are pretty shitty FMV adventure games. And the weird same-title snafu only applies to the US release, both Japan and Europe got different names for the games.
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Post by edmonddantes on Jul 16, 2017 10:13:52 GMT -5
I just got a (working) copy of the first Mansion of Hidden Souls and honestly... I kinda like it.
I mean, its short and easy (I beat it in like two hours on my first go) but I have a soft spot for this kind of horror game. I kinda wonder how there's even a sequel to it tho as the first game's story seems pretty cut and dried.
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Post by kingmike on Jul 16, 2017 11:54:11 GMT -5
One that didn't strike me as unlikely at the time (because I was young) but which in retrsopect is... well, two of them, actually: Ducktales 2 and Rescue Rangers 2 on the NES, both produced like 3 years after the first game in either series, coming out when the NES was on the way out the door, and based on cartoon licenses that were basically old hat by this point. You forget you're talking about the company that made SIX Mega Man games in seven years on that same console? And DuckTales is timeless, man! Like I recall even at the end of the decade, one local channel was still broadcasting reruns (though that was about the end of the era of cartoons on broadcast TV, suddenly EVERYONE needed their hours-long news shows in the morning because polluting the airwaves with nothing but garbage "talk shows" and court shows for the rest of the day). It's like they EXPECTED you to have cable if you want to watch non-trash TV.
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Post by edmonddantes on Jul 17, 2017 7:51:01 GMT -5
The thing is Mega Man is Capcom's own creation, Rescue Rangers and Ducktales were licenses.
Ducktales is indeed timeless tho. The mere fact that its based on comics from the 1940s proves that.
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Post by Bumpyroad on Jul 24, 2017 5:27:26 GMT -5
I certainly wasn't expecting Jets & Guns 2 to come out anytime soon;
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Post by dsparil on Jul 25, 2017 8:05:42 GMT -5
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Post by edmonddantes on Jul 25, 2017 23:38:53 GMT -5
I'm starting to wonder if Heretic II counts.
I mean okay, Hexen was already the sequel to Heretic, and then there was Hexen II. So it seems at this point that Hexen was the official name of the franchise into perpetuity.... and then they make a Heretic II. That would be like if Namco named the next Soul Calibur game "Soul Edge 2."
Though it kinda makes sense, since Heretic II is more of a spinoff and didn't involve the Serpent Riders, instead following what happened to the hero of the original Heretic after the events of the original game. And it also isn't an FPS (though unlike some reviewers, I actually kinda liked it).
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Post by dsparil on Jul 26, 2017 4:47:09 GMT -5
Heretic and Hexen are different structurally, levels vs. hubs, so it's more like how Shin Megami Tensei and Persona are both Megaten series and the title is supposed to signal the type of gameplay. Of course this is messed up outside of Japan where everthing is labeled SMT.
I forgot that Heretic II has levels at first but then switches to hubs. Maybe it's supposed to be a bait and switch for people like me that weren't enamored with the late 90s trend of hub-based FPS world design.
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Post by JoeQ on Aug 10, 2017 5:20:27 GMT -5
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Post by acidonia on Aug 10, 2017 17:13:52 GMT -5
Soldam got a Switch Sequel/ Remake that was out of nowhere too. Even weirder is in US it getting a boxed store Physical version yet alot of games by big publishers that are more well known never do. Magical Drop V came out of nowhere the developer golgoth studio said next to nothing about it before launch yet the credits talk about the Toki remake coming soon by them which to this day is still not out and Magical Drop V is the only game that developer published. To add more unlikely sequel to it its features the play Style of the never released but fully completed Data East game Ghostlop.
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Post by nerdybat on Sept 4, 2017 16:30:35 GMT -5
Spec Ops: The Line. A very subversive and polarizing shooter about madness and horrors of war that flopped commercially yet became a huge cult classic... which was a follow-up to a series of mediocre Rainbow Six clones made for a budget publisher. Considering the idea developers had in mind with this game (to lure the player into thinking he's playing another military action game with fun and guns, and then drop the reality bomb on him), I wonder if it was a part of the plan to mask the game as generic shooter by attaching it to the series of generic shooters. If not, it's downright bizarre to revive the franchise nobody asked for, only to go for the whole "Heart of Darkness" theme. If yes (which is the most likely answer), it's pretty damn brilliant.
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Post by GamerL on Sept 4, 2017 17:32:07 GMT -5
Spec Ops: The Line. A very subversive and polarizing shooter about madness and horrors of war that flopped commercially yet became a huge cult classic... which was a follow-up to a series of mediocre Rainbow Six clones made for a budget publisher. Considering the idea developers had in mind with this game (to lure the player into thinking he's playing another military action game with fun and guns, and then drop the reality bomb on him), I wonder if it was a part of the plan to mask the game as generic shooter by attaching it to the series of generic shooters. If not, it's downright bizarre to revive the franchise nobody asked for, only to go for the whole "Heart of Darkness" theme. If yes (which is the most likely answer), it's pretty damn brilliant. I think you might be right, I too remember thinking it was odd that Spec Ops would get revived. I think it would be hilarious if someone revived the Army Men series, another disreputable budget series from the PS1 era, as a parody of The Line, with a gritty Heart of Darkness storyline but with little toy soldier dudes fighting in someone's house. To makes matters interesting, although I have no idea if they still do, at one time 2K, the publisher of Spec Ops: The Line, did in fact own the IP to Army Men after 3DO went kaput.
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Post by Magma MK-II on Sept 6, 2017 12:45:45 GMT -5
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Post by Allie on Sept 6, 2017 15:24:25 GMT -5
Legend of Kage 2.
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