10 Cancelled Game Series We STILL THINK ABOUT 

Sleeping Dogs was one of the best games of that generation. The DLC stuff they gave us was a lot of fun too. Such a great game in so many ways. The story and ending really got me. Good writing and acting goes a long way.

Mercenaries really set the bar for me for a sandbox shooter that let you destroy everything. Still one of my favorite games from when i was a kid.

I miss Jak and Daxter. That was my beginning to adventure games. And Jak 2 blew my mind when they just completely shifted the entire series while still keeping the core characters and personalities and eco while completely shifting the setting. Man they left us on such a huuuuge cliff hanger with Jak 3 too.

Sleeping Dogs is probably my favorite game of all time and I’m constantly saddened by the fact that we’re never getting another. There is a very specific vibe to the asian crime drama and the game captured it perfectly in its movement, driving, fighting, storyline etc. While also actually being insanely high-quality on all these fronts.

It's the prince of persia series that I miss the most. The original trilogy had its own fanbase but ubisoft ruined it with prince of persia forgotten sands and then epilogue. Now they tried to remake sands of time and ended up failing miserably. Hope they learn from capcom and do justice to the OG prince of persia fans by remaking all the trilogy.

A Sleeping Dogs sequel or spiritual successor (i.e. in a different location with different characters but similar mechanics) would be amazing. I had so much fun playing that game recently (first time player here).

One series I miss is Killzone. There's something about the setting and lore that really sets it apart from any regular FPS for me. Sure it's not the best in a technical (Although KZ2 was an incredible step up from the first one) I really enjoyed the single player campaigns and even the multiplayer, I’d not have enough friends to fill an entire lobby, but they named the bots after members of the dev team, making the lobbies feel a lot more full and personal than mere cold numbers.

Prototype was an awesome game. I loved that game. I played it so much more than most games of that time and more than Infamous which came out around the same time. I wish they’d come out with another game closer to the first game over the second. I think the first game was way better than the second game though some of the power in the second were definitely better than the first game

God I miss mercenaries... I played Playground of Destruction for years, even after the second one was released. True crimes was also a great series....

Socom, Parasite eve, Dino Crisis, Powerstone, Motorstorm, Warhawk, Resistance, Timesplitters, and Tenchu come to mind when thinking of games that need modern sequels or even remakes in some cases.

I loved theSly Cooper games when I was grown up. I hope they make a new one where it can wrap up everything in a nice little bow. Or, if they want to keep going with it, have the ending to the next game where it shows Sly and Carmelita have a kid that has to choose which side of the law they want to be on, while still having the same stealth mechanics that the series is known for.

I really love Soul Reaver, I still play it on my PS1 and Vita to this day. Unfortunately, the series was fraught with production setbacks that have left the series feeling incomplete and a little underwhelming. It would be great to see a remake of the series, created as Amy Henning originally envisioned it

The impact of Mirror's Edge CANNOT be overstated even though the IP itself died. Every FPS to this day still use its motion mechanics. Amazing game and sequel.

Sleeping Dogs definitely doesn't get enough love - I don't even remember how I came across it, but I loved playing it. SimCity was just embarrassing, but also set a tone. It's like they didn't even stress-test the servers that they were forcing players (for no good reason) to be a part of.

Sleeping Dogs was such a great game! The story was interesting, the gameplay was fun, the open world and atmosphere was nice, and all the little things you could do on the side were really entertaining.

If you love the old Sim City and havent played Cities: Skylines you definitely should. Very indepth and detailed but so easy to sink a ton of time in it and never get bored. Plus there is a new one coming out in October

I miss Army of Two. The customizability of the guns was amazing, the masks were incredible and when they added the function of customizing your own made it even better, and the story of each game was actually really good for what entry in the series it was. The main issues were the non co-op multiplayer being severely underserved, and the player characters in the third were supposed to be empty slates for a more rpg style game which could've worked had they not put so much pre-established personality into them and allowed your actions to dictate their behavior like in AoT: The 40th Day.

I'm replaying Sleeping Dogs right now and it's so good. I would love a sequel

True Crime New York City was my first game, I still remember it super fondly even though I was way to young to be playing it. I had no idea sleeping dogs was the finale form. I knew I loved that game for a reason. Sly Cooper is also a game I will forever wait for.

Props for the Ultima callout. Loved that series and still miss it 😢

Mercenaries had such a great progression mechanic that I think other open world games (cough cough Just Cause) could benefit from

I love Legacy of Kain and to see someone else say they miss it is not just awesome, but a hell of a surprise given how rarely I see mentioned anywhere. It's a series that every year I so wish they would bring back. Also I'd love to see another Dark Cloud, the first two were just so cool and so different from each other.

I would absolutely love a sequel to Bulletstorm. I’m imagining it as something closer to Doom Eternal and Shadow Warriors 3 with the absolute fantastic cartoony humour from the original.

I haven't watched a Gameranx video in a few years, and the fact that FALCON is still here makes me smile.

I would've included The Resistance series. I liked all 3 of those games, wish they would make a 4th installment.

Sleeping dogs really deserves a (continuation) loved that game, spent alot of time playing that

Soul Reaver was so far ahead of its time, the ability to morph the world between the two realms was something virtually unheard of at the time, the graphics were stunning for its time, I'd even go as far as to say it might have had the best graphics of any game when it came out. It also has one of the most legendary OSTs, the boss fights were fun and engaging, the story was brilliant, like you said it did start to get a little confusing with the whole time warp thing, but overall was still a great story. But I think if you had a studio that was passionate for the game, and not just focused on money, I think they could make a legendary reboot. And if they pushed it to the limits of today's graphics like they did back then, I think a soul reaver reboot could be one of the most visually impressive games ever made to this point. This game is probably my most wanted reboot. I just hope if they ever do, they don't have someone like EA or Activision behind it.

I have to go with Command and Conquer Generals, specifically. That game was amazing once the Zero Hour expansion came out. My friends and I played every week, and my brother and I had to share a PC after school to play online. Loved the modern military take. Miss it.

Man I miss the Jak & Daxter series, and would love a new entry. Jak & Daxter 1-3 were just so much fun, and each one changed things up just enough to keep them interesting. Jak X took advantage of the racing genre boom but was still a decent game. I would go back to the Jak & Daxter 1-3 formula for a new one but would anything using the IP really.

Timesplitters and maybe SSX would be on my list, two of my most beloved series on the PS2 era.

I'll never get over how much I appreciate Falcons natural speaking voice in his videos. Almost getting used to the fake anchorman way of speaking for gaming news/content. He feels like an actual friend talking about games

Soul Reaver was such a great game. Played it multiple times on the Dreamcast. Best version of the game, beats the PC version of the time. The last game kinda got a ending with Kain going to fight on. But really want too see the story continues

Legacy of Kain MUST be either remade or continued... one of the best narrative based games ever; with fantastic voice acting, music, story and game play!

Mercenaries was such an incredible game. One of my most played when I was a kid, you really were able to do so much cool stuff and had so much freedom exploring and going about the missions. Awesome game!

Jetset radio is one of my loves, that and shenmue were why I loved the dreamcast

Holy cow, you put Legacy of Kain on the list. Mad respect!

I’m so happy to see Sly Cooper on a list like this, one of the best platforming games of all time with a great unique selling point from the stealth aspect, so much potential for a new game after the success of Ratchet and Clank on the ps5

The Legacy of Kain/Soul Reaver series certainly lives rent free in my head, the story and writing are on its own level of greatness, I'll always wait for a comeback of the series

Blood Omen 2 actually began its life as a weird sequel/reboot of an old Genesis game called Chakan: The Forever Man on the Sega Dreamcast. When Chakan got canceled, they salvaged and repurposed almost ALL the assets from it (costumes, city/level design, the enemy designs), painted Legacy of Kain vampires over it, and threw together a plot after the fact (hence the weird Sarafan alien nonsense and why the whole game takes place in a gothic steampunk city). If you look hard enough, you can still find the old Chakan concept art where he's literally wearing Kain's exact costume with a simple head swap. So if you're wondering why Blood Omen 2 always felt a bit off from the rest of the series, that's because it was never meant to be Blood Omen 2 in the first place. I still liked it though lol

Kind of surprised Tenchu didn't make this list, since the first one was a stone-cold PS1 classic, and a new entry got shelved recently in favor of what became Sekiro.

Freedom Fighters would have been a good addition to this list. Have always hoped for a reboot. Innovative game mechanics and concepts.

Sleeping Dogs is a great game! It doesn't have the best graphics or polish, but there is a lot of attention to detail and a captivating atmosphere. It's a good example of how devs can make a good game without trying to make it the biggest open world or have the most realistic graphics. The gameplay really held it together and the game is very well paced. You really enjoy the combat and you don't have to go through too much to get to the fun parts.

Mercenaries PGOD was and still is one of my favorite games, I found my copy just a few weeks ago. I certainly went and beat it again.... twice. True Crime was great to! And Prototype? Oh man I have them both on my PS4 and still play them. Thank you for bringing attention back to these games!

I still boot up my 360 sometimes to play Mercs 2. Absolutely love that game, definitely one of my all time favourites.

Sleeping Dogs & Prototype were so underrated and beloved during my childhood years. . Never heard of them before.. but there were always present as pirated copies at majority of the Internet Cafes in my country

I really wanted more entries in the Infamous series. Their morality system was really fun and getting the different powers was really cool!

Holy s***! It was awesome seeing Ultima mentioned anywhere!! I remember trying for days trying to get Ultima VII The Black Gate and Serpent Isle to run properly on my IBM 486 (kids today don't understand....) only to get lost for years in Britiania. True classic.

Soul Reaver 2 was one of my all-time favorite games! The number of times I got stuck in the Dark Forge... ah memories.

Socom for sure! I also would LOVE a sequel to LA Noire. I know it's not a series, but I can't stop thinking how cool it would be if Rockstar made a sequel. It could be named LV Noire - set in the 60s or 70s. I'd love to see them recreate old Las Vegas in the same detail they did with LA.

Legacy of Kain Is a Underrated game wish they made more Had one of the best stories ever in a story driven focused video game!

I loved playing Mercenaries 2 even though it felt very short. For a come back they would have to find and angle otherwise it would just be a Just Cause clone. Loved True Crime as well and would be nice to have it back in this era. Also played Última Online, which was in fact very complex.

14:55 I like what you did here with the tombstones. So sad to see so many of my such loved studios ruined by EA. Bullfrog (A.k.a. Lionhead) for the Theme series and Fable series. Maxis for the Sim series. Westwood for probably my most favourite series of games ever Command & Conquer. So so sad. 😢😢😢

Jak and Daxter, the original three games are still some of my all time favourites

I was really waiting for sleeping dogs 2

Police Quest: SWAT 2 is still another favourite of mine. Started my love for Isometric squad based tactics games... and my love for permadeath LOL.

The best thing about mercenaries 2 was the jingle for tv ads they ran. I still sometimes will go ‘oh no you didn’t…’ while gaming with others and pretty much everyone knows that ad…

I'm so happy to see Sly Cooper make this list! Sly Cooper definitely needs to come back in some way!!

Would love to see the Syphon Filter franchise get a remake.

I’ve been lookin for da game final fight for decades thank u

The most impressive thing about Jet Set Radio and JSR: Future is how well the graphics hold up in 2023. Sure, you cannot compare the graphics to, say, COD but the cell-shaded artistry of JSR still looks amazing, and I wish more games would utilise that graphic style.

The legacy of kain series is fantastic and I wish they would release another one or even just remake the series, such a fantastic story overall

I will NEVER EVER forget Jet Set Radio. I played Jet Set Radio Future when I was a teen and it’s now so nostalgic to me. The graphics, the music, the story, the gameplay….all so memorable. I wish they would come out with a new age version of it. I would buy it in a heartbeat. What an incredible game. I still watch it’s gameplay by Scope here on RU-vid 😢

My older brother had jet set radio I couldn't remember the name to that game until I watched this video. I been trying to remember for years! Definitely gonna get a copy of it real soon!

Nosgoth was a great asymmetrical pvp game, yes it wasn't a RPG Legacy of Kaine game, but was super fun if you just wanted to play as a vampire vs hunter type game.

For me i still think about Sunset Overdrive to this day Such a phenomenal but underrated game I doubt the sequel is ever coming out but it deserves another entry for sure

I never played the SimCity games but City Skylines from what I can tell is definitely a proper predecessor of that genre and definitely worth a look into if you haven’t heard of it.

Great list bro

Psi Ops 2 was a game I obsessively checked for any update on potentially being revived for years. I LOVED the first and it quite literally ended on “to be continued”. Damn Midway.

Back in the day Legacy of Kain was my favorite game series! It's crazy how so many people missed out on those games, mainly the original Sou Reaver

Legacy of Kain, totally miss that series. The Soul Reaver games had some of the most well written dialogue in a video game. Gameplay I'm sure doesn't hold up well, but I'd love to see a new game from that series.

I really miss the No One Lives Forever series, it was so much fun to play and had some really good characters and story. The female lead was such a badass character which was really unusual for an FPS at the time. Unfortunately there are some serious issues regarding the licensing for the NOLF franchise (game was developed by Sierra and published by Fox Interactive, both defunct and technically incorporated by Activision). Some fans actually tried to purchase the rights from Activision but they claim that they don't own the rights for those games and they also don't know which company in fact does own the rights, it's a really bizarre story. But that means these games will probably never be remade or get a sequel, which is a big shame.

I played Soul Reaver over 50x times from start to finish. That was one of the most deep and compelling stories ever for a video game. I've always wished there was a prequel to it that showed Raziel in his human form as a Vampire Hunting Priest.

Man the sly cooper entry hits hard:( absolutely love all those games. Still remember buying the 3rd one on release day, and getting the 3d glasses for it. Would love for sucker punch to revisit the series

I remember playing Legacy of kain: defiance as a young teen, it was painstaking and frustrating as hell, but it was one of the best experiences I’ve had, I think that game was the last game I could truly immerse myself in, so when I got a PC copy of it years later it was just as frustrating as I remember, it didn’t really age well but I still find myself replying it to this day

True Crime NYC and Mercenaries 1 are 2 of my fave early teen games i had, maybe with MGS 2+3

I need more Infamous, Kung-fu Chaos, and Power Stone. I'm really happy that Prototype was on this list. It's honestly all I could think about while watching the new Spiderman 2 trailer, because of the symbiote suit's powers.

I don't know if anyone else still thinks about it but I still think about the Deus Ex series, I was really interested to see where the story was going to go. Plus I loved how they updated the sequal to be more flexible in terms of choices.

Also another game that sadly for me did not get a sequel is Binary Domain released back in 2012. It was a game that had a morality kind of in the same direction as Mass effect, its sad that they did not sell it well enough to make a sequel.

Watching this reminded me of a couple that you guys didn’t have. Oddly enough they both begin with the letter S. Splinter Cell and Syphon Filter

I miss Army of Two, the first 2 entrees were amazingly fun co-op shooters, sadly killed by EA after an unsuccessful third entree (Dead Space shared a similar fate the same year)

Great to see legacy of Kain getting some love. Probably the best story i've ever seen in a game. Great voice acting as well. A remake of Soul Reaver would be a blind purchase.

g-d i miss Raziel and Kain. remember when i first played SR2, then Blood Omen, understood their connection and rollercoasted through them till the end of the Defiance. what a memories.

Shoutout to The Getaway. Such an interesting start with the first game, more on the crime side of things, and then Black Monday working for the police, it was such a great game. I've forever waited for The Getaway 3. Man, they even referenced Hammond in LA Noire as Albert Hammond, so Rockstar remembers.

How do you go through a whole Legacy of Kain description and not even mention how amazing the story was. It's easily one of the best acted, delivered, and interesting stories ever. Yes, the games themselves and the gameplay sorta meandered and took missteps, but through it all the story thread and world building was unparalleled for its time and still holds up today!

Omg number 2 is a core memory unlocked for me when I first ever got into playing games at my grandpas house i had this because is came with the start up bundle omfg blast from the past

I really miss NFL Street and NBA Street, such fun sports-games. Also the TWO-games, the weaponselection and gameplay was epic.

I miss the Tenchu series. I played them since the beginning... When the mission editor came out for Tenchu 2, I thought "Awesome, this is going to be the new standard" and then they dropped it. When Tenchu Z started letting you customize your own character, I thought, "Awesome, this is going to be the new standard" and then they dropped it. Then they just straight-up dropped the franchise... I personally think they could've gone a bit further than they did if they continued to build off of those two aspects...

I'm surprised no one ever talks about the Bloody Roar fighting games. Those are some of my favorite games from my childhood. They really never get the love they deserve

Does anyone remember Nightmare Creatures? That game was badass it was set in 1800s London where you play as a monster slayer with a cool occult storyline with Aleister Crowley as the final boss

The fact they’ll never make another days gone still pains me. It was such and underrated game.

MotorStorm is a canned game series that I still think about to this day. The first two were phenomenal when they released for the PS3, sadly it’s just the PS3 only. They were very fun. The third installment, Apocalypse, had almost no off-road, but it was still as good as the first two games. Sadly, in 2011, when that huge tsunami hit Japan, the game got canned in Japan, and it almost got canned in Europe. At least it released in the US. But you gotta remember, this game released around the same time as NFS The Run and NFS Shift, which The Run didn’t sell very well. But Apocalypse sold even worse due to low marketing campaigns for the game went. I mean we did get R/C for the Vita, but it just wasn’t the same. And after Driveclub flopped for Sony, they decided to throw Evolution Studios, the ones who created MotorStorm and Driveclub, into the forever box. Some of the devs went to Codemasters, in which Codemasters got bought out by EA somewhere this decade. Sadly, we will never see a racing game quite like MotorStorm ever again, unless some indie devs try to revive it under a different name.

Am so glad you talked about the sly Cooper series, omg if you guys didn't mention it it wouldn't have been a complete list for me but am so glad you added it on your list thanks, and I hope you do talk about it in one of your next videos.

What I remember most about the Sim City debacle was that EA had stated it HAD to be online and you could only have a tiny slice of the map, both things were immediately disproven by modders days after release

Dead Rising, Bloody Roar, Fighting Force, Tenchu, Army of Two - just from the top of my head.

Mercenaries are amazing, one of my most played games when it came out and played it for years. Crazy how True Crime new York reviewed poorly, I loved it. Great story, city, and you could learn different martial art forms for combat. Both those games were top tier in my opinion.

One that I miss is Banjo Kazooie. The first and second were great. I was happy when they announced Nits and Bolts, but it was nothing like the previous titles. What I liked about the games is that it had some challenging puzzles and amazing boss fights.

I loved the Army of 2 games, it had so many amazing features that you just cant find in games any more and I would love to see a new one come out.

I saw a Legacy of Kain reference in Astro's Playroom. It made me want a modern remake. I loved one of the Soul Reaver games as a kid.

I immediately think of the original Infamous games. I got the first one for free when that thing happened back in the day, and they gave everyone Infamous part one for free. I fell in love with the first game and second game. I've probably played those all the way through 10 times each.

Sleeping dogs is easily one of the most absurdly underrated game and it truly deserves a sequel.