10 Video Game Franchises Killed Before Their Time 

RIP Sly Cooper. Sly 2 & 3 are two of my favorite games ever, but I don't think we'll be seeing a new one ever again.

I would have loved a next-gen Syphon Filter game

I think the "Tenchu" games died before their time. Never looked into why (possibly a lack of interest), but they were surprisingly good. There hasn't been a release since 2009. Maybe Ninja Gaiden killed it.

We need a dino crisis remake.

Here are 10 more gaming franchises that died before their time (RIP). Gone, but not forgotten: Ape Escape (1999-2010) - 4 main games, 10 spin-offs Burnout (2001-2011) - 5 main games, 3 spin-offs Def Jam (2003-2007) - 3 main games Fatal Frame/Project Zero (2001-2014) - 5 main games, 2 spin-offs Max Payne (2001-2012) - 3 main games Mercenaries (2005-2008) - 2 main games NBA Street (2001-2007) - 4 games Prototype (2009-2012) - 2 main games Syphon Filter (1999-2010) - 6 main games Tenchu (1998-2009) - 5 main games, 4 spin-offs

Congrats on 100k! I’m so pleased for you, you’ve all worked so hard and built a great channel and a really lovely community 😊

OK but who remembers tomba (tombi) ?? 2 absolute banger games and disappeared

Splinter Cell problem was it was way ahead of its time and the latest releases were jokes on earlier releases. Simplified to the point of destroying what made the game good and because it got killed off.

Awesome list TJ fam! Love your content

F-Zero represent! Here just here to say thank you for spreading the word on this series. (..Octoman has a pretty decent machine tbf.)

100k subs! Congrats boys you deserve it with all of your perseverance over the last few years. Cheers.

Shadow Hearts. I loved this game series ❤️ I'm still waiting for a 4th game or a HD remastered collection 😅

Congrats on 100k. Keep up the good work gents (or ladies)

Resistance 3 was probably my favorite in the series

Almost 100k subscribers?!? I am so happy for you guys!! Been with you since name redacted!

Earthworm Jim would be neat, original creators doing it for Amico, but I wish they do it on some more accessible console

I want Twisted Metal, Dungeon Keeper, and Final Fantasy Tactics back.

Thought Bioshock would have made this list.

100k wooooooo, congrats bois

The Legacy of Kain

I miss the Conflict Desert storm series. 3rd person shooter war games with 4 player co op. Each character had their own special skills. The quality was poor, but the gameplay with friends was so fun. They released a horrible 360 game that turned it into a FPS and lost all its magic

I would of had Dark Stalkers on this list. with people including myself still demanding for Capcom to make a new installment

Never discount Yoda Stories, it’s superior to contemporaries like Solitaire and Minesweeper

Two important omissions. First, the Suikoden series. Suikoden 2 is the most satisfying game I've ever played, nudging out even Chrono Trigger. Unfortunately they shat the bed with Suikoden 4 and the series never really recovered (even though Suikoden 5 was quite good). Second, the Xenosaga series. It was supposed to be six games but (recurring theme) they shat the bed with Episode 2 so no one bothered with Episode 3 and thus the series died, even though Episode 3 is exceptional and for my money the best game on the PS2.

Elite Beat Agents! God I loved that game & thought it could have a couple sequels with other songs!

At least give us a chaos theory remaster

Two words: Golden Sun. I remember playing the first game in middle school and flipping LOVED. IT. And then to get the direct sequel The Lost Age which I feel expanded and improved on a lot of things from the first game for Christmas a year or so later only further solidified my love for this series. While I would have been content to leave the series there considering it pretty much wrapped up the story, years later (something like 8 years or so) we finally got an announcement about a new game for the 3DS which had me absolutely THRILLED. Got it day 1 and... while not an absolutely terrible game, it certainly failed in a lot of the places the previous games, particularly the second installment, excelled. The updated graphics were beautiful, and some of the new battle mechanics and lore was great, but the story was a bit lackluster and unfocused, the game more or less held your hand throughout the entire thing, they shoehorned in way too many characters that got little to no screen time or character development (not that the GS series had deep, impactful characters to begin with, but we got to spend enough time with the characters from the first 2 games to care for and appreciate them; not so with the latter half of the party in Dark Dawn), the land and the lore that they introduced made no sense and didn't connect much with what was established in the previous game, and the most egregious error of all was the way the game left off on a massive cliff hanger. The story may not have been the best, but it still had a lot of interesting elements that could have been explored more in another game... which there has been no word on in going on 10 years now. It would seem awfully strange to suddenly pick up where the last game left off after all this time. But if they were to do, I dunno, remasters of the first 2 games and re-release the 3rd game on the Switch, possibly remastered and polished up a bit to reignite interest in the series, then perhaps a 4th game in the series could very well happen. The developers had even said the first 2 games were intended to be more of a prologue to the actual series story anyway. But seeing as how Camelot hasn't been doing much outside of Mario sports games or whatever (if they even still exist now), I feel like Golden Sun will likely continue only to live on through character cameos in Smash Bros. games as assist trophies. :(

I want Sly and Jak and Daxter to come back. At least remaster them.

thank you for notifying me of the pop remake.

Well done on the 100k subs boys now to do a special worst games perhaps?

I need a new Dead Space game desperately. Even a remastered trilogy would satisfy me

I often dream of a lovely gorgeous-looking relaxing Pilotwings game on Switch. I just want to hang glide around an island whilst smooth jazz plays in the background. Loved the video!

Suikoden, just Suikoden. Eiyuden Chronicle is fine and all, but I want an actual Suikoden VI too...

Definitely would kill for a new Resistance or Timesplitters game. Also a new Prince Of Persia game that's not related to the Sands Of Time games. I love them but doing something different would be nice. Would also love to see a new James Bond game just because. I really enjoyed Nightfire back in the day and even like Blood Stone and Goldeneye Reloaded

WE DEMAND OCTOMAN, WE DEMAND OCTOMAN. F-Zero was gone for 17 years and WE DEMAND OCTOMAN

WE DEMAND OCTOMAN!

11:31 i feel a sense of deja vu

Fast forward 2 years and we got a great Deadspace remake, a great Metroid Prime remaster and we have remakes for Silent Hill 2 and KOTOR on the way!

We know that sting and sam made sweet love in those rafters.

Killed before their time. Splinter Cell (with only 8 games) and Silent Hill (with only 7). I don’t think the first sentence means what you think it means.

This is going back a while but the "Strike" series of games were excellent when i was growing up. Desert Strike, Jungle Strike, Urban Strike, Soviet Strike & Nuclear Strike. There was supposed to be a Future Strike but that was adapted into a new game and there's not been a new Strike game since.

RIP Command and Conquer series! From Red Alert to the last Generals, you are gone but not forgotten! My memories with my lovely late mother would come to my room and told me "you only got half an hour left" before she would use it for her work, oh how I really do miss you, my favourite RTS franchise series (along with Age of Empires).

I'd buy the hell out of a Timesplitters remaster...

Shout out to Timesplitters 2. My favourite game! RIP

It's only been four years since the latest installment but I'd really love to get a fourth Zero Escape game. My absolute favorite game (series) of all time, specially the first one 999 on the Nintendo DS.

I’d love to see a sly cooper 5, the 4th was a bit of a disappointment

Speaking from the future of early 2023 I'm happy to report that Dead Space has an official remake and a Knights of the Old Republic remake is in the works

You need to do a worst to best list for star wars games!

With the resurgence of old school 2D games, I would love a proper sequel to Earthworm Jim. That 3D abomination should never be mentioned by anyone though. Long live Jim, Earth's mightiest hero! 🪱

It was never really a series but I’d like a sequel to Vagrant Story.

Timesplitters Rewind has been going steadily, which is nice. A group of fans rebuilding Timesplitters from scratch for PC

"..if we have that kind of power...screw it! " Bloody hilarious. 😆

"Control" basically scratched the itch left by "PSY-OPS: THE MINDGATE CONSPIRACY," which was my go-to answer for this question, so I'd say at this point: it's really weird that there hasn't been another Dino Crisis. Survival horror plus dinosaurs seems...I dunno if "obvious" is the right word, but it's the only one I can think of.

KOTOR 3 ..what could have been a story in Dromand Kass (probably spelled that wrong).

When i was like 7 or 8, im 15 now, i remember playing yoda stories on his laptop, and i actually loved it, whenever you open it, it chooses from random missions, so you wont play the same missions every time you open iy

You're gonna have a million subscribers soon

I'm still hopeful for a Resistance come back.

BloodRayne. God, do I want to wreck vampires by a bad ass wise cracking dhampire voiced by Laura Bailey in next gen graphics.

Thanks YT for giving me the notification for this video 5 BLOODY HOURS LATE.

#1. Legacy of Kain, if any franchise deserved a proper conclusion, it was the Legacy of Kain, one of the all time great gaming mythologies.

the fact that in 2020 we still don't have a new f-zero game is simply criminal

We need more Sly Cooper!

bring back all of those please

Splinter Cell and Dishonored are by far my favorite stealth action franchises. I would do anything for a next gen Splinter Cell. ANYTHING

In a world where Doom, Wolfenstein, and even Duke Nukem got new versions....I'm over here waiting for the new top of the line Quake

As for Turok, Turok 2008 did sell well enough to get a sequel. If you look up the concept and info for the cancelled sequel, it looked like they were trying to make it more like classic Turok than the 2008 original. Nightdive Studios did a good job remastering Turok 1 and 2 to Steam, Xbox One, and Switch. But it doesn't seem they will do the same for: Turok 3, Turok Rage Wars, or Turok Evolution.

Resistance games were great, had a really cracking world to them. the 3rd was also really really good!.

Well, they did announce a Dead Space full remake, though it is not due to be released for several years at least, so only time will tell if it is any good.

I guess this guy meant the franchises died before they got an official farewell.

At least there will will always be a new Call Of Duty or Assasins Creed.

B.L.A.C.K. was ahead of its time. Destruction on a whole other level.

Speaking of stealth series, am I the only one who'd kill for a new Tenchu? It's been like twelve years, and the last few weren't great compared to earlier entries like Fatal Shadows and Wrath of Heaven, so if nothing else the series at least deserves one last hurrah. Honestly, I'd give the series to Klei, and have them expand on what they did in their own stealth-platformer Mark of the Ninja...

I cry for Dead Space😭

One word: TIMESPLITTERS. Also, Dead Rising please

I would definitely choose The Legacy of Kain series, I can already imagine it with 2021 Graphics and maybe in VR as well.

The Chrono games... yeah. It would have been tough to maintain the level of quality. And, might be time for a replay while grinding for a ps5 preorder.

Apparently, a new Timesplitters is in development.

Mentions Turok, *everyone gets visibly uncomfortable for TripleJump*

Resistance 2 had some really fun online coop modes, and the third game was excellent. The latter was one of the few games I played on my 3d tv while that was the fad, and it was very well done. Unfortunately Sony killed the franchise dead in the water due to lackluster sales.

nice vid

Ultima. It was the best RPG series on home computers during the 80s and 90s. At some point the developer Origin Systems got bought by EA and... well... I guess they just didn't care anymore.

Legacy of Kain needs a continuation, really really surprised it's not on here

It’s really baffling, that ‘Knights of the Old Republic’ hasn’t had at least one more instalment; especially when trilogies are considered sort of a staple, in the history of the ‘Star Wars’ franchise. Not only that, but the first ‘KotoR’ games were absolutely incredible- being two of my favourite games of all time, and really deserve at least one more entry, to round off the series; though, if they replicated the quality of the original games, I’d be than happy for them to never stop making them haha. At the moment, if we can’t have a third instalment, I’d just be happy with them remastering the first ‘Knights of the Old Republic’ game/s; I’m sure they’d be a massive hit, and would hopefully create a renewed interest in the series, and lead to sequels... I really hope it happens; with all the remakes that have been released recently, it’s not inconceivable that they might get around to ‘Knights of the Old Republic’ eventually... I’m not gonna hold my breath, waiting for it to happen; but I am bloody keeping my fingers crossed, that ‘KotoR’ isn’t completely dead haha. 🤞😀🤞 All the best to anybody that sees this comment of mine; I hope you, and your loved ones, are keeping, well, and sane, during this fucked up time. 👍😀🤞

Glad Timesplitters was on here

Maybe it died at the right time, maybe I’m just hoping for some remakes, but more Sly Cooper pleaseeee, That game slaps

But what about the EA Big games, specifically ssx? I would like to see another ssx game and when it comes to games like nba street they are kind of there with nba playgrounds...

really miss the spinter cell and prince of persia games

I've given up on the idea that THQ Nordic might even just put out a remaster of Time Splitters: Future Perfect that keeps the game intact. Split-screen multiplayer of the TimeSplitters games (and Goldeneye and Perfect Dark) was an absolutely core part of my enjoyment at uni, and I can see THQ ditching it in favour of all-online multiplayer. Great for the people who want that but not so much for those of us who want to sit in the same room as our friends again screaming obscenities while they, playing as a large fish with a top hat and smaller fish for arms and hands, kill you, a gingerbread man. I can only hope THQ prove me wrong. I'll take a new game but what I really want is a remastered Future Perfect.

Deym, this list is spot on! I played all the games here and even enjoyed the Dead Space game on the iPhone

Dreamworks did have a separate corporation that served as a publisher for cinematic video games, before they were bought out by EA Games. They currently own the rights of classics like the Neverhood, which still hasn't gotten a re-release to this day, despite having a cult following and a spiritual successor by the original team.

Suikoden...Sly Cooper...Tenchu...Dino Crisis...Legacy of Kain...FF Tactics... There are just too many...

Speaking of Square Enix, two games series that were so good and really deserve new sequels: Parasite Eve and Fear Effect. Even a remake of the original two PE games with actual voice acting would be just amazing. Fear Effect was such a unique game in its time, they cancelled a third game, and then recently released a stupid multiplayer top-down shoot em up. What a waste of a good IP.

The mangled roadkill remains of Conkers bad fur day. Microsoft has the studio and the script/concept art published on twitter and instead of making a sequel they decided to slap you in the face like asking for a cold drink onboard the titanic by putting the ginger little nut gobbler in project spark and then insultingly having him look at the camera and say ALMOST 10 YEARS WITHOUT A NEW GAME , GUESS WE'LL HAVE TO MAKE OUR OWN That hits you like john wick at the end of the third film.

All that I remember of the fall of the Expanded Universe by Disney, it's how quiet it was.

100k subs!

Dead Space 3 wasn't that bad. Very underrated in my opinion...also, Infamous!!

Dino crisis & parasite eve need to have sequels or remasters at least

We need project gotham racing, blinx, driver, *armed and dangerous", midnight club and twisted metal

You guys deserve so much more recognition. You have 100k subs, almost 9k views on just this video and only a little more than 500 likes... wtf (as of 12 hours after posting). If you watch it and like it just click that stupid button, people. Its not hard. Keep up the great work.

I would love to see the GameCube game Killer7 brought back and given the chance to play it again.