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So, there you have it. Five franchises that Sega needs to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to create and market. It’s that easy.
Really, though, it’s just a fantasy. The talent that created these games have moved on to other projects or studios. Sega isn’t the company it used to be. They have talent under their banner, with Platinum Games far and away outclassing just about every other Japanese developer out there. Heck, Vanquish and Bayonetta are, in my opinion, among the top 10 games released last year.
Although they had struggled to sell hardware, they’ve had incredible talent working on their games. Is the talent gone? Or merely misappropriated? Whatever the case, I’d love to see the company re-emerge to its past glory. I’d love to see them bring back the games we love and put some real effort into it. None of this Golden Axe crap.
Until then, Gamers will continue to write useless lists like this one. – What else can we do?
To compare Vanquish to Gears of War is an insult to Vanquish... This coming for a guy who thinks Gears of War is an amazing game.
Brand new IP’s are all well and good (great, actually) but the truth is, we get them often albeit sometimes on a smaller scale. 3 out of the 5 XBLA Summer of Arcade titles are brand new licenses. Bastion, From Dust, and Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet are all new games.
The aforementioned studio, Platinum Games have developed 4 original games with a 5th original game in development. These are the only 5 games they have under them. Before that, Head honcho, Shinji Mikami was hard at work at Clover Studios creating Viewtiful Joe, Okami and Godhand. All great, original titles.
In the recent months, both coming and going, we have or will see the release of Catherine, Shadows of the Damned, Rage, Child of Eden, Dead Island, L.A. Noire and Brink. Be as selective as you’d like, but original content is out there. They might not always get the kind of media coverage that long-standing IP’s do, they may not be your style and they may be vastly outnumbered by sequels, but there they are.
At the end of the day, all I am saying is that if the industry is going to be driven by franchises. Why not give some older ones a chance? A legitimate chance. It may be just my nostalgic pipe dream, but it’s one (or five) that I’ve been dreaming about for a long time.
Agree or Disagree? Notable omissions? Is this too damned long? (Yes). Let me know!
