Franchises that should have never continued

[Erik_Twice]

Namco sir Namco!

HA! But Capcom didn't make it either! So even when I'm worng I'm right! (Pelvic thrust)

I stand corrected. Sir Namco is.

[Hobie-wan]

Namco sir Namco!

HA! But Capcom didn't make it either! So even when I'm worng I'm right! (Pelvic thrust)

I stand corrected. Sir Namco is.

[fastbilly1]

Well, if you think about it, Wizardry and Bard's Tale were FP RPGs as well.

Your right First Person RPGs date back further. I had Wizardy in that post but edited it for System Shock just because it would be harder to say it is not an FPS.

[Limewater]

Your right First Person RPGs date back further. I had Wizardy in that post but edited it for System Shock just because it would be harder to say it is not an FPS.

Don't forget about Ultima Underworld. First-person, free-roaming, real-time RPG that came out about a month before Wolfenstein 3D.

[MrPopo]

Wizardry is turn based, while a game like Ultima Underworld is a real-time FPRPG. In fact, UU predated Wolf 3D by a few months.

[fastbilly1]

By 3 months Popo.

[MrPopo]

By 3 months Popo.

Hense my use of a vague descriptor that frequently means a quantity of about 3-5.

[fastbilly1]

touche

[arion]

Pac-Man should have stopped at Ms-Pac Man. All those 3d remakes and some of those awkward attempts at fleshing out the pac man universe have never ever done the original justice.

So you don't know how Ms Pac Man came to be, do you? Ms Pac Man was a hack. Capcom didn't make it. In fact Midway made lots of unofficial sequels to it, perhaps that's why it seems tehre are way too many Pac Man games.

There was a yearly release of Pac Man until 1984 (Makes sense to me). Given the arcade crash there was no new Pac Man title until 1987. Arcade wise that's all. There are some re-releases out there and Pac Man Virtual Reality (Cool!) but nothing more.

Now recently and on consoles there have been some crappy plataformers starring Pac Man, those are the ones you seem to be talking about.

Also lets not forget Pac-Land

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pac-Land

And Pac-Mania never felt right at all

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pac-Mania

Anyway if Ms-Pacman is not a sequel then the series should have stopped at Pac-Man. But yeah the 3d remakes and platformers just got to stop.

[Limewater]

By 3 months Popo.

Late March to early May is, like, six weeks.