I want aliens on this list, but with the license being fished around so much it's too inconsistent.
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I want aliens on this list, but with the license being fished around so much it's too inconsistent.
There are 3 games in the main series, an RTS spin off, a cinematic somethingorotherbyPeterJackson spin off, and a feature film.Quote:
Originally Posted by Frogacuda
If that's not a franchise, nothing is.
Mario could be third if it makes you happy (IE makes you shut up)Quote:
Originally Posted by shidoshi
Chrono Trigger is awesome. Cross too. While that may not constitute a franchise per se it still beats most of that list. I guess Halflife, by that measure, isn't really a franchise. It has 4 games and Episode 1 and 2 are just expansions to HL2 anyway.Quote:
Chrono should NEVER have been on that list.
Chrono is on there for one reason. IGN has a bunch of fucking youngins writing for them who had the SNES as their first system and have childhood affection with Chrono Trigger.
To be fair my entire list would claim to follow IGN's formula and completely undermind it in the end.
I'd wager it's the closest thing to a book they've ever read as well. I can tell Mark Bozon's writing by the completely incorrect use of words and phrases that he's overheard but never actually seen written ("And now we languish praise on our favorite villain ever, Darth Vader.")Quote:
Originally Posted by Yoshi
Would it have to be a planet-threatening vicious creature? Couldn't another Chrono game exist and be awesome while having its story focused on, say, a single kingdom or two like FFXII? I'd say there could be a threat on a perhaps practically unknown scale that could even turn out to be a threat to existance, which could ultimately have no information or knowledge due to the way in which it's stopped/killed basically nullifying it out of history.Quote:
Originally Posted by sethsez
I'm just tossing basic ideas out here, but there's a lot of ways in which Chrono could continue on the same planet. I'm not sure if they ever would but I see no reason as to why they could not.
Well, reducing the scale of a Chrono game kind of takes all the fun out of things, doesn't it? I mean, that was one of the defining things. And Cross already did the whole "destroyer of all existence" thing.
I just don't think the series could be continued on the same planet, and not seem incredibly forced and convoluted, and still retain the scope that made the others so good. I can definitely see it meeting some of those requirements, but not all, which is why I'd honestly rather just let the series rest in peace. Not every game needs tons of sequels, and at this point everything seems to be wrapped up pretty well. I'd rather have another original non-franchise game from the same general group of people.
You can still have a time-travelling/dimension-swapping/whatever game where the characters have to travel all over but do it solely to fix issues back home. I'm thinking in a "Swiftly Tilting Planet" kind of way, where there's body and soul hopping throughout history in order to try and change the mind of a single person that could lead to an outbreak of war.Quote:
Originally Posted by sethsez