Franchises and IPs that will never return but fan keep asking for.

The Fatal Fury/Garou Densetsu series from SNK.

A long time after the release of the awesome Garou: Mark of the Wolves, fans kept asking for a Garou 2 in that same style and that continued Rock Howard's story. But a bankruptcy and a couple of company reconfigurations later, SNK's main focus is obviously The King of Fighters. And even when both series were still ongoing in the 90s, the relative success of KoF meant that the writing was on the wall for Fatal Fury.

Yes, SNK has recently revived Samurai Shodown, but that series is different enough from The King of Fighters that it doesn't "clash." Fatal Fury is too similar to The King of Fighters. Yes, Terry is in Smash, but he's not representing Fatal Fury specifically, he's representing all of SNK.

So it's unlikely we'll ever see a Fatal Fury title again. I'd love to be wrong though...
 
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at least sunset pverdrive was kind of an spiritual succesor
 
F-Zero
Chrono Trigger
Syphon Filter
Darkstalkers
Rival Schools
Power Stone
Mega Man Legends
A proper Final Fight (Capcom plans to revive it but I'm not confident seeing FF Streetwise)
A proper Metal Gear Solid
Ridge Racer
Out Run
Socom
Burnout


I will never understand how nobody has made a good AAA Burnout clone.
It's because its low sales of the later games, combined with low sales of most similar racing games
 
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SWAT
FEAR
Rainbow 6
Metal Gear
Half Life
Quake (have a feeling this will change soon)
Blood
True Crime
Max Payne
Chronicles of Riddick
Condemned
Dishonored
Castlevania
 
First, I heard that. I can't see why that would be.

Are you thinking of something like Kingdom Hearts or Pokémon?
Not that I'm aware of. Looks like Square Enix owns the IP.

I read somewhere (like more than 10 years ago) that Square owned 1/3 , Bird Studio 1/3 and can't remember the last one, but looking at https://chronotrigger.square-enix-games.com/en-US you can see at the bottom that Square-Enix, Bird Studio/Shueisha (Illustration) and Armor Project/Square-Enix (Story and Screenplay) share rights, maybe they care more about Dragon Quest since it sells more.. who knows.
 
I read somewhere (like more than 10 years ago) that Square owned 1/3 , Bird Studio 1/3 and can't remember the last one, but looking at https://chronotrigger.square-enix-games.com/en-US you can see at the bottom that Square-Enix, Bird Studio/Shueisha (Illustration) and Armor Project/Square-Enix (Story and Screenplay) share rights, maybe they care more about Dragon Quest since it sells more.. who knows.
I think that might be specifically for Chrono Trigger, not the Chrono IP.
 
Well there are loads for me, Ridge Racer being an example.
There is one series that always sticks out for me though, and thats Road Rash. And its a bit ironic really as in todays multiplater focused gaming world, you would think a game like Road Rash would be prime mul;tiplayer foddder. I mean can you imagine 20 player races, cross country A-B style races.
EA need to get with the program!.
 
I feel like Black & White not being modernized and brought into VR is a total miss as that game feels like it was literally made for a VR adaptation. At this point I've gotten all the other franchises I've wanted in one form or another.
 
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