In an ideal world, there would be no intellectual property ownership, no hiding away of concepts for private gain, and ideas would flow freely between developers like tides of fairy dust. Everybody would have the right to leverage any fiction or approach, quality and quality alone would determine the definitive interpretation, and we'd all live happily ever after, eating jam and pies.
Heck, this could actually be the way things work. Perhaps all those copyright spats are just melodramas they've cooked up to keep us interested between screenshot mail-outs. You never know. Just in case, here's a list of franchises that might perform better in another studio's hands. Feel free to take heed, publishers.
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I would love to see a Final Fantasy game by Atlus.
Spyro the Dragon, Crash Bandicoot back the original developers
Here's his spread across several pages list.
Legacy of Kain to Mercury Steam
Silent Hill to Frictional
Mass Effect to CD Projekt
Alien vs Predator to Rocksteady
Final Fantasy to Atlus
And outsourcing is the PROBLEM with this current Gen, especially where my beloved Castlevania is concerned!
I was about to rage when another person would suggest Final Fantasy be more western, but then I saw Atlus which is actually an interesting suggesting LOL.
Anyways, if people want want more Fallout or Mass Effect, just play them and wait for the sequels/spiritual successors. Not every JRPG has to play like it. (I realize this ain't the topic to say that...)
These are actually decent suggestions.
Although I think Silent Hill should go back to a Japanese studio.