GO Critic: If you live in North America, there’s a very high chance you’ve never heard of the Arc the Lad series. The now defunct G-Craft studio developed this tactical RPG with very little intention of it leaving the land of the Rising Sun. And for 8 years, it and its sequels stayed lost to international audiences. It was in 2002 when the Arc the Lad Collection was created, when the game was finally exported, and could be experienced for the first time by many avid JRPGers who had developed a taste for that particular style of game thanks to major players like Square. This would be the first time I encountered the game.
The world of the upcoming mobile Arc The Lad JRPG by Sony's ForwardWorks definitely feels familiar, depicting many locations from the old games.
Sony Interactive Entertainment's mobile arm Forwardworks is set to unveil the new Arc The Lad mobile JRPG at the end of this month.
I wish Sony were able to maintain a considerable amount of their RPG franchises
I literally was thinking about this yesterday. Wow. Specifically with Arc. Coming to mobile I see...
That'd be great. They have quite a few memorable ones.
As far as this game goes, this was one of my favorite games back in the PS1 days. The PS2 one kind of sucked in story though.
Given the way the original story unfolded, I think I'd prefer a remake ore reboot of the original. The original cast and story was so much more interesting
Hopefully Legend of Dragoon will see a sequel next too. As for this news it is about time a new one was made and I welcome it. If it does well one can only hope a real console game will be next.
I would love to see new sequels or remakes of these dormant classic franchise/series be bought back to Playstation.
Heavenly Sword, The Legend of Dragoon, Suikoden, Dino Crisis, Parasite Eve. Onimusha, Tenchu, Wild Arms, Breath of Fire, Valkyrie Profile, Lunar, Earthbound, Vagrant Story, Chrono Cross/Trigger, Grandia, Jade Cocoon, Resistance, Shadow Hearts. Dark Cloud, Legend of Legaia, Omega Boost, Einhander, Nightmare Creatures, Brave Fencer Musashi, Saga Frontier, Soul Reaver, Dark Cloud, Clock Tower, Twisted Metal, Ape Escape & Tomba.
Folklore is missing from that list. If any franchise could grow to a pokemon or monster hunter level, it'd be that one. Unfortunately, the gothic themes would turn a lot of people off.
Otherwise, your list is pretty much a good overview of my 20's-30's.
Alex S. from Link-Cable writes: "Gaming’s past is full of wonderful memories, many of which include some of our favorite moments in all of video games and helped shape our current gaming habits. And, thanks to the awesomeness that is the PlayStation, many of these memories can be found in Sony’s franchises. But what happens when a great franchise or IP just disappears? While sometimes its just forgotten, never to be heard from again that’s not something that we here at Link-Cable can bear the thought of. So for this week’s Top 10 we are taking a look at the Top 10 Forgotten Sony Franchises and also crossing our fingers that someone with the power to bring these back just happens to stumble across this list."
Don’t forget Dark Cloud, Rogue Galaxy, Legend of Dragoon, Freedom Wars, Invisimals, Lemmings, Modnation Racers, Pursuit Force, Resistance, Siren, Soul Sacrifice, Mark of Kri, & Wild Arms
To be fair, many of those are not forgotten. They just ran their course while others were not given the respect they deserved to garner a continuation. Games that are one-offs probably had no intention of making them into series but I do wish they would rethink that. Some deserve to be given a follow-up.
Agreed. Maybe Sony can contract Bluepoint to remaster Heavenly Sword, see people's reaction to the game and decide wether to give the go for a sequel.
Also Lair can be remastered es as a PSVR game and take it from there.
Legacy of Kain would fit right in there, although sony has no rights to that IP as far as I'm aware.
Ah later instalments were not sony exclusive, so dont mind me sir :p
To be fair, Wild Arms did run its course, was effectively run into the ground, going by example of last entry using characters from all games. Being an STG title on the PSP.
Could always revive the western/steampunk setting.
I know right! I'm still waiting for someone at Sony to make the Getaway 3 lol
I always wondered what the PlayStation 3 version was going to be like.
Finally someone mentioned Soul Sacrifice, Siren, Legend of Dragoon, and Freedom Wars. Those games are in desperate of a new installment. Especially with Folkore.
Lemmings was a franchise waaaaay before even the PS1 saw the light of day. Nobody's forgotten it.
I'm not sure single games would be considered franchises. If you want to say Heavenly Sword is one, I'd also put Enslaved on the list. Loco Roco is in the same boat as Patapon. But things like Tomba are certainly missed.
There was going to be a sequel to Enslaved. Unfortunately it never left the drawing board. Hopefully someday it will be realized.
How can you all something a franchise if it only has one installment?
At that point it’s just an IP. You can only call it a franchise when there’s multiple installments.
you should look up the definition of a franchise.
If there is more than just a game, say merchandise its already a franchise.
I understand what the Fallen is trying to say, simply saying how could you suggest a game with only one installment as a franchise in regards to a series in terms of multiple games.
Even though, yes franchise can be considered what you stated in this context that's not really what's being talked about.
Sly Cooper is not forgotten. They even making a TV show, I am hoping they Remake the first 3 games from scratch like Ratchet & Clank did.
@DJK1NG_Gaming I didn't mention the movie because probably got cancelled since Ratchet & Clank movie flop and Sony might not take another chance but Sly Cooper is having it own TV series.
