‘Half-Sequels’ Like Uncharted Lost Legacy Are The Future

The standalone expansion or 'half-sequel' has been derided as glorified DLC, but as games take longer to develop, they could be the future of AAA game releases.

[Alexious]

Nope

[lellkay]

I don't know if they are "the future" but I definitely wouldn't be against having some more sprinkled between the big full games. Lost Legacy was brilliant!

[RaiderNation]

Agreed. I liked Lost Legacy more than Uncharted 4. Same with Miles Morales.

[MTRNYC]

What? It's a "expansion" pack, they used to be common.

And Lost Legacy was fantastic, it has more content that a lot of full priced games and they sold it for $30 and gave it away for free to people who bought the Premium Edition.

We can only hope other companies will make "DLC" that's as high quality as what Sony has done with Lost Legacy, Frozen West and Burning Shores.

[Obscure_Observer]

*Frozen Wilds*

And unfortunately, I don´t think ND is focused on new content for their games or even expand the universe of their games at all.

Tlou 2 Remastered just got confirmed by Mark Pajarillo, previously confirmed by Gustavo Santaolalla.

Smh.

[generic-user-name]

Yeah like Bethesda won't be working on new games either after 100 Skyrim re-releases and the Oblivion remaster getting leaked.

[Stanjara]

I would gladly support a 10-15h single player within the IP as a half sequel,

than...

using IP to create gaas trash season battle pass piece of garbage.

[IMissJimRyan]

Me too. I think those games are the sweet spot for $60 games when big AAA games reach $80.

[Stanjara]

I would say Mirage is priced fair.
60 is too much.

40 half, 70 full and 150 collector digital trash comic art, soundtrack that nobody uses on PS anyway.

[LOGICWINS]

Lost Legacy was one of my favorite games of the last generation. Eagerly awaiting the announcement of a sequel, but it doesn't seem like that'll ever happen since Playstation is more focused on GAAS.

[mastershredder]

Okay, yeaaaaah, the future is a bunch of Half-sequels eh? How did they get there in the first place? No. Stop the stupid IGN and stick to writing about games rather than displaying your laughable “product development cycle expertise” and “future predictions of game making”. We have have Pachter’s pretentious ass to make these dumb assumptions.

[LOGICWINS]

Shawn Layden himself literally said the same thing this article is saying. Is he pretentious too?

https://www.ign.com/article...

[goldwyncq]

Unless you want games to eventually take an entire console generation to develop, this trend should be welcomed. Short games can be just as fun, it not even more than games that just never end. Quality over quantity always.

[-Foxtrot]

Lost Legacy was really good so I wouldn’t mind them as much but I couldn’t take a liking to Nadine, why the shoe horned her in this boggles my mind when they were planning to have Charlie in the beginning. He made more sense to be partnered with Chloe and he was f***** great for his short screen time. Oh well, not like they can use Nadine again so hopefully she stays away.

[Inverno]

This came out during a time where most publishers seemed to express their interests in making 30-40 dollar shorter games. Instead they just went back to high budget/long development. And now when they do come out with half sequels, or shorter games they charge 50 bucks for a 5 hour game with copy paste content.

[ChasterMies]

Since when is a stand-alone expansion a “half sequel”? I actually love these smaller AA games. “Infamous First Light” is a great example of this. But I also never buy them. 🤷🏻‍♂️

[Tacoboto]

Sony Studios has had a great run at providing post-release expansions and side stories.

TLOU Left Behind
Uncharted Lost Legacy
Horizon Frozen Wilds
Horizon Burning Shores
Ghost of Tsushima Iki Island
... And the Legends mode!
... And SuckerPunch's previous expansions for each infamous game
Spider-Man with the City That Never Sleeps *and* Miles Morales

Most of the content above I feel can stand shoulder to shoulder in quality next to their bigger core releases. But I don't want these to be "the" future, nor do they even seem to be the future.

The future looks to be GaaS; Naughty Dog just wasted three years down that path instead of giving us a TLOU P2 upgrade with a Left Behind 2, and no one talks about Burning Shores anymore already. I'd like the future to be what we had - a steady stream of bangin single player stories with expansions that demonstrate what the team learned since the base release.

[jznrpg]

Part of the future maybe. The future ? Nope

[H9]

I definitely hope not!
They are not full games so they are not made as ambitiously as those, they are forced to be smaller than what they could have been, and most importantly if those resources and time were spent on a full sequel we would get a better game

[Knightofelemia]

No they are not. I did not like paying full price for the RE3 remake and finding out the game was only half baked. I paid full price I expect a full game. Lost Legacy was good I liked it but it felt like DLC for UC4. If companies are only going to go half sequel or half the game then don't be an idiot and charge full price it just scares people away. And in todays society word of mouth goes a long way.

[goldwyncq]

Lost Legacy wasn't full price when it released.

[MehmetAlperTR]

no it's not.. S...u