If there's one thing you can count on from a successful game series, it's that it will eventually start to go stale. At this point game companies have a choice: keep churning out the same thing every couple of year 'til sales dwindle so badly that there's no point carrying on, or re-invent the series, taking it in a bold new direction. Sometimes this second option breathes new life into a series, perhaps even taking it to even greater heights of success than ever. But there is a big risk of royally screwing it up and making long-time fans feel betrayed and heartbroken. Here are five such 'traitors', named and shamed by Play.
The popular Sega franchise, Sonic the Hedgehog, has been really successful in recent years, forging paths for the recent upcoming titles.
These sales surged by 150 million compared to last year.
we need a new sonic pinball, with boss battles / hidden stages / 1 sec load times
Definitely agreed. I loved Sonic Spinball back on Genesis. I want a new Mean Bean Machine too, while we're at it!
Still need to check out Frontiers at some point. Just waiting on a really good Steam sale for it.
Met with derision from existing Burnout-series fans at the time, Burnout Paradise remains arguably the greatest open-world racing game of all time. Here's why.
I don't know why - and I know I'm probably on my own here - but I liked Takedown more. I think it was just 'different' enough to feel fresh. I also loved the destruction.
On that note, a new Motorstorm would be nice! All that mud, dust and car pieces flying everywhere blew my mind on PS3 - imagine what they could do now.
I loved Burnout Paradise, but Burnout 3: Takedown will always be the best game in the series, for me. Burnout 3 is arguably the most fun game ever made, with the greatest licensed soundtrack ever.
I played through the remaster quite recently. It's not as good as I remember, but I think a lot of that is because the "open world" thing was still pretty fresh back then.
I do think there's a gap in the market for a game like Burnout. With the new gen they could really make car damage a huge selling point again.
Burnout paradise remastered and original are my favorite, i got the platinum trophy for both games the nighthawk is my favorite car
Personally don't give a shit for open world racers. Give me a new Motorstorm, Split second, Outrun.
The Last decent Sonic game was Sonic Adventure (Which I personally loved) I would love to see it hit XBLA or PSN (which it is rumoured to do)
Burnout Paradise- great game and great dev support after its release. No split screen really killed it for me though.
Tony Hawk Ride- Could have been much better if they actually made the board work properly.
Sonic- Please stop killing sonic. I had high hopes for Sonic 4 until I saw the video where Sonic is in a mine cart. I'll probably still try the game out because its sonic but I have lowered my hopes for this one....again. See video comment to view Sonic's mine cart level.
I think Burnout Paradise is a great game with loads of hours playtime in single and multi-player. It also had some great DLC. I wouldn't say it was a bad re-invention of the series.
Don't know about the other games though, haven't played them.