/vr/ - Retro Games

Shenmue

Cliffhanger

>>1775348
Well... Sort of

Kind of.

Mega Man Legends 2

Chrono Trigger hints at another adventure with the original cast.

>>1775429
>>1775429
>>1775429

>>1775434
>you will never go on an epic adventure through the ages chasing after Crono's lost mom and his 15 cats

Dino Crisis 2.
Goddammit, Capcom.

I mean, even the ending promised me Axelay 2. Still holding hope...

>>1775524
>SEE YOU AGAIN AT "AXELAY2"
It still hurts.

>>1775512
There's a 3rd one on X-Box.

>>1775512
Dino Stalker covers a bit of what happened afterward.

>>1775429

seconded.

>>1775464

thirded.

>>1775524
In the same vein...

>>1775559
Oh, Recca. Yeah, that makes me sad, too.

While not technically a cliffhanger, the ending to Commander Keen 6 hints at a sequel.

>>1775612
The ending to Keen 6 basically says "Thanks for saving me! Oh by the way, Mortimer McMire is my brother and he's still alive, and he's going to destroy the universe."

That definitely counts as a cliffhanger, especially since he was thought to be dead.

>>1775545
I'll have to check that out.
>>1775539
Yeah, but it's a new story instead of continuing from the last one.

>>1775559
cough

>>1775348
Can't remember if it ended on a cliff-hanger but Advent Rising should have been a trilogy.

>>1775659
Hehe, I thought about posting that.

It's not official though... and I don't think it's even intended to be in the same universe, just an homage.

I do think it's kinda funny though, that the final boss of this game is basically Hibachi even though it predates Dodonpachi by several years.

>>1775659
Nope.

>>1775674
I don't think Cho Ren Sha 68K really gets the credit it deserves in helping shape the bullet hell genre. It was ahead of its time.

>>1775681
Yeah, ChoRenSha is awesome. I recently learned there's a secret giant crab boss you can access through the debug menu. I don't know if it's possible to actually fight it in-game though, it might just be some left-over unused content.

>mfw thinking OP might be a moneybags executive from EA who needs ideas to pitch in a fiscal year meeting tomorrow as to what franchises to buy next

Dino Crisis 2. Kinda. It was a bit timey wimey

>>1775426
You might be aware of this, but I'll link it just in case. http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/duoprincess/duoprincess.htm

Comix Zone had the most bullshit cliffhanger.
The ending was awful.

>>1775719
they're more likely to just do a complete reboot, hardly bothering to keep the original's essence, let alone attempt to close or carry on the series.

>>1775348
>Ron Gilbert will never tell us what the Secret of Monkey Island is, or what direction he would have taken the series if he had worked on MI3.

>>1775662
first, Advent Rising should have not sucked. the game had a big heart and a lot of ideas, but everything technical about it was a jittery mess.

that said, I would buy a sequel in a heartbeat

Ecco 2

>>1775659
Name? GI doesn't find anything.

Dragon Lore II: The Heart of Dragon Man ends with an evil horde invading the Valley.

>>1775804
Comix Zone had multiple endings in the final fight. Maybe you've had the bad ending? There are some slight variations in the ending between the versions, seems that Genesis was the prettiest.

Anyway the Good Ending ends with: "...And they lived happily ever after until..." and then the credits start rolling in.

Granted, only the first two games fell inside the retro series, but the whole series ended on a massive cliffhanger.

...and now they're releasing a vaguely related MMO fighting game with none of the characters as the sequel, dropping the plot.

y u do dis?

>>1776051
It's Cho Ren Sha 68k.

>>1776185
It's painful for me to look into what could have been for Soul Reaver. While Soul Reaver is an enjoyable game with great dialogue, it's a shadow of what the devs originally had planned for it.

>>1776220
>it's a shadow of what the devs originally had planned for it.
I want to know more.

I know some of the bosses that were dropped, but... What else?

Loom was intended to be trilogy, but that never happened.

It ends with the world being destroyed.

>>1776051
Ecco did get a sequel by the same dev team on dreamcast tho.

>>1776257
i didn't know that, interdasting.

ducks are meant to be eaten, not heard

>>1776271
That game is not related to Ecco 2.

>>1776230
I feel friendly enough to spare you the "fucking google it" speech.

http://thelostworlds.net/SR1/index.html

There you go.

>>1776086
I remember seeing something flash in the credits but it always went by too fast for me to see what it said.

Freespace 2

>>1775348
Beyond the Beyond.

I like to think of Golden Sun's Weyard as the Underworld spoken of in that game and one day Finn's gonna show up and fuck shit up on his giant dragon

I

>>1776206
>Cho Ren Sha 68k

Different anon, but I started playing this due to your post, and this game is fantastic, anything else else like in terms of simple but brilliant gameplay? I like not switching between different weapons. Also the music on my version is fucked, it glitches every few seconds, I'm using windows 7.

>>1776549
Play it in compatibility mode, that fixes the music issue.

>>1776549
i don't think there's anything quite like Cho Ren Sha, but if you like it, why not hit the shmups thread and try some of the other games people recommend there?

>>1776829
Yep.
>>1775429

>>1776185
>the whole series ended on a massive cliffhanger.
Wat. Defiance wrapped up nicely with raziel fusing with the soul reaver and Kain killing the squid god. What more is there to do?

>>1776086
That's the one I was referring to.

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Last line of the game"

>Slowly, nervously, you step downwards, the cold thin air rasping in your lungs. You set one single foot on the ancient dust -- and almost instantly the most incredible adventure starts which you'll have to buy the next game to find out about.

>>1777005
He didn't kill the squid god. Defiance just ended with Kaine discovering the Old God for the first time, slapping it around and having to retreat while the God destroyed the room and burrowed down into the earth.

The Old God is still there. The Hilden are still back in the world. The pillars are still ruined. The vampires are still extinct. Defiance just set the game up for the ending, with Kaine now aware of all the plots and players and has a clear objective with the purified Soul Reaver.

>>1776206
Thanks I really like the graphics style, is there a way to rapid fire instead of spamming the shoot button?

This ;_;

>>1775348
MOTHERFUCKING FLOIGAN BROS

>>1777880

That's the most European looking cover art ever

>>1777958
What about now?

>>1777958
that makes no sense. Especially since PAL art is mostly awesome

>>1777697
Unfortunately no, not without using some external scripting program.

>>1776271
nope, that was a "reboot"

>>1775612
>>1775634
>tfw you will never play Keen 7
;_;

X men arcade
Fall of the foot clan

xenogears

Thief II; The Metal Age -_-

>>1775429
fuck you. yes I'm mad

>>1775767
>fan made trash

>>1784204
it got a sequel that wasn't particularly good.

>ctrl+f "Vagrant Story"

Oh COME ON, /vr/.

System Shock 2.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LF9HeIsELLs

>No mention of Ristar's "See you next game"
'Yall need to get your asses up

>>1785070
There was no cliffhanger here...

>>1777353
Them feels when we will not hear Kain's awesome voice again. Or Raziel's for that matter. Or any of the voice actors because they were all great.

>>1775352
beet me 2 it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQ6hgzzk_o8

>>1785397
Is this a joke?

>>1785443
Probably, the first Zelda concluded the series quite well, and should have been the last Zelda game.

>>1785083
There's a difference between a cliffhanger and just flat out saying "AND SEE YOU NEXT TIME!!"

>>1775348
I wish Soul Reaver never got any of those god awful sequels. Does that count?

>>1775480
should i bother with cross? I hear the battle music sucks

>>1775557
I wouldn't be surprised if MML3 was canned because it was going to be on a Nintendo console. Third parties, Capcom as well, like to believe that their games have no chance of success of any of Nintendo's consoles. Might be the case with home consoles, as even Nintendo's own games don't sell unless they're Mario, Zelda, or Smash.

>>1787704
Splatoon's looking good though.

>Captcha: withyour 13.9
I don't think rating scales go that high, Captcha.

Tombs & Treasure for the NES. If you ever managed to make it past the nauseating interface on YET ANOTHER LOVELY DUNGEON CRAWLER on the NES, they'd hint at seeing you again in a different game.

>>1787724
Who are you kidding, at best it will get a 7.5, with points being detracted because of it's style. Nintendo games never get high ratings unless they're Mario, Zelda, or Smash. It's saddening seeing Nintendo home consoles being a utopia of games of all genres to a desert with nothing but Mario spinoffs.

Beyond Good & Evil

fuck you Ubisoft