Games you wished that were

[Baseley09]

Bit of an airy fairy subject, but has there ever been any games that you wish existed, maybe you hoped they would come to a home platform, or perhaps were cancelled. Whatever, any games that weren't.

Considering the time frame and how many arcade converscons they did release, it's a crime that Namco never bought Rolling Thunder to PC engine.

Wouldve liked to have seen Dragon Ninja too, feels like that would've been right.

What about Megadrive R-Type, bit of a miss that one.

[Dogg Thang]

Mine is an easy one: Pocket Fighter 2 for GBA. Pocket Fighter always deserved a sequel and it just felt like a great Pocket Fighter that you could have in your pocket would be a perfect fit. I think the system could have run a really good version of that game with new characters and backgrounds.

Actually I’ve been thinking about the GBA and DS quite a bit recently because they managed to keep great pixel art going when all of the large consoles had moved on. And now, yes there are plenty of retro indie games that have pixel art (maybe too many) but not a lot of games that really embrace beautiful pixel art. It’s like an art form that advanced over the years and then just stopped.

There are so many games where I’d love a proper pixel art sequel, not in a retro way, in a natural progressive way. Like new Castlevanias or Street Fighter Alpha 4 and so on. They won’t happen.

[phillv85]

The game I was always most disappointed about it being cancelled was Warhammer 40,000 Aspect Warrior on the Mega Drive. The idea of a 40k game on my beloved Mega Drive as a kid was the most incredible thing ever. I got shown the screenshots in a magazine by a mate and then it seemingly was never mentioned again. Still a bit gutted now.

I also remember seeing a poster for Fatal Fury 3 in the window of a tiny little games shop in the market in Manchester Arndale. Again I was only a kid and it seemed to mysterious and cool, and I just assumed it would be coming out on the Mega Drive, I didn’t even realise the Neo Geo branding wasn’t the developer, I just assumed back then there were Amiga’s, Mega Drives and Super Nintendo’s as modern systems. The idea there were others was unthinkable.

[Soundwave]

I'll never not be annoyed about the fact that both Konami & Capcom kept some of their best arcade games away from us back in the SNES/MD days

I'd have killed for conversions of...

X-Men
Simpsons
Cadillacs & Dinosaurs
Aliens Vs Predator
Aliens

All of them deserved home ports

Neil

[Neon Ignition]

Panzer Dragoon Saga ported to PS1/PS2, we might have got the sequel

[QualityChimp]

A proper sequel to Lost Planet 2 (rather than the Americanisation of the series), Stuntman and a few others.

Something I'm surprised hasn't happened (but possibly has, I've not researched it) is some kind of VR rockstar simulator.
You see festivals and concerts and I always wonder what it's like to play to a massive crowd.

[Dogg Thang]

Something I'm surprised hasn't happened (but possibly has, I've not researched it) is some kind of VR rockstar simulator.
You see festivals and concerts and I always wonder what it's like to play to a massive crowd.

That's a great idea! You could start in dingy pubs where nobody is listening because they're all drunk and not there to see you and work your way up to eventually stadium gigs. I would play that game. Make it happen!

[Yakumo]

What about Megadrive R-Type, bit of a miss that one.

That would have been an awesome port. I wonder if it was ever considered at some point?

[QualityChimp]

I wonder if it was something to do with the TurboGrafx-16 release of R-Type?

Just looking and it does look like there's a fan-made Mega Drive R-Type:

[wakka]

Something I'm surprised hasn't happened (but possibly has, I've not researched it) is some kind of VR rockstar simulator.
You see festivals and concerts and I always wonder what it's like to play to a massive crowd

This is a great idea but I suspect hamstrung after the failed attempt to revive this type of game with Guitar Hero Live. That game's use of FMV kind of had a similar concept. While you were playing you had a POV perspective on a real crowd of actors/extras in front of the stage. It was corny, like most FMV inevitably is, but actually a cool idea and definitely a fresh take on how to visually present that type of game. It would have been interesting to see the idea taken forward into a VR edition.

My stuff in this regard would honestly be more Shenmue, done in the original style. Had the original games not flamed out at retail, I would have loved to have seen their style naturally progress further, building on how the first and second editions played and were visually designed. There are also a number of unproduced chapters even of Shenmue 1 and 2, as I understand it. Suzuki wrote a whole bunch of material about stuff that happens on the boat between Japan and Hong Kong, for example. It would have been great to experience that, too.

[QualityChimp]

This is a great idea but I suspect hamstrung after the failed attempt to revive this type of game with Guitar Hero Live. That game's use of FMV kind of had a similar concept. While you were playing you had a POV perspective on a real crowd of actors/extras in front of the stage. It was corny, like most FMV inevitably is, but actually a cool idea and definitely a fresh take on how to visually present that type of game. It would have been interesting to see the idea taken forward into a VR edition.

I couldn't not think about Guitar Hero Live, but that's more about the game than the experience.

Closest I've found is this Halestorm video, which is a lot of fun with a VR helmet on!


Not sure if you could mix it with AR if you were playing guitar, but even holding a tennis racket as a guitar would work just to get that experience.

[hudson]

The game I wish there were would be Ridge Racer 99 for Switch. Collision detection on for all cars

[Nu-Eclipse]

I'll never not be annoyed about the fact that both Konami & Capcom kept some of their best arcade games away from us back in the SNES/MD days

I'd have killed for conversions of...

X-Men
Simpsons
Cadillacs & Dinosaurs
Aliens Vs Predator
Aliens

All of them deserved home ports

Neil

It's worth pointing out that Capcom were going to port AvP to the Sega 32X but eventually scrapped it.

Hopefully we'll see them eventually put it out on modern formats given how they seem to be more open to doing the work to reacquire licenses (see the Disney/Marvel stuff).

[dataDave]

I’d have loved to have seen a real home version of SNK vs. Capcom, preferably produced by SNK before they catastrophically cooked-off around the year 2000.

[Nu-Eclipse]

Still annoyed that R-Type LEO hasn't been ported yet. Not even given the Hamster Arcade Archives treatment!