Whereas some collection come out a brand new entry with clockwork regularity each 12 months, others hold us hanging on. Poor previous Psychonauts-likers needed to wait 16 years for Psychonauts 2. Return to Monkey Island is due out later in 2022, 13 years after Tales of Monkey Island—although technically it is persevering with on from the ending of Monkey Island 2: LeChuck’s Revenge, which might put the hole nearer to 26 years. Wasteland 2 has it equalled with out want for a technicality, popping out a full 26 years and eight months after Wasteland. That is a very long time between drinks within the irradiated desert.
What is the longest you’ve got needed to watch for a sequel?
Listed below are our solutions, plus some from our forum.
Chris Livingston, Options Producer: RollerCoaster Tycoon 3 (2004) ➡ RollerCoaster Tycoon World (2016). I completely cherished RollerCoaster Tycoon 2, which got here out in 2002, and principally favored RollerCoaster Tycoon 3, which dropped in 2004. After which… there was an incredible void.
That void bought greater. RollerCoaster Tycoon World was presupposed to launch in 2015, making it an 11-year watch for the sequel, nevertheless it bought pushed again into 2016, flopped into Early Entry with a ‘Largely Unfavorable’ ranking, then tried to shrug it off by launching the completed recreation… simply in the future earlier than rival Planet Coaster’s scheduled launch. Stylish! It did not assist, and that was just about the funeral for the collection.
A minimum of Planet Coaster turned out nice.
Evan Lahti, International Editior-in-Chief: X-COM: UFO Protection (1994) ➡ XCOM: Enemy Unknown (2012). In my early years at PC Gamer, editor Dan Stapleton (now IGN’s evaluations editor) would rave about X-COM as an underappreciated traditional, a brutal animal of a method recreation of the sort we hadn’t seen for the reason that days of Doom. I hadn’t owned it after I was youthful, however I might performed sufficient after that to know what it was prefer to lose a unit on the Skyranger ramp.
I knew how laborious the sport was, and the way impenetrable and dated its interface was. The quantity of clicking you needed to just do to arrange your forces again at base added but extra ache. However you would see the spirit of one thing unbelievable there, sure: permadeath, wrapped within the timeless theme of alien invasion.
X-COM had sequels, together with two that did not attain completion round 2001. MicroProse’s X-COM: Genesis and X-COM: Alliance (opens in new tab), the latter being a first-person shooter. But it surely wasn’t till Firaxis (shaped by Sid Meier and different MicroProse refugees) resurrected the turn-based format of XCOM virtually 20 years later that we realized how everlasting its authentic concepts have been.
Ted Litchfield, Affiliate Editor: NieR (2010) ➡ NieR: Automata (2017). The wait between NieR and its sequel, NieR: Automata wasn’t the most important (seven years) nevertheless it positive felt just like the longest shot, probably the most “actually, this recreation is getting a sequel?” With the success of Automata and Replicant v.I am-not-going-to-do-the-numbers-bit-here, it may be laborious to recollect simply how a lot of an afterthought the unique NieR was earlier than Automata’s breakout success.
I attempted out the primary recreation in 2015 due to the robust word-of-mouth and fell completely in love with its hauntingly bleak future and unbelievable characters, however I would just resigned myself to by no means seeing something prefer it once more. Its developer, Cavia, had shut down shortly after NieR’s launch, and its observe up of types in Drakengard 3 did not make a lot of a splash. Automata is a video games trade come-from-behind tales for the ages, placing creator Yoko Taro on the map extraordinarily late into his profession, and I discover it to be a heartening reminder that there aren’t any foregone conclusions on this world—generally it’s going to ship you a pleasing shock like no different.
Jody Macgregor, Weekend/AU Editor: Warhammer 40,000: Area Marine (2011) ➡ Warhammer 40,000: Area Marine 2 (introduced in 2022) I might given up hope of ever seeing a decision to the cliffhanger ending of Relic’s Warhammer 40,000: Area Marine, but a decade later Space Marine 2 was announced by Saber Interactive out of the blue. (Get it? As a result of Ultramarines are blue.) It is apparently coming “quickly”. I am going to fortunately hold ready so long as it takes.
Colif: 12 years? Diablo 2 – 29 June, 2000. Diablo 3 – 15 Could, 2012. Downside ready that lengthy is the possibility of the subsequent one being pretty much as good because the earlier one begins to enter DNF territory. Its a disgrace the initials do not actually stand for Did Not End.
Frindis: Probably the most I’ve ever waited was roughly 1.5 years. After taking part in GTA 3 again within the good previous days, I had a loooooooong spring ready for GTA Vice Metropolis to launch on PC within the spring of ’03. I used to be studying all the things I may get my fingers on in regards to the recreation, which clearly didn’t assist ease the ache. Greatest GTA recreation in my eyes, so properly well worth the wait.
WoodenSaucer: It has been virtually 11 years since Skyrim launched, and it’ll most likely be one other 25-30 years earlier than TES VI comes out. I should still be alive on the time. Within the meantime, they’ve launched about 10-15 re-releases of Skyrim to carry us over.
mainer: Effectively, I haven’t got a precise variety of years, because the sequels I would like probably the most have not been launched but, although all of them are presumably in some type of improvement. Listed by variety of years that I have been ready thus far:
1- Elder Scrolls 6; final recreation was ES5 Skyrim launched in 2011. Wait time 11 years & counting.
2- Dragon Age 4; final recreation DA3 Inquisition launched in 2014. Wait time 8 years & counting.
3-Fallout 5; final recreation Fallout 4 launched in 2015 (I do not think about FO76 a continuation of the collection, because it was Bethesda’s try at an MMO-style Fallout, not a single participant recreation). Wait time 7 years & counting.
4- Mass Impact 4; final recreation in collection was ME Andromeda launched in 2017. Wait time 5 years & counting.
I think about Fallout 5 would be the eventual winner by way of time waited between sequels, however there’s too many variables that might happen within the coming years of manufacturing for any of those video games. It seems like I have been ready half my life for these sequels.
Brian Boru: Will this thread nonetheless be open when Half Life 3 and C&C Generals 2 come out? In that case, I reserve my decisions now! HL3—18 years and counting; C&C G2—19 years and counting.
Of video games which even have launched, that may be Age of Empires 4, 16 years after AoE 3.
Zloth: Alternate Actuality: The Palace – nonetheless ready after 25 years. However you stated “saved” me ready. Previous tense. I assume which means the sequel will need to have proven up. AND I really performed it (so no Duke Nukem or Baldur’s Gate). Let’s examine… Doom 3 to Doom 2016 was 12 years.
McStabStab: XCOM: Enemy Unknown got here 11 years after the earlier installment within the collection, however I’d say the one different video games that have been corresponding to it have been X-Com: UFO Protection and X-Com: Terror From the Deep. If we miss the video games that strayed from the unique gameplay format the hole is 17 years. It was well worth the wait!
Sarafan: Laborious to consider, nevertheless it’s virtually 22 years and… I am nonetheless ready! Baldur’s Gate 2 was launched on September 2000 and though the sequel was introduced by Larian (and so they launched the Early Entry model), they’re nonetheless engaged on the sport. Full recreation is meant to be launched someday in 2023, so we’ll most likely get nearer to 23 years.
It is nonetheless not as a lot as within the Wasteland 2 case, however in gaming it is a complete period. This jogs my memory how far forward of its time was Baldur’s Gate 2. Whereas the graphics usually are not that spectacular anymore (though handmade backgrounds age very slowly), the gameplay continues to be on high. I want that I can say one thing related about BG3 after the subsequent 22 years.
technomadic_rony: Mass Impact 4. I have been ready for a very good Mass Impact recreation since 2013. There is a rumor that the brand new Mass Impact recreation shall be launched subsequent 12 months, eagerly ready for that.
Mass Impact: Andromeda left such a nasty style in my mouth that I virtually gave up on this collection. However final 12 months bought an opportunity to play by the unique trilogy within the Legendary Version and I fell in love once more. This collection actually deserves a very good observe up. Please do not mess it up, Bioware.
