Best game never to have a sequel or be part of a series? Best stand alone game.

Best game never to have a sequel or be part of a series? Pick your top stand alone game.

This question means that games like Ocarina of time, Final Fantasy VII, Half Life, Star craft, Warcraft, command and Conquer, Doom, Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat are excluded. They belong to part of a franchise.

My pick would be Eternal Darkness for the Gamecube. A great survival horror game that knew how to play tricks on a gamer. Playing that game at night or in the dark with the sound turned up was a unique experience.

I am also a big fan of General Chaos on the Sega Genesis. It was a great action strategy game that I can still play with friends.

This is a hard question so think about it carefully. Some games I wanted to list have sequels I never heard about.

I was going to say Rocket Knight adventures(GEN), but ends up that has a sequel named Sparkster on SNES.

Therefore, Blast Corps (N64), from Rare. And in close 2nd is Jet Force Gemini (N64).

Black Tiger is one of my favorite games. It was an arcade game from Capcom.

It had gameplay similar to Castlevania, while at the same time had slight RPG elements where you built up your gold to purchase/upgrade to stronger weapons and armor. You could also buy keys and potions.

Every level in the game had a unique design, and there were challenging boss battles.

I have to mention Magic Sword (another Capcom arcade game, later ported to SNES). Technically Magic Sword was similar, but it was different enough to not really be a sequel to Black Tiger.

Another honorable mention might be Rez, which first appeared on DreamCast, later appeared on PS2, and most recently showed up with HD graphic options on Xbox Live Arcade.

Rez is basically a music game where you shoot objects on screen to actually make the music play. The shooting and on-rails gameplay are similar to PanzerDragoon.

Rez is kinda hard to describe, it's well worth the time to play the trial version on XBLA.

I can name many, but I'll pick Silhouette Mirage this time around to keep things short.

I was going to say Rocket Knight adventures(GEN), but ends up that has a sequel named Sparkster on SNES.SirSpudly

Chrono TriggerDeerhunterIA

Sorry, Chorno Cross(PS1) is part of the Chrono Trigger universe, no matter how much you don't wish it was.

Also..now in search for Sparkster(GEN)!

I can name many, but I'll pick Silhouette Mirage this time around to keep things short.

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I was going to say Rocket Knight adventures(GEN), but ends up that has a sequel named Sparkster on SNES.Panzer_Zwei

But wasn't that a different game altogether? And a great way to confuse consumers?

The Legend of Dragoon (PSX)

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I can name many, but I'll pick Silhouette Mirage this time around to keep things short.

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I was going to say Rocket Knight adventures(GEN), but ends up that has a sequel named Sparkster on SNES.Video_Game_King

But wasn't that a different game altogether? And a great way to confuse consumers?

The Mega Drive one is called: Sparkster: Rocket Knight Adventures 2. (and it continues RKA) I don't see how it would confuse consumers.

Beyond Good and Evil, River City Ransom, Peter Jackson's King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie, Psi-Ops: The Mindgate Conspiracy, Psychonauts, Okami...haterex

Besides the fact that it had a sequel.

Duck HuntOleg_Huzwog

Good one. Funny that they never expanded more on the Nintendo Blaster.

Marble Madness, Hotel Dusk, Road Avenger, Chu Chu Rocket, F355 Challenge, Chrono Trigger (I know that Chrono Cross exists, but it has little to nothing to do with Chrono Trigger), Anticipation (This game is so amazing), Electroplankton, Killer Instinct (Arcade only, but come on), zombies ate my neighbors, Psychonauts, Beyond Good and Evil, and Galaga.TonySoprano314

Nice list. Zombies ate my neighbors was great. Wonder why it was never followed up? It was popular back in the day.

For me:

Okami (PS2/Wii) (though this may get a sequel eventually)

Voodoo Vince (Xbox)

Night Stalker (Intellivision)

[QUOTE="TonySoprano314"]Marble Madness, Hotel Dusk, Road Avenger, Chu Chu Rocket, F355 Challenge, Chrono Trigger (I know that Chrono Cross exists, but it has little to nothing to do with Chrono Trigger), Anticipation (This game is so amazing), Electroplankton, Killer Instinct (Arcade only, but come on), zombies ate my neighbors, Psychonauts, Beyond Good and Evil, and Galaga.JetLagz28

Nice list. Zombies ate my neighbors was great. Wonder why it was never followed up? It was popular back in the day.

And I also remember the main three characters from Chrono Trigger being in Chrono Cross, as well as one or some of the locations. So I don't see how it has nothing to do with it.

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[QUOTE="TonySoprano314"]Marble Madness, Hotel Dusk, Road Avenger, Chu Chu Rocket, F355 Challenge, Chrono Trigger (I know that Chrono Cross exists, but it has little to nothing to do with Chrono Trigger), Anticipation (This game is so amazing), Electroplankton, Killer Instinct (Arcade only, but come on), zombies ate my neighbors, Psychonauts, Beyond Good and Evil, and Galaga.Panzer_Zwei

Nice list. Zombies ate my neighbors was great. Wonder why it was never followed up? It was popular back in the day.

And I also remember the main three characters from Chrono Trigger being in Chrono Cross, as well as one or some of the locations. So I don't see how it has nothing to do with it.

What system was it on?

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[QUOTE="TonySoprano314"]Marble Madness, Hotel Dusk, Road Avenger, Chu Chu Rocket, F355 Challenge, Chrono Trigger (I know that Chrono Cross exists, but it has little to nothing to do with Chrono Trigger), Anticipation (This game is so amazing), Electroplankton, Killer Instinct (Arcade only, but come on), zombies ate my neighbors, Psychonauts, Beyond Good and Evil, and Galaga.JetLagz28

Nice list. Zombies ate my neighbors was great. Wonder why it was never followed up? It was popular back in the day.

And I also remember the main three characters from Chrono Trigger being in Chrono Cross, as well as one or some of the locations. So I don't see how it has nothing to do with it.

What system was it on?

SNES.

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I can name many, but I'll pick Silhouette Mirage this time around to keep things short.

[QUOTE="SirSpudly"]

I was going to say Rocket Knight adventures(GEN), but ends up that has a sequel named Sparkster on SNES.Panzer_Zwei

But wasn't that a different game altogether? And a great way to confuse consumers?

The Mega Drive one is called: Sparkster: Rocket Knight Adventures 2. (and it continues RKA) I don't see how it would confuse consumers.

They were both called Sparkster in the US. They were both made by Konami. A regular consumer might think, "Hey, they made it for both systems. I'll get the SNES version, multiplats usually end up better on that." They're not gonna get the same game. The only other game I can think of to do that was Aladdin, and that was made by 3 companies, each with their own universal boxart between them.

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[QUOTE="TonySoprano314"]Marble Madness, Hotel Dusk, Road Avenger, Chu Chu Rocket, F355 Challenge, Chrono Trigger (I know that Chrono Cross exists, but it has little to nothing to do with Chrono Trigger), Anticipation (This game is so amazing), Electroplankton, Killer Instinct (Arcade only, but come on), zombies ate my neighbors, Psychonauts, Beyond Good and Evil, and Galaga.Panzer_Zwei

Nice list. Zombies ate my neighbors was great. Wonder why it was never followed up? It was popular back in the day.

And I also remember the main three characters from Chrono Trigger being in Chrono Cross, as well as one or some of the locations. So I don't see how it has nothing to do with it.

Plus Radical Dreamers connected the two, I think. I know the CT PS1 remake did with one of the endings.

Marble Madness, Hotel Dusk, Road Avenger, Chu Chu Rocket, F355 Challenge, Chrono Trigger (I know that Chrono Cross exists, but it has little to nothing to do with Chrono Trigger), Anticipation (This game is so amazing), Electroplankton, Killer Instinct (Arcade only, but come on), zombies ate my neighbors, Psychonauts, Beyond Good and Evil, and Galaga.TonySoprano314

Killer Instinct (arcade and SNES) had sequels: Killer Instinct 2 in the arcade, and Killer Instinct Gold on N64.

Galaga '88 came out in the arcade. Galaga was also the sequel to Galaxian.

The Legend of Dragoon (PSX)

WWJD

This man speaks the truth. The Legend of Dragoon is a fantastic game

No Goldeneye? I suppose it depends on your definition of sequel, as none of the same developers worked on another Bond game, but if you wnt to argue that it does not count then I won't argue. I'm going to name a game that has never risen above the depths of obscurity, but I still love 11 years on, Mole Mania. You were a mole, and had to get a ball to a door in each level, but there would be obstacles and enemies that could be killed by throwing the ball at them. each level had an over world and an underworld, so you could dig a hole in the level and acces the underworld, emerging somewhere else on the level (it's a puzzle game, so the levels were only one screen large). There were also some very well thought out boss fights. I know this sounds very complex, but it's not if you actually start playing it. So I thought I'd add a link:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mole_Mania

The first game that comes to mind when I'm asked this question is Full Throttle on the PC. Such an awesome game with great music, great story, pretty much everything about it was awesome, they should at least re-release the game for the DS or PSP for current-gen gamers to get a shot at playing it.

Another one I can think of is Gruntz, a challenging game with funny putty-like characters that offered a lot of humor, weapons, and puzzle solving, I think this game was something fun to behold.

A game that obviously couldn't become a series since so many spin-offs were already being made is Metal Walker. It's like Pokemon but with robots, obviously intending to achieve popularity, but has nowadays fallen into severe obscurity.

There's also Sigma Star Saga, but with how the game ended, it's understandable how it didn't get made into a series.

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The Legend of Dragoon (PSX)

Shiggums

This man speaks the truth. The Legend of Dragoon is a fantastic game

Doh! Forgot that one. Yeah it's a fantastic gem that was underrated when it came out. I suppose there is potential for a sequel if enough members of the development team were to get together and thought one up.

No Goldeneye? I suppose it depends on your definition of sequel, as none of the same developers worked on another Bond game, but if you wnt to argue that it does not count then I won't argue. I'm going to name a game that has never risen above the depths of obscurity, but I still love 11 years on, Mole Mania. You were a mole, and had to get a ball to a door in each level, but there would be obstacles and enemies that could be killed by throwing the ball at them. each level had an over world and an underworld, so you could dig a hole in the level and acces the underworld, emerging somewhere else on the level (it's a puzzle game, so the levels were only one screen large). There were also some very well thought out boss fights. I know this sounds very complex, but it's not if you actually start playing it. So I thought I'd add a link:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mole_Mania

Junkie_man

This one was great:

ChuChu Rocket! is such a fun party game.

I liked Threads of Fate, Eternal Darkness, and...probably others I'm forgetting.

Does Xenogears count? It technically has nothing to do with Xenosaga, after all.

Shadow of the ColossusSecond_Rook

wasn't that a sequel to ICO or something?

my pick is XIII and Killer 7

I would have to say Landstalker (GEN) it was such a good genesis game that I would like to see more of trick6952

You know, the game was planned to be a Shining Force Gaiden game, but SEGA dropped Climax off the series.

There was supposed to be a LandStalker remake for the PSP, but it got canned unfortunately.

[QUOTE="Second_Rook"]Shadow of the Colossussummer_star17x

wasn't that a sequel to ICO or something?

No, I wouldn't say that, they were made by the same company and at the end of Colossus there is a baby with horns but I wouldn't say that either of these games is the sequel of the other.

[QUOTE="jeff16950_demon"]Anyone up for some xexyz for the NES?
Damn, that was good, as well as The Legend of Dragoon, Blasto (was funny at one point), Freedom Fighters, Hellfire for genesis and hmm....can't really think of any more...
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.....must end sentence before anyone notices it's a total run on sentence or my spelling mistakes....damn...luccaface

As for my favorites, they would be Ico and Shadow of the Colossus. They're loosely related, but whatever. Also Grim Fandango if PC-only titles are allowed.

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The Legend of Dragoon (PSX)

Myviewing

This man speaks the truth. The Legend of Dragoon is a fantastic game

Doh! Forgot that one. Yeah it's a fantastic gem that was underrated when it came out. I suppose there is potential for a sequel if enough members of the development team were to get together and thought one up.

We can hope right?