Top 6: Long lost Games/ Game series that need to be brought back.

#6  Onimusha Series

This samurai survival horror series is something we haven't seen since the PS2. Another one of Capcom's unique series that was very action packed and fun to play. It is surprising that we haven't even seen any of this series land on the PSN. I would assume it's likely because of the Keiji Inafune's departure from Capcom as he was the creator of the series.

Aside from the Tecmo Koei games we really don't see any video games from the Sengoku era last gen. While the Onimusha series isn't probably the most demanded HD collection. It is one worth while.

HONORABLE MENTION: Pretty much any of the Capcom games pre last GEN (Resident Evil 2,  Power Stone, Rival Schools, anything Megaman, Viewtiful Joe, Super Ghouls n' Ghosts and Breath of Fire)

One more thing Onimusha the series does have recent release in the form of a browser game in Japan known as ONIMUSHA SOULS. We wont likely see this in America but it does go to show that while Capcom has abandoned many of it's franchises that Onimusha is still one not completely gone.

#5 Legacy of Kain Series

Another lost relic of the pre HD era is the vampire series Legacy of Kain and Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver.  Legacy of Kain was one of the first series you really felt like you were playing a villain. A vampire lord who desires to conqueror the world of Nosgoth. The setting of the series was fitting for this gothic world where vampires roam. Kain had all the powers you could imagine a vampire could have (mist transformation, and charming enemies to do your bidding).

Soul Reaver a side story to Legacy of Kain had you control an unlucky victim of Kain's wrath who is brought back to life to seek vengeance on his former master. Raziel, the protagonist is a Soulreaver (pretty much of a undead soul vampire) who adventures through the astral realms of Nosgoth. With two series going on Raziel and Kain eventually teamed up in the final game of the series Legacy of Kain Defiance.

Unfortunately as you will likely see with most of the games on this list is that Legacy of Kain series likely stopped developement due to the falling out between Silicon Knights and Eidos. One semi good ending to this is that the Legacy of Kain series does live on through  a free to play online game by Square Enix known as Nosgoth. Not exactly the Legacy of Kain, but it shows the series has enough interest to keep it alive in some fashion. According to Wikipedia Nosgoth is currently in open beta.

One more thing, Raziel and Kain were released as downloadable characters in the top down download game LARA CROFT AND THE GUARDIAN OF LIGHT. 

#4 Eternal Darkness

Another Silicon Knights series, however this one is published by Nintendo. One of the a few mature series published by Nintendo, Eternal Darkness is best described as action-adventure horror game. It's best known element is it's sanity meter which when lowered caused the game to begin to play tricks on you. Nothing is more scary then a game telling your memory card is corrupted or your volume has suddenly turned down. The game was full of clever ideas. 

Eternal Darkness contained not one protagonist but several. You start off as Alexandra Roivas looking into the murder of her grandfather. After find secret rooms inside of her grandfathers mansion along with a book she begins to learn the stories of our other protagonists. 

Nintendo tries to cater toward the younger audiences, however I think the company should pick back up their ideas to find a way to please all ages. Eternal Darkness is a very unique idea that gamers brings up enough that sometime soon someone will copy it and make a successful franchise out of it. Nintendo act now!

A few of the former developers haven't given up on making a spiritual sequel to the series known as Shadows of the Eternal. In 2014, the former Silicon Knight developer launched a crowd funding company to get the game developed, but after two Kickstarter campaigns the company failed to meet it's goals. On October 30th Quantum Entanglement Entertainment announced it would take over development of the game which as of right now is the last we have heard about it. 

#3 Parasite Eve

A series that we haven't seen a true successor to since the Playstation One. Parasite Eve is a Action RPG. The game took place in Manhattan as the NYPD rookie Aya Brea as she faced off against Eve and other mitochondria monsters that causing havoc in New York. What really made the game unique was that not only did the game have these RPG elements in a semi survival horror game, but eventually gain powers of your own going from simple rookie cop to super power badass.

 

Parasite Eve did get a sort of sequel story game for the PSP, that was not under the Parasite Eve title at all. The game was instead named 3rd Birthday. The game had Aya Brea voiced by Yvonne Strahovski and Kyle from Parasite Eve 2 voiced by Jensen Ackles.

#2 The Suffering

A psychological horror game about a man trapped in prison after being convicted of murdering his family. This series was only really prominent in the Playstation 2, and Xbox era. The game had you fight off monsters that designed from prison executions. For example a monster with needles extruding from its body representing lethal injection. The game had a variety of weapons from lead pipes to machine guns. Unlike most horror games this series included a karma system that determined outcome of the game. 

Fun Fact the creature were designed by Stan Winston famous for movie monsters such as Predator, The Thing, and Aliens.

While some of the other games on this list have manged to get a partial reincarnation Suffering seems to have been forgotten. The Suffering is a Midway published game. Midway filed for Bankruptcy in 2009. 

#1 PSI-OPS THE MIND-GATE CONSPIRICY

 

Likely a game no one expected on this list was Psi-Ops. Psi-Ops was a action game that gave you psychic powers to play with throughout the game. I mean is it the best game in the world? Nah but one of the first games to really utilize Havok 2.0 and ragdoll physics and just a load of fun. The first game you played and thought "Man, one day they'll make a really good Star Wars Jedi game with this engine. I don't have much to say about this game because I'll let this video do all the talking for me.

WHAT GAMES DO YOU FEEL SHOULD BE REVITALIZED? Leave a comment below.

Kickstarter for Megaman X figure

While Capcom has not supported their Blue Bomber, a company known as TruForce has put up a kickstarter for a really nice Megaman X figure. The figure it self requires a pledge of $80 dollars, which is pretty high but wow is this figure look nice. Hopefully this will get fully funded. Here is the link if your interested in supporting this awesome figure. 

Super Mega Ultra Force Podcast Episode 1

The Age of Ultron Pop Vinyl are looking great

My only problem with the Mavel line of Pop Vinyls is that they are all bobble heads which means they have don't actually have a base for the neck.

I do like the colors of Vision. The greyish green and the pink color face look great together. Also Hot Topic has a special Savage Grey Hulk. I wonder if that will play out in the movie during the Hulk Vs Iron Man fight.

Images taken from Io9

Here are some of the Variant covers of The New Star Wars series by Marvel.

What do you think? Are you excited for the new series or do you miss the old Darkhorse comic?

Looks like Venom is joining the Nova force in Guardians of the Galaxy

Like all comic book character redesigns they happen quite often it was four years ago (Amazing Spider-man 654) that we saw Flash Thompson don the Venom symbiotic and give us a new look to the character. Now Venom is being taken into space and becoming a part of the Guardians of the Galaxy. It also looks as though he's getting a larger appearance similar to the Eddie Brock version of Venom. 

What intrigues me the most is if Sony has give back some of the rights to Spiderman is this a sign that we maybe seeing symbiotes and Venom in the next Guardians of the Galaxy?  

Loot Crate January 2015

As a subscriber to Loot Crate I've been able to enjoy some of the neat items that I wouldn't normally see for sale. This months theme was Rewind and of course they included some classic gaming materials.

Mini 10-Doh Figure

The figure this month is one reminiscent of an old Nintendo cartridge from Squid Kids Inc. Not only that but they have neat references to awesome classic movies and Video games. 

Can't not love a great Back to the Future reference.

PIXEL SUNGLASSES

COMIC BOOK NOTE PAD

VOLTRON BLUEPRINT SHIRT

STAR WARS #1 Loot Crate Variant

While I'm a big fan of Star Wars being run by Darkhorse I'm still at least a little interested in Marvel's take on it.

Fan made Destiny Timeline makes Destiny feel like it has a story.

While thousands of people still play Destiny and argue about what the game lacks. The one things most people can agree on is the lack of a coherent story. Destiny is full of cutscene's (Unskippable I might add), but most of them are full of exposition but none of it worked together to put together a story. Instead we are given Grimoire cards, cards earned through experiencing the game that can only be seen through Bungie's app and Destiny's website. While that gave us more information, people still complain that Destiny's story. One Redditor managed to work on a timeline that gives us a better idea of what is really going on in Destiny.




Here is a link to the Reddit page where the timeline can be found here.

New Transformers Combiner Wars Toy line looks to destroy Wallets everywhere.

For years Hasbro has made amazing Transformers toys with their Generations line that focused on capturing the nostalgia of Transformers fans. This year they've given in to the wishes of everyone's dreams and made a toy line of Transformers Combiners. 

There are several Transformer Combiners in the Transformers line most famous of the group is Devastator who is rumored to be coming soon. Two sets that are confirmed to be coming are Superion who is formed from the 5 Aeriabots, and Menasor who is formed from the Decepticon unit the Stunticons. 

Whats amazing about this series is that the transformers who are the arms and legs are interchangable no worry as to if you could only find only legs, or only arms. They are also interchangeable with the opposite factions Combiner. 

Image Belongs to Seibertron.com

What makes things even more intersting is that as usual the toy line is required to have an Optimus Prime. While he is great on his own right makes him even better is that he himself is a Combiner and can be connected with any of the other Combiner limbs. This series is great and while they are the cost of a regular figure ($18 each) I have no quarrel. They are great designed and I hope they contine to release more.

RIPT's shirt's today want you to "Praise the Sun" Super Mario style

Shirts are for sale for only 24 hours @ RIPT Apparel

This Mug Reminds Me I Need to Watch The Strain

While I'm only one episode into Guillermo Del Toro's The Strain. I must say that this thermal changing mug is very awesome.


If your interested here is the link below to buy it.

http://shop.fxnetworks.com/detail.php?p=763889&icid=mybuys&green=2dcf7800-489e-ec3070-32d3-3890b124c0c1

Magic The Gathering's New Expansion gives us an overload of Dragons to play with in Fate Reforged

While I havent been interested in the last expansion of Magic The Gathering, which focused on world that looked to be influenced by ancient China. This new expansion furthers that but add loads of dragons to the game, most namely The new planeswalker Ugin. 

I've always enjoyed the series not just for it being a fun and easy game to play, but also the amazing art and details put into every card. I think the game's always been sort of a gateway drug into board games.

Here are some more examples of the amazing artwork for the site. (Taken from Artofmagic.com)

YEAR IN REVIEW 2014

Hello all it is the beginning of 2015, and last a lot went on. Great entertainment is made every year. So like your typical sites I've written up some of my favorite content of 2014. Now please note that this is all my opinion. I'm not a reviewer or journalist, so anything I say is only a recommendation of anything that you might have missed in 2014.

-Wyatt  

MOVIE OF 2014

To me this movie has no brainer for best movie. I'm a big super hero guy and a big scifi guy, and I think both genre's need to have a little more humor in them. Before this movie was out, I noticed quite a few people who had little faith this movie could ever succeed. To me Disney/Marvel would never do it if they didn't think it would.  

The great characters of the movie are what make it amazing. Every character has a quite a bit of depth to them. The scenery was great, the movie never really felt like it had a dull moment. I think movie has been praised a lot so I think a simple pat on the back for it is good enough.

RUNNER UP

Captain America Winter Soldier

Big Hero 6

Snowpiercer

VIDEO GAME OF 2014

This is I'm sure is a controversial choice for many, but in my opinion. I think something that is very important to contender of game of the year is games that I spent the most time with and no game have I spent more time with then Destiny.

What makes this game for me is that the game play is solid, and its great for a gaming with friends and with groups. This probably the closest thing I've experienced to an MMO as a console gamer. I mean I really don't like the lack of story it has, but I mean no game this year has given me the most enjoyment and the most frustration at the same time. I mean Destiny is that girlfriend you keep breaking up with because you see problems, but you keep getting back together with because you can't think of a life without her.

RUNNER UP

DRAGON AGE INQUISITION

TELEVISION SHOW OF 2014

I really didn't know what to expect with this show when I first saw it. At the time I was just told it was a murder mystery with Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson. What I found was a dark a creepy yet realistic TV show that was well written. The setting really makes an impression on you. The writer can make the Louisiana seem like a terrifying place to live. I'm not a big fan of drama's but this show pulled me in and compelled me to watch more.

RUNNER UP

GAME OF THRONES

THE FLASH

COMIC BOOK OF 2014

Saga has been the series to talk about in the last few years and it's a combination of romeo and juliet meets Star Wars and Game of Thrones. Do yourself a favor and check it out.

RUNNER UP

BLACK SCIENCE

MORE SOON. 

I feel like there is a lot more for us to put into this then just a vanilla list of favorite things. So I'll update more in the future.