CoD 4 Prequel would be great! And what the heck is that Fandango game.

The Bioshock prequel is the greatest idea I've heard in a while. Use all of your gaming press power to send that message along to 2k, or whoever needs to receive it. Because I don't think Bioshock 2 will deliver. Please pass that message along. I beg of you.

@ oreomonkey;
Are you friggin kidding? Buy it, or im going to tell your mom to stop paying for your Xbox Live subscription.

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Gears and Bioshock prequals would own.

I think they should make a prequel to half life 2, set after half life 1, to see the invasion of the combine and all that, I woul love to ssee valve make that game

I very strongly agree. We need a Grim Fandango prequel.

I don't think it should be what you suggested, though. I think it should be an entirely different game that takes place in the real world. It would show us what Manny did while he was living to deserve working at the DoD in the afterlife.

But they should make it so that we don't even know that we're playing as Manny--or that the game is related to Grim Fandango at all--until the very end right before Manny dies. That would be epic.

totally agree with cod 4

Before I give my opinions,, let me just set some things straight right now.

1.) I AM NOT A KINGDOM HEARTS OR FINAL FANTASY FAN, so I WILL either diss them or forget about them in my opinions (do NOT message me about how I "FORGOT" to give them a good review, because I did it on purpose).

2.) I am a fan of older games IF, where their graphics fall behind, their gameplay mechanics completely make up for that and more (example: Monkey Island originally didn't have good graphics but had amazing ideas for puzzles (and now it has good graphics AND gameplay ideas)).

3.) The reason why most game developers and gamers want SEQUELS is because most people want to BUILD on what they achieved in the last game, not regress to a point in time that happens before any point in the first game, where the weapons aren't as good and the story isn't as far along, so only if a game has an interesting enough backstory that everyone wants to play it will any game company do a prequel, and I personally think that most of these games deserve a prequel, even if you had to change the genre of the game for the prequel (Bioshock 0.5 would probably start off as a detective game because everyone is your friend and the city is only just beginning to show its age and insanity levels).

Now that we are on the same page, I will share my opinions.

Bioshock: Shoving you right into a post-apocalyptic world (almost like Fallout 3, but completely under water), Rapture quickly tells an interesting story about how it initially wasn't a mutant-infested hellhole, and was once the home to many sane, powerful and popular people. This brings up an interesting point: it would be very nice to play as a famous detective who is residing in Rapture when everything starts turning from bio-engineered gold to grade-A mutant shit, trying to solve what is happening, stop it from continuing, and even escape with your life.

Gears: At many points during this amazing game (which has even hinted at how long it will continue and why (just play the training level of Gears 2, listening to the dialogue, then play both the first act in Gears 1 and the worm level in Gears 2, while thinking about what the Carmines have done already (it certainly isn't killing enemies in horrific and gruesome fashions)), Marcus talks about how we (the humans) lost a lot of great men in their war that happened right before Emergence Day, which obviously makes the gamer want to play that. Sure, it would probably be mostly multiplayer (it is a war that keeps the front-lines moving back and forth), although it might also include what Marcus does that makes saving his own father a crime punishable by jail. Overall, I think that the Gears universe can make anything a good game.

CoD4: My favorite missions in CoD4 were the Price missions (although I hated the part where you have to dodge tanks and guards from a crawl position) and the gunship mission (which we will be able to unlock through multiplayer in MW2). I would say that it would be nice to play a hooter that at some point captures the feel of Vietnam and every other big struggle between WWII and modern day warfare.

Grim Fandango: Even though I might not have ever played it, just what I saw from one trailer has kept me interested in this older game. The idea that how you make your way to your final spiritual destination isn't just decided by how good or bad a person you were in life, but instead, you also have to deal with travel agents, even when you thought you escaped them by dying. To make things worse, the message tube that tells each travel agent what the client can afford has been corrupted, which could mean some very weird things (a nun has to walk to heaven while a killer can ride there in the lap of luxury on a dead train). An entire game based completely around this concept would be fun, especially since the game would start off with the travel agent being new and not knowing what to do as well as a possibly (or possibly not) corrupt deciding tube, making every case of dead wanting to rest in peace more complex then the next.

Mirrors Edge, Kingdom Hearts, and Final Fantasy:I personally didn't like the game, so I won't talk about how "good" a prequel will be.

Also, @adadadad, HOW DARE YOU! HOW DARE YOU USE THE XBOX 4-PLAYER SYMBOL AS YOUR PICTURE! HOW DARE YOU SAY YOU ARE FIRST WHEN YOU ARE CLEARLY AT LEAST SEVERAL HOURS BEHIND THAT, WITH YOU BEING 44TH! AND HOW DARE YOU SAY PC GAMERS SUCK BUT XBOX GAMERS RULE! I HOPE YOU GET A RRoD AND YOUR XBOX GETS LOST IN THE MAIL, JUST SO THAT YOU HAVE TO PLAY ON A PC!

what i don't understand is why no one has created a half decent vietnam war game...it was one of the bloodiest and pointless wars in our history and vets still suffer from the memories of what they experienced there...infinity ward could create a vietnam game where the main character experiences all kinds of crazy stuff in the jungle like seeing things

I'd take a donkey kong prequel.
What was Mario doing before jumping barrels?
Plumbing school? Jumping sheeps?

And then there is Mass Effect.
I would like many prequels, at least one where you get to play your character based on choices you made in the 1st game, and one where you are a Prothean running for your life.

You know, I always thought that instead of the crappy Tales of Symphonia sequel, they should have done a prequel showing Mithos' journey and the relationship between him and his friends, and how he stopped the ancient war and split the world in two. I always wanted to know what happened... (sorry about me and ToS, I just thought it'd be a good argument.)

@ huffalump. Please, don't even go there.

a Fallout 3 prequel woud be AWSOME. It would take place literally after the bombs fell and you could witness the uter choas of how the ghouls and supermuntants started.

Bioshock 2 is set during the fall of rapture...isn't that a prequel?

i think da captian price cod is a good idea

our obsestion is with both prequels and sequels it is our search for more knowledge, Games follow trends of films these there are more films showing how it all began (the prequel) lets game developers don't go as far as re-writing the original story line

FF4 WAT!?! that game have a sequel and 3 released ports already. its ff6 that need sum prequel

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