Spin-offs you love

[Yousef]

Persona dancing all night

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The Warrior Orochi franchise, Persona and the many SMT spin offs, Tales of the World, FF Dissidia 012, Star Wars The force unleashed, DotHack Fragment and Link, DBZ Shin Budokai 2 and Metal Gear Rising

Warriors Orochi mentioned. You are my new best friend.

 

[Ikagura]

Wario Land and Warioware.

Yes, it's a Mario Land spinoff (which itself is spinoffy compared to Bros) and Ware is the spinoff of a spinoff.

 

[Yousef]

Wario Land and Warioware.

Yes, it's a Mario Land spinoff (which itself is spinoffy compared to Bros) and Ware is the spinoff of a spinoff.

I always thought WW was a spin-off of WL, which as you said, is a spin-off of ML… which is… my head hurts.

 

[Ikagura]

I always thought WW was a spin-off of WL, which as you said, is a spin-off of ML… which is… my head hurts.

I find it funny how games that are technically sequels are now their own spinoff series like Yoshi's Island being Mario World 2 ad Wario Land being Super Mario Land 3.

But don't overthink about it.

 

[ouyrtuy]

that apparently depended on how well the hd port sold.
i'm guessing not well, since there isn't any news yet on a sequel.

The PSP version was a bestseller in Japan, and the HD version sold around 1 million copies in 2015. If what Wikipedia says is true, then the game did pretty well for a graphically updated PSP release. I assume they decided to focus on other, more profitable projects in their opinion, such as FF16 and FF7R. Honestly, I don't know; I'm just guessing.

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I always thought WW was a spin-off of WL, which as you said, is a spin-off of ML… which is… my head hurts.

Isn't Donkey Kong Country a spin off too?

 

[MasterEn]

The PSP version was a bestseller in Japan, and the HD version sold around 1 million copies in 2015. If what Wikipedia says is true, then the game did pretty well for a graphically updated PSP release. I assume they decided to focus on other, more profitable projects in their opinion, such as FF16 and FF7R. Honestly, I don't know; I'm just guessing.

the tomb raider and deus ex reboots sold about 10 million units each, and were considered failures by square enix. ff13 took three games to reach the same amount. there's no true telling what their standards are for success and failure.
the guy in charge said that he might continue on working on a sequel for type 0 after 15 was done with development. so, who knows; a sequel might be in the works.

 

[DragonMals]

Puyo Puyo. Gotta be one of my absolute favorite spinoffs of a game of all time.

 

[ThunderBoy]

 

[Cheela]

I love a lot of spin off because of the genres. I love puzzle games and rythm games soo obviously things like dr mario or persona 4 dancing are right in my veins. But fighting games ohhhh boy…
My favorites spin offs but they are kinda hard to pull off good. We have the classic bad example: Castlevania Judgment
But then there is Persona 4 arena
I fucking love that game
Soo much in fact it was probably my main reason to buy a PS3 shjsjjdd

 

[Stingy Perry]

Is MGS Portable Ops a spin off, Kojima says it’s non-canon to the main storyline.

 

[MasterEn]

Is MGS Portable Ops a spin off, Kojima says it’s non-canon to the main storyline.

it's canon. it is mentioned in peace walker, though kaz is kind of low level insulting the game when he refers to the event.

 

[Ikagura]

it's canon. it is mentioned in peace walker, though kaz is kind of low level insulting the game when he refers to the event.

I was planning to play that one someday but it's obvious that it was a test ground for Peace Walker.

 

[MasterEn]

I was planning to play that one someday but it's obvious that it was a test ground for Peace Walker.

it definitely plays weird. it primarily uses snake eaters control scheme but with a couple of tweaks. and the game tries to emphasize recruiting random soldiers and npcs, but i don't recall it impacting game play too much. been a few years since i played it. i think you could play as a nurse and run around armed with machine guns. somecallmejohnny has a review about the game and he noticed some striking similarities to met gear: ghost babel for the gbc. it comes off a bit as a stealth remake almost.

 

[Ikagura]

it definitely plays weird. it primarily uses snake eaters control scheme but with a couple of tweaks. and the game tries to emphasize recruiting random soldiers and npcs, but i don't recall it impacting game play too much. been a few years since i played it. i think you could play as a nurse and run around armed with machine guns. somecallmejohnny has a review about the game and he noticed some striking similarities to met gear: ghost babel for the gbc. it comes off a bit as a stealth remake almost.

So... Pokémon but in MGS?

Jokes aside I really need to do more Metal Gear games, I've finished the first MSX game via Subsistance.

 

[MasterEn]

So... Pokémon but in MGS?

Jokes aside I really need to do more Metal Gear games, I've finished the first MSX game via Subsistance.

i'd say peace walker and phantom pain match that far better. you get soldiers with all sorts of different stats and abilities. and there's an interesting bit of plot that happens in peace walker and carries over to phantom pain. if you want, i could tell you about it. it's partially a spoiler, but rather unique in nature.

 

[Ikagura]

i'd say peace walker and phantom pain match that far better. you get soldiers with all sorts of different stats and abilities. and there's an interesting bit of plot that happens in peace walker and carries over to phantom pain. if you want, i could tell you about it. it's partially a spoiler, but rather unique in nature.

Which makes me think that Konami could've made an actually great Metal Gear spinoff involving the soldiers that isn't Survive...

At least MGO 1&2 are still a thing.

 

[Lee__Kanker]

The best Persona spin off

 

[Somnia]

Peak

 

[MasterEn]

Which makes me think that Konami could've made an actually great Metal Gear spinoff involving the soldiers that isn't Survive...

At least MGO 1&2 are still a thing.

we ignore survive. it never happened. the game itself makes it a self-contained nonsensical spin off.

 

[Somnia]

we ignore survive. it never happened. the game itself makes it a self-contained nonsensical spin off.

If you don't ignore Survive you get a pretty fun co-op survival game that builds off of MGSV's stellar gameplay in subtle ways. It isn't perfect and the story is nonsense, but it's fun and it goes for dirt cheap these days.

 

[Ikagura]

We ignore survive. it never happened. the game itself makes it a self-contained nonsensical spin off.

I'd totally take MGR as canon (and it doesn't even contradict the main MGS series nor retcons anything big anyway).

If you don't ignore Survive you get a pretty fun co-op survival game that builds off of MGSV's stellar gameplay in subtle ways. It isn't perfect and the story is nonsense, but it's fun and it goes for dirt cheap these days.

I think the issue goes beyond that:

Konami just followed the trend of zombie survival by using Kojima's franchise name to make more sales right after they ditched him. That leaves a bitter taste even if I'm not a massive MGS fan.

 

[MasterEn]

If you don't ignore Survive you get a pretty fun co-op survival game that builds off of MGSV's stellar gameplay in subtle ways. It isn't perfect and the story is nonsense, but it's fun and it goes for dirt cheap these days.

you have a point, but i like having good stories with mgs. survive doesn't have any substantive story to go with the good game play.

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I'd totally take MGR as canon (and it doesn't even contradict the main MGS series nor retcons anything big anyway).

rising is canon to the timeline. it does take place a few years later than the rest of the games, and doesn't rely heavily on the previous games for the story. it's a pretty good start point to jump into the series. it was one of the first games i played in the series after mgs1.

 

[spectresfrommercury]

soul hackers

 

[Jotaro]

- the prince of persia 2008 game
- the nier games
- daxter for psp
- the re revelations games
- the one piece musou games
- the hyrule warriors series


some quick examples

 

[_-_AceDragon_-_]

Demon's Crest