Gamesradar has posted a list of 123 games with untapped franchise potential. The list includes several favorites, and kicking it of is Primal Rage from the mid-90's. (Boy do I miss eating cave people for a quick health up) We've taken the top 3 games and displayed them here, for the full list visit the Gamesradar Top 123 untapped franchise potential list.

Here's a snippet from the original article from Gamesradar:

Store shelves are littered with sequels to crappy games and franchises that have no right to exist. Hello, Dynasty Warriors! What Faustian covenant keeps you alive?? Meanwhile, videogame history is teeming with amazing, innovative titles that were mercilessly trampled underfoot when the balance sheet didn’t add up. This is our ode to games with unrealized franchise potential.

Some of the games on this list are no-brainers, others are diamonds in the rough. Yet others may have had sequels only in Japan, or have been out of circulation since the 16-bit era. Whatever their backstory, we’re picking them up and dusting them off in hopes that whoever owns the rights will heed our call and get cracking on follow-ups. 

1. Primal Rage

Arcade, PSone, 3DO Interactive Multiplayer, Sega 32X, Atari Jaguar CD, Sega Saturn, Amiga, Mega Drive/Genesis, SNES, Sega Game Gear, Game Boy and PC CD-ROM (Atari, 1994)

 

This gore-drenched 2D fighter featured a cast of ferocious postapocalyptic monsters divided into two camps, Virtuous and Destructive. Work on Primal Rage 2, which was to feature a ginormous dragon-skeleton beastie named Necrosan, was cancelled by Atari in 1995. However, the plot was kept alive in the form of the novel Primal Rage: The Avatars. Books are great and all, but what we really want is a proper videogame sequel brimming with high-definition dino-gods and ape-beasts ripping the shit out of each other for the fate of mankind.

2. Base Wars

NES (Ultra Games/Konami, 1991)

This falls in the same territory as Primal Rage – why did it take game devs decades to come up with this super-basic, supremely awesome concept, and why the hell isn’t it an annual fixture? We already see seven or eight thousand sports games a year, most of which only appeal to a very specific audience. Killer Robot Baseball, on the other hand, is an idea any red-blooded American can get behind. Want to steal second? Hover on over there and beat the bolts out of that stupid tank-treaded baseman and take it by force. Don’t like your pitcher? Shred him down and buy a new one. Add in season play, a build-a-bot warehouse for drafting and a couple of new player designs and we’d be the first to step back up to the plate.

3. Jade Empire

PC, Xbox (Microsoft Game Studios/BioWare, 2005)

Since 2005, BioWare has been talking about the possibility of a Jade Empire sequel. And back in January of 2008, a shadowy rumor leaked onto the interwebs that code for Jade Empire 2 “exists.” The original game had all the trappings of franchise material with engrossing characters, magnificent settings, and a unique take on martial arts-fueled RPG combat. But until hard evidence of a sequel’s existence materializes, we’ll continue yearning for BioWare’s one-off hit to attain franchise status.

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