Top 10 BEST Video Game Franchise Comebacks!
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Everyone loves a good comeback story. Especially when it involves a sweet video game! Welcome to and today we’re counting down our picks for the Top 10 Best Franchise Comebacks!
#10. “Fire Emblem Awakening” (2013)
#9. “Metroid Prime” (2002)
#8. “XCOM Enemy Unknown” (2012)
#7. “Wolfenstein The New Order” (2014)
#6. “Deus Ex Human Revolution” (2011)
#5. “Tomb Raider” (2013)
#4. “Resident Evil Biohazard” (2017)
#3, #2 & #1: ???
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The DOOM soundtrack was godlike. A masterpiece.
2013 Tomb Raider is one of my favorite games… of all time. It is just beautiful and the controls are just amazing! Such a good story too!
Bethesda was kicking it on this list!
7:01 "Doom 3 (1993)"
Me: wat
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Why would you heavily hint at including FF15 at the beginning, only to not include it
Neat.
u damn lucky how come nintendo doesn't strike your video
Red Dead Redemption better be #1
Crash Bandicoot !!!!!!!!
Where's skate 4?!
Ehm, sorry if I sound rude but… anyone has the thumbnail pic of Wolfenstein? God bless William BJ. Blazcowich.
I don't recall playing Doom 3 in 1993 but ok.
Duke Nukem lol jk lmfao rofl
It will come back you will see
Persona 5. Because the previous installment, persona 4, was released in December 2008! I'm glad persona has returned with a bang. I know it's not actually a reboot or anything
Dudes! No Alien: Isolation? The Alien game franchise was deader than dead until that game came out.
Ok, where is Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time?
fallout 3 should have been on there
If they didn't put Fire Emblem Awakening on this list, I would've flipped.
So many garbage games in this list
Actually, Watchmojo, Fire Emblem was set to be discontinued if Awakening didn’t sell 500,000 copies. It ended up more than QUADRUPLING this number, and now the series is big.
I can see fallout 3 and possibly bioshock on this list
I knew doom would be number one.
Nice to know doom 3 released in 1993
ı want to see a new wario game for the 3ds thats for sure.
I thought Metal Gear should have got an honorable mention
I'd never played a Wolfenstein, Deus Ex, or Tomb Raider games before the ones included on this list. I really like those new entries. They were a good place for newcomers to jump on, the gameplay is great, and the stories are engaging. I pre-ordered Mankind Divided and Rise of the Tomb Raider. The ending of Mankind Divided didn't feel like an actual resolution, but the rest of the game was great. Rise of the Tomb Raider was a worthy sequel and the DLC is pretty good. Endurance mode is a challenge mode that gets pretty intense; the Baba Yaga addition is short, but the story and visual effects are cool; Cold Darkness Awakened is a zombie mode, but the gameplay keeps it from getting stale. Though I'm not getting Wolfenstein II day one, I am planning on picking it up.
There was a 1st person Xcom game?? Hah learn something new everyday.
fallout?
Metroid Prime 4!
Fire Emblem "not struggling"?? If Awakening hadn't sold as well as it did Nintendo would have actually killed off the series.
Fire emblem had phoenix mode on.
That's how.
A bit surprised to not see Metal Gear Solid on the list. Expected it to be number 1 for sure (and I'm not even a fan, but no one can deny its popularity/influence).
The new order is actually a sequel to return to castle wolfenstein and wolfenstein (2009)
i never asked for this game to be number 6
Tourk should be on hear
Wait, no Prince of Persia?
MK 2011 deserved 1st place. it's one of the best games of all time
DJ dikkat!
Parasite Eve needs a comeback
I think Nier: Automata would really had deserved a spot on this list.
7:00 Ah yes, doom 3 of 1993, a 100 percent correct date.
Mihoshi from Tenchi Muyo
The mere fact that you put doom at #1 means you've earned a like
Dont read this
You savage
Starcraft 2 after having a long absence turned out pretty damn spectacular.
Sure there was probably a lot of complaints from the super hardcore Starcraft gamers that didn't like certain things for god knows what reason, but getting down to it, the campaign was fantastic and pretty much continued right where Brood War left off (at least in a story sense, timewise had several years in the gap).
Then you got stuff like Legacy of the Void adding campaign styled co-op missions which seem pretty damn popular, kinda hard to find another franchise keeping the RTS genre relevant.