Good series-specific videogame sites?

[BIL]

Having just found the very cool http://crazytaxi.net/ thanks to Davey's CT topic, it made me wonder what other dedicated resources might be out there. Know any other good ones for games/series you're into? Of course there's the old classicgaming.com overview stuff like Contra HQ, but I'm thinking more in-depth.

Index of sites mentioned so far:

Brandish: http://www2.oninet.ne.jp/t_sera/index.html and http://tatanet.s16.xrea.com/index.html
Bubble Bobble: http://www.mcboof.com/games/bb/
Castlevania: http://www.castlevaniadungeon.net/
Crazy Taxi: http://crazytaxi.net/
Devil May Cry: http://phantombabies.net/
Doom: http://doomworld.com/
Etrian Odyssey: http://www.intothelabyrinth.net/
Falcom Music: http://falcomcdcatalog.heroku.com/
Fallout: http://www.nma-fallout.com/
Final Fantasy: http://www.uffsite.net/ , http://www.ffwa.org/ and http://www.cavesofnarshe.com/
Final Fantasy V: http://ffvspirit.com/
Fire Emblem: http://www.serenesforest.net/ and http://www.fe-online.co.uk/fe7/blazing-sword/
Grim Fandango: http://www.grimfandango.net
Herzog Zwei: http://www.technodynamic.com/herzogr.html
King's Field: http://www.kings-field.com/
Legacy of Kain / Blood Omen: http://www.thelostworlds.net/ (focused on lost content)
Marathon: http://marathon.bungie.org/
Mega Man: http://mmhp.net/
Metroid: http://metroid2002.com/
Nectaris: http://nectaris.tg-16.com/
Ninja Gaiden (2004): http://www.iberiansngrealm.com (seems to be down?)
Ogre Battle: http://www.fantasyanime.com/legacy/ogrebattle.htm
Panzer Dragoon: http://www.thewilloftheancients.com
Phantasy Star: http://www.pscave.com/ps4/ and http://www.psalgo.com/phantasy-star-iv/ ... ml#motavia
Raiden Fighters: http://rf-emporium.ghegs.com/
River City Ransom: http://www.seanbaby.com/nes/rcr.htm
Shenmue: http://www.shenmuedojo.net
Shinobi (2002) / Kunoichi aka Nightshade: http://page.freett.com/hotsumaonekill/index.htm
Silent Hill: http://translatedmemories.com/ and http://alchemillahospital.net/
Sorcerian: http://homepage2.nifty.com/tkdate/index.html
Strider: http://www.lscmainframe.net/
Stunts: http://alanrobinson.tripod.com/stunts_shrine.html , http://stunts.hu/zak/ , http://www.kalpen.de/luke/ and http://stunts.kalpen.de/
Tales Of series: http://www.abyssalchronicles.com
Treasure of the Rudras: http://www.fantasyanime.com/valhalla/rudra.htm
Wasteland: http://wasteland.rockdud.net/wasteland.html
Wing Commander: http://www.wcnews.com/
Xanadu: Xanadu Laboratory
Ys: http://seldane.proboards.com/index.cgi
Z: http://zzone.lewe.com/

[Mortificator]

Mega Man Home Page

Doomworld

Wing Commander CIC

[greg]

Serenes Forest, a Fire Emblem site.

[EinhanderZwei]

Marathon Official Site
Everything about my all-time favorite FPS franchise

[moozooh]

http://metroid2002.com/

[Jon]

http://www.intothelabyrinth.net/

Cool little Etrian Odyssey fansite.

[Siren2011]

http://www.thewilloftheancients.com -A really neat site covering the Panzer Dragoon games.

http://www.grimfandango.net -An awesome site surrounding the game called Grim Fandango.

http://www.shenmuedojo.net -Still alive and kicking. I don't particularly care for the new layout, though.

I'll add more as they come to me.

[BIL]

Cool, everyone. Updated first post.

[ratlhead]

http://www.abyssalchronicles.com A Good "Tales Of" series fansite.
Ancient Land of Ys Self-explanatory Actually it's a forum... a very good one.

[Ruldra]

http://www.fantasyanime.com/valhalla/rudra.htm

Everything related to one of the best RPGs out there: Treasure of the Rudras.

[greg]

http://www.fantasyanime.com/valhalla/rudra.htm

Everything related to one of the best RPGs out there: Treasure of the Rudras.

It's a shame Square never released this officially in English. They should at least re-release it on the DS or PSP or something. I think I'll play this patched version on my Xbox once I'm done with Tales of Phantasia.

[Specineff]

Castlevania Dungeon.

[ZOM]

流浪者の小屋 - Wanderer's Lodge The end all be all place for Brandish 1-3 maps and hints.

Oka's TaTaNet Everything Brandish 1-2-3 more obscure that isn't covered in Wanderer's Lodge, guy is completely crazy with different formulas showing game-mechanics and ways to complete the games for various end-stats.

Xanadu Laboratory Some Xanadu related stuff. Pretty much all you need, actually.

SORCERIAN Data Room Name says it all.

kings-field.com/ For all your Dark-Fantasy needs...

[BIL]

Nice, I've wondered about the King's Field series! Falcom resources are always good too. Updated first post.

[borislaw]

Here are a few pretty good sites for some RPG series; although some might be just for an individual game. I apologize in advance if none of these links reflect the desired results of the post. It's just that I've had these things bookmarked forever and thought I would share them since they seem to at least somewhat match the post subject's request.

Fire Emblem
http://www.fe-online.co.uk/fe7/blazing-sword/ This site has some Fire emblem stuff. Not sure how much.

Phantasy Star:
http://www.pscave.com/ps4/
-- this one has a bunch of cool maps

http://www.psalgo.com/phantasy-star-iv/ ... ml#motavia
--this one is called "Fringes of Algo: Phantasy Star Fan Community"

Final Fantasy Stuff:
http://www.cavesofnarshe.com/ff5/
--an old bookmark from when I was playing FFV

http://www.ffwa.org/ff5/
--ambitious FF series site

http://forums.ffshrine.org/
-final fantasy forum

http://ffvspirit.com/
--this might be strictly a ff5 site

http://www.uffsite.net/
--the official unofficial ff website

[Ixmucane2]

A selection of my own bookmarks (not tested, might be dead):

Bubble Bobble http://www.mcboof.com/games/bb/
Stunts http://members.tripod.com/~AlanRobinson ... hrine.html
http://stunts.hu/zak/
http://stunts.kalpen.de/
http://www.kalpen.de/luke/
River City Ransom http://www.seanbaby.com/nes/rcr.htm
Ogre Battle http://www.fantasyanime.com/legacy/ogrebattle.htm
Nectaris http://nectaris.tg-16.com/
Z http://zzone.lewe.com/

[ZOM]

This thread just showed me how many bookmarks I have to delete. It's sickening really, so many sites about games not many would write about are going down lately, sites that lasted almost a decade. What's even more sad is that no-one seems to care (read: save/backup the stuff).

[greg]

This thread just showed me how many bookmarks I have to delete. It's sickening really, so many sites about games not many would write about are going down lately, sites that lasted almost a decade. What's even more sad is that no-one seems to care (read: save/backup the stuff).

This is what I ranted about several months ago. There's not enough HTML love for games these days. Everything's going to blogs or Youtube and such. It's sad. Back when everyone had their own ISP webspace, servers at a university, or even free webhosting places like Angelfire, Fortunecity, Tripod, or Geocities, there was so much variety of fandom. Heck, we even tried to tie our pages together with those silly Web Rings. Now, you're lucky to find any unofficial homepages at all on any subject anymore. That makes me a sad panda.

[njiska]

How has no one brought up Ghegs' awesome Raiden Fighters Emporium? http://rf-emporium.ghegs.com/

[Ghegs]

How has no one brought up Ghegs' awesome Raiden Fighters Emporium? http://rf-emporium.ghegs.com/

Just to clarify: I'm simply supplying the hosting, twiddle's the man in charge of the site. Might as well mention that I'm quite willing and capable to help out others in the same way, if they have a site in need of hosting.

[BPzeBanshee]

www.tauniverse.com - Total Annihilation, the only RTS I enjoy playing at the moment
www.df-21.net - Dark Forces, where KotOR and all those games started
www.serebii.net

I'll post more when I can actually get on a PC.

[Battletoad]

The World of Battletoads

[BIL]

Bump! Handy reference page for Herzog Zwei units. If, like me, you've just nabbed a Japanese cart and have no idea WTF is going on in this wonderful game, it should help.

[Ed Oscuro]

CVD was essentially useful for its forums. Kurt's commentary was spotty and at best just a placeholder for the fan presence, not that I mean to denigrate the work he put into it (a lot more than I ever did for the community). I ought to get back to that model sometime, though.

I actually mooted the idea of a Shinobi page (don't know about the 3D ones yet) and we might have the "stuff it takes" to get that done

[MX7]

Fuck, awesome thread!

The tumblrfication of Internet based fandom has probably facilitated more raw output, but there definitely seems to be a dearth of depth which can only be realised through a 'proper' website. Big shame.

Anyone know of a Shin Megami Tensei focused web community/site/wuteva? Or even better, one dedicated exclusively to Japanese dungeon crawlers?

[shmuppyLove]

Anyone know of a Shin Megami Tensei focused web community/site/wuteva? Or even better, one dedicated exclusively to Japanese dungeon crawlers?

Found one on Wikia

http://megamitensei.wikia.com/wiki/Megami_Tensei_Wiki

Not sure how good it is?

[guigui]

Fallout serie : No Mutants Allowed

Those guys are core fanatics of the serie, we should love them

[MX7]

Anyone know of a Shin Megami Tensei focused web community/site/wuteva? Or even better, one dedicated exclusively to Japanese dungeon crawlers?

Found one on Wikia

http://megamitensei.wikia.com/wiki/Megami_Tensei_Wiki

Not sure how good it is?

Cool site, thanks

Was kind of hoping for one of those old Geocites style 'shrines' though, something like IAN'S MEGAMI TENSEI DUNGEON. I guess the series has become popular (in the West) only fairly recently.

[Imhotep]

Legacy of Kain / Blood Omen lost content

http://www.thelostworlds.net/

[Ed Oscuro]

Wasteland (if you don't know what this is lol):
http://wasteland.rockdud.net/wasteland.html

You might have thought that it was only one game, but it's actually a series (now more so than ever with Wasteland 2 coming out). There was a very obscure "Fountain of Dreams" release years back.

Also, the link for Ninja Gaiden doesn't seem to work...lorem ipsum bullshit. Classicgaming used to have a site for the classic (pre-Xbox) series.