#7 Contra
Remember when Konami teased a new Contra title with a fiery, blazing ‘C’ at the end of its 2011 pre-E3 press conference? Fans were even promised a 3DS Contra the year before, but nothing ever came out of any of it. It's crazy to think that Konami wouldn't soldier on with a sequel to Contra 4, which was amazingly handled by WayForward, mind-numbing difficulty and all.
While 2011's Hard Corps: Uprising for Xbox 360 and PS3 was essentially Contra sans the title or aesthetic, it'd be great to see a return to Contra that mixes the upgrading system from Hard Corps: Uprising with the visual style and verticality of Contra 4. I wholeheartedly hope that they continue Contra 4's and Uprising's trend of creating a more diverse cast, both in gender and race.