Franchises you would like to kill

[SoulIsTheGoal]

Pokemon: Totally jumped the shark now. Platinum was excellent, but it's really had its day.
Metal Gear Solid: Awful writing, awful acting, awful interaction with the game world (THERE ISN'T ANY)
Final Fantasy: There's thing, Square Enix, called gameplay. Look it up. Also, search "level design", "character arcs" and "editors".
Assassin's Creed: Please let 3 be the last. And that be the end of it. And good.
Dragonquest: HOLY SHITTINGTON BLIMEY THESE GAMES SUCK

 

[Jonny49]

None. If people enjoy it, let them play it.

...even if it's something like FIFA.

Avatar from Haze right?

Hmmmm...I'm going to say WoW so they can make 'Heart of the Swarm' better.

Indeed it is xD

 

[ManaAdvent]

Sonic: I've grown a disinterested in him around the time Sonic Heroes was released and the negativity surrounding the latter games and that done it for me. He is way past his prime and Sega is just milking the franchise for all its worth that it is not even funny. It's his time.

 

[BoredKain]

A lot of people would say this, but Final Fantasy, because obviously its gone down in quality since the earlier games and its now become a cash cow and a licence for square to stream endless remakes of crud which we dont need.

Please let us keep the memories of the decent games and not have a FF15 which is worse than the atrocity of FF13, leave it alone D:

GTA? Again as the argument I said above, they are really milking GTA with remakes and new spin-offs which make my eyes hurt. There is a limit to what GTA can do with the old formula of slicing, dicing, robbing cars and doing tedious missions for a head mafia guy.

Mario- Not sounding old here but I fondly remember picking up my game boy and playing mario as it should be, a 2D platformer with some actual difficulty. Now with some of the Wii games currently, its the same except they added new shiny effects and gimmicks to it. Please nintendo leave that plumber alone...

 

[No_Remainders]

I'm gonna have to go with Metal Gear Solid.

Hideo Kojima should just shut the fuck up.

I cant agree with this as i feel it has ended with Guns of the Patriots. From what ive seen there is nothing about the upcoming Rising that fans liked about the previous MGS games. There was enough complaints when they made Raiden the main character of Sons of Liberty.

I dont think any franchise should die unless there is absolutely no one who will continue playing the games. But i do find those sports games that are brought out every year with only very small changes kind of pointless.

Ok, that was either a typo or you just contradicted yourself.

MASSIVELY.

"I can't agree with this as I feel it has ended with Guns of the Patriots."

So in your words, you hope it doesn't stop, because you think it already stopped?
Huh?

 

[Geekosaurus]

So this is just a 'hate on established franchises' thread?

 

[Nfritzappa]

So this is just a 'hate on established franchises' thread?

Yes.

 

[Hybridwolf]

Halo's dead, anything with the halo title now is just a last attempt to revive it so thats that.

GTA needs to move to a new fresh location (Not San Andreas) or just take a break for awhile.

COD will struggle to find new conflicts, but the Infinity Ward series still has to end somehow, be it by a new company or Treyarch.

Gears still has life left in it, but that could all change this winter...

Bad company can go die for sure. The second game took everything good about the first (Decent character interaction, Perkless mutiplayer, brill maps), killed that and then went for the Russian V America situation. I'm aware that was the conflict in the first one, but it was never explored fully, they where just the bad guys in the way of the gold. Same for medal of honor, unless Danger close makes all of it.

Dead rising IF they attempt to add a new character. You have two brillant characters ready to kick arse, if you don't use them then I've lost faith in Blue Castle.

Thats all for now...

 

[baddude1337]

I wouldn't say kill a franchise. I'd like the Call of Duty to take a break for a bit at least to give the developers more time to throw around good ideas and refresh the game play a bit.

I think Mario games need to be cut back a lot more. Not the big ones, just his billion-odd spin-offs.

 

[SilverUchiha]

I played Sims 3 for the PC and was bored within about an hour of setting up the game and getting my house. Not enough things were burning or dying. There was as much control over the characters as I had first thought. In short, I felt that Sims 3 was a big disappointment for me. I don't personally blame the game, but the people who told me how great it was. Perhaps they should be killed instead of the franchise, but I do believe murder is illegal in most states and countries.

 

[Housebroken Lunatic]

It can either go back in history, which cannot work with the established gameplay and will make the fanbase reject it.

You sure?

I for one would think it would be kind of cool to go back through the ages when muskets and flintlock or precussion cap pistols were the staple weapons of military warfare.

Like a game set during the american civil war or the why not the thirty years war in europe? Think beginning of the 1600's and onwards to the early 1800's.

Would be kind of interesting to see how they pull something like that off for a first person shooter (although it would probably include a lot of melee combat as well).

Also World War 1 has been incredibly overlooked in my opinion when it comes to first person shooters. Would be kind of awesome to experience an advance over no mans land under the cover of a creeping barrage and avoiding getting gunned down by machine guns.


On-topic:

Final Fantasy should go. (seriously, they used to be games. Now they are more like interactive movies with dorky looking character design)

And also (while it pains me to say it) Resident Evil. Unless Resident Evil goes back to being actual horror games and stop with this 3rd person, over the shoulder nonsense then im not gonna cry if someone puts it to death.

 

[Bre2nan]

It can either go back in history, which cannot work with the established gameplay and will make the fanbase reject it.

You sure?

I for one would think it would be kind of cool to go back through the ages when muskets and flintlock or precussion cap pistols were the staple weapons of military warfare.

Like a game set during the american civil war or the why not the thirty years war in europe? Think beginning of the 1600's and onwards to the early 1800's.

Would be kind of interesting to see how they pull something like that off for a first person shooter (although it would probably include a lot of melee combat as well).

Also World War 1 has been incredibly overlooked in my opinion when it comes to first person shooters. Would be kind of awesome to experience an advance over no mans land under the cover of a creeping barrage and avoiding getting gunned down by machine guns.

I think an earlier-history CoD would be cool too, and it might work with WW1 keeping the established gameplay. However, for earlier time periods, the gameplay would have to go through some massive overhauls, stripping out the run-and-gun spray-and-prey tactics that has been the bread and butter of CoD since #4.

Not all the fanbase will reject it, but most will. Activision is unwilling to lose this portion that has turned CoD in the mega-super-ultra-moneymaker it has become today, so they most likely won't take this route.

A whole new series of games exploring this angle, though, would be interesting.

 

[dangitall]

I think mostly MGS and the Mario games.
I actually like the games, but both franchises started to get way too repetitive and will start to run out of ideas really soon, right now they are just making money recycling old ideas, these series should be cut down when it gets out of hand, no matter what kind of money it makes.

 

[Housebroken Lunatic]

I think an earlier-history CoD would be cool too, and it might work with WW1 keeping the established gameplay. However, for earlier time periods, the gameplay would have to go through some massive overhauls, stripping out the run-and-gun spray-and-prey tactics that has been the bread and butter of CoD since #4.

Not all the fanbase will reject it, but most will. Activision is unwilling to lose this portion that has turned CoD in the mega-super-ultra-moneymaker it has become today, so they most likely won't take this route.

A whole new series of games exploring this angle, though, would be interesting.

Yeah, I'd think the typical tactics would probably have to be replaced with something else. That doesn't necessarily mean it would have to be a turn off for the fans though.

Imagine that the "spray and pray" got replaced with "shoot and pray" (musketfire worked best in volleys after all and at close ranges since it wasn't too accurate), and imagine the more open battlefield-like missions where you have to time your shots along with the rest of your unit in order to get an effective volley when cannonballs are bouncing around you taking people's heads and legs off like in the movie "The Patriot" (moviecliche´s have been used extensively in the CoD-series so it would be okay this time around as well )

Or how about getting to be part of a cavalry unit of dragoons charging forwards and having to pick up pistol after pistol to fire (since you don't have time to reload them) and stabbing and chopping people with a cutlass or sabre.

I can also imagine some missions being skirmish work where there's basically outright chaos with people running around charging and fleeing at the same time against more organized units, along with a lot of brutal ambushes. Naval missions with a taste of Pirates of the Carribbean wouldn't be out of place either in this time period.

I think though that the gameplay would have a lot more emphasis on manouvering successfully through the dangerous enviroments (like sticking to the least likely path of fire and not getting hit by cannonballs) rather than running for the first cover and spraying bullets in a particular direction. So it would have to incorporate an almost Mirror's Edge like feel for when it comes to movement and manouvering.

It would also be nice if they went with historical accuracy rather than wallowing too much in historical romance about how soldiering was done back in these timeperiods. With entire mercenary armies running around looting and pillaging their way across battlefields, brutality and moral ambiguity would certainly fit the picture.

 

[Tinbust]

sonic, halo, call of duty, tony hawk [insert name here], madden, mlb the show, gears of war, fable and thats about it

why gears of war ? the story isn't tied up
Fable I agree .. Madden you can't kill sports games they need their yearly updae that's what they're for , tony hawks yes allthough I like the games myself, halo and CoD for aforementoned reasons just like final fantasy and metal gear solid

I thought Gears of war 2 was franchise killing, I and a lot of other people don't care about the story its bland, badly written (like my posts ) and i have no emotional ties to the story. I dont care about the characters or any aspect of the story. I think it would be better if they just gut the series and take what works and start over with a different premise. The last tony hawks have been nearly broken and before that they werent big sellers for a long time. maddden doesnt need to come out every year just call the game madden: superbowl champions and update the game every charge ten bucks for the roster update if you want, wait until theres a leap foward in design and technology before you make another sixty us dollars, one.

 

[Parvutoiu Catalin]

I got Many...
Starcraft
Halo
Gears of War
Sonic
Mario
Fable

 

[Dan Steele]

Sonic = Sonic unleashed, everything after sega genisis
Halo = Goodbye gameplay and story, hello paycheck
COD = What are they gonna do now? Space Nazis?
Mario = to many games, WITH THE MOST OVERUSED,REPETATIVE, PLOTLINE IN EXISTANCE!!!
Pokemon= Now introducing our newest pokemon for our 273,951st game: Penisaur!
Final Fantasy= 100$ says they will be on FF20 by the time im 21
Madden= sports games just suck in general
Movie games= suck more than sports games

 

[gothicboris]

I'm gonna have to go with Metal Gear Solid.

Hideo Kojima should just shut the fuck up.

I cant agree with this as i feel it has ended with Guns of the Patriots. From what ive seen there is nothing about the upcoming Rising that fans liked about the previous MGS games. There was enough complaints when they made Raiden the main character of Sons of Liberty.

I dont think any franchise should die unless there is absolutely no one who will continue playing the games. But i do find those sports games that are brought out every year with only very small changes kind of pointless.

Ok, that was either a typo or you just contradicted yourself.

MASSIVELY.

"I can't agree with this as I feel it has ended with Guns of the Patriots."

So in your words, you hope it doesn't stop, because you think it already stopped?
Huh?

No i meant it isnt a franchise that has to die because it has already ended.

 

[Ultress]

If it's not dead yet the Wild Arms series. To me it's pretty obvious that X-seed/Media Vision has no idea what they're doing. Please put the series out of it's misery.

 

[OliverTwist72]

Sports games, any of them. Why can't they let me download updated rosters in 2011 for a 2010 game, its the same friggin game!


Altho I haven't bought Madden in awhile so maybe this has changed (doubt it).

Edit: Wild Arms and Suikoden got progressively worse with each installment (the originals of both of these being some of my favorite RPGs of all time).