Game Franchises You've Lost Interest In

[DanielBrown]

Final Fantasy.
My gaming while growing up was all about FF, but after FFX it's been going downhill like crazy.
FFX had Tidus, who were just plain awful, but I could somewhat stand it then because the graphics was godly at the time. I've always been a bit of a graphics whore.

Other than that, I suppose I buy a lot less FPS games than I used to. I still love the genre, but these days it seems like they only mass produce these 4 hour long games. I don't want to waste my money on that.
Borderlands was my last FPS game and in spite of my dislike for cel-shading I loved it.

Edit; post above me also made me remember Guitar Hero.
I loved the first two games. The third was ok, but after that they've just sucked. All these Guitar Hero/Rock Band games that focus on one band are pretty awful aswell.
Liked Rock Bands interface way more than Guitar Heros, but I haven't played the games for probably 2 years or so. Don't think I will play again either.

 

[Arayle]

Splinter Cell, was hyped up for Splinter Cell: Conviction, only to realize that I would be paying $100 AUD for a 6 hour campaign... yeah, no.

And maybe Final Fantasy? I played 8 and 10 and loved both, I'll eventually pick up 12, but FF13 was just bad, Forgot what chapter it was, but it was called "The Ark" or something, it was "go down hallway, into spiral room, go down, repeat x5-6 times," Got bored of the game shortly after then and will be very cautious about any other FF game.

 

[Icarion (aka Stockholm)]

Kingdom Hearts like that other guy said. I loved teh 1st one (actually the 2nd game I owned for the PS2) and I sunk alot of time into the 2nd one, but I don't have a handheld and I kinda feel like I've grown out of it due to the infequency of the titles.

 

[Oilerfan92]

- Pokemon. I don't think vie ever played a game series anywhere near as much as it. And I guess I'd still be willing to pick it up again if I'm bored at home. But the charm of the original and 2nd series of pokemon is gone and they just seem to be throwing out whatever they can think of. And I guess I got tired of fighting my way through waves of Birdifree, Ratattat and the bug pokemon that were the Caterpillars.

- GTA. I appreciate the fact that they don't throw one out every year. And the improvements between games is clear. But in GTA IV it just wasn't as over the top or whatever as Vice City (the last one I played. Skiped San Andreas). I guess it's hard to be interested in a game that hasn't made any news in however long its been. But still.

- Halo. The games are fun to play with friends on multi, but at this point Reach, or even Halo 3 is fine for that. I have absolutely no reason to continue caring. We know how e war ended. We know how it essentially started. It's done.

 

[Judgement101]

Sadly, Kingdom Hearts.

The first game fed me everything I wanted and more, and like a good little addict, I was hooked. The second expanded on that, but the gap between the two games totally pissed me off. Not to mention, I felt that the second didn't have the same atmosphere as the first, which made me favour the predecessor.

358/2 Days was wonderful. The story was actually amazing. I felt so sorry for the Organisation members, I was drawn in, and the final boss actually gripped me by the balls and made me cry. (Not the final final boss)

Birth By Sleep looks like it is making the plot more ridiculously convoluted than it needs to be, and I'm losing interest.

Sadly, because Square are so fucking clever, I've come too far to just give up on it completely, so I'm still going to pick up every title I can find...

This, seriously, Square should have kept to the formula but noooooooooo. (Jerks)

 

[gligarman207]

Guitar Hero was only good until Activision took over, leading Harmonix to move on to the awsomeness that is Rock Band.

Also Sonic died when he moved into 3D with Sonic's 3D blast. That whole horrible game you would slide around like you were on ice and the series has only gone downhill from there.

 

[DirgeNovak]

Devil May Cry. 1&3 were awesome (but not 2, naturally), but 4 was meh and the remake looks too juvenile to be any fun. (My feelings about DMC5 or whatever they end up calling it have nothing to do with Dante's redesign, but the action sequences just seem childish now. Maybe it's just me getting old or something.)

 

[Imat]

Lost interest in CoD with Modern Warfare. I like the first 2 still, but 4 is just an altogether different game, one which I simply don't enjoy as much as 2.

Also lost a lot of interest in GTA after 4. I loved San Andreas, then 4 changes everything back to Vice City style (Less RPG, more FPS), ruins any variety in the islands (Especially the color), and makes the vehicles practically undrivable. And sure you can edit the handling file to make them quite a bit better, but I really shouldn't have to.

And motorcycles in that game are horrific. Can't turn at all, and crashing always results in flying out of the seat and losing half your hp. I am not impressed, GTA4.

It does have a story that has kept me mildly interested, however, so I'm hesitantly hopeful for the next installment.

 

[Jennifer Darknight]

I have to admit, there's a few.

Final Fantasy, for one. After Final Fantasy VII, the games started to get staler and staler, with sillier stories and more boring characters (though IX was a bit of a departure from this, it wasn't enough to let me think the franchise was far from dead)...and with XIV, and all the crap associated with it...I'm done. That's it. Even their Final Fantasy Tactics remake was bloody disappointing (Delita's great--hell, he's my favorite character--but, ahem. The plotholes? Yeah, Square, didn't fix those. And the dialogue changes? Sorry--I'm just going to get the Japanese version and be done with it), and with my love for that game, it's pretty damn hard to disappoint me in that department.

Sonic goes in the number two spot--I loved it as a kid...I grew up on it and I still love the old games...but these new ones? And then Unleashed? Either Sonic Team's been given a just labotomy, or they've just stopped caring and are milking it for all it's worth. I can't bring myself to think of the latter, so I'll just keep considering the former, and that everything after Adventure 2 was just a product of frontal-lobe lacking insanity.

The EA Sports games. Do we really need to update these once a year? It seems sort of pointless...Especially since they only deviate SLIGHTLY from the previous game. You don't even own your previous edition for a year before you get a new one...seems too much like a money-guzzler, and I wish they'd just stop flooding the market every damn year. B|

 

[SushiJaguar]

Spyro.Everything about it is a clusterfuck of clashing opinions on how best to milk the most money out of dewy-eyed, gullible little children and their ignorant parents. I mean, I enjoyed Spyro right up until it suddenly changed gears and went through a re-boot.

Oh, what's this? A new character? Cor, sounds good. Oh wait, she's a bad guy. Oh, wait she becomes a good guy in the most cliche way! Then the big bad is revealed! Oh no, cliffhanger! Well, good job putting the big bad at the START of the next flipping game, you money-grabbing bloody idiots.

That's even without my unending contempt for the drastic personality changes of the classic NPC characters. Remember when Hunter was entertaining?

 

[MetallicaRulez0]

Halo. It was easily the best game series out there until Halo 3 ruined it.

 

[SushiJaguar]

Gotta add Rayman to the list. Hoodlum Havoc was a pretty fresh addition, and then what came along? Raving Rabbids. Least thought-out marketing choice in the history of gaming, in my opinion. Ubisoft were smoking some heavy drugs when they came up with that idea.

"Yo, dude, what's that franchise called? The one we get a crapton of cash from?"

"You mean Rayman?"

"Yeah, man! I had, like, the best idea! How about, we take out the main character, right, and, and just shove in a bunch of mentally deficient amorphous rabbits?"

"Duuuude! Best idea EVAR."

Yeah, thanks for that, you pothead losers.

 

[Sinclair Solutions]

Resident Evil 5 killed the Resident Evil series for me. Sure, I had only played 4, but if the story and the gameplay are WORSE than they were in Resident Evil 5? Fuck it. I'm not submitting myself to that kind of torture.

 

[Zaik]

Sonic, Mario, Neverwinter Nights, Halo, etc

 

[pharaoh malik]

Ever have a game franchise you used to like, but not so much now? How come?

The franchise I've lost interest in is Sonic, mostly the games though still into the comics and the fan stuff. The reason would have to be hearing the disappointment critic and fan reviews of some of the bad games a few years ago like ShTH and 06. During that time, I guess I've grown out of Sonic to a point that I kinda wish it would have ended. Though I still have fond memories of the classics. Sonic Colors seem to be having high reviews, but I don't care about it that much and probably wouldn't buy it. As successful it sounds and that it could make Sonic popular again, somehow I feel it wouldn't last too long since Sega seems to be milking him to death which could lead to their downfall IMO, and I've too much faith in Sonic Team.

Well, unless Sonic switches to another developer or company like Nintendo or Capcom, I might get into it again, but not at this point.

What are yours?

I was going to say the same thing the moment I saw the topic. Sonic is what got me into gaming and yet I'm completely turned off to the games now. It's kind of depressing really. My last favorite game of the franchise was SA2 for the Dreamcast -- though flawed, I fucking loved it and it was everything I could want from a Sonic game. It started to go downhill after that. I enjoyed some of the Sonic Advance games -- and even Sonic Rush was kind of fun (though I did get bored and found that new cat girl character to be pointless). I couldn't even get farther than a couple levels in Sonic Riders because I found the whole concept to be retarded -- like why the hell does Sonic need a hoover board when he is as fast as teh speed of sound?) annnd while I did play all the way through Shadow the Hedgehog.... I'm not gonna lie that thing was pretty awful. I suppose the game play was better than the dialouge but that's not saying much. I was so pumped because Shadow is such an AWESOME character -- well, at least that's what I thought before the game. I guess SEGA wanted to go edgy and sort of put an RPG eliminate into the game? Well it didn't work. There were some fun levels, but some of the missions were annoying and the guns and vehicles seemed kind of pointless (ESPECIALLY considering the vehicles moved slower than Shadow walked. :| )


I'm pretty sure Nintendo can't save Sonic's ass... but I'm not really sure if anything can. It's kind of depressing really. u_u

ALSO:: Why did they get rid of the Chao system after SA2?

 

[GetDosunated]

Tomb Raider , Fallout thats the main Franchise i totally lost interest in becoz since Angel of Darkness the tombraider games are not even worth the money , not to mention Fallout 3 wich wasnt truly a Fallout , more like The Elderscrools 5 : Armageddon .

 

[ReservoirAngel]

Hitman

if they never released another game of this I would be able to continue on with my life just fine, no trouble at all

 

[Crazyjay]

All of them, i look for interesting concepts and hope they are done right. Very hard to find these days since most games just like to copy another game and just add in 1 new, worthless concept.

I'm just going back and playing old games now-a-days, since they have more replayibility and ingenuity than the games of today

 

[KingGolem]

Zelda, easily. I don't think I'll be buying those anymore. I recently realized that I don't like puzzles and I absolutely hate getting stuck because of a puzzle. I hate running laps around some damn temple trying to figure out how the hell to get on with the game.

I think Mass Effect, also. It's just...the writing is great, the combat is mediocre and far too scarce, and the setting is very very bland. I don't think there are any ideas in there that I haven't seen in some other science fiction setting. The setting does very little to distinguish itself except for its above average race design. Dragon Age did the same thing with its setting (minus the race design, [sarcasm]because you can't have fantasy without elves and dwarves, right?[/sarcasm]), but I hated that one because the combat was no fun at all.

 

[Quiet Stranger]

If Versus XIII isn't a return to form after vanilla XIII then I think I'll have lost faith in Final Fantasy. XII was a step forward in terms of everything bar story for me, XIII has regressed it back beyond last gen games gameplay wise. I loved VI, enjoyed VII, VIII was my favourite, and IX was entertaining.

I don't think Pokemon needs to die, I just think it needs a rethink in terms of gameplay, there are only so many times I can pick from 3 starter pokemon, fight 8 similarly themed gym bosses, and catch the same pokemon with different sprites.

And any series with a silent protagonist, I just feel it's lazy storytelling.

Welcome to the escapist and I believe we have a thread winner, he sums up everything I feel about FF and Pokemon perfectly. Well done.