Games that you mentally declare non-canon.

[Bigeyez]

Command and Conquer 4. While I actually enjoyed the gameplay changes even though most people HATED them I just couldn't overlook the story or really lack thereof. While C&C games always have cheesey stories they are still stories that are interesting and usually pretty fun. C&C4 was a complete joke. You never even find out what happens to Kane after alluding to it in every other game! Waste of time and money that I can never have back.

 

[Brett Bowling]

I would consider the two Super Mario Galaxy games non canon to each other since they apparently aren't
You know, with the whole, Mario having to be introduced to everyone twice, or it could be that Mario's memory just blanks after the staff roll of each game

 

[Jumendez-sama]

Fate/Extra. Too much fanservice, not enough well thought out plot.

 

[Dansen]

Halo Reach, it really made the conflict at reach look small and insignificant.

 

[StormShaun]

- Mass Effect 3. We all know why.
- Dragon Age 2. We all know why too.
- Command and Conquer 4. Ruined it all. D:
- All CoD after MW4.
- ToR...it ruined the Old republic series.
- WoW in general, it ruins MMOs...well I think so.

I am sure I can think of more but...meh. ^_^

 

[Psychoninja7]

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The gameplay and graphics were improved on. At least we got that, but that doesn't mean bull to me. Liked the music though. Heller's swearing was awful. I mean, I don't have any problems with swearing, but that was... Eh. Alex just seemed... Like you said, forced. There's not much else to describe him.

I quite enjoyed the story of the original game. I like the idea of sentient viruses like Alex.

Agreed. The gameplay and graphics were much better in prototype 2, monsters/crowds had more models, fighting delightfully visceral, etc. It is because of the fact that all these things were so good, that the pancake of story stings so much.

And having the protagonist be something other than ye old cardboard cut-out hero in the orginal game was very much refreshing. And then we get back to norm in P2. Et tu, Radical?

Yeah. To me, playing it was fun, but the experience felt hollow to me. I dreaded the cutscenes because most of the new characters didn't compare to the old ones.

Honestly, he's been one of the most memorable protagonists in my gaming life, noted that I'm still a teen, but I think that this idea has great potential. Prototype 2 just didn't meet the standard of the first one. It that Radical went under, so they won't be able to make a new one. Damnit Activision.

 

[thebobmaster_v1legacy]

I hate to be a follower, but I have to say it. Metroid: Other M can go fuck off. And the worst part is that Team Ninja actually knew what they were doing! They knew that the new personality of Samus was bullshit! They knew that the motion controls were awkward! They knew the pixel hunts were annoying! But they were overridden by one man by the name of Yoshio Sakamoto.

Who is this man, you may ask? Oh, no one important. Just one of the co-creators of Metroid, and the director of Super Metroid, Metroid Fusion, and Zero Mission!. Oh, and the dull voice actress? Yeah, she's actually quite skilled, as you can tell when she actually does emote. The problem is that Sakamoto-san decided to direct her to show no emotion most of the time, in order to try to simulate Samus's PTSD.

Congratulations, sir. You managed to completely assassinate the character you helped create, and make non-canon any games you didn't work on. Fuck you.

 

[Mauler]

World Of Warcraft, because i dont like the way warcraft trilogy took its dive off the cliff by remowing epic singleplayer campaigin and all of those beautifully crafted characters and dumped them into MMO as nonspeaking mooks that dont interfiere with the azeroth at all, but are replaced by 3(or more) million dudes(chicks) who dont care about great story, but olny about grinding and PvPing...
Hope they wont do that to Starcraft...

 

[lithiumvocals]

I don't have any games I consider non-canon(yes, even Mass Effect 3). But I find it funny that some folks aren't considering Silent Hill: Shattered Memories canon, because it was never canon in the first place. It's a re-imagining of the first game.

 

[Wado Rhyu]

Call of duty modern warfare 3.

i did not expect anything new or special. but the dident even fiks the bugs and problems of the old one.

 

[Norrdicus]

No,the games that never happened are any non-Naughty Dog Jak and Daxter and any non-Naughty Dog Crash Bandicoot. Ladies and gentlemen,allow us a moment to mourn and weep for the lost.

Daxter was a damn good game for a portable spin-off. Radiant Dawn knows how to handle other people's franchises (God of War psp games)

 

[eboko]

Starfox Command, with its wtf endings. Assault and Adventures were pretty lametastic too - I wish Nintendo didn't throw such a cool IP to the 3rd party developer dogs. That plumber gets too much love.

 

[iRevanchist]

Star Wars: The Force Unleashed 2 and The Old Republic MMO. Seriously, cloning? completely disregarding the fact that he DIES? As for TOR, skipping the story altogether and hitting fast-forward for 400 to make a crappy MMO? This is why we can't have nice things.

 

[Thamian]

Homeworld 2 is the one I'd like to pretend didn't exist the most. It took all of the rich historical and cultural background from the first two games (and their manuals) and threw more or less all of it out the window, retconned the history of the Hiigarans into absurdity, had the Hiigarans supposedly expand from a population of a few hundred thousand to an empire covering huge swathes of the galaxy inside a hundred years, Karan S'jet's still alive somehow (remember that she was disconnected from the mothership at the end of HW1), technological advances in cataclysm apparently never happened... I could go on further, but it would be a waste of everyone's time...

 

[NotALiberal]

Why are most of the games JRPGS? This confuses me. That's like complaining about the plot in an anime like Naruto that regularly pulls shit out its ass. That's just the way most Japanese game devs seem to do things. Plot coherence and strong narrative arcs be damned. "Oh we can milk this franchise more? Let's just pretend the events of FF 693238 didn't happen and contradict our selves at every turn with convoluted bullshit"

As for me WoW and TOR have to take the cake. WoW effectively raped and killed Warcraft's lore before taking a shit on it's corpse, there is just no other way to describe it.

Same goes for TOR. Fuck you EA, you greedy fucking shits, now look at your MMO, it cost a fuckton to make and is now struggling.

Yes I mad. I very mad.

 

[Garrett]

If Max Payne 3 wasn't cancelled, I'd probably treat it as non-canon.

Everything in Final Fantasy VII universe except for Final Fantasy VII. That extends to all media, not only games (ok, Last Order was passable but that's the only exception).

Every God of War other than the original. They are still fun to play but storywise, they are plain terrible.

Max Payne 3 cancelled? http://www.amazon.co.uk/Max-Payne-3-Xbox-360/dp/B00200LTT4/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1343700990&sr=8-1 Your kidding right?

And what exactly your point is? The tilte clearly says "Shoot'n'jumpin' Man 3". What is this game? Some Megaman spin-off?

 

[Exius Xavarus]

Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World.

I prefer to think this game doesn't exist. Tales of Symphonia didn't need a sequel. The story was wrapped up and we had a pretty good ending. The world was safe again, made even better, evil was thwarted and the good guys go on with their lives. The antagonist of Dawn of the New World....his motive was petty revenge. And they couldn't even be bothered to keep things CONSISTENT! They changed how certain words were pronounced, they changed voice actors that didn't need to be changed. The whole thing's a mess as far as I'm concerned.

 

[Paladin2905]

I know it's fashionable to rag on Fallout 3 in this thread, but there is a much more non-canon game in that series; Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel. It may have not been straight on with canon, but 3 was leagues beyond the franchise cash in that BoS was.

Otherwise, I'd put in Master of Orion 3 (the biggest nose-dive any franchise ever took) and the C&C games post-RA2. Of course, their canon contradicts itself with RA2, but i think they explained it away with alternate timeline or something.

 

[Seagoon]

If Max Payne 3 wasn't cancelled, I'd probably treat it as non-canon.

Everything in Final Fantasy VII universe except for Final Fantasy VII. That extends to all media, not only games (ok, Last Order was passable but that's the only exception).

Every God of War other than the original. They are still fun to play but storywise, they are plain terrible.

Max Payne 3 cancelled? http://www.amazon.co.uk/Max-Payne-3-Xbox-360/dp/B00200LTT4/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1343700990&sr=8-1 Your kidding right?

And what exactly your point is? The tilte clearly says "Shoot'n'jumpin' Man 3". What is this game? Some Megaman spin-off?

Ahhh, I get it! Humour!

 

[Madman123456]

Mass Effects 2 and 3.
The first Game had this nice Star Trek-esque World but without the later addage of genocidal maniacs in command of Starship portrayed as the "good Guys" because of Stupidity.

It had this one little Piece of Space Magic and everything worked with that "Element Zero". Admittedly, it had some very stupid moments. Like Cerberus, some more bad Guys to shoot. Stupid bad Guys most of the time with stupid Monsters. Like the Thorian Creeper things that go beserk because their master died half a Galaxy away. Because of their telepathic Link or something.

So the beasts went beserk and killed almost everyone: You know what would've helped? A wondrous security mechanism that is indeed known in our day and age:
A DOOR!
Quarians are stupid for having many Intelligences network at speeds our own neurons can't reach in a Fashion that very closely resembles the workings of those neurons and not guess that they might eventually act similar to something resembling a neural network?

But the first Mass Effect Game felt like i'm in a big and rich Universe. Citadel here, prefab Buildings on some Planet there. The Citadel has the largest Policeforce ever and still there are quite a lot of Places where the mighty arm the Law can't reach.

In ME2 we got Spacemagic. Much of the Stuff that happens is never really explained and we just have to roll with it.
It starts at the beginning with Shepard going down over a Planet that has a dense enough Atmosphere to allow for precipiteration.
There would be no Corpse to recover because Shepard would be vaporized.

A Cruiser taking down a Frigate is not a big deal. The Normandy can do it the other way around if they get the Jump on that same Cruiser, which makes that Cruiser the Collectors have look rather pathetic.

Everyone has a tragic and crushing backstory. The whole Game seems to have an Emofringe and if you don't have any kind of soulcrushing Drama in your History you can't join Shepards team.




ME3 rolls around with more Spacemagic. We get the magical Superweapon that will kill the Reapers and we get stupid Cerberus again being colossal Failures like in the first Game. Now even the Illusive Man is a moronic Failure.
At the end, we even get a Teleporter to beam us up. Wonderful ;/



In ME1, i was fascinated how Bioware managed to have this whole Universe setup around the one bit of Eezo Spacemagic and very little else.