Have you ever sat down and thought 'Yep, this franchise is dead'?

[Coreless]

Not in order but some that I feel really are dead or dying.

1. Final Fantasy (stopped caring after 10, they just went down hill from there)
2. Halo (after 3 it was over)
3. Gears of War (no more after 3 just move on to another IP)
4. Call of Duty (after 4 it pretty much just started becoming rehashes)
5. Sonic The Hedgehog/Mega Man (while fun in the 90s, they really are just relics of the old days of gaming and really just don't have much relevance today.

6. Warcraft (I agree with others, after Cataclysm it has run its course...its pretty obvious you have ran it dry once you start resurrecting bosses to fill content)

7. Resident Evil - while there are a few good games, its just a dull never ending storyline that is never going to amount to much in the end. Seriously...we are on like 18 games now...Dead Space has pretty much done it better when it comes to survival horror.

8. Zelda - I have played just about every Zelda after OoT, and really I can't help but feel that every game afterward just feels like the same game. While I do expect to be flamed for this but I just don't see myself caring anymore for the series in general.


Games that I think are close to dying but with a great game could keep people interested just enough for one more game.

1.Half Life - while half life is a great series after #2 with the episodes there is just no way to top it and just don't see #3 being anywhere as good. Of course its valve and there is always a chance it might top it but I find it unlikely that it will meet the expectations of fans.

2.Grand Theft Auto - GTA 4 was just way to serious and went a little overboard on realism to the point that it hurt the series. If they can bring back the fun that the other games have and give us something unique like a new setting or a great story then it has a chance to continue.

3.Metal Gear Solid - While each game has been awesome in its own way, I think after 4 its just time to finish it and give the series an end.

 

[Zeraki]

Mega Man X7 made me weep upon the realization that one of my favorite game series was dead. The game tried to mesh Mega Man X into a 3D setting, and failed miserably.
And then there was Axl. One of the single most annoying characters I've seen in a game. Every time I saw him, I just had an overwhelming urge to reach into my TV and strangle him to death.

Sadly now that Inafune is no longer in Capcom, my hope for a classic 16-bit Mega Man X sequel is pretty much dead and gone. Then again, knowing Capcom they would have charged for each individual piece of X's armor, and the ability to use Zero as DLC anyway. So I guess it's for the best.

R.I.P. Mega Man X series

-salute-

 

[zeroclank12]

Yep. As soon as I started playing FF7. *flame shield*

 

[IceStar100]

Pretty much anything Bioware does latly. It keep trying to grab all the sand at the beach and is lossing most of it through its fingers. I keep hearing people say ME3 is my last Bioware game. People have put alot of time in to it and want to finish it but as a whole seem to have lost faith in it's ability to tell a good story or make a good game.

 

[WaderiAAA]

Spyro: Dawn of the Dragon.

So awful

 

[IKSA]

Also... Fable 3. Peter Moleneux said that he hates the notion of trilogy's... I sure hope he has changed his mind.

World of Warcraft Cataclysm... Its not dead... But it is to me.
Wonder how many players of today, also played during Cataclysm?

Fable 3. Fable 1 = Brilliance, Fable 2 = Great, Fable 3 = Worth a rent, at best.

And now we have Fable: The Journey. Why Peter? Why?

And now we have Fable: The Journey. Why Peter? Why?

I was a little excited about a new Fable game, so I youtubed it. I'm sad now, so very sad.

I will go an add Max Payne, still lacking all the info about Max Payne 3. But from what I have seen I must ask, why is it not in Noir City and why is there sunlight?

Just for info of these peapole Fable:jorney is just a spin-off and fable 4 will be diffrent game in more original fable style I hope it will be better if not I will say fable is dead.

 

[MrRetroSpectacles]

Call of Duty definitely, gone are the days of old where your Medal of Honour and original Call of Duty gave you a campaign driven World War Two story. Now while it was certainly time for those games to die out, possibly even before they were finally replaced due to the lack of originality in the "you're fighting the Germans/Japanese" gaming cash cows. They learned no lessons at all, as they went on to milk a new cow, the COD cow. Multiplayer driven with a plot that basically replaces good writing with "bet you can imagine Bruce Willis doing this eh?". It's time for them to end; try something new please guys. When the executives say "get me the new Modern Warfare!" they mean the next new idea on par with the success of that game, not a bloody sequel with the same name.

Also GTA, what happened to you old buddy? You used to be so much fun! If GTA3 was a juvenile child acting out to impress his friends (us being the friends), then Vice City was several years later enjoying various illegal substances with friends and San Andreas was a 20 something, getting completely drunk in the workplace before taking a sudden vacation around the World. Then we have you, GTA4. A slow, clunky and depressed librarian without the same spark that made us like him.

Hopefully GTA5 will catch him in a midlife crisis full of helicopters, jets, tanks and movie references. When you think of GTA4, you always remember gameplay while it was grey and raining, that says something.

 

[archabaddon]

I don't quite feel this way about the Assassin's Creed franchise, so maybe I shouldn't mention it, but I am very disillusioned with it. The original AC was a game that showed a lot of promise, and Assassin's Creed 2 delivered on that. But then we had Brotherhood which was an expansion with a new mechanic priced as a full game. And now we have another bloody expansion coming out. As far as I'm concerned, until I see a new game with a new number, a new time period, a new protagonist, and multiple bloody cities, I'm over this franchise.

Quoted. For. Truth.

 

[son_of_x51]

SOCOM died after Combined Assault. Hopes were high for Confrontation but that game just failed in every regard. The game was soo buggy, that even after having multiple large patches the game is still one of the most instable titles on the PS3. And SOCOM 4? Well... It basically took the franchise and mutilated it to the point you cannot even recognise it anymore.

Yep, that. At least with Confrontation, though, despite it's problems, at it's core it felt like a SOCOM game. SOCOM 4 on the other hand should have been called Gears of Duty 4: Call of Halo. Chest high walls and a clingy cover system? Designated stealth missions (with stealth impossible in the other missions)? Obvious invisible trigger points that spawn enemies (and immediately break stealth)? What were they thinking? The title of this thread is what actually happened to me after about 10 minutes of SOCOM 4.

Someone else mentioned this, but it's worth reiterating: the Tony Hawk series at some point around THUG 2. No, exactly at THUG 2.

p.s. I'm not saying that chest high walls and those other shooters I mentioned are inherently bad. It's just not what SOCOM is.

 

[Justice4L]

Also... Fable 3. Peter Moleneux said that he hates the notion of trilogy's... I sure hope he has changed his mind.

World of Warcraft Cataclysm... Its not dead... But it is to me.
Wonder how many players of today, also played during Cataclysm?

Fable 3. Fable 1 = Brilliance, Fable 2 = Great, Fable 3 = Worth a rent, at best.

And now we have Fable: The Journey. Why Peter? Why?

And now we have Fable: The Journey. Why Peter? Why?

I was a little excited about a new Fable game, so I youtubed it. I'm sad now, so very sad.

I will go an add Max Payne, still lacking all the info about Max Payne 3. But from what I have seen I must ask, why is it not in Noir City and why is there sunlight?

Just for info of these peapole Fable:jorney is just a spin-off and fable 4 will be diffrent game in more original fable style I hope it will be better if not I will say fable is dead.

Every Fable game has gone downhill since 1 so I suspect 4 will be pretty bad. Hope not though.

 

[AnarchistFish]

I don't quite feel this way about the Assassin's Creed franchise, so maybe I shouldn't mention it, but I am very disillusioned with it. The original AC was a game that showed a lot of promise, and Assassin's Creed 2 delivered on that. But then we had Brotherhood which was an expansion with a new mechanic priced as a full game. And now we have another bloody expansion coming out. As far as I'm concerned, until I see a new game with a new number, a new time period, a new protagonist, and multiple bloody cities, I'm over this franchise.

I don't think Brotherhood is an expansion game. I thought it would be but it's another game in its own right. Just because you play as the same guy as in the last game, I don't see why that makes it bad. It had a few new features (although I still prefer ACII) including multiplayer.

I agree about the multiple cities part though.

 

[DBLT4P]

Fire Emblem when it left the GBA
Sonic after he went 3D, with the notable exception of Sonic adventure 2
pokemon after they all went cute in 4th gen
and I'll although i dont own an xbox, i wish halo ended after halo 3

 

[MercurySteam]

Spyro the Dragon.
Oh yeah, and now he looks like this...

OH FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT IS GOOD NO!

...my childhood has just been raped.

You're not the only one, mate. I loved the original Spyro on the PS1. But this, this is unforgivable.

 

[Zagzag]

Dawn of War 2: No bases, limited units with small numbers and only a mediocre amount of strategy to use really, they turned a fairly good RTS game into an uncomfortable curdling mix of RPG and RTS.

I picked it up on sale on Steam yesterday, after having played some of the earlier games a lot, I have to agree with you. Chaos Rising seems to be bit better though.

 

[MightyRabbit]

For me, Final Fantasy XII. But I wouldn't say the franchise is dead, more dying. After all Crisis Core was alright and the Dissidias were fun and Theatrhythm looks fun but I have absolutely no interest in the main numbered games and so many of the spinoffs now. A shame really, because Final Fantasy WAS my one series above them all as I was growing up.

Also Guitar Hero World Tour, Rock Band (for rhythm games in general, and I didn't play til after World Tour) and Broken Sword 3.

 

[jhlip]

Final Fantasy X2, cause well, its fucking Final Fantasy X2. One of the the worst games ever made.

 

[DRes82]

Not in order but some that I feel really are dead or dying.
8. Zelda - I have played just about every Zelda after OoT, and really I can't help but feel that every game afterward just feels like the same game. While I do expect to be flamed for this but I just don't see myself caring anymore for the series in general.

I won't flame you for this. As a matter of fact, I was just talking to a friend of mine who works at Gamestop about this, when he brought up the subject of Skyward Sword. I never even finished Twilight Princess. While the idea of being a Link Wolf was pretty awesome, the 8 temples and story line just felt like the same stuff over again. This is not to say, I won't buy Skyward Sword, though. I'm actually pretty excited about it. Ah who am I kidding, I'll probably go back and finish TP at some point, too. But I do agree, the Zelda franchise is starting to lose a little freshness.

As for WoW...I started playing the day of release, back in '04. I continued playing until the beginning of 2011, but I honestly thought that game died when they stopped making 40 man raids. Vanilla wow was actually fun and challenging. Cataclysm is *pretty* to look at, but its ridiculously easy, and WotLK...was just as easy. Yes, even heroic raids. Although, I can't speak for the new firelands stuff, because I quit before that came out. In short, wow is dead(for me, anyways) because it was dumbed down.

 

[DiMono]

When I saw Warcraft 3, I decided immediately that I would never play the game. And I never have. The franchise is dead to me.

 

[Snake Plissken]

Yup, right after Alien: Resurrection.

I know it's not a game, but that's the first thing that popped into my head.

 

[iRevanchist]

Spyro The Dragon Series, I shouldn't have to explain this one considering the picture someone posted.

The Old Republic killed the KOTOR series for me.

Same. Although KOTOR will always have a snug little place in my heart, TOR can suck my metaphorical dick.