How Far Can A Franchise Push You (Before You Just Quit)?

[Aurora Firestorm]

I will never punt an entire developer. That's just ridiculous.

I admit there are some series that I will just not abandon no matter what, or at least not unless the games turn so, so horrible that it's beyond imagination. For example, I'm pretty sure Metal Gear can never do me enough wrong to have me not buy the next game. Mass Effect was like that also and *still is* even after the third game. I'm pretty sure Atlus is a divine presence on Earth and can do no wrong. I'd even cry my way to the store to buy Homeworld 3 if it happened, despite what those folks at Relic did to mangle their franchise.

What can I say, I tend to become a Serious Fan.

 

[Yopaz]

For me Red Alert 3 was kind of the end for the C&C franchise with me and C&C 4 totally killed it when they announced the completely stupid system they were putting in place that involved a leveling up prestige system like Call of Duty to unlock good units and that there was no base building I was done. I didn't even buy it because it wasn't a C&C game anymore.

I'm even less excited about this new free to play Generals 2 pile of garbage they announced a while back, way to take one of your best franchises and just grind it into the ground EA.

Red Alert 3 was a huge letdown for me too. I seriously loved Red Alert and C&C up to that point, Red Alert 2 happen to be one of my favourite games of all time. Red Alert 3 just somehow wasn't what I wanted and it turned me off the entire series.

What really killed it for me was the forced co-op in single player, if you didn't have anyone to play with online you were forced to have a shitty AI partner who would do nothing more than get in the way and fuck up your plans. I never got more than about four missions into the Soviet campaign before quitting and I tried to love it several times.

The only good thing about the game was the multiplayer and even that wasn't as good a Red Alert 2 was.

The multiplayer in Red Alert 2 was awesome. I remember me and three friends of mine used to play over LAN and team up two versus two. It was awesome. Red Alert 3's multiplayer was clearly a step down. I'd say what happened with Red Alert 3 was a tragedy, I really wanted to like that game.

 

[Rose and Thorn]

It's DLC, Pre-Order bonus, Promotional content and stuff like that, that push me enough to not want a product.

I loved Mass Effect and Dragon Age: Origins, but when I saw what was happening to Mass Effect 2 and Dragon Age 2, I bowed out early. A choice I don't regret.

 

[Azure Knight-Zeo]

When they just start taking the fans for granted; Kingdom Hearts, Assassins Creed (almost), and all the Mario platformers after Galaxy 1, are the main offenders.