Three things you hate about your favorite series.

[JasonKaotic]

Final Fantasy for me...

1) The fanbase. Not the whole thing. I'm part of it. But you all probably know exactly what I'm talking about.
2) Everything released after FFX (Well, I didn't actually dislike XIII. And Dirge of Cerberus was good. Haven't played XIII-2. But everything else makes me cry inside.)
3) The region exclusivity on their old games. Square wouldn't even give us freakin' Chrono Trigger. Seriously, Square, why do you hate Europe? What did we ever do to you?

 

[Proeliator]

Halo: (first game) Hey this game is pretty cool! This could go somewhere...
1. Dual wielding was a nice experiment, but got annoying. and then there's the pistol...
2. 343 industries (and Microsoft for that matter)for not trying hard enough to make an awesome game.
3. Becoming more like Call of Duty. This is not why I buy Halo. I'd by black ops if I wanted that...

Call of Duty: Hey this Call of Duty 4 Modern Warfare was pretty slick! Where do they go from here?

1. Prestige taking away all you gun attachment unlocks. I would probably do it if when I re-reached the appropriate level, all the previously unlocked attachments came back with the gun.

2. Becoming too kill-streak focused and gag-heavy: all we need is to shoot guns at people. Vehicles are for a different kind of game, like Halo or battlefield. Everything should revolve around that shooting part, not the shooting part revolving around the kill-streaks.

3. Modern Warfare 3 being stagnant and more like black ops* 1.5 than Modern Warfare.

*and Black Ops not feeling like black ops at all, more like a Gritty John Wayne movie.

 

[his1nightmare]

Well, I guess that would be the Diablo series/franchise, with all its appealing content.

1. Diablo 3
2. everything connected to Diablo 3 that has not Diablo in its name
3. Diablo 3's Lore Books... they made me HATE any kind of in-action voice-over... HATE; innocent Borderlands 2 became almost unplayable

 

[HaraDaya]

Everything past the first generation of F.E.A.R.

1. Tactical elements got pushed aside for the horror aspect.
2. The intelligent AI that sold the series for me got dumbed down.
3. Turret segments.

Far Cry 2

1. The weapon degradation system. I like when gun jams on you if you don't maintain them. But in Far Cry 2 it's toss and grab a new one once your weapons starts looking rusty. What a waste.
2. Your reputation doesn't change when you're killing everyone horribly everywhere. But completing missions do. (it does feel nice when you're at max reputation and the enemies start acting really fekken terrified of you)
3. No way to fire a one-handed weapon while driving. Imagine your M79 against those damn stubborn jeeps.

 

[likalaruku]

Not my absolute favorite, but the first one that came to mind when I read this question is the Dungeon Siege franchise.

The games lack consistency, especially the last one. I remember weighing the pros & cons of how different 2 was from 1. I'm one of those rare gamers who actually likes "more of the same." You point me in the direction of a "FTP WoW clone" or "Diablo Killer" or "generic RPGMaker game" & I'll play it.

Another thing I don't like about it is that I can't get the first game to run on Windows 7.

 

[The_Lost_King]

Not sure what my favorite series is so I will list the top 3 contenders
Dragon Age:
1. Dragon Age 2
2. The Fade
3. How short Awakening was

Mass Effect:
1. Ending
2. Barely got to use Legion
3. Not being able to use Wrex or Legion in me3

wow, that was hard

The Elder Scrolls:
1. No spell making in Skyrim
2. The Faces look terrible until Skyrim
3. Morrowind is hard to get into so I am having trouble playing the "best" ES game

They will say things without prompting, react to things that the player might have the opposite reaction to, apparently do things off camera that other characters mention.

Oh yeah. All I can think of is in DA2 when my Hawke was a blood mage and he always hated blood magic and I though What the Fuck!

 

[370999]

Tales of. By far my favourite series, but picking out three things I hate is easy.

1: Few games hit Europe.
2: Late releases in Europe.
3: They take ages to announce if a game is coming to Europe or not leaving us hoping to get a game, then only finding out when the next Tales of game is coming out that we're probably not getting it.

Yeah, the games are great and I don't really have any complaints about them by themselves.

What about the save circles, those piss me off royally, when I get beaten and then get thrown all the way back to the circle at the beginning of the dungeon-(Tales of Symphona with both the boss of the wind temply and then the resolute assain)?

Never really bothered me. It's such a minor thing and it's not like I got stuck on either of those bosses anyway. It's also not something the series is known for doing and even in Tales of Symphonia it's not a common occurrence. Compared to not getting the game at all having to walk through a dungeon twice in order to be prepared for a boss I didn't know would show up is actually enjoyable. However I guess that I am stupid for not hating an entire series for a minor issue with one of the games in the same series.

Wasn't implying you were.

I dunno, it was when I was trying to get Colette's "Friendship First" Title so I was reloading on a quasi-regular basis (Damm you Kvar!)