Ok, please try and remember what the thread was about, folks. Anyways, series that deserved ends and got them: Gauntlet, it's a great multiplayer, but after Dark Legacy, it deserved it's end, and one last tragic hurrah with Seven Sorrows just nailed the coffin door closed. Spy Hunter (yeah, I no, I'm railing on Midway games for a second, but there's a reason); great series, the jump to 3D was good, but adding Dwane "The Rock" Johnson to the mix was more than enough reason to kill it. Baldur's Gate is another great series that time just let stagnate; Dark Alliance 2, the last game in the series was good, and ended on a cliff hanger, but it wasn't that good. Duke Nukem isn't confirmed dead yet, but I hated the series for it's drastic change in between games 1 and 2...the first was awesome, the second wasn't, and the jump to 3D did absolutely nothing for me. Toe Jam and Earl...I don't need to say anymore. Bubsy and Gex have already been done to death. One I love that is adored, but KotOR. The Sith Lords just hurt, and with the third never coming out, TOR is the best thing to happen for it, though it isn't KotOR. Earthworm Jim, 3D killed him. Mystical Ninja...2.5D killed him...the series was fine in 3D and in 2D, but when they did the switch to 2.5, it was nigh unplayable. Mario's Teaching Games, enough said. Megaman Battle Network, the first was good, the rest were more of the same. Age of Empires/Mythologies; Ensemble will be missed but not for Halo Wars or Age of Empires III, but picking up the slack in between the Civilizations 3 and 4 and filling some of the gap left my WoW developing pull of Blizzard. Hopefully, they'll pop up again later, maybe under one of those games companies. Ogre Battle...and if you have ever seen me in the forum, you know this is one of my favorite series, however, it was growing old, and by Tactics Ogre: Knight of Lodis for GBA, the series was dead, especially when FF Tactics Advance, which used the same formula and was fun, came out a year or so later. Now that the same group are work in FF Tactics, I'm happy still. And my last game on the list, Nightcaster. I saw it mentioned previously, but this was a launch title for the original XBOX. Lesser known than the shit storm Azurik, but just as bad, somehow this game got a sequel two years later. Which somehow managed to be worse.
So, um, yeah. There are series that don't deserve it (Conker, Chrono, Shenmue, etc.) and you can see most of those on Screw Attack's Top 10 Games that need remakes/sequels list, and there are definitely games that don't deserve to be around any longer (seriously, who keeps buying Donkey Kong's 3D games? Sonic could still get better...maybe, I mean, Adventures were wonderful, so it's possible..right? Right? And how is Digimon still making games?). But of the series that aren't around and don't deserve to be for whatever reason, so long, farewell, aud viderse, good riddance (or good night, if you deserved to die with honor).
-Sara
