Which game serieses have you lost interest in and why?

[Arkvoodle]

Zelda's appeal has kind of warn off for me. In the end all the dungeon-crawling just runs together.


And I didn't care about Call of Duty at all before but the incredible number of douchebag players has forever destroyed whatever interest I might've had.*



*NOTE: This probably does not apply to all COD players, just the relentless "DudeBro" morons who play nothing else BUT "CoD" and brag about it constantly.

 

[Whyso]

Kingdom Hearts. I played Days, quite liked it, played II, still quite liked it, and then 1, then Re:Coded and BBS. The problem is, with all these prequels and sequels and bits-in-between-quels, I have lost complete interest in the story. They've taken too long to bring out III and while they insist every game brings something new to the storyline, I fail to see how Data-Sora fighting Data-Heartless in data-versions of every world has anything to do with the over-arching plot.

Oh, and Kairi is a douche-bag.

i only ever played 1 and 2 and vowed not to play any of the prequals on the DS
i do plan to try chain of memories though

and 1 was definately the best, square soft is awesome
square enix has too much of a legacy to live up to

 

[Vault101]

as much as I love assasins creed...I'm worried It will become stale...we dont need one EVERY year and Im sick of renisance italy..I dont want to get sick of it (that said Im interested to see where they go next...they better go somplace else)

not sure I would bother with darksiders 2 or Bordlerlands 2

 

[Deadagent]

Tomb raider, after angel of darkness was just shit and it hadnt gotten much better with anniversary. Yeah, just fuck it.

 

[Jazoni89]

Assassins Creed, Hated the first one, Liked the second, and I only liked the third for multiplayer.

I'm not hyped for the forth one at all, In fact I personally think it's getting rather silly how quickly Ubisoft keeps pumping out these games, I see it becoming a cash cow franchise like Call of Duty before too long.

Also, on the subject of Call of duty, I don't even want to try Modern Warfare 3. The first Modern Warfare was the dogs bollocks, and that was just the single player. Modern Warfare 2 just shitted all over what made the first one great, and Black Ops while I did get very limited enjoyment out of it, fell flat on it's face with it's rubbish campaign mode.

Modern Warfare 3 Looks to me like the same old shit in a new box, but it's shit that most people are still going to lap up no matter what the content.

 

[flamingjimmy]

Lost interest in Call of Duty because of Battlefield, probably because I'd been playing call of duty for years.

Also, Gears of War, and I don't know why for that one. I love Gears 1, Gears 2 was kinda 'meh' and now I haven't even played Gears 3 and don't really care.

 

[Xentek]

Assassin's Creed died the minute I knew I had to deal with Ezio again. I felt it would've been better anyway without the present-day nonsense, would've been much cooler to work through the ages up to the present and see how all the events influenced it.

Call of Duty: After CoD4 I picked up MW2, but after a playthrough in 2 afternoons I just felt unsatisfied because I've seen it all before. After reading and hearing about Black Ops and now MW3, I'm even more turned off.

Battlefield: so-so starting to get turned off. I played from 1942 to 2142, then Bad Company 2. BC2 was enough of a change to interest me in the series again after having played BF2 to death. But now BF3 is just more of BF2 but with suckier maps and 10 different red dot and 4x scopes to unlock for each gun seperately. I still like it, but only for quick matches now and then (so probably won't buy the next installment).

Final Fantasy: The games just become terrible starting at X-2. The good games still includes FF11 (released about 3 weeks prior to X-2) which I all enjoyed thouroughly, but then things just took a shovel to the face and even Versus XIII which is supposed to be the new VII doesn't interest me in the slightest.

Half-Life: But who isn't at this point? Does anyone even still care about episode 3?

F.E.A.R.: From the first expansions I just knew this wasn't going to have a very good future. Personally, I don't think this should have ever turned into a series.

Heroes of Might and Magic: Heroes III is my all-time favorite, I also enjoyed IV. But now I have tried the sixth installment and it was painful for me how much everything was widdled down. Things have been made simpler, yet more complicated at the same time for experienced HoMM players. The graphics are nice, but the gameplay is key here. With V coming out I was already edgy, but still got my hopes up for 6, and landed on my face.

So yeah, basically the big titles have gotten horribly stale, or just plain terrible. The one series I do still enjoy though is the Total War series, and while The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion was a let down, I still had fun with it and decided to give Skyrim a try (but of course the PC pre-orders got stolen from the store I ordered at, just my luck).

 

[babinro]

Mario

I love the NES and SNES games. His 3D outings make for great games as well but just don't match the magic of the titles that I've grown up with. Even the strong DS side scroller doesn't capture the magic.

Mario hasn't become remotely bad, but I've lost hope looking for the next Super Mario Bros 3 or Super Mario World.

 

[KillKill]

Soul Calibur because 4 was crap...

 

[Mallefunction]

I always love when people get pissed because AC is using the same lead for the 3rd game in a row. Guys, MOST franchises use the same character for multiple games. It's not a new thing.

Anyway, my list is definitely:

Spyro
Crash Bandicoot
Pokemon

The modern games just...suck. they try to do too much and the games have lost their unique charm and identity.

 

[Esotera]

The Halo franchise. :'(

I would literally play it for about 5 hours every day, and have friends over every weekend to play it pretty much non-stop. But now it just seems boring...the gameplay seems repetitive & the storyline boring. I'll probably come back to it at some point, it's still a good game. I'm just really sick of it at the moment.

 

[Diablo2000]

Kingdom Hearts. I played Days, quite liked it, played II, still quite liked it, and then 1, then Re:Coded and BBS. The problem is, with all these prequels and sequels and bits-in-between-quels, I have lost complete interest in the story. They've taken too long to bring out III and while they insist every game brings something new to the storyline, I fail to see how Data-Sora fighting Data-Heartless in data-versions of every world has anything to do with the over-arching plot.

Oh, and Kairi is a douche-bag.

That's about it... Also, I don't give a crap about Sora, Aqua, Roxas or any other of those characters... I realized that I only really liked Donald and Goofy. Don't have a reason to care if they aren't in it.

 

[esperandote]

Capcom VS ... series. Maybe i lost interest in them because mvsc2 was never released in an arcade place near me but now that i played mvsc3 and for what i have that is the competetive scene in #2 and #3 i'm not interested in them.

 

[lRookiel]

COD: Downhill from MW1 and world at war (Only zombies was decent)

Mass effect: I dont do space age games

Sonic: Self explanatory >.<

C&C: Red alert 3 was the worst one they released ever...

Halo: Its gone on for long enough hasnt it? I mean ODST was awful, reach was only "meh" at best, and now they want to make another one?! I'm not even gonna bother with it!

Duke Nukem: because thats why we have serious sam

 

[LITE992]

Call of Duty.

My first Call of Duty game was CoD 4, like most people's. I thought the single player was tight, intense, exiciting and all that stuff. The multiplayer was also great as the maps had close quarters for rushers and good sniping spots for defending objectives, and being a sniper I loved that. Then I got World at War, but it was just a reskinned CoD 4 without balance. I was excited for MW2, and I had a blast sniping in the multiplayer (no, not quickscoping). In the time I was waiting for Black Ops I found out that I was actually a good team player, providing overwatch as a sniper in CoD and Team Fortress, and healing in BC2 and TF2. Nevertheless I got Black Ops, but I lost interest around March when I started to realize that I've been here before, and Treyarch brings nothing new to the series while IW at least tries. Since I am a team player I prefer TF2 and the Battlefield series because they encourage and reward team play, while Call of Duty simply includes team play as an afterthought, very poorly.

Grand Theft Auto.

After GTA IV the series had taken a turn towards gritty realism and life simulation. I think GTA V will probably be the same, but hopefully it will be in the state of San Andreas and not just a city within.

 

[kasperbbs]

Dragon age 2, I really liked the first one ,even bought all of the DLC, but not for this one.

 

[Screenager]

Hitman series can fuck right off, its just splinter cell now. And i was a huge fan of it before, but now theres no chance of buying it.

 

[MammothBlade]

Call of Duty - became a cheap instant-gratification autoaim crapfest.

Metal Gear Solid - after 4 was practically an interactive film.

Final Fantasy - damn XIII's battle system, lack of towns, and horribly extended tutorial, ew.

GTA - as someone else said, the gritty realism of IV was a serious mistake which doesn't do justice to the PS2 titles.

Command & Conquer - Tiberian Twilight was utter dumbed-down, DRM-riddled shit. Leave real time tactics games to World In Conflict, etc.

This does not apply to the legacy of the series, just their future.