8 Video Games That Almost Ruined A Franchise

[soren7550]

... I actually liked Perfect Dark Zero...

Also, it seems to me that most of these killed their series.

 

[Signa]

I'm surprised you didn't mention Other M on this list.

And ET wasn't a franchise, it was an IP.

 

[mad825]

I'm quite surprised that Deus ex: Invisible war isn't on there. The backlash from the fans were pretty hard.

 

[josemlopes]

Was Perfect Dark Zero considered ugly for the time?

I mean, looking at screenshots I guess it does look pretty bad today, but for some reason I remember trying the game out on a 360 that a friend of my father brought over and thinking it looked really good.

It didnt look bad, people were praising its visuals with all those glows and reflections, but it also wasnt good looking enough as about a year latter it was enough to start to look bad. Basicly it aged badly.

Look at that rock ceiling, its all reflective and has normal mapping and stuff, plus that dynamic lighting, cool shit that was new at the time but in the end, after that tech became standard and more well refined, it looks ugly as fuck here.

... I actually liked Perfect Dark Zero...

I liked it too, the missions had that old school structure and the multiplayer had bots. But the gameplay was rather mediocre, and over time it just feels worse to play, so clunky.

 

[immortalfrieza]

All Duke Nukem Forever did was prove people aren't into crude sexist action heroes like Duke as much anymore. The game had everything any fan of Duke Nukem would expect to see out of a Duke Nukem game. The two weapon rule is really the only actual issue the game had, it's a good enough FPS as it is. It's much more that attitudes have changed quite a bit since Duke's heyday than anything wrong with the game itself, the unrealistic expectations after so long in development didn't help either. DNF would have gone over a lot better if it had been released around the time of the other games in the series.