Die Franchise Die!

[forever saturday]

Sonic The Hedgehog. Everything after the Adventure games was pure unadulerated crap.

Mario. We had a good one with Galaxy, lets end on a high note.

Pokemon. The first gen wasnt even that good. Now they have like 500 different species, and I only like maybe ten of them. Its also got a complicated and boring turn based system.

Everything World War II. The sheer number of games in this genre is too much, and I hate the way that they are always like "America wins the war" and ignoring England, Russia, Australia, Canada, and all the other countries that fought on the allied side.

EA games. All of them. Stop making them and give them to other, better developers, like Valve or Bioware.

I was going to think up my own, but then I read this and realised that I couldn't agree more.

The few franchises that don't suck should be given to the good developers. In fact there should be A: a system of licensing for game development, B: keep tabs on whats good so that any franchise with a minimum number of entries get handed over to someone good, C: a law that limits sequels, or D: any combination of the above.

 

[rosthouse]

Manager

Seriously, how can you even call those games?
These are just a little bit more than Excel.

 

[-Seraph-]

Half-Life to be honest. I just don't like the franchise. The first one was good but the second one was terrible.

QUICK!! raise your flame shield before it's too late!!

Anywhoe I don't really care about any franchise dying...even sports games and sonic... It's all real useless to moan and ***** about something going on for too long. Aside from a few cases, there is a reason such franchises keep going and are successful, because they are good. I just ignore the ones I hate and hopefully those who hate my preferred franchises ignore mine and that way everyone can be happy.

 

[Digitaldreamer7]

Guitar Hero. I know a lot of people like it (though I don't care for it) but the sequels are getting ridiculous. I heard that they're putting out 5 more guitar hero games this year.

5? All i knew about was GH:Metallica (of whom's demo impressed me greatly) and GH:4/5

what else are they bastardizing?

I Half agree with you there, No more NEW discs, Improve what you have through more DLC instead of making me swap discs every F**&$# Time I want to play a different song. It's why I like rock band 1 and 2. ALL THE DLC from rock band one will show up on rock band 2. I just HATE that they are making the Beatles a separate game. HATE HATE HATE. Make it DLC, hell if there are enough songs id pay the equivalent of 49.95 in MS Points for them. ANYONE who would buy the actual disc would do the same!

As to franchises that need to be put to sleep..... FF needs to revert back to the old days when it was actually good. Square needs to go back and put more time into the stories then making all the toons look like pre pubescent japanese females. My favorite scene in any RPG so far has been the opera scene from the american version of FF3 from the snes. Where did that kind of innovation go? The aries death scene/plot twist! As much as that brought a tear to my eye it made for a GREAT and UNFORGETTABLE rpg. So if they cant do that then yes, kill it off.

Halo needs to be done and if im right it is OVER. Halo wars won't last long if they dont release a PC version or a compatable mouse for the 360. RTS doesnt work well on a console period.

 

[Heytred]

Anything with Mario, Madden or a year in the title.

 

[Onyx Oblivion]

Can we really post this in a simple list?

Sonic
Mario
Final Fantasy
EA Sports
Mega Man
Legend of Zelda
Dragonball Z
SSX
Halo
Metal Gear
Resident Evil
Pokemon
Castlevania
Sims
Dynasty Warriors
Tomb Raider
Silent Hill
Mortal Kombat
Sour Caliber
Star Wars
Lego
God of War
Devil May Cry
Grand Theft Auto
Guitar Hero/Rock Band
Medal of Honor
Call of Duty
F.E.A.R
Prince of Persia

The list can go on and on.

Why does F.E.A.R. need to die? And Castlevania? For the rest, you at least have a leg to stand on. Kinda. One can at least make a solid arguement against them. Even though I don't agree with anything on the list except for the LEGO and Mario games.

 

[Socdk]

World of Warcraft... Nobody mentions this. Do all of you play this?

Alot of you are talking about playing Pokemon games. Aren't those kids games?

Fifa needs to be released every year! Why? So I as a football fanatic can buy it every year. Yes, I hate EA as much as the next man, but I love football and Fifa is wonderful. Price compared to value is one of the best (for me and other football-fans) since we play it all year untill the next one is released. However those inbetweens need to stop (Fifa 2008 Euro IE.). It saddens me that people actually support EA in BETA-testing next years release for the price of a full game!

Other games:
GTA - <- We have tried being every type og gangstuh, thug, and lo-life now with the expansion pack. Die now!
Tomb Raider - It's fair that they made a stab at it again with new gfx standards, but please... No more after this.
Final Fantasy - How many are there? 27 or something?! I know it dates back to the NES but can anything still be dragged out of this?
Call o' Duty - I love these games but there's nothing left to expand on this. Unless they do a RTS like everybody else.
Tony Hawks - They say it's dead... But is it?
The Sims - I stopped paying attention after expansion pack #46... Is it dead?
Guitar Hero and Rockband - You have already made the game. If you want to do more, make more songs downloadable! FFS quit it ya' douches.
Resident Evil
Silent Hill
Prince of Percia
Sonic
NINTENDO (hee hee)

ohmigawsh I can go on

 

[sooperman]

So ya, everything ever, I suppose.

"This Franchise should die" Threads ar the franchise that need to die.

Agreed.

 

[RobotoWorks]

Someone needs to put a bullet through Mario's head, and why not kill 2 birds with 1 stone, and add Sonic to the "party" as well.

 

[sokka14]

they are bad, don't get me wrong, but relatively franchises aren't so bad in games. mainly because they often put as much effort or more into sequels. when they obviously don't put any effort into the new game (EA, F***ING DIE!!!!), thats when it needs to stop.

film sequels is where this sort of thing is the worst.

 

[KoRn_Leader]

Final Fantasy needs to be cast out into the void, never to return, never to see the light, save the stars.

 

[SquirrelPants]

Final Fantasy needs to stop. They started being quite a bit worse by the time X-2 came along, I enjoyed them all before that...

 

[ManiacalZManiac]

Sonic the Fucking Hedgehog.

He's passed his prime. Ten fucking years ago.

 

[yankeefan19]

Mario. Sonic took a small step in the right direction with Unleashed, but I have never enjoyed a Mario game.

For the record, Pokemon as a TV series must die, but I plan on picking up Platinum version tomorrow.

I agree that the pokemon tv series must die.

 

[Metalchair]

any game based off an anime or movie. their never good, and they get overused

 

[Bat Vader]

The Metal of Honor series seems to be getting dull. Along with the Resident Evil and Silent Hill franchises. My opinion though.

 

[Peach_hat]

Final Fantasy above all things.

Sidenote:
more pokemon games means more attacks, abilities, more items and more pokemon.
This is a GOOD thing.
No one plays the game for the story, we play it to make team, EV train and to dominate cunts.

The problem is its getting out of hand. They have, what, some 550 Pokemon now? Its just overcomplicating the formulaa.

I don't think it over complicates, I think you're over simplifying.
I don't know anyone who has had trouble with the number of Pokemon or moves. If anyone does it just means they haven't played it enough or aren't too clever.

If people do have a real problem with the number of Pokemon or attacks they can just use the internet for help. If they don't have internet (lol) then the in game help is very in-depth anyway.

More pokemon is a good thing.
Endless numbers of attacks is a great thing.
Being able to customize any team you want whether it be stats, type, abilities or even generation has made the game levels above the other games.
Haven't you ever wanted moves to replace the annoyance of Hyper Beam???

I understand if you don't agree but I will defend Pokemon as a game to the death.

 

[Afterburn]

I'm going to hop on the Sonic bandwagon as well. I like Sonic, just not what's happening to the games. Hell, I don't think anyone is.

 

[Owned by 3 year olds]

Sonic and any type of racing game.I just don't like them.