Franchises you would like to kill

[IBlackKiteI]

Epic snip

Gotta say I agree hugely.

CoD is ok, but something that deviates from what it is now is not going to happen, therefore it must die.

Halo I'm not sure about, 343 is apparently made up of a lot of Bungie employees, but every Halo game like it or not has essentially been the same thing in disguise. I'm not just talking about the settings or gameplay, the actual way the game progresses feels identical in all of them.
But I'm not sure if it should just die, Halo has a big huge universe, but very little of which is even mentioned in game.
If there were a game where you didn't play a space marine killing aliens 'Cos they're bad' for the millionth time that would be great, but unlikely to happen which completely sucks.
I think Halo has extraordinary potential, but that potential will never be realised.

Put it this way, if another samey Halo game comes out I will use voodoo magic and stab a picture of the dev's studio. : D

 

[vxicepickxv]

Let's see here, franchises that need to die(Thanks for the vague general quote, even if you're supposed to be limiting this to games).

The Simpsons - A series that went from okay to horrible over the course of about a dozen seasons.

Blockbuster video - You can't compete with Netflix and red box anymore. Do you death rattle, and be gone. You're taking up valuable retail space with your few remaining stores.

Guitar Hero - Perhaps I'm jumping a bit here, but we shall see. There's nothing really new but weak story that you(Activision) ripped from a game you could have published, and the gameplay hasn't changed enough to warrant a new release. Basically you're milking your series again.

Annual sports game updates - They don't need to come out every year. People will pay 15 bucks every other year for roster updates. Cut your development half by not changing the game so much, and just do a roster change every other year. You still get a huge pile of money out of it.

****ville - Shifty, shady, vile tactics that don't provide anything useful to the world. Your company needs to DIAF(die in a fire), and you need to be removed as the pox that you are from the gaming company.

Movie tie in games - If you release it with the movie story, and it wasn't announced well before the movie was coming out, then just go ahead and scrap your code, because we know it's going to be horrible.

Game based movies - There's a 99% chance you will be some of the worst movies ever. Just, don't bother getting made, we don't want you. Stop Uwe Boll [http://www.petitiononline.com/RRH53888/]

 

[IBlackKiteI]

Dawn of War - You can't compete with StarCraft 2
Star Wars games

Are you serious? Dawn of War is entirely different to SC.
That like saying Spore is like Railroad Tycoon.

As for Star Wars games we still need a Battlefront 3 and a Republic Commando 2, then it can die.

 

[thirion1850]

CoD.

Warcraft. If you're not gonna make Warcraft 4, stop remaking the same life-sucking expansions every bloody year.

Splinter Cell. Unless they make a good one.

 

[Bender Rodriguez]

I don't feel right with killing franchises i've never bumped into, so heroes two i tried and despised.

SONIC:
Just too bland, never worked for me.

CALL OF DUTY:
Nobody wants to play football anymore

 

[Amethyst Wind]

Ninja Gaiden and Dead or Alive.

What now, Team Ninja?

 

[MrGalactus]

Fucking World of Warcraft. I miss my friends. They're all zombies now

 

[parasyteFMA]

Anything that is comes out yearly. Assassin's Creed is really taking a horrible turn with this trend. It wouldn't bother me if the story would continue without being so pretentious. Multiplayer was cool at first but now I just find it just as repetitive and boring as something along the lines of Call of Duty. Then again, online gaming isn't something I really enjoy unless I'm playing with people I know. Also, we better not get more Ezio. He's a great character but I don't want him to overstay his welcome.

 

[TiefBlau]

Anything that is comes out yearly. Assassin's Creed is really taking a horrible turn with this trend. It wouldn't bother me if the story would continue without being so pretentious. Multiplayer was cool at first but now I just find it just as repetitive and boring as something along the lines of Call of Duty. Then again, online gaming isn't something I really enjoy unless I'm playing with people I know. Also, we better not get more Ezio. He's a great character but I don't want him to overstay his welcome.

I'm actually really interested in the Desmond plot.

And yeah, Ezio's kinda done to death by now.

 

[TiefBlau]

Warcraft. If you're not gonna make Warcraft 4, stop remaking the same life-sucking expansions every bloody year

I wish we could all just pretend that WoW never happened.

Kill Illidan? Sure, why not? What the hell, let's throw Arthas into the mix.

 

[parasyteFMA]

I'm actually really interested in the Desmond plot.
And yeah, Ezio's kinda done to death by now.

What I would like is a game with Desmond as the assassin. Typical gameplay with modern touches. Or the rumored WWII assassin. That would be cash.

 

[likalaruku]

These two remind me of Weekend at Bernie's; they're Bernie & the fans are the guys dragging them all over the place like they were still fresh & rosey.

They also remind me of these guys.

 

[k-ossuburb]

Some of the franchises I like, but wish to see the back of.

Silent Hill.

I'm just sick of people ruining it, it hasn't been any good since "Origins", looking at the state it's in now I now look back on "The Room" with a great fondness, at least it had a decent story.

Star Wars

Can someone please do something to keep George Lucas the hell away from it and make him leave it alone, please? It's not even funny any more.

And an honourable mention that I'm not all that into but feel they need to stop anyway.

Final Fantasy

As I've said, many, many, many times before, I don't hate the Final Fantasy series; it's just not my thing. However, the quality of the series has been in serious decline with every successive sequel it has spawned. Square Enix has even gone as far as aplogizing to their fans for releasing a broken game [http://www.ripten.com/2010/10/20/square-enix-apologizes-for-ffxiv-range-85/].

This has to be a slightly longer explanation because I know how protective the fans of the series can get (I went to uni with five of them, one of which I dated for a short while; guess what caused her to break up with me) please understand that I'm not hating on the series; I just think Square Enix needs to stop treating their fans like crap, the whole thing feels like some kind of battered wife syndrome where the fans will still defend Square Enix no matter how badly they're treated. Either improve the franchise and stop trying to emulate the success of FFVII or just let it die, from what I've heard, seen and read on various forums, reviews and word-of-mouth; Square Enix owes their fans BIG.

 

[EHKOS]

It needs to end. It's disgraced itself like a once-shining hero in an old folks home with a dirty adult diaper...I'm so sorry Naughty Dog sold you Crash....let me do it...*splat*

 

[JourneyThroughHell]

CoD. For one reason and one reason only:

NO, YOU DRATTED COWORKER, FOR THE TEN BAZILLIONTH I WILL NOT BUY IT ON YOUR SAY-SO!

Seriously, if your fanboys are so bad that they threaten me if I don't buy your product, it's a hazard to society and needs death.

Because if CoD dissapears, the people you are talking about will stop being idiots.

Seriously though, that's fair. Well, that's fair, isn't it? I know people who threaten other people for not following their religion. Therefore, religion should dissapear.

(My apologies for using religion as an example, I could not come up with anything better and do not wish to start a flame war).

OT: There are a couple of Russian game and film series I want to end, but none of you probably heard of them (and for good reason).

 

[Wintermoot]

COD I feel ripped of after BLOPS it was 60 Euro,s but is shhorter then a 20 Euro game and the multiplayer is as balanced as a bowling ball on stilts

Sonic just let it end

Halo pretty much ended

Final Fantasy: maybe it best to end a series after 13+ games (including spinn-offs) and go back to Chrono Trigger

 

[PurpleSky]

I'd have liked to have killed call of duty franchise before it got popular.

 

[FinalDream]

COD and Halo spring to mind but you have to ask yourself the question of where will the idiotic fanbase go? Better to keep the games going to reduce the number of idiots in the online FPS games I like (BFBC2). So despite the fact I hate those games with a passion they have their use.

I'd like to kill Assassins Creed before it is whored out on a yearly basis and because I'm getting bored of the series historical filler to Desmond's story.

Bioshock (now stay with me on this one) I have nothing against the first game, well not strictly true, but I would prefer the dev team to buy the rights to System Shock 3 and work on it. If you never played System Shock 2 then Bioshock is a watered down version (hur hur) of the style of game System Shock is.

FIFA. This one is simple I hate football and hate all the office talk.

 

[Sampsa]

Well, if Assassin's Creed begins to focus on modern times I'll want that franchise to be killed.