Franchises you would like to kill

[Parvutoiu Catalin]

I got Many...
Starcraft
Halo
Gears of War
Sonic
Mario
Fable

 

[Dan Steele]

Sonic = Sonic unleashed, everything after sega genisis
Halo = Goodbye gameplay and story, hello paycheck
COD = What are they gonna do now? Space Nazis?
Mario = to many games, WITH THE MOST OVERUSED,REPETATIVE, PLOTLINE IN EXISTANCE!!!
Pokemon= Now introducing our newest pokemon for our 273,951st game: Penisaur!
Final Fantasy= 100$ says they will be on FF20 by the time im 21
Madden= sports games just suck in general
Movie games= suck more than sports games

 

[gothicboris]

I'm gonna have to go with Metal Gear Solid.

Hideo Kojima should just shut the fuck up.

I cant agree with this as i feel it has ended with Guns of the Patriots. From what ive seen there is nothing about the upcoming Rising that fans liked about the previous MGS games. There was enough complaints when they made Raiden the main character of Sons of Liberty.

I dont think any franchise should die unless there is absolutely no one who will continue playing the games. But i do find those sports games that are brought out every year with only very small changes kind of pointless.

Ok, that was either a typo or you just contradicted yourself.

MASSIVELY.

"I can't agree with this as I feel it has ended with Guns of the Patriots."

So in your words, you hope it doesn't stop, because you think it already stopped?
Huh?

No i meant it isnt a franchise that has to die because it has already ended.

 

[Ultress]

If it's not dead yet the Wild Arms series. To me it's pretty obvious that X-seed/Media Vision has no idea what they're doing. Please put the series out of it's misery.

 

[OliverTwist72]

Sports games, any of them. Why can't they let me download updated rosters in 2011 for a 2010 game, its the same friggin game!


Altho I haven't bought Madden in awhile so maybe this has changed (doubt it).

Edit: Wild Arms and Suikoden got progressively worse with each installment (the originals of both of these being some of my favorite RPGs of all time).

 

[Samwise137]

I would say that killing it would a strong word and would bring about much pain etc in the gaming community but I'm just plain sick of hearing about WoW.

 

[shreedder]

Can I say map packs? Seriously after no more than a month a comapny will announce a new map pack that you can buy for ten bucks. Sorry developer, but I just spent $60 on your game, and I don't have another $10.

 

[shreedder]

I would say that killing it would a strong word and would bring about much pain etc in the gaming community but I'm just plain sick of hearing about WoW.

I play WoW and I'm sick of hearing about it. If I see one more Cataclysm commoercial I will persoanly kill a Blizzard marketing staffer. You already know if you were going to buy Cataclyism, no need to keep advertising it.

 

[Ophiuchus]

I'm all about 'live and let live', I just don't play things that don't interest me. So... a series I do play that needs to die: Guitar Hero.

The series reached a peak with GH3 and it's been downhill ever since. GHWT introduced other instruments and a weird career progression, GH5 did away with career progression entirely, the most recent one added (God help us) a story in place of career progression and included a load of stupid gimmicks that don't make any goddamn sense. The next one will probably do away with instruments and require us to play air guitar via Kinect/PSMove.

It doesn't help that a lot of the great and suitable songs have already been used and they're now at the point of rehashing - if you've bought all of the games and DLC, you'll have three or four versions of Free Bird. The most recent game holds the distinction of being the first in the series that I didn't buy on release and have no intention of getting later. It's time to let it die a dignified death.

 

[Twuk]

I'm all about 'live and let live', I just don't play things that don't interest me. So... a series I do play that needs to die: Guitar Hero.

The series reached a peak with GH3 and it's been downhill ever since. GHWT introduced other instruments and a weird career progression, GH5 did away with career progression entirely, the most recent one added (God help us) a story in place of career progression and included a load of stupid gimmicks that don't make any goddamn sense. The next one will probably do away with instruments and require us to play air guitar via Kinect/PSMove.

It doesn't help that a lot of the great and suitable songs have already been used and they're now at the point of rehashing - if you've bought all of the games and DLC, you'll have three or four versions of Free Bird. The most recent game holds the distinction of being the first in the series that I didn't buy on release and have no intention of getting later. It's time to let it die a dignified death.

I second you on this one. I used to be a heavy GH/RB player. Honestly, Rock Band is where its at these days, RB3 looks revolutionary, just as RB2 did upon it's release. The Guitar Hero franchise has been plummeting since GH2, the last good game in the series IMO. It's honestly to a point now where the games are getting silly and even more childish, when at one point it had a pretty good hold on the hardcore rhythm game players. Such a shame to see a good idea crawl over and die like that.

 

[Wondermint13]

I'm glad somebody mentioned Pokemon... Yes, there are way too f***ing many of them now. I like the first 150. I will always like the first 150 and I am the proud holder of the first 150 in many formats but FFS please stop now! The new designs are poor, unlikeable and where the f*** did all these extra evolutions from the originals come from. Simply.. How the f*** are we supposed to catch them all if they keep F***ing coming!?
...I feel better now.

Oh and Halo.. Stop... just stop now... please..go away.

 

[minakorocket]

There are too many I want to end.

I love Final Fantasy. I really do. But I can't take it anymore. I can't stand by them and fangirl about how great their games are when I can't even play them for 10 hours without wanting to go do something else. Sorry. Done.

Despite what everyone else says, I don't want WoW to go away. I want WoW to get bigger and pull all the trolls from every other MMO away. I DO want other developers to stop trying to make WoW 2.0.

I'm pretty done with Fable. Not buying another one no matter how much "better" and "awesome" it is. In the words of many villians.... 'You have failed me for the last time.'

Wow this is easy and fun. Let me think here. I'm pretty done with the DYNASTY WARRIORS series. I don't know what # they are at now but it is WAY too damn many. It's the same damn--
Madden games. Go away.
--game over and over and over. No inspiration what-so-ever, no attempt to upgrade the game.

I can't say that I hate The Sims cause that's a lie, I hate how they charge 30$-60$ for their stupid expansions that only add half a dozen things to the game. Screw you and your expansions. You are not worth that kind of money.

I won't mention all of them, but all those lovable nintendo games who have been made/remade/repackaged so many times, whenever they announce 'Hey guys, we just wanted to tell you a new -------- game is coming out!' It's no surprise. Yeah. All of those.

I originally would have thrown Dragon Quest in here but I really like that DS one... *shuffles around* Yeah. Get rid of it. Start a new franchise please.

Oh. I'm done with remakes. Quit making them. I'm looking at you, Persona and Disgaea. You know who you are. Knock. It. Off.

 

[Twuk]

I love Final Fantasy. I really do. But I can't take it anymore. I can't stand by them and fangirl about how great their games are when I can't even play them for 10 hours without wanting to go do something else. Sorry. Done.

Yes, yes, yes. Stole my words.

 

[Trippy Turtle]

mario. never have liked it never will like it and basically nintendo needs to get a game that wasnt the same now as it was in the 1700's really ssb was good because it was new mario kart was good because it was new a good game does not mean:
1.Copy
2.paste
3.????? (people buying same game 6 time)
4.profit

even though it works that is just not good and is why i hate nintendo /rant


all that said i still buy pokemon.. at least theres new pokemon in it in mario the newest one has one extra mushroom from the original and nothing else is different.

 

[jacobschndr]

Final Fantasy...seriously...just...stop. please

 

[FirstPersonWinner]

Halo: DEAD!
Infinity Ward: DEAD!... -ish but still.

 

[Ddgafd]

Is it cool to hate on CoD these days?

OT: I don't understand why you would want to kill a franchise. It would just hurt everyone involved. I'd rather just reinvent a franchise, as someone said earlier.