Game Franchises You've Lost Interest In

[Windcaler]

The first thing that comes to mind is anything warcraft. After being a slave to wow for 2 years I had enough and swore it and all other warcraft products off

Call of Duty: Didnt swear it off till black ops. From my point of view great games need excellent single player campaigns to hold them up. Only games without single player get off easy but I classify those as unable to be rated due to inherant and unfixable problems with multiplayer. Anyway, as for CoD I mostly have a problem with the shortness of the single player side. My standard is a full price $60 game should have at least 8-10 hours of single player gameplay. With MW2 and black ops (along with some other games) had a single player that I finished in a single night after work (about 4 hours). By my standards the length of those games was criminal. Another problem is that in an interactive medium CoD is taking a turn toward Metal gear solid games and seems to want to be an un-interactive movie. The third problem I have is MW2 and black ops also needed to show that foreign nations were incompetant in their stories and I have a big problem with that

Halo: Once again campaign length comes up for Halo games. The first one was excellent, I loved it and still play it from time to time. The sequels and now prequel have felt like a significant downgrade. On top of that the story just seems to have a ton of plot holes. However to be fair I have never read the books so maybe Im missing out on something there

Fable: The first fable was great. I loved it from start to finish. Then fable 2 came out and annoyed me to no end. The biggest part that annoyed me was jobs. I think Yahtzee said it best when he said something like "I guess I missed that story when Conan took up bartending". I didnt finish fable 2 and wont touch fable 3 because of that, terrible pacing, and just bad storytelling

Im probably forgetting some franchises but those are the ones that come to mind right now

 

[SageRuffin]

Only four that come to mind off-hand: Devil May Cry, God of War, Guitar Hero, and Street Fighter.

Shortly after beating DMC4 and getting all the achievements outside of the S-rank related ones, my interest in the series at large slowly waned, mostly because it was strongly hinted that was the end of the series. And I stopped playing my PS2, so I silently put away my copy of DMC4 and eventually gave it a new home.

I have no reason whatsoever to get a PS3, so after hearing that GoW3 was a PS3 exclusive, I had little choice than to give that up. Shame, it's be nice to pick up one more Legionnaire and rip it in half like what got me interested in the series in the first place.

Like Yahtzee said, once GH3 hit, the games stopped being fun. Sure, to get the best experience out of the game you almost have to play on Hard and above, but in order to not have the game fuck you sideways with sandpaper condoms was to have hands more flexible than Reed Richards. That said, I gave World Tour a go and hated most of the track list (having Michael Jackson was its saving grace), so I just silently pushed it out my mind. Now I could care less about GH and am currently wondering why in hell I still have my 360 guitar controller...

I was never fond of SF until 3 (and Third Strike by extension), and SF45 just proved how much the series has been stagnating. So now instead of gobbling up the various costume DLCs like everyone else, I'm patiently waiting for SF3 to be re-released on the Arcade. And why do I still have SSF4? D:

 

[Amethyst Wind]

I love how the franchises people keep mentioning have at least 7 games a piece.

And people are losing interest? Shocking!

 

[Sarah Kerrigan]

Call of Duty
Halo
Grand Theft Auto
oh and Left 4 Dead. Left 4 dead one was ok, but Left 4 Dead 2 killed it >_>

 

[Ashcrexl]

tony hawk and rhythm games. just not enough different per game. tony hawk games need to do skating in more fantastical settings and rhythm games are done.

 

[TheYellowCellPhone]

Legend of Zelda.

I like most games, adored Twilight Princess, but Phantom Hourglass made me lose hope and releasing a new Zelda game on the DS again wasn't worth the buy, because of the memories of PH.

Now Skyward Sword requires the Wii Motion Plus, which I am not willing to buy a $50+ game and a $30+ controller add-on for.

 

[Sixcess]

Tomb Raider, Resident Evil and Silent Hill - all because I never went from a PS1 to a PS2 after Eidos cancelled Fear Effect 3, the one title that I would definitely have bought a new console for.

Also Final Fantasy, partly for the same reason, but mostly because FF9 left me bored and confused on both of my playthroughs of it, neither of which I actually finished.

 

[Shadowninja100]

Guitar Hero, it just isn't as fun as it used to be.

 

[DanielBrown]

Final Fantasy.
My gaming while growing up was all about FF, but after FFX it's been going downhill like crazy.
FFX had Tidus, who were just plain awful, but I could somewhat stand it then because the graphics was godly at the time. I've always been a bit of a graphics whore.

Other than that, I suppose I buy a lot less FPS games than I used to. I still love the genre, but these days it seems like they only mass produce these 4 hour long games. I don't want to waste my money on that.
Borderlands was my last FPS game and in spite of my dislike for cel-shading I loved it.

Edit; post above me also made me remember Guitar Hero.
I loved the first two games. The third was ok, but after that they've just sucked. All these Guitar Hero/Rock Band games that focus on one band are pretty awful aswell.
Liked Rock Bands interface way more than Guitar Heros, but I haven't played the games for probably 2 years or so. Don't think I will play again either.

 

[Arayle]

Splinter Cell, was hyped up for Splinter Cell: Conviction, only to realize that I would be paying $100 AUD for a 6 hour campaign... yeah, no.

And maybe Final Fantasy? I played 8 and 10 and loved both, I'll eventually pick up 12, but FF13 was just bad, Forgot what chapter it was, but it was called "The Ark" or something, it was "go down hallway, into spiral room, go down, repeat x5-6 times," Got bored of the game shortly after then and will be very cautious about any other FF game.

 

[Icarion (aka Stockholm)]

Kingdom Hearts like that other guy said. I loved teh 1st one (actually the 2nd game I owned for the PS2) and I sunk alot of time into the 2nd one, but I don't have a handheld and I kinda feel like I've grown out of it due to the infequency of the titles.

 

[Oilerfan92]

- Pokemon. I don't think vie ever played a game series anywhere near as much as it. And I guess I'd still be willing to pick it up again if I'm bored at home. But the charm of the original and 2nd series of pokemon is gone and they just seem to be throwing out whatever they can think of. And I guess I got tired of fighting my way through waves of Birdifree, Ratattat and the bug pokemon that were the Caterpillars.

- GTA. I appreciate the fact that they don't throw one out every year. And the improvements between games is clear. But in GTA IV it just wasn't as over the top or whatever as Vice City (the last one I played. Skiped San Andreas). I guess it's hard to be interested in a game that hasn't made any news in however long its been. But still.

- Halo. The games are fun to play with friends on multi, but at this point Reach, or even Halo 3 is fine for that. I have absolutely no reason to continue caring. We know how e war ended. We know how it essentially started. It's done.

 

[Judgement101]

Sadly, Kingdom Hearts.

The first game fed me everything I wanted and more, and like a good little addict, I was hooked. The second expanded on that, but the gap between the two games totally pissed me off. Not to mention, I felt that the second didn't have the same atmosphere as the first, which made me favour the predecessor.

358/2 Days was wonderful. The story was actually amazing. I felt so sorry for the Organisation members, I was drawn in, and the final boss actually gripped me by the balls and made me cry. (Not the final final boss)

Birth By Sleep looks like it is making the plot more ridiculously convoluted than it needs to be, and I'm losing interest.

Sadly, because Square are so fucking clever, I've come too far to just give up on it completely, so I'm still going to pick up every title I can find...

This, seriously, Square should have kept to the formula but noooooooooo. (Jerks)

 

[gligarman207]

Guitar Hero was only good until Activision took over, leading Harmonix to move on to the awsomeness that is Rock Band.

Also Sonic died when he moved into 3D with Sonic's 3D blast. That whole horrible game you would slide around like you were on ice and the series has only gone downhill from there.

 

[DirgeNovak]

Devil May Cry. 1&3 were awesome (but not 2, naturally), but 4 was meh and the remake looks too juvenile to be any fun. (My feelings about DMC5 or whatever they end up calling it have nothing to do with Dante's redesign, but the action sequences just seem childish now. Maybe it's just me getting old or something.)

 

[Imat]

Lost interest in CoD with Modern Warfare. I like the first 2 still, but 4 is just an altogether different game, one which I simply don't enjoy as much as 2.

Also lost a lot of interest in GTA after 4. I loved San Andreas, then 4 changes everything back to Vice City style (Less RPG, more FPS), ruins any variety in the islands (Especially the color), and makes the vehicles practically undrivable. And sure you can edit the handling file to make them quite a bit better, but I really shouldn't have to.

And motorcycles in that game are horrific. Can't turn at all, and crashing always results in flying out of the seat and losing half your hp. I am not impressed, GTA4.

It does have a story that has kept me mildly interested, however, so I'm hesitantly hopeful for the next installment.

 

[Jennifer Darknight]

I have to admit, there's a few.

Final Fantasy, for one. After Final Fantasy VII, the games started to get staler and staler, with sillier stories and more boring characters (though IX was a bit of a departure from this, it wasn't enough to let me think the franchise was far from dead)...and with XIV, and all the crap associated with it...I'm done. That's it. Even their Final Fantasy Tactics remake was bloody disappointing (Delita's great--hell, he's my favorite character--but, ahem. The plotholes? Yeah, Square, didn't fix those. And the dialogue changes? Sorry--I'm just going to get the Japanese version and be done with it), and with my love for that game, it's pretty damn hard to disappoint me in that department.

Sonic goes in the number two spot--I loved it as a kid...I grew up on it and I still love the old games...but these new ones? And then Unleashed? Either Sonic Team's been given a just labotomy, or they've just stopped caring and are milking it for all it's worth. I can't bring myself to think of the latter, so I'll just keep considering the former, and that everything after Adventure 2 was just a product of frontal-lobe lacking insanity.

The EA Sports games. Do we really need to update these once a year? It seems sort of pointless...Especially since they only deviate SLIGHTLY from the previous game. You don't even own your previous edition for a year before you get a new one...seems too much like a money-guzzler, and I wish they'd just stop flooding the market every damn year. B|