Gaming series/Genres you fell out of love with.

[Denamic]

The obvious one is Mass Effect. ME3's ending just pissed on my previous experiences, trivializing all I've done so far, making me feel like nothing I've ever done in the games actually matters save for that final battle.

Assassin's Creed. I was wowed by the first one, but quickly got tired of how samey it was, but I still liked it. And I liked AC2, too. But then there was like 17 games that were all virtually the same. Then again, I did get Black Flag for my birthday, and I did enjoy it more than any other AC game, so you could say it brought me back to liking the series.

Legend of Zelda. Yes, I know, unpopular opinion. I adored A Link to the Past and Ocarina, and I liked Majora's Mask and Twilight. But after Twilight, I started feeling that they were cranking out too much Zelda, too much of the same. I just stopped caring about the series.

Mario. Same as with Zelda, only much worse. Too much goddamned recycling.

The Souls series... lol jk still a fanboy

 

[Imperioratorex Caprae]

Final Fantasy. When Sakaguchi left, I gave XII a try, disliked it immensely. Decided to give XIII a second chance, was thoroughly disappointed and decided Squeenix just isn't the same company. Hope KH3 doesn't turn out to be shit too... On the flipside, Crisis Core and the Dissidia series are some of my favorites especially Dissidia 012 because I can take some of my favorite characters and totally beat the shit out of Vaan any time I want.

 

[SKBPinkie]

Seems like a bunch of people here haven't played AC IV. It's absolutely fantastic. Especially the naval battles and captain-ing your own ship.

To be fair, though - I skipped Revelations and AC 3, so I've basically played the best AC games. The folks here have played these and it seems to have soured their expectations as far as AC games go.

 

[KazeAizen]

Final Fucking Fantasy.
9 was the last truly great Final Fantasy game and unfortunately it always will be. 10 was still good, but nowhere near as good as before. Everything released after that was just.. eeeurgh.
Squeenix clearly has no idea what it's doing with the series anymore and it's about time they stopped beating its corpse and just let the poor guy rest.

Eh I wouldn't go that far. I laugh at myself sometimes though. I jumped on at XIII right about the time everyone else jumped off the train. XIII-2 I think was actually a pretty legit entry and while it is being beat to death I think something changed over there in a good way. If they aren't going to stop beating it to death the least they could do is try to take care of it better. i.e. XIII-2 being a far superior game to XIII and being one of the few games to get me to legit cry by the end, XV finally being pushed out and looking promising after 6 years, rebuilding XIV from the ground up into a much superior (at least from what I've heard) MMO then it used to be. You know how much money it takes to make and maintain a large scale MMO? The fact that they had the balls to just completely rebuild it from the ground up and make it into something people actually enjoy shows that they are at least caring about the game that made them successful in the first place. Can't say the same about other AAA devs *coughs* Capcom *coughs*. Where's my 2.5 HD Mega Man game? Oh right its being made by the guy you chased off and its called Mighty No. 9.

Personally I do think people are a bit too hard on Square Enix these days when its clear from their last few major releases they actually are caring about what they put again and isn't that what we want from all AAA devs?

 

[Shoggoth2588]

Back in High School I played the Hell out of Silent Assassin. I just grabbed the Hitman HD collection and either I haven't been able to click back into the right mind-set or, Squeenix screwed something up. I just don't remember SA being as difficult to control as it is in the HD collection...or maybe it's just because I grabbed the PS3 version...

 

[Artaneius]

Halo 4 destroyed the Halo franchise to me. It completely took out the arena shooter in Halo and made it a semi cod clone in space.

 

[Shaun Chang-Time]

id have to say FPS games.....just find them extremely generic and boring thesedays havnt thoroughly enjoyed one since battlefield bad company due to its likable characters and humor.

also RTS games...havnt enjoyed any since age of empires II and star was galactic battlegrounds

 

[Tanis]

JRPGs.

For me it's most of them just kind of suck.

There's the rare Ni No Kuni or MegaTen, but overall...eh.

 

[Roxas1359]

Personally I do think people are a bit too hard on Square Enix these days when its clear from their last few major releases they actually are caring about what they put again and isn't that what we want from all AAA devs?

After the Tomb Raider thing was revealed on how it was considered a failure, Square Enix has been going through a huge restructuring, and as a result they have a new CEO now, and like you said it seems like they are really trying hard on their games now. I mean, FF XIV: A Realm Reborn is really good, as is the Kingdom Hearts HD 1.5 ReMix which had to remake a lot of things. Let's see if they continue to try and better themselves again, as we've got the FF X/FF X-2 HD collection coming soon, and Kingdom Hearts HD 2.5 comes out this year as well, so people who never had a PSP can play Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep on a console, with 2 analog sticks to boot.

 

[JMO Got Game]

MMORPGs. I started back in the day with my first two MMOs -- Guild Wars and The Matrix Online. From there I played WoW, then Star Wars The Old Republic, then The Secret World, and most recently Guild Wars 2.

I enjoyed all of them for a limited time, but after realizing that I stopped having fun after getting through the storylines in each game (or not even getting that far) I've finally accepted that they're just not for me. I'm more of a game whore, I like to play tons of games, jumping around at my whimsy. MMORPGs are just too much of a commitment, even though deep down I love the idea of finding tons of lore and multiple characters and all the other things fans love about them.

 

[ShinyCharizard]

Halo. 4 convinced me I should have just left the series alone after Reach. But I'm incredibly bored of FPS games in general.

Seconding this.


OT: I think I'm falling out of love with FPS titles in general. Mainly because they all seem to be aping Call of Duty's style of multiplayer, with a gazillion unlocks and killstreaks and all that stupid unbalanced bullshit.

 

[StormDragonZ]

Final Fantasy.

We made friends at VII, turned into a relationship at V & VI, started seeing other people at X, stayed friends for III & IV, became true friends at VIII & IX, went that route for I, II & IV, but was totally worth it.

Now X-2 has come into our lives...

 

[MrHide-Patten]

Pokemon. Once you've played it for a decade things really seem to be going through the motions. This could apply to a lot of Nintendo's core franchises, a very pervasive feeling of; 'been there, done that'.

If they expanded on the core set (more branching evolutions, that's how animals evolve after all) rather just constanly making new ones based off inanimate objects.

 

[Zeras]

It's not a series or even a genre maybe, but online multiplayer games/modes in general.

Playing games like COD, Gears, L4D and pretty much any game with decent multiplayer attached was fun for me at first, up until I got an Xbox 360 I'd only ever played single player or local multiplayer games so I was hooked for a good few years through high school and university. Nowadays I've fallen out with them REALLY hard though, for a variety of factors. I only like the Left 4 Dead series anymore, it's great fun and nails how, in my opinion, multiplayer SHOULD work right on the head. Strangely, The Last of Us' multiplayer had been hooked for a while this past year.

So those games generally don't attract me anymore, which is why I only just got a PS3 early-mid 2013. I'm enjoying the wider variety of single player game choices and the PS Plus service. And now I've started downloading games from Steam since we have a decent computer now. But anyway, this isn't a rant on platforms, I began with how I've fallen out of multiplayer games.

I agree with you completely. I started with the PS1 slim (the smaller white version) with single player games, and continued that trend all the way through to getting a 360 in 2007/2008. I'm on Gold, but the experience is wearing off; I'm only keeping it until the expiration date comes, mainly for the Games with Gold promotion. If I am playing a 360 game with multiplayer, I keep it strictly to single. It just took me a long time to realize that I'm not a social butterfly; I am the more introverted person in my circle of friends. And that is fine.

Captcha: that's positivenergy. Thank you!

 

[cubikill]

Starcraft 2. I loved Brood War, I came in near the end of it's life, around 2007. So naturally I was really excited about Starcraft 2, i played the camping and loved it. Then i played the ladder (multiplayer). It was bad thou, sort of. I mean its better that any other game but not as good as brood war. 700 hours and a heart of the swarm later I think i do love it. But it was touch and go for a while.

 

[KazeAizen]

Personally I do think people are a bit too hard on Square Enix these days when its clear from their last few major releases they actually are caring about what they put again and isn't that what we want from all AAA devs?

After the Tomb Raider thing was revealed on how it was considered a failure, Square Enix has been going through a huge restructuring, and as a result they have a new CEO now, and like you said it seems like they are really trying hard on their games now. I mean, FF XIV: A Realm Reborn is really good, as is the Kingdom Hearts HD 1.5 ReMix which had to remake a lot of things. Let's see if they continue to try and better themselves again, as we've got the FF X/FF X-2 HD collection coming soon, and Kingdom Hearts HD 2.5 comes out this year as well, so people who never had a PSP can play Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep on a console, with 2 analog sticks to boot.

Tomb Raider thing? Failure? I think I missed that do tell. Also I thought I heard they got like an upper level management shift or something. So it is a new CEO? If he is the one calling the shots by all means let him continue. Any chance he can take over Capcom for like a year as well so we can get a Mega Man Legends 3 finally?

 

[Roxas1359]

Tomb Raider thing? Failure? I think I missed that do tell. Also I thought I heard they got like an upper level management shift or something. So it is a new CEO? If he is the one calling the shots by all means let him continue. Any chance he can take over Capcom for like a year as well so we can get a Mega Man Legends 3 finally?

After the launch of Tomb Raider, it sold about 3.4 million in a single month, however it was considered a failure by Square Enix. After that, much like what happened with EA, the Square Enix CEO, Yoichi Wada, resigned but still remains on the board of directors and was replace with their current CEO, Yosuke Matsuda. The fact that Wada is still on the board of directors is because technically Matsuda isn't fully trained yet. Yamauchi did the same thing after he resigned as CEO, he remained on the board of directors while Iwata began to run Nintendo as it's CEO.

As for Capcom, they need to go through more than a simple CEO change, they need a lot more in order to survive at this point. I do want my Legends 3, as I've been a Legends fan since 2000 after Megaman Legends 2, so I was waiting a long time for the sequel. Capcom though isn't going to be changing their strategies at all it seems, and their CEO, Kenzo Tsujimoto, needs to be replaced.

 

[KazeAizen]

Tomb Raider thing? Failure? I think I missed that do tell. Also I thought I heard they got like an upper level management shift or something. So it is a new CEO? If he is the one calling the shots by all means let him continue. Any chance he can take over Capcom for like a year as well so we can get a Mega Man Legends 3 finally?

After the launch of Tomb Raider, it sold about 3.4 million in a single month, however it was considered a failure by Square Enix. After that, much like what happened with EA, the Square Enix CEO, Yoichi Wada, resigned but still remains on the board of directors and was replace with their current CEO, Yosuke Matsuda. The fact that Wada is still on the board of directors is because technically Matsuda isn't fully trained yet. Yamauchi did the same thing after he resigned as CEO, he remained on the board of directors while Iwata began to run Nintendo as it's CEO.

As for Capcom, they need to go through more than a simple CEO change, they need a lot more in order to survive at this point. I do want my Legends 3, as I've been a Legends fan since 2000 after Megaman Legends 2, so I was waiting a long time for the sequel. Capcom though isn't going to be changing their strategies at all it seems, and their CEO, Kenzo Tsujimoto, needs to be replaced.

I see. Well he is doing a bang up job as far as I'm concerned. I just hate that so many people can get burned so bad that they turn a blind eye to obvious good devs start doing when they realize they screwed up. Capcom I used to be a huge fan of. My first games that actively played and looked for were Mega Man titles. I couldn't tell you how many times I played through Mega Man X5 when I was younger. Its really a shame what happened to them. Not only did they create one of the big three for platformers but created two of the most popular fighting game series of all time and a shit ton of other good series. Only to just chase off the creators of said series and then they make spiritual successors to their series. (offers up everything he has at the twin alters of Bayonetta and Mighty No. 9).

By my count out of 5 of the biggest targets for us fans 2 have either changed or started changing their ways (EA and Square) While the other 3 have not done so (Activision, Ubisoft, and Capcom)

 

[Texas Joker 52]

Halo. 4 convinced me I should have just left the series alone after Reach. But I'm incredibly bored of FPS games in general.

First reply, and it says pretty much how I feel. Personally, I really liked Reach, but after, with Halo 4? It just didn't feel the same. A lot of people would probably say that since a lot of the same individuals were involved, even if it wasn't Bungie as a whole, it shouldn't have mattered. But it took away some of what made Halo, Halo. Everyone started on a level playing field with the same spawning weapons, it was all about map control and weapon spawns, and each weapon had its niche.

But with the custom loadouts, it simply doesn't work the same, and even the single player doesn't feel quite right. It's a shame too, because I was a avid fan of Halo, and now I just can't work up the same enjoyment for it anymore.

I'm so glad Bungie is working on Destiny, because it looks like that will have some of the same flair that Halo did, but with a high-fantasy twist.