Gaming series/Genres you fell out of love with.

[Parasondox]

Evening Escapist,

We have fun don't we when we play games? What a silly question, of course we do. May I ask though, does that fun just turn to boredom? That same boredom you get when something doesn't feel the need to grab your attention anymore because the thrill, the joy, the excitement is just... gone. The first game open your eyes to a new world and experience, the second does the same with an added feeling inside when you finally reach the itch you couldn't get too before. The third game was okay but just felt the same. The forth, if there ever is one, just does nothing for you as you realise, "nothing has changed". It whores itself out for your attention, offering you those special extras that they promise will add more to the fun, just a little "kick" they say. A bit of a boost but really, it's 30 mins of quick excitement that leaves you low and penniless. Oh how DLCs can fool you.

The love is gone, the game is like an ex that you just don't ever think about but calls once in a while just to "relive" the memories. It's not the same. You just walk away and not looking back but thinking, "what went wrong?". You don't even try, you don't even bother because something else has grabbed you you by the hands takes your mind away from this world and into theirs.

Games, game series or even gaming genres you have just fallen out of. what are they and even why.

EA Sports games, to me you are just a distant memory to that I would never look at twice if I saw you on the street. Your humour doesn't amuse me, your innovation doesn't interest me. You try to be life the real world but that's where you fail. You are becoming something you aren't when you first started out. Yes change can be good but as long as you head into the right direction.

Okay I think I have gone too deep with this. Comment below and erm... lets have fun. Now if you excuse me, I need to get into a different mood set.

 

[Foolery]

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

 

[Eve Charm]

Tales of Series and Disgaea Series. In the PS1 for tales and PS2 series for both The games were just games, and extremely enjoyable. Both had new games + back in the day, Tales had alternate costumes titles and what not, Disgaea would have post game missions and mini story arcs to recruit past game characters or mascots or other game character.

Now both games along with everyother RPG Scamco and NIS put out just feel like a act to buy extra DLC... You want those characters from past Disgaea games, 5 bucks a piece, lucky if we even give you a map to play to unlock them, Want a outfit for your characters in tales games? 5 bucks for the outfit and a special skill... FOR A SINGLE CHARACTER, want the set get ready to buy all 6-8 individually.

Don't keep turning my single player offline games into pay for the game and pay for all this extra content we used to put in our games before we had a way to charge extra money for it.

 

[RJ 17]

Final Fantasy.

I had been with the series quite literally since the beginning. I'm old enough that I still remember picking up the original FF for the NES and I grew up with FF2 and 3 for the SNES (so 4 and 6, in reality). FFTactics was the last truly great one that I played. I played FF7 and enjoyed it, but didn't think it was god's gift to RPGs like most people tend to believe. 8 was crap, 9 was so boring that I couldn't be arsed to play beyond the first disc, and 10 was a plot-hole riddled piece of garbage, and 10-2 was rented and returned within the span of 2 hours, and officially made me swear off the series for good.

From what I've heard, I haven't been missing much since leaving.

Another "series" would be StarCraft. I loved the original and Brood War, but when they announced that they were breaking SCII into 3 games, I found that to be a massive betrayal and nothing more than a money grab by Blizzard who were just getting greedy as WoW was in it's prime. As such not only did I promise myself I'd never get SCII, I also quit WoW in protest as well.

 

[hazabaza1]

Assassin's Creed.
1 was pretty good. 2 was amazing, Brotherhood and Revelations were still really good. So when I saw 3, I thought it was gonna be great. You got ships, you got the neat-ish setting, Desmond was starting to get interesting, the combat was going to be touched up on and the graphics/animations seemed far better than the others.

NOPE. Ships were boring and a hassle to use, the setting was used horribly, Desmond was a really boring fucker, and combat got EVEN EASIER than the previous games.
Oh and the animations were bad and buggy.

Blech.

 

[Sarah Kerrigan]

Genre wise I think it was music games. I don't know what game turned me off of it I just know I wasn't a fan of it anymore starting last year.

 

[Roxas1359]

Assassin's Creed.

This is the same on my end. I played 1 and found it quite lacking in many ways, but still trucked on through it. When I played 2, I was blown away by all the new gameplay mechanics, weapons, and all the fun I could have (still hated the Lute players). Then when Brotherhood came out, I just couldn't get into it at all, and it sort of just killed the series for me. I never played Revelations, but it looked like an expansion of Brotherhood with Ezio still being the main protagonist. So I fell out of the series, and when I saw how Assassin's Creed 3 was I'm glad I avoided it.
I heard that IV is apparently good, but I'll wait a bit on that.

 

[Zhukov]

RTSs.

I used to love them back in the days of Age of Empires II.

Then somewhere along the line I realised that going select-all-steamroll and then watching a bunch of damage-HP equations sort themselves out wasn't really all that interesting. Lacks the immediacy that I crave. Also, not being Korean and all, I find the control scheme (and there's really only one RTS control scheme) doesn't allow the precision and responsiveness to change that.

These days I prefer my strategy turn based. That way it's more about, well... the strategy and less about fumbling to select one unit out of a boiling horde. Perhaps it's a sign that I'm getting old.

 

[Tom_green_day]

I'm just tired of fantasy in general. It's too similar and in my eyes poorly done. It's always 'Oh there's an evil race callde the Seekers and they're trying to rule the world and kill all the Keepers but a prophesy has chosen a select few called The Beaters to protect The Keepers using The Golden Snitch of fate' etc. Of course there are some great exceptions like SKyrim and Monster Hunter.

 

[BeeGeenie]

Final Fantasy.

I had been with the series quite literally since the beginning. I'm old enough that I still remember picking up the original FF for the NES and I grew up with FF2 and 3 for the SNES (so 4 and 6, in reality). FFTactics was the last truly great one that I played. I played FF7 and enjoyed it, but didn't think it was god's gift to RPGs like most people tend to believe. 8 was crap, 9 was so boring that I couldn't be arsed to play beyond the first disc, and 10 was a plot-hole riddled piece of garbage, and 10-2 was rented and returned within the span of 2 hours, and officially made me swear off the series for good.

From what I've heard, I haven't been missing much since leaving.

^This right here... although I did like FF9, everything about this post.

I also used to like FPSs... as in the original Doom and Wolfenstein 3D. The more modern ones? meh. If you've played one, you've played them all.

 

[Legion]

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

I'd extend this to shooters in general for me. So many of them are just contrived reasons to Rambo your way through linear pathways and never really put much thought into why you are doing it, or whether or not that reason is plausible.

It isn't that I cannot see the appeal for that kind of game, it is just that for somebody who has played them since the original Doom, they just don't have any appeal any more.

I find myself much happier with a game that has mediocre game-play but an excellent story/atmosphere, than a game with well crafted combat, but absolutely no interesting characters or story development.

 

[Foolery]

From what I've heard, I haven't been missing much since leaving.

You missed XII, and that's basically it. It's a relatively decent Final Fantasy which was mostly designed by Yasumi Matsuno, who created FF Tactics. Only downside is a couple teen characters shoved into the plot at the beginning to appeal to a younger audience. After that, eh. XIII was a disaster, though I realize some people liked it.

 

[Zhukov]

Assassin's Creed.
1 was pretty good. 2 was amazing, Brotherhood and Revelations were still really good. So when I saw 3, I thought it was gonna be great. You got ships, you got the neat-ish setting, Desmond was starting to get interesting, the combat was going to be touched up on and the graphics/animations seemed far better than the others.

NOPE. Ships were boring and a hassle to use, the setting was used horribly, Desmond was a really boring fucker, and combat got EVEN EASIER than the previous games.
Oh and the animations were bad and buggy.

Blech.

Partially agreed.

For me it was a case of the first game displaying some serious potential which the series has utterly failed to realise ever since.

The combat needs a ground-up remake. Desmond's lingering stench needs to fuck off. The story needs... well, actually I think the story is basically beyond help at this point.

Personally, I'd like to see them ditch the series and use the experience for a 'spiritual sequel'. Although of course that would be a terrible business decision.

 

[AnthrSolidSnake]

The Sims. Yep, I used to love the games growing up. Then EA tried to milk the shit out of it with the marketplace and absurd expansions. I know the Sims is known for a good amount of expansions, but come on? Can you really tell me any of them are fully worth $40 EACH? Better yet, $20 for each stuff pack? Which is like...a handful of virtual clothing that people already make for free anyway?

Also, Turok 2008 was disappointing...I love the originals (even 3 to an extent)

And Kingdom Hearts has been pushing my buttons a bit. Spread out all the game across multiple different handhelds and wait almost ten years to give any hint of a real sequel? Yep, color me a bit peeved about it.

 

[Steven George Jeffrey]

Assassin's Creed.
1 was pretty good. 2 was amazing, Brotherhood and Revelations were still really good. So when I saw 3, I thought it was gonna be great. You got ships, you got the neat-ish setting, Desmond was starting to get interesting, the combat was going to be touched up on and the graphics/animations seemed far better than the others.

NOPE. Ships were boring and a hassle to use, the setting was used horribly, Desmond was a really boring fucker, and combat got EVEN EASIER than the previous games.
Oh and the animations were bad and buggy.

Blech.

I felt exactly the same. I liked the first and really enjoyed 2 and Brotherhood. I thought Revelations was good and I liked that they ended the Ezio trilogy well but I felt the game was lacking something that the previous titles had.

I rushed through 3 and really didn't like it. The combat felt weird and the setting lacked anything big to jump off (trees were ok but the buildings were far too small and boring.) The protagonist was bad (as was Desmond once again), there was no real need to collect money and I never felt any need or desire to play any of the side missions.

It played more like a who's who of the American Revolution and there wasn't the same level of free running and assassinating.

Ship missions were quite fun though.

I have been thinking about getting Black Flag but I think I'll wait for the price to drop just in case. It could have been a great series but the third (and Revelations to a lesser extent) ruined it for me and the mystical, De Vinci Code on acid stuff always puzzled me and seemed un-necessary.

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

Silent Hill. After the series went American... and Origins came in, and it was everything American devs thought SH was about... and Homecoming... and weird experimental Shattered Memories... never played Downpour... and now there's this bullshit Book of Memories Diablo style game...

 

[wooty]

Halo.

About 3/4 the way through Halo 3. All that build up, all that infighting, all that weird planet shit, all that threat.......cue driving section and credits.

Still not sure what went on to this day.

 

[JasonKaotic]

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.

 

[Last Hugh Alive]

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.