Have you ever loved a series/francise so much that you DIDN'T want to see it continue?

[The_Echo]

Bleach should have ended when the Aizen arc finished.
Yet Shonen Jump just couldn't pull the trigger.

I agree. I still enjoyed it beyond that point (haven't read the manga past where the anime stopped), but that felt like a very natural stopping point. Plus, Kubo needs to go back and finish ZOMBIEPOWDER. already.

As much as I love Kingdom Hearts, I'm not sure how I feel about the prospect of another saga. I'm sure I'll cream myself when it gets announced a year after KHIII at E3 2045, but I don't really know what else could be done, or how they could top the Dark Seeker Saga.

 

[The Funslinger]

I'm pretty sure everyone who ever watched Supernatural wanted it to die at the end of the fifth season.

I know what you mean, and that would have been the perfect stopping point, but I actually don't mind the later seasons. They started off a bit shaky, and they're not as good as the old ones, but they're not bad.

OT: Scrubs. The only part of Scrubs Med School I liked was Drew, and he wasn't nearly enough to save the show.

 

[TeapartyTokyo]

Uncharted. Uncharted 3 had an ending that felt very conclusive and I can't imagine how they would make a 4th without ruining it or making it feel dragged out.
I felt the same way about Dead Space 2, but surprisingly I actually really enjyed Dead Space 3 as well! I was satisified at the end of DS2, but realized quickly that Isaac's adventures on Tau Volantis needed to be a part of the story.

 

[Hawk of Battle]

God of War. 3 main games that have a very definite ending, fine. A prequel game, ok I'll bite. Another prequel and a multiplayer game, both of which add nothing new to the series other than being blatant cash-ins, now you're pushing it too far.

And I very much doubt Ascension will be the last GoW game either.

 

[Atrocious Joystick]

Breaking bad was that for me. At the end of season 4 I kinda thought "Yep, I'm good. For me this is how the series ends.".

 

[Hawk of Battle]

RE4 - Much more action oriented, no zombies, space bullcrap.

Space? Space what?

I've played this game to death, but I can't remember anything regarding space. You mean the space in the attache case or what?

The las plagas are space slugs to my knowledge.

No they're not. The only origin stuff we have on the Plagas were that they were found in Spain centuries ago and used by a cult to increase its numbers. Then they got sealed away inside a castle vault and mostly died out, with only a few spores surviving.

Then they got experimented on to produce new parasitic strains. No mention of aliens or anything anywhere. As far as we know, they are a terrestrial lifeform.

 

[Yopaz]

Scrubs.

Season 9.

I didn't want that. Nobody wanted that.

Now I thought that season 9 was good, but I consider it a spin-off. The way season 8 ended was brilliant and should have been the last season.

OT: Wheel of Time, I wanted that series to end for years. The books were still going strong, but I wanted to see the conclusion. Now the series have ended and I feel like I have lost a large part of myself. It's the legacy of Robert Jordan and I wish he was alive to see his life work complete. I wish he was alive to make more books and to write books containing some back story to the series. The series ended and I am really glad that it did. It is a spectacular read from beginning to end and the ending was really satisfying. The series gave me everything I ever wanted from it.

 

[Cabisco]

Does Mass Effect count? I love the series to bits, even 3, even its ending, but I'm scared Bioware is going to try to increase the stakes even further to seem an improvement over 3, and in my opinion that will ruin it.
James Bond? I really love some of the earlier films but Skyfall took all that was Bond and pummeled it with a meat grinder until all that remained was the name. I'd rather they do no more 007 films instead of making more in a similar vein to Skyfall.

I want both these things to last forever

Still I understand what you mean especially with Mass Effect, part of me fears they will destroy everything I love about the series but I'm not ready yet to say goodbye to that wonderful universe they created. As for Bond its just a case of I think they are solid movies and tend to be right amongst the best action films of the given year they are released, plus I think it's kinda cool how long they've been going on for.

I've just spent the last few minutes trying to come up with mine but I realise now I'm very much the kind of person who when I like something I never want it to end. If it was up to me Battlestar would be in its 9th season.

 

[Silvanus]

For TV, both Scrubs and Community come to mind. Scrubs couldn't sustain its (frankly rather limited) schtick for as long as it tried, and without Dan Harmon, Community isn't the same at all. When it loses Chevy Chase it'll be worse again.

I wish Resident Evil would stop. Please stop. It's time to go backwards and just remake all your old games and call it a wrap on the series, please.

This, definitely. I did enjoy Code Veronica, but the forced-in cutscenes with Wesker were just stupid. The numerous references to Psycho did make me smile, though.

 

[MrHide-Patten]

InFAMOUS seemed like a game with a really definitive end and whilst I'm psyched for the new one I'm dubious as to how it ties into the infamous universe, or if it just goes to somwhere new entirely, but hey more is better none.

 

[MrHide-Patten]

Bleach should have ended when the Aizen arc finished.
Yet Shonen Jump just couldn't pull the trigger.

Well the latest ones have been a nice return to interesting personally, in that hopefully sone of the big overhanging plot threads will get some answers.

 

[Lovely Mixture]

-Monogatari series, or more particularly its anime adaptation.

Bakemonogatari is one of my favorite anime, featuring just enough drama, sexuality, and supernatural elements to make a some very nice self contained stories.

Nisemonogatari is fun, but it is ridden with fanservice, so much so that the original author nearly felt embarrassed when releasing it. At that point the sexuality loses its meaning and the cute moments lose their touch.

The series continues and has both good and bad moments.

 

[Easton Dark]

In FO2 Harold was the mayor of a growing little town, and quite happy with his lot. Why has he traversed the continent and amassed a cult of idiots.

This actually damages your argument. It's not a "continuation" of the Enclave, just a regurgitation. The whole idea behind the Enclave was that they were remnants of the old US government who'd survived because they were far offshore in a high-tech oil rig. They'd only just started moving into the mainland in FO2, with only a few small bases. In the end of FO2, the oil rig is destroyed, leaving just scraps of the Enclave to be hunted down by the BoS. Yet here they are in FO3, having reached the opposite side of the country, with numbers far, far above what they had at their peak in FO2, with legions of soldiers wearing the rare expensive power armor and fleets of EXTREMELY rare vertibirds. How did they pull this off?

But the Brotherhood were not secure even in FO2. The NCR, Vault City, and Enclave had all emerged as credible competitors. They definitely were not at any time ready for a trek across the continent.

It doesn't make sense, as explained above.

I didn't say that the NCR, Followers, Legion, etc. should have been in FO3. I actually think they should not have used existing factions at all, for the reasons above. What I'm saying is that FO3 is completely out of place alongside the other FO games, in every way. It largely doesn't feature the things that make Fallout Fallout and when it does it gets them wrong.

Nope, but the world he acts in is.

That wouldn't have made sense because the intelligent Deathclaws get exterminated in FO2.

Nuka-Cola and Vault Boy don't make a Fallout game. I'm saying the PLOT does not in any way follow up on the plot from the first two.

Well yay.

Spoiler

1. He tells you why.

2. They tell you why. Is it a wonder that the government would keep stockpiles of weapons and armor at the capital military base?

3. I told you they felt secure, being all proud and all. Seems to fit with the brotherhood nicely.

4. Yes it does.

5. "Make Fallout Fallout", apparently that's continuation of side-stories, so the first game's only contribution is the master and Shady Sands. Fallout 3 and Fallout 1 are more thematically connected than 2 is to 1 or New Vegas.

6. Back to "it's closer". The world is the world. The world is not California.

7. That's a choice of the player.

8. Yeah, NCR and desert don't make a Fallout game either.

9. Yay indeed.

To be a spin-off, you either have to change the main character, or change the story.

Fallout changes main character every time, so that can't be it.

You say Fallout 3 doesn't continue from the other games, but it does. Refusing the explanations given in game doesn't make them false for everyone, and I guess that's what it comes down to isn't it.

 

[AnthrSolidSnake]

Well, I was happy with how Metal Gear Solid 4 was the ending for awhile, but I don't know...this Metal Gear Solid 5: Phantom Pain gameplay trailers and such looks pretty damn good...despite there being no David Hayter. MGS is my favorite series hands down, no argument, and I don't want to see it ruined by too many sequels, but I have faith Kojima knows what he is doing. (in a sense)

 

[Easton Dark]

No they're not. The only origin stuff we have on the Plagas were that they were found in Spain centuries ago and used by a cult to increase its numbers. Then they got sealed away inside a castle vault and mostly died out, with only a few spores surviving.

Then they got experimented on to produce new parasitic strains. No mention of aliens or anything anywhere. As far as we know, they are a terrestrial lifeform.

Are they? Believe me, I'd love to be wrong, RE4 is one of my favorite games.

I thought a meteor had struck where the castle was built, causing that huge hole underneath it, and it's why they found the plagas in that cave.

 

[Gearhead mk2]

Metroid. I really hope they don't make another one. The last installment -which shall not be named- was supposedly THE last but I know they're not going to let it die.

...could have at least let it die with dignity =/

Waitwaitwaitwaitwait... THE ONE is meant to be the last game? THAT ONE?! No! They have to make at least one more to get Samus back on track after she was derailed into being that monotone wimp!

OT: Mass Effect, Halo and inFamous. All of their most recent games had fairly conclusive endings, don't try and force a sequel off them. Also Dead Space, before EA ruins it even more.

 

[Dr. Doomsduck]

Torchwood should have died after season 3.

 

[ToastedCorpser4Lunch]

Seems not many people are mentioning books so I'll have at it: The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant. Seriously, I wish that ended after the first trilogy. The second trilogy changes basically everything in an admitedly pretty cool way but Linden is such a massive ***** that I can't appreciate it. I hate her.

Also, I think that the qaulity of Robin Hobb's books have gone down quite a bit, with the Farseer's world being splattered all over the place, though this is based only having read the Farseer trilogy, the Dragon Keeper duology, and the blurb of one of the new books, I think it talked about aliens or something. Could not put that back on the shelf quicker.


Also Simpsons.

 

[GodzillaGuy92]

Then they got experimented on to produce new parasitic strains. No mention of aliens or anything anywhere. As far as we know, they are a terrestrial lifeform.

Are they? Believe me, I'd love to be wrong, RE4 is one of my favorite games.

I thought a meteor had struck where the castle was built, causing that huge hole underneath it, and it's why they found the plagas in that cave.

As someone who's played through Resident Evil 4 more times than he can count (and just double-checked the wiki [http://residentevil.wikia.com/Plaga] to be sure), I can confirm this. Not once are Las Plagas explained as being from space. Between their Body Snatchers-esque habits and Leon's "Sounds more like an alien invasion to me" remark, I can see where you got that idea, though. I thought for sure the first time I played it that they were going to reveal Las Plagas as extraterrestrials at some point, but it never happened. (Though I don't see how that inclusion would have damaged the game's story, considering that it's not meant to be taken seriously in the first place.)

OT: Resident Evil, unsurprisingly, is a big one. Once your series has grown so ludicrous that you must descend into self-parody in order to wring an effective story out of it, you don't just immediately go back to taking yourself seriously, especially when your storytelling abilities (to say nothing of your game design) only seem to be actively degrading. We've had Resident Evil 4, and enough installments have passed to let us know that you're probably not going to reach those same heights ever again. Just let the series lie. (That applies to the movies too, though those may not count since they never got around to the "being good" step of the process. For an inverse example, the Star Wars franchise, both the films and the game spinoffs - assuming Disney fails to achieve anything less than a revolution - is also long past its time to go.)

 

[Servallier]

Metal Gear Solid should probably lie down and die peacefully, but godsdamnit, I always get excited when I see a new one, I love the stories and always like seeing the new Metal Gear designs.

As for the Fallout world, well, I think they should keep going with it, I've loved the series so far. What I don't think they should do is MMO it like they're doing with TES. TES is a fantasy world, so having an Age of Epic Heroes is a completely viable thing, but fallout, magical nuclear nonsense aside, is very much a 'real world' thing, with a few strong and charismatic individuals shaping the future of humanity. That, and we do have an entire world to explore. What about nuked-to-hell China? What about the European commonwealth? I'd love to see what like in Fallout's london would be like compared to DC.