Have you ever sat down and thought 'Yep, this franchise is dead'?

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l3o2828

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Not dead in the sense of not anymore games being released of that franchise, but actual shark jumping and total lack of what made you like that franchise.
It happened to me just recently with the new DDR for the Wii, the series was AMAZING back in 1998-2009
but now it's just old and konami keeps making bad decisions, both at marketing and at design.

So tell me escapist , have you ever declared a franchise's death infront of you?
 

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Sit down and listen to Grandpa Ducky's tale. Take a seat, right here by the fire.

Are you ready? Imagine: the wonderful world of 2000. It was only 12 years ago, but it seems so far away now, doesn't it? Now, Ducky was a young man around this time--right in his prime, you would say. Gaming was just reaching mainstream appeal and becoming an acceptable pastime along with reading, sports, cinema and wanking. There were many wonderful and bold companies on the gaming scene--Sega, Sony, Nintendo, to name a few--and smaller contenders were dropping out and one giant that we all know today as Microsoft was soon to take the stage.

While most were focusing on innovation in gameplay, storytelling and graphical power, one company, above all else and against all odds, was doing nothing new. Not a single goddamn thing. They were getting away with it, of course, or else they wouldn't do it. But it surprised Grandpa Ducky nonetheless. So on that faithful day of January 1, 2000, Ducky sat upon his clifftop and pondered the state of the gaming industry as he knew it. He stared at Nintendo, the squinty-eyed Japanese monolith that it had been since the 1980s and said, frankly, to himself: "They can't keep this shit up. They can't keep releasing the same bollocks year after year and expect people to keep paying for it."

12 years later and they're still going strong. Grandpa Ducky is unlikely to ever see the end. Maybe you, kids, will live for a better day. A better day for all of us.
 

l3o2828

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TheKasp said:
I realised Warcraft was dead after Cataclysm.
I realised GTA was dead after it went realistic in its artstyle (GTA4).

Yeah, this are the only two franchises which I see as dead for me (Of course out of those I actually played).
I can pretty much agree with GTA4.
The realistic artstyle and physics just ruined the whole experience for me.
 

Zhukov

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You realise this is rapidly going to turn into a "I hate game sequel X" thread, right?

On that note... Final Fantasy XIII. Several hours in and one of the characters started warbling on about the power of hope. At which point I thought, "Yup, this game was stillborn." Then again, apparently it was the highest selling FF ever. Got a decent critical reception too, as I recall, so maybe I'm just crazy.

Also, Prince of Persia: Forgotten Sands. I don't know what spark the older games in the series had, but it has long since flown the coop.
 

theseworlds

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Final Fantasy.
I absolutely love 1 through to 10, and still play them constantly.
Then 11 came out, and I'm a cheap bastard so refused to buy it just so I could then pay to play it.
12 was, IMO, absolutely atrocious. I liked the gameplay, but I play FF for the story, of which 12 has none (or any that I could follow). Awful. That was when I first thought it might be dying.
Then 13 came out.
Yep, I'm done. I'll borrow any more that'll come out from my mate ('cause we all know they're not going to stop making them), and give them a quick go.
But, I'm not going to throw my cash around anymore until I know it's a game I'll actually play over the 10 hour mark.
 

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Splinter Cell Conviction, a good game by all means, but not in any way shape or form Splinter Cell.

GTA 4 or should I say 'Taxi Driver Simulator'. After flying a jet in San Andreas, driving a taxi in a dark, uninteresting environment was not my idea of fun.

Fable 3. Fable 1 = Brilliance, Fable 2 = Great, Fable 3 = Worth a rent, at best.

And now we have Fable: The Journey. Why Peter? Why?
 

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As soon as they started raising the level cap in Final Fantasy XI I started realizing that they were undoing what I had been completing for years. As soon as it reached level 95 (Original being 75) I decided that it just wasn't worth it. It stopped being fun to play. What a shame.
 

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With me it's a little complicated, so i don't have anything useful to say.

However, recently my wife lamented over downfall of Need for Speed games. She stopped to play NFS games after Underground 2 because of (quoting) "too much things to pay attention, not funny anymore".
 

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Sonic when I first booted up Sonic and the Secret Rings (I think that was the title? it was the first wii sonic game), dammit that game was terrible...
Also Star Fox when I played Star Fox Assault... I WANT THE OLD ARCADESQUE STARFOX BACK!
 

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Hmm.. interesting question. It's not something I really put a lot of thought into but there definitely are some series that, regardless of their possible individual game quality, just don't interest me any more.

Final Fantasy is a big one. I used to be a monster fan of the series but haven't even been interested in one since probably FFX. I liked it on some levels but it just didn't grab me at all and I haven't card much about the series since (though FF13-2 does sound intriguing, even if I didn't play 13-1).

Most Nintendo franchises are the same. Yes, I know Mario and Zelda are still probably great games, but I just don't care any more. I got my fill of both series a long time ago and neither offers me what I want in games now. Not to say that it's an age thing exactly, but the best way of putting it is that I grew out of them.
 
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Usually as soon as it's called a franchise.

The main reason most games work is because there's nothing to compare them to. Once you've made something a franchise, then you've just invited the fanboys in to feast on the differences.
 

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Sonic the Hedgehog. Everything since Sonic Adventure 2 has just been terrible.

Also, pretty sure that Far Cry stopped being good after Predator Instincts. From all accounts 2 was terrible, and I actually facepalmed watching a video for Far Cry 3.
 

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Tony Hawks's something or other. I bloody well loved the first 4 games. Underground was a bit underwhelming, so I didn't pick up another for a few years. I bought one of the newer ones when I saw it on sale and... yeah. Awful.

Oh well, at least 3 and 4 are still great.
 

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Zhukov said:
You realise this is rapidly going to turn into a "I hate game sequel X" thread, right?

On that note... Final Fantasy XIII. Several hours in and one of the characters started warbling on about the power of hope. At which point I thought, "Yup, this game was stillborn." Then again, apparently it was the highest selling FF ever. Got a decent critical reception too, as I recall, so maybe I'm just crazy.

Also, Prince of Persia: Forgotten Sands. I don't know what spark the older games in the series had, but it has long since flown the coop.
Yeah, this - was thinking about it this morning actually.

Its a real shame when they try and ape their own game (Sands of Time), and don't even understand why it was so good.
 

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Crysis.

Crysis 2 was fun, don't get me wrong, but it was fun on a linear Call of Duty base and not on the level of Far Cry or Crysis where the joy of playing came from the option of playstyle.

This is reassured by Crysis console because it shows that Cryteks choice to do a linear game for a sequel was not because consoles lack of power or buttons but a pure design and economic choice, which frankly makes the whole affair much more sad than just to blame the consoles lack of RAM.
 

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Call of Duty - arent they going into space now? anyway they overdid the shit out of WW2 and now seem to be done with overdoing modern combat. Honestly a new game each year for this FPS series is really overkill.

Mario - Done for years imo and now resorting to re-releasing old games to cash in on retro gaming kick.

Street Fighter - Really think they are lost with what to do, they released multiple games this year and flood the market with their own product and there are better fighting games out there too..