How could they screw this up??? Favorite game series that just went to hell.

[captainaweshum]

Mine would have to be the Zelda series. I mean Twilight Princess was okay, a bit of pandering to the fans (but I'm not complaining) was present, but still it was decent. But it's apparent that we will never see a game as strong as OOT or (the golden beacon of games) Majora's Mask.

The Wii motion plus is making sure of that.

 

[Julianking93]

I have a feeling Metal Gear Solid and Final Fantasy will be mentioned several times here.

OT, I'm gonna have to agree with Twilight Princess.

It was seriously just a poor copy/paste of OoT.

And Majora's Mask is the best one of the series.

 

[ShrapnelHound]

I think the final fantasy series was ruined long ago when they started to make sequels, just let it go square-enix, your flogging a dead horse.

 

[DazZ.]

Deus Ex and Call of Duty.

Worms to an extent but they're redeeming themselves since they realised 3d didn't work.

 

[Angerwing]

Crash Bandicoot times one thousand.

It is so fucking fail right now. It used to be BEAUTIFUL!

 

[psivamp]

I think the final fantasy series was ruined long ago when they started to make sequels, just let it go square-enix, your flogging a dead horse.

I liked JRPGs before the advent of the PlayStation-era games. Now they're all about prepubescent boys and girls with neon ceramic hair. And they're all the same now - or so it seems.

I realize I'm just asking to get flamed, and to make it worse: I'm not a big fan of the direction Western RPGs went either.

 

[Abedeus]

Uhm, Neverwinter Nights 2 was pretty damn terrible. I regret pre-ordering it... I mean, for a game it's okay, but series has gone downhill ever since.

Oh, and Guild Wars. Loved it for 3 years, then the "add-on" with 6 hours campaign and recycled armor skins and boring missions + power creep to nth power came along.

 

[Armored Prayer]

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare series.

MW2 felt like a punch in the balls, with the fist having brass knuckles.

 

[Super Toast]

Final Fantasy has been ruined beyond repair. Prince of Persia 2008 was pretty disappointing, too.

 

[Notthatbright]

Sonic. Silent Hill. Nights into Dreams. Ultimate Alliance. Mortal Kombat. Prince of Persia.

 

[MR T3D]

CAWA DOOTY.
most others i didn't really care about.

 

[RowdyRodimus]

Punch Out!!

The new one wasn't bad, but all theh did was a graphics upgrade to a game that came out in what, 1987? One new boxer? You're kidding me, right? The one new boxer is a joke boxer like Glass Joe? Nintendo, I love you guys, along with The Greatest American Hero, Transformers, Night Court, Mr. Belvedere and Ronald Reagan you made the 80's into the greatest decade ever. But seriously, you guys aren't even trying anymore are you?

 

[Grouchy Imp_v1legacy]

The Halo series. The original was pretty damn awesome, the second not so much, and the third was (in my opinion) just so much re-heated dross that I haven't even bothered with ODST. And now Reach is coming out. Bungee have flogged this particular dead horse so much that it's now not even a smear on the ground.

 

[Antiparticle]

Most painful examples for me are DOOM, Banjo-Kazooie, and of course Sonic..

 

[JAY_RAD]

Jak And Daxter.

Why would you build the game from the ground up on PSP then port to PS2? It even has the same camera controls as the PSP version.

Same here. I liked the first game's platforming but they grug the series through the ringer and made a racing game and a PSP game about Daxter. Why?

 

[child of lileth]

Valkyrie Profile. I loved the first two games for so many reasons. Then the fanfic on the DS came out. It put me in a permanent state of sad-face the entire time I forced myself to play it. Not because it's sad, but because I couldn't understand why tri-Ace felt that they needed to rape my dedication to the series as a fan.

I like to pretend it never existed, along with every American Silent Hill game, Megaman X6 and on, and a few others here and there.

 

[Jandau]

Command and Conquer 4 - For the last game of a well established and well beloved series, they decide to completely scrap the gameplay and the mechanics that were in from the first game. "But Jandau!" you might say, "Change is good! Games shouldn't stagnate!". While there is SOME truth to that, it only gets worse from there - Then they proceed to replace the original gameplay with crap. Pure, undiluted crap. Poor visual design of units, simplistic mechanics, clunky controls and interface, dumbed down overall gameplay. Terrible way to send off a legend of the genre.

Napoleon:TW / Empire:TW - The Total War series started going downhill with Empire, but it was still decent. A ton of crappy design decisions, terrible coding, unfinished and buggy release and pants-on-head-retarded AI were still compensated by many positive moves, such as a better diplomacy system, revamped construction/economic system, etc. Then Napoleon shows up and guts the game, taking away the entire Macromanagement aspect of the series and leaving you with pretty much only the battles against the (still retarded) AI.

Elder Scrolls: Oblivion - Elder Scrolls were always the forerunners in Open World RPGs, with Morrowind reaching cult status. Then they put out Oblivion, a game with atrocious controls that should have been scrapped after Daggerfall, zero story, atrocious writing, terrible voice acting, moronic mechanics, a cluttered and poorly designed interface and an open world more boring than a can of spam. They did make up for it a bit with Fallout 3, but I still fear for the Elder Scrolls series...

Supreme Commander 2 - One of the more unique RTS games out there got a sequel that took every cool and original idea the first game had (or had inherited from Total Annihilation) and kicked it out, putting in completely generic RTS mechanics, ending up with a game that in no way stands out and is mediocre at best, all for the sake of getting in on the console market. I hope it was worth it.

EDIT: If you're about to quote me and tell me how awesome Oblivion is, don't bother. I understand I'm the minority on that one and let's leave it at that.

 

[JAY_RAD]

Sonic. Silent Hill. Nights into Dreams. Ultimate Alliance. Mortal Kombat. Prince of Persia.

Mortal Combat series and Sonic especially! I think Prince of Persia got better every time they made a new one.

 

[Oktanas]

Deus Ex - invisible wars is in all ways worse then the first
Resident Evil - in the fifth instalment they removed everything what maked this game a horror game. Who in devils name makes a horror game/movie in the middle of the day???