It Was Great Until....

[Vhite]

WoW, until they raised level cap and basicly destroyed everything they done before which was better then new stuff.

I think you're in the minority with that opinion, Karazhan and Ulduar are considered to be the best instances.

I really liked Karazhan and I wasnt in Ulduar much but still, they was just too linear of you compare them to BRS or BRD,

 

[adderseal]

Legend of Zelda Spirit Tracks is great fun, but when you get attacked by pirates in the Ocean Land it's fucking stupid. It's arbitrary, no fun at all, completely retarded. It completely fucks up the Zelda dungeon-ing/adventuring formula that works so well. I hope Nintendo shot the dev who stuck that in the game.

 

[T-Bone24]

Splice was border-line brilliant until the 3rd act. Then it all went to shit.

Spoiler

So Adrian Brody's character bangs Dren. You know, the half-animal mutant who's only a few months old. Why? Because she kinda looks like his girlfriend. Yeah. That's really the only explanation given for his random (and very fleeting) lapse in judgment, and morality. Then Dren dies. For no reason. Then she comes back to life as a male. Why? Because some organic blobs did it earlier. But the only reason THAT happened is because the two scientists were ignoring them for Dren. So if the same process was happening to Dren, shouldn't they have noticed? Anyway, Dren comes back to life as a male, kills most of the characters, and rapes Ilsa in a scene that I jokingly referred to as "Rape, incest, pedophilia, bestiality, and masturbation all at the same time." Why does Dren want to rape Ilsa? Because it's disturbing, and it gives Ilsa a chance to (again, for to real reason) become pregnant and decide to keep the damn thing. Why? Probably for a sequel, but from a plot perspective, it just doesn't make any goddamn sense. It's like at first they set out to make a charming, heartwarming sort of movie, but 2 acts in, someone told them it was supposed to me a horror movie, so they decided to make it as horribly and morally wrong as possible. Which would have been fine, if they'd come up with a good reason for any of it. But they don't. Everyone just starts acting like doucebags to each other for no reason at all.

So I just looked up that film, because let's face it, I will never see it, and it sounds seriously messed up after the point you describe. It doesn't really make that much sense, from what I've discovered.

 

[Pearwood]

WoW, until they raised level cap and basicly destroyed everything they done before which was better then new stuff.

I think you're in the minority with that opinion, Karazhan and Ulduar are considered to be the best instances.

I really liked Karazhan and I wasnt in Ulduar much but still, they was just too linear of you compare them to BRS or BRD,

I don't understand the linearity comment but then again I've never been put off by linear gameplay so long as I was enjoying the story the game was leading me on so I'm probably the wrong person to answer that. But in BRS you have a list of bosses to kill, you have a choice of about 1-3 to kill next, that structure hasn't changed except for the 5 man dungeons and that was just because with the badge system they put in having too much choice would make them take too long to farm.

 

[adderseal]

Dawn of War, everyone is using guns and technology but the Chaos are using magic?! WTF?!

So are the Space Marines, the Imperial Guard and the Eldar!

 

[Proverbial Jon]

Avatar.

Spoiler

Humanity lost >=(

Of course the REAL ending is that the military packed up, flew off planet, & dropped a couple of 500 giga-ton nukes on the entire Navi species and their flying velociraptors too. After the radioactive dust settles, the military puts on their Haz-Mat suits, pisses on the ashes of the elder tree, and mines whatever they want out of Pandora. James Cammeron simply ended his movie too soon, this is the crap that happens after that dude opens his eyes.

I think you'll find the ending you wanted right here...


OT:

Hmmm let's see now...

Silent Hill was great until Silent Hill Homecoming
Alan Wake was great until someone first opened their mouth
Call of Duty was great until it became popular and now that's all I hear
Halo was great until the addition of multiplayer
Avatar was great untill... oh no wait, the whole thing was great!

House M.D.- Loved the show but then the entire make a competition to find new assistants season (sorry can't remember what season it was) kinda ruined it for me, it wasn't bad it just made me lose interest, I'm thinking of starting to watch it again though ..

That was season 4 and I know what you mean. But the old team never really go away and yes you should watch it again. Season 5 was fantastic and I think 6 is going to be great too! (I live in the UK so I won't get to see it until September)

 

[Abanic]

I assume you are talking about Baba O'Riley? Interestingly enough the original song was almost 30 minutes long, but as you probably know a radio can't play a 30 minute song. So ultimately Townsend edited the song down to it's current 5:09... Hence the fact that some rifs just come in from nowhere or the song just falls a bit.

I thought the 30 minute version was 'Baba O'Riley' and the 5:09 version was renamed 'Teenage Wasteland'... I was probably wrong. But I still think that he could've chosen a different riff for the final minute.

 

[KwaggaDan]

I assume you are talking about Baba O'Riley? Interestingly enough the original song was almost 30 minutes long, but as you probably know a radio can't play a 30 minute song. So ultimately Townsend edited the song down to it's current 5:09... Hence the fact that some rifs just come in from nowhere or the song just falls a bit.

I thought the 30 minute version was 'Baba O'Riley' and the 5:09 version was renamed 'Teenage Wasteland'... I was probably wrong. But I still think that he could've chosen a different riff for the final minute.

It's a common mistake, but both are Baba O'Riley. Originally The Who intended it as a musical... I have to admit though I like the way it devolves into a folk tune at the end. That was Moon's idea. The man may have been cuckoo bananas but he had a solid ear for music.

 

[Abanic]

Of course the REAL ending is that the military packed up, flew off planet, & dropped a couple of 500 giga-ton nukes on the entire Navi species and their flying velociraptors too. After the radioactive dust settles, the military puts on their Haz-Mat suits, pisses on the ashes of the elder tree, and mines whatever they want out of Pandora. James Cammeron simply ended his movie too soon, this is the crap that happens after that dude opens his eyes.

I think you'll find the ending you wanted right here...

God, I love "How it Should Have Ended"! Thanks for showing that, I hadn't realized that they had gone there.

 

[Abanic]

It's a common mistake, but both are Baba O'Riley. Originally The Who intended it as a musical... I have to admit though I like the way it devolves into a folk tune at the end. That was Moon's idea. The man may have been cuckoo bananas but he had a solid ear for music.

I'll consider myself "schooled" in Baba O'Riley, and although I respect the fact that you can dig it, the ending is just a bit too "Eastern European Summer Festival" for my tastes.

 

[Reqviemus]

Dawn of War, everyone is using guns and technology but the Chaos are using magic?! WTF?!

So are the Space Marines, the Imperial Guard and the Eldar!

Oh! Dawn of War was brilliant untill the sequel...Yeah, when you made one of the best and most popular RTSes the best idea is to make the sequel which is not an RTS but just some dumb parody of a original game. But hey! At least it has RPG elements!...Well, sh!t




And Death Note was the very first thing that came into my mind when I read "It Was Great Until...."

 

[Tom Phoenix]

Indigo Prophecy.

I thought it was a great game and was having fun, the plot was pretty interesting.. until..

Spoiler

You get to the museum, and find out some mystical mayan prophecy super power bullshit. It just goes down hill from there, you die and come back to life? You're a fucking undead husk flying in the air fighting with some guy matrix style. It's retarded.

ruined the game for me... thankfully, the larger portion of the game was normal, so that was cool.

This a hundred times over... I was so upset when that happened.

Spoiler: Indigo Prophecy spoiler.

The whole game did have a bit of supernatural elements to it, but the fact that it went from this guy running from the police to him breaking into an orphanage and saying to this little girl "I've seen you in my dreams. You have to come with me now." ruined it for me. And then the flying around having a slap battle with some demon killed it. It could have been such a good game, too...

I completely agree. Yahtzee put it well when he said that the plot went "snooker-loopy" in the second half of the game. The first part was full of interesting mystery and intrigue and the second was....just a bad rip-off of the Matrix.

Anyway, the Harry Potter series, while chock full of clichés and folklore rip-offs, was actually a preety nice read.....until the Deathly Hallows, which preety much ruined anything that was ever good about those books.

Lost actually started off as a really good series. The unique nature of each character and how it shows in their predicament, their troubling pasts, the chemistry between them...it was all very intriguing to watch. But then the same fate that befell Fahrenheit happened to Lost as well. The only difference is that it was an even more drastic change of tone and that it occured much earlier....starting with the Smoke Monster.

 

[Pegghead]

Knowing with Nicholas Cage. If I left the theater when there was 20 mins left. I would have thought it was a good movie. the ending SUCKED.

Hell yes, whenever a movie just automatically pulls, well...

Spoiler

"IT WAS ALIENS ALL ALONG, DON'T QUESTION MY LOGIC THEY'RE THE REASON FOR EVERYTHING THAT EVER HAPPENED EVER IN THIS"

I just go "...what?". The fourth Indiana Jones pulled this but just barely scrapes past it in my book due to the fact that it was pretty obvious at some points and, in the same vein of the first three film's theme of being a big ol' tribute to black and white adventure films and exciting movie matinees, the film was intended as a tribute to the golden age of '50s cinema, it had the cliched Russians, the atom bombs, the diner brawls between jocks and greasers and of course...well, you know.

 

[Ildecia]

The Maximum Ride series, up until it changed from novels about genetically enhanced flying children into preachy "Stop global warming!" bullshit.

Of course, the books may be different now, but I've moved on.

this. this definately.

i was reading the books and going along with it until it turns into "love the world maaannnnn!!!"
um... hella no? genetic splicing is what i'm researching >.> tell me moar!

 

[Sir-jackington]

well i love reading, but i always stop reading the book (no matter how much i enjoy the book) on about the last 100 pages because i don't want it to end. Most recently i read "One Day" and i was very unhappy with the ending (almost cried at a point (ALMOST), those how have read it will know). The point i orginally started making, but kind of forgot, was that it's very rare to find something you enjoy that you enjoy ending, simply because (well) you dont want it to end

 

[Snotnarok]

Breath of Fire 3 sucked after

Spoiler

You became an adult and all the battles became impossible to hit enemies and lots of really bad tedious minigames and then the stupid as hell desert. The story even dipped down because the entire team wants to meet God because ...they want to know why she wanted the Brood dead? The Goddess was just off her rocker there wasn't even a feeling of satisfaction when you beat her.

She just wanted to help the world flourish and yes she was over protective and a little psychotic, but what mother isn't? Should we kill them?

 

[Anman407]

The Last Airbender- BECAUSE IT FUCKING EXISTS!!!

 

[rookie.of.the.year]

Halo 3: until it turned into a zombie game.

Naruto: when it stopped being about the under dog story and turned into 'lets drag everything out to make lots of money'

Greenday: they lost their punk sound.