Poll: Games series that are over used!

[Bucket0Bones]

WW2 games without a doubt.

Medal of Honour and Call of Duty haven't just flogged the dead horse, they've gone even further than that. I was so pleased when CoD4 was announced to see that it was a modern war game. That's also why i'm really looking forward to Modern Warfare 2.

 

[IrrelevantTangent]

If another Sonic game is released in my lifetime, I will personally hunt down and deal with all of the developers appropriately. The franchise needs to die, and not only have the developers proved they can't handle the Sonic franchise without butchering it, they've failed to recognize their mascot's own expiration. [/rant]

 

[Simalacrum]

"hey look, CoD4 became the best reviewed and best selling game of the franchise after it changed its setting to the present day!"

"so, what do we do to top it?"

"..."

"lets do WWII again"

and thus we got World at War...

 

[Yegargeburble]

WW2 games can fuck right off.

How much longer can america flog that dead horse?

I don't know, but I wish we'd stop with them...

I want to see a WWI game, dammit!

 

[Fingerprint]

WW2. As Yahtzee said there must be about 6yrs of the Normandy beaches alone - that may be misquoted but the point still stands.

 

[Broken Orange]

I GET IT. YOU GUYS KICKED JAPAN'S ASS. GET OVER YOURSELVES.

Damn right we did! But seriously, I think that the call of duty series is the new tony hawk, new game out every year. Even though i have every major release. (not the two spin offs and ds version of modern warfare)

 

[m_jim]

I GET IT. YOU GUYS KICKED JAPAN'S ASS. GET OVER YOURSELVES.

Movie games are just profitable, I guess.

You forgot to mention Germany and Italy as well. I don't think that American developers make WW2 games because they think America is awesome (although we are awesome), I think it's just that it is a straightforward, identifiable, traditional-warfare scenario. There, the bad guys wore uniforms and soldiers shot the guys wearing the other colors. Take any more recent conflicts outside of Korea: Iraq, Afghanistan, Vietnam. The bad guys mingle with the civilians, use hit and run/ambush/suicide tactics that aren't conducive to gaming. So don't try to dumb down the argument by just assuming that it is cheerleading.

 

[A Raging Emo]

Crappy Movie Games.

 

[CosmicGrenade]

Sorry but you missed off The Sims (it needs it's own tick box)
'The Sims Oh The Horror The Sims' about rounds it up for me

 

[Smasngrab]

Actualy a ww2 game where you played as a german would be kind of cool if you did it right. Kind of like the Das Boot movie, but no developer is going to have the balls to do that, at least not in a way that would make it realy cool. And im not sympatizing whit the nazies, but a game that showed a different perspective would be fresh. And my point is that you can be bored to tears whit a type of game, then one game comes along and makes everything fun / cool again.

 

[sadpolice]

World war 2 games, you can't go into any shop without seeing one now.

 

[Vrex360]

In b4 Anti-Halo Pro-Valve/Blizzard fanboy shitstorm

Good thinking
Though it's true, it is inevitable that the peeps are going to start with the Halo bashing then subsequent Half Life praising. So yeah good idea to beat them to it.

I'd say things that are overused are contemporary war games set in the middle east or any other kind of realistic modern warfare setting. I find them to be drab, interchangeable, boring and lifeless.

 

[Hot'n'steamy]

Well fitstly ;mario/sonic.

But I actually voted Star Wars Games. Out of the verifiable smörgåsbord of games produced by lucasarts that are connected to Star Wars, how many of these games are in anyway original or even enjoyable to play? I'm a pretty big Star Wars fan, and the number of Star Wars games I have played that have been run-of-the-mill "force power" level up designed games is so disappointing, especially when it has been done better in the past. There has been 80+, yes 80+ star wars/lucas arts games, and that's not even including expansion packs nor cell phone games. How many of those games were half decent? How many brought a new gameplay element to the table? A select handful.

 

[Liverandbacon]

I GET IT. YOU GUYS KICKED JAPAN'S ASS. GET OVER YOURSELVES.

Movie games are just profitable, I guess.

You forgot to mention Germany and Italy as well. I don't think that American developers make WW2 games because they think America is awesome (although we are awesome), I think it's just that it is a straightforward, identifiable, traditional-warfare scenario. There, the bad guys wore uniforms and soldiers shot the guys wearing the other colors. Take any more recent conflicts outside of Korea: Iraq, Afghanistan, Vietnam. The bad guys mingle with the civilians, use hit and run/ambush/suicide tactics that aren't conducive to gaming. So don't try to dumb down the argument by just assuming that it is cheerleading.

Thank you for saying this. It's incredibly annoying to me when people oversimplify things to an argument that boils down to "Americans are really jingoistic all the time." As you said, the reason for the profusion of WW2 games is that it was one of the most recent straightforward wars, which are the only type that is conducive to gaming with the technology at hand.

Well fitstly ;mario/sonic.

But I actually voted Star Wars Games. Out of the verifiable smörgåsbord of games produced by lucasarts that are connected to Star Wars, how many of these games are in anyway original or even enjoyable to play? I'm a pretty big Star Wars fan, and the number of Star Wars games I have played that have been run-of-the-mill "force power" level up designed games is so disappointing, especially when it has been done better in the past. There has been 80+, yes 80+ star wars/lucas arts games, and that's not even including expansion packs nor cell phone games. How many of those games were half decent? How many brought a new gameplay element to the table? A select handful.

Well at least we got Dark Forces I and II, Kotor I and II, Tie Fighter and the other space combat sims, and Republic Commando. Of course, if you spew out as many Star Wars games as Lucasarts has, you're bound to get some good ones. That said, I'd be happier if Lucasarts rehired all the creative talent behind their old adventure games, and started making those again.

 

[Galletea]

I think WWII games are too plentiful and getting too silly. I agree with This article [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/issues/issue_201/6057-See-No-Evil] in that killing Nazis is not really ok. It trivialises the whole thing, and with the addition of Zombie Nazis and more and more silly new takes on the war the actual events get less and less significant.

That and sports games. They could just bring out dlc for the new teams and achieve the same effect.

 

[Gutrot Grimtoof]

Final Fantasy:XXXXXXXXXXXXXXI

ugggggggggh

 

[gatorthepinkelephant]

Anything by Nintendo ever.

 

[JediMB]

I think I'll go for "crappy movie games", since a good WWII game, no matter how many there are, is always preferable over a crappy game.

 

[Kodolb.]

Dynasty Warriors
Mario
Sonic


..but I still want Crash Bandicoot to stay with me...forever

 

[suhlEap]

fucking sonic. he's been overused for years. as has mario really...
and the halo series imediately became overused when halo wars came out. they ran out of uses for the halo universe in a fps, so they just thought 'fuck it, strategy game! some halo fans will spend money on that cos let's face it, they'll buy anything!'