You know what can be loads of fun? Franchises!
Franchises allow you to tell bigger stories. Franchises allow you to get attached to characters. Franchises allow you to stay within its warm embrace like a childhood blanky!
But sometimes franchises are not the loving spouse that they should be. Sometimes...franchises hit you. You tell yourself that you can change them. You tell yourself that you just shouldn't make them angry. You tell yourself "It'll be different this time!". Maybe it is different...for a little while. Eventually you fall back into the same routine...the franchise gets a few drinks into it and now you have a black eye to explain away to the neighbor franchises.
For myself, that game for me is once again Assassin's Creed. "It's a new everything!" thought tippy2k2, gleefully opening up the game. Then you remember...this series is really kind of bad at stealth. The free-flow run style still has you climb a ladder when you need to run down the alley. The combat is still "puddy-patrol Power Rangers-style" with a group of bad guys going one-on-one against you. The protagonist still hops around like a pixie-filled child when all you want to do is get off the damn building. All of the problems that have plagued this series since the first one just don't go away.
Why can't I quit you Assassins Creed?
So Escapist people, what franchises do you keep crawling back to even if you know it's a bad idea? Maybe it's a game genre that you don't like but you find sparks of enjoyment in this particular series? Maybe it's a game series with so much potential but just slips a tiny bit up to screw it all up. Maybe it's a franchise that has fallen from grace but you feel a certain loyalty to it for all the fun it used to have.
EDIT: Changed the Title from "is is an abusive relationship...why do I keep coming back??" to "This is an abusive relationship...why can't I quit you?" because I think Title #2 sounds funnier and I like to flaunt my power as the OP. Dance puppets dance!!!
Franchises allow you to tell bigger stories. Franchises allow you to get attached to characters. Franchises allow you to stay within its warm embrace like a childhood blanky!
But sometimes franchises are not the loving spouse that they should be. Sometimes...franchises hit you. You tell yourself that you can change them. You tell yourself that you just shouldn't make them angry. You tell yourself "It'll be different this time!". Maybe it is different...for a little while. Eventually you fall back into the same routine...the franchise gets a few drinks into it and now you have a black eye to explain away to the neighbor franchises.
For myself, that game for me is once again Assassin's Creed. "It's a new everything!" thought tippy2k2, gleefully opening up the game. Then you remember...this series is really kind of bad at stealth. The free-flow run style still has you climb a ladder when you need to run down the alley. The combat is still "puddy-patrol Power Rangers-style" with a group of bad guys going one-on-one against you. The protagonist still hops around like a pixie-filled child when all you want to do is get off the damn building. All of the problems that have plagued this series since the first one just don't go away.
Why can't I quit you Assassins Creed?
So Escapist people, what franchises do you keep crawling back to even if you know it's a bad idea? Maybe it's a game genre that you don't like but you find sparks of enjoyment in this particular series? Maybe it's a game series with so much potential but just slips a tiny bit up to screw it all up. Maybe it's a franchise that has fallen from grace but you feel a certain loyalty to it for all the fun it used to have.
EDIT: Changed the Title from "is is an abusive relationship...why do I keep coming back??" to "This is an abusive relationship...why can't I quit you?" because I think Title #2 sounds funnier and I like to flaunt my power as the OP. Dance puppets dance!!!
