what game series just really need to stop.
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Call of duty of course, medal of honor?,and sonic, that hedgehog needs to be put out of his misery
I practically think this goes without saying: Madden. (Okay, maybe it doesn't go without saying, but it sounded cool when I typed that)
Pumping a game out every year with no big changes is bad enough, but the series is about a concept that doesn't leave any room for innovation.
Pumping a game out every year with no big changes is bad enough, but the series is about a concept that doesn't leave any room for innovation.
Spyro The Dragon - Oh for the love of God, pleeeeeaaaase let it die. The original trilogy was awesome, but without Insomniac for the development and Stewart Copeland for the music... It's just an empty husk.
COD, Medal Of Honor, Battlefield, etc. Not ALL of them, but there are just too many 'modern warfare' shooters these days, most of them sprung forth from long running series. Time to weed out a few.
Many many many things by Nintendo. ESPECIALLY all those spin-off games Nintendo whores its characters out to. I mean, I can't blame the company, it pretty much feeds on loyal fanboyism like a vampire (REAL vampire, not Ed Cullen) does on blood, so KA-CHING goes the register. And I've always compared Nintendo strict G-ratings to the "keep it G/PG"-system of Hollywood: it's all about the cash.
And to all those who list Final Fantasy: sorry, but no.
At least Square-Enix still has the freakin' cojones to change the formula for each game, as opposed to, let's say, Nintendo (lookin' at you, Pokémon). Sure, not every formula works equally well, but at least they didn't milk the materia system for all it's worth - like so many others would have done. (Just for the record: I hated FF XIII, FF X-2's only redeeming factor was the combat system, FF VIII had the most paradoxal magic-system ever, FF XII had a sucky story and online FF's just don't interest me).
COD, Medal Of Honor, Battlefield, etc. Not ALL of them, but there are just too many 'modern warfare' shooters these days, most of them sprung forth from long running series. Time to weed out a few.
Many many many things by Nintendo. ESPECIALLY all those spin-off games Nintendo whores its characters out to. I mean, I can't blame the company, it pretty much feeds on loyal fanboyism like a vampire (REAL vampire, not Ed Cullen) does on blood, so KA-CHING goes the register. And I've always compared Nintendo strict G-ratings to the "keep it G/PG"-system of Hollywood: it's all about the cash.
And to all those who list Final Fantasy: sorry, but no.
At least Square-Enix still has the freakin' cojones to change the formula for each game, as opposed to, let's say, Nintendo (lookin' at you, Pokémon). Sure, not every formula works equally well, but at least they didn't milk the materia system for all it's worth - like so many others would have done. (Just for the record: I hated FF XIII, FF X-2's only redeeming factor was the combat system, FF VIII had the most paradoxal magic-system ever, FF XII had a sucky story and online FF's just don't interest me).
Are you serious? The new PoP was absolutely awful... I even wrote a review to prove it!believer258 said:
http://uk.gamespot.com/ps3/action/prince-of-persia/player_review.html?id=675187&tag=all-about%3Breview1
As you said, you only skim read my review. I think if you take a proper look I have most of your points covered.believer258 said:
As for the Elika rescues, no game I've ever played has checkpoints that close together!
Anything made by Nintendo-
All the mario games are the same
Plumber loves princess, princess gets captured, plumber illegally trespasses on Bowser's property because he things he is a super cop, Princess gets rescued and bowser gets away by putting mushrooms in the police's coffee.
All the mario games are the same
Plumber loves princess, princess gets captured, plumber illegally trespasses on Bowser's property because he things he is a super cop, Princess gets rescued and bowser gets away by putting mushrooms in the police's coffee.
All modern day and WWII shooters. Give it a couple years then come back. But for now.... just piss off, seriously.
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"A BREAKING STORY ANOTHER CALL OF DUTY HAS BEEN ANNOUNCED, BUT THIS TIME... IT HAS COOLER LOOKING BX ART!"
*Billions start rejoicing in the street...*
If this was a year ago I would have said Guitar Hero. Thankfully that did end (although it should have happened much sooner). Long live Rock Band, it might be a formula but it works and HMX have managed to do it without seeming to just follow a gimmick.
As for anything else, what I would really like is for games to end when they should. If a game comes out with a great self serving story and concept then it doesn't need a sequel. The same with something like Mass Effect, I know there will be more games after ME3 but I wish it would just end when it's meant to.
I'd like to see more franchises come to a conclusion (I'm assuming Halo did this but I've still yet to play it.) Rather than going on for too long and loosing the message. I too tire of games like Call of Duty being released constantly but as has already been said, I can choose not to buy these games if the series bores me as was the case with Resident Evil. The same applies to sports games, I have no real issue with them, I don't play them but people are prepared to. Honestly do constant sport titles and Call of Duty games really hurt anybody? They give developers and publishers the consistent income to sometimes try out new IPs (like say Dead Space).
As for anything else, what I would really like is for games to end when they should. If a game comes out with a great self serving story and concept then it doesn't need a sequel. The same with something like Mass Effect, I know there will be more games after ME3 but I wish it would just end when it's meant to.
I'd like to see more franchises come to a conclusion (I'm assuming Halo did this but I've still yet to play it.) Rather than going on for too long and loosing the message. I too tire of games like Call of Duty being released constantly but as has already been said, I can choose not to buy these games if the series bores me as was the case with Resident Evil. The same applies to sports games, I have no real issue with them, I don't play them but people are prepared to. Honestly do constant sport titles and Call of Duty games really hurt anybody? They give developers and publishers the consistent income to sometimes try out new IPs (like say Dead Space).
Don't know if it's been said yet, but I think Resident Evil should end. It's just not interesting anymore, especially since they feel the need to copy every other shooter to stay in the zone now.