What Games Should Stop Being Made?

[D Moness]

*Bangs head against something hard repeatedly

Seriously, I don't understand why you would want any game series to stop being made. Here's a tip: If you don't like a game (or series), you don't have to buy it.

Shocking, I know...

Every game series has it's fans, why would you want to rob them of it?

Quoted for the truth.
My opinion NONE. I may not like them but other people like them so they can play it.
I am not arrogant and selfish enough to tell others what they should or should not like. Already to many people with the opinion "If i do not like it , it shouldn't exist" out in the world. Juts live and let live.

Why can't people engage in a little experiment involving imagination? It's a completely made up question and your answers will have no impact on the world. The most you can do is provide a valid and good point that makes people think and get a better perspective on things.

So i gave my answer to the question and according to you that isn't good enough. Not everyone in the world has the opinion of certain games should stop being made. Some people just like it the way it is. I might not like some series so i do not buy them but that doesn't mean they should stop making them. Any long running series is being milked in the opinion of many different people but that doesn't mean other people do not like it.

As for the excuse that if publishers stop pumping out sequels they would make new IP ... to bad most gamers scream about new IP's but when they come most do not buy them (where are the people that bought mirror's edge when it was released). People scream they want innovation but buy what they know.

 

[Xannidel]

I only played the first 2 fables and i thought the first one was pretty good but the second one was lacking in some ways. I have never really been a huge Halo fan but my roomates were obsessed with the series and I thought Reach was a fitting end to the series.
One of my favorites FPS games is Resistance and I am happy they ended it at 3 but I am a little irked that another company might be making more them.

 

[Elate]

Yearly released sports games. (Mostly Fifa)

Constantly repeating JRPGs with stereotypical characters (I'm looking at you FF.)

Constant repeats of old games which have long since lost their charm (Mario, sonic, Zelda etc.)

Fantasy games with the same damn story of "You and only you being the only one to save the something from the evil something!"

I wouldn't say I want any of these to completely STOP, there are fans, and some can be fun, but I just want to see less and more studios branching out with newer ideas instead of sticking to formulas which are decades old now.

 

[tzimize]

A REAL ending to a story should be like a climax in sex. The culmination of all the tension in the story exploding in a blast of awesomeness.

I cant believe I just wrote that.

But its true. Sex is better because it ends. So are games/stories.

The only issue I have with your analogy is that it suggests that you can only have sex once. Presumably, if you are in a stable relationship, you can have sex again anywhere from 5minutes to whenever.

Your analogy works counter to your argument in that the sequels to any games would be like the next instance of sexual congress. The first act/game was completed and now we begin the next one.

To further stretch the analogy, I wonder if the single-player version of first person shooters (COD/MW/etc.) would be akin to premature ejaculation and something like Skyrim would be like having tantric sex for nine hours?

I considered writing load blown to pun a little, but I decided against it.

 

[DoPo]

So i gave my answer to the question and according to you that isn't good enough.

You gave your opinion but also bashed everybody else's.

I may not like them but other people like them so they can play it.
I am not arrogant and selfish enough to tell others what they should or should not like. Already to many people with the opinion "If i do not like it , it shouldn't exist" out in the world. Juts live and let live.

Because people in this thread are arrogant and selfish? Is that why they decided to share what they think should stop? No, it's a complete speculation. Saying "I think this or the other has outlived its usefulness" does not make a person bad.

 

[Somepunctuation]

As a former fan of Sonic and Pokemon...

Sonic and Pokemon.

Pokemon could at least be salvaged if they stopped recycling Red/Blue and made an original RPG again. As it is right now, gamers only buy the new Pokemon games for their tweaks to the multiplayer.

 

[getoffmycloud]

*Bangs head against something hard repeatedly

Seriously, I don't understand why you would want any game series to stop being made. Here's a tip: If you don't like a game (or series), you don't have to buy it.

Shocking, I know...

Every game series has it's fans, why would you want to rob them of it?

Gun to my head, I HAVE to choose something, I'd go with shovel-ware (or pick a shovel-ware game/series). Broken games that only exist to confuse Grandma at Christmas time.

I love the Mass Effect series, but I'm going to be pissed if its not over with the third game. One thing the entertainment industry needs to learn is to write proper endings.

Witcher 1. Thats a fucking ending.

FF8. Thats a fucking ending.

A REAL ending to a story should be like a climax in sex. The culmination of all the tension in the story exploding in a blast of awesomeness.

I cant believe I just wrote that.

But its true. Sex is better because it ends. So are games/stories.


Edit: I have to moderate myself by saying that a series is not necessarily bad. I'm thrilled Witcher 2 was made, but only because I get more adventure in a world I love. Not because the story continues. I want a NEW story. If the characters from the first ones arent dead, feel free to use them, but for the love of god. Write the story, and be done with it.

Any continuation of mass effect is just going to be in the universe it wont involve shepard bioware confirmed this ages ago it will be a completely new story

 

[BelmontWolf]

lets see:
assassins creed, FIFA, Call of duty, spyro the dragon, ben 10, uncharted, final fantasy, diablo, warcraft, fallout, mass effect, dragon age,resident evil.

thats what is at the top of my head atm.

 

[Zayle79]

*Bangs head against something hard repeatedly

Seriously, I don't understand why you would want any game series to stop being made. Here's a tip: If you don't like a game (or series), you don't have to buy it.

Shocking, I know...

Every game series has it's fans, why would you want to rob them of it?

Gun to my head, I HAVE to choose something, I'd go with shovel-ware (or pick a shovel-ware game/series). Broken games that only exist to confuse Grandma at Christmas time.

I love the Mass Effect series, but I'm going to be pissed if its not over with the third game. One thing the entertainment industry needs to learn is to write proper endings.

Witcher 1. Thats a fucking ending.

FF8. Thats a fucking ending.

A REAL ending to a story should be like a climax in sex. The culmination of all the tension in the story exploding in a blast of awesomeness.

I cant believe I just wrote that.

But its true. Sex is better because it ends. So are games/stories.


Edit: I have to moderate myself by saying that a series is not necessarily bad. I'm thrilled Witcher 2 was made, but only because I get more adventure in a world I love. Not because the story continues. I want a NEW story. If the characters from the first ones arent dead, feel free to use them, but for the love of god. Write the story, and be done with it.

That's what they're doing with Mass Effect (at least, that's what they're saying they're doing). Shepard's story ends with 3 and we get a new story and characters in the next game(s). I really like that--they don't have to milk Shepard's story long after it's dead just to keep making ME games, and it looks like they're not going to.

Edit: Whoops, getoffmycloud already said this. It's easy to miss the second page on these forums.

 

[XT inc]

Any game that has been annualized or has less than a 3-4 year development cycle. Barring of course if they can revolutionize the IP or genre in that time.

I love call of duty, I have most of them save for world at war, mw3 and the sole reason I got black ops was it was where my social group was at the time, and it was in a different setting than every previously offered.

However the cycle is ludicrous now, not respecting that they kill off the old game more or less when the next one comes out, everyone will be over on blops 2 this november and mw4 the following.

This comes back to the dlc problem where they add 70 bucks worth of maps for a game that gets 1uped shortly after all the content is released for it. The gaming equivalent of apple products, buy now, regret it when we shove the new one in your face 6 months later.

Now having said this, call of duty gets this flack because it does so incredibly well. Which in turn gets everyone to follow suit.

I want something to happen before we set in stone annualized games with day one dlc, multiplayer passes, 200 bucks worth of dlc that is mostly just cool stuff taken out because they knew you'd buy it. and then get one upped the following november 14th.

If your game is nothing more than a reskin with new story, cut development right now.

 

[bullman422]

Sonic: the hedgehog

Lara Croft: Tomb Raider

Duke Nukem

 

[hazabaza1]

None, really. More games for me to buy at bargain bin price when I ignore them for a couple of years.

 

[New Frontiersman]

*Bangs head against something hard repeatedly

Seriously, I don't understand why you would want any game series to stop being made. Here's a tip: If you don't like a game (or series), you don't have to buy it.

Shocking, I know...

Every game series has it's fans, why would you want to rob them of it?

I agree, I don't see the need to get rid of any game series. If you don't like it don't buy it but don't say that people who do like shouldn't get to play it.

Mario

Don't dare take Mario away from me, ever.

I'm with you, I like Mario.

 

[RagTagBand]

Mario, Zelda, Halo (until they start making them like the fucking advertisements), Sonic, Call of Duty (Less frequent, more polish, no more 5 hour single player), Final Fantasy (after versus 13 just stop, please) and The Sims.

Can't think of any more off the top of my head.

 

[MetalDooley]

One, if some of these massive series weren't being perpetuated ad infinitum, it would free up the manpower and financial resources devoted to it and allow new, creative stuff to come out there. So it's not like it's all pain and no gain.

But that's not how the industry works unfortunately.Take CoD for example.If Activision decided to stop making CoD games with immediate effect do you really think their dev studios would be free to work on new creative games?No they'd just be put to work on whatever franchise Acti thinks is the next one it can milk annually.Do you think we'd see a decline in military FPS games?No because there's clearly a massive market for them so all we'd get is other companies rushing to fill the void

 

[Kraj]

If you don't like it, don't buy it; I see no reason to posit opinions on what series require what release timings, if any, especially when a form of entertainment which has so many venues is under scrutiny.

 

[malestrithe]

As long as the series remains relatively consistent and loved by its fanbase, I really don't see any reason why they can't go on forever. There are a lot of games out there that I have no real love for, Madden, Halo, Elder Scrolls, anything Bioware, FPS genre in general, but I do not want to see them disappear from the shelves. Instead, they should be there for the people that are interested in them, and so should be all the stuff that I'm interested in.

I would reserve a few caveats to this:

If the franchise falls into self parody, like the Guitar Hero franchise, then it probably should disappear for a half decade so people can start wanting it again.

If you have three or more production houses working on franchise installments simultaneously just to make sure you meet some one game a year quota, you probably should retire the franchise for a time.

If you just release the same game every year anyway, consider a subscription based model, where the disc is all the information that makes the game run and make everything else downloadable content. It would save EA so much money if they just did not make Madden 13 and make it just Madden. They can charge a little more for the disc, say 70.00 dollars, and something reasonable for the season pack, like 25.00 or something.