What Games Should Stop Being Made?

[tippy2k2]

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.

Because buying shovelware games doesn't ruin others' favorite franchises by copying them.
(thanks a lot, DICE)

I asked this previously to someone and now I'll ask you: Why does having a sequel ruin the original?

Does the fact that Battlefield 3 came out ruin Bad Company? Does a new Mass Effect trilogy mean that Mass Effect 1-3 are now bad games (this is assuming that the new trilogy would be bad)?

You might actually be the first person to be able to use that argument and make some ground IF you are referring to multi-player games (I'm under the assumption of Battlefield when you said DICE, so I suppose I could be wrong). With the new game, the audience will switch, leaving you with empty servers but even that's not really the case. It's a much smaller group you're now playing with but they still do exist.

Example time: Did you think Star Wars was good? Did you think that Episode 1-3 were good? If you're like most people, you'll answer Yes to question 1 and No to question 2. Is Star Wars now a bad movie because Episode 1-3 exist? Of course not. Same thing here. Sequels don't ruin the original games. If you don't like the series, stop buying it and play the originals.

 

[PaganAxe]

As much as I love Mass Effect, the only reason there should be a 4 is if Azathoth (Lovecraftian outer god) is somehow the Reaper king or something and the game's finale is an epic final boss fight against Azathoth at the center of the universe. Just in case that doesn't happen in 3 (not looking at spoilers).

 

[Individuo]

There should be no more of the following due to the laps in quality in their more recent instalments:

Call of Duty
Resident Evil
Bioshock
Devil May Cry
Command & Conquer
Dead Space

There should be no more of the following to prevent a laps in quality over the series:

God of War
Gears of War
Metal Gear Solid

There should be a rethink as to how to return the series to it's once former glory:

Final Fantasy
Silent Hill

As for Mass Effect. I wouldn't mind a 4th instalment to act as an epilogue to the series.

 

[Epyc Wynn]

How about instead of making a bunch a God forbidden sequels that developers instead make one individual good game and then make a DIFFERENT game that isn't another sequel because if I see one more Final Cuntasy Game or ANOTHER garbage Sonic game I think I'm gonna bust a cap in the wang of the idiots that think this repetitive crap is good.

 

[Darren716]

COD games made by infinity ward, it seems that at least when Treyarc makes a COD game they put somthing slightly innovative in even if it doesn't always work out and is forgotten about the next game. Also Treyarc try's to put some Easter eggs into the game and let people have more fun with it i.e. zombies and the amount of customization in Black Ops.

 

[AgentNein]

I think that mario has gone past the limit of what nintendo can add to. There isnt much more they can do with it. Even with the 3DS version the only real difference they have made is that it has a new dimension.
galaxy could continue but the rest of the series should just stop.

I don't think that they CAN'T do new things with Mario, but the last time they truly tried (Mario Sunshine) people crapped all over it. I miss the days of the fearless Mario games though.

 

[Xannidel]

I am actually surprised that God of War did not really come up in this.

 

[StormShaun]

Assassin's Creed. (Have three, one with Desmond and then end!)
Call of Duty. (Please end the series or make it better.)
Final Fantasy.
God Of War.
Halo. (Only if the 4th one sucks)
Street Fighter. (Maybe, I just felt like saying that)

 

[ElPatron]

I asked this previously to someone and now I'll ask you: Why does having a sequel ruin the original?

It doesn't? Call of Duty 4 is still one of the best shooters ever.

Does the fact that Battlefield 3 came out ruin Bad Company?

Irrelevant. Bad Company was a spin off and never deserved the Battlefield title. It sure did add insult to injury, specially after years of waiting for a true Battlefield game promised by DICE.

COD games made by infinity ward, it seems that at least when Treyarc makes a COD game they put somthing slightly innovative in even if it doesn't always work out and is forgotten about the next game.

No matter how much IW screws up Treyarch tries to make IW's mistakes sound minor things.

Treyarch's Call of Duty competition with IW is a joke and always ways. They should be doing console spin offs because they were good at it.

It seems that their only purpose in life is appear more "edgy" with the violence, torture scenes and guns that were never even produced.

 

[Xannidel]

I think one of the better things they should do is not make a new game each year but maybe take that year or two to rework their core mechanics and see if they can improve on them to appeal to more people.

 

[LilithSlave]

how is any new mario game different from any other mario game though?

How is Super Mario Galaxy not remotely different from Super Mario 64? Sure, the basic, bare bones platforming is based off of Super Mario 64, but so is almost the entire 3D platforming genre. If it ain't broke, don't fix it. If you take away the most bare bones of 3D platforming pioneered by Super Mario 64, Super Mario Sunshine and even more so, Super Mario Galaxy add multiple gameplay elements. In Super Mario Sunshine, if anything, people complain about how different it is. All of the gameplay is based, basically around acquiring water and using the jetpack as adeptly as possible. And the gameplay in Super Mario Galaxy is based around mastering planetoid gravity.

your content to spend money on the same game very year?

Are you content on saying ignorant things about Nintendo? You know, like saying "they release the same game every year" when they clearly don't?

If anything, I've never made a Nintendo game purchase that I've regretted. I can't say that about too many software companies.

If anything, I don't get a new official Mario game often enough. For fans of Nintendo franchises like me, I waited far, far too long and painfully for Skyward Sword and Super Mario Galaxy. Especially Skyward Sword. Too bad, I suppose you'll never get the feeling of falling in love with a Nintendo universe to the point you can never get enough, and you just want one more trip to Hyrule or the like. But millions of people do. And Nintendo still delivers that in a high quality fashion.

 

[an874]

*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.

Couldn't have said it better myself, except at the end I would have added sports sims and movie license games (although movie license games sort of overlap with the Grandma Xmas games).

 

[Razor Z7]

Call Of Duty, Assassin's Creed, Battlefield. If Someone says Halo should end, NO! N O! NO!

 

[Innegativeion]

*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.

Agreed totally.

I really find these threads rather disheartening (if you could wipe out one game series/website/film/book/person/color/variationofthehustle etc.). I don't even understand the novelty in musing on it, even though it IS just a fantasy, given its nature.

I mean no harm no foul... but, come on. It's plain old "what if we could get rid of stuff people like that I don't like?". I wouldn't do it given the power.

 

[Vanitas likes Bubbles]

I dont think game series should end, just become less frequent.

 

[janjotat]

Final Fantasy nuff said

 

[Aesir23]

I can't really think of any I would want to end or slow down aside from CoD and sports games.

 

[Something Amyss]

A lot of games seem like they're milking the franchise, but meh. I don't want any games to go away.

Mario

But don't you want to see a grim and gritty first person reboot on next generation hardware with the newest Unreal Engine?