Which game series do you think are going downhill?

[IamSofaKingRaw]

For me its

Fable

Look the first was amazing I'll admit that but the second...IDK where to start, EVERYTHING about it was either useless or poorly made. The magic casting could be spammed by using a time spel then casting a very high level fire/lightning area spell, the combat is meh, going into slow motion evry hit for a dramatic effect becomes irritating after a while, and the whole basing the game around interacting with generic NPC's was the dumbist idea someone could think of. WHY THE HELL would I give a shit about a NPC that will probably disappear once I leave and reenter the city? Why would I want to marry person A over person B when they are both the same? Its a shame they went down the path where making samesex marraige was a top priority.

Final Fantasy

Look I LOVED XII (thats twelve NOT thirteen) because of all the sidequests and openworldness but thirteen just took everything right about XII and threw it out the windoe. I know some people may like FFXIII[footnote]LOL wut??[/footnote]but me being a person that can play any game, FFXIII is the first game[footnote]the second game is Chinatown Wars because I found the overhead camera to be atrocious and the third is Assassins Creed 2 because NO MATTER what YOU HAVE to be caught after you assasinate someone, so I just said "whats the point of being stealthy?" and just stopped playing[/footnote] where it bored me so much that I refused to play it any further (I got to gran pulse just so you know).

I can't just list one game to why a game is series is going down hill right? Well ust take a look at the mess that is FFXIV. That is all

Feel free to flame me and/or add your own suggestions.

 

[joe90]

I can agree to both of those! I can't really think of any other glaring examples though, but i do feel a lot of the newer game series will lose their appeal, as the platform games of the 90's did.

 

[Dark Knifer]

Mario is the obvious one, with most of his games being just shy of complete remakes. Metroid with other m took about a million steps back from the metroid prime trilogy and final fantasy seems to be losing it's audience.

 

[Terminate421]

Final Fantasy was out the window after 8

I would also say Sonic but he's already went so far down the hill that Satan had to move for him to go down even further.


How long till a Pokemon hater comes in? (I love pokemon by the way, esspecially the newer games)

 

[pigmypython]

Yeah Final Fantasy. I have been playing it since the beginning and I admit I even liked a lot of the ones that other people did not. But Final Fantasy 13 was just too limited for a FF game. If it was another title I might have actually liked it more but the reason I like FF series is the open world environment.

 

[MelasZepheos_v1legacy]

I'm never willing to write off a series entirely (Although I'm close with Final Fantasy) because my favourite series (as I have said often) is Tomb Raider.

I know some people would say Tomb Raider is going downhill, but then again they said it was finished after Angel of Darkness, and then Legend came out. I'll be the first to admit that Legend had problems but I actually preferred it over II and III, which I played the most.

The point I'm trying laboriously to make is that any game series has the potential to make a come back. I think Mario has managed quite a comeback lately personally, and maybe even Sonic, in the hands of a competent developer, could be made good again.

So I think that while some games may be going downhill, never write that off as down and out.

Heck, they said Duke Nukem was down and out, didn't they?

 

[Cheesebob]

God of War.

Its just the same (pretty damn good) game over and over again but with better or worse (depending on PSP or PS3) graphics

 

[pyrosaw]

Final Fantasy for obvious reasons. I'm surprised Tomb Raider is showing it's face for a new sequel. And how long has Kingdom Hearts needlessly been going on? Since that DS game?

 

[IamSofaKingRaw]

Final Fantasy was out the window after 8

How long till a Pokemon hater comes in?

I already did

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[Midnight Crossroads]

Final Fantasy isn't going down hill. The series thrives on reinventing itself every release, so people who liked the old ones probably don't like the new ones and come to the conclusion that it's going down hill. Lots of people who never played a FF before adore 13, and lots of people who never played a FF before 7 says it's the best, same with 10, and every other FF out there.

 

[IamSofaKingRaw]

God of War.

Its just the same (pretty damn good) game over and over again but with better or worse (depending on PSP or PS3) graphics

The series is done. How can it go downhill?

 

[The Wykydtron]

Umm Fable? Can't really think of any others really... Just waiting for a ME2 hater to walk in...

Shit and i missed my chance to make some snarky remark over my 666 posts... Damnit

 

[starkiller212]

Dragon Age

I actually liked the combat, graphics, and story in Origins. The sequel seems to be taking it all away to become more "streamlined" and "edgy". I'm sure Bioware will still release an awesome game, but it's a shame that it's at the cost of what made the original so unique.

 

[ABLb0y]

Metal Gear solid, Mario or Sonic.

 

[ImperialSunlight]

I agree with both and also, Simcity, Soulcalibur, Guitar Hero (obviously), Phantasy Star... Pretty much the whole industry is totally $#%@$#

 

[Torrasque]

Any series that just never seems to end, and doesn't add/improve upon what it had:
- Final Fantasy
- CoD
- WoW
Each of these has had a "HOLY SHIT THIS GAME IS AMAZING!" moment... but kept on going.

 

[manaman]

All of them.

Why?

Because I am old and crotchety and everything was better in my day, and you better respect that or I will whack you all with my cane.


NOW GET OFF MY LAWN YOU DAMN WHIPPERSNAPPERS!

 

[MarcFirewing]

Devil May Cry -.points to the newest one.- That's starting it

 

[Justanothergamer300]

Sonic the hedgehog(Duhhhh) Sonic adventure 1 aged poorly

Crash bandicoot ( your playstation 1 titles will always be remembered)

Final Fantasy- Some things are just too epic for their own good.

How long till a Pokemon hater comes in?

All I want is a action RPG pokemon then I go back to being a pokemon addict.