What is the worst way for a video game series to die? And did your favorite series die in such a way?
>>724140315>What is the worst way for a video game series to die?When it gets mainstream popular>And did your favorite series die in such a way?Yes
>>724140315>What is the worst way for a video game series to die?Dumbed down soft reboot for the modern audience.>And did your favorite series die in such a way?Yes.
>>724140315>What is the worst way for a video game series to die?Game is extremely popular and makes an ocean of cash, but the IP holder/publisher is such a retard the developers want nothing to do with them anymore.>And did your favorite series die in such a way?Yes. Twice, actually (Baldur's Gate Series).
>>724140315>What is the worst way for a video game series to die?making a terrible TV show that managed to live down everybody's expectations and then some>And did your favorite series die in such a way?yes
>>724140315>What is the worst way for a video game series to die?when it's made perfectly clear that they don't have to give a shit about quality anymore because they know people will buy it anyway>And did your favorite series die in such a way?I'd say yes but Pokemon hasn't been considered my favorite series since 2014
>>724140315>What is the worst way for a video game series to die?The studio has all of its original developers replaced by new ones that don't get it, and then proceed to release a new installment of an old IP that utterly fails in delivering what made the IP beloved to begin with, but is technically still canon
>>724140315>What is the worst way for a video game series to die?Gets outsourced to a bunch of faggots who take a dump on established characters, dumb down the gameplay and cater to modern audiences.>And did your favorite series die in such a way?Yeah.
>>724140315Catering to a different audience.Original developers, especially writers, leaving the company. Both are a waste of potential.
>>724140315When they stop making games
>>724141230That's a good way to go compared to the way some franchises are now.
>>724140614>when it's made perfectly clear that they don't have to give a shit about quality anymore because they know people will buy it anywayYs
>>724140315If the core fanbase around your franchise still exists, if you can still meaningfully discuss the old games in any capacity, if you can make a clean break between the old and the new and easily ignore everything after that break - your favorite franchise has not suffered the worst death that a franchise can have.What's happened to some of the franchises I like can be described as an apocalypse.
Official devs turn out not to understand why the players liked the game so much.To me it's the worst. To know they didn't know what they were doing, that it was an accident, that they were stupid and me as well, i turn out stupid as a result. Was there no creative intent behind any of this perfect clockwork?It was born of failure. Had the devteam succeeded, would the game have been lesser?Or maybe the devs did understand their own work but ended up not caring anymore and selling it off to a traveling circus. So i'm left caring greatly for an abandoned child i'm unable to rescue, buying circus tickets once in a while just to see him again. But it's all just a videogame. Grow up stop caring.
>>724145275When the devs are the enemy of the game. I get it.
>>724140315>What is the worst way for a video game series to die? By trying to appeal to a broader audience cause original fans aren't enough.>And did your favorite series die in such a way?Fire EmblemFinal Fantasy
>>724140315>friend simulator slopGrow up.
I think Dungeon Keeper got it the worst. Two great RTS games, then nothing for two decades, and then a shitty mobile Candy Crush microtransaction game.
>>724140315>What is the worst way for a video game series to die?Raped into unrecognizability.
>>724147532Nothing for two decades is a better fate than getting increasingly worse games in those two decades leading up to a mobile Candy Crush microtransaction game
>>724140315>Removes everything that made the old games fun and adds a bunch of open world bullshit in an effort to cater to modern audiencesZelda might as well be dead cause it ain't Zelda anymore.
Saints Row 2022straight up fucking murder
>>724140315Game getting a soft reboot/sequel after decade(s) of fan hype and begging and its total dogshit that is immediately abandonesNo, thankfully, studio liverpool was taken out back and put down silently and without struggle.
>>724151454This. Still mad about it, will never not be mad about
>Saints Row fan>Killing Floor fanIt's been tough
>>724153570Forgot to mention I also like VTMB.
when the culture around it dies but the game is kept alive, it's how you get shit like >>724152593
>>724140315Game series and company lives so long that their Ship of Theseus is so malformed and decroded that they can never hope to recreate the appeal of the original series no matter how desperately they try to repeat it in (seemingly) good faith.RIP Diablo up to LoD, Starcraft to to Brood War, Warcraft up to TFT
>when it gets rebooted for modern audiencesThief was never my favorite games but I liked them a lot and this one still hurt.Also Saints Row.
>>724140315Cliffhanger.Developer goes under.Sequel gets made years later.It sucks and ruins the original story. >And did your favorite series die in such a way?Rayman? No, not really.
>>724155243Saints row was just sad. >>724147271Fire Emblem was mostly a accidental case. Awakening was literally them just throwing good ideas of past games together as a last big hoorah.
>>724140315All the game series i liked are extremely popular everywhere now, even here and saying they are shit will just have me be called a contrarian.
A new technology comes out that must be used, because it’s popular, and the developers don’t know how to translate the old gameplay to it. Or they change the character design. I’ve seen so many series die because of these two things.
>>724140315Fallout 3
>>724140614My boy Mystery Dungeon was sent the chopping block first, the rest of the franchise turned to shit after
>>724140315>What is the worst way for a video game series to die? zelda style zombification>And did your favorite series die in such a way?bayonetta managed to piss off all the worthless reddit secondaries by releasing 3 and origins instead of making the lesbian sex simulator they wanted. platinum stays based as always
>>724140315when psychotic fans defend every bad decision by the game devs AND they keep buying the games + DLC + tip so there is no hope for future improvement
>>724140315yeah
>>724140315dying on an entry that had so much hype/promise only to underdeliver on all of it, and then the next game is a shitty cash grab spinoff
>>724140614if you didn't see the writing on the wall after BW, you're a retard, they literally gave several interviews stating that they really tried with this game, and after the deserved backlash (the pokedex is literally kanto's lol) they weren't going to try at all anymore, as people would buy the games even if they implemented a policy where the employee who sells it to you also has to punch you in the face
>>724140315I think Halo died in such a frustrating way. Not only is in completely inept 343 could never make one good game, they also somehow managed to get people to defend them or claim 343 was trying to push the series forward and those who want Halo to play like Halo are being ludites. I just don't understand why literally anyone defends 343.
>>724140315actual devs is fired/dipsnext game the company makes is a resounding failurenow just spams mobile games with gacha mechanics, microtransactions, daily, guild/referral spam, etc, the worst kindthe fired devs makes a spiritual sequel that proves they were a hack and is shitoriginal game that is neither still somewhat aliveall new content is embarrassing and tries hard to follow every other game in the market, ignoring people who play it would play other games if that was the point
>>724159616What game is that? I've only played MGS 1, but I think I've seen that girl before
>>724161725Phantom Pain
>>724140315>Lets add mandatory co-op, rpg-like leveling, skins and mtx to a series hailed as an example of singleplayer games.>Also replace the series charismatic main character with TWO quirky chunguses that never stfuIts been more than 6 YEARS and not even a peep abut a new game, honestly quite impressive.
yep
>>724164513keffals?
>>724140315>What is the worst way for a video game series to die? First game is good, sequel is trash because devs troon out/get swallowed by their tranny community or let the left wing commie brainrot take over.I won't forgive what happened to Axiom Verge 2 and Fear and Hunger 2.>And did your favorite series die in such a way?Pretty much what >>724140614 says too.>>724140648Reminds me of Obsidian and Bethesda.
>>724167545>Reminds me of Obsidian and Bethesda.And Blizzard
>>724167810Alliance in shambles
>>724140315>pump out shitty sequel after shitty sequel, or update after uodate>the bad sequels/updates begin to out number the good>and or the game/series has been shit longer than it was ever good>they remake all the good games but make them shit>they somehow managed to convince the normalfags the sequels/updates/ remakes are better>interest in the originals are completely dead, everyone will play the new ones now>anytime you want to discuss the originals youre immediately shut down and you will be called a gate keeping autistIt keeps happening.
>>724167882>meanwhile, on the Horde side of things>>724159405
>>724167940>>they somehow managed to convince the normalfags the sequels/updates/ remakes are better>>interest in the originals are completely dead, everyone will play the new ones nowHere's why: consoles. No-one's going to buy a 360 to play the original Oblivion, so they pick up the remaster instead. This will keep happening until PC dominates the market completely
>company shuts down anything that isn’t mobileslopI wouldn’t say this was my favorite, but it came out right around when I graduated high school and pray for fan servers some day.
>>724140315>What is the worst way for a video game series to die?Getting acquired by a publisher
>>724147396RLM is a just a movie review channel, this is like saying all forms of visual media are just friend simulators.
Titanfall 2 was the best FPS I ever experienced in my life. Now there's nothingI haven't got invested in another FPS since because none of them come close
>>724140360This. FPBP
>>724140315What they're doing with Halo is pretty bad. Taking the old game and slapping blurry unreal engine graphics and Call of Duty mechanics on top and then passing it off as the definitive edition is pretty cancer, especially since this is going to be the first time a lot of people play Halo
>>724170468>Titanfall 2 was the best FPS I ever experienced in my life. Now there's nothingFor me it was pre-F2P TF2, nothing else has quite captured that magic and the entire genre just feels derivative and shitty to me now
>>724170712>What they're doing with Halo is pretty bad. Taking the old game and slapping blurry unreal engine graphics and Call of Duty mechanics on top and then passing it off as the definitive edition is pretty cancerThis is basically what the entire industry has been doing for like 15 years dude
>>724170468>Titanfall 2 was the best FPS I ever experienced in my life.my condolences for your horrible life
>>724140315Nigflex made an animated tv show based on Splinter Cell. You can't top this humiliation.
>>724171524I never played it, but I recall /v/ having a small but thriving fanbase of rabid Titanfall 2 enjoyers back when that game was current.That game just really clicked with some people and it was their favourite thing ever for a while.
>>724171885>Nigflex made an animated tv show based on Splinter Cell. You can't top this humiliation.
>>724140495https://www.youtube.com/shorts/IQHjhBq7cwE
When it dies for a while, it comes back with a reboot or sequel and either>It isn't made to be what fans want so it flops>It is what fans want but it simply doesn't sell enough for the company to be allowed to make another Both can be intentional btw, if the company wants to go "there, we gave it to you and it flopped, stop asking"
>>724172228Or worse>it isn't what fans want, but it appeals to brainlets and suddenly explodes in popularity and you can't even talk about the older games or preferring them without being called a contrarian, and eventually there are no traces left of the original small but dedicated fanbase and the series actually dies a final and real death when the new fans lose interest after the 2nd or 3rd game in this style
>>724171524When's the last time you actually made a friend from playing a game?
>>724172409Personally it was like 5-6 years ago for me now? I was playing some $3 shovelware multiplayer game I found on steam and there was this one area where you could do typing races against other people and if you did it enough times you would unlock a mechanical keyboard item you could throw at other people for fun. So I parked my ass down on that spot and played it alone for an hour or two cause no one else was around, and once in a while a random would show up and suck ass at the game for 5 seconds before leaving.Eventually this one person showed up that was actually really good at it, and they stuck around and raced me in the game for probably an hour or two before we stopped and thanked each other for all the good games, and that eventually led to chatting.Turns out English wasn't even her first language, she was just learning it as a hobby and her actual first language was Japanese. So we got chatting about our countries and the media and shit we were into, and by the end of the night we had added each other on discord/steam and decided to keep in touch. We don't hang out as regularly as we used to these days now that we're both older and busier, but we still chat occasionally and send each other cool albums we have been listening to recently.
>>724172384Yakuza, right?
>>724172803I was actually thinking of Fire Emblem but Yakuza is another great example
>>724140315>dormant series returns>with original devs>with major publisher backing>and sells well>still dies
>>724155001Blizzard didn't actually make Diablo 1 or 2.
>>724170712That just sounds like Halo 2.
>>724140360Yakuza?
>>724140315The worst way for a series to die is for it to continue living in a degenerate form, in the custody of a successful company.>ZeldaIt took 7 fucking years to develop Tears of the Kingdom, and it'll take 7 more to develop the next 3D Zelda. 14 years of Breath of the Wild Zelda. People who love classic 2D and 3D Zelda are going to be waiting forever for a crumb, if Nintendo even decides to toss them one.>Fallout>The Elder ScrollsIf you thought I was exaggerating with the Zelda example, it's already been 14 years since the last TES game, and 10 since the last full-fledged Fallout game, which was an abomination. Fallout will very likely never get another good game, but it is fated to live on in perpetuity in Bethesda's clutches, until - after 17 years - Fallout 5 is released. And it's shit. Meanwhile, InXile will never be allowed to develop a Fallout CRPG even though Microsoft owns the IP.There's plenty of other examples.
>>724174756>It took 7 fucking years to develop Tears of the Kingdom, and it'll take 7 more to develop the next 3D Zelda.To be fair, imagine how much more dire the situation would be if they were pumping out new Zeldas every 2-3 years when this is what we get after 7
>>724172919>DLC was cannedfeels bad
>>724172919Deserved to die after the shitshow that was DD2's story.
I think Zombie games are scarier . I think a game coming back after 20 years with none of the charm and a misguided love is depressing.
>>724140315I started playing Dragon's Dogma a couple years ago, fell in love with it, started hoping for a sequel, finally got it, and it was ass.Just off the top of my head.
We're they right?
>>724140315I'm still bummed nu Deus Ex will never be concluded. But it may be for the best, that foreshadowed plot twist was just bad
They update the old version of the game after making a sequel to ruin it so you can't play the better game anymore.
>>724176894Not even a sonicfag but no. 99% of their problems would be solved if they just pushed down to roll
>>724176894No. They were yet ANOTHER channel that had zero experience with programming, art , or game design reviewing on pure pathos from remembering the one time they had to restart a level because they weren't paying attention. If you watch their streams the kind of games they always played were embarrassing pixelshit with no art design or direction especially when compared to something like sonic.
Commander
>>724140495a dead franchise is still preferable than one forced to live due to brand recognition>>724172009how he got fucked over is still tragic, one of the first casualties of the 2010s indie boom
>>724167545>I won't forgive what happened to Axiom Verge 2 and Fear and Hunger 2.QRD?
>>724177405>a dead franchise is still preferable than one forced to live due to brand recognitionOnly it wasn't dead. Larian had proven, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that classic Forgotten Realms RPGs can not only be revived, but achieve mainstream success.So imagine just how bad of a company WotC were that they decided to cease all work on the expansion, cut ties completely, and move on.
>>724178648i was speaking more broadly
I feel like Command and Conquer should be mentioned ITT. I guess 99% of people just pretend 4 didn't happen and the game has an open ending.In a way the 4 fiasco was a way to ensure the series closed for good.
I've played Tekken since I was 6 years old and which is to say Tekken 1. Tekken 8 is a travesty that is so brain dead and shitI haven't played it for months. They won't maje a Tekken 9 because bamco will blame their audience instead of their dogshit direction. Feels bad man.
>big corpos take notice of your niche game>they give you a huge budget but now expect a niche genre to make call of duty numbers>they also start fucking around with the creative process and changing stuff to appeal to a wider audience>game doesnt sell as much as your jew overlords expect>franchise is dead, studio is closed and youre fired
>>724140315Dragon Age.Enough said.
>>724140315>publisher demands devs add [CURRENT HOT THING] which they think will make them even richerI haven't bought a game published by EA since.
>>724182125More like>make a small team of passionate people>they make a game that people like>gradually builds from cult following to normal following>have to become a company to avoid going bankrupt from tax>greedy kike investors sell out to some large conglomerate and now you're owned by The Schnoz™>they start bringing in people who don't care to work on the products and if you can't make as much as they want they start outsourcing it to their own places with no creative say>EA process begins>company liquidated, no more games and now your company is the face of some spyware program
>>724176894These fags know nothing about video games and have abysmal taste. Their only good review was that werewolf game and it was only good because they decided to review it like a movie.
Silent Hill.>Left to rot>Made a mockery of with probably one of the worst re-releases ever made>Decayed corpse puppeteered around by talentless writers looking to push some retarded propaganda while having fuckall to do with the name
>>724182238insane shit is the simulation is really fucking good in this. Yeah its smaller, but I remember even being so pissed off while playing it, I still found that aspect impressive. It shits on Skylines in that regard.
>>724183262If the maps were four times the size and didn't require always-on-line it probably would have been a successful entry in the franchise.
>>724183826always online was removed like, almost immediately by modders, I played it offline. I agree though, it would have probably beat Skylines in most ways.
>>724140315Im fearful for Duke 3D's 30th anniversary next year, bros.
My favorite franchise went down in flames while I was still a kid, immediately after its original dev sold it off to other devs.
>>724183996always bet on Duke
>>724140360This
>>724140315mine was killed because they decided to make an MMO instead of a proper 3rd gamethey probably would have fucked up it even if they didn't tho
>>724140315Third.Birth.Day.
>>724163068>>Also replace the series charismatic main character with TWO quirky chunguses that never stfu reminded me of https://youtu.be/loVT-qqOTZI and forspoken. Modern writers really LOVE their quipping and despise silence.
>>724140315>worst way to diePuppetted corpse by a new team that understands nothing about what made the prior entries great.>did your favorite seriesYes, Mass Effect.
>>724184331parasite eve was basically just a demo for ff8the game is bipolar and cant decide what it wants to bethe infinitely respawning enemies make it feel like a typical JRPG but the dark, moody environments make it clear it wants to be like silent hilland all the gun/armor upgrades make it feel like a tactical rainbow six/SOCOM game at times
>>724184882>parasite eve was basically just a demo for ff8What? In terms of graphics engine maybe? They share almost no similarities. Which is good, because FF8 sucked.
>>724140315I liked asscreed being a spin off of Prince of Persia, with parkour, Hitman elements, history and wacky conspiracy theories. Lived to see it become an RPG abomination with giganigga samurai murdering half of a country, with hip hop playing in the background.
>>724185702Is the samurai one still bogged down with stats and loot drop nonsense? I thought they were proud to have dropped that by now.
>>724140315Yeah... Xenosaga's deathShadow hearts' deathI will never get over it.... oh and fuck Xenoblade cancer bs. Xenosaga was 100x better in story and characters
>>724185836I heard it's just as grindy as Valhalla which I haven't played. I tolerated Origins but got really sick of it towards the end. Couldn't finish Odyssey due to the grind, not even going to touch Valhalla because it's even worse. I just wanted to stab templars, NOT HUNT 100 BOARS TO GET INSTAKILL WITH THE HIDDEN BLADE.
>>724140315When a game ends on a cliffhanger and the sequel gets canceled
>>724186367>Clive Barker's JerichoI'm still mad.
>>724185969Those games are just the coffin that Xenogears lies in.
>>724186367HL2 EP2.
>>724140315When it turns into a corpse still on life support instead of company just pulling the plug
>>724186367Cancelled sequel is still more closure than a repeatedly teased, never-ever sequel.Fucking Beyond Good and Evil 2
>>724140315By becoming everthing the original wasn't and being a big success.
>>724176894Rich is never right about anything.
>>724140315>bitter creator shits on game because he's annoyed that no one likes his awful endings and other people had the audacity to make sequels without him being involvedThe secret of monkey island is that Ron Gilbert is a shitty person.
>>724140360>>724140429>>724184215Is the only hope of curing this disease to have a sort of "visionary" director/IP rights holder for every project, something like Kojima? Strong vision and won't/doesn't need to compromise with shareholders and CEOs?It's legit the only solution and hope for an IP I can think of. Just have a guy (ideally the creator of the IP) in charge, let him be uncompromising and not bound by the will of demonic corporate entities.But then sometimes the creator sells his own baby to the devil like what happened with Star Wars and Minecraft...
>>724140315Silent Hill has been dead for over 20 years, but Konami will dig up the corpse, rape it, and then bury it again until the process repeats for the next rape.
>>724140315I think a cliffhanger is worse than a bad ending
>>724140315Live Service slop
>>724140315Becoming an endless stream of slop with no hope of recovery, basically being bad for longer than it ever was good, so pokemon.
>>724140315Death via a mediocre remake that got fucking kneecapped
>>724140315Homeworld 3
>>724144873Something I've have noticed is that fans of newer entries of any given franchise don't actually discuss the new games or what they like about them, but rather shit on the old fans and the old games.
>>724140315Just look at Halo. Legendary franchise that gets butchered slowly for an entire decade.Like watching a car crash where everyone in your family dies but at 10% speed. Slow, agonizing death, you just want it to end but it keeps going. Fuck you 343.
>>724140315by being made for "modern audiences" requested by men in expensive suits.dead space
>>724157931>star fox is dead and never became mainstream properFeels kinda nice actually, I don't trust modern nintendo to do it justice, and the fandom is very fragmented since everyone wants something different out of the franchise, so no matter what they make they can't please everyone, and if they DO make a new one it will most likely be a monkey paw scenario.
>>724140315to become nortubel
>>724140315>What is the worst way for a video game series to dieTo be bought out and then slowly decay into mediocrity and beyond. Sacrificed on the alter of mass appeal and then have anything remotely interesting stripped away until it all that is left is naught but a husk that only wears the skin of what it once was.>And did your favorite series die in such a wayYes.
The ongoing enshitification and fortniteification into generic slop has probably touched almost every big company series with a recent release in some way.
>>724190813AoT is dead and gone, while CoD is still getting games so I will say CoD
>>724190324>literal trannieswhy not market being able to click male or female when creating a character as the way to enable tranny insanity and move onmake it make sense
>>724172872But neither Yakuza nor Fire Emblem are dead, though it looked like it for a while with the long radio silence after Engage underperformed
not a series, but watching the troon-influence corrupt ss13, my favorite game ever, into high-rp faggotslop where every catperson/ligger is best friends with an admin and nothing interesting happens is what made me hate trannies forever.
>>724184110A hero's tail and the legend trilogy have redeeming qualities, it wasn't truly grim until skylanders.
>>724140315Kingdom hearts, dead rising, to me I loved them both and watching them die a horrible death has been heart breaking
>>724176023WHAT?! fucking why, not even DD1 had it's dlc canned, it's what brought it to life. the hell is capcom doing man
>>724186367The Darkness 2
>>724140315Raceswapping, feminism. In other words, lore changes.
>>724183941>>724183826shame skylines shit the bed so hard
>>724140315when a prolific singleplayer studio releases a live service friendslop sequel effectively killing the franchise forever. IE Marathon, Outlast, Redfall, Suicide Squad kill the justice league.
>>724192693dead rising 1 is one of the best games ever made, 2 is okay, 3 and 4 are miserable dogshit and the 1 remake is fucking re engine slop
>>724140315When it's a shadow of its former self, created for audience that you no longer have anything in common with. Just a corpse paraded around to make some money, usually via aggressive microtransactions.>And did your favorite series die in such a way?WoWDiablo (Immortal + D4, D3 wasn't that good but it was still vastly more playable and fun than D4, and at the end of the day you just had to buy the game and maybe Necromancer, no mtx)
>>724193786>War>CoolOkay bro, you're going to Venezuela
>>724194221Conservatives care more about what a kid sees once at a parade than their brains being splattered on their classroom floor by a maniac lol
>>724140315>What is the worst way for a video game series to die? And did your favorite series die in such a way?Dragon's DogmaIt got a sequel announced that fans thought was going to be their dream game, but it ended up being incredibly rushed and half based and murdered the series forever. We didn't even get a fucking DLC, and now Capcom will never touch it again and Itsuno went to work for chinks.
>>724174756>People who love classic 2D and 3D Zelda are going to be waiting forever for a crumbEchoes of Wisdom just came out and it combines classic 2D Zelda design with BotW style emergent gameplay. Don't lump all the 2D Zelda fans in with N64babies who just want more OoT clones.
>>724151454I got that for free whenever EGS shit it out and I still wanted a fucking refund. like everything I heard about it was painting it lightly, I don't think I did more than like two missions. I don't know how that even got into production
>>724140315catering to a wider audience
>>724192432I think the implication works with Yakuza because 7 was redone to appeal to modern fans and it did fine but 8 underperformed
>dev starts including e-celebs on their games
>>724195950We've had more action games after 7 than we have turn based. Like zelda is a proper example because they really did kill off the old style of zelda games with the success of the new ones, but action yakuza never stopped coming.
>>724140315Pachinko hell.
>>724140315Whatever way it was that Adam Jensen Deus Ex games died
>>724140360FpbpI miss old Monster Hunter
>>724145275i dunno how to say great post without it sounding sarcastic in my head
>>724140315as time goes on I find it easier and easier to let go of IPs, not everything must go on forever. it is healthier mentally to remember the good times, and look for something else appealing rather than hyperfixating on an IP not being what it once was.
>>724151454>hear Love Shack on radio>think about how the 100% completion “reward” in Saints Row 2022>low fps laggy cutscene of the main cast terribly singing Love Shack Together>alongside a bunch of random NPCs dancing around them>because they killed off basically every other named character aside from like 2 people>can take upwards of 50 hours to 100%what a sad way to end the series, then the Saints Row 2 PC port is left to die after the only guy that could do it single handed dies from cancer, and the guy he wanted to entrust it to ducked him for no reason other than not wanting to, while both their work was probably on a computer that got thrown out when the company went under
>>724189842Funny. I dont talk about the old games because I've played/discussed them to death. I just shit on the new entries cause they suck
>>724197332SR2's PC port situation sucks so much ass man, I recently replayed the game on a modded 360 and it holds up pretty well outside of the dated visuals. but a proper PC port and mods could've really made the game shine
>>724172919>Dragons Dogma 1 released unfinished due to running out of money when Capcom was broke as fuck>Dragons Dogma 2 released unfinished after Resident Evil 4 Remake didn’t make a gorillon dollars like they thought it would>needed to bump up revenue numbers to keep shareholders happy (impossible)>Itsuno was so pissed he left Capcom>Due to the backlash on micro transactions they completely dropped support shortly after>game is still unfinished and runs like shit>DLC cancelled as wellI’ve never been more mad, we were this close
>>724140315monster hunterI don't need to elaborate
>>724157185Raymans Swansong of origins and legends is the best you could ever hope for.
What happened to Castlevania is pretty high up there.Corpse raped and paraded around and then the people who enjoyed the puppet show now are telling you you aren't a real fan and the original series is worthless and only the puppet show is of value.
>>724140315Mgs 5 was literally unfinished and the series is dead. Can't think of a worse way than that. 20 years for nothing.
>>724140315>What is the worst way for a video game series to die?when the money outweighs any sort of previous sincerity so they lean into the worst aspects of game development and design and predatory behaviour meant to fleece you instead of creating something interesting, a lot say it happens when it gets mainstream popularity but the real knife to the ribs is their reaction to popularity, you can still keep to your guns and be a niche studio, it’s just alot dont once the money is in the air>And did your favorite series die in such a way?Yeah I got to watch Project Moon grow from a small studio of college kids making interesting games with spaghetti code that combined genres turn into a gacha developer that’ll never produce anything of quality ever again
>>724140315Sudden abrupt end with no room for a comeback. RIP Princess Connect and fuck Crunchyroll
>>724140315I don’t think there’s a IP that suffered worst than Halo in that it’s had a billion dollars invested into it while also been so mismanaged for a over a decade now you can barely tell what is going on in 343s studio besides budget fraud or something
Right before achieving true greatness..hack//IMOQ was unique and very interesting//G.U. improved on what was already there, but left behind the Lain-inspired aesthetics and mystery for a shounen action oriented game which wasn't bad but different.Then Bandai Namco took it out back and put 13 rounds in its head and worshipped Sword Art Online for a decade, while at least allowing //G.U. to get a really good remaster, but left //IMOQ to rot.
>>724140315hands down the appealing to the lowest common denominator and consolitisi thought it couldn't get any worse but with the advent of AI i was proven wrong
>>724197304Those sequels arent really for you, they're for zoomers who want to feel like oldfags but can never be.
Am I the only living person who though dragons dogma 2 was an improvement over the first game?
>>724167940Resident Evil is the first one that comes to mind.
>>724140315When the new games have awful gameplay, but it sells much more than the older ones and the new games have a ton of apologists and critical acclaim.Zelda is the most obvious example.
>>724140315The way Dragon Age died
>>724140315DA was never really alive after Origins, but DATV was the last nail in the coffin.
>>724140315>dead spaceflew too close to the sun>titanfallusurped and erased from existence>half-lifeleft on a cliffhanger for 20 years
>>724171972[tfg] actually lasted at least a few years. maybe people still play these days but it would definitely be a /vm/ thing
>>724200403it died after originssad how hard 2 was console-lized
>>724195778GATEKEEP HARD
>>724200506What a fucking betrayal. What a fucking tragedy.
It's rare I actually care about a series.For a series I've actually played that met a grave end, definitely Corpse Party.For a game series that I've heard about, nothing seems worse than Saints Row in terms of being brutally murdered
>>724200221Yeah, OoT really was casual, watered down trash that a lot of retards pretended was a great game.
>>724140315the reverse happened with fire emblem, prior to path of radiance and radiant dawn the series was heavily flawed, even courting the spiritual trannysm.the awakening, fates, shadows of valentia (even if a remake) were amazing.3 houses almost ruins the franchise but the adjacent trannies misinterpreting edelgard are just a minor problem, they dont sour it for me.
>>724198726>//G.U. to get a really good remaster,that shit pissed me off
>>724140315>What is the worst way for a video game series to die?yeah its bad if a series stops getting produced but it's even worse when it becomes completely mainstream and turns into something completely different, might as well call it death by flanderization
>>724140315Just like everything else, once the amount of bad stuff outweighs the amount of good stuff I become indifferent to it!!!FACT!!!
>>724140315Watching Guilty Gear rape it's own dead corpse for virtue signal points and a few extra months of cultural relevance was sad.
>>724140360I watched Rainbow Six turn into a hero pvp shooter skinner box for zoomers.
>What is the worst way for a video game series to die?Unfinished>And did your favorite series die in such a way?Partially, with regards to Deus Ex. On the one hand each game really is about its own perspective on the overarching themes, on the other it's clear there was still a story being told in regards to the prequels and Adam Jensen specifically, and that we'll never see the full conclusion.
>>724140315I never expected STALKER 2 to be made at all, let alone good. The fact that they couldn't outperform what modders were doing 15 years ago is a testament to the death of talent in this industry. Nearly everything is loveless extraction, parading the corpses of once-beloved properties around on stilts like flesh kites.
>>724140315Dormant series receives ill-received reboot tainting it for years. See >>724182238.The fact that there hasn't been a decent city sim in over 21 years chafes my ass.
>>724167940Pokemon
>>724189842Because modern fans are usually people raised on algorithimic social media that ragebaits them for engagement and encourages them to get into fights about everything. At a certain point this turns into them thinking anyone who disagrees with them at all is The Enemy, and they care more about fighting The Enemy than they do about actually enjoying anything.
>>724140315>And did your favorite series die in such a way?Yeah
>>724140315I dont know the worst way but the best way is for your favorite series to have released all its entries before the HD era, have no remakes, and be untouched by modern lepers.
>>724213131That was my thought too.
>>724140315It's not my favorite franchise but what happened to Duke Nukem still really pisses me off. To have playable, inarguable proof that the Forever could have been the best shooter of 2002 if they just fucking finished it, and instead having the version we got and the franchise forever in the hands of that greasy pedophile instead.
>>724193191>When it's a shadow of its former self, created for audience that you no longer have anything in common with. Just a corpse paraded around to make some money, usually via aggressive microtransactions.Sucks being a PM fan nowadays
>>724140315>And did your favorite series die in such a way?not really, maybe battlefield but I feel like it died naturally.. somehow
>>724140360Fucking thisI miss old gen Monster Hunter so much.I miss the old /v/ threads about it.I miss when the game was niche but we had a small and fun community.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Mk6S6iKFrQ
>>724171524He who has not tasted grapes
>>724140315When it gets replaced by something entirely different while keeping the title.
>>724201069>tfw the original network ended up being deleted by a moderator a couple of years ago.We had a good run. Maybe my memory fails me, but I remember reading the deletion message that said something like “the network has been destroyed” or “eliminated”.
>>724219943I hate that I read every panel in that strip. So many people miss the point of Lara Croft and, ironically enough, they end up making her kill way more people than she ever did in the original Core Design games. You kill maybe 6 people in Tomb Raider 1 and the rest of the time you shoot demons, dinosaurs, wolves, bears, tigers, gorillas, and bats. New Tomb Raider also constantly brings up Joshua and tries to find some way to give Lara a love life which is just as annoying now as it was in 80s action movies.
>>724140315>What is the worst way for a video game series to die?When it's developers get bought by a bigger company that pisses the original devs off enough for them to leave, or straight up fires them.>And did your favorite series die in such a way?Not a series, but PopCap deserved better.
>>724204696>that VNThe most unforgettable horror porn game I've ever played. No other game had a bunch of elementary schoolers gangbang a teenage girl against a wall. And the teenage girl loved it. No other game I've played had a 17 year old bishonen guy drink a 14 year old girl's piss and chase her down the hall to rape her, only to wind up getting anally raped by a 32 year old fat man. I still remember the scene where a 16-17 girl was hiding under a bed as her same age best friend was having sex with that same 32 year old fat guy on top. She heard every moan, bed shake and sound. In the wrong end she was discovered under the bed by her friend and made to join. A most terrifying scene was when an unwilling girl relives another girl's sex memories. The girl in the memory consented but the reliving girl didn't. It didn't matter that she was mentally screaming, her body in the memory did all the motions and actions as in history. It's like mind control rape except the victim was fully aware. Another scene the same girl and a friend were almost raped in a magic sex ritual, saved by the girl's older sister, and the backlash made the older sister want to rape her younger sister and friend.The loli in this pic is freakishly lewd and once disguised herself as a teenage girl, fucked a boy until he nearly came, transformed back saying>You thought you were having sex with a highschooler weren't you? I'm an elementary schooler all along!And leglocks that boy, forcing him to cum inside her unprotected, when he screams in fear upon learning this. This isn't even getting into the tentacles, the gay sex, the lesbian sex, the incest, the sequel's mother/daughter lesbian scene, etc. The first chapter alone contains lots of lesbian sex scenes with an unavoidable girl masturbating in the bathroom. Truly horror is intrinsically connected with sexuality.
>>724221056You say that like TR2 doesnt have the highest bodycount in the series. NuRaider has problems (tonal whiplash from that first blood sceen and the straight up gore porn for example), you dont need to invent new ones.Its a shitty comic but the information is all accurate. I liked the first nuraider enough. OG 4 are still GOAT. Anniversary was solid.
>>724140315>What is the worst way for a video game series to die?When it kills the studio that developed it along with it
>>724140556>Halo?>Twisted Metal?>Fallout?>The Last of Us?>The Witcher?There have seriously been a lot of awful tv adaptions of video game series lately
>>724155001Nothing comes closely for a fall from grace situation than WoW, which makes you want the franchise to die off rather than be abused.
>>724221782The witcher wasnt bad. Not watching it without Cavil though. They did that autistic hunk dirty.
The "it's a hate letter to the fans" KCD2 rugpull was the worst I experienced.
>>724221630>You say that like TR2 doesnt have the highest bodycount in the series.It doesn't, in fact it has lesser bodycount compared to any of nulara games
>>724140315Where do we even begin?>Bad faith reboot or sequel where the developers and/or journos berate the fans and maybe past entries>IP becomes mainstream, its qualities drop in trying to retain their new userbase>IP becomes a zombie that refuses to die with bad game/update after bad game/update>Ends on a cliffhanger that will never be resolved while the developers are still very much active>The game is great but the devs sincerely can't recapture the magic with sequels no matter what>Shitty broken re-release (or 'remaster') sent out to die, who apparently will decide the final fate of the IP>Online game's quality falls into a downward toilet spiral of dogshit>DLC is the true 'fuck you' endingSome examples posted are a combination of these, but it is hard to settle on just one.
>>724140315When they are making gacha game out of it.
>series was great for a few years>everything since then has been varying degrees of bad to legendarily shit
>>724218472It died when it went to consoles ie with Bad Company. Battlefield 2 was the last good Battlefield, because it was the only Battlefield to be unburdened by dogshit limitations of shitty nogamesboxes.
>>724225957it's amazing how fucked up multiplayer gaming got because of consolesi miss the days when shit like matchmaking wasn't a thing
>>724140648https://www.youtube.com/shorts/xngBF-sWsLg
When not only do I have to recommend people to >Play it up to X, after that don't botherwhich honestly is fine, everything declines eventually.But I am considering if I even want to recommend the series in the first place because the next entries fucked up so bad they retroactively made the originals less enjoyable.This is mainly a problem with story games where I don't want to get other invested into characters and storylines knowing that they get completely fumbled and made a mockery of.In the grand scheme of things I feel that most games tend to have good standalone staying power that it never gets this bad, but you never know.
>>724223608Good morning, saars
>>724222309How long grinding respawns did they take to get those nuraider numbers?!Never played nuraider 2 & 3 so whatevs
>>724227595This is why I can't recommend people Mass Effect. What they did to that series was unforgivable.
>>724140315>did your favorite series die in such a way?Hi, I'm anon, and I'm a Metroid fan.I'm becoming more like Mike every day. Make the pain stop.
>franchise is kept alive but in horrible monkey paw waysPrince of persia>black protag>roguelite
>>724140614I struggle to think of a series that's been raped to the extent Pokemon's been. Every single thing about Pokemon's gotten worse and keeps getting worse, the mainline titles are now Sonic 06-tier, every new design is shit, the spinoffs are largely dead in favor of mobile slop and a fucking gacha, they can't stop fucking with old games and the things in them with shitty remakes, sequels and forms, and for all this and more Game Freak has been rewarded with record-breaking success after record-breaking success. It is perhaps the greatest example of why franchises should be made to end after a certain point.
>>724231871The designs hurt the most, because people have been clowning on quality of the games for a long time, but at least designs were still solid. Gen7 had some of my favourite Pokemon, and human cast was possibly one of the best ever. Gen8 still had some interesting Pokemon designs, even if on average I'd say there was a quality drop, the cast was overall pretty solid still. Gen9 was ROUGH, most Pokemon were some lazy combination of spheres and cylinders, one of the weakest Pokedex in history. Then ZA with some really horrendous megas. And even human designs went downhill in those two games, the only ones I even remember happen to both be streamers (Iono and Canari)
I loved warcraft as a kid, spent so many hours playing modded w3, and early WoW was awesome. something in me died a little when I realized WoW was going to be all that they were going to do from now on (I think I realized this in either WOTLK or cata). it's already be talked about here so ill mention other stuffthe clusterfuck of nonsense that happened to spore was sad, it died before it could improve on the one good game it had. I will say that the wii title was at least interestingdarkest dungeon 2's current situation feels more like newfags and eternal whiners had an equal hand in fucking it up alongside the devs. the sequel wasn't meant to be a rehash of the first but all people expect of sequels are duplicates of the originals but with more shit tacked onto it. it's certainly not a perfect game but neither was the first when it was brand new, dd2 needed (and still needs) more updates to flesh it out, just like the original, yet people just cried about it being different rather than the actual fucking problems that could be fixed in the game. I love both games and I want the sequel to be finished with more updates and meaningful DLC but I know damn well it's probably going to be unfinished or given changes to try and sate an audience that can never be sated. fuck man, games should be allowed to be different and try new things, dd1 was great but I dont need two of them when I want the certain experience that the first gives. I want to play different things with the same world I came to love.civilization being taken over by people who know nothing about history or game dev and everything about virtue signaling is hell. they put a fucking quote in the new one that was just some made up garbage by one of their own and tried to pass it off as someone important is insane. I miss when games were made by and consumed by people who gave a shit and understood what they were creating/playing.
final fantasy turned to western combat slop
>>724140360fpbpfuck bethesda
>>724196174>dev hires a normalfag celebrity musician as a composer
>>724140315When the devstudio has braindrain and loses all talent
>>724140614Pokemon ZA has such potential to be the best pokemon game ever made with the new battle system but gamefreak refuses to put in actual effort because they know they don't have to and that daddy nintendo will just use its wealth to sue anyone who tries to give it competition.
>>724140315Getting turned into a gacha and becoming a zombie franchise.
>>724235168>the new battle systemThey didn't even put a basic auto-attackIt was doomed from the startLiteral 0% comprehension of how to make the kind of battle system they were trying to ape
>>724172009>All the nicalis versions have the wrong framerate and the game is fucked as a result.>Normalfags will play it that way.
>>724235654What the best way to play Cave Story?
Homeworld.They turned a story about the survival of an entire people into some sort of feminist bullshit about two women's feelins.
>>724235808Doukutsu rs
>>724236029thanks
>>724187314He would be immediately and instantly assassinated/ousted to install a puppet in his place.cmon now, this is basic stuff nowadays.
Man, the more I read this kind of thread, I regret more and more not having gotten into videogames sooner in my life.I always knew I was missing out on a lot of stuff, but never did I expect I would be missing out on so much. Nor that things would get so fucking bad.
>>724140315Nigger
>>724187314Not everyone can be a Bill Watterson.
>>724226997I should have said "The only modern Battlefield". BF 1942 and Vietnam and 2142 also were good, solid games. They will outlive the console slop too and will remain playable long after their smallhat owners will turn off their servers.
>>724235618Pokemon never had an auto attack so I don't know why it should have one. I can make the argument that the ZL mode should be toggleable and not a hold thing but the only time you shouldn't be in "battle mode" is if you're avoiding being attacked directly by wild pokemon and not being able to issue orders/apply dps to avoid being killed yourself is part of the strategy.
>>724192693honestly, Japan's obsession with handhelds/Mobile is what killed KH Did we REALLY need two mobile games just to give plot about darkness and they keyblade war.. AGAIN, though with it being canned Kh4's plot is going to be a mess since apparently characters in that were tied to the mobile game. Good job
>>724187314Anon, the moment a guy like this leaves the company for any reason whatsoever his franchise will get taken over by a retard willing to fuck everything up to get the execs a few more bucks.And even if he doesn't, the company can just put restraints like limited budget and time (or worse) on mr. visionary to fuck over his product (like hideo kojima who you already mentioned).
>>724209692Don't worry. They'll release the modder kit and modders will start making conversion mods that fix it.
>>724241176>honestly, Japan's obsession with handhelds/Mobile is what killed KHNomura's gay chuuni autism would have ruined the series either way.
>>724140315>What is the worst way for a video game series to die? Very specifically, turning into an open world bore with vehicle crafting.>And did your favorite series die in such a way?My top 2 favorite games are Twilight Princess and Banjo-Kazooie. I'll let you put two and two together.
>>724140315>What is the worst way for a video game series to die?I'd say a minimum effort release soly banking on brand recognition to sell. Doubly worse if it's a complete genre shiftAnd did your favorite series die in such a way?Oh yeah. Got the Banjo Kazooie nuts and bolts treatment.
>>724159405I prefer the right. It looks much more soulful, the Troll camera thing and his little alliance mug. His smile alone subverts expectation. While the left is just the same ol orc slop we've seen forever, le evil bad guy angry frowny man in monochrome.
>>724140556That's way better than making a terrible TV show that shits all over the setting, tone, and lore, yet is somehow beloved by normies and is also made canon and will influence every game going forward.
>>724244395I cannot identify with right, I am an ugly angry man like left, he's happy and strolling around
>>724245323stop samefagging you disingenuous cunt
>>724140315Worst way has to be when a series makes nothing but bangers, but then it makes one (1) subpar game and that kills it for good. That's what happened with Fossil Fighters; first two games rocked, and then Frontiers came out and shat the bed.
