ITT: series killers
Sonic HeroesDonkey Kong 64 (killed and entire genre as a plus)GTA 4
>>12156914There is no greater example.
>>12156914We got Stranger's Wrath after this one, so no it's not.
>>12157001sold a whopping 20 copies
>>12156972>Donkey Kong 64 (killed and entire genre as a plus)
>>12156974True. After peaking in terms of sales and gameplay there was nowhere to go after Battle Network. Returning to the mainline games (Megaman 9) is what truly killed the franchise.
>>12156972>Sonic Heroesthat was just a very meh entry. it didn't really do anything wrong, it was just...not that good. 06 is a better contender
>>12156914That soda looks delicious
>>12157001>>12157004It doesn't have the funny farting alien or anything else recognizable. What makes it an Oddworld game?
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/GenreKiller/VideoGames#ThreadKillers
>>12157167>evil totally not jews destroying the environment with their factory and genociding a raceGee I wonder
>>12156972>Sonic Heroessold better than both adventure games
>>12156972>GTA 4GTA 4 was a technological marvel you smelly pleb
>>12157173>allow ads or make an accountFuck off Eddie
>>12157068BoFshit was always an enemy to itself. Let's make a fully animu gayme that is more annoying and trope-filled that a typical moe animu is.
>>12157068It hurts
>>12156972Didn't own a handheld award
>>12157173>tvsnopesstill waiting on that "Last Minute Lesbians" page, fucking pussies
>>12157287It was on multiple consoles unlike adventure games which were stuck on the poorly selling gc and dead Dreamcast. Meanwhile heroes was a sonic game on the ps2. Don’t get me wrong 3d sonic games as a whole are mediocre at best and usually garbage.
>>12156914
>>12157364install uBlock Origin you piece of shit wtf
>>12157479do chuds hate snopes now? lol
>>12156914>cover is the cover of something else
>>12157410*post-PSX Capcom was always the enemy
>>12156914The cover art is so cool though.
>>12157761Snopes hasn't been trustworthy for over a decade lol
>>12157826examples?
>>12157068Wrong!
>>12156974This, fuck shittle shitwork>y fans mad we made megaman gammu>megaman gammu is a colored 3x6 excel sheet with a bunch of macros and gifs
>>12157875Jrpgcels make me sick
>>12157875Seething lmao
>>12156914>munch>shows a drink and not a bag of cheetos
>>12157175The protagonists of Oddworld are explicitly jew-coded while the antagonists are goy-coded.
>>12156974>six main games, several spinoffs, multiple seasons of anime adaptation>series killerlol
>>12156914No better example.
>>12157995>series killer>received like 5 ports>next game was released less than two years later>series never stopped and is still going to this day
>>12157967>codedZoomer lingo, opinion discarded
Wasn't it technically Microsoft trying to buy out the company that killed Oddworld?Lanning went nuclear and basically shut down the studio over it, if I remember.
>>12156972Donkey Kong had new games within five years of DK64 coming out. The biggest gap that franchise ever had was 2014 to 2025.
>>12156974>>12157123>>12157995I don't think you guys understand what a series killer is
>>12156974Literally gave Megman as a franchise it's last gasp of relevancy, while the X series was completely dying on it's ass.Now Starforce and ZX, sure..
>>12157967He's Abe (like Lincoln), and he's freeing the slaves. Mudocons are black coded.
>>12158038Starforce 1 had potential, how did they fucked it up so bad with 2? It's quite impressive.
ITT retards who don't know what a series killer is
>>12157826Snopes was never trustworthy.
Here's a remake with a weirdass artstyle absolutely no one asked for. Medarot never recovered.
>>12157761They've never liked them and can't explain why.>>12157826>>12158110Case in point.
>>12158030lanning thought the xbox was going to be the next big thing and bet the farm on it. he is solely responsible for fucking the company
>>12156972The real thing that killed off donkey kong for years was rare being sold off
>>12156914I can't believe this is how they canonically ended the serieshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkn_JSvg-Co
>>12157967>>12157175Holy shit zoomers are fucking retarded.>everyone in big business is a jewGo look up who the biggest oil barons were you retarded fucking nigger mutt.
>>12158197>Has encyclopedic knowledge of barons goys nigger muttsYup. A zoomllennial halfjew hybird mutt wearing a white's skin, right in this very thread. Grim.
>>12158228>retard gets shown up for the retard he is>flagrantly acts out and spews a nonsense stream of anger as a resultMany such cases. Zoomers cannot handle being proven wrong well at all. You're going to have a tough time in life, nigger mutt.
Is there unironically any 2D series that didn't have a rocky and embarrassing transition to 3D?
>>12158362Duke Nukem
>>12158362SM64
>>12156914I liked Strangers Wrath
>>12158362Metroid
>>12158362Mario 64Zelda OoTMetroid Prime Pokemon (Stadium and the Gamecube Games) >inb4no
>>12158038How exactly did ZX poison the brand image?
>>12158362Wolfenstein
>>12158390It didn't. Just too little too late.What Megaman needed was to succesfully transition to 3D at some point.
>>12158185>Bad endSeriously dude?
>>12158179Donkey Kong was doing fine for years.Jungle Beat - 2004DKC Returns - 2010Tropical Freeze - 2014Retro opting not to make a third game is why there was a colossal gap after that point.
>>12158536All of those games sold like shit for the brand they were associated with, and were generally "okay". None of them were as good as Donkey Kong 64, let alone Donkey Kong Country 1 or 2.Tropical Freeze took 6 years to reach 2 million units.
>>12158547Man, I like DK64, and Tropical Freeze is way better than DK64. Sorry.
>>12158549It's literally just Mario, an average Mario, with extremely uninspired level and art design. The whole game is basically "what if jungle japes in 2D".
>>12158554If you say so.
>>12157826>>12158110>>12157830i'm waiting
>>12157892>>12157954>BRO DIS GAMEPLAY ON FIRE>the gameplay
>>12157875>That means it's the sequel to water!please tell me this is a joke fan translation or something.
>>12158590i will be stealing this
>>12157559>BASED ON THE POPULAR DINO CRISIS FRANCHISE>DINO CRISIS 3ya don't sayalso i'm not sure why this game gets so much flak for being different, it's not like the 1st and 2nd games play anything alike
>>12156972>Donkey Kong 64 (killed and entire genre as a plus)What the fuck, is this true?
>>12158561Keep waiting.
>>12158656It doesn't get flak for playing dofferent, it gets flak because it plays like a shitty bootleg bargain bin game with the Dino Crisis brand slapped on, and doesn't even acknowledge the cliffhanger that ended DC2
>>12158906No. Mario Sunshine came out two years later.
>>12158624don't crop out the "jew-coded"
>>12158003>>12158037I do understand what a series killer is, you goys are just not seeing what I'm putting down. I dunno what the fuck the CV or Megamane fags are on about but CV undoubtedly was what killed RE as we knew it. The name continued, but the games were only related in name. There was never a true sequel to the original trilogy, just a bunch of remakes and side games. There's a reason people only talk about 1-3 or everything else in separate bubbles because they are essentially entirely different series of games and Code Veronica is the big bright start of the separate games.I think of it how there's SMT and then you have Persona, technically they are the same series (they even have more in common than the different RE games) but they are treated as different and fans of one tend to hate the other.RE is similar, obviously you have schizophrenic weirdos who like all of them and I don't know what to tell those people, I guess they just don't care or they are all crazy.
>>12157995Caca Shitonica killed classic RE>but muh REmakeit's just a demake>but muh Zeroa delayed N64 slop ported to the Shitcube and was done by a third party developer>but muh Outbreakonline slop
>>12158362A lot of people have already said this but Duke NukemWolfenstienGTAMarioZeldaAnd Literally every racing game.
>>12159032You mean Persona 1 and 2 compared to Persona 3 - 5SMT 1 and 2 are completely different than Nlcturne, IV, SJ and V, demons aren't worth shit in smt 1 and 2 but they are everything on later games
>>12158590>jew-coded
>>12159150I dunno mang I have played 1 persona game and one SMT game, given what I was told i just assumed all of them were the same shit.As a matter of fact you have now encouraged me to play SMT2 and never touch the rest of the series. So thanks cuz I was just gonna leave it at 1.
>>12156914I'd like to visit the future where this game sold well and Interplay still owned the IP.
>>12158590Holy fuck LOL
>>12159571Tactics was fun as heck and I'm not ashamed of admitting it. Still had so many bugs.
>>12156914This really was a forgettable game. After the amazing 2D platformers and then they came up with this. That guy Lorne Lanning or whatever his name is was and still is a total hack. They only got lucky creating two masterpiece games on the PS1. Completely lame franchise otherwise unfortunately.
>>12158362GexThe first game was the worst
>>12158362What a dumb question. There are plenty of games that transitioned well and anons already pointed many out. Another that transitioned very well at least at first with the Itagaki games was Ninja Gaiden.
>>12161181>Lorne Lanning>HackAbsolutely not. Unlike a real hack like Jason Rubin who took credit for the success of Crash Bandicoot which had nothing to do with him, Lanning masterminded the original game. Abe's Oddysee is a totally unique and amazing work of art. He's never had another good idea, but he's no hack.
>>12161294>Unlike a real hack like Jason Rubin who took credit for the success of Crash Bandicoot which had nothing to do with himThis. If it wasn't for the marketing team the game would have never taken off.
>>12156974Wrong game>tried to turn the series into pretentious cineslop like FF7>spawned the dogshit ass X7>convinced Capcom that they should only pander to NES nostalgia trip retards after it flopped>made Inti obsessed over it's direction along side with Mega Man 2, now they won't get over their 2D equivalent to Legends (ZX)the upside is that the people behind this went and help make a better Mega Man series (what you posted)
>>12158054The Tribes were super cool but manThe Pirate/Angel tribes looked kinda cool too
>>12158390Honestly the game looked like some 2000s kiddy mecha show, especially the fact they gave it high budget anime cutscenes on a small screenPlus they gave Nakayama the back seat just because he finished up with Zero.
>>12157761No reason for Snopes to exist when your own LLM can find the correct information for you.and no, i don't mean garbage like Grok, C-GPT, and Gemini
>>12157830I remember a screen shot where Snopes said the information was incorrect but the correct they gave was just the same fucking thing it was refuting over.
>>12158376>PokemonI sure love unskippable 20 sec battle animations and no overworld, only a battle sim for the 5 unironic graphic whores
>>12162073I just had Subway man
>>12158159I mean this game never came to the states as with most Medabots games.How bad did it do in nipland though? I figured people were getting tired of the whole 70s 'delic nostalgia now.
>>12158015He said it in a mocking fashion, cool your tits
>>12156914A more positive example, which wasn't even that bad aside from some technical issues, and was a much higher note to end the series on than the previous game, which probably isn't saying much.
>>12162056Why is Bill pregnant, Mr Cuomo?
>>12162163Was it really 6 million?
bumping because of the Sega faggot spammer.
>>12157559Ahahaha and there's still retards who really want to see this franchise back.Remember some of the same devs made Exoprimal despite "not being connected"
>>12157287Because it was on the consoles most people actually owned instead of the Dreamcast and Gamecube which only sheltered white autistic nerd kids owned.
>>12162073it only killed its own series, at least in terms of sales and relevance.
>>12162308oh, sorry, i forgot the thread was about series and not whole genres. fuck you DK64 anon.
last good DBZ game.
>>12162041Decent bait
>>12158906I don't know how true it is across the industry but it sure as hell killed my interest in that genre. I couldn't bring myself to play another 3D platformer until Mario Galaxy 2 over a decade later.
>>12157976>that logoDamn, they really wanted the DOA audience
Chasing a different audience has a high risk of killing your franchise
>>12156972>killed an entire genreHow does that work? if the game is boring you stop and play another game.I didn't stop playing first person games after playing Haze, I didn't stop playing stealth games after the Thief reboot. I didn't stop playing fighters after War Gods. I didn't stop playing platformers are DK64.
>>12157287Worst thing you can do is judge it by how many copies it sold. Better off just saying it's shit.
>>12157559This was a really cool idea with shit execution.At least we got Dead Space.
>>12157761>nowchuds ever liked snopes? what alternate dimension are you from?
>>12162940it's good though. i feel only old sonic fans hated it because it's not classic sonic, rest of the world saw it as a colourful platform starring the sonic cast. i would even dare to say that sonic heroes managed to win many new fans for a series that was starting to become a thing of the past.
>>12157336shit missions except for a couple, shit story, shit gameplay, barren open world.
>>12162919no, 2008 killed it
>>12159571Fallout 2 with it's pretentious reddit shit killed the seriesthen 3 revived it
>>12157287and no one enjoyed it
>>12163225it was already dead by then, that's why they rebooted the franchise multiple times.
>>12158003yeah some dumb asses here. anyone alive remembers people enjoying it a lot..if anything it made people excited over the future of the DC.
>>12162919Assassins Creed Killed Prince of Persia
>>12165623Yes, that's the matt mcfag narrative
what the FUCK happened
>>12157479> Last Minute LesbiansContext?
>>12167363it ended
>>12165794It kind of did. AC and Farcry basically killed everything else Ubisoft used to make. They just make super mid open world games like three times a year now.
>>12156914I loved the first two and want another in that style. Could be new characters or whatever, or even not on Oddworld but a similar vibe.
>>12167369the legend of korra finale
>>12158590Lmao saved
>>12167363rightfully killed the franchise, but I enjoyed it. great atmosphere.
>>12162638wrong (because all the budokai games are shit)
I would also make the distinction between a game that killed an upward moving series, and simply the last game in a series that was barely limping along or already dead before it came along and simply failed to revive it.
>>12157287I bought this piece of shit as a kid and it did indeed kill my love for Sonic for a number of years. I even played adventure 1 and 2 on the Dreamcast before it.For reference, I as a kid, preordered it and was excited for another adventure, what I got, I didn't enjoy nor even beat, and I would not ever buy a sonic game full price, and the last sonic game I thoroughly enjoyed was unleashed on the 360.More sales = a bad thing if the game sucks or is disappointing, as customers grow wary of the brand after.
>>12162128Not vr.Also series was never alive.Star Ocean 2 was the outlier as the good entry while the rest are either hyper niche or terrible.Tales completely stole their thunder.
>>12170198>More sales = a bad thing if the game sucks or is disappointing, as customers grow wary of the brand after.which was not the case of sonic heroes, since the next sonic game (sonic 2006) had strong initial sales.
