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Shadow the Hedgehog and Sonic 2006.
The former is an absolutely atrocious abomination that should burn in the deepest, darkest, hottest depths of Hell.
The latter, I don't think it's near as bad as everyone says, but it was definitely a disappointment and considered to be the last straw for many old fans.
Then we got many years of average (Rush Adventure, Unleashed), mediocre (Black Knight, Rivals, and Dark Brotherhood), and abysmal (SECRET RINGS!!!) games before we got Colors and Generations.



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Mario Party 9
it just hasnt been the same since 9. in a way Mario Party has become a shadow of Nintendo. it was fun, but now its too gimmicky. Since this entry weve had 3 other Mario Party games that didnt get it right. the last good one was in 2007, so thats nearly 10 years without a proper entry, and i doubt we will see another one.

Yoshi's Island DS
the original Yoshi's Island is one of my all time favorite platformers. the mechanics just worked, the level design was amazing and didnt just use a block based system. the music always felt perfectly in sync with each level. then Yoshi's Island stepped up and labeled Yoshi games as kids games. Yoshi's Island DS wasnt even that bad of a game, but it changed the series in a bad way.



Resident Evil 4. This is a game people love to talk about being great but it killed the original Resident Evil franchise. Was it, by itself, a good game? Absolutely! But it should have been a new IP, in an entirely new universe. The fact that the RE IP was whored out and slapped onto it all but sealed classic, original RE forever.



flashfire926 said:
Kjartan said:
Pokémon X/Y, thanks god they reversed it with Sun/Moon

I totally agree.

Idk, X/Y kinda revived my love of the franchise. While I haven't completed Black yet, I was very enthusiastic in completing Y (not to say Black is a bad game and plan to complete it when I have time). The world was pretty to look at, the music is awesome, and I liked the new features. Granted it isn't perfect, but franchise killer? A little over exaggerated to me.



Mar1217 said:
bigtakilla said:

Which is why I've been very clear to say that's it's nased off my impressions of the trailer, and not that it HAS ruined the series, but based on how it looked from the trailer it more than likely will. They could M Night me, and it could be amazing.

Well, it sure was not as impressive as Xeno X reveal trailer was ...

That's like saying the initial trailer of Zelda the Wind Waker put the franchise in jeopardy. :P



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Jpcc86 said:
arcaneguyver said:
 Suikoden 4, Breath of Fire 5

Even tho Suikoden 4 is the all time low for the franchise, Suikoden 5 brought it back for me, its the best next to 2 IMO. I dont get Breath of Fire 5 being on the list tho, its very different from the previous 4, yet very mature, deep and just hand down amazing. I'd argue its one of the most underrated gems of PS2. 

 

I liked BoF5...eventually...but it was such a radical departure that I always assumed the lack of a #6 stemmed from it flopping. Quality wise, the Suikoden series may have recovered, but I think 4 killed fan interest to the point Konami stopped making games for it not long after.

Franchises can't exactly get ruined for me, but some of these came close.

Crash Bandicoot: The wrath of Cortex
Spyro: Enter the dragonfly
Age of Empires Online
Romance of the three kingdoms XII
Dynasty Warriors 6
GTA IV
FFXIII
World of Warcraft Cataclysm and everything after
Cod after Black Ops
Digimon World 4
and many others...



Rather than a game that ruined a specific franchise, my complaint is one franchise that ruined another.

Let us thank Nintendo for making the Mario & Luigi games, for without those, Nintendo would have never found the courage to turn Paper Mario into a joke and abandon all that was great about the first two titles. Let us not forget that they told us if we want traditional Paper Mario, play Mario & Luigi.

gg Nintendo



 

Halo 5, Resident Evil 6.



Ka-pi96 said:
Farsala said:

Dynasty Warriors 6

hmm, I can understand the reasoning. But what did you think of DW7? I'd say that the failure of DW6 is the reason why DW7 turned out so great, so in a way DW6 actually helped out some.

 

As for mine...

Resident Evil 4 - Should have stayed a zombie game series. Zombies games are fun. Non-zombie games... meh

Final Fantasy 11 - I'd like to blame #12 for the decline in FF, but a big part of the reason I hated #12 was because of the imo terrible mmo style combat system. So in that case it only seems fair to blame the mmo that they got the mmo style combat from... FF should never have had a mainline entry as an mmo. If they had to do it then it should have been called FF Online or something, and it shouldn't have influenced (ruined) later entries either.

I enjoyed Dynasty Warriors 6 more then a lot of the other games on my list. But it came out at the same time as many other disappointments, and I basically got addicted to WoW.

Dynasty Warriors 7 was a lot better then 6 but I still don't hold it above the PS2 gen Dynasty Warriors. Mass characters are nice, however I really want enemies to be stronger like before. In Dynasty Warriors 3 it was certainly possible and easy to get over 1000 KOs , but if you came across 30 crossbowmen and didn't react accordingly or charged into a group of elite guards without any thought then you could still die.