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Sticker Star is the absolute number 1. SS's negative effect on me is so overwhelming I can't think of another franchise which got ruined.



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Super_Boom said:

Golden Sun: Dark Dawn - Not the worst game ever...and I'd probably give it a solid 7/10...but it felt very standard in comparison to the amazing first two games. I do hope the franchise returns, but I worry that the lukewarm reception of the last entry will shelve this series for a while.

Dark Dawn did so much wrong, I'm pretty sure we'll never see another Golden Sun game. The Golden Sun series already wasn't huge. The fact that we got Dark Dawn at all surprised me back when it was announced despite being a huge fan of the GBA games. All it would take was one mediocre entry that didn't sell all that well to essentially condemn the series. Then Dark Dawn came along with a very average to low difficulty, a story that had no ability to stand on its own without the GBA titles, and a cliffhanger ending that didn't even make the entry satisfying to complete.

I agree it wasn't the worst game ever, but its painfully average everything likely pushed Golden Sun into the "maybe we'll reboot the series someday" IP stack.



 

Nymeria said:
Sim City recently killed all interest I had in that series. EA did everything wrong with it after I spent hours loving Sim City 4

It's like reading something I wrote myself.



onionberry said:

Ninja Gaiden 3 (yes, even razor's edge)

Ninja gaiden was one of my favorite gaming franchises, NG 1 and 2 had incredible gameplay and an amazing sense of mystery, discovery and adventure. Ninja gaiden 3 felt like a dumb parody of previous games, every fight was in a closed room with barriers, explosions all the time, shitty camera and combat, social ryu hayabusa??? wtf... where are the ninpos? where are the items? where are the weapons? where are the puzzles and open levels? Almost felt like they did everything wrong just to fuck with Itagaki. They tried to fix some stuff with razor's edge, but when you play that version you think "man... I miss Ninja gaiden 1 and 2" and then when you think "well, at least the next NG is going to be better..." this happens:

Nioh looks like good old team ninja and hopefully one day Ryu is going to comeback and steal Bayonetta's crown, like he did back in the day with Devil May Cry.

which game broke your heart  and ruined an entire franchise for you?

I actually kinda like NG3, it has some of the coolest moments in the trilogy, but if my memory serves me the linear thing began with NG2. NG3 moved more in that direction and had some flatout boring moments, still better than I think it gets credit for.

Yaiba was fucking dog shit, it shouldn't even exist. Nioh looks like a Darksouls clone, but I got my eye on it.

A single bad game doesn't ruin a franchise, they can always try again. If that was the case than Sonic 2006 would have killed any interest in Sonic for me.



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SolidSnack said:
Dead Space 3, though it seems EA isn't to keen on maintaining franchises that don't fit comfortably into a certain envelope

I really don't understand why this game is so hated. It was the most fun I had with the series.

Not scary enough?



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mountaindewslave said:
bigtakilla said:
More than likely Xenoblade 2. I know it's a bit premature, but it just looks SOOOOOOOOO BAD! I'm trying to convince myself to buy a Xenoblade, that should never happen.... EVER!

a 1 minute teaser that looked perfectly fine? get over yourself 

Very constructive criticism. Maybe you should do the same.



Mr Puggsly said:
SolidSnack said:
Dead Space 3, though it seems EA isn't to keen on maintaining franchises that don't fit comfortably into a certain envelope

I really don't understand why this game is so hated. It was the most fun I had with the series.

Not scary enough?

Dead Space 3 is an awful Dead Space game but an alright shooter otherwise.



 

Dino Crisis 3. First game was ace, second was one of my favourites ever, then the third just killed the franchise stone dead.



LuckyTrouble said:
Mr Puggsly said:

I really don't understand why this game is so hated. It was the most fun I had with the series.

Not scary enough?

Dead Space 3 is an awful Dead Space game but an alright shooter otherwise.

People argue about different things. Not scary enough, not survial horror enough, the story was bad, etc.

I dunno, it was a fun shooter and the story was always shit. The problems with a game like RE6 are obvious, but DS3 was great to me.



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Command & Conquer 3 - start of the demise
Assassin's Creed III - when the main antagonist is leagues better than your protagonist, it tells a lot
Master of Orion III - while I personally didn't hate it, it killed the series
Commandos 2 - poor compared to the originals
Tomb Raider (2013) - liked the originals better
CoD Black Ops - all subsequent games were worse
Saints Row IV - point of no return? I know they're trying to save it with Gat out of Hell, but probably not gonna happen
Crysis 2 - did not live up to 1
Ultima 9 - what's a paladin?