Games that ruined entire franchises

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Majin-Tenshinhan on 29 January 2017

Out of curiousity, why do people hate Pokémon X/Y so much?

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weaveworld on 29 January 2017

Not ruined entirely but let's say disappointed after previous enjoyment.

Final Fantasy XII after which FFXIII made it worse.
Assassins Creed III
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Majin-Tenshinhan on 29 January 2017

JWeinCom said:
Arkham Knight: Every time I want to go out and do some fun Batman stuff I have to spend about an hour finding a place to park my damn car.

?????

I totally agree that Knight is the worst in the series and has a lot of problems, but you know you can just jump out of the car at any time, right?

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Kresnik on 29 January 2017

Doesn't quite count, but WipEout Fusion.

Luckily, Studio Liverpool managed to save the franchise by going back to basics with Pure, but I really thought WipEout was dead after that game. It's not awful per se, but it's so far removed from what made WipEout great that I was pretty much ready to be done with the series.

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David_Hernandeez on 29 January 2017

bigtakilla said:

onionberry said:

but why? the framerate is going to be fixed, the art style looks like xenoblade chronicles but better and the world looks massive.

this

doesn't look better than this

Just trying to understand why you think it looks "so bad"

Not everything's about graphics. Basically bland trailer, bad art direction for characters (couldn't be more vanilla and main character just looks bad), story line appears to be neutered to basically an escort character A to paradise B, hijinks ensues. I'm more than willing to admit it's just a first teaser, but it looks bad.

It'd be like if a new Suikoden released and it didn't have you looking for the 108 stars and didn't involve warfare politics.

Oh yeah you know the plot and characters already with one trailer! Cheers!

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Luke888 on 29 January 2017

Other M singlehandedly killed Metroid and who knows when/IF it will ever recover from that

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Dravenet7 on 29 January 2017

Super Smash Bros. Melee funny enough.

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bigtakilla on 29 January 2017

David_Hernandeez said:

bigtakilla said:

Not everything's about graphics. Basically bland trailer, bad art direction for characters (couldn't be more vanilla and main character just looks bad), story line appears to be neutered to basically an escort character A to paradise B, hijinks ensues. I'm more than willing to admit it's just a first teaser, but it looks bad.

It'd be like if a new Suikoden released and it didn't have you looking for the 108 stars and didn't involve warfare politics.

Oh yeah you know the plot and characters already with one trailer! Cheers!

Thank you!

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Mr_No on 29 January 2017

I can think of one

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Knitemare on 29 January 2017

Halo 4.
Silent Hills...
Metal Gear Solid 5 : the phantom pain (in this case, it effed the entire franchise because of the budget, not because was bad)

Cant think of any other that Ive played...

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