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Mr Puggsly on 30 January 2017
SolidSnack 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?

Just a general 3rd person shooter with horrible dialogue. And it happened to be called Dead Space. And it did serve to kill the franchise.

Sold relatively well on consoles, not sure how it did on PC being Origin exclusive.

I anticipate a new Dead Space eventually.



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Screenshot on 30 January 2017

Siphon Filter on the ps 2 killed the series.



Majin-Tenshinhan on 30 January 2017
JWeinCom said:
Majin-Tenshinhan said:

?????

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?

Most of the missions  (as far as I got before I gave up) force you to use the car to winch down a door or charge something.  So, you have to bring your car, and then you'll have to find a way to get it to wherever it is you want to go.

Uhh, you can just call the car to your location...



Saeko on 30 January 2017

For me :
Langrisser Millenium
Front mission Shooter
Shining tears

And soon, Valkyria azure revolution


I don't know why devs not make new franchise and new name, when they have good franchise and start change the type of the game for worst one.



Jumpin on 30 January 2017

There have been franchises with poor releases that look like plain duds, but not an indication of the franchise decline. Then there are some which hammer in the fact that the franchise is going in a direction away from what made it big for fans.

Legend of Mana and Final Fantasy Tactics Advance, as those two games signalled what the future of those two franchises would be, and it is not what fans wanted.

Xenoblade Chronicles 2, so far, looks like it is not the sort of game long term Xeno fans wanted. The game may turn out differently than it currently looks, but right now it looks really bad. If this is a sign of things to come, then that is the spiritual death of my favourite RPG franchise of all time (technically 3 franchises, but they're all related and by the same authors).



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Ultr on 30 January 2017
FloatingWaffles said:

This piece of shit killed the Red Faction franchise imo and I think it's probably why there hasn't been another Red Faction game since then. 

To go from the fantastic Red Faction: Guerrilla to this steaming pile of shit is mindblowing, who thought this was a good idea? They got rid of almost everything that made Red Faction: Guerrilla great in Armageddon. It wasn't open world anymore, the insanely fun multiplayer was gone aside from some shitty horde mode, the story was fucking awful, etc.

I know that the Red Faction franchise was bought by Nordic Games (Now called THQ Nordic) back during the acquisition of THQ's IP's a while ago, so i'm hoping that means they do have plans for another game eventually. Just fucking make Armageddon a shitty spin-off non-canon game that isn't actually a part of the main franchise and it's all good.

Red Faction: Guerilla wasn't a pure Red Faction to begin with. So getting rid of everything that made Guerilla great is by no means bad. Its just something different.

At least Armageddon had a Story to begin with, something Guerilla completely lacked. I loved Guerilla for the destruction Engine but thats about it. The openWorld was absolutely dead.

I was way more intrested in the Story Armageddon had and I played it without stopping till the end. The Story actually had a great pace. Can't say there has been much that is memorable but I really liked it.

The Multiplayer was gone, yeah too bad, but I guess there are more people playing the Multiplayer of Red Faction 1 now than Guerilla. So yeah...

It is no sequel to Guerilla. But its a great game for itself.

Still missing the atmosphere of the original Red Faction, none of the following games could catch that.



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Tsubasa on 30 January 2017

Guys where is your trust.
Xeno2 features sword waifus. It's bound to be fine haha



Hynad on 30 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. 

Could have been worse. Its art direction could have been as bad as XCX.



Boberkun on 30 January 2017

Xenoblade 2. Every piece of trailer is disgusting.



ArchangelMadzz on 30 January 2017

Call of Duty: Ghosts



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