What video game franchises do you think, need to die? These are my opinions: 1. Sonic the Hedgehog: Man, Sonic rocked the world back in the 90's! Sonic the Hedgehog 1, 2, 3, and CD, were some of the greatest platformers ever! The Gamegear, and Master System games were great, and Sonic and Knuckles was good too. Sonic 3D Blast was horrible. We never got the promised Sonic Xtreme. Why Sega, why? Sonic Adventure was good, and Sonic Adventure 2 was decent. And after that, it went downhill from there. Sonic Heroes is nothing like the original Sonic Adventure games. Shadow the Hedgehog, and Sonic the Hedgehog were awful. Sonic and the Secret Rings was of Sonic Heroes quality. Sega is currently making Sonic Rivals 2, a sequel to Sonic Rivals, which was never that good to begin with. They are making a Sonic Rush Adventure game, which does not look that good. The title itself is confusing. Apparently, a Sonic RPG game is in development, which is the worst decision ever, seeing how role playing games are just too slow for Sonic. Man, Sonic needs to die. He should have died with Sega Dreamcast. And why is Sega releasing so many Sonic games? I mean, this would have been a much better thing, many years ago, when Sonic was so good, but this hoard of bad Sonic games is just diluting the magic of the series as a whole. 2. Crash Bandicoot: Crash Bandicoot 1, 2, and 3, for the Playstation, rivaled Sonic, and Mario. Crash Bandicoot may have lost to Mario, but it definitely destroyed Sonic in the Sega Saturn times. Naughty Dog had a fantastic franchise, but they ditched it for the less successful, Jak and Daxter series. Crash Bandicoot was awful on all consoles, except for the Playstation. Well, Crash Bash wasn't that great either, and it was on the same console as the master pieces. Wrath of Cortex was nothing compared to its predecessor, Crash Bandicoot: Warped. Crash Twinsanity flushed the Crash Bandicoot charm down the toilet. Crash Nitro Kart, and Crash Tag Team Racing were nothing compared to Crash Team Racing. The Gameboy Advance games were mediocre, or less, at best, and now, Crash of the Titans, a new Crash Bandicoot game in development, looks worse than the rest. He got tatoos on his arms, looks deformed, and just ugly. I hate him so much. The game looks almost as insulting as Sonic the Hedgehog for the Playstation 3. Crash Bandicoot and Sonic the Hedgehog are tied at zero place. What a shame. 3. Pac-Man: Okay, we all remember Pac-Man. A very addicting puzzle game from the early 1980's, but it has transformed into something so mediocre, it might as well not exist. Pac-Man World 1, 2, and 3 are just not very good. I mean, since when is Pac-Man a platformer? It started out as a puzzle franchise, and that's what it's famous for. It should be competing against Tetris, not Mario. Each new game is just worse than the last. And what's up with Pac-N'-Roll, they had really neat ideas, but drowned them in a wave of childishness. It felt like a Saturday morning cartoon, except even more childish. I mean, the characters made baby sounds. I couldn't play the game any more, because I just felt like a baby. 4. Mega Man: How many Mega Man games do we need? I never liked Mega Man... Ever... But they still got worse down the road, and there are just too many of them. Sheesh, just stop making Mega Man games. Mega Man 5, Mega Man DX, Mega Man Battle, Mega Man Turbo, Mega Man Xtreme, Mega Man Revolution, Mega Man Forever, Mega... Mega... Mega... Mega... Mega Man... I get pissed off just saying it. We don't need a thousand Mega Man games. They've been making so many Mega Man games that they will soon have to start inventing new numbers to keep count of the series. I always viewed the franchise to be equivilent to other, typical, mediocre platformers, like Rayman, Blinx, and Bubsy, which just exist. But, that is just my opinion. 5. Final Fantasy: Please, this needs to stop. It may have been fun at first, but the series needs to end. I've never been much of an RPG fan, but Final Fantasy's, final fantasy should have been fantasised a long time ago. Well, I guess they could make a few more for the Playstation 3, just to tie off some loose ends, but then they should stop. 6. Star Fox: Star Fox, and Star Fox 64... Any other good Star Fox games? Nope... Star Fox Adventures is a bad Zelda clone, Star Fox Insult... I mean... Star Fox Verbal Assault... Hold on, I'll get it right... Star Fox Assault is just... Bad... And Star Fox Command tried to do what Star Fox 2 would have done, but just didn't do it, not to say that Star Fox 2 would have been good or not, since it was never released. Star Fox needs to die. I should have been a one game series (well, Star Fox 64 is just a remake of Star Fox, so both games are basically just one game). Sure I would have loved to have had more, good Star Fox games, but I would rather have one, or two good Star Fox games, than one or two good Star Fox games, and a lot of bad Star Fox games. Fox McCloud, it's about time for you to join James McCloud. 7. Donkey Kong: Who likes Donkey Konga? Not me! Donkey Kong's last good game was Donkey Kong 64, or maybe Donkey Kong Jungle Beat, but now it's nothing but spin offs, and ports. Not a single, original, Donkey Kong platformer, ever made it to any Gameboy, excluding those Donkey Kong arcade types of games, and DK: King of Swing, which was never even that good. Donkey Kong either needs to die, or get a make over. In fact, all of the franchises listed in this list, except for Final Fantasy, which always got good reviews, should either die, or get a make over. Donkey Kong, you were fun of the Super Nintendo, but your time is up! 8. Pokemon: Okay, 151 Pokemon are enough, we don't need 700. I didn't mind the additional 100 extra Pokemon after the 151, but after a new series of Pokemon came out, I just limited my number back to 151, since they are the Pokemon that everyone knows best, and created the popularity to begin with. The new Pokemon look too robotic, and unrealistic. I mean, I could see Sandshrew, Ratatta, Pidgey, Caterpie, or Pikachu, as being real animals, but not these new, ugly, weird, robotic looking... Things! After Pokemon Yellow, I just stopped caring. 9. Spyro the Dragon: Ah, Spyro the Dragon, a lovely Playstation franchise. Yes, it was good, until it got ported over to the Playstation 2, and its rivals. Man, Enter the Dragonfly just sucked. Spyro was cool at first, but now its just old, and when there are more bad games, than good games in a franchise (Sonic/Crash/Star Fox), it's about time to pull the plug. Also, Spyro just got way too childish. All they had to do was get rid of those stupid characters that talked like babies, and those dumb, childish missions, and it would have been much better. As it stands, the originals were good, but anything after was an insult. 10. Bust-A-Move: Okay, Bust-A-Move was awesome at first, but now it's become too childish, and too stupid. The graphics have always been the same, from the Super Nintendo, to the Wii, and the gameplay in general has barely been touched, and when it has, it's just made worse than the original. Bust-A-Move needs to stop. If we want to play Bust-A-Move, we can play it on the Playstation, we don't need to wait for a new game. They're all the same anywas. And what's with Bust-A-Move: Deluxe? I hate the halloween them for it. It's just too out of place for a Bust-A-Move game. 11. Bomberman: Okay, Bomberman was cool, but ever since he turned into a platformer, he wasn't so cool anymore. Mind you, the platform games were mediocre at best, but like Pac-Man, Bomberman was famous for being a puzzle game, not a platformer. And what the hell happened with Bomberman on the Xbox 360? Sure it was a puzzle game, but it was horrible, even compared to the platform games, and that's embarassing. When Bomberman becomes a better platformer than a puzzle game, you know something is wrong. And the platform games are not just a little bit better than Bomberman 36, but a lot better. For one reason, Bomberman is Bomberman in the puzzle games, and not some kind of mutated Samus/Master Cheif thing. If Bomberman's platformers were planets, Bomberman 360 would be an asteroid. If Bomberman's puzzle games were planets, Bomberman 360 would be a grain of dust. Horrible, horrible games. Types of games that need to be limited: Racing games: Seriously, almost all racing games are too identical. We don't need them. Please! Stop with Ridge Racer 112. Stop with Wipeout Pure XL Xtreme Turbo Allstars. Stop with Need For Speed Ash. Stop with NASCAR Thunder 2008 World Championship Diamond Ultra 10th Anniversary Collector's Premium Edition. Just stop. Gran Turismo can stay. Mario Kart can stay. And maybe a few others. But please, just stop. We have too many. All sports games: I have never liked sports games, except for Mario sports games. I like to play my sports in real life, and not on a T.V. There is a time and place for everything, and sports does not belong in video games, especially when there are too many other, good games, that cannot be done in reality, to play. I can play hockey in real life, but I can't play Zelda in real life. So, what do I do? I play Zelda on my Nintendo 64, and I play hockey on a real ice rink. Please, we don't need 50 different football games on one system. Only one, at most, if not a Mario game, and for crying out loud, call it "football," and let E.A. do it. When I think of sports games, I think of those depressing bins in pawn shops, with piles of that crap, listed for $1.99, in bad condition. That's all I think of. All movie games: I hate all movie games... All... By default, I will hate all movie games. Too many of them have slapped me in the face. Too many of them are awful. It's as much of a rule for me to not like movie games as it is for them to be released after every famous movie, or every animated movie. Toy Story comes out, and we get Toy Story: The game. Finding Nemo comes out, and we get Finding Nemo: The game. Little, Stupid Mouse, that Drinks Water from his Asshole comes out, and Little, Stupid Mouse,m that Drinks Water from his Asshole: The Game comes out. It's as if it's a law written in the 10 commandments: Thou shall create thee movie game for all movies to come! Like seriously, just stop! Please! They only exist to boost the number of games per console, and for money. Just because the movie was good, does not mean the game is. Anyways, most of these are just my opinions, but seriously, there are too many bad video games being released practically every day, and it just needs to stop. People need to work together more, and take their time more, so that we can get more, better games. I would be happy if all bad games were replaced with one good game... Just one! I mean, there are thousands of Playstation 2 games, yet only about 50, or less, I think, along with many others, are actually good! Anyways, what franchises do you think need to die?

i stopped agreeing when you said final fantasy, while it is going down the toliet at the moment, it can come back to its glory days of 6 and 7, they just need the magic touch of.... sakaguchi!

BUt i also agree with you on quite a few, except the sports thing?

I agree with
all the top besides starfox (maybe), ff, donkey kong, and maybe pokemon(need something new!)
And i completely agree with gaming movies, either they need to be done RIGHT and be made into a decent game, or just thrown out the window

If you don't like the new games, don't play them. Personally, I still enjoy the Pokemon games.

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Need for Speed, FIFA & Madden. Seriously EA. Just kill them.

This thread is made of WHINE and FAIL and I do not like it.

The more games the better.....

I guessed the first franchise listed would be Bandicoot, then Sonic...I got them mixed up, but I predicted well anyway. Must every thread you make be about these games?

1) Megaman
2) Megaman
3) Megaman
4) Megaman
5) Megaman
6) Megaman
7) Megaman
8) Megaman
9) Megaman
10) Final Fantasy

Thats my list, just to elaborate on the FF thing. I think they need to stop doing these disjointed stories away from each other. They are basically just cashing in on the name at this point and it really has gotten old for me. I would much rather they come up with a good story and do 2 or 3 games under its very own franchise name until the conclusion of the plot and then move on to do another RPG. They can be completely out of the final fantasy mold but I think these games are all living in the shadow of former glory when they could be a lot better if they were given the freedom of their own franchise. Well thats my $0.02.

How is that nobody has mentioned Sims? I mean, I like the game its fun and all, but its all cash in.

And agree with Final Fantasy.

Mario Party. Most other Nintendo games I'm cool with and enjoy, but I HATE Mario Party.