Thread 724140315

What is the worst way for a video game series to die? And did your favorite series die in such a way?

>>724140315 (OP)
>What is the worst way for a video game series to die?
When it gets mainstream popular
>And did your favorite series die in such a way?
Yes

>>724140315 (OP)
>What is the worst way for a video game series to die?
Dumbed down soft reboot for the modern audience.
>And did your favorite series die in such a way?
Yes.

>>724140315 (OP)
>What is the worst way for a video game series to die?
Game is extremely popular and makes an ocean of cash, but the IP holder/publisher is such a retard the developers want nothing to do with them anymore.

>And did your favorite series die in such a way?
Yes. Twice, actually (Baldur's Gate Series).

>>724140315 (OP)
>What is the worst way for a video game series to die?
making a terrible TV show that managed to live down everybody's expectations and then some
>And did your favorite series die in such a way?
yes

>>724140315 (OP)
>What is the worst way for a video game series to die?
when it's made perfectly clear that they don't have to give a shit about quality anymore because they know people will buy it anyway
>And did your favorite series die in such a way?
I'd say yes but Pokemon hasn't been considered my favorite series since 2014

>>724140315 (OP)
>What is the worst way for a video game series to die?
The studio has all of its original developers replaced by new ones that don't get it, and then proceed to release a new installment of an old IP that utterly fails in delivering what made the IP beloved to begin with, but is technically still canon

>>724140315 (OP)
>What is the worst way for a video game series to die?
Gets outsourced to a bunch of faggots who take a dump on established characters, dumb down the gameplay and cater to modern audiences.
>And did your favorite series die in such a way?
Yeah.

>>724140315 (OP)
Catering to a different audience.
Original developers, especially writers, leaving the company. Both are a waste of potential.

>>724140315 (OP)
When they stop making games

>>724141230
That's a good way to go compared to the way some franchises are now.

>>724140614
>when it's made perfectly clear that they don't have to give a shit about quality anymore because they know people will buy it anyway
Ys

>>724140315 (OP)
If the core fanbase around your franchise still exists, if you can still meaningfully discuss the old games in any capacity, if you can make a clean break between the old and the new and easily ignore everything after that break - your favorite franchise has not suffered the worst death that a franchise can have.
What's happened to some of the franchises I like can be described as an apocalypse.

Official devs turn out not to understand why the players liked the game so much.
To me it's the worst. To know they didn't know what they were doing, that it was an accident, that they were stupid and me as well, i turn out stupid as a result. Was there no creative intent behind any of this perfect clockwork?
It was born of failure. Had the devteam succeeded, would the game have been lesser?

Or maybe the devs did understand their own work but ended up not caring anymore and selling it off to a traveling circus. So i'm left caring greatly for an abandoned child i'm unable to rescue, buying circus tickets once in a while just to see him again. But it's all just a videogame. Grow up stop caring.

>>724145275
When the devs are the enemy of the game. I get it.

>>724140315 (OP)
>What is the worst way for a video game series to die?
By trying to appeal to a broader audience cause original fans aren't enough.
>And did your favorite series die in such a way?
Fire Emblem
Final Fantasy

>>724140315 (OP)
>friend simulator slop
Grow up.

I think Dungeon Keeper got it the worst. Two great RTS games, then nothing for two decades, and then a shitty mobile Candy Crush microtransaction game.

>>724140315 (OP)
>What is the worst way for a video game series to die?
Raped into unrecognizability.

>>724147532
Nothing for two decades is a better fate than getting increasingly worse games in those two decades leading up to a mobile Candy Crush microtransaction game

>>724140315 (OP)
>Removes everything that made the old games fun and adds a bunch of open world bullshit in an effort to cater to modern audiences
Zelda might as well be dead cause it ain't Zelda anymore.

Saints Row 2022
straight up fucking murder

>>724140315 (OP)
Game getting a soft reboot/sequel after decade(s) of fan hype and begging and its total dogshit that is immediately abandones
No, thankfully, studio liverpool was taken out back and put down silently and without struggle.

>>724151454
This.
Still mad about it, will never not be mad about

>Saints Row fan
>Killing Floor fan
It's been tough

>>724153570
Forgot to mention I also like VTMB.

when the culture around it dies but the game is kept alive, it's how you get shit like >>724152593

>>724140315 (OP)
Game series and company lives so long that their Ship of Theseus is so malformed and decroded that they can never hope to recreate the appeal of the original series no matter how desperately they try to repeat it in (seemingly) good faith.
RIP Diablo up to LoD, Starcraft to to Brood War, Warcraft up to TFT

>when it gets rebooted for modern audiences
Thief was never my favorite games but I liked them a lot and this one still hurt.
Also Saints Row.

>>724140315 (OP)
Cliffhanger.
Developer goes under.
Sequel gets made years later.
It sucks and ruins the original story.

>And did your favorite series die in such a way?
Rayman? No, not really.

>>724155243
Saints row was just sad.

>>724147271
Fire Emblem was mostly a accidental case. Awakening was literally them just throwing good ideas of past games together as a last big hoorah.

>>724140315 (OP)
All the game series i liked are extremely popular everywhere now, even here and saying they are shit will just have me be called a contrarian.

A new technology comes out that must be used, because it’s popular, and the developers don’t know how to translate the old gameplay to it. Or they change the character design. I’ve seen so many series die because of these two things.

>>724140315 (OP)
Fallout 3

>>724140614
My boy Mystery Dungeon was sent the chopping block first, the rest of the franchise turned to shit after

>>724140315 (OP)
>What is the worst way for a video game series to die?
zelda style zombification
>And did your favorite series die in such a way?
bayonetta managed to piss off all the worthless reddit secondaries by releasing 3 and origins instead of making the lesbian sex simulator they wanted. platinum stays based as always

>>724140315 (OP)
when psychotic fans defend every bad decision by the game devs AND they keep buying the games + DLC + tip so there is no hope for future improvement

>>724140315 (OP)
yeah

>>724140315 (OP)
dying on an entry that had so much hype/promise only to underdeliver on all of it, and then the next game is a shitty cash grab spinoff

>>724140614
if you didn't see the writing on the wall after BW, you're a retard, they literally gave several interviews stating that they really tried with this game, and after the deserved backlash (the pokedex is literally kanto's lol) they weren't going to try at all anymore, as people would buy the games even if they implemented a policy where the employee who sells it to you also has to punch you in the face

>>724140315 (OP)
I think Halo died in such a frustrating way.
Not only is in completely inept 343 could never make one good game, they also somehow managed to get people to defend them or claim 343 was trying to push the series forward and those who want Halo to play like Halo are being ludites. I just don't understand why literally anyone defends 343.

>>724140315 (OP)
actual devs is fired/dips
next game the company makes is a resounding failure
now just spams mobile games with gacha mechanics, microtransactions, daily, guild/referral spam, etc, the worst kind
the fired devs makes a spiritual sequel that proves they were a hack and is shit
original game that is neither still somewhat alive
all new content is embarrassing and tries hard to follow every other game in the market, ignoring people who play it would play other games if that was the point

>>724159616
What game is that? I've only played MGS 1, but I think I've seen that girl before

>>724161725
Phantom Pain

>>724140315 (OP)
>Lets add mandatory co-op, rpg-like leveling, skins and mtx to a series hailed as an example of singleplayer games.
>Also replace the series charismatic main character with TWO quirky chunguses that never stfu
Its been more than 6 YEARS and not even a peep abut a new game, honestly quite impressive.

yep

>>724164513
keffals?

>>724140315 (OP)
>What is the worst way for a video game series to die?
First game is good, sequel is trash because devs troon out/get swallowed by their tranny community or let the left wing commie brainrot take over.
I won't forgive what happened to Axiom Verge 2 and Fear and Hunger 2.
>And did your favorite series die in such a way?
Pretty much what >>724140614 says too.
>>724140648
Reminds me of Obsidian and Bethesda.

>>724167545
>Reminds me of Obsidian and Bethesda.
And Blizzard

>>724167810
Alliance in shambles

>>724140315 (OP)
>pump out shitty sequel after shitty sequel, or update after uodate
>the bad sequels/updates begin to out number the good
>and or the game/series has been shit longer than it was ever good
>they remake all the good games but make them shit
>they somehow managed to convince the normalfags the sequels/updates/ remakes are better
>interest in the originals are completely dead, everyone will play the new ones now
>anytime you want to discuss the originals youre immediately shut down and you will be called a gate keeping autist

It keeps happening.

>>724167882
>meanwhile, on the Horde side of things
>>724159405

>>724167940
>>they somehow managed to convince the normalfags the sequels/updates/ remakes are better
>>interest in the originals are completely dead, everyone will play the new ones now
Here's why: consoles. No-one's going to buy a 360 to play the original Oblivion, so they pick up the remaster instead. This will keep happening until PC dominates the market completely

>company shuts down anything that isn’t mobileslop
I wouldn’t say this was my favorite, but it came out right around when I graduated high school and pray for fan servers some day.

>>724140315 (OP)
>What is the worst way for a video game series to die?
Getting acquired by a publisher

>>724147396
RLM is a just a movie review channel, this is like saying all forms of visual media are just friend simulators.

Titanfall 2 was the best FPS I ever experienced in my life. Now there's nothing
I haven't got invested in another FPS since because none of them come close

>>724140360
This. FPBP

>>724140315 (OP)
What they're doing with Halo is pretty bad. Taking the old game and slapping blurry unreal engine graphics and Call of Duty mechanics on top and then passing it off as the definitive edition is pretty cancer, especially since this is going to be the first time a lot of people play Halo

>>724170468
>Titanfall 2 was the best FPS I ever experienced in my life. Now there's nothing
For me it was pre-F2P TF2, nothing else has quite captured that magic and the entire genre just feels derivative and shitty to me now

>>724170712
>What they're doing with Halo is pretty bad. Taking the old game and slapping blurry unreal engine graphics and Call of Duty mechanics on top and then passing it off as the definitive edition is pretty cancer
This is basically what the entire industry has been doing for like 15 years dude

>>724170468
>Titanfall 2 was the best FPS I ever experienced in my life.
my condolences for your horrible life

>>724140315 (OP)
Nigflex made an animated tv show based on Splinter Cell. You can't top this humiliation.

>>724171524
I never played it, but I recall /v/ having a small but thriving fanbase of rabid Titanfall 2 enjoyers back when that game was current.

That game just really clicked with some people and it was their favourite thing ever for a while.

>>724171885
>Nigflex made an animated tv show based on Splinter Cell. You can't top this humiliation.

>>724140495
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/IQHjhBq7cwE

When it dies for a while, it comes back with a reboot or sequel and either
>It isn't made to be what fans want so it flops
>It is what fans want but it simply doesn't sell enough for the company to be allowed to make another
Both can be intentional btw, if the company wants to go "there, we gave it to you and it flopped, stop asking"

>>724172228
Or worse
>it isn't what fans want, but it appeals to brainlets and suddenly explodes in popularity and you can't even talk about the older games or preferring them without being called a contrarian, and eventually there are no traces left of the original small but dedicated fanbase and the series actually dies a final and real death when the new fans lose interest after the 2nd or 3rd game in this style

>>724171524
When's the last time you actually made a friend from playing a game?

>>724172409
Personally it was like 5-6 years ago for me now?
I was playing some $3 shovelware multiplayer game I found on steam and there was this one area where you could do typing races against other people and if you did it enough times you would unlock a mechanical keyboard item you could throw at other people for fun.
So I parked my ass down on that spot and played it alone for an hour or two cause no one else was around, and once in a while a random would show up and suck ass at the game for 5 seconds before leaving.
Eventually this one person showed up that was actually really good at it, and they stuck around and raced me in the game for probably an hour or two before we stopped and thanked each other for all the good games, and that eventually led to chatting.
Turns out English wasn't even her first language, she was just learning it as a hobby and her actual first language was Japanese. So we got chatting about our countries and the media and shit we were into, and by the end of the night we had added each other on discord/steam and decided to keep in touch.

We don't hang out as regularly as we used to these days now that we're both older and busier, but we still chat occasionally and send each other cool albums we have been listening to recently.

>>724172384
Yakuza, right?

>>724172803
I was actually thinking of Fire Emblem but Yakuza is another great example

>>724140315 (OP)
>dormant series returns
>with original devs
>with major publisher backing
>and sells well

>still dies

>>724155001
Blizzard didn't actually make Diablo 1 or 2.

>>724170712
That just sounds like Halo 2.

>>724140360
Yakuza?

>>724140315 (OP)
The worst way for a series to die is for it to continue living in a degenerate form, in the custody of a successful company.
>Zelda
It took 7 fucking years to develop Tears of the Kingdom, and it'll take 7 more to develop the next 3D Zelda. 14 years of Breath of the Wild Zelda. People who love classic 2D and 3D Zelda are going to be waiting forever for a crumb, if Nintendo even decides to toss them one.
>Fallout
>The Elder Scrolls
If you thought I was exaggerating with the Zelda example, it's already been 14 years since the last TES game, and 10 since the last full-fledged Fallout game, which was an abomination. Fallout will very likely never get another good game, but it is fated to live on in perpetuity in Bethesda's clutches, until - after 17 years - Fallout 5 is released. And it's shit. Meanwhile, InXile will never be allowed to develop a Fallout CRPG even though Microsoft owns the IP.

There's plenty of other examples.

>>724174756
>It took 7 fucking years to develop Tears of the Kingdom, and it'll take 7 more to develop the next 3D Zelda.
To be fair, imagine how much more dire the situation would be if they were pumping out new Zeldas every 2-3 years when this is what we get after 7

>>724172919
>DLC was canned
feels bad

>>724172919
Deserved to die after the shitshow that was DD2's story.

I think Zombie games are scarier . I think a game coming back after 20 years with none of the charm and a misguided love is depressing.

>>724140315 (OP)
I started playing Dragon's Dogma a couple years ago, fell in love with it, started hoping for a sequel, finally got it, and it was ass.
Just off the top of my head.

We're they right?

>>724140315 (OP)
I'm still bummed nu Deus Ex will never be concluded. But it may be for the best, that foreshadowed plot twist was just bad

They update the old version of the game after making a sequel to ruin it so you can't play the better game anymore.

>>724176894
Not even a sonicfag but no. 99% of their problems would be solved if they just pushed down to roll

>>724176894
No. They were yet ANOTHER channel that had zero experience with programming, art , or game design reviewing on pure pathos from remembering the one time they had to restart a level because they weren't paying attention. If you watch their streams the kind of games they always played were embarrassing pixelshit with no art design or direction especially when compared to something like sonic.

Commander

>>724140495
a dead franchise is still preferable than one forced to live due to brand recognition
>>724172009
how he got fucked over is still tragic, one of the first casualties of the 2010s indie boom

>>724167545
>I won't forgive what happened to Axiom Verge 2 and Fear and Hunger 2.

QRD?

>>724177405
>a dead franchise is still preferable than one forced to live due to brand recognition

Only it wasn't dead. Larian had proven, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that classic Forgotten Realms RPGs can not only be revived, but achieve mainstream success.

So imagine just how bad of a company WotC were that they decided to cease all work on the expansion, cut ties completely, and move on.

>>724178648
i was speaking more broadly

I feel like Command and Conquer should be mentioned ITT. I guess 99% of people just pretend 4 didn't happen and the game has an open ending.
In a way the 4 fiasco was a way to ensure the series closed for good.

I've played Tekken since I was 6 years old and which is to say Tekken 1. Tekken 8 is a travesty that is so brain dead and shitI haven't played it for months. They won't maje a Tekken 9 because bamco will blame their audience instead of their dogshit direction. Feels bad man.

>big corpos take notice of your niche game
>they give you a huge budget but now expect a niche genre to make call of duty numbers
>they also start fucking around with the creative process and changing stuff to appeal to a wider audience
>game doesnt sell as much as your jew overlords expect
>franchise is dead, studio is closed and youre fired

>>724140315 (OP)
Dragon Age.
Enough said.

>>724140315 (OP)
>publisher demands devs add [CURRENT HOT THING] which they think will make them even richer
I haven't bought a game published by EA since.

>>724182125
More like
>make a small team of passionate people
>they make a game that people like
>gradually builds from cult following to normal following
>have to become a company to avoid going bankrupt from tax
>greedy kike investors sell out to some large conglomerate and now you're owned by The Schnoz™
>they start bringing in people who don't care to work on the products and if you can't make as much as they want they start outsourcing it to their own places with no creative say
>EA process begins
>company liquidated, no more games and now your company is the face of some spyware program

>>724176894
These fags know nothing about video games and have abysmal taste. Their only good review was that werewolf game and it was only good because they decided to review it like a movie.

Silent Hill.
>Left to rot
>Made a mockery of with probably one of the worst re-releases ever made
>Decayed corpse puppeteered around by talentless writers looking to push some retarded propaganda while having fuckall to do with the name

>>724182238
insane shit is the simulation is really fucking good in this. Yeah its smaller, but I remember even being so pissed off while playing it, I still found that aspect impressive. It shits on Skylines in that regard.

>>724183262
If the maps were four times the size and didn't require always-on-line it probably would have been a successful entry in the franchise.

>>724183826
always online was removed like, almost immediately by modders, I played it offline. I agree though, it would have probably beat Skylines in most ways.

>>724140315 (OP)
Im fearful for Duke 3D's 30th anniversary next year, bros.

My favorite franchise went down in flames while I was still a kid, immediately after its original dev sold it off to other devs.

>>724183996
always bet on Duke

>>724140360
This

>>724140315 (OP)
mine was killed because they decided to make an MMO instead of a proper 3rd game
they probably would have fucked up it even if they didn't tho

>>724140315 (OP)
Third.
Birth.
Day.

>>724163068
>>Also replace the series charismatic main character with TWO quirky chunguses that never stfu
reminded me of https://youtu.be/loVT-qqOTZI and forspoken. Modern writers really LOVE their quipping and despise silence.

>>724140315 (OP)
>worst way to die
Puppetted corpse by a new team that understands nothing about what made the prior entries great.
>did your favorite series
Yes, Mass Effect.

>>724184331
parasite eve was basically just a demo for ff8
the game is bipolar and cant decide what it wants to be
the infinitely respawning enemies make it feel like a typical JRPG but the dark, moody environments make it clear it wants to be like silent hill
and all the gun/armor upgrades make it feel like a tactical rainbow six/SOCOM game at times

>>724184882
>parasite eve was basically just a demo for ff8
What? In terms of graphics engine maybe? They share almost no similarities. Which is good, because FF8 sucked.

>>724140315 (OP)
I liked asscreed being a spin off of Prince of Persia, with parkour, Hitman elements, history and wacky conspiracy theories. Lived to see it become an RPG abomination with giganigga samurai murdering half of a country, with hip hop playing in the background.

>>724185702
Is the samurai one still bogged down with stats and loot drop nonsense? I thought they were proud to have dropped that by now.

>>724140315 (OP)
Yeah... Xenosaga's death
Shadow hearts' death
I will never get over it.... oh and fuck Xenoblade cancer bs. Xenosaga was 100x better in story and characters

>>724185836
I heard it's just as grindy as Valhalla which I haven't played. I tolerated Origins but got really sick of it towards the end. Couldn't finish Odyssey due to the grind, not even going to touch Valhalla because it's even worse. I just wanted to stab templars, NOT HUNT 100 BOARS TO GET INSTAKILL WITH THE HIDDEN BLADE.

>>724140315 (OP)
When a game ends on a cliffhanger and the sequel gets canceled

>>724186367
>Clive Barker's Jericho
I'm still mad.

>>724185969
Those games are just the coffin that Xenogears lies in.

>>724186367
HL2 EP2.

>>724140315 (OP)
When it turns into a corpse still on life support instead of company just pulling the plug

>>724186367
Cancelled sequel is still more closure than a repeatedly teased, never-ever sequel.
Fucking Beyond Good and Evil 2

>>724140315 (OP)
By becoming everthing the original wasn't and being a big success.

>>724176894
Rich is never right about anything.

>>724140315 (OP)
>bitter creator shits on game because he's annoyed that no one likes his awful endings and other people had the audacity to make sequels without him being involved
The secret of monkey island is that Ron Gilbert is a shitty person.

>>724140360
>>724140429
>>724184215
Is the only hope of curing this disease to have a sort of "visionary" director/IP rights holder for every project, something like Kojima? Strong vision and won't/doesn't need to compromise with shareholders and CEOs?
It's legit the only solution and hope for an IP I can think of. Just have a guy (ideally the creator of the IP) in charge, let him be uncompromising and not bound by the will of demonic corporate entities.
But then sometimes the creator sells his own baby to the devil like what happened with Star Wars and Minecraft...

>>724140315 (OP)
Silent Hill has been dead for over 20 years, but Konami will dig up the corpse, rape it, and then bury it again until the process repeats for the next rape.

>>724140315 (OP)
I think a cliffhanger is worse than a bad ending

>>724140315 (OP)
Live Service slop

>>724140315 (OP)
Becoming an endless stream of slop with no hope of recovery, basically being bad for longer than it ever was good, so pokemon.

>>724140315 (OP)
Death via a mediocre remake that got fucking kneecapped

>>724140315 (OP)
Homeworld 3

>>724144873
Something I've have noticed is that fans of newer entries of any given franchise don't actually discuss the new games or what they like about them, but rather shit on the old fans and the old games.

>>724140315 (OP)
Just look at Halo. Legendary franchise that gets butchered slowly for an entire decade.

Like watching a car crash where everyone in your family dies but at 10% speed. Slow, agonizing death, you just want it to end but it keeps going. Fuck you 343.

>>724140315 (OP)
by being made for "modern audiences" requested by men in expensive suits.
dead space

>>724157931
>star fox is dead and never became mainstream proper
Feels kinda nice actually, I don't trust modern nintendo to do it justice, and the fandom is very fragmented since everyone wants something different out of the franchise, so no matter what they make they can't please everyone, and if they DO make a new one it will most likely be a monkey paw scenario.

>>724159405
Don’t literal trannies make this shit now though? What do you expect.

>>724140315 (OP)
to become nortubel

>>724140315 (OP)
>What is the worst way for a video game series to die
To be bought out and then slowly decay into mediocrity and beyond. Sacrificed on the alter of mass appeal and then have anything remotely interesting stripped away until it all that is left is naught but a husk that only wears the skin of what it once was.
>And did your favorite series die in such a way
Yes.

>>724140315 (OP)
who is more pathetic in this situation, Attack on Titan or Call of Duty?

The ongoing enshitification and fortniteification into generic slop has probably touched almost every big company series with a recent release in some way.

>>724190813
AoT is dead and gone, while CoD is still getting games so I will say CoD

>>724191074
>Jobner
lol every time

>>724190324
>literal trannies
why not market being able to click male or female when creating a character as the way to enable tranny insanity and move on
make it make sense

>>724172872
But neither Yakuza nor Fire Emblem are dead, though it looked like it for a while with the long radio silence after Engage underperformed

>>724192424
i don’t get wtf you’re trying to say here

not a series, but watching the troon-influence corrupt ss13, my favorite game ever, into high-rp faggotslop where every catperson/ligger is best friends with an admin and nothing interesting happens is what made me hate trannies forever.

>>724184110
A hero's tail and the legend trilogy have redeeming qualities, it wasn't truly grim until skylanders.

>>724140315 (OP)
Kingdom hearts, dead rising, to me I loved them both and watching them die a horrible death has been heart breaking

>>724176023
WHAT?!
fucking why, not even DD1 had it's dlc canned, it's what brought it to life. the hell is capcom doing man

>>724186367
The Darkness 2

>>724140315 (OP)
Raceswapping, feminism. In other words, lore changes.

>>724183941
>>724183826
shame skylines shit the bed so hard

>>724140315 (OP)
when a prolific singleplayer studio releases a live service friendslop sequel effectively killing the franchise forever. IE Marathon, Outlast, Redfall, Suicide Squad kill the justice league.

>>724192693
dead rising 1 is one of the best games ever made, 2 is okay, 3 and 4 are miserable dogshit and the 1 remake is fucking re engine slop

>>724140315 (OP)
When it's a shadow of its former self, created for audience that you no longer have anything in common with. Just a corpse paraded around to make some money, usually via aggressive microtransactions.
>And did your favorite series die in such a way?
WoW
Diablo (Immortal + D4, D3 wasn't that good but it was still vastly more playable and fun than D4, and at the end of the day you just had to buy the game and maybe Necromancer, no mtx)

>>724192509
>be male
>want to be female
>click on female when creating character
that's it tranny brain satisfied
>blizzard staff holds up the beeurself_in_azeroth.jpg poster
>everyone moves on to do cool stuff
>no whatthehelliseventhat characters required

>>724193786
Are you saying you can click on the male character model but then just say it’s female and vice versa? Better yet tranntism (pedophelia) should just be illegal or better yet the law should just be enforced on them. Waving dildos and anal sex flags at kids in public. Where are the fucking police?

>>724193786
>War
>Cool
Okay bro, you're going to Venezuela

>>724194221
Conservatives care more about what a kid sees once at a parade than their brains being splattered on their classroom floor by a maniac lol

>>724140315 (OP)
>What is the worst way for a video game series to die? And did your favorite series die in such a way?
Dragon's Dogma
It got a sequel announced that fans thought was going to be their dream game, but it ended up being incredibly rushed and half based and murdered the series forever. We didn't even get a fucking DLC, and now Capcom will never touch it again and Itsuno went to work for chinks.

>>724194398
>Ignore our acts of evil because something else bad exists!
No.
Also
>sending your children to ((((((public school))))))))
ishygddttbqhwyf

>>724174756
>People who love classic 2D and 3D Zelda are going to be waiting forever for a crumb
Echoes of Wisdom just came out and it combines classic 2D Zelda design with BotW style emergent gameplay. Don't lump all the 2D Zelda fans in with N64babies who just want more OoT clones.

>>724151454
I got that for free whenever EGS shit it out and I still wanted a fucking refund. like everything I heard about it was painting it lightly, I don't think I did more than like two missions. I don't know how that even got into production

>>724140315 (OP)
catering to a wider audience

>>724192432
I think the implication works with Yakuza because 7 was redone to appeal to modern fans and it did fine but 8 underperformed

>>724195950
We've had more action games after 7 than we have turn based. Like zelda is a proper example because they really did kill off the old style of zelda games with the success of the new ones, but action yakuza never stopped coming.

>>724140315 (OP)
Pachinko hell.

>>724140315 (OP)
Whatever way it was that Adam Jensen Deus Ex games died

>>724140360
Fpbp
I miss old Monster Hunter

>>724145275
i dunno how to say great post without it sounding sarcastic in my head

>>724140315 (OP)
as time goes on I find it easier and easier to let go of IPs, not everything must go on forever. it is healthier mentally to remember the good times, and look for something else appealing rather than hyperfixating on an IP not being what it once was.

>>724151454
>hear Love Shack on radio
>think about how the 100% completion “reward” in Saints Row 2022
>low fps laggy cutscene of the main cast terribly singing Love Shack Together
>alongside a bunch of random NPCs dancing around them
>because they killed off basically every other named character aside from like 2 people
>can take upwards of 50 hours to 100%
what a sad way to end the series, then the Saints Row 2 PC port is left to die after the only guy that could do it single handed dies from cancer, and the guy he wanted to entrust it to ducked him for no reason other than not wanting to, while both their work was probably on a computer that got thrown out when the company went under

>>724189842
Funny. I dont talk about the old games because I've played/discussed them to death. I just shit on the new entries cause they suck

>>724197332
SR2's PC port situation sucks so much ass man, I recently replayed the game on a modded 360 and it holds up pretty well outside of the dated visuals. but a proper PC port and mods could've really made the game shine

>>724172919
>Dragons Dogma 1 released unfinished due to running out of money when Capcom was broke as fuck
>Dragons Dogma 2 released unfinished after Resident Evil 4 Remake didn’t make a gorillon dollars like they thought it would
>needed to bump up revenue numbers to keep shareholders happy (impossible)
>Itsuno was so pissed he left Capcom
>Due to the backlash on micro transactions they completely dropped support shortly after
>game is still unfinished and runs like shit
>DLC cancelled as well
I’ve never been more mad, we were this close

>>724140315 (OP)
monster hunter
I don't need to elaborate

>>724157185

Raymans Swansong of origins and legends is the best you could ever hope for.

What happened to Castlevania is pretty high up there.
Corpse raped and paraded around and then the people who enjoyed the puppet show now are telling you you aren't a real fan and the original series is worthless and only the puppet show is of value.

>>724140315 (OP)
Mgs 5 was literally unfinished and the series is dead. Can't think of a worse way than that. 20 years for nothing.

>>724140315 (OP)
>What is the worst way for a video game series to die?
when the money outweighs any sort of previous sincerity so they lean into the worst aspects of game development and design and predatory behaviour meant to fleece you instead of creating something interesting, a lot say it happens when it gets mainstream popularity but the real knife to the ribs is their reaction to popularity, you can still keep to your guns and be a niche studio, it’s just alot dont once the money is in the air
>And did your favorite series die in such a way?
Yeah I got to watch Project Moon grow from a small studio of college kids making interesting games with spaghetti code that combined genres turn into a gacha developer that’ll never produce anything of quality ever again

>>724140315 (OP)
Sudden abrupt end with no room for a comeback. RIP Princess Connect and fuck Crunchyroll

>>724140315 (OP)
I don’t think there’s a IP that suffered worst than Halo in that it’s had a billion dollars invested into it while also been so mismanaged for a over a decade now you can barely tell what is going on in 343s studio besides budget fraud or something

Right before achieving true greatness.
.hack//IMOQ was unique and very interesting
//G.U. improved on what was already there, but left behind the Lain-inspired aesthetics and mystery for a shounen action oriented game which wasn't bad but different.

Then Bandai Namco took it out back and put 13 rounds in its head and worshipped Sword Art Online for a decade, while at least allowing //G.U. to get a really good remaster, but left //IMOQ to rot.

>>724140315 (OP)
hands down the appealing to the lowest common denominator and consolitis
i thought it couldn't get any worse but with the advent of AI i was proven wrong

>>724197304
Those sequels arent really for you, they're for zoomers who want to feel like oldfags but can never be.

Am I the only living person who though dragons dogma 2 was an improvement over the first game?

>>724167940
Resident Evil is the first one that comes to mind.

>>724140315 (OP)
When the new games have awful gameplay, but it sells much more than the older ones and the new games have a ton of apologists and critical acclaim.
Zelda is the most obvious example.

>>724140315 (OP)
The way Dragon Age died

>>724140315 (OP)
DA was never really alive after Origins, but DATV was the last nail in the coffin.

>>724140315 (OP)
>dead space
flew too close to the sun
>titanfall
usurped and erased from existence
>half-life
left on a cliffhanger for 20 years

>>724171972
[tfg] actually lasted at least a few years. maybe people still play these days but it would definitely be a /vm/ thing

>>724200403
it died after origins
sad how hard 2 was console-lized

>>724195778
GATEKEEP HARD

>>724200506
What a fucking betrayal. What a fucking tragedy.

It's rare I actually care about a series.
For a series I've actually played that met a grave end, definitely Corpse Party.
For a game series that I've heard about, nothing seems worse than Saints Row in terms of being brutally murdered

>>724200221
Yeah, OoT really was casual, watered down trash that a lot of retards pretended was a great game.

>>724140315 (OP)
the reverse happened with fire emblem, prior to path of radiance and radiant dawn the series was heavily flawed, even courting the spiritual trannysm.

the awakening, fates, shadows of valentia (even if a remake) were amazing.

3 houses almost ruins the franchise but the adjacent trannies misinterpreting edelgard are just a minor problem, they dont sour it for me.

>>724198726
>//G.U. to get a really good remaster,
that shit pissed me off

>>724140315 (OP)
>What is the worst way for a video game series to die?


yeah its bad if a series stops getting produced but it's even worse when it becomes completely mainstream and turns into something completely different, might as well call it death by flanderization

>>724140315 (OP)

Just like everything else, once the amount of bad stuff outweighs the amount of good stuff I become indifferent to it!!!FACT!!!

>>724140315 (OP)
Watching Guilty Gear rape it's own dead corpse for virtue signal points and a few extra months of cultural relevance was sad.

>>724140360
I watched Rainbow Six turn into a hero pvp shooter skinner box for zoomers.

>What is the worst way for a video game series to die?
Unfinished
>And did your favorite series die in such a way?
Partially, with regards to Deus Ex. On the one hand each game really is about its own perspective on the overarching themes, on the other it's clear there was still a story being told in regards to the prequels and Adam Jensen specifically, and that we'll never see the full conclusion.

>>724140315 (OP)
I never expected STALKER 2 to be made at all, let alone good. The fact that they couldn't outperform what modders were doing 15 years ago is a testament to the death of talent in this industry. Nearly everything is loveless extraction, parading the corpses of once-beloved properties around on stilts like flesh kites.

>>724140315 (OP)
Dormant series receives ill-received reboot tainting it for years. See >>724182238.

The fact that there hasn't been a decent city sim in over 21 years chafes my ass.

>>724167940
Pokemon

>>724189842
Because modern fans are usually people raised on algorithimic social media that ragebaits them for engagement and encourages them to get into fights about everything. At a certain point this turns into them thinking anyone who disagrees with them at all is The Enemy, and they care more about fighting The Enemy than they do about actually enjoying anything.

>>724140315 (OP)
>And did your favorite series die in such a way?
Yeah

>>724140315 (OP)
I dont know the worst way but the best way is for your favorite series to have released all its entries before the HD era, have no remakes, and be untouched by modern lepers.

>>724213131
That was my thought too.

>>724140315 (OP)
It's not my favorite franchise but what happened to Duke Nukem still really pisses me off. To have playable, inarguable proof that the Forever could have been the best shooter of 2002 if they just fucking finished it, and instead having the version we got and the franchise forever in the hands of that greasy pedophile instead.

>>724193191
>When it's a shadow of its former self, created for audience that you no longer have anything in common with. Just a corpse paraded around to make some money, usually via aggressive microtransactions.
Sucks being a PM fan nowadays

>>724140315 (OP)
>And did your favorite series die in such a way?
not really, maybe battlefield but I feel like it died naturally.. somehow

>>724140360
Fucking this
I miss old gen Monster Hunter so much.

I miss the old /v/ threads about it.
I miss when the game was niche but we had a small and fun community.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Mk6S6iKFrQ

>>724171524
He who has not tasted grapes

>>724140315 (OP)
When it gets replaced by something entirely different while keeping the title.

>>724201069
>tfw the original network ended up being deleted by a moderator a couple of years ago.
We had a good run. Maybe my memory fails me, but I remember reading the deletion message that said something like “the network has been destroyed” or “eliminated”.

>>724219943
I hate that I read every panel in that strip. So many people miss the point of Lara Croft and, ironically enough, they end up making her kill way more people than she ever did in the original Core Design games. You kill maybe 6 people in Tomb Raider 1 and the rest of the time you shoot demons, dinosaurs, wolves, bears, tigers, gorillas, and bats. New Tomb Raider also constantly brings up Joshua and tries to find some way to give Lara a love life which is just as annoying now as it was in 80s action movies.

>>724140315 (OP)
>What is the worst way for a video game series to die?
When it's developers get bought by a bigger company that pisses the original devs off enough for them to leave, or straight up fires them.
>And did your favorite series die in such a way?
Not a series, but PopCap deserved better.

>>724204696
>that VN
The most unforgettable horror porn game I've ever played. No other game had a bunch of elementary schoolers gangbang a teenage girl against a wall. And the teenage girl loved it. No other game I've played had a 17 year old bishonen guy drink a 14 year old girl's piss and chase her down the hall to rape her, only to wind up getting anally raped by a 32 year old fat man. I still remember the scene where a 16-17 girl was hiding under a bed as her same age best friend was having sex with that same 32 year old fat guy on top. She heard every moan, bed shake and sound. In the wrong end she was discovered under the bed by her friend and made to join. A most terrifying scene was when an unwilling girl relives another girl's sex memories. The girl in the memory consented but the reliving girl didn't. It didn't matter that she was mentally screaming, her body in the memory did all the motions and actions as in history. It's like mind control rape except the victim was fully aware. Another scene the same girl and a friend were almost raped in a magic sex ritual, saved by the girl's older sister, and the backlash made the older sister want to rape her younger sister and friend.

The loli in this pic is freakishly lewd and once disguised herself as a teenage girl, fucked a boy until he nearly came, transformed back saying
>You thought you were having sex with a highschooler weren't you? I'm an elementary schooler all along!
And leglocks that boy, forcing him to cum inside her unprotected, when he screams in fear upon learning this. This isn't even getting into the tentacles, the gay sex, the lesbian sex, the incest, the sequel's mother/daughter lesbian scene, etc. The first chapter alone contains lots of lesbian sex scenes with an unavoidable girl masturbating in the bathroom. Truly horror is intrinsically connected with sexuality.