Bayonetta 2 coming to a console other than the WiiU seems about as likely as Metal Gear Solid 4 coming to the 360 did in 2007.
It could, and there's plenty of good reasons why it should, but it won't.
Silent Hill.
It went from postmodern art house horror to the crap you find at Hot Topic.
I know there are a lot of fans still dealing with denial, so they get a pass, but I have seen one too many people wearing Pyramid Head shirts as some kind of edgy fashion response to the movies. Just stop. All of the symbolism and artistry is clearly lost on a branch of the fanbase that, like Tomm Hulett, just wants to see more "twisted" nurse designs without any regard for why they originally existed.
I've was a Sonic fanboy. The rest should go without saying.
I was deep into Halo since CE. I was one of those guys that got ridiculously good at the game. Just loved all things Halo in general. Reach is absolutely where I dropped off. I own Halo 4, but I've only played the multiplayer a handful of times. BF3 is where I spend all of my time now.Halo's probably the best example. It's amazing that almost every single person I know who used to play it no longer bothered with the series after Reach
Half of the Bayonetta fan-base turned against itself because they don't want to buy a new console.
More specifically a console that is completely unrelated to the consoles it was on before. Huge difference. Not a whole lot of complaining would happen if it was coming out for PS4 or NextBox. But personally I blame Sega. I blame them for many things now.
Post XIII you had frequent yammering about armpits. It was horrifying.
More specifically a console that is completely unrelated to the consoles it was on before. Huge difference. Not a whole lot of complaining would happen if it was coming out for PS4 or NextBox. But personally I blame Sega. I blame them for many things now.
There's no way Other M killed the franchise. Metroid is still held in very high regard and Other M is almost universally seen as an outlier. I'm willing to bet money that the next sidescrolling Metroid game is currently in development, it's Nintendo's best bet on salvaging the franchise and putting out yet another universally acclaimed entry in one of their sorta-kinda-staple franchises.
If Nintendo does put Metroid on hold I guarantee you there are other developers who will take notice and craft their own Metroid-like games ala Shadow Complex (the second best Metroidvania of this generation). There will always be fans of that gameplay style because it's just so fucking solid
Yes there is, the second you try to even mention those games in some places there is an angry mob wanting to burn the witch.
Bioware. To the point where they actually created a Romance subfolder in their official forums to contain all the freaks.
I'd say Splinter Cell fanbase has been diluted.
Silent Hill.
It went from postmodern art house horror to the crap you find at Hot Topic.
I know there are a lot of fans still dealing with denial, so they get a pass, but I have seen one too many people wearing Pyramid Head shirts as some kind of edgy fashion response to the movies. Just stop. All of the symbolism and artistry is clearly lost on a branch of the fanbase that, like Tomm Hulett, just wants to see more "twisted" nurse designs without any regard for why they originally existed.
This started with FFX.
People complained about Auron having no pit hair and this somehow ruined everything.
SOCOM.
SOCOM 1 & 2 were legendary experiences. The franchise started falling off with 3 and Combined Assault, and then never really made the transition to PS3 (it did, but, *shutter*). I suppose most of the blame lies with Sony, Zipper, and Slant Six, but console gamers also seemed to grow tired of the "one life" style of play; opting for CoD and all its clones.
I almost bought a PS2 on eBay last weekend to play some SOCOM II, but discovered they took down the servers just last year. :*(
Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory.
Yup, T-ara.
There was a short time of somewhat united support for the group, then there was infighting, then a weird leadership rotation concept that made it worse, favoritism in promotions, a scandal about a member, introduction of a new member, significant concept changes, a massive bullying scandal that was handled in the worst possible way and ejecting the member, another new member added and plans for another one who is way younger than the rest and can't even speak Korean.... things pretty much just went to shit more and more and more over the last 2 years. A lot of people who used to be fans just want the group to disband now.
For for gaming not really. I mean franchises have gone down, but it's not like fans left as the franchises continued.
I've was a Sonic fanboy. The rest should go without saying.
Seeing that community dieing a slow, painful death was really heart wrenching.
No community will come close to it ever, with the exception of Nintendo.
Yeah, COD slapped Halo silly. The exodus was immense. Too bad 343's solution to that problem was to make Halo more like the competition, instead of the opposite thing, which was what attracted fans like me in the first place.Halo 3. After COD 4 the player base got ravaged, like all my friends just left. Halo's never been the same.
Mass Effect fanbase. ME3 was bad (really bad, and no not because of the ending), but some people were taking it way too seriously. The Bioware forums were scary about a year ago.
Gears of War. Not so much the community getting bad, but the fact that's it's been drastically declining in numbers over the past few years (though this is largely Epic's fault). I mean, do people even care about Judgement? I don't. And Gears used to be one of my favorite IPs this gen.
And you've already said Halo.
See, that's funny. I became a Battlefield fan from the original Bad Company. Never played a BF game before that.
the community dying for it cut me deep. ;_; nothing worse than a favorite server dying.Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory.
Around launch I remember GameFAQS reader reviews (LOL) being quite middiling for the game suggesting quite a few people didn't like it. It might have been an initial shock of "its tell me where to, this isn't the Metroid 1 I know, its more linear fusion gunk" but before all the sequence breaks were found (and there were quite a lot of intentional ones too)....At the same time Fusion's changes to the 2D formula and storytelling brought more unease and it seems every title since (with Zero Mission as the possible sole exception) has proven more divisive..l.
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I wonder if its better or worse than trolling or trolling by proxy of teir lsits thrown about like a bible on how to play the game that thou must not refute, even the bits that make no senseFire Emblem fans going from talking about stats and challenge and character stories to stupid waifu wars with awakening.