Regarding franchises you loved and followed from start but became tired off, which was the breaking point?
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DragoonKain
Neighbours from Hell
Tales -
Xillia and Xillia 2. Developers got lazy and gradually transitioned from a world map(classic Tales generally up to Vesperia) to screen to screen style dungeons, but Graces was kind of a hybrid sorta and Symphonia 2. But Xillia was the first game where the dungeon designs were just awful. Forests and tombs and shrines just looked cut and pasted with very little effort and the stories got boring and they just pumped it full of skits which are easy to make to give it an artificial sense of more content.
Thankfully they finally took a step back and apparently rebuilt this series with Arise, because it needed it. I hated where it was going prior to this after Vesperia.
Xillia and Xillia 2. Developers got lazy and gradually transitioned from a world map(classic Tales generally up to Vesperia) to screen to screen style dungeons, but Graces was kind of a hybrid sorta and Symphonia 2. But Xillia was the first game where the dungeon designs were just awful. Forests and tombs and shrines just looked cut and pasted with very little effort and the stories got boring and they just pumped it full of skits which are easy to make to give it an artificial sense of more content.
Thankfully they finally took a step back and apparently rebuilt this series with Arise, because it needed it. I hated where it was going prior to this after Vesperia.
GreyHorace
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Bioware - Not a game series, but I'm done playing their games after Dragon Age: Inquisition. What an overrated piece of crap that they stuffed full of filler just to pad it out. And for a developer that boasts about their storytelling, Inquisition had a completely boring plot that failed to become even remotely interesting. The fact that it's predecessor, Dragon Age 2, was full of glaring flaws but still had an engaging plot speaks volumes of how Bioware's writing went down a cliff. Inquisition convinced me not to get hyped for Mass Effect Andromeda, which as you all know suffered middling reviews and was memed to death for it's various bugs ('My face is tired'). The Anthem disaster just confirmed to me that the Bioware I knew and loved is all but gone.
Assassin's Creed - Stopped after Black Flag, which was a game I greatly enjoyed. But didn't get Unity after all the bugs were reported. Didn't get Syndicate either because it seemed more of the same. To be honest, I was feeling a bit of franchise fatigue with AC and this was the excuse I needed to step off the train. I may get Origins and Odyssey at some point after the warm reception they got.
Assassin's Creed - Stopped after Black Flag, which was a game I greatly enjoyed. But didn't get Unity after all the bugs were reported. Didn't get Syndicate either because it seemed more of the same. To be honest, I was feeling a bit of franchise fatigue with AC and this was the excuse I needed to step off the train. I may get Origins and Odyssey at some point after the warm reception they got.
Jigsaah
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Gave up on COD after Ghosts, but loving Modern Warfare, admittedly.
Gave up on Dragon Ball after Tenkaichi 3.
Tekken after Tekken 4, came back fully for 7. Still think wall locking and juggles are bullshit for this type of game.
Final Fantasy after 9 (non mmo, I played and loved 11 and 14). Came back for 13 and 15...yea...both terrible and now just hoping the remake is good.
Fallout 4 was terrible though I played 76, which buried the franchise even further for me.
Ghost Recon was dead to me after Advanced Warfighter. Wildlands buried it even further.
Stop playing Halo as much after beating 4, which was terrible. 5 was better but still not my cup of tea
Stopped playing Uncharted after 2. skipped 3 and I have yet to play 4 though I own it
Stopped messing with Mortal Kombat after 4. Once they started adding the stances...I was done.
Ninja Gaiden 3 was great and terrible because of the multiplayer. Was so mad it wasn't good, so happy it existed at all.
Soul Calibur was put to rest after 2 game felt too similar
Destiny 1 poured the gas. Destiny 2 struck the match.
Though I beat Mass Effect Andromeda, I was depressed after learning how many hours I spent in that game.
Ended Mario after 64. The magic was gone after that game. Was not feeling Sunshine or Galaxy
Zelda I stopped playing once I stopped playing Nintendo, so that was Majora's Mask. I tried Twilight Princess. If I ever get a switch I will give BoTW a go.
Gave up on Dragon Ball after Tenkaichi 3.
Tekken after Tekken 4, came back fully for 7. Still think wall locking and juggles are bullshit for this type of game.
Final Fantasy after 9 (non mmo, I played and loved 11 and 14). Came back for 13 and 15...yea...both terrible and now just hoping the remake is good.
Fallout 4 was terrible though I played 76, which buried the franchise even further for me.
Ghost Recon was dead to me after Advanced Warfighter. Wildlands buried it even further.
Stop playing Halo as much after beating 4, which was terrible. 5 was better but still not my cup of tea
Stopped playing Uncharted after 2. skipped 3 and I have yet to play 4 though I own it
Stopped messing with Mortal Kombat after 4. Once they started adding the stances...I was done.
Ninja Gaiden 3 was great and terrible because of the multiplayer. Was so mad it wasn't good, so happy it existed at all.
Soul Calibur was put to rest after 2 game felt too similar
Destiny 1 poured the gas. Destiny 2 struck the match.
Though I beat Mass Effect Andromeda, I was depressed after learning how many hours I spent in that game.
Ended Mario after 64. The magic was gone after that game. Was not feeling Sunshine or Galaxy
Zelda I stopped playing once I stopped playing Nintendo, so that was Majora's Mask. I tried Twilight Princess. If I ever get a switch I will give BoTW a go.
Soodanim
Member
Assassin's Creed is the big one that comes to mind for me. Loved 1, and the Ezio trilogy was great. Then 3 came along and made me want the bad guys to win because the main character was terrible. That made Black Flag sound appealing, but the game was based heavily around the absolute worst part of 3 - the ships. No thank you. Haven't touched the series since. Now I've no idea what the overarching story is, but it doesn't matter because 3 ruined it all anyway.
GermanZepp
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Mortal kombat. I played 9 but fighting games became to complex for me. My internet conection is trash too so pvp unplayable.
Poop!
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Dude..... get out of my head. I could have typed this myself it's so accurate.
alabtrosMyster
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Zelda: I never finished any Zelda game after Zelda 2 (However I was pretty close to finish the Ocarina of Time at some point, I bought an N64 just to play this one game).
Metroid: I stopped when the moved to 3D
Mario: When I played Super Mario World on the SNES and figured it was pretty much new levels for SMB3 with a save feature, what a let down.
Castlevania: mostly the jump to 3D, but I did not like Dracula X (SNES) and I don't like playing on portable systems - so none of the GameBoy games are for me (much to my dismay).
MegaMan: after 3 I took notice that they were pretty much expansions of the first one, plus they added long winded cut scenes/talk windows in the 16-bit ones, so I got bored because of all the exposition.
Sega franchises
Phantasy Star: the jump to storyless 3D games killed the franchise to me
They just don't maintain much of their franchisees outside re-releases and low efforts follow up, at least Nintendo does something that has an audience (huge audience).
Somehow I kept buying Nintendo consoles all the way to the Wii, they ran my wallet on
Metroid: I stopped when the moved to 3D
Mario: When I played Super Mario World on the SNES and figured it was pretty much new levels for SMB3 with a save feature, what a let down.
Castlevania: mostly the jump to 3D, but I did not like Dracula X (SNES) and I don't like playing on portable systems - so none of the GameBoy games are for me (much to my dismay).
MegaMan: after 3 I took notice that they were pretty much expansions of the first one, plus they added long winded cut scenes/talk windows in the 16-bit ones, so I got bored because of all the exposition.
Sega franchises
Phantasy Star: the jump to storyless 3D games killed the franchise to me
They just don't maintain much of their franchisees outside re-releases and low efforts follow up, at least Nintendo does something that has an audience (huge audience).
Somehow I kept buying Nintendo consoles all the way to the Wii, they ran my wallet on