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[LakeOf9]

The last few years saw an interesting trend emerge for long running franchises - they were transformatively rebooted, completely rethought from the ground up, and then followed up on by iterative sequels that expanded on that, creating these "reboot duologies". We had three of them -the Zelda open air games, the God of War Norse games, and the Resident Evil first person games.

Which of them would you say is the best, and why?

 

[Spukc]

1 zelda
2 resident evil & gow

All of them amazing

 

[FinalBossWithTheMostPower]

The only answer is Zelda...

 

[Holammer]

The poll is stacked in Nintendo's favour. Even people that never touched botw/totk realize that.

 

[LakeOf9]

The poll is stacked in Nintendo's favour. Even people that never touched botw/totk realize that.

… because they made better games?

 

[ByWatterson]

Doom, too.

 

[LakeOf9]

Doom, too.

Good call, added that!

 

[Varteras]

Yes

 

[NeverYouMind]

Ninja Gaiden with Itagaki at the helm has no competition. Sonic Adventure, X-Com, and Wolfenstein: The New Order/The Old Blood are close seconds.

 

[adamsapple]

I'm gonna vote RE, cause after 6 they really needed a good comeback and VII knocked it out of the park.

 

[TintoConCasera]

DOOM. Avoided being a COD with demons, changed the gameplay enough so both the older games and the newer ones all feel like their own thing, and they are awesome games.

 

[simpatico]

Everybody wants to go back to the old God of War. Can you even imagine what a new one would look like if targeting the PS5 Pro?

 

[bender]

Easily Zelda.

 

[Jesb]

RE7 basically put RE back on the map. The series was struggling. If it wasn’t for the success of that reboot we might not of even seen all the remakes in development. IMO there hasn’t been a bigger resurgence than this one.

 

[rabbity-thing]

I hate what BOTW did to Legend of Zelda. . .

The real reboot duology worth celebrating is Zelda 64 and Majora's Mask. GOD TIER.

 

[Robb]

Zelda by a wide margin.

The only competition in the poll for me would be RE, but I don’t like that they’ve gone first person at all.

 

[IAmRei]

I like all the games mentioned above, beside GOW tho, i dont like GOW...

On otherside, BoTW and ToTK, is longer and bigger than usual Zelda, which is akin to my liking.

 

[ZehDon]

Zelda was an interesting change.
GOW became TLOU.
Resident Evil is already moving away from their new direction.
But DOOM? DOOM is eternal. id revitalised an entire genre, re-created an iconic character, landed one of the best soundtracks of all time, and proved to the world they're still the best at what they do. No competition.

 

[Arachnid]

I mean, RE was easily the most drastic improvement in terms of quality. Never thought we'd go from 5/6 and the Rev games to having a string of legit arguably the best games in the series.

Zelda was still good before. God of War was IMO a downgrade. Doom is hard because I'm one of those freaks who loved 3. My vote goes to RE.

 

[Generic]

Resident Evil and God of War games were meh and underwhelming.

 

[bitbydeath]

GTA3

 

[Heimdall_Xtreme]

Zelda definitive