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[cash_longfellow]

I think OP should add the definition of what "dead" is for clarity…just because you don't like the direction a franchise has gone doesn't make it "dead". Might be dead to YOU, but if games are still being made then it's far from dead. I know most of those posts are just clown troll efforts, but some posts do have valid context with it, so for those folks, some clarity would be nice. Unless of course, that is what you meant OP?

 

[Dafegamer]

Need for Speed
Metal Gear Solid for obvious reasons
Guitar Hero
Nintendo "Sports" franchise, from one of the biggest Games, to hardly being mentioned in future iterations.
Halo isn't Dead yet, Uncharted just stopped releasing Games, the last main one was the best selling of the franchise by a Huge margin

 

[Holammer]

TwinBee was big for its time, got a bunch of games & spinoffs. It had two anime shorts, a three episode OAV series, a popular radio drama running for 3 seasons (96 episodes), manga & merch. Maybe one of the first attempts at a transmedia IP, but it was too early and Japan focused at a time when Japanimation's was still far away from taking off seriuosly in the west.

 

[KenaiPhoenix]

Halo

It is even worse than dead, now we have a bunch of idiots not only using the corpse of Halo to make money and political stands but also "fans" that are so retarded or stupid that make you question if they are actually being payed by 343:

- they defended 343 when they wanted to add micro transactions to the MCC
- people have argue with me telling me that Halo was always nitche and this small-medium popular game compared to Call Of Duty
- they will praise meh decisions and positively react anything 343/Halo studios do (yeah, UE5 will solve all isses)

A dead franchise can come back and recover its glory. Halo is so broken it can't even make a comeback

 

[PurePlatinum]

Halo might not be dead-dead in the way that Duke Nukem or Deus Ex are, but NO game has had a higher fall from grace.

None

If you went back in time to someone in 2007 around the launch of Halo 3 and told them in 10 years the franchise will be almost irrelevant, nobody would believe you.

 

[asdasdasdbb]

People mentioned Mega Man... last game was in 2018 and only a collection has been released since then. That seems pretty dead to me.

 

[Memati187]

Blizzard:

Warcraft
Retail WoW
Starcraft
Overwatch
Heroes of the Storm
Hearthstone

They were legends. Wtf happened?

Failed brain surgery

 

[CLW]

 

[Paasei]

Killzone
Peggle
RCT
SimCity
Max Payne
Crazy Taxi
Syphon Filter

Just to add to the many already mentioned.

 

[Team Andromeda]

Halo might not be dead-dead in the way that Duke Nukem or Deus Ex are, but NO game has had a higher fall from grace.

None

If you went back in time to someone in 2007 around the launch of Halo 3 and told them in 10 years the franchise will be almost irrelevant, nobody would believe you.

That's being utterly stupid and silly, but I guess trolls must have their fun day.
Tony Hawks had a far bigger fall from grace, never mind the posterboy for PS3 Killzone and where Killzone 4 was so bad on the PS4 it killed the series dead, never mind what Konami done with Pro Evo Soccer

 

[Hudo]

Command & Conquer

YES.

Also:

Ultima
Wing Commander
Sim City
Burnout
Motorstorm
Wipeout
F-Zero

 

[Hudo]

Max Payne

It's about to be resurrected:

Remedy Entertainment Plc: Remedy Entertainment Enters Agreement with Rockstar Games for New Max Payne 1&2 Project - Remedy Investors

Remedy Entertainment Plc | Inside information 11:45 pm (EEST) 6 April 2022 […]

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