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5 Video Game Franchises that Need to Die

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Video games are not strangers to exploitation and monetizing. Franchises are often carried through the sales market merely on brand name alone, and while sequels are usually a good thing for fans, sometimes it's important for developers to know when to call it quits and move on to something a little more innovative and worthwhile. These five gaming franchises are the most guilty of being beaten to death with excessive spinoffs, sequels that change very few aspects of the already stale gameplay, and constantly garner mixed critical reception. Developers, take note. Please move on from these franchises
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Published: 293 days 9 hours ago | Article | PlayStation 3 | Xbox 360 | Wii | Gaming
 
 

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meepmoopmeep - 293 days 9 hours ago
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why does ANY franchise need to die?
if it has fans let it be and STFU
no one is forcing you to buy them
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mrnintendo96 - 293 days 5 hours ago
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I wish that the licensed THQ and DDI franchises were on the list. Those are terrible
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stewgart - 293 days 7 hours ago
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they forgot about halo :)
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Elven6 - 293 days 7 hours ago
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Metal Gear is a much older franchise even if you count the Marathon series. So is Mario, your point?
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JOLLY1 - 293 days 7 hours ago
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2.2 - but elven
some people like to watch movies...
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Handsome_Devil - 293 days 7 hours ago
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2.3 - @Elven6
IMO, I see MGS as a story and a good one, I know I got it for the story
it just get you in it. but Halo, is FPS and they never been a good story tellers like MGS

and thats my opinion :)
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JOLLY1 - 293 days 6 hours ago
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2.4 - @ the dev
IMO I see Halo as a story and a good one. One great point is YOu don't need someone showing you hours worth of cut scenes just to get their point across. There is a great back story....if you want to look for it. If you just want the story laid out in front of you, that is also there. The story telling doesn't hold your hand like mgs. I guess Bungie didn't want to shove a story down your throat.

and that's my opinion :)
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YogiBear - 293 days 6 hours ago
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2.5 - @Jolly
I think the Halo franchise is an over-rated turd. That's just my opinion. Have a nice day.
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andyo13 - 293 days 5 hours ago
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i have to agree with you strongly there. I'm sick of halo getting all this credit when its really only an average fps. And im sick of all the merchandise it gets. its turning into mario soon we'll have the master cheif racing against the convenant and playing tenis together. as it is they just made an rts
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JOEdANGEL - 292 days 11 hours ago
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Halo has only had four games, so its hardly a beaten to death franchise. Look at Final Fantasy. It's had like 30 games and it's still going strong. If a game is still fun and people keep buying them, there's no reason for them not to make more.
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Skizelli - 293 days 7 hours ago
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MK doesn't need to die. It needs to grow up. Its original fans (me included) aren't 12 years old anymore. Ed Boon has done little to evolve the gameplay. UMK3 was the last competitive MK. Everything afterward has been garbage as far as gameplay is concerned.

I'll agree that the latest Sonic games have been crappy, but you can't kill off an iconic figure like Sonic. That's like killing off Mario. Good luck with that. What Sonic needs is another mind-blowing 2D game. 3D just isn't cutting it.

Funny to see two Activision franchises in the list. No surprise there.
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SIX-0-3 - 293 days 1 hour ago
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3.1 - call of duty should be added to the list
after they release MW2 that is.
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Nuri - 293 days 7 hours ago
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I don't think sonic needs to die, they pretty much could go back toward the old ways, which was purely running and jumping like it was back on the Genesis (Or even dreamcast if some prefer those). Guitar Hero though, I feel as if the franchise itself is being thrown out way to fast. Most of the songs on those newer games could have been DLC on World Tour instead of giving people the option of forking over 50~60 dollars.

It seems like most of the games on the list are the games in which began to steer away from their past presentation and tried to form a new one, though I wonder if it went back to the old ways (Sonic, Tomb Raider, and even Mortal Kombat) would people then say that they need to die?
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farhsa2008 - 293 days 7 hours ago
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hey fvck you for bringing mortal kombat into this, MK is for hardcore fans and we love it
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ikkeweer - 293 days 7 hours ago
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6 - noone needs to die
damn, i hate that title.

they will die a natural death if the games suck and noone wants to play them, but saying they need to die?
hmmm, they may come up with brilliance and make you swallow it
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NewZealander - 293 days 6 hours ago
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tekken
virtua fighter
mortal kombat
buzz
singstar

i would be more then happy to see these go.
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jav0918 - 293 days 5 hours ago
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8 - Rock band could have
10 billion songs for me to play and I wouldn't buy it because I don't like the feel of the instruments especially the yucky guitar. I also don't like the UI but hey..that's just my opinion. I'll stick to the good songs guitar hero has plus the custom songs are great.

If Sega could just stick to making Sonic games like Sonic Adventure 2 battle. Sonic games would be awesome if they would stop trying to be "innovative" and "new" just stick to the old style with a new story and graphics every time and lots of action.
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caffman - 292 days 20 hours ago
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just use your guitar hero guitar with rock band!Simple
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SAiOSiN - 293 days 5 hours ago
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no franchise needs to die. if a franchise is doing really bad and isn't succeeding then i think the developers should really try to step up their game. guys...EVERY SINGLE franchise has fans. those fans would be disappointed. how would u feel if someone just blew up ur lil halo, mgs, killzone, ratchet, gow, and geow?
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Rockstar - 293 days 4 hours ago
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10 - I only agree with Sonic
But it doesn't need to die.

What it needs is the Megaman treatment or the Bionic Commando treatment.

Keep it 2D and everybody wins.
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KenAdamsNSA - 293 days 4 hours ago
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Good points everybody. Notice that I did mention that for Sonic, a move backwards to 2D would be welcomed by most fans of the franchise. For MK, I also said that a complete trip back to what made the games so competitive would be nice. The MK series needs a game like SFIV to trim the fat and bring back the pure essence of the gameplay that people fell in love with 10 years ago.
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Cheeseknight28 - 293 days 3 hours ago
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Spyro
Crash Bandicoot
Crappy Sonic Games
Mega Man Battle Network/Star Force
Square-Enix ports

Also noted is Harvest Moon, which doesn't need to die, but rather needs some much better quality control. Most, if not all, Harvest Moons have been great but always have one or a few very obvious major flaw(s). For Magical Melody it was the voiceovers. For HMDS it was the control system. For FOTM it was the convulted control shortcuts. For AWL it was the shortened months, lack of wives, and constricted farming space.
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KenAdamsNSA - 293 days 2 hours ago
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God I remember Harvest Moon 64. That was the best Harvest Moon ever.
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Superduper09 - 293 days ago
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I agree with the author wholeheartedly.
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fatstarr - 292 days 23 hours ago
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14 - YESSS TO ALL
except tony hawk and sonic i love those games even though they maybe repettitive or time killers or bad they still kill time and who doesn like trying to pull off 1280's on a board

and when ur bored of fps and etc thease games are good to judt kick back too

guitAR hero is good too if it werent so expensive but 1 more main mothership title ghV and 2 more spinoffs and i see the new ddr
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Mini Mario - 292 days 20 hours ago
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If they made a good sonic game there would be no reason for it to die. Mortal kombat and sonic are so different to how they used to be anyway, so its almost like a new franchise but just kept the same name.

Maybe both franchises need to go back to their BARE roots, ..like street fighter did...because there has been just as many of those games as the latter..yet ppl dont wish for street fighters end now do they.

Street fighter has been around just as long...and still plays just as good as it did 20 years ago....and plays very similar to their games of old. Mortal kombat and SONIC need to realize this.
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