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4 Game Franchises That Aren’t What They Used To Be

GamerFitNation talks about games that have fallen from their number spots. Throughout the tides of history there are games that we as gamers fall in love with.

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BLACKBIBLE4714d ago

It's True especially when you see the turn out for DMC4 and now with is DMC reboot on the way

SLLCKGT4713d ago (Edited 4713d ago )

Lets just wait to make judgement. I have loved DMC since the first one but aside from sales numbers Ninja Theory hasn't really dissapointed in the quality of their games before.

@ femshep

Heavenly Sword is a good game and still looks amazing for a 2007 game. Enslaved: Odyssey to the West is a really good game despite sales. I'm sure if they took the task of rebooting DMC they knew what they are doing. Again, I'll wait til the actual game to make final judgement. Honestly I was getting tired of the rock music with the over the top action scenes and Dante's one liners. Its needs a change and a darker tone.

femshep4713d ago

Ninja theory sucks and both videos they shown of the new dmc shows they don't care about the game what so ever

it goes from looking horrid to capcom and everyone telling them to bring it back to normal and they give us even more crap

cooperdnizzle4713d ago

Do you smoke crack, because enslaved was a horrible game, horrible. Heavenly sword was ten times better. And heavenly sword is just an average game at best. Heavenly sword had some really really good aspects to it, but it also had some horrible aspects to it. If they would have put more time and pacing into the game it could have been a great classic. Ehhh to bad for them.

jaredhart4714d ago

DMC has definitely lost a step.

BLACKBIBLE4714d ago

I'm glad someone can admit it

sikbeta4713d ago

DMC was ruined after the second iteration, that game sucked so bad, then DMC3 was good, but not as good as the first one, DMC4 not so much and finally to make sure Capcom can kill a franchise, DMC reboot by NT lol

ZombieAssassin4714d ago (Edited 4714d ago )

DmC started out strong for the first game, lost some of it for the second (but still decent enough game), then came back the strongest it had ever been with 3...then they made 4 and while still a decent game it was the worst in the series and now they are changing even more of the game with the new DMC, how the mighty have fallen.

Pretty much agree with the whole article.

xtheownerzx4713d ago

Man what happened to golden age when developers had inspiration to create new things and go all out? Where is that creativity?

Dart894713d ago

*Man what happened to golden age when developers had inspiration to create new things and go all out? Where is that creativity?

I believe all that great stuff died in the early 2000's and late 1990's.I don't know about you but i would love to go back to those days:(.

sikbeta4713d ago

Like the boy bands lol inspiration is disappearing for most devs because, they can't win against the shootorz like CODz, so they try to follow the same path making more shootorz and by that the gaming market gets over-saturated of shootorz, then after realize that they can't achieve the same success as the CODZ, they see hope in mobile devices flooded with mini games that right now are successful, but give it some time and you see how everything tend to repeat itself :P

DA_SHREDDER4713d ago

Tenchu, Ace Combat, GTA, GT5, Dragon Warrior, FF, i could go on.

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Ranking the Devil May Cry Series

VGChartz's Mark Nielsen: "Upon finally finishing Devil May Cry 5 recently - after it spent several years on my “I’ll play that soon” list - I considered giving it a fittingly-named Late Look article. However, considering that this was indeed the final piece I was missing in the DMC puzzle, I decided to instead take this opportunity to take a look back at the entirety of this genre-defining series and rank the entries. What also made this a particularly tempting notion was that while most high-profile series have developed fairly evenly over time, with a few bumps on the road, the history of Devil May Cry has, at least in my eyes, been an absolute roller coaster, with everything from total disasters to action game gold."

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VersusDMC42d ago

First to last for me...3,4,5,1,2.

VersusDMC42d ago

Me leaving it out should be telling of my thoughts on it. Better than 2 as a DMC game.

Still a good game though.

Exvalos42d ago

What a weird name, it's essentially devil may cry, devil may cry lol

Cacabunga42d ago

Best to good for me: 3, reboot, 1, 5

2 and 4 are trash, didnt like any of them.
5 has very good gameplay variety but i hated the foes.. it is just insects the whole time. Reboot has the best foes for me

Friendlygamer42d ago

3,1,4,5 to me, never played 2. 5 gameplay is amazing but level design was really disappointing to me, just a bunch of plain arenas, the story felt like a worse written rehash of the 3rd and the charater models looked weird ( specially the ladies ). Another problem with 5 was that there was not enough content for 3 charaters so I could never really familiarize with any of them

monkey60242d ago (Edited 42d ago )

2.
Dmc.
4.
5.
1.
3.

God DMC2 was an awful game.
And in case this isn't obvious it goes worst to best

Yui_Suzumiya42d ago

1 and DmC. The rest are unimportant.

DarXyde42d ago

Order changes depending on your focus. I tend to focus on gameplay/fun factor, so...

5, 3, 1, 4, 2.

I really didn't like 4 but commend Dante's weapon diversity. The retreading of old ground was pretty unacceptable to me.

But even then... Still more enjoyable than 2 for me

SeTTriP42d ago

This right here is my order as I thought DMC 5 was amazing and obviously 3 comes after 4 was great and 1 for the nastilgic value it holds 2 was so terrible that my local GameStop gave full refunds to people who returned it.

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Resident Evil 5 - 15 Years of Being the Most Misunderstood Resident Evil

Resident Evil 5 launched 15 years ago today - and it continues to stand as a stepping stone from the good to the bad.

TheBrainZ86d ago

One of my favourites because of the co-op. Then Resi 6 arrived and the series nosedived further.

Knightofelemia86d ago

I enjoyed the game co-oping with a friend I know the game in solo the AI can be an idiot but RE5 is way better then RE6. I played RE6 with a friend if it wasn't cheap when I got I would have avoided RE6.

thesoftware73086d ago (Edited 86d ago )

5 was excellent, still play Mercs with my brother.
I would love a fully remastered RE:5, with some added, reworked content. The DLC for 5 was also excellent.

6 was awful.

CrimsonWing6986d ago

I never understood why the game was misunderstood. It was a fantastic game at launch and is still fun today to play. It’s as action packed as Resident Evil 4 was, yet that’s regarded a masterpiece 🤷‍♂️

chobit_A5HL3Y86d ago

it was "misunderstood" because they introduced co-op into the franchise at a time when people loved to have fake rage about co-op. like, you could play the game as a solo experience, but people chose to have their bandwagon rage because it was cool at the time lol

-Foxtrot86d ago (Edited 86d ago )

What the hell are you talking about? Fake Rage? Bandwagon? Come on.

You can play it solo but you are forced to carry around a shitty AI partner you have to micro manage. It wasn't as fun solo.

Co-op sucked all the horror, tension and suspense from the game because having a partner covering you was like a safety net. Enemy trying to sneak up on you? No sweat the AI will just automatically lock on, alert you while they shoot first telling you where they are basically.

It was the start of Capcoms fall with the Resident Evil series where it basically become an over the top generic action game which betrayed it's own survival horror roots. Least RE4 had a good blend of both but Capcom just went the wrong way with RE5, especially going off what they were going to do during the RE4.5 beta phase before co-op was added.

franwex86d ago

At least the game was a ton of fun tho. If the game was bad, the outrage would’ve been justified. They simply pivoted for a couple of games. At this point it’s bad because it’s called Resident evil 5? But if was called something else it would’ve been good? Please.

chobit_A5HL3Y85d ago

like i said: fake baby rage and bandwagon hate. res4 wasn't really that scary, either, and was already taking the series into more of an action-oriented direction at the time. 5 was a good game that people fake-hated because of co-op that you didn't even have to play lol hence the fake rage and bandwagon hate. i mean, it obviously did well enough for capcom to go ahead and make 6 the way they did, right? if 5 was so bad, they would have changed what 6 was during development. the difference is that 6 was actually just bad.

people "hate" 5 because res4 was so good, and 5 was just unfortunate enough to be its successor. like i said, 4 wasn't scary, either, and relied more on tension than horror, but it was already more of an action game. if you don't wanna like 5 because it's not scary or whatever- that's fine, but it wasn't meant to be strictly a horror game anymore at that point anyways. the gameplay was a lot faster-paced than 4, so saying that the ai helping you by potentially shooting someone that was sneaking up behind you is a moot point. there were more enemies that were more aggressive, along with newer threats.

5 isn't as good as 4, but it's not a bad game by any stretch.

RNTody61d ago (Edited 61d ago )

What? I always thought RE5 had fake controversy because it was set in South Africa and you shot a bunch of black zombies. I live in South Africa and thought the game was absolutely awesome, played the whole thing co-op with my brother.

@Foxtrot I think you're confusing the garbage Dead Space 3 with Resident Evil 5. Resident Evil 4 was already a hyper action game and had zero fear factor other than the grotesque appearance of some enemies.

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The 7 Best Final Fantasy Characters: Unveiling the Legends

While FFVII ranks highly, there's more to the series than one game. Here's Chit Hot's picks for the seven best Final Fantasy characters.