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tornadostormxl

06-22-2006, 02:38 PM

Harry Potter LOL

I hated Backyard wrestling

mailman187666

06-22-2006, 03:29 PM

I actually don't really need any game series to die. I know everybody is saying amry men games (i've never tried them because i was never interested). They can make army men part 47: the return of the plastic guys, and it wouldn't matter to me because I just would pass by it on the shelves. I never owned or really played any of the dynasty warriors games before DW5: Empires for the 360. For $40 new i decided to give it a shot and I actually enjoy it, along with the 2P mode its got. Maybe for somebody who has been playing them for PS1, they might be sick of them. But for me who hasn't played them really up until now, its actually worth the money to me. I'd like to see as many GTAs, Final Fantasys, and mario (platformer or rpg only) as they can make because i love those series. I could do without sports games but thats not part of the thread. Wrestling games can go. But other than that, I love videogames so bring em on.

alec006

06-22-2006, 04:01 PM

Mario Party Series for gods sake there 7 of them only 3 are good out of the 7,then the army men series,its boring,then being a pokemon fan i have to say yes pokemon how many more damn pokemon can they come up with they have 388 right now we dont need another 100+,for me pokemon ended in the middle of Johto. Final Fantacy is a good RPG but when is it going to be the "FINAL" Fantacy? Lasly the 007 series,now that pierce is gone 007 kind of sucks now and the next movie i hear isnt going to be a tradicional bond film.

goemon

06-22-2006, 06:57 PM

In my opinion, making sequel after sequel is a very safe way to make money. When Square puts the Final Fantasy name on something, it will sell. Same thing for GTA and all the other big name series out there. If Final Fantasy VIII had a different name, would it have sold as many copies on its own merits? I think that companies should be more innovative, experimenting with new ideas rather than rehashing the same old ones year after year.

Daria

06-22-2006, 07:49 PM

I'd say Hydlide but I think it's safe to say that one's already been put to rest. But my god I'm surprised it limped on as long as they did.

While it doesn't need to "die", I actually quite like the series, they need to cut back on the Harvest Moon games. In the last generation they released what? Seven titles? Only two of which were completely new games. Three seperate rehases of "Wonderful Life" and two GBA versions of "Back to Nature".

Same goes for Final Fantasy, not saying the series should end I realize it has a huge fanbase, but there's really been too many spinoffs lately.

Sega also needs to cut the crap concerning their Shining Force license. Five sequals and not a single one has been a tactical game. One remake and Japan's seen two traditional Force games for... cellphones? WTF?

blue lander

06-22-2006, 09:53 PM

I'd have to second Hydlide, if the series is still around. From the MSX to NES to Saturn, every version of Hydlide I've played has been quite awful. And they all aren't awful in the same way. Each game incorporates the worst aspects of RPG games of their respective eras, and distills them into an unplayable mess that represents everything wrong with RPGs of that particular time.

I haven't liked any of the recent Shining games, but I don't mind that none of them are TRPGs. The first Shining game (Shining in the Darkness) wasn't a TRPG, after all, and neither were classics like Shining Wisdom or Shining the Holy Ark.

Octane06

06-23-2006, 01:15 PM

I'm surprised that no one has mentioned the Top Gear series yet. The original trilogy of games was great, but after that Kemco decided to throw the series into the trash. Top Gear Daredevils has to be one of the worst games I've ever played. Of course, I would say that it started with Top Gear Rally. The original games were all about going fast on tons of tracks in a great game not unlike Outrun. But when Rally came around we got slow gameplay, bad handling and a miniscule amount of tracks. Why did you ruin it, Kemco?

EDIT: I get Kemco and Tecmo confused a lot! :D

Tron 2.0

06-24-2006, 08:38 AM

Armored Core is a series that needs a serious overhaul. They add on basically "expansion packs" to every sequentially numbered sequel, and even when they release a new one I get the feeling that, "I have done this before."

Madden realy... EA keeps pumping them out.

Dunno for some reason these mindless !#$$, keep buying them :angry:

Don't quite know the sales of EA games directly affects you enough to insult those that purchase the game, except to assume you are an evil 2K Sports programmer (I doubt it but just in case). Some words of advice: take out the charge up feature in most of your games, I don't want to have to mash my buttons to get my baserunner to run hard to first base, not everyone is made of large blocky polygons, and clean up your menus as most of them are cumbersome.

If you had taken the time to read the initial post, you would have noticed that buyatari requested no sports games, but I would have just ignored your post if you had some justification besides just insulting a game (and calling its user base mindless !@#'s) that I doubt you have much experience with or even passing interest in. Most sports games haters don't even have a passing interest in sports, making their points incredibly shallow and redundent.

+1 for you I guess
Just a rant on my part, but i do wounder what keeps the serise going.

About the only the.. sport games i've ever played are arcade style ones.

Sure there not realistic like, sim sports games but.. i guess i perfer them to be (simple) not complicated.

Any ways what ever makes money sells right?

Same is what ever is showen in movies theaters.

Even if you hate the serise long as it generates $ "ppl will buy it" reguardless what you think.

Ackman

07-06-2006, 04:10 AM

Ackman, i'm surprised you dislike the SH series so much.

I like the atmosphere, story, pyramid head, art direction.

I hate the poor level design, poor gameplay and insane fetch quests..... anyway there are more than enough posts of me badmouthing the game I haven't finished one of them yet.

anyhow:

Survival-Horror is my favorite genre, beat 'em ups taking second place (until they can get steady releases again). i don't understand how anyone could dislike a genre with so much potential.

as for Resident Evil, i prefer the older "carbon-copy" games as opposed to RE4. they could have kept making games in the vein of 1,2, 3, CV (and Outbreak) and i would have been a loyal customer. i just hope Capcom re-inserts the "survival" elements into RE5 and not make another action game with the RE name on it.

You don't want to touch Dino Crisis 2 then. x_x Awful.... I still really liked RE2 and RE3 back in the day, esp RE2, you're not mexican are you I know alot of mexicans don't like RE4?

RegSNES

07-06-2006, 04:33 AM

Army Men.

Seriously.

I was at Best Buy yesterday, and saw a new Army Men game on the XBox. @_@

This man for President!!! These games need to burn in the video game lake of fire for all enternity.

7th lutz

07-07-2006, 10:30 PM

Psycho Penguin

07-08-2006, 01:37 AM

Suikoden, SaGa, and Army Men.

Doom Gaze

07-08-2006, 02:05 AM

Every Final Fantasy game post 16-bit, with the possible exception of IX, has been complete trash. After X came out I resolved never to play them again, and with the way XII and XIII are looking that won't be too hard or regrettable. Crystal Chronicles, which could have been a huge comeback home for Square, was instead generic BS. In all seriousness, ever since the 32-bit era Square has been a disgusting shell of its former glory. The Enix merger didn't help but it did help kill all credibility that company had.

Return to the roots or kill the series.

GarrettCRW

07-08-2006, 02:23 AM

Suikoden,

@_@ @_@ @_@ @_@

JPeeples

07-08-2006, 04:07 AM

I've only played V, but I'd agree with the Suikoden mention, since it was a mind-numbing chore to get through. Beyond the Army Men games, I can't think of any series I'd like to see completely killed off. In the case of older ones that have gotten stale, simply cooling off on them seems to help their quality. I would nominate the SmackDown series for death, but since it's now the only game in town for WWE games, I want it to survive. It certainly fits the "worst series that just won't die" given how stale it is year in and year out, despite "improvements".

Damaramu

07-08-2006, 04:37 AM

Sega also needs to cut the crap concerning their Shining Force license. Five sequals and not a single one has been a tactical game. One remake and Japan's seen two traditional Force games for... cellphones? WTF?

Thank you! Damn it, Sega! Give us a Shining Force IV or something along those lines!!!

Octane06

07-08-2006, 01:23 PM

I'm surprised that no one has mentioned the Top Gear series yet. The original trilogy of games was great, but after that Tecmo decided to throw the series into the trash. Top Gear Daredevils has to be one of the worst games I've ever played. Of course, I would say that it started with Top Gear Rally. The original games were all about going fast on tons of tracks in a great game not unlike Outrun. But when Rally came around we got slow gameplay, bad handling and a miniscule amount of tracks. Why did you ruin it, Tecmo?

Tecmo was not involved in the series. Kemco was.

Whoops! I always confuse everything...let me fix that.

Oh, and I think I overexaggerated too with Top Gear Rally. It's a pretty good game, but it's not like the first titles. It should have just been named Boss Rally like in the PC version. Plus, I can't get mad at Boss because they some of my favorite racing games.

MrSmiley381

07-09-2006, 03:10 AM

SNK fighting games?

Have you played KOF XI? Of course you haven't. Same goes for Guilty Gear. Sure, they're just upgrades, but that's because Arc System Works is tweaking the hell out of them.

Mortal Kombat just needs to fix the glitches. Decpetion pwned pretty hard.

Leisure Suit Larry doesn't need to die, because it's still funny as all hell.

Halo, Final Fantasy, and anything with the EA logo of DOOM needs to die. Bottom line. At least Shin Megami Tensei makes you feel like a badass.

As for Resident Evil changing, I thought it was weird at first. I was all "THAT WON'T SELL, WHAT ARE YOU DOING CAPCOM."

But then it was awesome.

Anyway, let's hope we get new awesome Beat Em Ups. How about we revive Splatterhouse and Streets of Rage?

segarocks30

07-09-2006, 11:16 AM

Zelda

Agreed, possibly one of the worst games I've ever played on one system. Zelda Ocarina Of Time still haunts me on how much suckage that game was and same with Majora's Mask, so, horrible.

GrayFox

07-09-2006, 12:42 PM

Zelda

Agreed, possibly one of the worst games I've ever played on one system. Zelda Ocarina Of Time still haunts me on how much suckage that game was and same with Majora's Mask, so, horrible.

Wait, heh, is this sarcasm? I can't tell. But I hope it is, lol.

Anyways, I agree with Suikoden dying. I mean, seriously, 4 was terrible, and 5 was barely a step up. But hey, 2 rocked. Hardcore.

But seriously, I'm way sick of GTA, ever since 3, and I'm getting sick of Final Fantasy.

GTA... well just because I absolutely hate the core gameplay elements of the franchise, which are 'shooting' and 'driving.' They're terribly done, no diggidy. And just because I can now lift weights and eat, doesn't mean it makes those core gameplay elements better.

And Final Fantasy, obviously. Seriously, they have already announced THREE Final Fantasy 13's! Square, can we please slow it down a little bit? Don't get me wrong, I'm a huge lover of FF4/5/6/7, but I just can't stand the series anymore. It's becoming the Madden of RPG's.

7th lutz

07-09-2006, 01:24 PM

Nascar series by Ea.

What is so bad about the series?
Glitches, games not being accurate to nascar in real life like having 43 car in an allstar race when the winners of races in the season before the allstar,the season before, a past winner of the allstar race or a past champion.

The audio is screwed up. They claim you had bad race when you win, or win 4 races in row they claim your struggling, Calling a women driver named tina gorden a he, the spotter giving out wrong info.

There is a well kown glitch the last nascar game called the old spice glitch. When you go into the old spice car in career mode, the game will freeze and every thing you saved for nascar 2006 on your memory card will be gone!

Ea has being doing this stuff with sloppyness with the series since they got the exclusive rights to develop and publisher nascar games.

udisi

07-09-2006, 02:07 PM

agreed with army men, I think the tenchu series has become crappy, and really I think any series or icon that a game company needs to change to make it sell needs to die...IE mario, new super mario bros was fun, but I really don't have any interest in say another 3-d platformer posing as a mario game. Same with Zelda series. I love final fantasy but 9 was the last one that a really enjoyed. Maybe I'm just getting old, but I'd love to see some new 2-d games with great graphics. Can you imagime what kind of mario, contra, or shooter 2-D games you could make on today's systems?!?!. Just think if they came out with a new classic style metroid on the GC. they'll do it for GBA, and those are great, but no one wants to do it on a home console. They just want to take the franchise name and slap it on some average 3-d, platform, or stealth game.

Anthony1

07-09-2006, 05:16 PM

I'm gonna have to go with the Sonic series when it comes to home consoles.

Why?

Because I just think that Sonic simply does not work in 3D. Sonic and 3D = very bad idea. I know there is a new Sonic game coming out, and it's supposed to be the first 3D Sonic game to really be worth a damn, but color me skeptical about it.

I think the series should have died with the Sega CD and Genesis. There should have been a decent 3D Sonic on Saturn, but I guess it was just never meant to be. And all the Sonics from the Dreamcast forward are bastard children as far as I'm concerned.

Psycho Penguin

07-09-2006, 05:18 PM

I never liked Suikoden because of the overabudance of characters, the crazy battle systems, and the fact the games personally bore the hell out of me.

GrayFox

07-09-2006, 09:18 PM

ice1605

07-09-2006, 09:39 PM

Zelda
ZELDA???!!! Zelda is one of the best!!!!! But anyway, once Halo 3 is released, that will meet the criteria and should die.
My 2.1 cents.

echo_machine

07-09-2006, 09:48 PM

Army Men.

LOL So true.

vectrexer

07-09-2006, 10:07 PM

You waht I have to second, third, or fourth on Army Men. I really thought the games were going to be much better than they are.

You have a game idea that basically takes a kids imagination a wastes it on a pretty generic game. Not the worst game of all time. But it is another title that could have been so much more.

vectrexer

07-09-2006, 10:20 PM

Oh Yes,,,, Beach-Head.

Do it right in the remake and amaze us, or just let it go. The first title was a fun game. The rest of the follow ons were much less so and have never recovered.

On of the things I look for in a title is would the game make me go out and buy a console just to play the remake or the original? AVP on Jaguar is one of those titles that I went and purchased the console for. Before that no Jag. Tempest 2000 also great. Beach-Head remakes,,,, not exciting yet for gameplay or for pushing the technical limits of the particular platform it was released for past the original.