ITT: Games that tactically and mercilessly murdered franchises
>>341471889
ME3 doesn't belong there; other m and lords of shadow, on the other hand, are right up there with pic related
>>341472107
>>341472404
you start
>>341471889
Dead space 3
It hurts.
>>341472107
>>341472404
Neither of these are correct.
Both of these ended the franchises. Murdered is when something is over before the developers intended to end it. Also you're blatant shitposters so kys.
>>341471889
Lords of Shadow was a damn fine game, kill yourself OP
>>341471889
Except Lords of shadow was good. Iga killed the franchise.
>>341471889
Lords of Shadow wasn't great but it wasn't that bad. The series wasn't doing that well before LoS showed up; it was Konami's misguided effort of restoring relevance to the series.
>But it's not REAL Castlevania!
Neither was Lament of Innocence or the N64 game. Games widely considered mediocre or shit. Not even Symphony of the Night had all that much in common with the games before it.
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>>341473984
kratos belmont, pls
>>341473629
OP says that 'murdered' means 'irreparably destroyed'.
Of course New Vegas and Witcher 3 still didn't
>>341473606
Why do you care so much about an irrelevant tie-in product?
>>341474056
I never said I liked the game, you dull motherfucker. I said that it wasn't any more dissimilar to other games in the series than Lament of Innocence. The series has also seen far worse in terms of quality.
>>341473984
Lament of Innocence or the N64 games didn't take over as 'normal' for the franchise.
>>341472546
It was horrible to watch, desu.
;_;
>>341473796
You can't kill that which is already dead
>>341474807
Lords of Shadow didn't take over anything either since it was just 3 games long. It was a spinoff series.
>>341474658
yeah, but none of those subpar entries have been nails in the coffin; order of ecclesia was the last good game, and lords of shadow was the deathblow
>>341471889Other M had great graphics and fun gameplay despite having a god awful story
Halo Reach desu
>>341471889
LOS1 wasn't that bad.
The other two LOS games were shit tho, now those killed the franchise.
It takes effort to kill off what's basically an action version of SRW.
>>341473635
kek
>>341475157
>being this wrong while being this right as well
impressive
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>>341475352
LoS is not that bad, it was an example of bandwagoning.
>>341472107
Agreed, but for very different reasons than the games in OP.
It was the last Fallout game to have actual staff from the original Fallout games working on it. It was and will be the last "real" Fallout, and that said, it kind of wasn't.
It killed the series before it even took off. That's how bad it was. Kinda hilarious how sure they were that this was going to be the next big trilogy or whatever.
>>341474807
The N64 game was intended to be, actually. Symphony of the Night was a side project that turned out to be very successful. And either way the "normal" for the series turned out to be Symphony of the Night and its androgynous children. They didn't have much in common with how the series started either.
Also, LoS was always intended to be a closed alternative take on the series. I remember them stressing the series would be three games before Mirror of Fate came out.
>>341475018
That has more to do with Konami's decisions in general than LoS specifically. LoS2 came out just a couple years ago. You realize that, right?
>>341475609
New Vegas largely worked DESPITE what Obsidian had on their hands for material. It worked because it was Obsidian and not Bethesda.
>>341475665
>Not the first Cata patch that nerfed everything to shit and made the game retard friendly
>>341471889
ME3 didn't kill the series, ME2 did, although subtly.
>>341475001
is* 3 games long
let me know when anything not-LOS comes out, and then you can call it a spinoff
it's like trying to call homecoming, downpour, and book of memories spinoffs; we're not getting any more. series is done.
>>341475756
and we'll never see anything else
>>341475665
Funny cover for Cataclysm.
>>341475626
They had a great concept, too bad they only did shit with it. At some point in its long development cycle, it could have been a good game.
>>341471889
>mfw Lords of Shadow 2
I still don't know what the fuck happened there.
>>341475665
Wrong picture, oops
>>341472107
>>341472404
well memed my friend
>>341473635
This. Over half of the active players left literally the next week and never came back.
Halo 5 then sold 1/3 of what 4 sold because of it.
>>341475792
That is what I'm saying. It's hampered by being part of the neoFallout franchise, but beyond that, it felt like the first two games unlike 3 and 4.
>Not posting the true final nail in Castlevania's coffin
>>341476015
development hell and HORRENDOUS project lead, apparently. when your team speaks up against you in interviews you know you fucked up.
>>341476352
>fast fighting game with cool visuals
>bad
I've played every single Castlevania and I despise Edgy Note but that game was really fun to play.
>>341475923
>and we'll never see anything else
Again, that's on Konami's de-emphasis of video games more than LoS. Do you also think TPP "murdered" Metal Gear?
>>341476015
Being rushed to complete an already controversial franchise by a publisher that was bowing out of gaming?
Also, Mirror of Fate kind of outed MercurySteam as being devs that don't really have their heads screwed on straight when it came to the franchise, whatever you might feel about the original LoS.
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>>341476019
spotted the wrath babies!
wotlk catered to casuals and therefore was the beginning of the end.
Blizzard tried to get their shit together with cata, but by then the game was infested with casuals (wrath babies) and their huge numbers made Blizzard change cata so it would also be casual.
wotlk ruined wow, not cata
>>341476352
I remember this one. It was actually really fun.
>>341476543
>implying it didn't
hobbled by the open-world decision, half-written, half-complete, half-assed video game
>>341476391
that actually happened? How did they fuck up so bad after LoS? It wasn't anything spectacularly special, but it was a solid-enough game and the only way from there was supposed to be up.
>>341476847
Are we talking about quality or the survival of the series? A game being shit and also being the last one doesn't mean that it's the last one because it's shit.
>this shit not posted yet
>>341476697
you're retarded, desu
>>341473042
One of the worst games I've ever played.
Everything about it is just so terrible. It DESPERATELY tries to either be the movie or Silent Hill 2 and fails in every regard.
And now Silent Hill is dead for real now so it's all pointless now anyway.
>>341473635
>tfw the leaks barely 3-4 days before halo 4 came out
>showed that the gameplay was without a doubt going to be worse than 3 and half the shit in 3 wasn't even going to be in 4
>went in and cancelled my pre order the next day
dodged a fucking bullet there
Every single dumbass decision you could possibly make on a franchise, they made it here.
