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(11-16-2008,
05:49 PM)
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Games series where they've lost you and why
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Here we will talk about games series you've given up on and why.
What was the last game you played of the series? Why did you give up? For me, it's: Zelda - I quit at Ocarana of Time. Got to the Fire Level and got frustrated and quit the game. Never touched a Zelda Game again. Mortal Kombat - Quit playing on MK3. The combo system was ridiculous, and just got bored of the series. |
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(11-16-2008,
05:54 PM)
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#2
Soul Calibur.
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(11-16-2008,
05:59 PM)
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#7
My PS2 favories - SOCOM, Pro Evo, NCAA Football - haven't made the jump in progress that I thought these frachises' would make on the PS3. As I get older and have less time to play games in front of the TV, I am far less forgiving considering the jump in prices. I might just dump consoles all together and stick to the DS from here on out.
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(11-16-2008,
06:01 PM)
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#8
Soul Calibur: This series just gets worse every single time.
Metal Gear Solid: I only like the very first one for some reason. I really don't know why though. NHL series from EA: the new games are way too complicated. I don't want to bother learning how to play them. |
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(11-16-2008,
06:03 PM)
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#12
Metal Gear Solid.
I finished and enjoyed the first one on the PSX, played the second until the fat guy on the skate (don't remember his name) and then I got tired of the stupid and surrealist plot and the long cutscenes, never played MGS2 again. I even bought MGS3 later, trying to love the so praised saga, but never played more like half an hour because of the same things. |
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Lost all credibility.
(11-16-2008,
06:03 PM)
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#13
Metal Gear Solid - Removing the soliton radar from 3 and 4 totally ruined the game for me. Despite being made fun of as "cheap", I liked the puzzle/pac-man element of dodging enemies (yes I enjoyed VR Missions greatly. :P). Not having the radar destroyed that to me. I basically played 3 and 4 just for the story and never touched them again after beating them once.
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(11-16-2008,
06:04 PM)
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#14
Tony Hawk, lost me with 4.
MGS lost me at MGS2. Soul Calibur lost me with Soul Calibur 2. Final Fantasy is realllllly fucking pushing it of late. Mega Man lost me with X6 then picked me back up again. Zelda's... on the verge. |
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(11-16-2008,
06:04 PM)
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#15
Hey, it's this week's "shit on games everyone else likes" thread!
Glad to be here. Metal Gear Solid series - MGS3. It probably was the point where I realised "Holy shit, this is not all a big tongue-in-cheek commentary on shitty storytelling - they're actually serious!" Although MGS2 was pushing it already, in retrospect. |
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(11-16-2008,
06:05 PM)
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#18
Halo (lackluster campaign mode since Halo 2, MP got stale since Halo 3)
UT (Same old gameplay, too gritty for a MP game) GH (the patterns since GH3 didn't have rythm, poor playlists: some awesome song followed by 5 mediocre ones) Last edited by FiRez : 11-16-2008 at 06:09 PM. |
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(11-16-2008,
06:06 PM)
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#20
Burnout.
the first one came out of nowhere and blew me away with its tight controls and the awesome looking and superfast graphics. and i liked the gameplay concept behind it. then came Burnout 2 and made everything i loved about the first game even better. with Takedown/Revenge/Dominator/Paradise all i loved was gone. i couldn't get into any of the succesors and i wish, Criterion would make just one nextgen-Burnout like Burnout 2. nothing more. |
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(11-16-2008,
06:08 PM)
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#22
Originally Posted by adamma666:
I forgot about this, exactly the same thing happened to me, after Burnout 2 I bought Burnout 3 I was somewhat dissapointed and never looked again to the franchise. |
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Likely to be eaten by a grue
(11-16-2008,
06:11 PM)
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#24
Originally Posted by 2DMention:
Ha, the water temple would have gelded you. |
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(11-16-2008,
06:12 PM)
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#25
Two have already been mentioned:
Prince of Persia: Really liked the 2D classics and Sands of Time, but when Warrior Within was more gloomy and more action focussed I lost interest. Still, I will give the new Prince of Persia a try. Tony Hawk Pro Skating: THPS 4 was the last one I've bought, I played it for about 2 hours and decided that there was nothing new for me there. Never tried another one. Rayman Raving Rabbids: First game was decent as a launch title, second game was awesome, third game.. not interested, it looks like it's more like RRR1 again with a lot of 1-player minigames. Insert Mario in random sports title: They're not bad games at all, the last game I bought was the brilliant Mario Golf Toadstool Tour or something and a cousin bought Strikers. It's just that everything in the games is getting so damn predictable. GTA: I was a fan of GTA 2 and the London expansion of GTA, GTA3 was nice and San Andreas was the pinnacle of the series. After that I've played the first PSP game for a bit, GTA4 at someones place.. It'll never be as fun again as GTA 2 :/ Burnout: The first was a great surprise, the second was the greatest and then the series went downhill for me. Other series that deserve a mention: - God of War - Kirby - Advance Wars |
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Banned
(11-16-2008,
06:13 PM)
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#26
I had to think really hard to come up with anything, since I tend to feel that any series I've played enough to really enjoy will probably always 'have me,' even if a particular game in it is subpar, and if I liked the first game in a series but not the second, I was never a fan of the series in the first place. :O
That said, I did manage to think of one. Mega Man - when Zero came into the picture, the whole thing was pretty much ruined for me. |
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(11-16-2008,
06:14 PM)
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#27
Smackdown series. I bought every single one, and will not be purchasing SVR 2009. I will not turn into one of the Madden zombies and buy a game every year.
Soul Calibur. I miss you Soul Calibur 2. Halo. One was awesome, 2's focus was MP, and 3's focus was again MP. Fine, but I want a good campaign too. Feels like more focus is put on that than SP. There's more, but I can't remember them right now. |
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(11-16-2008,
06:15 PM)
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#28
I believe I will be giving up on Splinter Cell soon. Double Agent was kind of boring and I didn't like the multi-player near as much as Chaos Theory. Conviction doesn't look like a Splinter Cell game at all, and I'm not very interested in it because of that.
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hot hot hanuman-on-man action
(11-16-2008,
06:15 PM)
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#29
Tony Hawk started off great (with the demo of 1 that came in a magazine. My friends and I played that demo till the wee hours in the morning
 ) and lost it around the whole "American Wasteland" shenanigans. A damn shame, as it was one of my favorite multiplayer games of all time.Final Fantasy was, for a time, a brilliant series of games. I loved 6, 7 and 9 beyond belief. I thought 10 was stupid and 12 had so much potential to return me to the series, but it just didn't hold up after 20 or so hours. I don't think I have the patience or time for these types of games anymore. |
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(11-16-2008,
06:17 PM)
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#31
Originally Posted by Calcaneus:
Burnout: It started with the 4th one - the constant crashing was irritating. Add that with the open world of Paradise and I'm out. Donkey Kong: I really liked the games on SNES, but they haven't been able to convert that greatness to the next gen systems. |
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(11-16-2008,
06:17 PM)
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#32
SOCOM. 1 and 2 were greatness, every game since has been very average.
Soul Calibur. Haven't really enjoyed any of them past 1. Tony Hawk. I never would have thought that as much as I'd played 1, 2 and 3 that I would never touch any of them since. Halo. The first one was brilliant, the second one was a rehashed Halo 1 with a MP focus, the 3rd was just more uninspired rehash. GTA. Haven't really "lost" me yet but I won't be buying GTA5, more likely renting. I never beat the 3 last gen GTA games because they were so huge and full of content but this one felt lifeless and took no time to beat. Next gen development and DLC FTL. |
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aka andydumi
(11-16-2008,
06:18 PM)
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#33
Originally Posted by Narcosis:
This * 1000. I also stopped Marios after Sunshine. And Zelda after OOT. NFS after Hot Pursuit. They started moving towards Midnight Club and I quit. They need to go back to those police chase long, open tracks. |
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(11-16-2008,
06:21 PM)
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#36
Soul Calibur. The first one was possibly my favorite game of last generation. The second one was still pretty good, even with the stupid extra characters. The third was pretty shitty. And the fourth turned me off the minute I saw Star Wars. What the fuck.
Tony Hawk, of course. Lost me at 3, but that may be due to playing 2 so much. GTA. Liked 2, loved 3 and VC, but didn't play SA until a few years after it came out and it just felt so archaic -- even on the PC. And GTA4 sucked. Halo. Loved the first, maybe not quite as much as some of my friends, but I still quite enjoyed it. The second was still fun in multi. By the third, I just didn't care anymore. COD4 ended any of chance of that. Super Smash Bros. I have no interest in a Wii, and I grew up. Guitar Hero. I might actually be done with music games with plastic instruments. But I'll probably go back on that whenever I play some drums on Rock Band again. Zelda. I just couldn't force myself to play TP any longer. Once again, I'm probably never going to buy a Wii, so I will probably never play the next Zelda title either. Command and Conquer. I guess I just didn't like the beta enough to buy Red Alert 3. I also bought the mega-huge pack with basically every C&C game a few months back, and Generals and C&C 3 didn't really grab me either. I really though Burnout would be added here, but I got totally addicted to Paradise, even though I hated it half the time. |
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(11-16-2008,
06:25 PM)
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#39
Originally Posted by Blader5489:
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(11-16-2008,
06:26 PM)
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#40
Originally Posted by AndyD:
Just adding to mine... Metroid Prime lost me at the 2nd one, Guitar Hero has lost me as of the third one. |
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(11-16-2008,
06:27 PM)
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#42
The responses have opened up more memories for me:
THPS - I actually lost interest with 3, but I bought 4 anyway. Still a good game, but 3 as the pinnacle. Burnout - 1 has been, and I wager always will be my favourite. It was actually a competent racer as well as a great gimmick. I absolutely loved the tight Euro tracks with the great turns. I bought Burnout 2, but never enjoyed it as much as the first. Mega Man - I played every mega man from up to X-2 and 8 before ditching the series due to fatigue. I bought the anniversary collection, mainly because I had never played ( or even seen) MM1. FF - Ditched it at 9. Doubt i'll ever pick it up again. I've always preferred Enix' RPGs, though I never played any of the Dragon Quests. GTA. I was crawling through GTAIV at a friend's house before he updated it which fucked up the sound for some reason. Doubt i'll go back; San Andreas was more fun in every way. |
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(11-16-2008,
06:30 PM)
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#45
Splinter Cell Chaos Theory - I loved the first two titles. But somehow the third one killed the series for me. It wasn't bad at all but it was the same old shit.
The commercial success of underground destoryed the nfs series for me. i loved hot pursuit 2 <3- |
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(11-16-2008,
06:34 PM)
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#49
Halo.
First one is great, second was extremely disappointing, and the third kinda sucks too. I loved the weapons on the first one, and their balance, and the levels (though some were repetitive), and it was really fresh. A lot of that got messed up on the second and third one for me. |
