Name the franchise

Name the franchise

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literally everything

Every single franchise in the world. There is not one single exception

It's

All of them..... except Silent Hill.

zelda sadly. Echoes of Wisdom was a step in the right direction

All of them. Franchises survive on brand recognition, not on quality. Either they do the bare minimum to fall within the "next gen" graphics or they reinvent the game so much that it no longer resembles what people fell in love with.

MonHun

Mass Effect and Dragon Age

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TotK also was infintely better than BotW. If they had just skipped BotW and released TotK instead, far less people would have complained.

Crash Bandicoot and Guilty Gear

Halo

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Oddworld.

literally one of the most fun multiplayer games on the market because it's not a sweaty tryhard esport-a-thon that keeps you hostage

last balance update was almost 8 years ago and it was almost entirely just nerfs, including to sidegrades that weren't even that useful

prior major update before that replaced the main server browser with matchmaking, removed team switching and spectator mode, added pointless exp mechanic

harassed by waves of bots for several years until they finally decided to game-ban the bots manually instead of waiting for VAC

only few employees still working on TF2 would rather give the community the tools to make stuff because the rest of Valve seemingly abandoned the franchise in favor of hardware development and other cash cows like Dota 2

majority of Steam's reported players are literal idle bots

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Pokemon
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It would be easier to name the franchises that are still going strong. So many have been meddled to the point they’ve become shells of themselves.

Total war.

Every Capcom IP.

Zelda.

Dragon age is dead and mass effect is the next to die. And by dead I don't mean it had a bad game I mean the last game actually killed the franchise and they plan to do the same to mass effect

This

Everything
I stopped consuming modern media completely. Games, movies, anime, literature, western or japanese, I ignore it all

Sonic. For me it ended with 3S&K. Fuck Adventure and everything beyond

it is modern state

The only franchises I can think over that DOESN'T follow the meme is probably Resident Evil, Digimon, and Persona
I know Anon Babble hates anything new and also tends to be quite contrarian, but honestly I feel like the aforementioned are the only franchises in a good place and their releases have been great and not too off from the originals/olders

SpongeBob

Crash Bandicoot

RE, Persona

not too off from the originals

lol, lmao even

xivtroon post

All of them.

Monster Hunter, specifically Wilds.
I thought World was rough, Rise a little less so, then Wilds just cranked the things I don't like up to 11.

Toukiden 2 is objectively better than Toukiden 1.
Nioh 2 > Nioh 1

It is modern state

story wise yes but crafting should not be part of zelda.

Resident Evil is an action series now. Not a survival horror with limited ammo. With Persona, yeah I agree. P5 Royal is good. No one actually likes the older Persona games. We will see with what they do with Persona 6. I've been skeptical, but maybe it has a small chance of being good

Learn what a franchise is, retard.

You retards are just going to say all of them so what's the point of this

Monster Hunter
Pokemon
Final Fantasy

Zelda

Sonic

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zelda, pokemon, animal crossing
the holy trinity of franchises ruined by normalfags
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the literal definition of op's question. Call of duty as well, fucking fortnite slop now.

imagine the crust busting

every game series i ever cared about

I'm with you, they can cut the crafting for all I care. It already annoyed me in it's infancy in SS.

last balance update was almost 8 years ago and it was almost entirely just nerfs

compfags ruined the game. god I hate them with a passion.

Rollercoaster tycoon.

Viewtiful Joe is dead and buried minus fighting game cameos. He won. The soul burns bright in the background.

pokemon and zelda
I hate zoomers so much it's unreal

All of them. Games shouldn't become franchises. The more sequels, the worse it gets.

baby's first fps is still baby's first fps

wow

Fallout, Elder Scrolls, Baldur's Gate, Diablo, Halo, probably every other franchise from 30 years ago

Unironically everything
Autists need to band up and reclaim what was once ours

this bigly

thry are the same game for all intensive purposes.

Anon Babble

FPBP

Name the

Fucking....all of them? No, seriously, ALL of my favorite franchises are in shambles.

Final Fantasy

Latest entry was a character action game with a story that fizzles out halfway through. Also MMO-tier sidequests.

Monster Hunter

Latest entry was casualized to the MAX

Devil May Cry

Latest entry is a jeet-directed netflix show that completely misses the point of the entire franchise and is merely a vehicle for the jeet to inject his shit taste

Civilization

Last two entries have been complete slop, especially VII.

This is what happens when you ask for endless sequels. You should have just let the series die gracefully.

i am losing my mind that lost planet 1 and 2 still have GFWL on pc.

OP said MODERN STATE you illiterate faggot

The new sonic writer kinda fucked up by not cutting anything out or just picking up after shadow the hedgehog. The sonic adventure era had a cool coherent vibe to it with chaos and shadow giving it some foundation.

thry are the same game for all intensive purposes.

True. But TotK has at least a samblence of real dungeons, and your exploration is actually being rewarded with upgrades or armor pieces, instead of just weapons that break in 5 hits or literal pieces of shit. Of course that stuff is still there, but it's not the ONLY thing you get out of exploring. If they had just made Totk from the start instead of BotW, I think a lot of classic Zelda fans hadn't been as skeptical about it. BotW now pretty much feels like a tech demo for TotK.

life is suffering, embrace replaying old games

Pokemon is the opposite, it held up for years dispite being for normies then it just gave up and made itself worse for no reason

No, more people would complain because TOTK largely relies on BOTW worship. It would be heavily criticized for being some weird playground full of gimmick shit but no purpose (even more so than BOTW)

sky and underground are both empty and with little actual exploration

the vehicle building is just a limited version of the typical lego vehicle building game people already got used to

nintendo realized they don't know how to make anything that will actually challenge or fight you when you're using a vehicle, so they just made them self destruct

crafting bullshit

but everything you craft explodes

and nothing challenges you enough to craft a weapon

koroks are worse than in botw

Etc etc etc

what normies? normies hated pokemon because it was too childish and only jumped back in when the franchise went 3d and then shat out go

The current writer is why fans shouldn't write the story. All he does is call back to old moments he liked and fill any and all "gaps" with his own headcannon.
He cannot write an original story, only recycle that which actual artists did in the past.

I would say Final Fantasy but it's starting to heal after the mess that was the 13 trilogy and 15

Everything new is shit.
Everyrhing I liked, quite literally everything, has either died or been ruined with sequels that failed to understand what made the originals great.
Feel free to contradict me with an example. I don't even play video games anymore, despite wanting. I feel like I'm a straight single guy forced to live in an african country (the woman are black)

Kind of checked out of the concept of following a franchise back in 2016-2018, and not just games but also anime, manga, films and tv series. I was already plenty of disappointed in a lot of franchises back then. Nowadays I don't even care if it's part or a franchise or not. If it looks interesting from the trailer or gameplay preview I probably will give it a try.

No xivtroon can hate Wow as much as someone who played Wow in the 2000s

Zelda

Anyone else get this feeling when playing a modern game where after playing for about 2 hours you can literally see the entire gameplay loop from there the game is unplayably boring
Shit is so formulaic surrounded by slop stories

I have a soft spot for SA1 since it's full of sovl and still kinda sorta "felt" like a Classic Sonic game, but beyond that I'd be fine with the rest of the Modern Sonic library being deleted from the timeline. Literally not one single legitimately good thing came out of it, objectively speaking. Only coombait goonslop and a handful of "decent" games. And it spawned the most obnoxious fans, Adventurefags.

Sonic and All Stars Racing Transformed can stay, though. That game is tight as fuck.

Literally every game

Rent free

Many times I've played a demo and will have felt that I've already experienced the entire game just from that.

Yeah, i hate it.
I remember games used to introduce whole new mechanics incrementally. Like you'll be almost done with the game and then they throw a whole new thing at you.
Now it seems everyone busts their loads withing the first hour of gameplay.

let's be real. there are plenty franchises in good places
mostly because they aren't touched a lot upon in modern times
but if you pretend that most franchises are on the same level as halo these days, you're just stupid

every single major western franchise

Take your pick of Sega IP.

Paper mario

kek pretending that the new personas and yakuza games aren't good just because they are popular

RE has stopped being a survival horror at RE4, RE7 and 8 have been more into horror and the remakes have been generally well received.
As for Persona, yeah, I don't know what is on about

yep
god i fucking hate 343 so much

hey man, english's are hard okay?

Monster hunter

Tribes
fuck hirez

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make game developers unemployed again

All of them, lol
I'll name one that sting just because it's you, OP
Tomb Raider

Came here to say this.

As someone who wrote off Nuts & Bolts back in 2008, fuck off. Same shit, 15 years later.

ME died (dragon) ages ago

Thief. As controvertial as Thief 3 turned out to be, no one really asked for Thi4f. The game was memed to death even before it's release. Then the entire game turned out to be nothing more than a wet fart.

Halo has always been shit you underage zoomers

all of bungie's halo games are good

You are an underage zoomer and your casual opinion is worthless

Eh, it was okay for casual multiplayer shenanigans. It's fun in a similar way that Goldeneye MP was fun. Also, Halo is almost 25 years old now. Not really an underage thing anymore, by year's end people younger than Halo 3 will be able to post here.

normies hated pokemon because it was too childish

Maybe in your shitty country

Eh

Nobody says Eh before a sentence. Stop typing like you're some fucking cartoon character.

street fighter
monster hunter
zelda
pokemon
anything blizzard

It's been nearly a quarter of a century. It came out when you were still a gleam in the eye of several prospective fathers. You can stop pretending to hate it to fit in now.

Resident Evil

Easy

Zelda and Final Fantasy

Eh, maybe you're right.

Eh.

overwatch 2 was a mistake

safe response slop

Tetris, Lemmings, Europa Universalis, Sims, Tropico.

It's genuinely more difficult to think of a game where this doesn't apply.
Literally every decent franchise has fallen to prey to shitty anti-player business practices that are not necessary at all.

starwars
even if you didnt like the movies a lot of the games were cool. star wars republic commando is just a good game i would suggest to a lot of people who like scifi and tactical fps games. 2000s were good times, even the random spin off titles for a lot of franchises were AAA quality.

>Final Fantasy

Latest entry was a character action game with a story that fizzles out halfway through. Also MMO-tier sidequests.

incredible fucking shittaste. of all things to complain about the game it is absolutely not the gameplay. FF is an actual bonafide videogame for once. pressing buttons shouldn't be your biggest concern.
and also the story fizzles out HALFWAY through? the whole concept of "muh game of thrones" fucking sucks. it actually becomes japanese and JRPG-like towards the end with the introduction of Barnabas and Ultima. the story was shit from the very beginning with insufferably elaborate dialogs and characters that are all GoT rip-offs.

Games that have no modern installment or are just phone ports

Tetris on phones is good

What a retarded post.

Nintendo. Anything western.

FPBP

Dragon age

Ys
To a lesser extent trails
Pokemon
Final fantasy
Zelda

Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat, and anything associated to the word battlepass.

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Echoes of Wisdom was a step in the right direction

fuck no
I hated the shit out of TOTK but at least I managed to finish that game unlike echoes

Ys

I fucking felt that.

Ignores Tropico 6

Ignores sims newest expansion pack

Ignores Tetris Forever

I think you are the super retard.

I was going to say MH but I realised it's just every capcom IP.

persona is a sega ip?

F.E.A.R is allready dead, i dont need to see it get rebooted for "modern audiences"

Seethe harder contrarians

Go back kiddo lmao

Oh boy, I sure love Ascension and The Short Message !

Silent Hill has been some kind of straight fucked since 2004 so I don't know what that anon's on. Series is cursed to be owned by Konami.

all of them.
There is no franchises that goes on forever that doesn't decay. Companies just refuse to move on and do new things so they keep their old series alive in a zombified state. And they have to change things because if they don't there's no point in new games. You also alienate part of your fanbase by warping what made it good before into something completely different.

*is the exception*

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