Fallout failed. I like the first two, but after that Tactics really sucked and Fallout 3... isn't Fallout. GTA failed too. they took a great simple game and added too much crap. Mortal Kombat failed too. MK4 was the last good one.
I still love MGS, but I like the older ones better... Same with RE - it doesn't get better than REmake.
Tony Hawk. I remember how many hours were spent with friends playing the paint mode and score attack. Pulling off a 900 was as satisfying as a headshot in a shooter. When THUG came out, I believed this was Tony Hawk at its absolute greatest. Fun environments to skate in, an amazing soundtrack, and a story that was surprisingly decent in the scheme of things. Project 8 was the last Tony Hawk game I played and while I won't say its a terrible game, it seemed to have lost the luster the older games had for me back in my younger days. I dont think the games have gotten worse, I just think I grew out of them as the series moved forward.
Failed Sonic the Hedgehog: The Genesis era is really all I need Tony Hawk: By THUG 2, I was done with the rehashes. (The series turns 10 today by the way, 9.30.99-9.30.09)
Still Love Super Mario : Greatest platformers around ergo greatest games around
Sonic = FAIL Silent Hill = FAIL RE5 = Story and Atmosphere FAIL (but still fun to play with a friend) Farcry = kiinnda FAIL Quake = FAIL Battlefield = not failed but I am really disapointed that there hasnt been a nice 60 player PC title in the series in some years. Now it's all about bad company. Castlevania = Fail (though it may come back with the new game???)
"Silent Hill, since team Konami left the development, is getting crappier. Resident Evil turned into a horror co-op game, very different from it was before. The survival horror genre is now failing. "
I agree that there seems to be a lack of great survival horror games. I did really like Dead Space though, but it came off as being more like a very atmospheric shooter then a traditional survival horror game.
@Strongba1: Man those were some games. I have the fondest memories of the first three, excellent games but then it slowly started falling apart until I had to go talk to Bam fucking Magera to get to do some tricks.
I have the weirdest relationship with the Metal Gear Solid series after two I thought there was no way to recover, then three was amazing but then I really hated four so I guess in my eyes it's a failed franchise at the moment.
1942 was awesome in its day. Huge battles, almost every kind of vehicle you can think of was drive able, it took place in several theaters of war. Everything about it was epic. BF2 continued that tradition, though it added smaller 32 and 16 player versions, but it never lost focus of what really made Battlefield good in the first place.
Then they added the option for infantry only in the game. Seriously, what the fuck? Battlefield was never about infantry only battles, driving vehicles was the fucking point of the game! And yet for some god forsaken reason, infantry only servers started popping up like rabbits on the server browser. It became increasingly difficult for me to find a server that had vehicles enabled.
BF Vietnam and 2142 were okay games, but they were pretty much just glorified mods of 1942 and BF2 respectively.
Now the series has found a new home on the consoles with Bad Company and 1943, and these latest games really piss me the fuck off. Removing the 64 player limit? What the dick? thats not fucking battlefield, that's Call of Duty with vehicles. I mean... fuck. If I wanted to play a game with smaller battles and more of a focus on infantry combat, I'd play COD since those games specialize in that kind of thing and, in my opinion, do it better.
I'm really hoping that Battlefield 3 redeems the series in my eyes.
Anyway, TL;DR: I liked battlefield, but since Bad Company that series has gotten a lot worse in my mind.
@Mooshu: I agree entirely about the player cap. Although I think that Vietnam was fantastic, and after that it started to go downhill fast. 2142 was kind of terrible IMO. I was unaware that a Battlefield 3 had been announced, gotta check that out. Has a lot of potential right off the bat without Bad Company affixed to it's name. (This is of course based on the assumption that any battlefield game that isnt a spinoff is based of large scale warfare.)
Failed: EA Cricket , EA Rugby (linked to 06 since franchise not there (I will add it)) and the Bond franchise.
Cricket and Rugby, there haven't been games for for 3 and 2 (although the 08 was the same as 06) years respectivly; it's understandable given the little market, but sad still.
And Bond, ever since Everything or Nothing, there has been no good Bond games, which really sucks. Even a change of developer and publisher couldn't change the quality, it's really unfortunate that such a great movie franchise has not been able to repetitivly bring out good games.
Failed: Secret of Mana series, 2 was great, 3 was awesome... then a not so good PS1 game, a terrible GBA remake, a terrible DS game, and Mana 4 was absolutely atrocious. DEATH!
Final Fantasy Series (after FFX): I hate MMOs so FFXI sucked for me. FFX12 had great production value, but I hated the combat ... So very boring. And the Summonings and Quickenings were just a complete waste of time. FFXIII looks to have more boring combat and don't get me started on those retarded summons and the Gestalt mode. What a miserable failure -- they are a mockery of their former selves. The graphics and animation are beautiful as always and the characters are great, but those qualities are not what makes a game fun. If Versus and Agito are button mashing action games which they seem to be, they are as far way from the series' roots as you can get. I'm not interested. FFXIV is another MMO. Not interested.
SUCCEEDING:
Shin Megami Tensei Series: My new favorite series and Atlus is my new favorite developer. Thanks to the Endurance Run for showing me how cool these games are!
A great RPG series that was unique enough to stand apart from the Square and Enix games to make the jump from SNES to PSX and stayed strong. When it moved to the PS2 however; it all went bad, taking a sci-fi angle and abandoning all the charm of the prior 4 games. Taking a risk is admirable, but not when it kills the franchise, and since then there has not been another new BoF.
Agreed., everytime the Giant Bomb crew talk about Capcom resurrecting franchises I find myself yelling it at my iPod. Here's to hoping.
A lot of you are pretty hard on games that were pretty popular in the mainstream. Halo 3, GoW2, FFXI & XII failed? Having played most of these games and seen their sales figures, I would say not, and having played them, I can say with a certainty that even in evaluating the games on their own merits, you're overreacting. I guess it doesn't really matter, though. Here's my list.
Failed series: Total War - this is the highest on my list for sure. I played so many hours of the original medieval, and the upcoming expansion pack is the first that I won't buy. CA never managed to come up with an AI that worked after they switched away from the Risk map, which I maintain was the worst decision the company made with regard to the series. I came close to beating one game of Empire, and ultimately failed because a bug in the game caused it to freeze during the turn change (even when I reloaded a save and tried again.)
Summoner: This was only two games long, neither of which were too well-received. However, I loved the story and atmosphere of the original, even if it was blocky and barely up to the standards of being a PS2 game. The second kept the good story and had a cool Queen mechanic, but they filled it with weird pastel colors. It didn't sell well, so the series died.
Mechwarrior - definitely. They ran this one into the ground by turning it into an arcade experience in MechAssault 1 & particularly 2, with the whole "Oh, now you can get out of your giant robot and fight!" mechanic. No surprise the series died at that point. Look forward to its resurrection.
Still a fan of: Halo - Never been an MP fan, but I like its story and the enemies' smart AI Final Fantasy - I'll admit XII was a disappointment, but only because of the terrible idea behind its combat. I thought the story was one of the best so far, and I hope the developers realize it and don't attribute the negative reaction to the wrong cause. Gears - Same thing as Halo. Thought 2's campaign was a ton of fun, especially coop. Elder Scrolls - The Elder Scrolls games never leave me with a good taste in my mouth, but the thing is it's such a long time before they leave me. I can get some serious time out of em before the flaws start becoming too difficult to ignore. I hope they don't continue to go the route of TW and keep boosting the graphics while gameplay actually regresses.
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