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I'm in. I think they kind of botched MGS4's ending with the graveyard scene. The whole game was building up to that, then they just have the last two loose ends literally walk up, explain the entire plot, and explain why it's actually a happy ending. I was dumbfounded.

@jakob187 said:

I don't agree with much of what this blog has to say, but at least it's well-written. = /

Ha! Well thanks for that half compliment. I actually work as a film blogger, but I figured I'd take a break to come over here and write about games. lol, lesson learned.

@ZeForgotten said:

@ERoBB said:

@ZeForgotten said:

It is a blog post, sadly this one also did the wrong thing by being attached to the forums where such things seem to be less and less welcome

Exactly right. When it asked me if I wanted to link it to any forums, I figured "Yeah, why the hell not?"

Can't blame you, it used to be ok to do that back in the old days. Now, well, you know that story

What the hell happened? Did somebody die or something? Feels like I wandered into a funeral loudly cracking jokes and everyone just stared at me.

Everyone's so angry and jaded. Was the discussion forum just a mess of blog posts until "The Great Storm" or something?

@ZeForgotten said:

It is a blog post, sadly this one also did the wrong thing by being attached to the forums where such things seem to be less and less welcome

Exactly right. When it asked me if I wanted to link it to any forums, I figured "Yeah, why the hell not?"

@believer258: It was a blog post, I just linked it to the General Discussion forum after the fact when it asks if you want to. Had I known the word "overrated" had become such a taboo recently, I definitely would have avoided it. Dunno, I must have slept through that flame war.

But in terms of Ryan liking the past two Assassin's Creed games being brought up so many times, I'll just mention Michael Pachter's comments to the opposite. And on a Giantbombcast (the E3 Day Zero one) opinions are split down the middle. So there's definitely a discussion to be had.

@believer258 said:

@ERoBB said:

@MariachiMacabre said:

This thread didn't need to be made. It's just flamebait.

Not intentionally.

Why did you feel the need to state what you thought were the four most overrated franchises?

It's a forum. I figured I'd throw my opinion on these four franchises out there, then talk about them. Some would agree, some would disagree. Some people would talk about franchises they like/dislike. All of that stuff did happen. It's just sandwiched between people calling for my head. Seems like Giantbomb was bogged down with trolls screaming "Overrated!" at everything, then I show up after the fact like Forrest Gump with honest intentions, but to everyone else it looks like I'm doing the same thing.

@MariachiMacabre said:

This thread didn't need to be made. It's just flamebait.

Not intentionally.

@Jace said:

And I'd hardly consider adding multiplayer a small or gimmicky addition.

I dunno, that's exactly what I'd call it these days. Every single player game, even games like Mass Effect 3 which is the final chapter of the saga, add some kind of usually bland and unnecessary form of multiplayer. If a game implements it well, I'm all for it. But plenty of games just tack it on, and it's definitely gimmicky.

Franchise or not, I still never "got" Bayonetta.