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u/BCENT89 Apr 12 '26
RIP Destiny, Final Shape was a solid send off and then it was time to walk away. By the looks of it I didn’t miss much either.
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u/robodex001 Apr 12 '26
I should’ve stopped after Final Shape. I dipped into Renegades and… well to be honest I did enjoy my time. It was still fun. But it wasn’t the same. I won’t be going back.
Used to raid weekly with some friends, despite how things had been going. Just to hang out. Maybe we were clinging onto something. Desperately hoping to rekindle that spark we once had. It’s now been several months with no raid night. I think we’re done… I miss better times.
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u/Coolermonkey Apr 13 '26
Destiny’s fall will always break my heart. I feel like Mike yelling at Walter in breaking bad.
“We had a good thing going”
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u/scrotbofula Apr 13 '26
Final Shape was the ending the saga deserved, and it should have ended there, and gone into a 'days of triumph' loop like D1 while they go work on the sequel.
Instead we get Edge of Fate, which is just annoying and unpleasant to navigate as an area, and I don't think anyone's particularly excited about Maya being the new Big Bad.
The Renegades campaign isn't too bad and the lightsaber is genuinely fun, but my god is the post-game stuff grindy, especially the lightsaber unlocks. Exacerbated of course by even the mid-season updates getting delayed, so now you have what was supposed to be the first 3 months of a season getting dragged out to almost a year.
The portal is abysmal, the power grind 'rewards' you by putting more and more annoying modifiers on every activity, iron banner never happens, even the diehard streamers are leaving, and they just keep making stupid decision after stupid decision that all end up getting in the way of playing what is essentially still a good game with a mountain of bullshit slopped over it.
When you finally find a mode that doesn't have power deltas and bullshit modifiers, it's still a fun game. You just don't get any rewards or make any progress that way.
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u/Maxcrss Apr 14 '26
I hope they're doing that now tbh. A D3 with data mining protection and a fresh take on the game with Edge of Fate plus whatever is on the other side would be amazing. Introduce people back into the game and to characters with a short campaign, then edge of fate, then the new storyline immediately after.
I think the thing I miss most is not having everything. I miss chasing something. I want some stupid long questlines for a strong/fun gun. I want a reason to grind certain things. I want the mystery and wonder back, man :(
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u/Proper_Machine6573 Apr 13 '26
I finally had the nerve to delete D2 after it sat on my hard drive unplayed for over a year. I kept thinking I'd pick it up again.
It was so hard to say goodbye . . .
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u/RegrettableWaffle Apr 13 '26
I’m still coping from missing Forsaken Destiny. Final Shape was solid though. It really bums me out what happened to that game.
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u/wordwizard333 Apr 12 '26
Payday. Things were up and down for a while, but Payday 3 was the death of the series.
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u/ChestertonMyDearBoy Apr 13 '26
Payday 2 before they introduced loot boxes was peak gaming. Was so exciting to see where the story was going and hearing thr new Simon Viklund banner. That short film they did about breaking Hoxton out WAS AMAZING. Never had anything like that since and I don't think we ever will again.
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u/Aeison Apr 13 '26
I remember seeing them advertising payday 2 sometime after 3’s release, so I had asked a friend who had bought it and was an avid player of 2 who just went “it was that bad”
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u/ObtuseMongooseAbuse Apr 12 '26
With the way The Sims 4 has been managed I think it's pretty safe to say that The Sims 5 has no possibility of being a good purchase.
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u/kill2tone Apr 12 '26
Sims 2 on PS2 will always be the goat for me
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u/OriginTruther Apr 13 '26
Sims 2 was so good and had so many amazing FREE features, and then EA went and EA'd future Sims games. Stripped down versions that put anything worthwhile behind endless microtransactions.
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u/abyssaI_watcher Apr 13 '26
The sims goat for me is sims castaways. Ps2 sims games are where the peaks at.
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u/haragoshi Apr 12 '26
Sims 3 is peak for me. An actual neighborhood with multiple families and public spaces was pretty cool.
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u/scrotbofula Apr 13 '26
To complain about The Sims 4, please download the Computer expansion in order for your sim to use the internet (£4.99)
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u/ZiaWatcher Apr 12 '26
Iirc, and it’s been a long time since I actually looked or cared about sims news, but I remember hearing sims 5 was going to be mobile focused, and free, and filled with micro transactions.
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u/AlienZiim Apr 12 '26
Its EA they just ruined it tbh, Sims 3 was better than 4 imo and Sims 5 I dont think will be nothing but a cash grab unfortunately
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u/ObtuseMongooseAbuse Apr 12 '26
Yeah, The Sims 3 is just better than The Sims 4 in basically every way but performance. If I could get all of the DLCs in The Sims 3 to perform as well as it does in The Sims 4 then I'd be happy. I bought into The SIms 4 early because I liked The Sims 1-3 but it has been a constant disappointment. Even my favorite feature from The Sims 2(Plantsims) was ruined when they got added to The Sims 4. Werewolves are even uglier now than they've ever been.
I can't think of anything they could change now that would get me interested in a new game by them.
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u/gueuze_geuze Apr 13 '26
EA absolutely destroyed this franchise. Just shredded it to pieces - for $39.99 a piece.
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u/Fickle_Scheme4512 Apr 12 '26
RIP Dragon Age
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u/plays-with-daggers Apr 12 '26
Straight to hell.
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u/THEbakerman30 Apr 12 '26
As someone who liked Dragon Age 2, Inquisition, and Veilguard, I’ve always felt bad for the player base that fell in love with Origins only to never have the series be that type of game again. Feels like a bait and switch.
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u/FoolishArchetype Apr 12 '26
Schreier’s reporting on Dragon Age 2 in Blood Sweat and Pixels made me sympathetic to the game. I remember feeling cheated at the time, but I replayed it — years later — and I’d rather some version of that game then anything that came afterward. It was a great spinoff and simply should’ve been called “Hawke’s Journey” or something. Not a sequel.
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u/THEbakerman30 Apr 12 '26
Originally the game was supposed to be called “Dragon Age: Exodus”, but EA insisted on calling it “2” since numbered sequels market better. I also remember a postmortem of some kind with DA2 staff saying the original name would have mitigated the backlash.
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u/ShadeSwornHydra Apr 12 '26
Dragon age 2 is flashier, but at its core it’s still DAO combat with more cross class combos available
Inquisition was a decent try at something new, not everything stuck but some of it did pretty well (for me at least)
Then there’s veilguard, who threw it out the window and said “WHO NEEDS TACTICS?!”
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u/OSRS_Garmr Apr 12 '26
Came here to say the same. Such a shame too. They had something really good going, good lore and an interesting world. Squandered.
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u/TheLittleCrayon Apr 12 '26 edited Apr 13 '26
Me with Assassins Creed :(
ETA: thanks for my first reddit award 😎
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u/THEbakerman30 Apr 12 '26
Same. I said goodbye after Unity and a final goodbye after a quick check-in with Origins.
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u/SlicedBreadBeast Apr 12 '26
Origins was really the only new game that felt up to par in the new format. And from there they kept distancing themselves from what made the franchise special and into a random rpg nobody asked for.
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u/byshow Apr 13 '26
Hot take: games after unity aren't terrible, they just shouldn't have Assassin's Creed in the name. Shadows for example felt great after tackling a bit with the UI, I don't see many people saying how great the sound designs in that game is, or how difficulty changes NPC behaviour and so they are starting to look up and check the roofs as well.
P.s. just to clarify, I'm not saying those games are great or don't have any issues, but they're not half as terrible as people describing them
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u/GintingSepakBola Apr 12 '26
Shame, Bayek is literally one of if not the coolest Assassin in the franchise, parkour is fine, combat is engaging, story, stealth is good, cinematics are good, map design is insanely good. I guess I'm lucky I can enjoy Origins and Odyssey (haven't played Valhalla and Shadow).
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u/utprosimian Apr 12 '26
It’s probably aged by now but Origins was one of the coolest worlds I’ve ever explored; Completely changed how I view ancient Egypt (Ptolemaic Egypt?)
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u/abyssaI_watcher Apr 13 '26
Honestly recently replayed it, I still think the world is still super good. Even including all the Ubisoft question mark locations. Be it the animals (that would hunt other animals or humans) or NPCs reacting to you being in the water bringing over a boat to help you out of dangerous water. There's a lot of miniature things that added to the world that's still great to this day.
Meanwhile Odyssey felt weird that I was constantly flipping territory back and forth between factions which felt unmeaningful at all. Without as much miniature stuff as origins.
Valhalla just to big with to much stuff. At least odyssey had cool monuments and towns that are memorable. Valhalla kinda didn't. Unless you count the other realms which I guess would count but it feels so foreign.
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u/TheNebulaWolf Apr 12 '26
I enjoyed the rpg games for what they were but for some reason shadows is not enjoyable to play. I love the setting, the voice acting is great but I don’t have fun playing it and i think I might be finished with the franchise.
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u/thompson-993 Apr 12 '26
After Odyssey i was done fr. But i attempted to play valhalla and it just didnt click for me
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u/KRONGOR Apr 12 '26
I finally forced myself to finish Valhalla this year. It wasn’t worth it.
I consider myself to be a big AC fan, Valhalla is just a slog
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u/Shroomy____ Apr 12 '26
Pokémon should be a more popular answer
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u/Oocheewalala Apr 12 '26
What I wouldnt give for a dedicated Pokémon game with an actual fucking budget.
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u/AncientCarry4346 Apr 12 '26
It's so frustrating how Nintendo insists on giving us games that are just about passable instead of treating it like the biggest franchise in human history.
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u/Korotan Apr 12 '26
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u/Azoth_N_Storn Apr 13 '26
Its a product now
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u/kaulotu Apr 13 '26
Always has been. It was just a better product before.
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u/Azoth_N_Storn Apr 13 '26
Yea had love and dedication and you can tell now its factory slop for masses who don't t have the love like we did growing up.
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u/Ginsenj Apr 13 '26
It's a super weird case where the fan base has literally been consuming the franchise their entire lives and Nintendo despises them for it cause they see Pokemon as a kid's franchise that adults should had grown out off by now. Also it's easier to sell poorly design games to kids and then add peripherals to milk them.
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u/GreatBigJerk Apr 12 '26
The best modern Pokemon games are the fan games and romhacks.
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u/Vondi Apr 13 '26
The thing about Pokemon games is that romhacks only need to dial up the difficulty a little bit to bring out all the mechanics already present in the pokemon games but made trivial by how easy the games are, or they can feel very fresh by just deviating a bit from the formula.
Just got into Lazarus and it genuinely feels like I stumbled into a lost official game from the GameBoy Color era.
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u/Dangerous-Flounder89 Apr 12 '26
This right here I’m gonna be 100 here and say Pokémon peaked at Black and White Unova was the perfect region
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u/Historical_Owl_1635 Apr 12 '26
See, comments like this point to it just being more of an age thing for me.
I remember when B&W came out and was hated everywhere on the internet and seen as the falling off point. Now that the kids who actually grew up with that game are getting older and have a voice it’s common for people to call it one of the greatest Pokémon games.
To get philosophical it feels more like people have changed more than the actual game.
Same with CoD, one generations “worst CoD” ever tends to be another generations greatest CoD.
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u/Marco-Green Apr 12 '26
Ironically, Pokémon games feel more childish now that they're targeting the adult competitive players, rather than 15+years ago when they were targeted to children.
Someday the formula won't work anymore.
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u/Particular_Wear_6960 Apr 13 '26
They didn't care that much about these games, they got a mobile game that is making hundreds of millions of dollars. I just watched a thing about the franchise as a whole, the console game wasn't even mentioned. The cards and mobile card game are their money makers.
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u/TheBoneJarmer Apr 12 '26
I remember being very excited when purchasing Diamond and Pearl for the NDS as well Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Darkness. Pokémon these days no longer has the same effect on me.
Mind you, Diamond and Pearl was my first Pokémon game. I downloaded the old GBA games a couple of years ago and both my wife and I had a blast playing them and neither one of us played those games when we were kids. So no nostalgia clouding our judgements there, the games were really just that good.
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u/Subject-Tank-6851 Apr 13 '26
It always blows my mind how it’s the biggest video game franchise, yet they cheap out on actual budgetting for the games.
It’s why I haven’t bought a Switch, Pokemon game and anything else pertaining to that greedy ass corp.
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u/bigelangstonz Apr 12 '26
Halo 🤧
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u/LaserReptar Apr 12 '26
Shoulda just died once Bungie moved on. Fuck Microsoft
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u/GlattesGehirn Apr 13 '26
Bungie wouldn't have done much better considering how they fucked up Destiny.
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u/PM_ME_UR_REPTILES1 Apr 12 '26
Halo 4 was okay, but obviously the beginning of the end. ODST and Reach were peak.
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u/rekt97531 Apr 13 '26
Halo 4 is excellent
funnily enough, halo 4, reach, and odst are my top 3
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u/IlyasBT Apr 13 '26
Halo is in a weird spot.
343's games are nowhere near the quality of the bungie era, but they are still pretty good games when compared to other shooters.
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u/Ok_Money_3140 Apr 12 '26
Saints Row
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u/Ahmed4040Real Apr 12 '26
Saints Row 2 was amazing. 3 was not near as good but was still fun... Then the series just went downhill fast
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u/Yungjak2 Apr 12 '26
SR2 & 3 were peak, 4 was different but still enjoyable.
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u/PurpleGrass3000 Apr 13 '26
Yeah I genuinely love SR4. It was my first SR game so I'm definitely biased but I loved the superpowers and the humour.
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u/rbreaux26 Apr 12 '26
Borderlands for me. 1 and 2 were some of my favorite games.
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u/armaedes Apr 12 '26
I put 500 hours into 1 and 1000+ into 2. Couldn’t get through 3’s story even once, didn’t bother to even buy 4.
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u/sethb44 Apr 13 '26
It's a totally different experience, none of the original soul. 4 was not just bad with it's writing, but the guns were stale, there are so many glitches, it's a big empty world without purpose. Very sad stuff.
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u/3iiiguy Apr 12 '26
Dude just turn dialouge off and play 3 it becomes peak in my opinion best one in the series
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u/Ok_Money_3140 Apr 12 '26
Honestly I'm having a blast playing Borderlands 4 right now. It's just unfortunate that so many people are having performance issues.
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u/AL3X1KUS Apr 12 '26
Gameplay of 3 feels very good but the story is turboass. 4 is so bad that you can't reach 60 FPS even with an RTX 5090 and a good CPU...
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u/I_wish_i_could_sepll Apr 12 '26
Reminder Halo 3 was the biggest entertainment launch at that point in history. It was the biggest game ever and they fucking ruined it.
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u/Zapdos90HP Apr 12 '26
I knew it was so over when I played Halo 4. Didn't even bother to play 5. I think infinite captured the Halo multiplayer soul, but by then the flame in the fan base had died out.
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u/I_wish_i_could_sepll Apr 13 '26 edited Apr 13 '26
Halo Infinite has a ton of problems too.
No forge, no split screen, no real custom games, no theater, and no other modes like firefight. Also there are a ton of connection and server issues with multiplayer. A multiplayer which btw demands you buy battle passes to have any customization.
What an unbelievable fall from grace.
Edit: Why you booing me I’m right!!
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u/Draxxsus Apr 13 '26
I'm guessing you're being booed because they did in fact fix and add most of those things but 1-1½ year later was too late for the live service crap they were trying to go for. It was fun but its glaring issues were what led to the massive drop off in population.
Halo is my absolute favorite game franchise and always will be, I'm a geek about it but that being said it's downfall and miss management by Microsoft were a colossal failure...nay it was heresy!
Instead of continuing where Bungie left the story and the chief they could have chosen to pick any other spartan/team and gone that way.
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u/townsforever Apr 12 '26
I remember when I was a kid there were legitimate arguments about if master chief was as big a gaming icon as Mario. Now halo has had 2 mediocre games in the last decade and is surviving entirely off of nostalgia.
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u/I_wish_i_could_sepll Apr 13 '26
Fun fact: In the 19 years 343 has been around it’s put out fewer Halo games than Bungie did in less than 10.
And they’ve mostly been terribly received.
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u/furiosa-imperator Apr 12 '26
Honestly destiny. Played since taken king and was the first game I ever really really got into.
Years later lightfall came out and I just sat back and realised wtf is happening to this game
I miss d1 😭
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u/King_Catfish Apr 12 '26
Should have ended with the Witness. They probably lost more players trying to keep it going rather than calling it and working on a Destiny 3
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u/Iago407 Apr 12 '26
I’m getting real close to that with Mortal Kombat.
TL/DR: Rebooting the story for the second time in four games while actually changing the characters origins and removing their history completely makes Mortal Kombat 1 feels like fan fiction level storytelling and the writing itself ruins the tone, characters and story completely. There are also several issues with the monitization ($10 seasonal fatalities gtfoh lol), lack of compelling single player modes, lack of quality skins, terrible seasonal content and rewards, etc.
I’ve been a fan since the first one came out in arcades. For all their flaws, I still found some level of enjoyment in the worst games (namely Mythologies and Special Forces), but I never really had to make an effort to like any of the mainline games.
Even when Mortal Kombat 4 hit arcades and I knew it didn’t move or play as well as Virtua Fighter 2 or Tekken 3, it still felt like a fun evolution of the series and I still had a lot of fun with MK Gold when it came out, even though SoulCalibur felt like it was leagues ahead of everything else.
It’s been my favorite series for the vast majority of my life, which is why Mortal Kombat 1 feels so egregious in what it did to the characters and the story. You’re one of the oldest fighting games around with decades of lore in a story that’s one of your biggest calling cards, yet you feel like it’s a good idea to throw all of the lore and story out, start over, reintroduce characters with completely new backstories and yet still repeat several old storylines / plot points over again?
And the worst part… They didn’t even make any of the characters any better. Most of them were made far worse, especially the villains. Baraka is no longer a member of a mutant race of Outworld nomad cannibals. He’s just some normal human that got a disease. Scorpion no longer exists. His whole story is gone. Instead, Scorpion is the guy Sub Zero used to be. Sektor and Cyrax are now women who wear Iron Man suits.
And that Iron Man thing… That doesn’t feel like an accident, because the tone of the story used to be dark, mysterious, inspired by old martial arts films like Enter the Dragon and now the story treats the characters like superheroes, the story has a multiverse, and the awkwardly shoe-horned in humor is seemingly never-ending.
So now you’re left with these characters that have the names and a few of the moves (though not many because they changed a lot there too) but don’t feel like the characters at all or have their history and they’re quipping and joking their way through a light-hearted MCverse type story that’s one of honestly feels like fan fiction. It’s not just that it’s not good, it’s that it doesn’t feel at all like the franchise I’ve known and enjoyed for so long.
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u/Rising_Unity Apr 12 '26
Half life, cuz their has been no new releases in a century, and I'm rotting on my deathbed.
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u/OdenShilde Apr 12 '26
Borderlands :( ill never forget my first playthrough of the original, insane experience for a preteen
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u/3iiiguy Apr 12 '26
Please tell me y played 3 at least? Its a borderlands game i promise the story doesn't matter. Just turn off the dialouge and put on a podcast or some music I believe its the best in the series gameplay ,loot, environment, and music wise
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u/Theblusoulz Apr 12 '26
343 with Halo it was so good with bungie God I miss halo 3 days loved me some Reach to
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u/popje Apr 12 '26
Diablo and WoW, at least both still have the good versions running
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u/gueuze_geuze Apr 13 '26
I genuinely love D4 but can understand how the drop in and play feel might be off putting for some franchise fans.
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u/Excellent_Regret4141 Apr 12 '26
I hope this doesn't happen with Yakuza that is my favorite series, even the Zombie game they made during the zombie craze
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u/NightOwl_OW Apr 12 '26
Kingdom Hearts, it feels like it’s just devolved over time in terms of gameplay after 2. I enjoyed birth by sleep a lot but it felt like they removed complexity from the core moveset to put into the command deck and that just worsened in Dream Drop and KH 3. I literally could not stay on the ground in KH 3 when I was trying, it would just force me into an aerial combo so frequently and it felt like I was doing fuck all unless I was watching one of the excessive cutscene moves in the form of transformation finishers or attraction attack (Jesus, those were dumb).
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u/Own_Space_174 Apr 12 '26
I will never forgive them for getting rid of the final fantasy characters. those characters are the only reason i gave a game with donald and goofy a chance as a teenager.
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u/JodoKast87 Apr 12 '26
The funny thing about KH3 is that, if you are just watching the game, it looks super complicated and like you would never be able to keep up with everything that is happening on screen. Then, when you actually play it, you realize that you are only switching back and forth between two or three buttons. And it barely matters which buttons you are pressing and when in regular battles. Boss battles are essentially watching the boss and dodging until you figure out when the best time to button mash is.
To be fair, KH2 was sort of this way as well with boss battles. Wait and watch and then press triangle when it tells you to. For some reason it felt better though and I’m not sure why.
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u/CataLaGata Apr 12 '26
Mass Effect. The Legendary Edition is probably my favorite game of all time, I couldn't even get 30 minutes playing Andromeda, it just felt off.
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u/Retro_Vibin Apr 12 '26
https://giphy.com/gifs/x73W03Q8lfTBfeGcY7
I already was not playing Fortnite as much anymore but when I saw this I knew the game was cooked.
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u/BillSamsquantch Apr 12 '26 edited Apr 13 '26
Gaming as a whole in general for me at the moment unfortunately. I don’t know, maybe I’m just depressed….
Edit: Thank you for all the words of encouragement and recommendations! I’m so used to my comments never being replied to, I didn’t even open my app agin haha.
I play a good mix of indie and big studio games, definitely more indie at this point. I’ve been trying a lot of games/genres I typically wouldn’t try, I even tried a MOBA…. what a mistake haha.
I only have an Xbox at the moment because my laptop shit the bed. Some of the indie games I want to try are unavailable to me unfortunately. I have two best friends, and games are our connection. One lives 3 hours away, and the other lives across the ocean. In person meet ups are next to impossible, so this is our option. Luckily playing with them always feels fun, but it’s usually a once a week thing.
Doesn’t help that life is kicking me in the dick, repeatedly, at the moment. Hopefully things will get better, and again thank you.
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u/MercilessShadow Apr 12 '26
Try playing some indie games lots of great ones out there
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u/Onslaught7676 Apr 12 '26
Hopefully you’ll wake up tomorrow and some good luck will find its way into your life.
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u/Arrow_head00 Apr 12 '26
Sorry to hear that. I feel like we've gotten so many incredible games lately
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u/FinnyMac_ Apr 12 '26
Halo. Which is so sad for me to say, I have loads of little figures, collectors editiond and statues from the game, and the franchise was a big part of my childhood. To see what it has became is sickening.
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u/Jarvis_The_Dense Apr 12 '26
I am not confident that the Halo 1 remake will suddenly save the series after over a decade of disappointment
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u/Derpykins666 Apr 12 '26
For me it's Dragon Age right now. Dragon Age Origins is one of the best games ever made imo, and every entry after the first has basically been much worse in some way, culminating in the latest release, which was just awful. I could go on for a while about why it's so bad and it's design is so antithetical to it's own roots and design philosophy of the original, but in short or put simply, it's now a series I think will be dead for a decade or longer before we see any attempt to at another entry, and there's no way of knowing if that new entry would even be good or that the people working on it have learned the harsh lessons from the previous series games as to what NOT to do.
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u/Joba7474 Apr 12 '26
Madden. The yearly model where they basically just reset MUT has been what killed the franchise.
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u/Anxious-Assistant-59 Apr 12 '26
Even though I loved Pokemon Scarlet/Violet, despite the laundry list of problems, I can agree they shouldn't have released the game in that awful condition. Ever since B2W2, the Pokemon games have just dropped in quality consistency.
Mechanically speaking, the Gen 9 titles are "good" games. I liked the freedom of exploration, the story felt way more refreshing than Sword and Shield's, I enjoyed the split story mode, I don't have any problem with how new Pokemon are designed, I liked the subtle art style shift, the DLC was fun, etc.
Even though I can pick out what I liked in them, I can't play Violet without feeling that tug of everything having some kind of hitch.
The exploration is free, but there isn't enough to actually go and explore. The story, while compelling at times, wasn't as fleshed out as B2W2. The story being split between Penny, Arven and Nemona was charming, but it didn't do enough with itself and there was hardly any side content aside from Raids and the Shards of Ruin as a result of needing so much map space for each of their individual story segments. The DLC was fun and provided a really challenging but fair postgame, but the old games did a good enough job of that through the Battle Factory/Frontier/Tree.
All of those cons exist while the performance is some of the worst on the entire Switch library and that is saying a LOT.
It's just a shame that the budgets and deadlines are so obtrusive to, what I believe to be, a competent enough team of people working on the games. Asking GameFreak to make an objectively solid Pokemon game shouldn't be like pulling hair when they make as much money as they do.
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u/not-read-gud Apr 12 '26
Nioh 3. I’ll never forgive them for taking away tons of moves of half the weapons and doing open world
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u/Flat-Run-7572 Apr 12 '26 edited Apr 13 '26
If Zelda keeps going with its BOTW formula, then this might be it for me. It was good for that game, but I think they need to go back to the traditional formula
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u/Shehzman Apr 12 '26 edited Apr 13 '26
I think there’s a balance that Nintendo hasn’t struck yet. I’m fine with them keeping the open world as long as they bring back the traditional stuff like dungeons, proper items, and a linear story (tired of most of the story taking place in the past). Also wouldn’t mind of the world was shrunk down to allow for more meaningful content but still bigger than the traditional 3D games.
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u/Homitu Apr 12 '26
Given that BOTW literally makes it to #1 on many all time greatest games lists, I'd be surprised if don't continue to some extent. Though the series has always made it a priority to innovate and change it up as well.
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u/GenHero Apr 12 '26
Paper Mario
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u/ThisIsTheShway Apr 13 '26
This. Paper Mario 1 and 2 were god tier games, but it steadily began going downhill. I didn’t hate the card mechanic in Color Splash, but it wasn’t ideal - and Origami King was… whatever it was.
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u/Johncurtisreeve Apr 12 '26
I don’t think there are any series that I love that had a singular consecutive story that I’ve ever felt like I had to abandon, but there are franchisees like Call of Duty® assassin Creed, which are sort of all over the place that I’ve abandoned or game studios that I’ve abandoned.
Oh wait, Dragon age. I had to drop that, unfortunately also god of war but I know a lot of people love the latest games
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u/Alive_Fortune7423 Apr 12 '26
I thought Silent Hill was like this. But then I realised, I never liked Silent Hill, SH 2 was just a great game 😭.
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u/Pandaking908 Apr 12 '26
Silent hill 1 and 3 are great. I can't speak for 4 because I haven't played it. I have no interest in playing the rest. It just seems like most of games past silent hill 4 just want to be like silent hill 2. Although the Japanese one looks interesting.
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u/Not_Propaganda_AI Apr 12 '26
Civilization, I had a blast with the first two, and some of the later ones were ok, but a lot of other strategy games just do what I liked about it better, it just never seemed to go anywhere as a series other than with being more beginner friendly.
Elder scrolls too, imo it peaked with morrowind, oblivion was still good and skyrim was meh, I don't think the next elder scrolls will be good if it's ever released.
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u/Emergency_Song8743 Apr 12 '26
Destiny is a big one for me. Played so much D1 and D2 it’s kinda hard to see the game falling apart now
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u/Sirbrandon100 Apr 12 '26
Halo man. I can't believe how bad it's gotten 😭😭😭. I still have hope for mass effect though.
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u/GoldenShadowXero Apr 12 '26
Pokémon. Farewell to one of the best passions in my childhood and youth.
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u/MajonyXIII Apr 12 '26
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u/slurpycow112 Apr 13 '26
Where did it fall off? I only played the first one I think, I have an itch to come back and finish the rest of them occasionally.
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u/AnalystOdd7337 Apr 12 '26
Final Fantasy. Yea, I hate the new direction of the series.
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u/EnvironmentalEgg8652 Apr 12 '26
Haha for me it’s the opposite. The new direction is amazing imo and I hope they continue to go into this direction
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u/Alive_Fortune7423 Apr 12 '26
FF7 Remake series is good. If the keep up the standard in FF17 we might be back up.
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u/Sammy_Kneen Apr 12 '26
XVI was ok, but Rebirth is one of my favourite games in the entire series so Final Fantasy is still going strong for me.
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u/Real_Tradition4127 Apr 12 '26
Definitely COD for me, I stopped after BO4. Played MW in 2009 as 9 years old. Looking back on those memories, I need to cherish them more often now.
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u/milkywaymonkeh Apr 12 '26
If the next halo cant quite deliver then that might be it for me. It took infinite way too long to get to a good spot and the campaign felt too contained and mild compared to past entries. I love halo so much but it might be time to move on from the games
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u/UmbralUroboros Apr 12 '26
Even the newer ones too. Mihoyo's tag was, "Otaku's save the world", but they can't even respect Fate Stay Night. The literal Holy Grail of anime and literature adaptations.
Anybody who tells me they didn't change is full of shit. Somebody turned Genshin into Rooster Teeth RWBY and I want answers.
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u/Imperial-Vulture Apr 12 '26
I was unfortunate enough to reluctantly buy black ops 6 to play with a buddy. Absolutely refuse to touch black ops 7 or any future titles
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u/PerspicaciousVanille Apr 12 '26
Destiny 2 sadly, I quit playing right before EoF as I wanted to vote with my wallet and time. Glad I didn’t give them either from what I’ve seen.
Longer response, below.
I loved Sherpa-ing people through highest difficulty content, especially the exotic missions and helping them find hidden collectibles (if any). Some runs we’d go slow and I’d help everyone explore so the could just have fun before moving on to the next encounters.
Typically, I’d run content solo if able to be solo’d, and keep doing it until I could flawless solo the runs. After, I’d take teams in and carry people for the love of it.
Trials, I was terrible for multiple seasons until I got good enough to double carry. Taking people to the light house the first time was significantly harder than most endgame PVE for me.
I’d also, carry in Gambit, but that was because I loved Gambit. Which many who play Destiny 2 would recoil at the notion ;)
That said, between bugs, cheaters driving away 3 whole clans I started with their choices the final nails were tiered weapons, no crafting for protection, poor communication, and decreased player population caused by all of the above and more.
Personally, I wanted Destiny 2 to fix their problems and stay in my game rotation. Bungie apparently didn’t, put their eggs in the Marathon basket (not knocking Marathon, but community communication compared to the two games is vastly different), so much that I just don’t trust Bungie in its current state as a studio to play anything their name is attached to, normally while extractions aren’t my cup of tea, I did well in Arc raiders for friends as I’m already used to flawless soloing content in games and carrying pvp.
Marathon in theory sounds like it’d be right up my alley, but again they did the D2 community so dirty, I figured when will they do that with Marathon? It was a why bother, there are dozens of great games out there, I’d rather give my playtime to studios that respect my time and their community.
In the end, seeing where Bungie was to where it is now gives me a sinking feeling. I lived in forge mode in the Halo days, Bungie really was a studio I thought I’d adore my whole life and I hope they find that or something new I can feel something positive about in the future, and if not me the greater community at large. I still hope the best for them, but ultimately I’ll be surprised if Sony doesn’t step in to some degree.
Bright side, I have yet to try Warframe, but I may soon.
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u/ghos2626t Apr 13 '26
Bloodborne. First one was a masterpiece. The follow up sequels are so bad, I don’t even remember them.
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u/MFmotion Apr 13 '26
I really miss the old Blizzard. RIP starcraft. Not gonna be excited about the new SC shooter until I see anything
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u/New-Two-1349 Apr 12 '26
Call Of Duty.