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GTA when I watched how GTA:V shifted from a single player game to a multiplayer online service.

Gay Tony died for this

Halo. Still holding out a sliver of hope that something cool in the universe will be made one day.

But he'll be burried in a solid gold coffin covered in diamonds because holy fuck are players stupid and giving rockstar so much money with that online service bullshit.

Assassin's Creed

Diablo

There's more, but those two hurt the worst.

RIP Call of Duty, The Sims, Sim City, RCT, Super Smash Bros, Dragon Age, Halo, and GTA

I kind of enjoyed Valhalla ... but maybe that's because I'd never played any other AC games in the past, so I didn't have any expectations to disappoint.

Overall, on the better side of mid. General gameplay and exploration was pretty fun, world was very detailed and beautiful. The AC parts seemed a bit shoehorned in. Hated the arbitrary parkour challenges, and really really hated the modern-day meta storyline. Kind of wish they'd just have let all the AC stuff go and just made a fun Viking game without any of that other bullshit. Still, I enjoyed playing it for quite a while. Maybe I'll play it again someday, but it's definitely not on my shortlist of replayable games I keep coming back to.

Final Fantasy has been dead for a while. XI was the first major warning that things were no longer the same as an MMO was the last thing I expected from a mainline entry. XII was okay but it got rid of the overworld map and kept an MMO style of gameplay that felt like a slog to get through. Everything after that has been a disappointment heralded by extremely long dev times.

Don't you guys have phones? will live rent free in my head as one of the funniest on stage failures ever.

I feel that slope is happening with Borderlands

Good bye Mario Kart... we'll always have not giving 1st place coins as an item in Wii.

Borderlands.

13-2 is still, even now, my personal favorite Final Fantasy.

Destiny 2. It really only had a few banger DLCs, but those, alongside the beautiful gunplay, are what kept me on copium till The Final Shape. Dropped it after that.

everything blizzard made.

The Bungie Halo era games had problems, sure, but overall were a masterpiece of a series. Everything since then has been ok at best, and borderline insulting at worst.

So much retconning, characters with zero arc, contempt towards the fandom, and build up with no onscreen payoff.

From what Halo Studios has announced regarding Campaign Evolved, and how they've dug in their heels in response to fan feedback, I wish I were as hopeful as you.

In my opinion, Halo should have always remained a Bungie property with connections to the Marathon universe, and neither series should have ever been a live service game.

Halo was DoA for me after growing up with twitchy PC shooters like Unreal Tournament, Quake and Starsiege Tribes. The gameplay was glacially slow compared to what I was used to, but it did usher in online multiplayer to the console masses.

Word.

Borderlands 2 had my best game memories beating Vermivorous the Invincible with 3 friends, me playing as Maya. First of all getting it to spawn is tense.

I know you meant Dead on Arrival, but Dead or Alive is 100% on my list. It was so much fun during DOA 2/3. Now it's just a micro-transaction dress-up store.

Me with Halo and Halo: Infinite

I will miss those lighthearted adventures...

I bought FFXVI and both VII remake games on PS5 because I was still holding out hope that they could reignite the magic of the previous games. I mostly enjoyed them, but they didn't feel remotely like the Final Fantasy games of the past. XVI was more Game of Thrones than Final Fantasy, and the VII remake games were more XV/Kingdom Hearts than Final Fantasy.

I feel like the writing was on the wall as far back as X. There is very little variety in the combat, it's very much a hallway like XIII, the "world map" is a list of locations in the order you visited them, and there are multiple long stretches where you can't backtrack.

I've also tried playing Blue Dragon and Lost Odyssey in the hopes that they would scratch that same itch, but I haven't been able to bring myself to commit to finishing them. I haven't played Fantasian, but I've heard mostly positive things about it.

Wait, what’s wrong with Super Smash Bros? Is it just the DLC characters?

Pokémon is starting to get there I think.

Mass Effect is still on the ropes for me. Andromeda was okay. I’m personally a bit over all the open world games.

Those are fundamentally different kinds of games. Sure, they're all first person shooters, but there are more differences than similarities.

I feel like it's the equivalent of saying something like: "Poker was DoA for me after growing up with fast paced card games like Uno, Slap Jack, and 52 card pick up."

I so desperately want to like BL2 because it has Gaige, my favorite Vault Hunter of all time, but I can't replay it because the story is so infuriating to me. It's like the writers are punishing me for thinking the Vault Hunters from the first game were cool.

Happening?

That is rough, Anarchy meta was so fun.

It's going to get worse. Getting the people behind Fivem means it's going to go to the next level with VI. It's going to be Roblox meets the current GTA streaming RP stuff.

Franchises are like bubble gum. If you try to make them last too much they lose all taste.

I really loved that about halo. The slower TTK makes for more chess like engagements, well with the exception of eating a shotty or a rocket to the face. Still, bouncing a perfect grenade or pulling off a ninja jump just feels so satisfying

It did before they turned it into call of duty with halo skins

I found some of 343’s multiplayer fun, but yeah their storytelling has been dog water

Yeah, that's how people started to feel around ACIV: Black Flag.

But during AC1-3, we were all excited to learn more about the modern day mysteries and have more assassin stuff. We all wanted more!

Then Ubisoft decided to make it a yearly thing and kill off any characters with plot points that might hinder their multiplayer battle pass, yearly release dreams. Then it all fell apart and they had to scale back... But the damage was done.

Halo since 2

Past tense.

This is bait.

I like Ultimate, but it's not doing it any favors.

I haven’t even played it the first time but it seems like they’ve made them so long that replay would be a burden.

I might have liked Andromeda if they had enemy variety or likeable characters.
Everyone knows Shepard but for the life of me I cannot remember the name of Andromeda’s protagonist or any of the team members for that matter. Absolutely forgettable in almost every way.

I’m thrilled to learn that one person liked it. /s

Ryder
Peebee
Drack
Vetra
Liam
Jaal

I think that’s the squad. Then SAM, the AI.

Additionally I remember the Kett being the antagonist, and it was something generic like Archon? As the title. That might not be the right title — if it is, it’s because Genshin Impact solidified that term for me.

I honestly thought you were having a stroke until the second line. That’s how little they resonated.

I bought a PS5 a few years ago specifically for GTA VI. I've already decided between price hikes, and general trends, that I'm NOT buying that game. Not even just for single player.

Because I've already been told that single player will be a non-profitable after thought that barely exists.

Welp. Fuck that shit.

Pokopia is great, though it was made by the dragon quest builders team, not game freak.

Otherwise, can't argue

343 hasn't come close to knowing what the fuck they're doing

True. It was quite long, especially if you're trying to do everything.

But, hey, as long as you're enjoying a game as you play it, being long is kind of a good thing.

Also, I'm pretty sure it could be much faster if you don't bother exploring everything and doing everything and just focus on the essential story missions alone. But in that game, exploring the landscape and doing all the things is really the fun part, so you don't want to skip it.

For me it was Pokemon.

Started in order and got the games new as they came out since DPP. The core of the game to me was exploration, Pokemon, then battles. However over time Battling got more and more popular to the point where the game just became boring. This was Black and White for me.

I hoped it would get better with each release, but it was Sun and Moon where I just couldn't care any more. After that I tried a game here and there. But nothing ever went back to that core of Exploration, new Pokemon the battling.