You ever turned your back on a franchise due to changes by developers ?

As a guy who's enjoyed gaming on and off for some years now, it can be frustrating when developers suddenly sell franchises, or either take much loved storylines or gameplay in totally new directions..

I was just wondering if there is a large amount of gamers that have suddenlty turned their back on a fanchises due to changes or decisions made by once respected developers..

Since leaving the franchise, do you ever feel as though you've been missing out ?

Or do you still stand by your decision ?

command and conquer when ea took over or what ever happened

Yes, Call of Duty. Loved 2 and 4 so much, but the only reason I own MW2 is because I got as a gift. Also Command & Conquer, grew up with the originals but everything after Tiberian Sun is trash.

Resident Evil has been cutting it pretty close for me lately. Hopefully the reboot will alleviate those concerns.

I don't think ill ever buy another call of duty game because of mw2. -ICON-

Same here. I actually felt like I was missing out when I didn't buy it the first day but after playing my brothers copy for an hour I realized that I had just dodged a bullet.

Gears of War 2 killed that franchise for me. I won't be buying the third game.

It's unlikely that IW will ever develop another CoD game so MW2 was the last of that series that I'll be buying as well.

GTA4 i thought was not a good addition to the franchise, it just doesn't feel like a GTA game.

I'm pretty adamant on not supporting Infinity Ward or Ubisoft in the future, for obvious reasons too.

Zelda because of Ocarina. Have yet to find a reason to give it another look. Final Fantasy for awhile because of VIII (to this day I consider IX an apology for VIII) and X. DarkCatalyst

[QUOTE="DarkCatalyst"]Zelda because of Ocarina. Have yet to find a reason to give it another look. Final Fantasy for awhile because of VIII (to this day I consider IX an apology for VIII) and X. clayron

[QUOTE="clayron"][QUOTE="DarkCatalyst"]Zelda because of Ocarina. Have yet to find a reason to give it another look. Final Fantasy for awhile because of VIII (to this day I consider IX an apology for VIII) and X. DarkCatalyst

I loved Modern Warfare until the sequel came out. So yes.

Elder Scrolls, fired.

Final Fantasy, whatever.

Ninja Gaiden, screw you ya buncha ^@&#%!(()*&#*!

Mass Effect, uncoolified.

Dead Rising, pwned off to secondary developer.

Shin Megami Tensei, animeified.

Resident Evil, ...

I havn't got many left...

It's a major problem developes effing up great series. I basically only rely on rockstar and Kojima games to make something actually good.

After Naughty Dog left Crash, and Insomniac left Spyro, the series haven't been the same. It's sad, really.

Unless the changes make the game suck then I won't not buy it.

Oh, Sonic. I forgot about that one. Sonic on the Dreamcast destroyed that IP for me, I haven't touched it since.

As a guy who's enjoyed gaming on and off for some years now, it can be frustrating when developers suddenly sell franchises, or either take much loved storylines or gameplay in totally new directions..

I was just wondering if there is a large amount of gamers that have suddenlty turned their back on a fanchises due to changes or decisions made by once respected developers..

Since leaving the franchise, do you ever feel as though you've been missing out ?

Or do you still stand by your decision ?

DecadesOfGaming

I have turned my back on the Call of Duty franchise after Modern Warfare 2. What they did to the PC version was just appalling. I am also turning my back on any game that has any DRM besides a disc check from here on out on account of Assassin's Creed II opening my eyes to how bad things have gotten. As for missing out I own over 300 games and have only beaten around 100 of them so I am set for the apocalypse if I wanted. it disheartens me to know that to stand by my values I can't go buy games I would like to play like Metro 2033 and AVP but those are the breaks I guess.

MW2 pretty much ruined the Call of Duty franchise for me.

Halo somewhat because of the way they are portraying Spartans in Reach, but some of that could be the bad taste ODST left.

God of War II because it was apparent they no longer cared for Greek mythology and only gore.

Not a gaming franchise but an entire company.... It will be a cold, cold day in hell before I ever own another NCsoft title.

At this point, it's surprisingly that no one said Fallout 3 yet, and it's DGCs.For me that's it unless radical changes are made.

I don't have a problem with devs changing things that they've established for a long time. I feel that everyone should be open to change (just a general principle of mine).

Do I like every change that's made to a franchise? No.

Zelda because of Ocarina.DarkCatalyst

Wait.. do you mean that you stopped playing the Zelda series because of Ocarina? :shock:

After FFX-2, I'm not sure I can go on. I received XII as a gift, tried it, and was thoroughly unimpressed. I'm still waiting to hear what my friends are saying about XIII...but, I'm kind of done with the whole idea now.

GTA4 might be added to this list, but I would need to see what's up with the next game.

if the game changes a lot and i dont like it then yeah. i turn my back on it

[QUOTE="DarkCatalyst"]Zelda because of Ocarina.RobbySpry

Wait.. do you mean that you stopped playing the Zelda series because of Ocarina? :shock:

I really liked the original Fable, but Fable 2 was just horrible. A short and uninteresting story, with a world that was not very fun to explore. I am not at all excited for Fable 3.

I got very disappointed with mario kart double dash. Because I think 64 was much better. I've basicly abandonedmost nintendofranchises because of the wii even mario(putting him in a bee suit crossed the line)and some genericfranchises likemedal of honor, true crime ,merceneries...

Kinda

I avoided Resident Evil 5, then tried it and it's solid, but not quite there with RE 4. Resident Evil 4 was very good, I must've finished it like 10 times. But can't be bothered to finish the 5th
Someone here wrote Elder Scrolls, in fact I don't play Oblivion. It doesn't have the charm of Morrowind. It was not as publicized as Oblivion and even though the gameplay is slow, I don't care! It is better than Oblivion!
I turn my back on Monkey Island 4, I just don't want to play it. I feel like it's an insult to the MI series. Good thing that Tales Of Monkey Island has been created (Different studio, but most the members are ex-Lucas)

Well a lot of people are mentioning games that didn't have dev changes, just bad iterations in a franchise. Going by that, I would say I no longer care about Halo after CE. The series took a nose dive imo. There was a point in time when I couldn't wait to see where the franchise goes but thats no longer the case, Reach looks more of the same.

I thought Far Cry was going to be the next great thing until I realized Crytek had nothing to do with Far Cry 2.

Well a lot of people are mentioning games that didn't have dev changes, just bad iterations in a franchise. Going by that, I would say I no longer care about Halo after CE. The series took a nose dive imo. There was a point in time when I couldn't wait to see where the franchise goes but thats no longer the case, Reach looks more of the same.

F1Lengend

This. The series never recaptured the feel of the first game. Going against the thread topic, this is where a change of developers may have helped the series.

VIII, when it came out, was just so different and distant from what I've always expected when the box said "Final Fantasy"

DarkCatalyst

That's what made the game so great.

Shin Megami Tensei, animeified.

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How should the games have been presented? And I would hardly call it "animeified."

It takes a lot to get me to give up on a franchise that I enjoy. Drastic negative changes in gameplay will do it.

The best example is Prince of Persia. I loved SoT, had a love/hate reaction to WW, and found TT to be very stale. But I still stuck with the franchise because when it worked, it worked really well, and even when it didn't work so good, I was always hopeful that the next game would be better. Then came the 360/PS3 POP. New storyline, new character, and totally gimped gameplay – wth. There was absolutely no reason to even call it POP, they should have just given it a new name and started a new IP. I will definitely not be buying the next POP unless the developers completely scrap everything that was done in the last game. Going back to the old story/character will not be enough to bring me back to the franchise – the gameplay must be fixed. If they continue with the uber-QTE type gameplay I will never play POP again.

closest example I can think of is ditching KOTOR because it became an MMO, but that feels like a stretch to me.

every other game/series I decided to "wash my hands of" (as some say) were because of other reasons, usually boredom (the #2 culprit is not owning the right platform for an exclusive)

Burnout when Paradise hit. Driving back through a city to restart races and challenges was about the dumbest thing I'd seen in a long while.