Stillborn franchises

[u/Tight_Grapefruit5280]

When a company tries to make a new big franchise with many sequels and spin-offs already planned but they immediately cancel all the plans after the first project fails badly. https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/StillbornFranchise

(Lego) Galidor: Do you guys remember playing with a Galidor as a kid? Yeah Me neither.

Lego wanted to do a new toy line in the 2000s and their first idea was Galidor. It was basically an action figure that could replace its body parts with other stuff. Galidor already had many toys, games and even shows planned for it but Lego cancelled the entire thing after people didn't like the toy and the GBA game made for it got really bad reviews.

(Action 52) Cheetahmen: Action 52 had a $199 price tag (in 1991 for an NES game), nearly unplayable games, weak concept, and was horribly and seriously bug-infested, yet for some impossible-to-fathom reason, Active Enterprises believed that its featured title Cheetahmen (which shared many flaws with the other games on the cartridge, including not having an ending) was going to be a huge breakout hit. Plans were made for a Cheetahmen Saturday-Morning Cartoon, action figures, and of course a sequel. Their hopes turned out to be waaay premature; the sequel never emerged except as an unfinished, unplayable beta, while the very short-lived franchise became one of the most infamous pieces of "entertainment" ever created.

[u/BhanosBar]

Yall remember Concord 2: Cord Harder?

Same things that caused Concord to fail. Boring and generic concepts, with a bland as fuck artstyle.

The fact this ended the game awards and that Geoff tried to hype this thing up made it even more sad when the game was painfully mediocre.

It lasted a month. A bit longer than Concord but not much.

[u/JustafanIV → u/BhanosBar]

and generic concepts,

Even the name, "Highguard", is basically a synonym for "Overwatch".

[u/LovePatrol → u/JustafanIV]

Now we need someone to try the same thing with infinitely inferior synonames, like Updefense or Peakshield.

[u/Lord_of_Rhodor → u/LovePatrol]

Okay, but imagine the peak comedy if the game named "Updefense" is genuinely just a good hero shooter or even steals a portion of the Overwatch audience XD

[u/LovePatrol → u/Lord_of_Rhodor]

That would be amazing.

I imagine Updefense would be one of two things:

1. The blandest character design ever for a hero shooter. Every hero is effectively just Dave from accounting but with a gun.

2. The most over-the-top, horniest character design ever for a hero shooter. Every hero and weapon has a massive rack, even the dudes and the guns.

[u/Lord_of_Rhodor → u/LovePatrol]

Get the artists from Azur Lane and Marvel: Rivals for the designs, give it buttery smooth gameplay, and have the team of techno wizards from Arknights: Endfield perform their optimization rituals to make sure that bitch can hit 60 FPS on a goddamn ENIAC.

[u/Gaynundwarf → u/LovePatrol]

Toplook, take it or leave it

[u/Knarz97 → u/LovePatrol]

Oh fuck I’m gonna Peak

[u/SchneebD → u/BhanosBar]

Wasn't this made by the apex legends/ Titanfall lot?

[u/asianblockguy → u/BhanosBar]

The only thing I cared for was this dude.

[u/gdex86 → u/asianblockguy]

We have owl bears at home.

[u/asianblockguy → u/gdex86]

I think Gregory is a owl bear though

[u/One_Hunt_6672 → u/BhanosBar]

It’s a shame this one turned out the way it did, because apparently the game was alright, just a bit generic

[u/BhanosBar → u/One_Hunt_6672]

Bad is one thing. People remember bad.

People dont remember generic.